Chapter 153 – Isolation (5)
Isolation (5)
“… Black cow and white cow.”
Dojun Lee repeated what the miser said and smiled slightly.
Black ox and white ox.
It was not a word that had a very good meaning just by hearing it.
… What was it?
“Was it an idiom or a proverb? …”
For a moment, Lee Do-jun mumbles while looking back at the origin of the words the miser is sarcastic about.
He shrugged his shoulders and answered the miser as if showing off.
“What’s there to be embarrassed about? Isn’t it okay if you just do your job well, whether it’s black or white?”
Just—!
As soon as Lee Do-jun’s question ends, a cheerful sound fills the room.
The miser clinked both fingers together to focus Lee Do-jun’s attention.
After that, he flicked his index finger and shook his head.
“Yes, that is the problem.”
It was like a teacher talking in school.
A smile and reaction that would only be shown to a student who is steadily following the class progress.
“Whether the cow is black, white, or the yellow cow that appears in the original story – it doesn’t matter to the farmer.”
However, Lee Do-jun chose to remain silent rather than respond to that neat smile.
“Even before the scholar asked, the farmer already knew that yellow cows work better.”
When I looked at him, I had to look at his eyes, not his mouth.
The delivery man quietly made eye contact with the miser.
There is not even a trace of the clear semicircle that the mouth is drawing-
Sharp eyes that shine coldly and coldly.
“But that’s not what we are, right?”
It was a look in his eyes that I had often seen since I started working under him, but it was an alien look that I could never get used to.
Eyes that evoke an instinctive feeling of rejection just by looking at them.
If I had to force myself to explain it, it was eyes full of calculation.
Really like a ‘miser’.
Eyes that seemed to focus everything on the act of calculation.
“We don’t know whether white cows or black cows work better.”
The betting environment is too weak.
Tuk- Tuk-
“Perhaps that is the environment induced by the being who created this gambling hall-“
The miser, who was looking at the ceiling and muttering to herself, smiled faintly again and shook her head.
“Even taking that into account, it’s too difficult. “The two people competing must be very competitive.”
… One person—
The miser continued to mutter, remembering his first collaborator.
“There is one person who, even at that age, is still a kid who is addicted to family games and role-playing, Mr. President-“
The other one—
“Despite this mess, you are an immoral person who staged a coup and overthrew my grandfather.”
Han Se-gye and Yeon Si-woo.
Yeon Si-woo and Han Se-gye.
To the miser, they were mentally ill people who dared not distinguish between superiority and inferiority.
After the world turns upside down, the insane people sit on top of the world turned upside down.
“Then, let’s keep it simple.”
Dojun Lee calmly responded to the miser’s words as he always did.
“In terms of physical strength, wouldn’t the younger one have a higher chance of winning?”
A tone of speech that seems to compare cows thrown into a bull fight.
In the end, the miser with a deeper smile responded to Lee Do-jun’s review.
“The skill of an expert may shine more than the spirit of youth.”
“… Hmm – it’s difficult.”
To be precise, the problem was not that it was difficult, but that it was a question and answer that could not be completed if continued.
It was similar to when I raised my voice about the ranking of dinosaurs with my friends as a child.
A comparison based solely on imagination and expectations was a comparison that could not be established in the first place.
“Then, what-“
That’s why Lee Do-jun deliberately spoke less and uttered his last words.
“Wouldn’t it depend on the condition on the day?”
“… Haha,—”
The miser responds with a heartless laugh, just like the conversation that followed.
He must have remembered the deliveryman’s last words once again, and he let out another laugh and shook his head.
“It’s difficult. “It’s actually more difficult because they openly reveal that they are both crazy people.”
“… A scuffle between the amazing and amazing Choi and the youngest university president and the incompetent CEO of a large company. “There is no such thing as comedy.”
“When you say that, you hit me even harder. “If the world hadn’t come to this point, this would have been an issue that would have caused a stir for a month.”
“If not the whole world, Korea would have been shaken.”
“The comments must have been very interesting to see.”
Betting would certainly have been opened.
Even if it wasn’t lives like now, bets involving astronomical amounts of money would have been rampant.
Well, then-
Before the world collapsed with zombies-
If you were still a stubborn person trying to make money that day, who would you have bet on?
Tap- Tap- Tap-
Fingers quietly hitting the table at a steady beat.
Lee Do-jun remained silent and waited for the miser to calmly organize her thoughts.
… Tap—!
The tapping stopped with a slightly louder sound.
… When you are not exactly sure of the internal factors-
“Of course we should turn to external factors.”
If you don’t have enough information to choose between Han Se-gye and Yeon Si-woo, you can just leave it that way.
Why not squeeze out useless information and gamble with a low chance of winning?
I had to use the solid information I had now.
“Me.”
The miser, who had stabbed herself in the chest with her finger, looked at Lee Do-jun and smiled.
Authentic information that Old Lady Susan herself and her people have.
The situation they are in right now.
While preparing to attack Yeon Si-woo in cooperation with Han World-
Yeon Si-woo personally led his men and came to them.
He threatened them by mentioning the not-too-distant future.
The shield of temporary protection period is not a ‘perfect’ shield.
Any time, any way-
It is a weak defense that can be bypassed if you have the will.
Therefore-
“We must make the necessary choices as farmers, not as black and white cows where all information is uncertain.”
And that choice.
“First of all, I have to put away the knife that comes close to my throat.”
“… It may be new, but considering what you’ve been thinking about for so long, it’s such a natural thing to say.”
“There are too many variables, so we have to go with the straight method.”
There was a sign prohibiting entry in front of me, but I had no intention of sticking my head into the minefield.
And you have to remove the knife stuck in front of your throat-
“… Only then can you decide how to use the sword you took.”
Whenever a war breaks out, it is always the neighboring countries that receive special treatment.
An opportunity to become a thorough kingmaker.
The miser planned to make the most of this opportunity, which did not come easily.
“… Then, I will deliver your message to Baeksan Town.”
Just like his nickname, ‘miser’.
***
It was like a halo of moon illuminating a dark room.
It was clearly visible that Linnea’s already white face had become even whiter, like a sheet of paper.
Plop-plop-
She is startled by the sudden sound of footsteps and turns her head.
Despite the superior physical abilities of this person, I finally heard my own footsteps-
It was clear evidence showing how much mental composure she had right now.
Her eyes trembled even more violently as she saw me coming closer.
She was afraid of something.
Even before I approached-
Even now as I am approaching.
Plop-plop-
It was obvious what happened.
In the first place, this camp itself was an ant hell created to pressure her.
Little by little, little by little, she was sinking into her quagmire without even realizing it.
First.
From the moment you met me at Banseokdae, as another High Queens survivor and as the leader of the dormitory area-
The sand was soaking her feet to get her.
High Queens, library, dormitory—
And again, the library, Cha Seol-hee, Cha Hayan sisters-
And finally, here, Hyundai Department Store.
I very steadily and faithfully separated her from her familiar place.
Under the cause of carrying out the common goal of camp-
She continued to do my bidding like a puppet.
In the first place, rejection was not an option.
You can’t reject the reason that it’s for the sake of the camp and the people left behind.
Then, Linnea, not me, will become a strange person and be ostracized by everyone.
So Linnea continued to wander the unfamiliar land.
In the first place, we moved from Korea, a foreign land, to an even stranger and unfamiliar land.
Plop-plop-
So, once again, she was thrown into an unfamiliar land.
Not next to the female campers she was familiar with, but to a dark corner of the department store.
She crawled into herself and was shaking.
Plop-plop-
I only spoke a few brief words to the two female campers.
‘Linnea is a very precious and important person to me.’
Neither criticism nor slander-
Rather, this word of her living highly drove her to this place.
In one word of my words again-
She finally realized it.
The grains of sand that had been gently moistening her feet had now reached her lower body.
There isn’t much she can do now.
Other than gritting her teeth and holding on to her panicked face.
And I came here to make that white face even whiter.
