at home

"Don't be afraid, I'm still alive. Here, there is only a spike of wick, and there are thin cheeks that are pale by the light, and the fat soil Yuyuki has just put his two daughters to sleep, and is talking to his wife, when a firelight is lit up outside the window, he stretches out his eyes and looks, his face changes, and he thinks of it, and he is a little incredulous, and mutters: "What's going on, is it?"

Tomoki Hito had a terrible guess.

"But that saved our village!"

Fat Tuyou was unbelievable, a burst of anger swelled up, and he immediately got up from the bed, ignoring his wife's obstruction and complaining eyes, and comforted: "Don't worry, it's okay, I'll go back when I go!"

So saying, he immediately went outside.

shrine

The shrine is simple, but the area is large, and the land in this world is not valuable, it is a small hill, separated from the houses by a few hundred meters, and most of the houses at the foot of the mountain are low.

The most difficult time has passed, Masuda Mayumi smiled, swept the ground, she was in a good mood: "Every time you attack, there will be at least half a year's gap, and the village can work and harvest." ”

"If this samurai could stay, the village would have been saved, and now we have sacrificed too much. ”

Masuda Mayumi was wearing a thin witch costume, cleaning up the filth on the stone steps, she hummed a song quietly, cleaned up one level at a time, did some work, she moved a little sore, and couldn't help but look forward to it, and couldn't help but stand on the stone steps and look at a certain room in the shrine, but it was a pity...... There was no samurai in sight.

At that moment, she casually looked down, and the beacon fire was ignited.

"......" Seeing this scene, the shrine maiden Masuda Mayumi frowned, her expression changed greatly, and she immediately thought of something, hurriedly dropped the broom, and arrived at the room in the shrine.

"Your Excellency!" Masuda Mayumi opened the door, just about to wake up Pei Ziyun.

But at this time, Pei Ziyun had already opened his eyes and woke up.

Seeing that Pei Ziyun woke up, Masuda Mayumi was startled, but she still said quickly: "Please run away, the city lord will send someone soon!"

"Well, what's the situation?" Pei Ziyun lay lazily on the straw mat, there was a wooden board under the straw mat, but the wood was soft, moss, and dull in color, but this was already the best room in the shrine, at this time, he was not shocked, he just asked, and glanced outside the open door, and he could clearly see that at this time in the village, a beacon fire was illuminated.

"My lord, you better hide, I'll tell you about this later!!" Masuda Mayumi said hurriedly, and at this moment, there were footsteps again, which aroused her vigilance: "Fat soil, what do you want to do?"

It was Tomoyuki Hitochi who came up, he quickly came up and gasped: "Lord Samurai, you go quickly, the Zamu family has lit a beacon fire, and the city lord will quickly send someone." ”

"You saved our village, and we can't take revenge. ”

“…… I wanted to go on a killing spree, but now it seems that forget it. Looking at the two of them, Pei Ziyun got up, got dressed, and went down the hill silently, which was only twenty meters away, and he was going to follow the road in a few steps.

"Stop!" At this time, seven or eight people suddenly stopped Pei Ziyun.

Pei Ziyun looked at the villagers with weapons in front of him, his eyes were a little impatient, and said, "What, you want to stop me?"

Zamu Limin, who took the lead, said: "No, my lord, we have no intention of embarrassing you, because according to the custom of this village, today is the festival of the gods, as long as you pass today, you can go!"

"Now, I just want you to rest in our village for a while—you don't want to run into the gods!"

Zamu Liming immediately said this reason, he was old and refined, and he didn't want to start a war with Pei Ziyun.

"Nonsense, today is not a festival of the gods at all, Zaki, I know your thoughts, but the samurai-sama saved us, let him go!" Masuda Mayumi said loudly.

"Bastard!" Zamu Qinglong, who was behind Zamu Liming, lit the beacon fire at this time, but made up his mind, and was furious when he heard this: "It must be you, the witch who reported the news, so he suddenly thought of leaving, and you should go to hell like Ma Shangda who escaped!"

"Yes, you're tipping the whistle!" others also accused Masuda Mayumi: "You betrayed our village." ”

"Noise!" Pei Ziyun looked at the absurd scene in front of him, the wooden knife was slashed, the knife light appeared, Zamu Liming, who was standing in front, was still opening his mouth to speak, and the whole person was divided into two sections, and Zamu Qinglong, who was scolding loudly behind him, also had a deep wound that could be seen in the bones.

"Ahh

"Killed!" When the other villagers saw the bloody scene, they immediately spread their legs and quickly escaped, Pei Ziyun stepped forward, and the wooden knife was about to continue to kill.

But Masuda Mayumi immediately begged for mercy: "My lord, please don't continue to do it, these people are also forced to do it, just because of the order of the city lord!"

"They can't help it, if the city lord finds out that they didn't report it, everyone in the village will die!"

"I beg your pardon!"

"If you intercede, then let it be for the time being. Pei Ziyun listened to Masuda Mayumi's words, withdrew the knife, and walked outside.

At this time, the people who fled found that Pei Ziyun did not continue the pursuit, and they all paused their steps and looked at the witch and Pei Ziyun with hatred.

Looking at the green and gloomy eyes of those people, Masuda Mayumi showed a trace of bitterness, she thought about it, and suddenly followed a few steps: "My lord, where are you going? Please let me show the way!"

Leaving the village, not far away, the fog was faint among the trees, and it was not real from a distance of more than ten meters, Pei Ziyun stepped forward, and saw the corpse on the side of the road.

It looked like a woodcutter, and the corpse was covered with maggots, but it did not decompose further, Pei Ziyun glanced at it casually, and passed by expressionlessly.

"Samurai-sama, this is a zombie, and it will turn into a walking corpse. Before Masuda Mayumi finished speaking, he suddenly saw a point of light burst open from the corpse, and then the corpse ignited a white flame, and in the middle of his breath, it turned to ashes.

“……”

"Mayumi, go on!" Pei Ziyun said, asking about the situation all the way.

"Hey, it was a good place, but 350 years ago it suddenly changed, and there were walking corpses on the land, at first there were only a few, but then more and more. ”

"Not only that, but there are youkai, real youkai. ”

"The leader of the walking corpse, the demon ghost, is actually a kind of monster, so it can be said that it is a monster of the corpse!"

"The village that could fight the walking corpse has gradually been attacked by youkai and there are fewer and fewer of them. Masuda Mayumi said bitterly.

"350 years!" Pei Ziyun didn't care about this, if he remembered correctly, it was the time when the general rose and the time when history changed.

If you say this, it has something to do with the general? Pei Ziyun thought for a while, suddenly stopped, pointed to the mountain in the distance and asked, "What is there?"

"That's the castle lord's castle!" Masuda Mayumi replied with envy and longing, without the slightest hesitation: "Only the castle lord's castle is a safe place." ”

"Everyone wants to go into the city, but it's too difficult. ”

"Really?" Pei Ziyun's eyes saw a different scene.

At the city lord's mansion, a murderous aura rushed straight into the sky, this murderous aura was so powerful that the surrounding space was a little distorted, this was a force that even he felt threatened, Pei Ziyun couldn't help but squint, and also revealed a murderous aura.

"Ah!" With a soft shout, Masuda Mayumi couldn't help covering her mouth, looking at Pei Ziyun, not daring to speak.

After a while, Pei Ziyun turned his head and asked, "How much do you know about the city lord's city?"

"Huh?"

"I'm sorry, but I don't know much about the lord's city. Masuda Mayumi's expression was a little shy, and her cheeks flushed: "Because I have only entered the city once, all I know is from other people's mouths, of course, the most important thing is from the mouth of Tatsuya Magami." ”

"Magami Tatsuya was once recruited as a samurai by the lord of the castle and lived in the castle for a while. As she spoke, Mayumi Masuda's eyes showed a trace of sadness and remembrance, and she lifted her spirits again.

"The castle lord's castle is called Okayama Castle, and Ma Shangda also said that Okayama Castle has existed for a very long time, and it is not clear when it was built, but according to the information he checked, Okayama Castle was originally the main city with 120,000 stones, and it has been established for at least a few hundred years, and it is very prosperous. ”

"It's just that now only one-third of the villages in the territory are left, and they are becoming more and more desolate. ”

"Even so, there are still very powerful samurai in the city, who can kill terrifying youkai with one hand, so no youkai in the vicinity dare to attack, and all youkai who are close to Okayama Castle will be cleaned up. ”

"Is there really such a powerful person in the world?" Masuda Mayumi glanced at the city in the distance, a little incredulous, she suddenly thought of Pei Ziyun's powerful force, and the city lord's request for the villages to pay attention to "outsiders", and turned her eyes to look at it, a strange look appeared in her eyes, and said, "You have something to do with Okayama City, right?"

Is it a fleeing samurai, or a failed branch of the head of the house?

As soon as Masuda Mayumi asked, she couldn't help but think of this, her face turned pale, and she hurriedly: "Ah, I'm sorry, my lord, I didn't mean to probe you!"

Pei Ziyun listened, smiled indifferently, and whispered: "Lead the way in front." ”

All the way under the guidance of Masuda Mayumi, but it is very strange that although it is not far from Okayama Castle, but after walking for a long time, I found that the distance has not been much closer.

Masuda Mayumi noticed the confusion and hurriedly bowed: "Ah, my lord, I'm sorry, but there is one more point, I forgot to tell you!"

"That is, although Okayama Castle does not look far, it is actually very far away. ”

"There was a samurai in our village who once tried to see how long it would take to reach Okayama Castle, but he walked for two or three days and then came back alone, but he didn't succeed, and he was injured in his arms and legs. Someone in the village once asked, but he didn't say anything, only that it was very far away. ”

After that, the village never had that idea again. ”

"But the strange thing is that the people sent by the city lord are very fast, and they can often arrive in one day, and in the same way, people with the status of the city can also arrive in one day. ”

Pei Ziyun listened, did not speak, just observed silently, and walked for a long time, it seemed that the distance from Nagangshan City had not changed, but as he continued to go deeper, the surrounding fog became thicker and thicker.

"My lord, further ahead, is Luomu Village. Mayumi Masuda was very happy.

“……”

"It seems that the village of Luomu is not peaceful either. Pei Ziyun said, calming down, tilting his ears, shouting and killing in the distance, and screaming, which could be faintly heard.