Descent Of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 713

“There was a road occupation and a clash?”

“Yes.”

Cai Keqiang frowned.

“Which bastards were they?”

Irritation surged within him.

‘Who dares?’

The clash occurred within the Hong King’s territory. And not just on the border, but deep inside. For a clash to happen in such a place meant that those who caused the incident completely disregarded the Hong King’s realm.

It was unforgivable.

And it shouldn’t be forgiven.

If they let this slide, other forces would look down on the Hong King’s realm. Once is difficult, twice is easy.

They had to capture these madmen who committed such an act and kill them so they would never dream of doing it again, only then could they prevent a recurrence.

“Was it the Chang King’s realm, or perhaps even the Black King?”

“That’s… it doesn’t seem like they were Chinese.”

“What? What are you talking about? Are you saying foreigners invaded? Russians?”

“No. All the ones we’ve captured so far were Japanese.”

“…Japanese?”

Cai Keqiang’s mind began to get complicated.

Japanese? Why would Japanese people cause trouble here?

“Are these guys all crazy?”

He was already at his wit’s end because of Kang Jin-ho.

The Hong King’s realm had realistically lost the means to control Kang Jin-ho. Kang Jin-ho, who had completely dominated Korea, had built a solid wall around himself. The situation was different from when Kang Jin-ho acted independently in the past. To kill Kang Jin-ho, they would have to attack the Assembly.

That Assembly.

A group that was not particularly bothersome, a mere shell, gained a different weight the moment it fell under Kang Jin-ho’s command. To attack Kang Jin-ho, who had surrounded himself with a wall of people, they would also have to mobilize a large force.

However, the moment they turned a large force to the rear, the Chang King and the Black King would burst out laughing and push in. Then the Hong King’s realm would be finished.

In the end, Cai Keqiang thought there were only two paths they could choose.

One was to ignore Kang Jin-ho.

They couldn’t shake off the unease of having a blade pointed at their back, but this was the most realistic method. Fortunately, Kang Jin-ho was not very belligerent.

According to those who had experienced him, Kang Jin-ho was a madman the moment he entered battle, but he was not the type to create battles for his own enjoyment.

It meant that if you didn’t touch him, he would be quiet. So this method was the most realistic.

And the other one was….

‘We have to form an alliance.’

It was something he was emotionally reluctant to do, but it was more beneficial than the former. If they could join hands with Kang Jin-ho, they could push back the Chang King or Black King forces in one fell swoop with their help.

To treat such a person as an equal and form an alliance was, in a way, humiliating. But historically, wasn’t it common for those with large differences in power to form alliances with each other?

Cai Keqiang preferred the latter.

If they pushed for the former and Kang Jin-ho pushed in from behind while they were fighting the other three kings, the Hong King’s realm would truly be destroyed. Just eliminating that risk made an alliance with Kang Jin-ho worth considering.

However, there was one thing.

‘The Hong King won’t accept it.’

Cai Keqiang was a strategist, but the Hong King was a warrior through and through. The concept of forming an alliance with someone he didn’t even know properly, just for practical gain, didn’t exist in the Hong King’s mind.

Instead, he was raging, saying he had to fly to Korea right away to see with his own eyes what kind of person Kang Jin-ho was.

Every time, he was shedding tears and crawling on the floor to stop him.

Now, just hearing the word ‘Kang’ made him have a fit.

And in this situation, even the Japanese bastards?

“Why are these Japs suddenly causing trouble?”

Cai Keqiang gritted his teeth.

He was also Chinese.

He couldn’t have good feelings about the Japanese. They were the ones who were actually clashing with them, so he was wary of Kang Jin-ho and tried to kill him, but in fact, he didn’t have any personal animosity towards Kang Jin-ho.

If he hadn’t been a real threat, he might have even had a liking for him.

But Japan was different. Where was there a Chinese person who didn’t have animosity towards Japan?

“So, you’re saying they came over to China and fought among themselves? With no relation to the Chinese?”

“For now, that’s correct.”

“What the hell are these crazy bastards plotting?”

“It’s not certain yet, but there’s one problem.”

“Report quickly.”

“It seems that the reason those Japanese bastards came to China was to kill Kang Jin-ho.”

“What nonsense? Why would they look for Kang Jin-ho in China… what?”

Cai Keqiang straightened his back.

His mind was spinning rapidly. If Kang Jin-ho wasn’t in China, they should have just gone back. But the fact that there was a clash meant that they fought with Kang Jin-ho.

“It seems they came to kill Kang Jin-ho. But they failed.”

“So, you’re saying that those bastards attacked Kang Jin-ho, who came to China, failed, and then scattered and ran away?”

“Yes, that’s correct.”

“Come here.”

Cai Keqiang gestured with his hand, and the person who was reporting came closer.

Pow!

Cai Keqiang, who had blown away the reporter’s jaw with one blow, jumped up from his seat and shouted.

“Why are you telling me this now, you moronic bastard! Didn’t I tell you to handle anything related to Kang Jin-ho as top priority?”

“I, I’m sorry.”

The reporter, bleeding from his mouth and nose, fell to the floor, and Cai Keqiang gritted his teeth.

‘He came to China? Kang Jin-ho?’

It was so absurd that his mind couldn’t process it for a moment. How was he supposed to solve this?

‘I have to kill him.’

There was no need to think. The reason they couldn’t touch Kang Jin-ho was because he controlled the Assembly. But wasn’t it said that he had sold that absolute shield of the Assembly to a junk shop?

And he came to China with his bare body?

‘I have to kill him.’

If not now, the opportunity to kill Kang Jin-ho might never come again.

“Get a proper grasp of the situation again and report immediately. No, send it by email. I’m going to report to the Hong King.”

“Yes!”

Cai Keqiang rushed out, licking his lips.

‘I don’t know what kind of guts you had to come to China… but you’re going to regret it, Kang Jin-ho.’

His eyes shone blue.

“Lord, this is not possible. This is realistically difficult.”

[If it were easy, I wouldn’t have told you. I would have done it myself.]

“The infinite trust you give me is truly moving, but can’t you just think of me as a complete idiot? I’m not a genie in a lamp. Ten thousand people! How am I supposed to smuggle ten thousand people in! It’s not like we’re taking in refugees. Even refugees aren’t taken in like that.”

[I was going to talk about that part anyway, but looking at the situation… it seems like ten thousand is impossible.]

“I, is that so? Then how many?”

[It seems like it’ll be around two or three thousand, but there’s one problem…]

“Yes?”

[If we include families, it could really be ten thousand. But families can be brought over later separately.]

“Hah… hahahaha, ha… ha…”

What was this?

Family?

What the hell was this man doing?

“Looooord.”

Lee Hyun-soo’s eyes turned red.

“What the hell are you doing? Didn’t I repeatedly ask you! Before you do anything, just give me a little heads up, didn’t I ask you dozens of times!”

Lee Hyun-soo was almost sobbing now.

He should just die.

This was the dilemma of a salaryman.

If you somehow manage to solve an impossible task after working yourself to the bone, the next time, a similar task is given to you as if it were a matter of course. Along with the words, ‘You did it last time, so you can do it this time too.’

‘No, even so.’

Was it something a human could do, smuggling in ten thousand people at once?

This was almost the same as telling someone to flap a fan and try to fly in the sky.

There were things that could be done by pouring in manpower and effort, and there were things that couldn’t be done. Shouldn’t they be giving him tasks that were humanly possible?

“This is not possible. Lord, I’m not exaggerating right now. This is absolutely impossible.”

[Lee Hyun-soo.]

“Yes, Lord.”

[It’s a necessary task for the Assembly.]

“…But.”

[I know it’s a difficult task. I know it’s a hard task. But it’s something we have to do to survive. If we can’t do it, there’s no future.]

[I’m asking you.]

“Then… then we have to do it.”

Lee Hyun-soo bit his lip.

“I’ll find a way somehow. Please wait a little longer. I’ll contact you as soon as a plan is made.”

[Understood.]

As soon as the call ended, Lee Hyun-soo leaned back in his chair and pulled out a cigarette like a gunslinger from the West.

Click! Click!

After flicking the lighter several times, he lit the cigarette.

“No, this… this isn’t a problem that can be solved with ‘I’ll try’!”

He had said he would try, swept away by the atmosphere, but he had no idea where to start or how to solve it.

“Airplane? No, that’s impossible. Then I have to move them by ship… if I arrange a ship big enough for that many people, there’s no way it won’t get caught by the Public Security Bureau… [Chinese law enforcement agency]

And if I try to transport them little by little with small boats, it’ll take forever. And the more times I do it, the greater the risk of being discovered. Even if I bring them over, that’s a problem.

It might not be a big deal to get them on a ship. Because it’s China. If you line up the Chinese coastline, it would circle South Korea dozens of times. So there’s no way surveillance can be airtight.

But what about Korea?

It wasn’t a problem to get out of China, but how to get into Korea was the problem. Korea was still a country where illegal immigration was rampant, and as such, it was a country with strict surveillance. It wasn’t a country that would miss ten thousand illegal immigrants.

“…How the hell am I supposed to do this?”

He couldn’t find an answer by worrying alone. In the end, Lee Hyun-soo got up from his seat. He had to discuss this. Fortunately, he now had someone to discuss this with.

A person of common sense that the Assembly had never had before.

“Tell them to swim over.”

No.

This person wasn’t a person of common sense either.

Lee Hyun-soo stared blankly at Mr. Wiggins. But Wiggins greeted Lee Hyun-soo with a face that asked what the problem was.

“Swim?”

“Yes.”

“Swimming?”

“Are you trying to make jokes, you bastard?”

“No, no. Master, it’s not that….”

As Wiggins raised his hand, Lee Hyun-soo hurriedly covered his head.

“Even if Korea and China are neighboring countries, how can they swim over? It doesn’t make sense.”

“Tsk tsk, you’re so slow-witted.”

Wiggins looked at Lee Hyun-soo with a pathetic expression.

“Do they all need to swim? Just put a ship in international waters and tell them to swim to it.”

“I, international waters?”

“Yes.”

“If it’s Chinese international waters, it’ll be 20km away from the coastline, are you saying they should swim that far?”

“Yes.”

“And do the same when they enter the country?”

“Yes.”

“Does that even make sense? How can a person swim 20km? They can’t even run that far.”

“Do you know how long the swimming part of a triathlon, you know, an ironman competition, is?”

“…I don’t.”

“It’s 4km. Even athletes swim 4km, why can’t a martial artist do it? If they feel like their stamina is running out, tell them to wear a life jacket and swim. They’ll all arrive eventually.”

Lee Hyun-soo stared blankly at Wiggins before opening his mouth.

“Master.”

“What?”

“I don’t know if you’re a genius or a madman.”

“I don’t know why you’re asking for a beating, you rotten bastard!”

Wiggins raised his cane and struck Lee Hyun-soo.

The joy of finding a solution was more important than the terrible pain that rang in his head.

“Are you laughing?”

Wiggins, seeing Lee Hyun-soo laughing, put strength into the hand holding his cane.

Since ancient times, a beating has been the cure for a madman.