Disciple Of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 384

The Mount Hua Corpse Disposal Site, a place everyone called hell.

Yi Rown, concealing his identity, infiltrated this place as a prisoner.

The Mount Hua Corpse Disposal Site was known for its tight security, even within Mount Hua. Deceiving Mount Hua might be difficult, but.

-What if it wasn’t Mount Hua?

Ha Se-min and Lee Shin-woo suggested a different approach.

Not Mount Hua, but another place.

-The Association.

Specifically, the Martial Arts Association.

-We can disguise ourselves as prisoners. While some of the slaves at the Mount Hua Corpse Disposal Site are prisoners who have committed crimes against Mount Hua, most are prisoners designated by the Association.

Both Ha Se-min and Lee Shin-woo.

-We can deceive the Association.

They revealed themselves.

Ha Se-min, the Black Market King, had put in a lot of effort with the Association.

-There are some martial artists within the Association who support the Azure Dragon Army.

Lee Shin-woo, who was also secretly working with the Association.

-There are those who are trying to get on our good side. If we use them, it won’t be difficult to become Association-designated prisoners.

-If we can do that….

Kugugugu.

Mount Hua would have no choice but to be deceived.

If Yi Rown and the others were just ordinary masters, it would have been difficult, but those who infiltrated the Corpse Disposal Site had the skills to fake the impairment of their dantian [energy center].

No one would have thought of infiltrating Mount Hua in such a way.

And.

-Old Man Guigap.

The Old Man Guigap that Yi Rown’s group had encountered already had a bad history with Yi Rown.

-Are you a newbie?

Even back then, his appearance was no different from now.

Yi Rown, who had gritted his teeth and attacked, was marked by Old Man Guigap and had to suffer for months.

But he seized an opportunity to attack Old Man Guigap, and at that time, he took one of his eyes.

Such an Old Man Guigap might open his mouth out of revenge, but.

“His most important thing is his life.”

Old Man Guigap would not do that.

There were many who were wronged, but there were also many who had actually committed crimes in this place.

Old Man Guigap was the latter, and he was an old monster who had survived here longer than anyone else.

“He is someone who survived by instinct, so there’s nothing to worry about.”

More than anything.

“That old monster is needed for our purpose.”

Before coming here, they met those in the Blood Demon Castle.

Among those who had escaped the Corpse Disposal Site with Yi Rown in the past, there were those who had been accepted into the Blood Demon Castle.

What they all had in common was.

-Old Man Guigap might know.

It was a story about that man, Old Man Guigap.

It was then.

Late at night, when everyone was exhausted from a long day of hard labor, a shadow appeared.

Slap, slap.

He approached, stepping through the ever-present puddles of blood, with several more shadows behind him.

“I brought him.”

Old Man Guigap.

He spoke, not hiding his discomfort.

“You’re being short with me?”

Old Man Guigap flinched at Yi Rown’s voice.

“…….”

Still, perhaps because he was the king of this Corpse Disposal Site, Old Man Guigap did not try to yield.

Swoosh.

When Ha Se-min, who was next to Yi Rown, stood up, Old Man Guigap lowered his head.

“I, I brought him.”

Old Man Guigap was such a person.

Especially now, inside his body….

Wriggle.

The Blood Gu, a poison specially created by the Blood Cult, was residing there.

If he disobeyed an order, he would have to die more horribly than anyone else.

So Old Man Guigap would not be able to resist.

“Go.”

At Yi Rown’s words, Old Man Guigap trembled and lowered his head again.

This was Old Man Guigap’s greatest use.

He had survived the longest in this Corpse Disposal Site and was managing many prisoners.

“…Who are you people?”

The shadows that Old Man Guigap had left behind spoke to Yi Rown and the others.

“…….”

They were in such a state that even Ha Se-min and the others were speechless.

Their bodies were covered in blue bruises, as if they were beaten every day, and they were emaciated.

With their dull, grayish-white eyes and sparse hair.

If they didn’t speak human language, one might have thought they were zombies, undead from a gate.

“Do you remember me?”

Yi Rown said in a quiet voice.

“Who….”

They squinted as if they couldn’t see well, and answered.

“How about now, do you recognize me?”

Yi Rown’s face twitched and changed.

He used the Heavenly Demon Divine Art to perform a reverse transformation technique.

Not his disguised face, but his original face, or rather, his face from before.

And.

“……!”

Their eyes gradually widened.

“I was grateful in the past.”

Even Yi Rown’s voice had changed.

The one standing there now was not the Blood Demon Yi Rown, but.

“Yi Rown…?”

It was Dan-k’s Yi Rown.

If there was a bad history with Old Man Guigap in the past.

“How can it be you?”

There were also grateful connections.

* * *

“Hup! Hup!”

They devoured the food in a way that could not be called human.

Their appearance showed the pain they had endured.

They couldn’t properly eat a piece of bread or a bowl of rotten porridge.

They were so hungry that they even touched the corpses of monsters, knowing they shouldn’t, which was the life here.

That was the life here, where the poison of monsters accumulated in their intestines, and they would suffer and die.

They had to eat to live, and they had to bow to people like Old Man Guigap to get proper food.

“Heeheeheuk!”

The pain was indescribable.

Even though it was just some dried jerky and instant food, they devoured it as if it were food from heaven.

“Eat slowly.”

Even at Yi Rown’s words, they struggled to put even one more piece of food in their mouths.

He had taken out quite a lot of food from his subspace, but the amount they ate was only a small portion.

They had been starving for too long, so their stomachs couldn’t handle it.

“Ha…. Haa….”

They let out rough breaths, looking at their swollen bellies.

“Th, thank you.”

They sincerely thanked Yi Rown.

“The grain of rice you gave me back then was more valuable to me than that. Don’t worry about it.”

When he was beaten by Old Man Guigap, humiliated, and on the verge of starving to death, they had helped him.

No, many more had helped him.

“But how are you here?”

They asked.

“How….”

They also looked at the people with Yi Rown.

The newcomers today.

But they knew that Old Man Guigap had bowed to them and guided them.

Such a thing did not happen easily.

“You were back then….”

The great escape that had happened only once at the Mount Hua Corpse Disposal Site.

They knew that Yi Rown was the main culprit.

“Why did you come back here?”

They knew.

They didn’t expect Yi Rown, who had escaped, to return.

“I thought you would never come back.”

Whether it was for revenge or something else, they thought he wouldn’t want to set foot in this hell.

“I have something to do.”

At Yi Rown’s words, they frowned.

“What could be so important that you came all the way here…. Ah! Is there anything we can help with?”

For just one meal, they seemed willing to do anything.

“There is. And also….”

The great escape.

At that time, many prisoners had escaped, but not all of them.

Most of those who were not taken in by Yi Rown were caught again, and there were also those who had not been able to escape at that time.

“I have to repay the favor.”

“Could it be…?”

“I’ll take you out of here when it’s over.”

“……!”

“I’ll create a place for you to live outside, and an environment where you can live normally.”

“Heeuk!”

There was no warning.

“Heeueuk!”

They began to cry.

A small hope.

That was what had broken what they had been holding back.

At one time, they were martial artists and players who were respected and admired by many people.

There were times when they had ruled over others, and they were also in a position where they looked up to their past selves.

Such people were crying like children.

“Thank you…. Thank you so much….”

They didn’t believe that Yi Rown’s words would come true, but they were grateful just for giving them a small hope.

“I promise.”

Yi Rown approached them and said.

In the past.

Yi Rown had faced it and decided to accept it.

“No matter what happens, I will get you out of here.”

He would no longer ignore the favors and connections from that time.

“So until then, help me.”

“Just tell us what to do.”

They said to Yi Rown, their eyes burning with hope after a long time.

* * *

Old Man Guigap.

And the connections from the past.

They did what they had to do.

Also, Old Man Guigap certainly proved his usefulness.

“I brought them here.”

There was not a single ray of light here, making it difficult to gauge the passage of time.

It was only morning when new corpses arrived, and it was night when the work was roughly finished.

Repeating time.

Still, when the Mount Hua supervisors entered the Corpse Disposal Site, everyone had to work without exception.

“…What is the matter?”

Except for those who received special treatment like Old Man Guigap and those he had chosen.

Even though the supervisors were already whipping the prisoners and making them work, Yi Rown was meeting with Old Man Guigap in a dark corner of the cave.

Behind him stood those he had met yesterday and many more.

“Is Park San here?”

At Yi Rown’s voice, a skinny young man appeared.

He certainly felt like a young man, but his emaciated appearance made him look like an old man.

“Y, yes, that’s me.”

A dry voice.

“You know Kim Hyung-shik, right?”

“……!”

His pupils trembled.

“I heard you helped him a lot.”

“H, hyung-shik, do you know him?”

“Kim Hyung-shik asked me. If you were still there, to make sure to save you.”

That place was right here, the Mount Hua Corpse Disposal Site.

“That…!”

Those who were taken in when Yi Rown escaped in the past.

Yi Rown asked them for information and at the same time.

-Is there anything you want?

He asked them something else.

-Those who need to be saved, those who need to be avenged. Decide and tell me.

Since he was going back into this place anyway.

He decided to do what he was originally supposed to do.

Even before that, there were those from the Corpse Disposal Site who worried about their colleagues or relatives who were still trapped there.

Or those who couldn’t sleep because of the bad blood they had built up there.

Yi Rown was the same.

But the name of Mount Hua, the memories of the past, had become shackles that bound Yi Rown.

He had turned away and ignored them.

“All of you will get out of this place.”

“……!”

The prisoners widened their eyes as if they couldn’t believe it.

“Everyone, eat this.”

Ha Se-min distributed the Blood Gu.

Until the work was finished, the secret had to be kept as much as possible.

Ordinary people would not even think of putting a wriggling worm in their mouths, and they would not recklessly challenge something they didn’t know was dangerous, but.

“Give it to me.”

Gulp.

They were different.

They were people who had nothing left to lose.

They were people who couldn’t even end their own lives with their own will, so they would eat it even if it was poison.

It would be even better if they could fill their starving bellies even a little.

And so, everyone ate the Blood Gu.

From now on, they were all in the same boat. Even if they couldn’t get out of this place, they would do anything for Yi Rown.

“What should we do?”

They asked.

“Mount Hua.”

Yi Rown answered.