Chapter 124: Building a Nest (2)

And this pain continued until his ears, bones, kidneys, and bladder froze.

The cold was moving to push itself into places with the nature of water to make them similar to its winter form.

But when the cold tried to freeze his kidneys and bladder, the flame of Samadhi blooming inside his body instantly neutralized the cold, and when it tried to freeze the liquid in the bladder and kidneys to create sharp shapes and tear them to shreds, it made them float in a form that was neither liquid nor solid. His ears also softened, repeatedly freezing and thawing, and slowly changed their shape to be suitable for hearing sounds, though it wasn't quite rebirth and transformation.

However, only the bones.

Only the bone marrow accepted the cold as it was.

The cold froze the bones again and again, changing their hardness to be even harder than metal.

Water changes its nature. Cold and hard, hot and formless. This is like the human body. Hard like bones, formless like the sound heard by ears. But whether it's cold or hot depends only on my mind. This is the way to imitate nature.

Jinseong endured the pain and pricked up his ears.

And when he finally heard a small sound in his ears.

He opened his eyes wide and pierced through the darkness.

The sound of ice freezing.

The sound of flowing things stopping their movement, things with heat losing their heat, living things forgetting how to breathe.

It was the sound of everything freezing equally, and a sign indicating the presence of a terrible collection of cold held by Lake Baikal.

The ice crystal of Lake Baikal.

A treasure formed by holding coldness for a long time, and the thing that made Russia and China fight before the regression.

And also the reason why Jinseong specifically requested this bunker from Viktor.

The ice crystal holds the nature of pure water and tremendous cold. It can become a truly excellent cursed object.

Before the regression, when China learned of the existence of this ice crystal, they occupied Lake Baikal without any declaration of war. Then they moved the Patriotic Light Warrior Division, the special forces boasted by the Chinese Communist Party, to kill all people living within a 50 km radius of Lake Baikal and moved towards the border with the ice crystal. And Viktor, who went mad seeing what China had done, dropped nuclear weapons on their heads and moved his troops.

And China, seemingly forgetting what they had done, shouted ‘Russia attacked our precious soldiers,’ ‘2 billion Chinese people will never stand by and watch this,’ and likewise moved their troops.

And the ice crystal that became the spark of war was secretly taken by a British spy dispatched to Russia and sent to England.

Of course, Russia and China, who had become like dogs chasing chickens, protested to England even while fighting each other, and England, which had greatly increased its power during World War III, completely ignored their protests. Rather, they provoked their anger with an incredibly brazen attitude, saying, ‘So what if I took it? Is there anything you can do about it?’

But if there was something England didn't think of, it was that Russia and China during World War III were not countries that would stay still after taking a hit.

If it had been a peaceful situation, they might have kept their mouths shut for profit.

But the two countries were in a state where their egos were greatly inflated by continuous victories, and they hated anything that damaged their authority more than anything else. Therefore, Russia and China, even while at war, separately dispatched special forces to England and caused all sorts of trouble.

They bombed research institutes.

Infiltrated and sank aircraft carriers.

Used nuclear suitcases to devastate military bases.

Tormented those in power using curses.

Disguised as pirates and seized merchant ships.

Of course, England was not a country to stay still when attacked, so they counterattacked the two countries.

But perhaps because they wanted to minimize sacrifices while dispatching special forces, they hired many mercenaries, and Jinseong was also hired by England and worked for them.

At that time, Jinseong learned one lesson.

That the English are not to be trusted.

He could understand pushing people into dangerous situations to save expensive money, but not only trying to backstab with special forces after the operation was over, but also manipulating documents to avoid paying properly…

It caused tremendous anger in Jinseong before the regression.

Therefore, my taking of that ice crystal is good and right.

He had taken sufficient revenge before the regression, so he had no intention of bringing it back for revenge.

It was karma.

Fruit grew from roots, and that fruit would become seeds.

Seeds took root and grew to nurture fruit again.

This meant that if there was a cause, there was an effect.

In other words, an effect could not occur without a cause.

Because he went back in time, the things that made him angry didn't happen, so taking revenge would be like trying to take fruit without roots.

If he were to take revenge, his revenge would become the root, and England would wield the fruit of justified revenge against him.

This was not right.

However, countries did not easily change their nature.

Without special intervention, they were bound to repeat the mistakes they made.

Seeing things breeds desire!

When precious things were seen, greed arose, and when greed arose, one coveted, and when one coveted, one gave in to desire and committed sin.

Therefore, if it didn't exist from the beginning, there was no reason for any greed to arise.

By taking the ice crystal, he could prevent the war between Russia and China, prevent England from intervening and angering them both, prevent England from mistreating mercenaries and causing anger, and prevent mercenaries from spreading throughout England and committing all sorts of terrorism to prevent the country from functioning properly.

What was this if not good karma?

However, the ice crystal is not something that can be easily held by a human body.

Even just receiving the cold of a mere lake caused terrible pain.

This was only to this extent thanks to the special drug in the syringe Jinseong used, the effects of the ritual performed in Japan, and the sorcery adapting to the cold cast on his body. Without proper preparation, one's heart would immediately stop from the cold or their body would freeze solid, and it was clear that their flesh would become fish food and their soul would become a water ghost wandering Lake Baikal.

How much worse would the ice crystal be?

Today, I must be satisfied with receiving the nature of water into my body.

Jinseong stood up, promising himself for the future.

Then he loosened his stiffened body, slightly bent his knees, and jumped up as if leaping.

As if someone was pushing him, Jinseong quickly shot up to the surface, and finally, with a splashing sound and creating water spray, he was able to taste the air.

Coming up to the surface, Jinseong's body floated on the surface like ice.

It looked similar to when a person lies down in the Dead Sea.

He moved to land using the backstroke, and walked to an old concrete structure in a dense forest on one side of Lake Baikal. Then he moved a smart door lock that didn't match the old iron door, entered the number, and went inside.

As he entered, he was greeted by the pungent smell of mold, a passage strewn with filth, and walls covered in moss. He walked while carefully looking at the walls and found a wall that somehow had human touch on it.

He placed his hand on the wall and fumbled around, moving a hidden device in the wall.

Then, with a heavy sound, the wall opened, revealing a hidden space.

The hidden space looked completely different from the dirty, old passage that seemed like one could get sick just by breathing.

An enormously wide space that didn't match the name of a bunker.

A chandelier hanging from a high ceiling.

Splendid and intense interior decoration that might have been popular in the 17th or 18th century.

Luxurious wines on one side of the wall.

Everything in the room was slightly worn due to time, but rather, this gave it an antique feel, making it even more splendid.

This was the exact appearance of the 'luxury bunker' created by party officials during the Soviet era, and luxury goods that others had not discovered and recovered after the Soviet Union collapsed.

Jinseong operated the device to close the wall and snapped his fingers.

Then, responding to the sound, lights turned on in the chandelier, and the heating device installed in the room activated, changing the damp and cold air of the bunker to a warm one.

Jinseong roughly took off his clothes and threw them near the heating device, then headed to the sofa naked. He burned away the accumulated dust with Samadhi fire and lay down there.

This is truly a good base.

They say people feel secure when in a cave.

Then the place where Jinseong was lying now must be a very luxurious cave.

A very luxurious and excellent cave that one couldn't help but feel satisfied with.

But people couldn't live only in caves.

They also lived in wooden houses, and in houses made of stone.

They also went to vacation homes.

Wasn't that truly a luxurious life?

He sent a text message on his smartphone.

『 There should be many vacation homes in Japan that can be bought for 0 yen or 100 yen. Buy them. It's not a problem if evil spirits or ghosts are rampant in the vacation homes, but places with frequent natural disasters should be avoided. As it's a place where not only I but also you can stay, we should be careful about safety. 』

After a while, a reply came from Rise.

『 Don't worry. As it's a house where the Divine Lord and I will stay, I will look carefully and buy them. 』