Chapter 308: Chapter 308

“Are you talking about the Green Forest?”

“Yes, I am talking about the Green Forest.”

Zhuge Un looked at Namgung Cheon, who was playing baduk. It seemed he was hardly listening because he was focusing on baduk.

Even though it was a fairly serious situation, he did not show even a single surprised appearance.

In the end, Zhuge Un turned his gaze to look at Jeok Mu-seong on the opposite side.

The Green Forest was an organization that had branched off from the Unorthodox Faction.

Since it was strictly no different from being under their management, he wondered if he knew anything.

Jeok Mu-seong, in his scruffy appearance, was frowning seriously.

Looking at that face, it was by no means due to worrying about the Green Forest.

Because his gaze was also fixed on the baduk board and did not detach.

“Do you perhaps know anything?”

“Huh? Me? Ah… you said the Green Forest? What was it again…”

Jeok Mu-seong, who had been recalling the name of the Green Forest leader in his head, soon let out a loud shout, “Ah!” It was because Namgung Cheon had made a decisive move.

“L… Let me take back one move!”

“Hahaha, did I not let you take back a move earlier too?”

“No, my friend! What are friends for! You should go easy on me at times like this.”

Namgung Cheon frowned.

Rather than friends, they seemed to be in a relationship where they were anxious because they could not kill each other?

Somewhere along the way, that had turned into friends.

Of course, if looked at that way, Sado Hak was also in a similar relationship, but Sado Hak and Namgung Cheon had built up a connection knowingly or unknowingly since childhood.

Because they were arch-rivals looking at the same place.

But Jeok Mu-seong…

“You are a servant of the family, and am I not something like an elder! Strictly speaking, we are not friends…”

“…”

Jeok Mu-seong’s mouth corners trembled.

At that moment, Zhuge Un retreated backward without realizing.

Because he did not know what Jeok Mu-seong, who was less patient than Sado Hak, might commit.

Just then, Sado Hak stealthily showed himself.

“What? Are you playing baduk? If you do this here, you will win.”

Sado Hak, giving backseat advice, placed a baduk stone.

Then, when Jeok Mu-seong instantly ended up capturing the large group, the one who was embarrassed was none other than Namgung Cheon.

“Where is the rule allowing backseat advice!?”

“No, why are you giving me hell? You can just let it go! What is so fun about winning against a guy who cannot even play baduk!”

“Ugh… still, backseat advice is not right!”

Zhuge Un knew that although Namgung Cheon liked baduk very much, he was not good at playing it.

To the extent that he played baduk with Sado Hak almost every day but had never won even once.

Since he was crushed miserably by Dan Woo-hyun, he seemed to have tried to take comfort in defeating Jeok Mu-seong, who at least could not play baduk.

As the shouting of the three grew louder, Zhuge Un, realizing it was not a situation suitable for conversation, stepped backward and retreated.

‘Green Forest my foot… they do not even care.’

They had been leaders of organizations, and normally they would have bellowed and sent their subordinates, but now they knew that no matter how much the Green Forest or whatever flew and crawled, they could not pose a threat to the family.

And no wonder, since three of the peerless Five Emperors were here, and even Dan Woo-hyun was present.

Even if the Green Forest’s power was grand, if just one of these people stepped forward, they would be completely annihilated.

“See. I told you it is useless even if you speak.”

“Ahem… but since they say they are slaughtering common people…”

“They will take care of it on their own.”

Zhuge Yeon shrugged her shoulders.

Namgung Cheon, Sado Hak, and Jeok Mu-seong were not children, nor were they thoughtless people.

The stories about the Green Forest were spreading day by day, and there was no way Namgung Cheon, who occasionally went to Yueyang, did not know.

Furthermore, in the current situation, Dan Woo-hyun was not to be seen.

That Dan So-mi was at the estate but Dan Woo-hyun was not meant that he was plotting something, or proceeding with work in secret.

Actually, Zhuge Yeon thought this situation was already resolved.

“I wonder if the Eighteen Strongholds of the Green Forest might disappear.”

* * *

Boom!

At the suddenly heard sound, Jang Sam-tae, who had been sleeping embraced in the courtesan’s arms, sprang up from his seat.

Looking out the window, it was already a dark night.

No, it was dawn.

At the sound of screaming heard in the darkness where even the lamps had vanished, his spine turned cold.

“Aaack!”

“Keh!”

Jang Sam-tae hurriedly went outside.

Simultaneously with opening the door, a blade flew in. Imbued with the single-minded determination to sever the neck in a single blow, that move did not look easy to avoid.

Jang Sam-tae pulled his neck back as much as possible and twisted his body.

The blade grazed past by a hair’s breadth.

Crack!

Instantly stretching his leg, he kicked the opponent’s chest.

The kicked man’s body flew and lodged into the wall.

Thud!

Whether he fainted, he collapsed helplessly to the floor.

“What are these fellows?”

The appearance of these people, who were not even wearing masks, was somewhat rustic. The clothes they wore were just like mountain bandits, and the quality of their weapons did not look very good either.

It was slightly strange that the pattern symbolizing the Green Forest was engraved on their chests.

“Huh?”

Green Forest?

Jang Sam-tae swallowed a groan.

Folding his arms and thinking briefly, he soon opened his eyes.

His wide-open eyes contained shock.

“The Eighteen Strongholds of the Green Forest?!”

“Ah, what are you calling me, I ask?”

“Why are they even attacking the Haowu Gate, of all places?”

Jang Sam-tae’s head was spinning with all kinds of questions.

But since they were of the same lowlifes, he could only think if it was due to a struggle for influence.

Jang Sam-tae, whose face had turned pale, hurriedly went downstairs. Countless Haowu Gate members were captured, and a few were already scattered about as corpses.

Having bound each person, they seemed to intend to lead them somewhere.

Staring at all those situations, Jang Sam-tae gasped.

“H… Hero, what should we do?”

“Where did that fellow go? I mean Gu Mu-ak!”

“The… Gate Leader left long ago.”

At the whispered reply of the courtesan, Jang Sam-tae felt his heart sink with a thump.

A conjecture arose that he had run away alone while he was drinking heavily and sleeping.

No, perhaps he had fled the moment he grasped the situation.

In any case, it was a bad situation.

“Huh?”

Just then, Jang Sam-tae discovered a familiar face.

Among those binding people one by one, a familiar face was visible.

Recalling something, he hurriedly pulled out the wanted poster.

“T… That guy…!”

“He is identical…”

He was identical, to the extent that even the courtesan who saw the wanted poster acknowledged it.

Since even the large mole on his face was the same, it was a situation where he could not think of him as another person.

‘Th… This human?!’

He read Hong Won-chang’s thoughts in an instant.

Since the Green Forest bandits began running amok in Hunan, a person to resolve it was needed.

Bringing it to Dan Woo-hyun would be the cleanest, but since he was not someone who would move easily, he had entrusted it to Jang Sam-tae.

The more he thought, the more it was annoying.

“You are fine, right? For Hero Jang, the Green Forest bandits are laughable!”

Clenching her fists, the courtesan smiled as if to cheer him on. Since she had heard the fame of Lightning Feet to the point of getting calluses on her ears, those Green Forest bandits would be nothing.

Had he not even bragged himself?

Jang Sam-tae broke into a cold sweat.

“No, that is…”

“Hero Jang is the hero of Yueyang! You will dispose of the Green Forest quickly, right?”

“U… Uh… but you see…”

“You are someone even more grand than Ma Cheon-gun or Gentleman Sword!”

At those words, Jang Sam-tae’s eyes flashed.

Originally, they were those who could not even be compared, but just being compared to them made strength seem to surge from the tips of his toes.

“Fuhaha! Correct, correct! I am grander than those old men. Grander indeed!”

“Wow! I believed in you!”

At the expectation shown by the courtesan, Jang Sam-tae grew highly elated.

He did not know in the least who the opponent from the Green Forest was or how grand a figure he was, but looking at his confidence alone, it was no different from having won already.

“Do not worry! This Lord Jang Sam-tae will resolve it cleanly!”

“I will look forward to it.”

The courtesan let out a short laugh at the words spoken while thumping his chest. Soon, turning her head to glance at Jang Sam-tae, her gaze was filled with pity.

‘They said he is a simple fellow, and it is true…’

The Hunan Dan Family, which even the Haowu Gate Leader under heaven could do nothing about.

Since he was a fellow working in such a place and had made quite a name for himself in the Central Plains as Lightning Feet, she thought he might be difficult to move, but lo and behold, it was several times easier than expected.

If she just displayed a bit of coquetry, playing with him would be no task at all.

“What kind of fellow are you?”

The mole-faced man looked up at Jang Sam-tae. Since he burst into such a loud laugh, he could not fail to notice.

Jang Sam-tae took a step forward.

He then stared quietly at the wanted poster and uttered the name written below.

“Are you the fellow named Gyun-ung?”

He asked, putting maximum strength into his shoulders.

Although he tilted his head at the somehow familiar name, since nothing in particular came to mind, he brushed it off lightly.

Gyun-ung frowned as he looked at such a Jang Sam-tae.

“I asked what kind of fellow you are.”

“Uh-huh! How dare you behave insolently here of all places! Do you bastards not even recognize this Lord Jang Sam-tae of the Lightning Feet!”

At the loudly echoing statement, the entire brothel fell quiet in an instant.

Not to mention Gyun-ung, all the bandits in the surroundings stared at Jang Sam-tae.

Jang Sam-tae flinched and trembled at the gazes pouring in unison.

“W… What.”

“Did you just say you are Jang Sam-tae of the Lightning Feet?”

“Y… Yes! What of it?”

Something was strange.

He realized that the atmosphere had flipped in an instant at the word Lightning Feet.

While swallowing dry saliva without realizing, Jang Sam-tae tried his best to maintain as calm an appearance as possible.

Gyun-ung took a step forward.

Simultaneously, his subordinates scattered here and there and began to block spaces where he could escape.

Shring, shring!

Sounds of drawing weapons were heard here and there, and to a man, they glared at Jang Sam-tae while emitting thick murderous intent.

Jang Sam-tae wore a puzzled expression.

“W… What are you guys?”

“It is you, huh? The fearless brat who smashed the Noksu Stronghold?”

Thump!

Jang Sam-tae’s complexion turned deathly pale.

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