I exited the hospital in a way better mood, it was refreshing to know I had more time. With my [Ripple] I was able to preserve my mother's vitality a little, thus giving me more time to find or create a cure for her disease. It filled me with hope and determination to find it.
Walking down the street after exiting the hospital I prepared to go towards the bus station. On the way, I saw some unsavory people and accidentally heard them talking.
"... He may be a junkie and a bastard but he was one of us. He died close to here and the police didn't find any evidence besides a bit of sunburn on his face. Useless bastards!"(Mob1).
"I know right? when they want to stop a theft they work like some goddam superheroes, but when they have to find corruption in the government, or searching for the murderer they appear to be dumber than apes."(Mob2).
"Pieces of shit all of them... I am fucking pissed and I want to beat someone up."(Mob1)
"Me too bro, my fists are aching to hit someone."(Mob2).
"Hey... look there is a tall muscular dude over there, he looks like a fucking freak of nature, so it is our duty to beat him up."(Mob1)
The other mob smiled maliciously and in his eyes, you could see that he didn't care one bit about the poor excuse of his brother, he simply wanted to punch someone after all.
"He may be big but we have the whole gang with us, way to easy this one."(Mob1).
Well, fuck. Why the hell do you suddenly want to beat someone up. But I guess this is karma for that first time I killed someone. Well, not like it would be difficult to fight against those bastards with my Sharingan, even if I am severely outnumbered the maximum that can happen is for me to receive some shallow wounds.
But when they started to circle me and I was going to fight back a dude came from out of nowhere and started absolutely trashing the gang that wanted to beat me. The guy was fast and strong, each of his strikes basically was on-hit-K.O. on all those gang members.
He beat them up fast and efficiently, but what surprised me the most is that he is a cultivator. A [Master] to be more exact, thank god he isn't a [Real Master] like those old monsters who could easily sense the Ki inside of me. He must've thought I was some random normal dude being harassed and decided to help.
When he finished with the thugs he looked at me and asked:
"Are you alright there dude?"(Strange Man).
"Yeah. Thanks for the help by the way. My name is Yang Jin."(Jin).
"Ah, no problem there I only did what was right. And my name is Tang Zen."(Zen).
"So not wanting to be rude or anything... but you don't look much like a local..."(Jin).
"Hahaha. No problem man, I am from china. I just came to Korea for some business deals, so it's no surprise that you noticed I am not from here... Talking about it I don't know many things about these parts so could you show me?"(Zen).
"I don't mind. It can be considered as we getting even."(Jin).
Well, I technically didn't need the save but I guess I can help this guy here a bit. Just the fact that he is a Chinese cultivator is intriguing as I didn't know any from the manga, so I am quite curious about his presence here. Another thing that I want is to of course copy his cultivation technique.
Yeah, I already have the [Black Heaven and Earth Technique], but you never know when you would need another technique. It may be useless to me but I could always use it in a deal with someone, heck it can even help me buy a cure for my mother in the future.
"Thanks, man I really appreciate it. I don't need much as I have already seen something on the internet, I just want you to show me this building here."(Zen).
Then he picks up his phone and shows a photo to me, it's a photo of the murim alliance building. What is a Chinese cultivator doing here in the murim alliance?
"Sure I know the place, I can also recommend some good hotels and restaurants on the way. You say you are here for a business trip right?"(Jin).
"Yeah. More of an international relations thing"(Zen).
"No problem. But you will need to stay here for some time right? So with some recommendations you can avoid the shitty tourist traps of restaurants all around."(Jin).
"I guess it makes sense, I wasn't planning THAT far ahead yet."(Zen).
"Ha, it's normal to forget this when you need to do things in a hurry. So let's go?"(Jin).
"Sure."(Zen).
Then we went on the way. Thank god the murim alliance isn't that much far away from the hospital and we could easily walk there.
"So for what kind of company you work to?"(Jin).
"Security, we mainly deal with security. I am coming here to check in one of our competitors here in Korea and maybe establish some sort of international relations between us." (Zen).
"Huh, never knew there was a security company there. Guess it just isn't in my circle of people. So what's the name of your big company?"(Jin).
"[Jade Palace]"(Zen).
And doesn't that sound ominous at all, the jade palace ringed a bunch of alarm bells in my mind? Could it be just some fancy name to a silly security company? of course, it could. But seeing as this guy is a cultivator and is going to the murim alliance I will take a very safe bet that [Jade Palace] is just the name of china version of murim alliance.
"Wow, that name is pretty heavy..."(Jin).
"You can't even imagine..."(Zen).
He said that in a barely audible whisper, but the fact that I had my [Sharingan] active under my sunglasses made me able to read his lips easily and understand what he said.
"Are you familiar with the Jade emperor mythology?"(Zen)
"Yeah, I know about it a little bit."(Jin).
"Huh... And here I was thinking a Korean would be more focused on its own legends?"(Zen).
"Well, I like to read so I guess you could count me as a special case?"(Jin).
"... no offense but when someone looks at your physique..."(Zen).
"I know I don't look the scholarly type with all these muscles and my height... But I really like to read you know..."(Jin).
We talked some more while I showed him some restaurants, cafes, and a bunch of other places I thought would be helpful to him. Barely some minutes later we were already at the murim alliance. seeing the building Zen stopped and looked at me.
"Thanks for the help."(Zen).
"No problem, just returning the favor."(Jin).
"Thanks anyway. But now I've gotta go. Bye."(Zen).
"Sure. Bye and good luck with your business."(Jin).
With that, I turn myself and start to walk away in the direction of a bus stop. But before I can go much further I heard something.
"Ah, you ought to better yourself at hiding you Ki, it was really obvious, at least for me. Bye young cultivator."(Zen).
Well, fuck you too. Wasn't my Ki supposed to be only detectable to [Real Masters] and some very good [Advanced Masters]? Wait... he said he is representing china equivalent of the murim alliance, [Jade Palace] was it? so he must be someone special, to begin with... why did my luck suddenly turn so shitty?
Better get the fuck out of here before the Op Chinese cultivator starts with his young master syndrome on me. His country did invent the archetype after all.
But still, there is the question... What the fuck is China doing here? I know with the Goomoonryong fiasco it was kind of impossible for other countries to not notice. But if I go with the manga the assassination was pretty strong at this time. After the mess that happens at the end of The Breaker that the association starts to decline. But the chief hate boner for the Goomoonryong can be seen by anyone with a brain so it would indeed be a stretch if it wasn't found out by the outside community.
But if I count the fact that the Red command has cultivators with this new info of china... Maybe there is some hidden war that I don't know much about. And everything is gonna blow out of proportions after the Goomoonryong invades the murim alliance in the near future...