Chapter Twenty-Four: Killing and Lying
The battle lasted all night, and the Majin Legion had gone from being attacked on its back to having a slight advantage. With less than 5,000 human troops, plus 2,000 Sea Tribesmen, they fought against the entire country controlled by the evil gods, and their battle will eventually go down in history, even the Lai people who fought against them did not know what was happening.
What people are most afraid of is not that they are in trouble and cannot call for help, but that they are in prison and do not know.
Yan Tiege walked out of the barrier of the "Swing of Fate" rune, and the exit was on a piece of driftwood on the surface of the sea. At this moment, the sky is clear and the sun is high, but it can't make people feel warm. There are floating corpses floating on the surface of the sea, and it is a life dedicated to freedom and ideals. Yan Tiege, who had experienced the war of gods and demons, was originally downcastly optimistic about life and death, and those mortals who died may not have anything to do with him before, but there was undeserved pity in his heart. A demon's sorrow for humanity may be the best manifestation of the unification of this world.
Yan Tiege fired a signal into the air, and a ball of flame exploded in the air, conjuring a special symbol. Anyone who can see the symbol can understand that it is the demon who is reporting his situation to the other companions: he is safe and sound. The middle reaches of the sea and all the sea tribesmen who had withdrawn from the waters of Kyushu were still on the surface of the sea, and the signal that appeared in the distant sky was very small, but he still caught it with the naked eye. The flame and the pattern, he vaguely remembered that the Jiao clan fought with the demons in the history books, which was the signal of the demons. The middle reaches of the sea immediately took all the Jiao and mermaids and swam in the direction of Kyushu Island.
Arriving at the sea where he had fought last night, with only floating corpses and broken ship fragments on the surface, Yan Tiege stood alone on a floating plank. Seeing that the middle reaches of the sea had arrived first, Yan Tiege waved at him and motioned for him to come over.
Swim in the middle of the sea to the wooden plank that Yan Tiege stepped on, and said, "My lord, are you okay?"
"Of course I'm fine. I want to bother you to do something. ”
"If your lord has something to order, the people of the Sea Clan are all obedient to the Demon Clan. ”
"There are so many people here who shouldn't die here, they all have families and ideals. All those who sacrificed for the sake of war are not worth it, and their lives should be spent on more meaningful things. We came to earth not to recreate the killing of a hundred years ago, but to live better. Please bring all the corpses to shore. ”
"There are only a few hundred corpses on the surface of the sea, and most of them have sunk to the bottom of the sea. I'm afraid that some of the corpses have been bitten by fish and shrimp, and they are unrecognizable, or ......"
"No, you just do it. There had been a prisoner under each ship before, and they didn't go too far away, just swimming underwater. They were instructed by me to protect all the bodies that sank to the bottom. They still have hope of being born again. ”
When it comes to rebirth, it's like hearing a word that I can't understand. "My lord, do you say that there is a chance that these dead will survive?"
Yan Tiege didn't speak, his face was full of endless vicissitudes. He looked into the distance, as if he was missing an old man, and said to himself: "You can be saved if you die, but I can't see you again." ”
Midstream didn't understand the meaning of Yan Tiege's words, but if he could really resurrect humans, it was really an unbelievable thing. He immediately gathered all the Jiaoren, put the sea and all the corpses that had sunk to the bottom of the sea on the back of the captive beast, and then took them to the shore.
The corpse has been soaked in water for a long time, and the body is swollen and white, and because of the varying degrees of damage to the flesh, it looks unsightly. The smell of blood made the Jiao people can't help but gause, and they really can't imagine that this body that has no sense and life will have another miracle.
"Do you think there's a miracle, Vice Admiral of the Sea Swimmer?" Yan Tiege seemed to have the same ability to listen to people's hearts as Yan Che, guessing that everyone seemed to be thinking so in their hearts. Haizhong didn't know how to answer, but he thought that since Yan Tiege could hear his heart, he probably knew the answer a long time ago.
"The so-called miracle is nothing more than the result of a person's hard work. In the beginning, people were afraid of death and old age. But they used herbs to heal wounds and drive away diseases, and now a large number of people are nearly 100 years old from 30 years of life, and these miracles are not all created by people? It's just that some of them are lazy, because no one works hard, and everyone feels that many things can't be done, just waiting for others to do it, and let others create miracles. ”
In Qujiang City, because of the weakening of the evil spirit, the troops led by Zhao Yige merged with the Shark Breaking Evil and defeated all the enemies in the city in one fell swoop, and only Ji Wumei and Canglan Xiangren were left at present. The humans and the Jiao people were exhausted, and after a night of sleepless fighting, everyone was too tired to stand. But time waits for no one, and no one knows when the evil spirit will return, or what kind of enemies will appear on this island.
Zhao Yige discussed with Shark Po Evil, left all the troops, and let Yu Gu protect Qujiang City next, while he chose to go to Kyoto alone. Shark Breaking Evil originally refused, after all, even demons find it tricky enemies, and relying on a human to support Yan Che is tantamount to death. At this time, Hua Yao and Hua Rui brought back the injured green wolf who was lying in the woods to rest. As soon as they arrived in the crowd, the two little girls were too tired to do so. It's not because of fatigue, maybe it's only when they are carrying the green wolf on their backs that they feel that this wolf is so heavy. Looking at the situation of the green wolf, it is even more optimistic. The flower girls used plant fibers to close his wound, and then dropped it with plant nutrient solution, which will not be life-threatening for the time being. There are still many injured people, and Jiang Mengsheng can't take care of them alone, so the flower girls will help treat other injured people.
At present, the only one who can move is Ghost Shili, and finally Ghost Shili and Zhao Yige went to Kyoto together. The rest of the people will follow after adjusting to the break. In this way, Zhao Yige and Ghost Shili took the first step and left Edo Castle. When she left, Fu Qinggu was still taking care of Jiang Mengsheng, and saw that Zhao Yige had not slept all night and was still full of energy to go to Kyoto to support Yan Che early in the morning, thinking to herself when did this little boy become so strong, and didn't need to rest like a demon? She also remembered Yan Che who left last night, although it was common not to see him often, but this time she always felt that it would not be so easy to come back.
Edo Castle and Kyoto would have been two days away, but last night a small army had already set out from Kyoto and was on its way to Kyushu. The group moved very fast, running in the air with barely their feet touching the bottom. At this time, they were only a few dozen miles away from Edo Castle.
At this moment, the man who was leading the way in front stopped, followed by about six or seven people, who also stopped one after another.
"What's wrong?" asked one of the people in the back.
"Something is wrong. Kanmu was supposed to stay in the rear, and once there was no problem, he would rush back. We've maxed out and it makes sense he's supposed to meet us, but he still hasn't shown up. ”
"Then he's in trouble. ”
"The people who can get him into trouble are not ordinary people. Go back to two people, and the rest will continue with me. As soon as the leader finished speaking, the two people at the end of the group turned around and went back the way they came, while the others continued to follow him in the direction of Qujiang.
The two of them were chatting on the way they came.
"Could it be that the old man was dizzy and killed, right?"
"There is an army of youkai led by the drunken boy in Edo, and there are no people from the direction of Kyushu who have come at the moment, and some of them will be encountered by us. In this way, the enemy should have broken through the army of youkai in Edo, and with that kind of strength, only one person really can't stop it. But there is also the question, how did the enemy appear from Edo out of thin air without coming from Kyushu, and why did he go from Edo to Kyushu?"
"It's a little strange to hear you say that. ”
At this moment, one of them suddenly stopped, and the other stopped immediately.
"What's wrong?"
"There are two people walking towards us, one is a samurai with a double realm, and the other is a little strange, it seems to be a demon. ”
"Demon, I guess I'm going to hunt down that samurai. But the samurai of the whole country should be controlled by the evil gods, and there is no reason for that monster to hunt down. ”
"Don't forget, there are three people in the Yanagi family who have never been found. ”
"Oh, it was them, so it makes sense why someone came in the opposite direction. Then let's wait here, I've always wanted to learn about the sword of General Yagyu's mansion, and finally I got what I wanted. ”
The two characters mentioned by these two people are Yagyu Juro and Demon Sword Posa, who run all the way from Edo to Kyushu under the cover of the Great Tengu. They didn't know that they wanted to hand over the demon knife to Yan Che, but Yan Che had already met Abe Shinaki on Mount Fuchun in Kyoto.
"How long will it take?" said Demon Knife Posa in Yagyu Otome's voice, as if she was tired of moving.
Yanagi was trying to tell Po Su not to be anxious, but before he could say anything, he suddenly sensed two huge qi in front of him. Those two qi seemed to be deliberately letting him know that someone was waiting for him in front of him, and he didn't hide his strength at all, unlike the eyes that had been hiding in the shadows before, those two qi were definitely brave and arrogant people. Yanagi stopped and told Demon Knife that there were two enemies waiting on the road in front of him, and that the other party already knew the strength of him and Demon Knife, and it seemed that the other party had an enemy with strong perceptual ability.
However, the demon knife was not interested in what Yanagi said. If the enemy is human, she has no murderous intent, and only youkai can arouse her fighting spirit. She tells Yanagi that she won't care about human-to-human affairs, and that if Yanagi can't find someone who can use her, then she will choose to go back to the cave. Rather than being used by the incompetent, it is better to stay in a dark place and fall asleep. A society without Susanoo is like a country without heroes, with no sense of security and no need to save.
Liu Sheng was helpless, and continued to walk forward with the demon knife, he thought to himself that it was a big deal to drag those two enemies with his own life, and then ask the demon knife to find Yan Che by himself. He introduced Yan Che's identity and appearance to the Demon Knife, hoping that if he couldn't move forward, the Demon Knife would go to Kyushu to find the demon he described. The demon sword didn't pay attention to Yanagi's words, because she could see at a glance that the other party had the kind of temperament and aura she dreamed of, and only a king's qi like Susanoo could use the demon knife that cut all demons.
On the mountain road, on an uphill slope, Yanagi finally meets the enemy who awaits him.
On the hillside, both men were wearing trench coats, and their heads were covered with hoods, so they couldn't see their faces clearly. After seeing Yanagi appear, one of them said, "You are Yanagi Juro and Yanagi Otome of the Yanagi family, right? Originally, I wanted to learn about Yanagi Shibei, and Yanagi drew his sword and slashed, but it seems that he is not with you. ”
"Who are you? Look like you're neither a ninja nor a samurai, not wearing armor or a shogunate, but a wandering sorcerer controlled by an evil god?" Yagyu asked.
"You don't know that we're normal, after all, we've been staying in that pavilion to protect the daimyo, and we've never come out. ”
"Daimyo, Pavilion, you are the same as Kanmu, the Ten Commandments of the Castle Tower?" Yanagi seemed to know the identity of the other party, but he had never seen the true face of the Ten Commandments, and he did not know which two stood in his way.
"Oh, although we don't leave the house, we still have a reputation. ”
"The Daimyo was killed by the Rehmannia Pill, and the Koga Ninja is a traitor, so it stands to reason that you should avenge the Daimyo and go against the ninja, why do you turn against each other? Even a master like you has been controlled by the evil god?"
"There is no such thing as control, no control. In the past, the death of the Daimyo shows that he is not a person who can lead the country to prosperity, and we sincerely want to be an evil god who can rule the world and make everyone have no resentment in their hearts. The Evil God is our new Great Name, and we naturally have to serve him. Poor samurai, you have too many troubles in your heart that even you can't sort them out, so why don't you be like us, and give all your distractions to the evil gods, and you can only feel happy when you are relaxed?"
"I don't want to experience that feeling of being manipulated. Yanagi refused without hesitation. And the attention of the people on the hillside also shifted to Yanagi Otome. They could see that although the woman's appearance was no different from that of a human, the aura emanating from her body was undoubtedly demonic, and this aura was very powerful, comparable to that of a drunken swallow.
"The person next to you shouldn't be Yanagi Otome, right? After all, the demonic aura on her body is too powerful. ”
"Yes, I'm just borrowing this woman's body for the time being, so that I can walk. If you two have nothing to do, get out of the way, I'm going to Kyushu, find someone who can use me, and then go and kill the drunken boy. Yagyu Otome replied lightly.
The two of them thought about it carefully, and seemed to be guessing that this monster possessed in Yanagi Otome must be a hidden demon, and it is rumored that Abe Shinaki has subdued many monsters for his use, and this monster is likely to be one of Abe's many monsters. But they only know that Shinaki Abe has a monster like Otengu whose strength is close to the three demons, and they don't know which monster must use other people's bodies to walk. And from her mouth, she learned that she had to find someone who could "use" her in order for her to show her strength. Although the two of them have not yet figured out her identity, no matter what they are, as long as their purpose is to fight against the evil god, they cannot let them leave alive.
The two Ten Commandments took off the masks from their heads, revealing their true faces: one was bald and short, but his mouth was covered by an iron mask, and the other had a fierce face with numerous scars on his face, and two tiger teeth peeking out of his mouth like short knives. Then they took off their trench coats, and Yanagi Juro was stunned when he saw it: the man wearing the mask was ordinary, but the strong man was covered with blades all over his body, as if he had moved the blade of the knife into the flesh since he was a child, and the blade of the knife was integrated with his skin and skin, and he looked very terrible.
"I call it killing, and he calls him lies. Today, you have to die here, so that the righteousness of the evil god can spread to the whole world!"