Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 385
After coming out of Yae Township, Shuangxie continued to head eastward towards their destination.

What about Hayato... After going through the previous incidents, he has undoubtedly gained the trust of Shuangxie; so after discussing with Sun and Huang, they directly disclosed the mission of their trip to Hayato, and asked the latter if he would like to be The guide walks with them.

After thinking about it for a while, Hayato agreed; anyway, he was wandering around looking for "jobs" to do, as long as it wasn't unreasonable, who would he do it for?What's more, based on his understanding of Shuangxie when he was in Guangzhou, at least Sun Yixie is very generous in his moves. If he acts as a guide for this "Sun Bancheng", the other party will never treat him badly after the event is completed.

Seeing this, someone may ask, Hayato, as a Japanese, didn't he feel entangled in taking this job?

Of course, there is nothing to entangle, because the purpose of Sun Huang's trip is to "go to a certain daimyo to get back a treasure that the other party stole from the Central Plains"; When Hayato came to the Central Plains, it was as if he wanted to get back from a Central Plains magistrate a piece of jewelry that the other party had stolen from the Heavenly Royal... This kind of thing would not have risen to the point of entanglement over nationality.

Hayato is not a subordinate of any daimyo, he is just a charlatan, those daimyos were stolen, robbed or even killed, none of his business?It would be better to say that a group of these big names died sooner, so that the war would end sooner.

What really makes Hayato struggle with his Japanese identity must be something bigger. For example, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai said to him today: "We were ordered to assassinate the Emperor of Japan." In addition to interests, let's consider the issue of national stance first.

Of course, if it was really that kind of mission, no matter how much Sun Huang trusted Hayato, he would not challenge him, a Japanese.

To make a long story short, after Hayato agreed to be a guide, the three of them immediately set off together.

And the speed of their travel has also taken a huge leap.

For one thing, Hayato is not Keijiro's kind of "the prettiest guy in the audience" wherever he goes. He usually keeps a low profile both in appearance and in his work, and won't cause extra trouble if it is not necessary.

Secondly, although Hayato's "combat power" is average, his yin and yang divination and Fengshui secrets are all good skills. In Japan, where there are mountain roads everywhere, as long as he releases a few small paper figurines and paper cranes ... You can know which direction is easy to go and when the departure will be smooth.

With such a person as a guide, the journey of the three people will be more effective with less effort, and the wind will go smoothly.

In the next few days, their forward speed was at least three times that of before, and they crossed the confrontation zone between the Mori clan and the Nizi clan with almost no danger, and came to the border of Kobe.

Kobe is an important gateway in the south of Hyogo Prefecture, known as "Hyogo Tsu"; it faces Osaka Bay, east of Osaka Castle, and a little further northeast from Osaka, next to Kyoto, where the emperor is located .

Obviously, this is a battleground for military strategists.

And because it's so contested, it's a "terrible place."

In Kobe at this time, there are Asai and Hexagon in the east, and the Miyoshi family in the southwest. The Matsunaga and Hatakeyama families in the southeast cannot be underestimated. In the west, there is a weak Urakami family who is closest to here and values ​​it the most. staring.

This kind of area sandwiched between a bunch of big and small forces is basically the place that best fits the description of "hell on earth" in the Sengoku period of Japan.

Villages and ports that used to have many residents, now there are only patches of abandoned houses and fields left.

Every inch of the soil here seems to have become a blood-stained battlefield, the air is filled with the smell of corruption and blood, corpses of varying numbers and degrees of decay can be seen everywhere on the roadside, some of them are wearing armor , weapons were dropped at hand, and there were some tattered clothes, even naked; and the genders and ages of these dead were men, women, old and young. previous encounters.

It can be said that Kobe in the winter of the Yuan and [-]nd year was a veritable dangerous place of death, a killing jungle.

Those who are still active in this land are either crazy, or have reasons to come here, or have ulterior motives...

The situation of Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai obviously belongs to the latter, because on the note they got from Kogoro, the place name and the person's name were written: "Kobe" and "Xiaomei".

Of course, the two of them didn't know this was the case in Kobe before. According to the impression of the two modern people, Sun Huang, this place should be a good place to eat beef, and they can also taste delicious food when they come here.

As a result, after leaving Yae-go and letting Hayato as a guide, Hayato asked where you were going, and Sun Huang replied that he was going to Kobe, which gave Hayato a fright... At that time, seeing Hayato's shocked expression, Shuangxie got it There is something strange about the governor.

But even if they knew about the situation in Kobe, they should have come. After all, this was their only intelligence line, and if it was broken, it would be gone.

Furthermore, the name "Xiaomei" also made Sun Yixie have a little fantasy, he felt: What if the connector is a beautiful woman?Is that...

Do you need someone to protect you?

Then, as a "knight-errant", 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 they found an empty house that was unoccupied at random and lived in it that night.

Before entering the house, Sun and Huang also placed a bunch of "stone codes" that Eunuch Wei taught them before leaving on the ground outside the house, and then they waited.

Hayato thought that they would have a more specific way of connecting, but he didn't expect that it would end up in the form of placing a signal on the ground and then waiting for the rabbit. Therefore, after entering the room and resting for a while, Hayato asked with doubts: "Sun Brother, Brother Huang, what you are looking for this time...are you sure it's just 'one person'?"

When asked by him, Sun Yixie hadn't reacted yet, but Huang Donglai quickly understood: "Well... I also feel puzzled." He paused, "I thought Kobe was full of people and lively. If this is the case, then we just need to find the busiest inn in the area to live in, and then put up a joint sign near the inn, it should not be difficult to be found; but now we look here... there are deserted houses and wasteland everywhere , there is not even half a person... If there is only one person connecting with us, where can we find us? Kobe is so large, how do they know where we are? This 'Xiaomei' may not be there every day. Can you patrol around all the houses on the Kobe border?"

"Oh?" Sun Yixie heard Huang Donglai come here, and caught up with the train of thought, "In this way, the other party may be more than one person, but a small organization composed of several people, and each person in the organization is in charge of Kobe. In a certain area, whoever discovers the situation will try to notify his companions, so it seems more reasonable to think like this?"

"Indeed." Hayato continued, "But as far as I know, such organizations usually don't work for 'one party'. They usually act as neutral intelligence dealers and maintain cooperative relations with multiple forces at the same time, and... The organization that dares to occupy here in Kobe will never be composed of good men and women..."

"Oh...that's okay." Sun Yixie smiled evilly, "Aren't they just some 'bad women'? Brother can handle it."

"Uh..." Hayato was puzzled when he heard this, "Brother Sun, how do you know that the other party is a woman?"

"Isn't that nonsense? Can someone named 'Xiaomei' still be a man?" Sun Yixie said.

Huang Donglai looked at Sun Yixie's virtues, and knew that this kid hadn't held his farts well, and immediately said yin and yang beside him: "Hmph... Then according to Brother Sun, if there are Xiaolan, Xiaozhu, and Xiaoju on the opposite side, just wait and see." It's better, isn't it?"

"Hahaha..." Sun Yixie laughed for a while, but immediately asked with question marks all over his face, "Eh? What does this have to do with Xiaolan? Is there something about Conan here?"

Obviously, Brother Sun didn't know the term "plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum".

"Forget it, forget it, forget it..." Huang Donglai saw that the other party was immune to his teasing with the power of illiteracy, and it was a big headache.

But at this time, Hayato suddenly answered a sentence that 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 probably a girl's name, but in Japan, it may be just a surname, for example Said, there is probably a man named Kosaburo Xiaomei, so he can also be called Xiaomei."

"What?" Sun Yixie heard it, and his voice suddenly became high-pitched, "Damn it..." followed by the street swearing habit, "Why do you have so many wicked names in Japan? It's too Damn it's easy to be misunderstood!"

It can be seen that he was greatly disappointed, and it is obvious... In Brother Sun's cognition, "harmful" is also a "wicked name".

"Hahahaha..." Huang Donglai couldn't help laughing when he heard the conversation between the two, "Brother Sun, is it possible that it's not the name, but your problem? Hahaha... Oh no, my stomach hurts from laughing, You guys chat first, I'm going to take a shit."

Huang Donglai's words of asking to resign and go to the toilet during the chat and jokes are extremely smooth, and the transitions and successes are smooth, and when he finished speaking, he turned around and left the room.

As I said before, the outside of the house is also desolate. Huang Donglai can solve it wherever he wants, even in the middle of the road. Anyway, I went to find a small forest nearby to drill, so that after solving it, it would be convenient to grab a few leaves.

In the next ten minutes or so, let's use "A Spring Breeze" to omit some indescribable things between men and women, and use "A Comeback" to omit Huang Donglai's actions.

Let's say that his cat was in the grove, and when he was finishing the work, he suddenly saw a person coming near the house where Sun Yixie and Hayato were.

And, that was really a woman.

This woman, Huang Donglai has seen before, she is the female ninja that Shuangxie met at the port of Xiaguan before, that is, Azhi, Ma Shanzhongzang's subordinate.

At this moment, Ah Zhi was walking alone in this desolate place. Not only did she look hurried and her footsteps seemed hurried, but her right hand was still covering her left side of the rib... It looked like she was injured.

Although he didn't know what she had experienced, or whether it was a coincidence that she appeared here, Huang Donglai could guess based on his experience-there might be pursuers behind this woman.

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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 Azhi in the distance, with displeased expressions on their faces.

"Because she's a woman, I'm being careless." A moment later, the slightly taller monk in white said first, "I didn't expect that she is the most powerful of the three."

"Hmph..." The white-clothed monk who was shorter than him snorted coldly, "Isn't it because you are lustful that you let her take the opportunity to escape?"

"Tch..." The tall monk became even more annoyed when the other party said this, "It's all because that man tried his best to hold me back... Otherwise, no matter how careless I am, this woman can't fly away from me palm..."

As he spoke, he turned his head and looked behind him from the corner of his eye.

At this moment, under the slope behind the two of them, there were still ten black-clothed monks, or ten "corpse puppets" controlled by the two of them.

Among the ten corpse puppets, five are standing still at the moment, and one of them is carrying a comatose little boy on his shoulders.

And the other five corpse puppets were gathered together, chopping up a man who had already been lying motionless on the ground with the naginata in their hands.

"You can say whatever you want..." The short monk seemed to be familiar with the cruel scene, but he continued in a calm tone, "but that woman's escape has become a fact, even if you cut up that man's body now It's useless to vent your anger if you're broken, why don't you catch up quickly, do what you failed to do just now, and then silence that woman, and then go back to join everyone." He turned around and walked He was about to leave, "Anyway, I'll take that kid back first. This kid should be a ninja too. He's a good seed. I think the suzerain will be very happy to see him."

"Wait!" The tall monk's face immediately changed when he heard this, he turned to stop the short one and said, "It's obvious that we arrested him together, do you want to take the credit for it now?"

"Heh..." The short man sneered when he heard the words, and although he stopped in his tracks, he said without looking back, "I told them when I caught them this morning. Just kill it.

"But you insisted on saying 'these two people are not ordinary people, and if they leave their lives alive, they may be able to ask for some valuable information'.

"Actually, I already guessed what your plan was, but I didn't expose you; I thought it was funny when I thought that in order to cover up your small thoughts, you deliberately left the man without killing him...

"Originally, I didn't want to talk to you about this kind of thing, because I knew that you would silence those two people immediately after you finished the matter, and there was no difference in the result.

"I didn't expect you to let someone run away just after I left for a while... Fortunately, I am in charge of that kid. If he also ran away, then your responsibility is much greater than now.

"I didn't report this matter to the suzerain, and I punished you because of our friendship. You still want to share the credit... Isn't it a little too much, Xuan Gen?"

Xuan Gen was so stunned that he was speechless, he could only grit his teeth, and swallowed the breath: "Okay... Yongheng, I have you, and I will remember your 'kindness'."

"Hmph..." Yongheng didn't take the other party's "thank you" from gnashing his teeth seriously, but just replied, "Then I'll take a step first."

After finishing speaking, he took another step and left along the slope.

After Yong Gen led the five corpse puppets under his control and left with the ninja Xiaosuke 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 Azhi walked into. There were still words in his mouth: "Woman, today I will let you know that my Master Xuan Gen's method..."

Before he finished speaking, the five corpse puppets under Xuan Gen's control quickly gathered around him, and then...followed him, and jumped off the edge of the cliff together.

The cliff was not that high, it was about ten meters away from the ground below. Xuan Gen and his corpse puppets fell from this height, they all stood firmly and seemed to be able to handle it with ease.

And after landing, they immediately spread out into a "human" formation, and rushed forward like a group of wild geese on land, quickly approaching the foothold of Shuangxie and Hayato.

(End of this chapter)