Woo Woo Woo-
The momentum of the whirlwind seemed to absorb everything in the world.
It was as if a hole had been dug through the bottom of the lake.
and-
All the tourists stared at the whirlpool without shutting their mouths.
It was a majestic, yet terrifying sight at the same time.
But everyone was amazed, but no one was terrified.
Because such vortices often occur on Lake Baikal.
Seoyeon Kim explained to me about the whirlpool.
“The locals call that whirlpool ＜The Devil’s Funnel.”
It was so named because the whirlpool seemed to suck everything into hell.
Although not often, giant whirlpools such as the present occur at Lake Baikal more than once or twice a year.
Although some scientists are researching the cause of the vortex, the exact cause is still unknown.
“Because the lake is big, all sorts of phenomena occur.”
“Yes, there are mirages like the sea, and there are also huge ice circles in winter.”
An ＜Ice Circle＞ is a phenomenon in which water in a river or lake freezes in a circular shape in winter and then rotates on its own.
Ice circles are found all over the world and range in size from tens of centimeters to tens of meters in diameter.
However, the ice circle that occurs on Lake Baikal is 4 km in diameter and can be observed from space.
The cause of this phenomenon was also divided among scientists.
Since we are talking about black holes tens of thousands of light years away from Earth, I thought that sooner or later science would be able to explain everything in this world, but it wasn’t.
There are so many things we still don’t know.
hmm-
Anyway, you can slowly look at the lake from now on, so let’s start with what we have to do.
‘Let’s decide where to stay first.’
They needed a place to stay because they had to stay at Lake Baikal for a while until they found Genghis Khan’s tomb.
But I didn’t like hotels or B&Bs.
‘Let’s go camping.’
My desire to enjoy a proper camp has not cooled down yet.
I strengthened my eyesight with the elixir and looked around.
There are also several campsites near the observatory.
But I didn’t want a campsite like that.
I wanted to camp alone in a secluded place with no one around.
I asked Seoyeon Kim.
“Are there many islands in the lake?”
“There are a total of 27 islands, including Olkhon Island, where we are now.”
“A lot.”
Lake Baikal has many islands floating in the lake to match the hugeness of the sea.
“Are there any uninhabited islands among them?”
“Sure, most of the small islands are uninhabited.”
“good!”
A goal has been set.
Let’s enjoy camping properly on the uninhabited island of Lake Baikal, the cleanest place in the world.
Kim Seo-yeon checked the map app and said.
“You can get to the uninhabited island by taking a cruise ship from the nearby marina.”
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I came down from the observatory and arrived at the dock.
malevolent malevolent-
There were many tourists who wanted to board the cruise ship.
More than half were Asians.
Chinese were the most, followed by Koreans.
As the story spread that Koreans are genetically of northern Asian origins from Lake Baikal, the number of Korean tourists visiting this place has increased.
By the way, you had to show your passport to buy a ticket.
But I couldn’t do that because I was smuggled out.
self-
I hid Kim Seo-yeon and myself with ＜invisibility＞ so that people around me wouldn’t find out.
fluffy-
hiss-
Then it rose into the air and flew toward the deck of a cruise ship.
just-
I landed on the deserted stern and canceled the invisibility.
Then, he moved to the central deck and mingled among the people.
boo woo woo woo-
The boat horn sounded long and the cruise ship departed.
Kim Seo-yeon and I stood on the railing and looked at the lake.
The feeling of the lake seen from the boat was different.
Moving away from the dock, it felt like an open sea.
So we rode the boat for about an hour.
Then small islands began to appear.
“There is an uninhabited island among the islands you see.”
I activated ＜Detection＞.
Concentrate and increase the detection radius to find an island completely uninhabited.
‘okay.’
hiss-
He hid himself and flew towards an uninhabited island.
***
The Suzuki group arrived in Irkutsk, the largest city near Lake Baikal.
All of them moved, leaving only the minimum number of personnel to protect the armored vehicles and helicopters in the border area.
“Let’s take a break for now.”
Suzuki ordered the entire crew to rest.
After living in the desert for over two months, everyone couldn’t even wash properly.
He wants to clear things up before embarking on a full-scale exploration.
Suzuki handed out Russian money to the troops.
It was 500,000 rubles per person.
“Wash clean and eat the right thing! We won’t be convening for at least a week, so enjoy yourself!”
and!
The crew cheered.
500,000 rubles was about 10 times the average monthly salary of local residents in Russia.
That should give you plenty of fun for a week.
All members of the crew were able to freely use hotels and various businesses here because they received Russian visas when they came to the continent from Japan.
“dissolution!”
After disbanding the crew, Suzuki himself checked into the hotel.
After a long time at the hotel sauna, I returned to my room after enjoying a bath and sauna.
smart-
Someone knocked on his door.
“who are you?”
“it’s me.”
When I opened the door, Hayashi was standing there wearing plain clothes instead of combat uniform.
He grinned and said to Suzuki.
“Let’s go grab a drink.”
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Pam Pam Parava-
A bar where a merry waltz resonates,
Suzuki tipped a glass of vodka with Hayashi.
gulp-
Hayashi drank the vodka from the glass at once.
clap clap-
Then he put cucumber pickle in his mouth and chewed it.
“It tastes good! I hate Russia so much. But vodka is good!”
“Didn’t you like Russian beauties too?”
Hayashi turned his head to peek at the women seated at a nearby table before continuing.
“Yes, there was another good thing besides vodka.”
ha ha ha-
The two relaxed and laughed.
shiver-
Hayashi asked as he and Suzuki filled their glasses.
“How will the exploration proceed? It would take a long time to find something you don’t even know what it looks like.”
They were looking for a lighthouse.
A legendary lighthouse built hundreds of years ago.
The entrance to Genghis Khan’s tomb will be revealed only when the stone box containing the elixir is brought to the lighthouse somewhere on Lake Baikal.
Twenty years ago, Suzuki explored the An Yong-bok area with Cheon, the chairman of Angel Capital.
And I got two results.
One was a huge golden statue, and the other was a Japanese military officer’s notebook.
The two shared their achievements under an agreement.
Suzuki chose the notebook and Chairman Chun chose the golden prize.
Chairman Cheon melted and refined the golden statue to make 50 tons of gold ingots, which were also stored in an underground air-raid shelter.
Then, Choi Min-hyeok took everything away.
And Suzuki, who took the notebook, found out that the entrance to Genghis Khan’s tomb was discovered by the Japanese army during World War II through the contents written in it.
However, the specific circumstances were not known.
Because the storage condition of the notebook was not good.
The paper inside was completely dissolved in the seawater, and only the leather cover remained.
On the cover was written the name and rank of the owner of the notebook and some information about the khan’s tomb.
A stone box is required to find the tomb.
To obtain a golden liquid from the Mongolian desert.
That you have to take it to the lighthouse on Lake Baikal.
All of these were written on the cover of the notebook.
At first, I thought that the contents might have been metaphorical because they felt so absurd.
Pirates of the Age of Discovery also used figurative expressions a lot when explaining the location of treasure in case the map fell into someone else’s hands.
However, it turned out that it was not a figurative expression, but a fact written down as it is.
Stone casks also existed, and the golden liquid actually existed.
So it was clear what to do next.
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Find the lighthouse and bring the golden liquid to it.
However, the circumference of Lake Baikal reached a whopping 2,200 km.
Exploring the entire area will take a considerable amount of time.
“We should divide the number of people into 10 teams and explore 200km each.”
At Hayashi’s words, Suzuki shook her head.
“It is not the end just by exploring the circumference of the lake. We also need to investigate the 27 islands in the lake.”
There was no guarantee that the lighthouse was necessarily on the shore of the lake.
A lighthouse may be hidden on an island in the lake.
“What kind of lake has 27 islands?! Even if the lake is large, it should be moderately large!”
In the end, it was decided to divide the team into 11 teams.
Ten teams will explore the circumference of the lake and one team will explore the islands of the lake.
Unlike the desert, what we were going to do here was exploration, not combat, so archeology experts will lead each team.
***
While the Suzuki guys were exploring hard, I enjoyed fishing on an uninhabited island.
I’ve been fishing in the harsh desert environment, but I’m sad when I don’t go fishing at Lake Baikal.
In addition, the quality of the water here is clean, so you can eat the fish you caught.
In fact, the lakeside restaurant was cooking and selling fish caught in the lake.
taut-
The fishing rod bent like a bow.
‘come!’
He quickly raised his fishing pole.
pudduck-
I caught a silver fish with a body length of about 30 cm.
Kim Seo-yeon, who was next to me, told me what kind of fish it was.
“It is filth.”
“soil? What a rare name. Is it delicious?”
“It is a fish species representing Lake Baikal. It is smoked or grilled and eaten over direct fire.”
hiss-
I put the fish in my inventory.
I’m going to have to bake it for dinner.
The taste was quite expected.
‘I guess people eat a lot because it’s delicious, right?’
went fishing again
and after a while,
Talk tok-
something bites
Pook-
Aiming at the moment the float went under the water, he quickly lifted the fishing rod.
The fishing rod bent as if it would break.
I felt a strong hand taste.
I enjoyed the fish and the push and pull for a while.
Then, with ＜Psychokinesis＞, the fish was lifted to the surface.
pudduck-
It was a spotted fish with a body length of about 60 cm.
“uh? Isn’t this what it is?”
It was a familiar fish.
Kim Seo-yeon told me about the fish species.
“It’s trout.”
“Right, trout! But don’t trout eat raw?”
“Yes, I saw with my own eyes that wild trout caught in Lake Baikal were sashimied and sold at a Korean guest house on Olkhon Island!”
“Are you saying you can eat it?”
cluck-
Kim Seo-yeon swallowed the saliva in her mouth and shouted.
“I will open the sashimi!”
***
An expedition led by Suzuki found a structure believed to be a lighthouse 40 days after exploring Lake Baikal.
On an uninhabited island in the lake, they found a pile of stones of an unusual shape.
It was a man-made structure, not a natural one.
Suzuki sent all the crew members exploring other areas to the uninhabited island.
And the excavation work was done for a week.
Finally, the stone altar at the center of the structure was revealed.
The altar was engraved with a concentric circle pattern similar to that of the stone box.
And there was a groove dug in the center to place a stone box.
Suzuki saw it and exclaimed.
“I found the lighthouse!”
Suzuki first rearranged the expedition before placing the stone box on the altar.
It’s because you don’t know if you’ll go straight to Genghis Khan’s tomb.
The excavation team packed their equipment and the mercenaries packed their weapons.
After everything was prepared, Suzuki stood in front of the altar.
And with a tense expression, he placed the stone box on the altar.
pat-
A bright light emanated from the concentric circles of the altar.
Everyone around looked at the phenomenon with amazement.
Choi Min-hyeok was also watching the scene from nearby, hiding.
‘It’s finally going into the tomb.’
Woo goo goo-
Suddenly the ground started to vibrate.