Chapter 4: Hunting and Counterattack
A gunshot rang out, startling a group of birds. Even though it was raining, the birds and beasts managed to fly away from the woods. The bird hides among the countless birds, and approaches the viewer under the cover of the flock. But the birds flying around did not affect his eyes, as long as there was a gap, he could see the appearance of his prey. The bullet came out of the woods, shot down three birds in the middle of the flight, and still shot at the birds. Just when the bullet was very close to the bird, it suddenly seemed to lose power, and before it could touch the bird, it fell weakly.
Guan Mu reached out to catch the rain that dripped from between the leaves, and this rain contained demonic energy, a kind of water with high gravity, and the bullet hit it aggravated, and finally fell due to lack of power. There was rain for several miles in a radius, and it was not good for him.
The shot also revealed its position, and the bird burst out of the scattered flock of birds and swooped towards a large tree. The feathers on the bird's body can block the rain, as if it has been coated with a layer of wax, and the rain falls on her body, and it does not wet her feathers at all. Looking at the Gu Bird that rushed over, Guan Mu, who knew that his position was exposed, stood up and aimed the muzzle of the fire gun at the Gu Bird. He believes that as long as the distance is close enough, the demonic rain will not affect the range of the bullet.
Just when the bird was only two hundred meters away from the bird, the bird finally pressed the fuse of the firebolt, and sparks burst out from the muzzle of the gun, and a steel bullet flew towards the bird.
Gu Houniao concentrated on the flying steel bullet and wanted to use his dexterity to dodge. I don't want that steel bullet to have an evil spirit, and it changed halfway. The steel bullet split into two, then four, and finally rained down on her like a hornet. Gu was shocked, but did not back down. She retracted her wings, compressed her body as much as she could, and flew down like a missile, trying to weave through the dense rain of bullets.
At the moment when the bullet split, the rain girl who was far away next to Yanagi Shibei also sensed the change in the breath of the eye through the rain, and it was very likely that such a dense bullet rain would not be able to pass. The rain girl controls the rain and attaches to the bullets, trying to slow them down. However, the steel bullet blessed by the evil qi is not so easy to be dragged by the rain. Gu Shou Bird began to shuttle through the rain of bullets under the dense bullets.
The bird was so fast, the rain and the bullets in high-speed flight were slow motion in her eyes. After compressing her body, she saw the stitches in the rain of bullets, constantly spinning back and forth, flipping, and dodging bullet after bullet. When the bullet was closest to her, even in front of her eye, it was almost piercing her eye, and suddenly it sank and dodged. After shuttling non-stop, countless steel bullets moved away, and Gu Huoniao was soon about to break through the bullet rain.
Guanmu naturally won't let her wear Tsing Yi. He made up another bullet before he could pass through the barrage. And the target he hit was not a bird, but a bullet in flight. The bullets that were fired hit the flying bullet rain, the bullet was hit, and the trajectory of the bullet in the air changed, and then the bullet rain scurried around in the air, completely losing the pattern of movement. The chaotic bullet also caught Gu Bird off guard, and after a series of dodges, he was finally hit in the leg by a steel bullet and fell to the ground like a crash.
When the rain of bullets ended, the viewers didn't dare to close the distance with each other. He stood under the top of the tree, about to give the bird the final blow. At this time, a large amount of rain accumulated on the leaves above his head, and because the leaves could not support it, the rain suddenly poured down. In order to protect the firebolt from being soaked in water, Kanmu immediately dodged it. After dodging, he immediately aimed his gun at the spot where the bird had landed. But at the moment when he raised his gun, Gu Xuaniao didn't know when he stood up, and he had already burst in front of him. In desperation, Kan Yan shot without aiming, and Gu Xuaniao calmly dodged the bullet, and the bullet flew out against her cheek, only scratching her face. The bird struck the firearm in Kanmu's hand with its wings, and the muzzle of the firebolt was cut off, and at the same time, it fell from Kanmu's hand to the ground and fell into the rain.
After shooting down the weapon in Kanmu's hand, Gu Shouniao was about to use his wings to deal a fatal blow to Kanmu, but Kanmu still had a hind hand. Not only does he have a long-range sniper, but he also has a small gun that can be used to strike at close range from an enemy. Guan Mu stretched out his hand into his bosom, took out a short firearm from his bosom, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at Gu Shu Bird. The bird has no time to escape, and wants to die with the watch. Eventually, another shot rang out, and the bird fell into the rain, and the hand that saw the gun was chopped up, along with five fingers, along with the firecracker. His fingers fell to the ground, and he looked at his severed hand, enduring the severe pain, and finally burst out and screamed.
Kanme's shouting made Yagyu Shibei, who could only hear voices in the distance, not know what was going on, and when he was about to ask the rain girl, he found that the rain girl didn't know when he left his side.
After the eyes were calmed down, although there were no fingers, the enemy also fell. As long as he makes up for Gu Huoniao, the victory still belongs to him. Ignoring his bleeding fingers, he took out a dagger from his waist with his other hand, and was about to walk towards Gushuniao. Suddenly, the rain on the ground began to surge, forming a turbulent river in front of Kanmu and Guhou Bird, cutting off his and Gu Shou Bird's way. The rain surrounded the bird, apparently protecting her. Kanmu wanted to go up and mend the knife, but after standing in the rain for a while, his body was wet with the rain and his limbs could not move flexibly, as if he had a shot put ball hanging on his arm. He knew that he could not stay in the rain for long, and looked at the birds protected by the rain, and finally left there.
The rain girl slid through the rain on the ground, and soon reached the side of the bird. The rain girl helped her up and found that there was a wound in her chest, and the steel bullet had entered her body. The rain girl took out her fingers, dripped rain from them, and lowered them on the wound of Gu Yu Bird to stop her bleeding. At this moment, the bird woke up.
The power of this steel bullet is not deadly, perhaps thanks to the other party who did not choose to hit Gu Xuan's head at the moment of shooting. Gu Shouniao stretched out a feather on his wing, and with a blank face, he picked out the steel bullet embedded in the wound, and then stood up with the help of the rain girl.
"Are you alright?" asked the Rain Maiden.
"It's okay if you're not dead, do you know where that guy ran to?"
"I know, when he gets to a cave, the rain doesn't feel him, it must be in that cave. ”
The bird then flew into the sky again, and after she had taken up, the rain girl walked slowly towards the cave. After the rain girl and Gu Shouniao left, the forest where Yanagi Shibei was located was gradually reduced because of the distance between him and the rain girl. Soon, the rain in his vicinity stopped.
Yanagi Shibei walked out of the forest, he wanted to see if the two monsters could deal with the Ten Precepts, and then he thought that he couldn't help at all if he went, so he decided to go in the direction of Kyushu and meet his son.
In the cave, Kan took off his soaked clothes, but there was no time to dry them. There were several packs of ammunition hidden in the clothes, almost all soaked by the rain, and only one pack was still usable. But even if there is ammunition, it will not help without firearms. He picked up his clothes and prepared to bandage his bleeding fingers, when he heard a bird cry from outside the cave. It wasn't an ordinary bird call, it was the call of a bird. Like him, the bird is able to see far away.
The staring man who had run out of ammunition stood there at a loss, and he looked a lot like he did twenty years ago.
Kanme's name when he was a child was Uesugi Yaya, and his father's name was Uesugi Gomon. Like the Yanagi family, they are also a famous family of generals, and unlike the samurai who use swords, the Uesugi family is quite skilled in archery. Uesugi Gomon once became famous for shooting a tiger crawling on a mountainside with a bow from 1 mile away.
Since he was a child, he learned archery with his father, and although he was not at the same level as his father at the time, he stood out among his peers. That is, his superb skills have aroused the plans of people with impure hearts.
At that time, the daimyo had three sons, and the establishment of the eldest son as the crown prince made the remaining two sons dissatisfied. The third prince knew that the Uesugi family had some superior archery skills and could take people's lives from a very long distance, so he wanted Uesugi Gomon to kill the crown prince.
The assassination of the royal family is to destroy the door, and each prince is either guarded by a samurai with superior strength, or there are ninjas hiding in the shadows, and there is no chance of getting off at all.
The third prince listened to Uesugi Gomon's reluctance to deliberately make excuses for him, and said, "I heard that you can shoot the tiger in the middle of the mountain from 1 mile away, and with your archery skills, you will definitely be able to take the crown prince's life on the periphery without anyone knowing." ”
"The third prince knows, then everyone also knows, only my archery skills can reach that level, if I shoot with archery, doesn't it mean telling everyone that the crown prince was killed by me?"
"Hmph, it looks like you're not willing to help me. ”
"My Uesugi family only serves the Daimyo, and if the Third Prince forces me, I can only intercede with the Daimyo. ”
"Do you still dare to take away your father and still press me? My father is over fifty years old, and he has only a few years to live, and Lai Guo will eventually be handed over to young people. I've heard that you have only one son under your knees, and you're one of the best among your peers..."
As soon as he heard the third prince talk about his son, Uesugi Gomon was terrified.
"Don't worry, I'm just leaving him in the house to learn archery, if you do a good job, I'll naturally let him go home." If you insist on not doing it, as a prince, if you kill someone by mistake, my father will scold me at most, and he won't do anything to me. ”
The third prince wanted to blackmail Uesugi Wumen so much, gritting his teeth in anger, and he wanted to grind all his teeth and swallow them. However, he also understands that the so-called country is not controlled by a surname, and he alone cannot resist the private struggle between the powerful, after all, he is someone else's pawn. In the end, he agreed to the assassination mission of the third prince, and met with Uesugi Yaya before leaving the prince's mansion. After the meeting, he only said one sentence: "After you go out, dig up the floor under the ancestral hall of your home." After saying that, he left him without looking back. Uesugi Gomon understands that if you stay for a long time, you can't kill people with family affection in your heart.
On the third day after Uesugi Gomon left the residence of the Third Prince, the news came that the crown prince had been assassinated. The crown prince's head was pierced by an arrow, and the soldiers soon found the murderer who shot the arrow at the top of Mt. Fuchun, and it was Uesugi Gomon who was captured with his hands tied. And the distance from the top of Fuchun Mountain to the murder of the crown prince is 3 miles!
Uesugi Gomon was to be beheaded for assassinating the imperial family. At that time, Uesugi Gomon had no intention of escaping because he knew that there was no place in the world. Surrounded by water, this island nation is like a cage from which no one can escape.
Uesugi Yaya, who was imprisoned in the palace of the third prince, did not know the news of his father's beheading. He was locked up in a dark room with no outside information at all.
After the three princes have used the five gates of Uesugi, they will not let go of their family. After killing the entire Uesugi family, he sent someone to deal with Zaiya in the house.
The two guards guarding Yaya drew their swords and prepared to enter the door to solve Yaya, but they were suddenly knocked unconscious from behind, and when they opened the door, they saw a stranger wearing a cloak and couldn't see his face clearly.
"General Uesugi Gomon is going to be beheaded today. The stranger said.
"Father is going to be beheaded, I'm going to save him!" Yaya was about to leave when he was stopped by a stranger.
"I advise you not to go, you may die if you go. The most important thing is that your father was beheaded before he even arrived at the execution ground. ”
"How do you know?"
"I see it. ”
"You mean you can see what's going to happen in the future? ”
"Believe it or not, and I'm telling you, we'll meet again. ”
Zai didn't pay any attention to him and rushed out of the prince's mansion.
The road where the execution was carried out was crowded with people, and he could not walk the right way. He disguised himself and navigated the alleys before finding a room with a view of the execution grounds. He climbed to the top of the building, but the moment he climbed onto the roof, the gate knife on the top of Uesugi Gomon just fell. Zai also witnessed his father's beheading, and deeply experienced the ruthlessness of this world.
One of the soldiers spotted someone on the roof, and Yaya couldn't even look at his father and fled. According to Uesugi Gomon's last words to him, Yaya sneaked into his family's ancestral hall. The ancestral hall has also been demolished, and a well-known family of generals has been played with by power, and finally disappeared from people's field of vision. Zaiya dug open the floor tiles under the ancestral hall and finally dug up a box. I don't know what the Five Gates gave him on his deathbed, and he couldn't wait to open them. When I opened it, I was shocked: there were two firecrackers in the box!
Yaya has only heard of this kind of thing, it is said that a hundred years ago in the Great War of Gods and Demons, the ancestors of the Uesugi family defeated the demons on the mainland, and a sect on the continent, the Mo family, gave them two firearms, which can shoot steel bullets 3 miles away through gunpowder. Yaya put away the box and aimlessly evaded the search of the officers and soldiers in Kyoto.
Zai also remembered what the stranger had said to him, and he finally found the stranger.
In one room, a stranger met with him.
"Well, I said we'd meet again, right?"
Zaiya still didn't believe the other party at this time: "Can you help me?"
"The only one who can help you is yourself. ”
"Then there's no point in me meeting. ”
The stranger took off his face mask to reveal the appearance of a middle-aged man: "You don't want to avenge your father?"
"What about revenge, the family will not survive. And Laiguo will not change the dynasty because of the death of a prince, and there will be no place for me to live here. ”
"Yes," the middle-aged man said, making Yaya very curious, "My name is Mizhi, and this is not my real name." I am one of the ten precepts of the castle tower and protect the daimyo closely. The daimyo knew in his heart that the mastermind behind this matter was the third prince, and he was very disappointed in the third prince. What would you do if I told you that even if you killed the three princes, the daimyo would not blame you?"
"The Daimyo wants me to kill his son?" Zai can't imagine how dark the hearts of people in this world are, and there will be so many intrigues and cold-blooded ruthlessness between fathers and sons. Zai also thought about it and asked, "Are there any conditions?"
"There are no conditions, but it can be said that there are. When this happens, you can become one of the precepts and join us in guarding the new Daimyo. ”
"The new daimyo... Could it be the second prince?"
"The daimyo didn't have illegitimate children, so I don't have to peek into the future to know. Actually, at first we wanted your father to join us in the precepts, but he refused. His archery skills are so strong that I hope you can inherit his abilities. ”
Zai also looked at the box in his hand, and then replied, "I'll go back and do it." ”
Later, the third prince was playing at home, and suddenly fell to the ground. The servants came to take a look and found that the head of the third prince had been pierced by a steel ball. Soldiers searched all the nearby highs and lows, but no suspect was found. Because they didn't know that after the death of Uesugi Gomon, there was another person who inherited his ability and was able to take people's lives from a distance of kilometers. Moreover, the blue is better than the blue, and the steel bullet was fired from the mountains five miles away, that is, outside Kyoto.
Zai also joined the precepts and became a member of the castle tower. Before Zaiya entered the castle tower, Michi asked, "How did you manage to be able to see the enemy from such a distance and make sure you could hit them?"
Uesugi Yaya also replied, "Because there is only the person you want to kill, and you can see it no matter how far away." ”
At the entrance of the cave, Gu Bird and Rain Maiden had already come outside, and they knew that Guanmu was in this cave. In despair, he watched a huge evil aura flow from his body, and the evil qi even stopped the blood of his severed fingers, and his eyes could clearly see all the ugliness in this world.
He picked up a pack of ammunition on the ground and swallowed it all into his stomach. After swallowing all the ammunition, he roared inside the cave, and the roar reached outside the cave, causing the rain girl and Gu Xue to feel a huge wave of air. Kanmu opened his mouth and walked out of the cave.
Looking inside from the outside of the cave, it was pitch black. Suddenly, a bright light flashed, and Gu Xuniao saw that it was not good, and shouted "Get out of the way!" only to see a dense number of bullets shot from the cave, knocking a crack in the ground.
Fortunately, Gu Hou Bird and Rain Maiden dodged in time and were not injured, and Kanmu also walked out of the cave. With smoke coming out of his mouth, he shouted at them, "If it's not clean, you have to kill!"