After coming out of Yae Township, Shuangxie continued to head east towards their destination.
After experiencing several previous incidents, Hayato has undoubtedly gained the trust of Shuangxie; so Sun and Huang discussed it and directly revealed their mission to Hayato and asked Would the latter be willing to go with them as a guide.
After Hayato thought about it for a moment, he agreed; anyway, he was just wandering around looking for "jobs" to do. As long as it was not something that was harmful to nature, he would not do it for anyone, not to mention that he was very friendly to everyone when he was in Guangzhou. Shuang Xie understood that at least Sun Yi Xie was very generous in his actions. He acted as a guide for "Sun Bancheng" and the other party would never treat him badly after the matter was accomplished.
Some people may want to ask after seeing this, as a Japanese, Hayato didn’t feel confused about taking this job
Of course there is nothing to worry about, because The purpose of Sun and Huang's trip was just to "go to a certain daimyo to retrieve a treasure that the other party had stolen from the Central Plains"; if the roles of the two parties were reversed and Hayato came to the Central Plains, it would be as if he wanted to come from the Central Plains. Obtaining from a Central Plains magistrate a piece of jewelry that the other party had stolen from the imperial family did not rise to the level of being entangled over nationality.
Hayato is not a subordinate of any daimyo, he is just a Japanese charlatan. Those daimyo have been stolen, robbed or even killed. It is none of his business. It is better to say that a lot of these daimyo will die soon and the war will be started earlier. It would be nice to end it.
What would really make Hayato struggle with his Japanese identity would be something bigger. For example, if Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai said to him today, "We were ordered to assassinate the Emperor of Japan." Hayato must first consider the issue of national stance in addition to friendship and interests.
Of course, if it were that kind of mission, no matter how much Sun Huang trusted Hayato, he would not confront him, a Japanese.
To make a long story short, after Hayato agreed to be the guide, the three of them immediately set off together.
And the speed of their travel has also made a huge leap as a result.
First of all, Hayato is not the kind of admirer like Keijiro who is "the most handsome guy in the room" wherever he goes. He usually keeps a low profile in both appearance and behavior, and will not go unless necessary. Causing extra trouble.
Secondly, although Hayato's "combat ability" is average, his yin-yang divination and feng shui secrets are all good skills. In Japan, where there are mountain roads everywhere, as long as he combines a few small As soon as the paper man or paper crane is placed, he will know which direction is easier to go and when the journey will go well.
With such a person as a guide, the journey of the three of them will be easier and smoother.
In the next few days, their forward speed was at least three times that of before, and they passed through the confrontation zone between the Mori clan and the Nizi clan without encountering any danger, and arrived at the boundary of Kobe.
Kobe is an important gateway to the south of Hyogo Prefecture and is called "Hyogo Tsu"; it faces Osaka Bay and Osaka Castle to the east, and a little further northeast from Osaka. Right next toKyoto, where the emperor resides.
Obviously, this is a battleground for military strategists.
And because it is a contested area, it has become a "terrible place".
In Kobe at this time, there are Asai and Rokkaku competing in the east, the Miyoshi clan in the southwest is eyeing them, the Matsunaga clan and the Hatakeyama clan in the southeast should not be underestimated, and in the west there is a weak but closest and... The Urakami clan who valued this place the most was watching.
This kind of area sandwiched by a bunch of large and small forces is basically the place that best fits the description of "hell on earth" in Japan's Warring States Period.
The villages and ports that originally had many residents are now left with only deserted houses and fields.
Every inch of soil here seems to have become a battlefield stained by blood. The air is filled with the smell of blood and blood. Bodies of varying numbers and varying degrees of decay can be seen everywhere on the roadside. , some of them were wearing armor, with weapons dropped from their hands, and some were in rags, or even half-clothed. The genders and ages of these deceased were also men, women, and children. Some of them died in extremely miserable conditions, which made people unbearable to watch. , and I can’t even bear to imagine what they experienced during their lifetimes.
It can be said that Kobe in the winter of the second year of Yuanhe was a veritable dangerous place of death and a killing jungle.
The people who are still active in this land are either crazy, or have to come, or have ulterior reasons
As for the situation of Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, It obviously belongs to the latter, because the name of the place and person written on the note they got from Kogoro were "Kobe" and "Xiaomei" respectively.
Of course, they had no idea that Kobe was like this before. According to the impressions of the two modern people, Sun Huang, this place should be a good place to eat beef, and it would be a good place to go. Try the delicious food.
As a result, after leaving Yaego and letting Hayato be the guide, Hayato asked where you were going. Sun Huang replied that he was going to Kobe, which shocked Hayato. He saw Hayato's shocked look at that time. , Shuangxi realized that something was fishy.
But even if they know the situation in Kobe, they still have to come. After all, this is their only intelligence line. If it is broken, it will be gone.
Furthermore, the name "Xiaomei" also gave Sun Yixie a little fantasy. He thought that what if the person he contacted was a beautiful woman?
He would need someone. Come and protect me
As a "chivalrous man", it is his duty to do so.
So, the three of them came to Kobe, a land that had been ravaged beyond recognition by the war, and randomly found an empty house that was empty and lived in it that night.
Before entering the house, Sun and Huang placed a pile of "stone codes" on the ground outside the house that Eunuch Wei had taught them before leaving, and then they waited.
Hayato originally thought that they would have a more specific way of contacting each other, but he did not expect that it would end up in this form of laying down a code on the ground and waiting for it. Therefore, after resting for a while after entering the house, HayatoHe asked with confusion, "Brother Sun, Brother Huang, are you sure you are looking for just one person this time?"
Sun Yixie had not yet reacted to his question, but Huang Donglai was very quick. Then I understood. "Well, I feel puzzled too." He paused, "I thought Kobe was a lively place with a lot of people. If that's the case, then we just need to find the busiest hotel in the area to stay, and then It shouldn't be difficult to be discovered by placing a secret sign for the connection near the inn; but now when I come here, I see deserted houses and wasteland everywhere, and not a single person is around. If there is only one person to contact us, where can we find us? Kobe The area is so large, how do they know where we will stay? It’s not like Xiaomei can visit all the houses in Kobe every day.”
“Oh” Sun Yixi listened to Huang Dong’s words At this point, I have followed the train of thought, "In this case, the other party may not be just one person, but a small organization composed of several people. The people in the organization are each responsible for a certain area of Kobe. Whoever discovered the situation, Just try to inform your companions, it seems more reasonable to think so."
"Indeed," Hayato continued, "But as far as I know, such an organization usually does not work for only one party. As a neutral intelligence dealer, the organization that maintains cooperative relations with many forces and dares to stay here in Kobe will definitely not be composed of good men and women."
"Oh, that's okay." Sun. Yi Xue smiled evilly, "Aren't they just some bad women? Brother, you can handle them."
"Uh" Hayato heard the words and looked confused, "Brother Sun, how do you know that the other party is a woman"< /p>
"Isn't that nonsense? Can a person named Xiaomei still be a man?" Sun Yixi said.
As soon as Huang Donglai saw Sun Yixie's virtue, he knew that this kid didn't hold in his fart well. He immediately said Yin and Yang at the side, "Well, according to Brother Sun's intention, if there are Xiaolan, Xiaozhu, etc. on the other side." It would be better if Xiaoju is here, right?"
"Hahaha" Sun Yi laughed for a while, but then he said with a question mark on his face, "Hey, what does this have to do with Xiaolan? There is something else here What about Conan?"
Obviously, Brother Sun does not know the term "Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum".
"Forget it, forget it." Huang Donglai was shocked when he saw that the other party was immune to his ridicule due to his illiterate power.
But at this moment, Hayato's sudden words gave Brother Sun a big blow: "Brother Sun, although I don't know what you are talking about about Conan and Xiaolan, but There is something I feel you have misunderstood." He continued in a tone that was not joking at all, "In the Central Plains, Xiaomei is most likely a girl's name, but in Japan, it may just be a surname, for example He said, there is probably a man named Xiaomei Gozaburo, so he can also be called Xiaomei." "What?" Sun Yixie's voice suddenly became high-pitched when he heard it. "Fuck you," followed by the street-swearing guy, "Why do you have so many bad names in Japan? It's so damn easy for people to misunderstand."
I can see it., he was greatly disappointed, and it was obvious that in Brother Sun's mind, "harming people" was also a "bad name".
"Hahahaha" Huang Donglai couldn't help but laugh out loud as he listened to the conversation between the two people, "Brother Sun, is it possible that it's not the name but your problem? Hahaha, no, I'm laughing so hard. "It hurts. You guys talk first while I go take a shit."
Huang Donglai's speech skills when he excused himself to go to the toilet while chatting and laughing were extremely smooth, and his transitions and transitions were smooth. He turned around and left the house.
As we said before, the outside of the house is also desolate. Huang Donglai can solve it wherever he wants, in the middle of the road. Of course, in this winter, as the saying goes, the cold wind blows, and the wind blows. Damn it, Huang Donglai went to find a small forest nearby and burrowed into it. After solving the problem, it would be convenient to grab a few leaves.
In the next ten minutes or so, we will use "spring breeze once" to omit some indescribable things between men and women, and "come back" to omit what Huang Donglai did.
Let’s say that his cat was in the woods. When he was finishing his work, he suddenly saw a person coming near the house where Sun Yihe and Hayato were.
And, that is really a woman.
Huang Donglai had seen this woman before. She was the female ninja that Shuangxie had met at the port of Xiaguan, namely A Zhi, a subordinate of Namasugi Chongzang.
At this moment, A-Zhi was walking alone in this desolate place. Not only did her expression and steps look hurried, but her right hand was always covering her left ribs, which looked like she was injured.
Although he didn’t know what she had gone through, or whether her appearance here was a coincidence, Huang Donglai could guess from experience that there might be pursuers behind this woman.
At the same moment, three miles away.
Two monks in white clothes stood on the edge of a cliff, looking at the tiny figure of A Zhi in the distance, with unhappy expressions on their faces.
"Because she is a woman, I am careless." After a moment, the slightly taller monk in white spoke first, "I didn't expect that she is the most powerful one among the three."< /p>
"Humph" the monk in white who was shorter than him snorted coldly, "It wasn't you who had lustful intentions that made her run away when she got the chance."
"Hey "When the other party said this, the tall monk became even more irritated and angry, "It's all because that man tried his best to hold me back, and that's why it happened like this. Otherwise, no matter how careless I am, this woman won't be able to fly out of my palm."
As he spoke, he turned his head and looked behind him with his peripheral vision.
At this time, under the slope behind the two of them, there were ten monks in black clothes, or ten "corpse puppets" controlled by the two of them.
Among the ten corpse dolls, five are standing still at the moment, and one of them is carrying an unconscious little boy on his shoulders.
The other five corpse puppets were gathered around one place, using their naginatas to wildly chop up a figure that was already lying on the ground motionless.Moving man.
"Say whatever you want." The short monk seemed not to be surprised by this cruel scene, and just continued in a calm tone, "But the woman's escape has become a fact, even if you now It's useless to cut up the man's body and vent his anger. It's better to catch up quickly, do what you failed to do just now, and then silence the woman as well, and then go back to meet everyone." He said and turned around. He turned around and took a step to leave, "Anyway, I will take that kid back first. This kid should be a ninja and a good prospect. I think the sect master will be very happy to see him."
"Wait a minute." When the tall monk heard this, his expression immediately changed. He turned to stop the short man and said, "We obviously caught the person together, do you want to take the credit alone now?"
" "Haha" the short man sneered when he heard this. Although he paused, he said without looking back, "I told them when we caught them this morning. As a rule, the children are taken back alive and the other two are killed on the spot." Yes.
“But you insist that these two people are not ordinary people. If you stay alive, you may be able to get some valuable information.
"Actually, I had already guessed what your plan was at that time, but I just didn't expose you. When I thought that in order to cover up your little thoughts, you deliberately left the man behind and didn't kill him, I I just thought it was funny
"Originally, I didn't want to talk to you about this kind of thing, because I know that you will silence those two people immediately after you are done, and there will be no difference in terms of the result.
"I didn't expect that you would let someone run away just after I left for a while. Fortunately, I was in charge of that kid. If he also ran away, then your responsibility would be much greater than it is now. .
"I will not report this matter to the sect master, and I will punish you because of our friendship. Isn't it a bit too much for you to want to share the credit, Xuan Gen?"
Xuan Gen was speechless and could only grit his teeth and swallowed: "Well, Yong Gen, I have you. I will remember your kindness. "
"Humph" Yonggen didn't take the other party's gritted "thank you" seriously, and just replied, "Then I'll take the first step." "
After that, he took steps again and left along the slope.
When Yonggen led the five corpse puppets under his control and left with the ninja assistant on his shoulders, Xuan Gen, who was standing on the edge of the cliff, turned his gaze back to the distance and landed on the deserted house that A Zhi walked into. He also muttered the words "Woman, today I will let you know the tricks of my Lord Xuan Gen." ”
Before he finished speaking, the five corpse puppets controlled by Xuan Gen quickly gathered around him, and then followed him and jumped off the cliff together.
This cliff is not that high. It is about ten meters away from the ground below. Xuan Gen and his zombies fell from this height, and they all stood firm and seemed to be able to do so with ease.
After landing, they immediately spread out in a "human" formation and rushed forward like a line of wild geese on land, firing.He quickly approached the place where Shuang Harmony and Hayato would stay.
End of this chapter
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