Chapter 138
The caretaker, watching Ryu Sunghyun wrap Cha Seohu tightly in the blanket, finally opened his mouth.
“To me, it does seem like a cold... but I think we should confirm it. Even I don’t know everything about this mountain.”
“Confirm... cough.”
“Is that possible?” Ryu Sunghyun asked on Cha Seohu’s behalf, since his throat was swollen and the coughing wouldn't stop.
The caretaker calmly nodded and explained, “My skill is related to cold energy. I’ll use it to check whether there’s a similar force lingering in his system.”
“I only asked out of desperation, without much expectation... But if it does confirm something, that would be a relief.”
“I’ve never done this before either, so I can’t promise results.”
The caretaker stepped closer to the bed and lowered his gaze. The flushed face, reddened with fever, looked up at him.
The line of his neck, exposed above the blanket, looked so thin. His condition had visibly worsened since yesterday—it had finally taken its toll.
A physically weak Supporter climbing this mountain. In all his years watching over this place, the caretaker had never seen a Supporter come this far. All the fugitives who had tried to enter were Dealers.
Sure, there must’ve been criminal Supporters out there too, but the fact he’d never seen one suggested that even those on the run avoided Taebaeksan. Even seasoned Dealers had perished in this place.
Had they not run into him during his patrol yesterday, this Supporter would’ve died wandering through the snow—frozen solid or worse. The mountain was not normal.