Baek Yoonjun felt the world turn white.

He lost his senses for a moment.

After a short time passed, Baek Yoonjun, who had come to his senses, asked again.

"What did you just say?"

"I said the Sichuan Divine Doctor has been kidnapped...?"

At that moment, Baek Yoonjun's body swayed.

Then, suddenly, the wall of the residence flew away, and Baek Yoonjun's figure disappeared.

With his hair turned white, Baek Yoonjun frantically performed his lightness skill.

'Yuhwa kidnapped?'

All sorts of ominous thoughts and an emotion rare for Baek Yoonjun, anger, began to creep up in his mind.

And so, Baek Yoonjun, who had been running like crazy, stopped his feet.

Thanks to running like crazy while performing his lightness skill, Baek Yoonjun, whose head had cooled down a bit, looked around.

"Where am I?"

Baek Yoonjun looked around in a daze.

Despite his body's poor condition, thanks to his mind going blank, he had run like crazy without thinking, and when he came to his senses for a moment and looked around, he was in the middle of a forest he didn't recognize.

'Where am I, really?'

He had no idea where this place was.

"Really? For now, if I go in the opposite direction, won't I be able to go back?"

Baek Yoonjun, in his unbelievable reality, performed his lightness skill as best he could and tried to run.

The result was just running further into an unknown swamp.

A moment later, Baek Yoonjun stood dazedly, looking down at a city he didn't know at all.

"Me, me."

"A lost child!"

Considering he had run as he pleased, it was natural to get lost.

Baek Yoonjun, who had rarely gone outside of Sichuan, had gotten lost as if it were natural.

–

The residence where he had stayed after Baek Yoonjun disappeared.

There, Zhuge Wuxian and Gu Wolju were talking with serious expressions.

"So, he ran out after hearing that the Sichuan Divine Doctor was kidnapped?"

"The circumstances are like that, but the speed was not something that could be seen with the eyes..."

Zhuge Wuxian answered Gu Wolju's words with an embarrassed feeling.

In fact, the hole in the wall only told that Baek Yoonjun had left in a hurry, but he had not seen it with his own eyes.

In such a situation, even Zhuge Wuxian, who had a good head on his shoulders, had nothing particular to say.

"Phew, as if the aftermath of the jiangshi attack wasn't enough to deal with, the Sichuan Divine Doctor is kidnapped and the immortal is missing..."

Gu Wolju pressed his forehead with his hand as if his head ached.

"For now, we should prioritize reorganizing the village and form a separate search party."

"That would be right."

"On top of that, we need to prepare a residence for Great Hero Zhang Sanfeng and his two disciples."

Although the most urgent matter, the jiangshi attack, had been resolved, the aftermath was the problem.

Having fought a big battle, their strength was weakened, and in that state, they didn't know when a threat might come from their surroundings.

"Then, I will take care of the cleanup, so you should guide the guests and form a search party for the two."

"Me?"

"Although your martial power is not strong, doesn't your head work well?"

At Gu Wolju's words, Zhuge Wuxian's expression naturally frowned.

'It doesn't look fun....'

Although it was a very uninteresting job, as long as he was in the Cheongseong Sect, he could not refuse.

'Is there a way to make an uninteresting job fun?'

Zhuge Wuxian prepared to greet the guests and form a search party, racking his brain for useless things.

—

And at that time.

"For now, the atmosphere of the village is too unsettled to gather rumors..."

"Still, since it's Master's order, we have to do it!"

Hong Yungae and Zhuge Hwaryeong were diligently wandering around the Sichuan area to find Zhuge Hyun's whereabouts.

"It's so chaotic, I don't see anyone."

Hong Yungae let out a deep sigh.

The beggar tribe was the first to flee when danger arose because they had nothing to pack.

Therefore, even now that the situation was over, not a single beggar could be seen.

Zhuge Hwaryeong, who was watching the situation, took special measures.

"Then let's split up. Senior brother, you look for beggars and ask for rumors, and I'll go around the taverns and brothels."

"Hmm? Do we have to?"

"Originally, the trading folks, especially those of lower rank, are sensitive to rumors."

"I didn't know that. Anyway, I understand."

Hong Yungae and Zhuge Hwaryeong split up.

The former bandits, the beggar aspirants, naturally followed Hong Yungae.

The sight of Hong Yungae dragging around the rough-looking beggar aspirants was that of a king of beggars.

Naturally, the beggars who were sensitive to survival were busy running away when they saw such a Hong Yungae.

"Hey, old man, just a moment!"

"Hic! Sir! Just my life!!"

The beggar he had just found immediately knelt and bowed his head as soon as Hong Yungae caught him.

Hong Yungae was flustered by the completely unexpected situation.

"No, why are you doing this? I'm a beggar too."

At Hong Yungae's words, this time the beggar looked at him as if he were dumbfounded.

"What kind of beggar drags around such a rough-looking gang?! I bet you've even learned martial arts?!"

"Uh, um... I have learned martial arts."

"Huh?"

The beggar, who had just straightened his back, bent it again upon hearing the story of martial arts.

"What is your business, young beggar sir?"

The way his attitude went back and forth like a rubber band was a sight that would have been dumbfounding to others, but Hong Yungae, who was in the same industry, knew their psychology well, so he asked his question without minding it.

"I am looking for a person."

"A person, you say? What kind of person?"

"For now, the person I'm looking for is someone who uses the name Zhuge Hyun..."

"Zhuge Hyun?!"

The beggar was startled upon hearing the name Zhuge Hyun.

'Why is he overreacting like that?'

Hong Yungae felt a great sense of puzzlement.

"I don't know!"

It became even more puzzling as he overreacted and pretended not to know.

"It seems you know..."

"I-I said I don't know! You too! You're not a beggar, but a ruffian, right?!"

"No, I am a beggar."

"Anyway, I don't know! I said I don't know!!"

The beggar kicked the ground and ran away.

Hong Yungae couldn't even think of catching him and just stared blankly at the beggar's back.

'What's with his reaction? What on earth is that human doing?'

While Hong Yungae was at a loss, Zhuge Hwaryeong was also gathering information.

The place Zhuge Hwaryeong headed to was a brothel.

Since she had often had to visit brothels for work when she worked at a tavern, her steps were unhesitating.

As she entered the brothel, the eyes of the staff there were drawn to Zhuge Hwaryeong.

"Young master? Come to play?"

A courtesan who had been sending glances approached Zhuge Hwaryeong.

Zhuge Hwaryeong felt her face flush at the courtesan's seductive attire, which was so loose that her chest was half-exposed, and turned her head.

"No. I'm just looking for someone and wanted to ask."

"Why come to a brothel to look for someone?"

"Don't a lot of information about people gather in brothels?"

"Hmm."

The courtesan quietly took out a pipe from her bosom and put it in her mouth.

"For free?"

Then she asked, lighting the pipe.

Zhuge Hwaryeong, who had expected that it wouldn't be free, took out a silver coin.

"I'll pay."

"Rather than that, come play."

The courtesan swept Zhuge Hwaryeong's cheek with her hand and then went down, sweeping her chest.

"Hmm?"

Then she suddenly made a puzzled expression and squeezed Zhuge Hwaryeong's chest.

"You?"

"Hic! Wh-what are you doing?!"

Startled by the sudden touch, Zhuge Hwaryeong covered her chest with her hands and stepped back.

The courtesan looked at such a Zhuge Hwaryeong as if she were dumbfounded.

"You, a girl, why are you dressed as a man?"

"...Because the world is so harsh."

"It is harsh. Hmmm."

The courtesan made a strange expression, held Zhuge Hwaryeong's cheek, and scanned her carefully.

For some reason, Zhuge Hwaryeong felt like a frog in front of a snake.

"If you're worried about the world being harsh, why don't you work here?"

"Wh-what are you talking about?! I won't!!"

Zhuge Hwaryeong was startled again and stepped back.

Her face turned bright red, looking like it was about to be cooked.

"If you don't want to, then don't."

The courtesan smiled as if she were satisfied with the flustered Zhuge Hwaryeong.

Zhuge Hwaryeong felt as if she had been teased.

"It's a shame, if you look closely, you're my type!"

"I won't!"

'I want to get out of here right now, regardless of the question.'

The courtesan seemed satisfied with such a reaction from Zhuge Hwaryeong.

"Since you're my type, I'll answer your question."

"Were you teasing me?"

"Because your reaction was cute."

Although Zhuge Hwaryeong was not particularly pleased because she had been teased so much, thinking of her master, she quietly asked her question.

"I'm looking for a person named Zhuge Hyun."

"Zhuge Hyun..."

The courtesan, upon hearing the name Zhuge Hyun, looked at the ceiling and blew out cigarette smoke.

"He's a heartless person."

Looking at the courtesan who was looking at the ceiling with very wistful eyes, Zhuge Hwaryeong's mind became complicated.

'What on earth is that person named Zhuge Hyun doing, making this person make such an expression?'

It became very complicated.

–

Baek Yoonjun hesitated.

'How do I get home?'

And so, after thinking and thinking.

'I could measure the direction by looking at the stars!'

Knowledge that is not particularly useful if you live an ordinary life on modern Earth.

But for now, it was useful.

Moreover, unlike modern Earth, there was less environmental pollution, so the stars were very clearly visible.

The problem was.

'How do I check this?'

The way to check the direction by looking at the stars was not in his head.

'This is useless knowledge then!'

Baek Yoonjun was in despair.

But soon, another piece of knowledge came to mind.

"The sun rises in the east and sets in the west!"

But, this too was knowledge that was as good as not remembering.

The sun was already setting.

'Which way was my neighborhood?'

Baek Yoonjun did not know which direction the Sichuan region where he lived was.

The place name of Sichuan was also knowledge he had learned recently because he had had to go out a lot to raise his disciples.

Baek Yoonjun was in despair again.

'Can't I go home?'

In the end, he realized that he could not go home with the knowledge in his head.

Baek Yoonjun struggled to turn his eyes towards the city.

A city that was not inferior to Sichuan and even looked bigger.

If he held on to people and asked, he might be able to find out the way.

He might even be able to get a map.

'No. Come to think of it, didn't that guy in my past life say that maps of this era are strategic materials and are hard to obtain for civilians?'

With the sudden knowledge, he gave up on the map, but since it was the same country, he thought there would be exchanges and a way to go.

'At least if I can get to Sichuan, and since Sichuan is a big city, there must be someone who knows.'

Having finished his thoughts, Baek Yoonjun moved his feet towards the city.

To be precise, he tried to move.

The moment Baek Yoonjun took a step, the back foot that should have moved naturally did not move.

It did not move as if it were stuck in the ground.

'Ah, I don't want to go in.'

Of course, it was not actually stuck in the ground, but just that Baek Yoonjun's psychology of not wanting to enter the city had acted strongly.

'But I have to go! I have to go home to be cooped up in a corner of my room!'

Baek Yoonjun, who was extremely conscious of his unmoving legs, barely took a step.

'How did I walk?'

At the thought that there were so many people in the city, Baek Yoonjun had even forgotten how to walk.

It was like the walk of a baby who had just taken its first steps.

Each step was as heavy as a thousand pounds.

"Ugh."

Baek Yoonjun, who was walking with difficulty, staggered.

Just before he fell to the ground, someone grabbed Baek Yoonjun's arm and helped him up.

"Are you okay, young master?"

"Ah, thank you."

Baek Yoonjun turned his gaze towards the person who had helped him.

It was a woman who was a head shorter than him.

The problem was.

'A white robe and a black sword? Why is she dressed the same as me?'

Baek Yoonjun was confused.

But at the fact that came to mind next, chaos came beyond confusion.

'By the way, m-my body touched...!!'

Baek Yoonjun's extreme homebody introvert tendency came rushing up.

(End of Chapter)