It wasn’t long after the sun rose, but the desert was already hot.
humming-
I rode my motorcycle and raced across a field of sand where haze bloomed.
sparkle-
Something in the distance reflected the sunlight.
Upon closer inspection, it was a buggy car half buried in the sand.
An open car that runs on uneven ground like a desert or wasteland.
It must have been abandoned after someone rode it across the desert and broke it.
‘nice!’
I started getting tired of riding a motorcycle, but I thought it would be fun to ride a buggy.
You don’t have to dig through the sand to get a buried buggy out.
Because you can use the inventory.
I put my hand on the frame of the buggy.
‘acceptance.’
hiss-
The entire buggy came into the inventory.
hiss-
I put it back out on the sand.
I checked every nook and cranny of the car.
There was no sound place, as if it had been neglected for a long time.
Except for the frame, everything from the engine to the wheels was a mess.
In short, it was just scrap metal.
But no problem.
＜Repair＞ magic can make it look like new.
However, the condition was so bad that I had to consume a lot of elixir to fix it.
Maybe spend enough gold to buy 10 new buggies.
hmm-
After thinking about it for a while, I made a decision.
Use some elixir for fun.
I put my hand on the buggy.
‘repair.’
self-
The light that seeped from the palm of his hand enveloped the buggy.
Then, as if time flowed backwards, the vehicle began to be restored.
self-
The broken engine belt was reattached,
The corroded, unrecognizable radiator shimmered like new.
The torn tire was repaired and air was automatically filled.
After a while, the vehicle was completely fixed.
Engine oil and gasoline were filled with what was in the inventory.
Then you can reduce the elixir consumption.
It’s fine to use elixirs for fun, but there’s no need to waste them.
‘Shall we run?’
I got into the driver’s seat.
And I turned the car key that was plugged in.
burrung-
The engine took off at once.
‘okay.’
The sound of the engine was loud.
The buggy is equipped with a powerful engine compared to the size of the body.
This is because only then can you run vigorously through the rugged desert.
Boo Woo-
I stepped on the accelerator and started running across the sand at full speed.
rattle-
The body shook violently, but less than when riding a motorcycle.
Driving the car, it was definitely nice to appreciate the surrounding scenery.
Because the motorcycle had to concentrate on driving in order not to fall.
I turned the steering wheel with my hand and looked at the endless desert and the blue sky covering it with my eyes.
‘Feel so good!’
It felt like running towards the end of the world over the horizon.
.
.
.
After driving for a while, we arrived near the place where Suzuki and the others were.
kiik-
I parked the buggy on a sand dune.
As I strengthened my eyesight with the Elixir, I saw armored vehicles and trucks parked in the distance.
Tents were drooped around the vehicle.
They didn’t move for two days at the point where Keshikten took the stone box and withdrew.
I can’t come up with an opinion on what to do next.
Vureung-
rattling-
I turned off the buggy.
Then, sitting in the driver’s seat, I closed my eyes and focused my entire body.
Then, the audio-visual information Suzuki saw and heard began to enter my head.
***
Senior-level personnel gathered in Suzuki’s tent.
“I can’t go back empty-handed like this!”
Kaneda drew a blood band around his neck.
As a spokesperson for Yamaguchi-gumi, the owner of this expedition, it was a natural opinion.
For the Yamaguchi-gumi, if the expedition failed, it would not end simply with money.
The dissatisfaction of the members of the affiliated organization reached a dangerous level because the head office’s payment was excessive.
In this situation, it was obvious that if the members of the organization knew that the boss had lost tens of millions of dollars while playing ‘treasure hunt’, they would rise up in unison.
In the worst case, it can be a trigger for the collapse of the entire organization.
Ganeda continued.
“I haven’t reported to the boss that the stone box was stolen yet. So, let’s take the armored vehicle and come back! Does it make sense that we, armed with state-of-the-art weapons against horse-wielding sword-wielders, are losing our pulse?”
Then the commander of the armored vehicle shook his head.
“It’s not that easy. The enemy knows us all too well, and we don’t even know where they’re hiding. Show them where they are so they won’t shoot you with guns or missiles! If you move rashly, you will fall into a trap again like last time!”
Then Kaneda shot him fiercely.
“It looks like the cat is afraid of mice! Are you from the Self-Defense Forces? This is why the Self-Defense Forces are being criticized for being incompetent! Are you scared of horsemen when you’re in a multi-million dollar tank?”
“Why are you talking about the Self-Defense Forces all of a sudden? When was the last time I was discharged! and you! A thug who eats away at society dares to speak ill of the Self-Defense Forces, which carry out their sacred duty of national defense?”
“Funny! Doesn’t it seem unbearable to hear the Self-Defense Forces curse at the subject of being a mercenary who works for money from gangsters? Do you still think it’s your parents’ house?”
“what?! You wanna die?”
jump-
The commander of the armored vehicle spurned his seat and stood up.
Then Kaneda clenched his fists and stood up.
It was the moment when the argument was about to turn into a fistfight.
“Shut up and sit down!”
At Suzuki’s cry, the two slowly sat down, glaring at each other.
Silence lingered for several seconds.
Then Suzuki opened her mouth.
“The first thing to do is collect the body.”
The biggest reason for the camp’s low morale was not a setback in exploration, but the death of colleagues.
Two men were killed when the assault force fell into Kesikten’s trap.
But they still haven’t been able to recover even the bodies of their comrades.
Everyone nodded at Suzuki’s words.
Hayashi opened his mouth.
“But it is too dangerous. If you go to collect corpses, there may be a large number of corpses. If you fall into their trap one more time, that’s the end of it. Now they have no reason to spare prisoners.”
The reason why the lives of the 40 people who had been taken prisoner last time were saved was because Suzuki at the time had something that could be exchanged for their lives.
Since the stone box has already passed into their hands, there is no chance of recovery this time if something similar happens.
“Even if things go wrong, there will be just one more corpse.”
“What are you talking about?”
At Hayashi’s question, Suzuki opened her mouth with a spleen expression.
“Because I’m going to collect the body alone.”
.
.
.
chin-
Suzuki climbed into the truck and closed the driver’s door.
Hayashi said, holding out a handgun.
“Take this, just in case.”
“I do not need.”
burrung-
Suzuki started.
I went outside the car and shouted.
“Suzuki! You can’t just make a big deal and die irresponsibly!”
It wasn’t that I was worried about Suzuki.
“Then your family will pay off your debt!”
It was a yakuza-like threat.
Suzuki smiled and started the car.
humming-
After driving 20 km, we arrived at our destination.
When Suzuki got off the truck, he saw two bodies left in the sand.
It belonged to Ueda, who was the leader of the assault force, and the other.
Suzuki looked around.
There was no popularity.
trudging-
Approaching the corpse, he bowed his head and paused in silence.
‘Rest in peace.’
And as he was about to move the body, he hesitated.
‘Couldn’t they have installed some booby traps?’
Occasionally, explosives are placed on corpses to eliminate enemies who have come to pick them up.
Suzuki carefully examined the body.
There were no booby traps.
Youngcha-
All bodies were loaded into the truck bed.
And I walk back to the driver’s seat,
sparkle-
Something was lying on the sand.
Seeing that, Suzuki’s pupils widened.
‘Nonsense.’
It was a stone box.
In addition, it was filled with golden liquid.
.
.
.
Returning to the camp, Suzuki summoned the executive-level personnel.
And he put out a stone box in front of them.
Everyone could see a golden liquid dripping inside the stone box.
Ganeda shouted for joy.
“This is a gift from heaven! The sky must have been moved by Suzuki’s actions when he went into the enemy camp alone to retrieve the corpses of his allies!”
Hayashi asked Suzuki.
“Is that really the golden liquid we were looking for?”
Then Suzuki lifted the stone box and flipped it over.
“what are you doing!”
Everyone screamed, thinking that golden liquid was pouring out.
But it didn’t pour.
Liquid was dripping from the upside-down stone box.
“How can you do that!”
Suzuki said, turning the stone box back over and placing it on the table.
“It never spills if you don’t want to.”
No matter how much the stone box was shaken or turned over, the contents inside would never spill out unless the owner of the stone box did not want to. You can spill it out only when you want.
From noble mtl dot com
“How could that be? Is it like magic?”
Suzuki nodded at Kaneda’s question.
“It is the magic of the horse race. It’s a magic so that the contents don’t spill out even if you run wild with the stone box.”
There were various magics in the stone box.
Among them, there was magic that prevented the contents inside from spilling out.
However, the magic does not activate when other liquids such as water or alcohol are contained.
Only when it contains an elixir can the stone box gain magic from the elixir and activate magic.
So, the golden liquid in the stone box was real.
“But who the hell left it there? Is it Keshikten?”
Everyone who was delighted with Hayashi’s words hardened in an instant.
There was a high probability that Keshikten had done the work of putting the golden liquid in a stone box and leaving it there.
Because they took the stone box two days ago.
“If they leave it there, it’s 100% a trap!”
“trap? A trap for what?”
“Right, there is no reason to sell traps like this.”
“Do you have any other plans?”
Everyone had different opinions about the return of Seokham to them.
Then Suzuki opened her mouth.
“Whether it’s a trap or not, now we have no choice but to go to Lake Baikal!”
***
After delivering the stone box to Suzuki, Choi Min-hyeok was on Olkhon Island in Russia.
This island was a lake island floating on Lake Baikal.
“It’s huge!”
The size of the lake seen from a high place was beyond imagination.
If you didn’t know it was a lake, you would have thought it was an ocean.
Kim Seo-yeon, who was next to me, explained about Lake Baikal.
“Lake Baikal has an average width of 48 km and a length of 636 km. It is an area that reaches one-third of Korea.”
Lake Baikal is the oldest and deepest lake in the world and accounts for 20% of the Earth’s fresh water.
That is why it is nicknamed ‘the world’s freshwater storehouse’.
Besides, it was the clearest lake in the world.
The transparency of Mt.
You can see very clearly to the very depths.
Since ancient times, this place has been called the ‘sacred sea’ because it is huge, beautiful, and clean.
The maximum depth is 1,600m, so it was really as deep as the sea.
There were even rumors that a strange creature was living in the depths of the lake.
malevolent malevolent-
The observatory was crowded with tourists who came to see the lake.
Everyone admired the majestic lake.
It was then.
“[uh?! Look over there!]”
Tourists all pointed to one place.
Minhyuk Choi also looked there.
‘What is that?!’
Woo Woo Woo-
A huge whirlpool began to form in the lake.