Chapter 18
If you want to see the future of Seoul, look up at Gwanak.
I’ve always lived by those words, etched deep in my heart. Because there was no truer statement in the world. In fact, all the prestigious university students from Gwanak Mountain were f*eaking awesome. My former boss was also from a prestigious university there.
However, as the human navigation system behind the wheel guided the car towards Gwanak Mountain, the illusion in my heart gradually shattered.
“…Bukhansan has too many eyes watching and is close to the heart of Seoul, so we move the initially delivered goods to a secret location south of Gwanak Mountain for ‘processing’.”
“Gwanak Mountain has well-established hiking trails like Bukhansan, so wouldn’t people’s eyes be a concern?”
“I don’t know that much. The boss just said that if we settle in a Extreme Fire location where people can’t live, according to the advice of a Feng Shui expert he knows, everything will be resolved.”
I recalled ‘Feng Shui’ from the information I had meticulously searched through for dozens of hours, swimming through the sea of the internet at the PC room.
The most well-known example of Feng Shui is ‘Backed by Mountains, Facing Water’ , which is commonly known among ordinary people.
An ideal location for people to live is said to be one with mountains at the back and flowing water（river） in front. In Seoul, this corresponds to the Gangbuk area.
People living in front of Gwanak Mountain（north side） would also have a ‘Backed by Mountains, Facing Water’ location if they face north, but not the south side of Gwanak Mountain.
Due to the characteristic of Gwanak Mountain being considered an outer mountain rather than an inner mountain, the Fire Energy becomes stronger as you go outward, making it a place considered unsuitable for human habitation.
I heard that even if people visit such places briefly, they quickly leave, and because the energy itself doesn’t harmonize well with humans, it doesn’t even come into view.
It might sound like a joke, but from a Feng Shui perspective, it’s a suitable hideout for hanging out with secret friends.
The human navigation system, who had sacrificed a total of five teeth for true repentance and prayer and had bruises all over his body, finally shuddered.
He began to rationally judge what he had seen and what sins he had committed while doing these things in the past.
Those who commit crimes with cold rationality are either inherently messed up in the head, or they must be experienced criminals who have killed at least 12 people.
If they commit crimes impulsively and become addicted to crime without a moment to come to their senses, they wander around like walking a dark road without a flashlight.
They don’t have any realistic thoughts about what they’re doing now, whether it’s the right thing to do, or if they can handle the consequences.
In that sense, the human navigation system, who had come to his senses, was being consumed by the guilt that was flooding in like a broken dam.
But you are already destined for Heaven.
“Do not be afraid.”
“……”
“The Lord Jesus Father will gladly open the gates of Heaven for you, even if you are a d*mn son of a b*tch, as long as you truly repent, pray, and live a life of reflection.”
“But I…have committed unforgivable sins.”
“Remember your colleagues, Da-ja-hao and Kim Chun-deuk, who went before you. They repented and prayed faster than anyone else and knocked on Heaven’s door. You could have done the same, but by guiding me to the abyss of sin, you have gained a little reprieve. When this is over, He will decide your fate. Just go with the flow, live moderately, and d*e moderately.”
“Sob! I, I just don’t know where I went wrong…!”
Thud, thud.
Inside the car, roughly shaking along the unpaved road, I rested my chin on my hand and looked ahead.
“They were deceived by the devil’s trickery without knowing it, they broke the law set by the great one, it’s a common repertoire. The interesting thing is that those who will become like that and those who won’t are predetermined from the beginning.”
“Are you saying I was destined to be like that…?”
“I don’t believe in destiny. But I do know the intention of the higher being who classifies the end of humanity as either Heaven or H*ll. What He wants are pure and innocent souls. Not ugly and dirty souls like you.”
“But!”
“Yes, even so, you can go to Heaven too. Because I personally polished you, no one else. I wiped away the dirt, trimmed the rough edges, and made you presentable. And I slipped you into the Heaven-bound procession. I didn’t like how He decided the fate of humans who fell into inescapable sins as H*ll, while respecting human free will. Even though He doesn’t give them the salvation they so desperately desire.”
To respect freedom thoroughly, no matter what kind of life a human lives, but on the other hand, to say that unbelievers, apostates, and sinners who simply lived freely cannot be accepted into Heaven. What an absurd contradiction.
If that’s the case, why not just get rid of the concept of sin in the first place and then grant freedom?
Do you think Sodom and Gomorrah, symbols of filthy pleasure, were born simply because humans knew the concept of good and evil? It’s just one of the small deviations of humanity that occurred because there was no proper control and teaching from the one at the top.
What about building the Tower of Babel to challenge G*d’s authority? The history of countless nations that have endlessly persecuted and oppressed Christians? The widespread idolatry and apostasy that spread like a trend?
All of this is because of the irresponsible neglect in the name of respecting free will.
They say that in order to have your freedom respected, you must take responsibility for it. Then why doesn’t the great one who has the right to judge humanity take responsibility?
What kind of situation is it where His freedom is respected and He is not held accountable, while only human freedom has a strict framework of responsibility?
In the first place, since such a contradictory being claims to be the one true G*d, it’s no wonder He can easily sweep away the creatures He created with a flood and wipe them out with fire and hail.
The promise to love equally has disappeared, and while claiming that the path to salvation is open to everyone, He has not presented a practical vision, only demanding endless faith in Himself.
Are the creatures born from His hand truly His beloved children, loved equally?
From His perspective, aren’t they just easy toys that He can cause a great flood with a wave of His hand and have the angels wipe out if they commit a sin?
I know that human nature doesn’t change.
At the moment of the apocalypse, He will destroy the present world without a trace and look down with satisfaction at the humans filling His Heaven.
Since a majority of those inside will be blackened humans only painted white, a time of conflict will come when He will want to throw those already accepted into Heaven back into H*ll.
At that moment, you will think like this.
Why does He, the omniscient and omnipotent being, have the urge to cast down to H*ll those He has accepted into Heaven?
At that very moment, the authority of the one true G*d will plummet to the bottom like a falling star, its glory shattered.
But you will love all those who have entered Heaven. Because you promised to do so. I believe you will not take back the words you, the one true G*d, have uttered.
That’s why I am here now.
“We have…arrived.”
“Yes, now go back. Go and live according to the will of the Lord Jesus Father. On the day you ascend to Heaven, I will personally see you off.”
“……”
The human navigation system bowed his head and went back the way he came.
Now, he will spend the rest of his life suppressing his free will, living with the obsession that he must live according to the will of the Lord Jesus Father until he dies.
I, who got off alone, approached the small child standing in front of the building entrance and handed him a breath mint I received as a service at the chicken restaurant, asking.
“Do you live here?”
The child nodded, then shook his head.
“Want a candy?”
He nodded again, then shook his head again.
The child’s mouth was unable to crunch or l*ck the candy because his teeth and tongue had been ripped out.
In the dark eye sockets, which seemed to have been forcibly gouged out, there was still a strong desire for the candy, but he was repeatedly frustrated, realizing that it was impossible for him.
I gently stroked the child’s head.
“Poor people, deceived by the devil’s trickery, gouged out your eyes, cut off your tongue, and broke your baby teeth that hadn’t even fully grown yet. There’s probably nothing left in your sunken belly.”
Looking through the gaps in his sagging belly skin, it was literally empty.
There were no organs where organs should be, and the blood vessels that should have been flowing with blood were in a worse state than dried-up blades of grass.
“If you want to blame someone, blame the higher being up there, not the world. Your death is also G*d’s will and part of His grand plan. It’s f*cked up, right? That’s how the world is.”
I placed the candy in front of the child and walked into the abyss where sin was overflowing and boiling over.
“Oh, you cattle, classified by the name of choice at the crossroads of life and death by the will of G*d, the plan of G*d, the destiny determined by G*d. The place you should go is not H*ll, but Heaven.”
Go to Heaven and point out His contradictions and blaspheme against Him!
Prove that even those who enter Heaven can fall!
For that purpose, I will gladly become your stepping stone and send as many souls as possible to Heaven.
Creeeeeeeak.
The tightly closed door of the abandoned building opened by itself.
Under the flickering white fluorescent lights, a man in a suit stood alone in the middle of the hallway, smiling at me.
As if to show perfect hospitality in this situation, he spoke to me in a gentle tone that didn’t suit the atmosphere.
“Who are you?”
I almost burst out laughing at his polite attitude.
“Your mom.”
