Lawmaker, Live Again - Episode 763
Episode 763
When night fell, the child fell asleep..
Yeo Ha-ryun said as she put down the child..
“I passed out. I completely fainted..”
“Because Jashi played with me until sunset. She takes away all that power.”
Jashi said.
“If I loose my strength clumsily, I wake up in the early morning and whine. If you're going to put it to sleep, it's better to put it to sleep properly..”
“Josh was a good dad..”
“He's a bad dad. I'm a father who only regrets after losing him..”
Jashi said so and put a wolf skin on his head..
Jin Cheon-hee asked.
“how long do you have left to live?”
“There isn't much left, but it's enough to finish this job. When the time comes, the spirit will eat my soul to calculate the reward for using its power..”
“The body?”
“Since the spirits will have to return to where they came from, I will wear my own skin while I return to my hometown. At that time, I will not respond to what you say, but I understand that it is not me but the spirit that is inside..”
Jashi spoke calmly about his death..
“The price is really high..”
“Leaving outside the area is a burden for the spirit, so it makes sense to pay that much in return. These are people who normally never leave their territory..”
“Isn’t it an evil spirit??”
Yeo Ha-ryun asks.
Jin Cheon-hee quietly thought about it and then opened his mouth..
“Well, it's similar to magic. However, there is room for magic to survive by at least transforming into a bone in the middle, but I don't know what it will be like for witchcraft..”
“Don't you know that everything has a price and that you will have to pay that price someday?.”
Jin Cheon-hee chuckled at those words..
“For me, eating raw is the best thing in the world..”
The one who went against heaven said.
Jacie shook her head..
“You never give up easily..”
“You have to do as much as you can. Besides, all contracts have loopholes..”
“All I taught you was the basics of witchcraft. And wasn't the biggest principle that every miracle comes with a price?.”
“That's true. There are many repayment methods in the world. Agency repayment, early repayment, partial repayment…….”
“You're saying more and more strange things..”
Well, if it makes me feel at ease, I decided not to worry about it..
Isn’t there too long a way to go?.
The three people went out and used stealth techniques..
I observed the Rakshasas by moving secretly in the shadows..
“This guy! stop drinking!”
“Well... … . Even though I drink as much as an ant's claw, I still nag too much. Wahahaha!”
Surprisingly, the Rakshasas showed a lifestyle similar to that during the day..
Just like in the bar back then, everyone spent time talking and laughing..
I spent time with my family and slept well..
Drunkards also happily gather at the inn and drink..
[If you see a person like this, they rush to eat you..]
I nodded at Yeo Ha-ryun’s words..
[Yes, there is an instinct inherent within one that one does not even know about..]
[It is common for pilgrims and merchants to go missing after encountering magic, and since memories are lost on a village basis, there will be no more answers..]
[yes. Your family will usually think that you have passed away. How can we guess this when we can't even find the body in the first place?.]
Additionally, this does not apply to people who come during the day and leave during the day, or people who just sleep at night without leaving their rooms..
Wandering around at night and going missing.
If that's the case, surprisingly…….
‘It's not common in this day and age.’
How can we catch them in a place where there are no street lights or CCTV?.
After observing the people one by one, I immediately arrived at the temple..
There was no one in the temple day or night..
Jin Cheon-hee first stamped his feet to create vibration..
Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure-
A low sound touches every corner of the temple..
Jin Cheon-hee, who felt the sound for a while with her hands on the floor, eventually opened her eyes..
“There is also a secret staircase leading to the basement. Why do villains always create secret rooms underground like this??”
He grumbled and started searching the temple building..
I went upstairs and there were no documents or books..
“I didn't think these guys would have left such a valuable clue behind..”
Jin Cheon-hee responded to those words..
“Seeing as there is no dust or cobwebs, it seems like it hasn't been long since I left. And even if the clues are hidden, it's impossible not to find them..”
And now I headed to the underground secret room I first checked..
Jin Cheon-hee headed to the Buddhist statue in Daejeon..
When I pressed the forehead of the Buddha statue, the ground suddenly disappeared and a staircase appeared..
“Hwanggu guards the entrance..”
keung!
Jin Cheon-hee asked Hwang-gu and went downstairs..
[The stairs are quite deep. watch your step.]
* * *
How far did it go down?.
‘If it's an apartment, it's about 10 floors.?’
As I was going down that deeply, I felt a change in the feel of the floor..
‘Ah, it's a natural cave..’
After passing the artificial stairs, a natural cave slope appeared..
Stalactites began to appear on the ceiling, and the sound of unknown insects crawling was also heard..
When I looked around at the light, I saw that the bugs' eyes had degenerated, and their antennae were long, so it seemed like their bodies had changed to suit them as they lived in the cave..
This was especially true because the body was all translucent white..
Going further down here, there was a pool of water underground that could fit about a hundred people..
The water color was strange.
“Uh, of course, but don't eat it..”
A subterranean lake without fish.
Of course, there was no way a person could drink this..
Jin Cheon-hee protected her hand with inner energy and briefly touched it with her fingertips..
profit-
Strongly basic liquid. The temperature is also high.
‘It looks like Lake Natron that I saw in the Earth book..’
I don't know why it's underground, but if it falls out, the skin of an average person will start to die..
Flamingos, bacteria, and some crustaceans adapted to these conditions could live in a place like this..
There won't be any flamingos because of the low tide..
There was a mural painted on the wall.
It looked like something a child had drawn in a squiggle..
Still, it was easy to recognize.
Because there were scenes of human sacrifice, taking medicine made through human sacrifice, and becoming a Rakshasa..
There were also pictures that were difficult to understand..
‘It looks like a drawing of a dead body. Could it be that the Rakshasa eats it and turns into a person like the corpse??’
There were also letters I didn't know..
‘What is this? It's different from Chinese characters, and it's different from the language of this town..’
Although Jin Cheon-hee was well-versed in numerous languages through Hyeonwonjeondansingong, this was the first time he had seen such characters..
It was not easy to guess because it was different from the magic script, oracle bone script, and Sanskrit language..
“Umm.”
But Jashi seemed to know those letters, as he seemed to be lost in thought for a long time with a serious expression on his face..
“Jashi?”
“This is a record of something that happened on this earth a long time ago..”
“Oh?”
Jin Cheon-hee's exclamations are strange, and Jashi is now familiar with them..
Wasn’t he really like this?.
Even though he had a very strange and strange personality, I knew that he was more serious than anyone else when it came to saving people..
He swallows and focuses again on the ancient text..
Jin Cheon-hee sees his complexion becoming more and more blue as he reads the ancient script..
“At least thousands of years ago. What happened on this earth... iced coffee… … Unbelievable.”
“What happened?”
“It's a spawning ground.”
“spawning ground?”
Yeo Ha-ryun slightly tilted his head and asked his older brother a question, as if even that word was unfamiliar to him..
Fortunately, Jin Cheonhee knew what the word meant..
Because it was something that occasionally appeared in horror movies on Earth in the past..
“So, is this where they lay their eggs? And the baby is born? what… Ah, Rakshasha. Could it be the Rakshasha's egg??”
Jashi nodded..
“That's clever too. Yes. This is the spawning ground of Rakshasha. And if a human eats a Rakshasa's egg, the human will be eaten from the inside..”
A master of magic who can become a flatterer.
Even if it's false, if it's probably heaven, isn't that bad too?.
As if laughing at that question, the world opened a magic box and revealed the truth..
“Does it work? It's not changing.?”
“It works. The Rakshasha eats that human, and she becomes that human. Except they turn into the Rakshasa race at night... … . There is nothing different from that human being. Even if you give birth to a child, he will be born as an ordinary child. Except that you feed the child the Rakshasa's egg again so that the child gets eaten too..”
“……Parents are giving it to their father as medicine.?”
“There is a medicine from Mureungdowon that will not kill you or starve, so how could your parents refuse it? He risked his life to get the medicine and give it to his child..”
It wasn't witchcraft.
This wasn't witchcraft from the beginning.
Jin Cheon-hee took out a glass bottle from her arms..
It is a medicine given by Seongju and the people of this city with good intentions..
What happens if you eat it??
After being eaten from within by a Rakshasha, the Rakshasha overwrites the memories of a person named Jin Cheon-hee, believing that she is Jin Cheon-hee and living the day with Jin Cheon-hee's identity?.
At night, it turns into a completely different being..
This is a topic that often appears in cloned human movies..
“and… I can't even go to heaven with my feet.”
Yeo Ha-ryun asked those words..
“Is it really impossible to go? If a being with the same memories as me were alive in the same form, would that not be me?.”
I heard the iceberg slowly splitting apart..
There was a thought experiment we learned on Earth..
Swamp Man.
Thought Experiment Swampman.
A thought experiment designed by an American philosophy professor named Donald Davidson..
This was a story about identity.
It's complicated if I explain it long, but to put it simply, I can say it like this..
‘Is ‘I’ a unique being??
This is the story of Swampman..
A man died after being struck by lightning in a swamp near a pond..
However, the lightning strike created an exact replica of the dead man for unknown reasons..
man's body. Let's pretend that the nearby mud is a clone of this man..
If memories, body, age, everything is the same, then is this man real??
Or is it fake?
A thought experiment that everyone who likes science fiction has heard of at least once..
I felt like the downy hair was standing on end from the tips of my fingers..
‘Rakshasha eats humans from the inside and becomes the humans themselves. Since the Rakshasha that is eaten in this way grows in a fluid state, it retains human memories and ego..’
Yeo Ha-ryun asked.
“Didn’t your brother have a pulse? Are you really human??”
“okay. It's human. During the day, blood flow, organ movement, pupil constriction, all of that was just human..”
Countless movies and novels have pondered whether this philosophical zombie and the original person are the same person..
Now, even though it's just beef bone soup that's been steeped the way it should be, Jin Cheon-hee, who likes science fiction, found it fresh every time she ate it..
6Day 1, Island, Ghost in the Shell, Multiplicity, Oblivion…….
Movies that are now starting to sound like classics.
Still, the topic was always the same.
‘What is ‘I’??
If a clone comes out someday, if he has the same memories as me.
If you could upload your memories to a computer.
If he walks around in virtual reality believing it's me, can I delete it??
If I delete it, is it murder? Or is it suicide??
What my senior told me back then.
-After all, isn’t the soul just ‘memory’? Rather, the shell is not that important..
-If this can of corn contains my memories, it is me, and if this body is struck by lightning one day and loses memory, it is not me..
‘Why do I think of that person??’
What did that senior see in that movie back then?.
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