75 Chapter 74 (2/2)
'In any case…I'm going to have to contact that man again.'
He would lose some money, but nothing else could be done.
A day without the drug was unimaginable for him.
'I would be ridiculed as being a half-wit without the powder.'
Two days had gone by.
He had finally been contacted.
He found a small note under his pillow after he finished his morning Qigong practice.
Today at seven in the evening.
Next to the pavilion.
If their meeting was scheduled at seven in the evening, this would be after the evening meal.
That evening.
Su Seon-tae hurried towards the pavilion after eating the evening meal.
As the classes of the day had finished, the area around the pavilion was quieter than usual.
An employee of the academy wearing a blue uniform approached Su Seon-tae as he was standing there, waiting.
He looked at Su Seon-tae, and held up his index finger.
It was a signal.
Su Seon-tae nodded, and made the same signal with his finger. He then took out a pouch containing money out of his sleeve.
As they walked past each other, the pouch and the bamboo container with the drug were exchanged.
After the employee disappeared, Su Seon-tae quickly vanished out of sight as well not long after.
Some time later.
Two students appeared at the same spot.
Those two students were Baek Mun-ji and Dang So-mun.
With a firm resolve, they began to follow the employee who provided the drug to Su Seon-tae.
The employee seemed quite ordinary.
Their outer appearance was quite ordinary, and they acted quite ordinarily with the people they encountered along the way.
They were in the midst of tailing the employee.
”Huh?”
Baek Mun-ji and Dang So-mun suddenly had perplexed expressions on their faces.
The employee seemed to have disappeared into thin air.
”Huh? Where did he go?”
”He was literally here just now.”
”Who are you looking for? Could it be me?”
Startled at the sudden sound of an icy voice, Baek Mun-ji and Dang So-mun turned around.
”...!”
There stood the employee the two had been tailing. Next to him were two other employees.
”Ah…”
Feeling that something had gone wrong, Baek Mun-ji shouted out at Dang So-mun, ”R-run!”
”Where are you two going?”
There was a glint in Baek Mun-ji and Dang So-mun's eyes. They realized that despite their opponents being adults, they were adults that weren't trained in martial arts.
There was a chance that they could defeat the employees if they utilized their martial skills.
But then…
*Pong!*
They frowned as they heard the sound of a small explosion. They began to feel a burning sensation in their eyes and nose.
It was poison.
Dang So-mun cried out in surprise, ”Thi-this poison is the Cultivation Halting Poison!”
Even if one had a certain level of resistance against poisons, they would be helpless against the effects of the Cultivation Halting Poison unless they had full immunity against poison.
If the person was at a peak level of cultivation, they could instantaneously protect their body with an energetic forcefield, but Baek Mun-ji and Dang So-mun had not reached such a level yet.
Affected by the poison, their ability to use their cultivation was now blocked, and so, they became ordinary fifteen year old boys.
They were stuck.
”I mixed an intoxicating drug in with the Cultivation Halting Poison, why are they still conscious?”
”I guess the drug didn't work.”
The ingredient that constituted the beverage the students drank during the field trip was the Ten Thousand Year Red Nectar Flower.
Since they drank a large quantity of the beverage, the intoxicant dissolving effects of it were still in their systems. Therefore, the drug the employee had attempted to use on them had been rendered ineffective.
Unaware of this, the suspicious employees blamed the drug itself, and bound Baek Mun-ji and Dang So-mun up.
Baek Mun-ji clenched his jaw and cried out at them, ”Di-did you supply my fellow student with the rotting powder?”
”Rotting powder? Tsk tsk tsk. Why are you referring to it with such a vulgar name when its lovely name is the White Tiger Spirit Powder?”
”That's a dangerous drug!”
One of the employees responded to Dang So-mun's angry accusation. ”Who said it wasn't dangerous? I warned him from the very beginning. I kindly informed him of the name of the drug.”
”Wh-what did you just say?”
Dang So-mun was in disbelief.
He couldn't fathom how Su Seon-tae knew what the drug was from the beginning, yet still chose to take it.
'He-he's crazy!'
But on the other hand, he did understand Su Seon-tae to some extent.
He knew that Seon-tae must have been completely desperate to have willingly taken the drug, despite being aware of its side effects.
'But its effects aren't limited to the rotting of the body!'
As a child of the Dang family, he was aware of the other effects of the drug, effects that were unknown to most.
The loss of one's intellect and reasoning.
If the drug remained in one's system for an extended period of time, one would become completely insane.
'I-it can't be, is that what they were aiming for?'
Baek Mun-ji's countenance too had become white in fright, as he was also aware of this effect of the drug, due to being close to the Dang Family.
The academy would suffer greatly if word spread that one of its students had become insane.
'T-then the school's reputation…'
Baek Mun-ji spoke, gritting his teeth, ”So, what are you planning to do with us?”
One of the employees laughed sadistically at his question, and responded, ”Don't worry. We're just going to make it so that you can't speak about this incident, or about us.”
He then took a small drug bottle out of his sleeve.
”If you ingest this drug, you'll become a fool for around a year. Also, the cause for your sudden loss of mental power will be disguised as an accident. You should be thanking us for this.”
The employee opened the seal of the drug bottle, and forced Baek Mun-ji's mouth open.
”Ahhh...argghhhh…”
Baek Mun-ji desperately attempted to resist them, but he couldn't win against the strength of an adult.
Dang So-mun was heartbroken at the sight.
His own friend was in danger owing to him, and he didn't have the power to help him either.
Baek Mun-ji was the only person that cared about him.
Whilst most mocked him, Baek Mun-ji was the only person that encouraged him and consoled him when he was down.
He felt as though he couldn't forgive himself for having put his closest friend in such danger.
His eyes glinted green. Noticing this, Baek Mun-ji became pale.
'N-no!”
But then.
”Hey, you ugly brothers there.”
They turned around at the sudden interruption.
Standing there was a young man wearing a blue teacher's uniform. Baek Mun-ji and Dang So-mun cried out upon seeing him. ”Se-seonsaengnim?”
”Kang-hyuk Seonsaengnim!”
The young teacher was none other than Kang-hyuk.