Chapter Seventy-Five: Dao Left Meets 2
It would be very disadvantageous for us to let go of Ito Shin now, although we have a slight advantage in weapons, but in terms of individual soldier quality, tying up Old Man Sun and them together is not an opponent of Ito Shin's subordinates.
While I was hesitating, Ito Shin opened his mouth to say two words, and Lu Xinyao translated: "Mr. Ito said that although we come from different countries, he believes that the honor of a samurai knows no borders. โ
I can see that Ito is really a pure samurai, otherwise, he would not have fought alone with me in a situation where he has absolute superiority. I hesitated for a moment before slowly letting go of the long knife.
Ito Shin returned the knife into the sheath and bowed deeply to me before saying a word to Lu Xinyao, who immediately translated: "Mr. Wang Huan, please wait a moment, Mr. Ito needs to tidy up his clothes to show solemnity." โ
After making a "please" gesture, I retreated to Ye Xun's side, and Ito Shin and Lu Xin walked into the nearby woods.
Ye Xun lowered his voice and said, "What do you think of these little devils?"
I frowned and said, "These people are either special forces or ninjas, they have a strong ability to disguise, and they are good at patience. Those people were at least hiding in the nearby woods when Xiao Zhanzi was killed, otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to find their traces. These little devils are coming in a strange way, and they will have to be handled carefully for a while. โ
While Ye Xun and I were talking, Ito Shin had already walked out again, he had changed into a clean set of clothes, and he couldn't tell that he had just been seriously injured. With a wave of Ito's hand, someone spread a rug on the ground.
Ito made a "please" gesture to the carpet, meaning that I should sit down first.
After I sat down, Ye Xun stood behind me with a long knife in his arms, Ito Shin and Lu Xinyao sat opposite me, and the ninja who had fought Ye Xun and fled after fighting was standing behind the two of them.
After Ito Zhen gestured to me, he began to talk to me every word that Lu Xinyao translated.
Ito Zhen said: "Mr. Wang Huan, forgive me for taking the liberty of entering Pingtianhai, may I ask if you have entered Pingtianhai for the relics of the Great Liao Ancient Kingdom? If Sir is for the ruins, I think we should sit down and talk; if not, I advise Sir to leave Pingtianhai as soon as possible, it is very dangerous here." โ
My brows moved slightly, and I replied, "You entered the Pingtian Sea for the Great Liao Ruins?"
Ito hesitated for a moment before saying, "That's true. The reason why I attacked you just now was also to uncover the secret of the Great Liao Ruins. This is very important to us at the Ito family. โ
With my thoughts flying in my head, I quietly made a gesture to Ye Xun, meaning that he would be optimistic about Old Man Sun, and I said lightly to Ito Zhen: "Since Mr. Ito is straight to the point, there is no need for me to hide anything." I came to Ping Tianhai for the Golden Mask. โ
Ito Zhen was slightly stunned, and then immediately smiled: "Since Mr. Wang Huan and I have the same purpose, can I invite a few of your friends and companions over?"
"Old grandson, Scar, come and talk. I beckoned to Old Man Sun, and I had already begun to be secretly on guard.
It's only natural that Ito and I met for the first time and wanted to see if I was a ghost. However, as soon as he opened his mouth, he broke my purpose, which was not what I expected.
Why did he dare to be sure that I was here to find the Great Liao Ruins? The reason should also fall on Old Man Sun and a few of them.
Old man Sun was extremely nervous when Ito Ma appeared, and when I called him, he hesitated for a long time before he came to our side. Ito made a gesture of "please be seated": "Sir, please be seated." โ
Ito Zhen looked directly at Old Man Sun and said, "May I ask if the old gentleman's surname is Sun, do you know a Japanese scholar named Ito Akikawa?"
"I don't know. Old man Sun said with a blank face, "However, I see that you are a little kind, as if you have seen it somewhere." โ
"In 1933, my great-grandfather, Akikawa Ito, was forcibly hired by the Japanese Kwantung Army to enter Tohoku. Although my great-grandfather was a scholar, he played a very dishonorable role in the war of aggression at that time, for which my great-grandfather has always blamed himself deeply......"
"The Kwantung Army Command gave my great-grandfather the task of finding all kinds of relics and plundering the treasures buried in the land of China. The Kwantung Army didn't know where to get the news that there was probably a tomb belonging to a Khitan shaman hidden behind Ping Tianhai, so they sent my great-grandfather to explore the shaman's tomb. โ
"Before my great-grandfather arrived here, there was already an elite squadron of the Kwantung Army that had been wiped out in the Pingtian Sea. Although the squadron that rushed to the rescue later withdrew from Pingtianhai in time, they were cursed by the shaman and died one after another. At that time, in order to break the curse, the Kwantung Army hired a local ...... with a lot of money"
Ito's mouth suddenly came out with two stiff words: "Daisen." โ
I looked at Old Man Sun's face suddenly, and the other party's face turned pale.
Ito Zhen didn't seem to notice the strangeness of Old Man Sun, and took out a photo from the briefcase handed over by the ninja: "The great immortal hired by the Great Ancestor is named Sun Chengtao." โ
I just glanced at the photo and was shocked. There are three people in the photo, and the person dressed as a scholar standing in the middle is about seven or eight points similar to Ito Shin, and at a glance you know that they are relatives, and that person should be Ito Akikawa.
Isn't the person standing on the left-hand side of Ito Akikawa the old man Sun? What's even more terrifying is that the person on the right-hand side of the photo is actually a scar.
Ye Xun and I stood up at the same time, and when the knife was drawn out of the sheath and pointed at the two of them, Ito really seemed to know what the result would be, and after throwing out the photo, he stood up unhurriedly: "Excuse me, are you Mr. Sun Chengtao, and is that gentleman His Excellency Takeo Takahashi?"
The scar in the distance was also stunned: "What do you call me? Takeo Takahashi? Lao Tzu...... Why is this name so familiar to Lao Tzu? Who is Takeo Takahashi?"
Scar squatted on the ground with his head covered: "Who is Takeo Takahashi......"
Old man Sun, who was pointed at by me and Ye Xun with a knife, suddenly laughed: "I remembered, I remembered that Ito Mingchuan was here." Didn't he die with me in the locks, and how could he come back?"
Scar also stood up suddenly: "I remember, I am Takeo Takahashi, a captain officer of the Kwantung Army of the Great Japanese Empire." We ......"
Takeo Takahashi turned his head and pointed into the distance: "Didn't we just die in ...... in the first place"
Before Takahashi Takeo finished speaking, blood suddenly burst out of the seven holes, and the person fell to the ground with him.
The few people who followed Takahashi Takeo were all frightened and retreated to the side, and some simply squatted on the ground holding their heads and trembled, not daring to look at the corpse.
Ye Xun and I raised our knives forward at the same time, and pressed the tip of the knife against Old Man Sun's neck: "Who are you?"
It was only now that I realized that I had overlooked a fatal problem, and that was Old Man Sun's age. Old man Sun has always been vague about his experience as a bandit, and I have always thought that he was a bandit for a short time before the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Now, it seems, is not the case at all.
The time when the Japanese Kwantung Army invaded Northeast China was in 1931, but the time to suppress bandits in Northeast China was after 1945, and the time when the entire Northeast was liberated was in 1948, which spanned another 15 years.
I always thought that Old Man Sun should be in his eighties, and I heard him say when I chatted with Ye Xun that a real martial arts master can still walk like a fly and fight for his life when he is seventy or eighty years old, so I didn't delve into Old Man Sun's age.
However, can a person who is more than 100 years old still have such skills as Old Man Sun? Unless he has reached the legendary realm like Zhang Sanfeng, who can still climb mountains and mountains after he is 100 years old?
Old man Sun showed a wry smile and said: "I have remembered many things, but when I think of it, I can't say it, and if I say it, I will definitely die like a scar." โ
I said coldly, "If you don't say it, you will die the same." โ
Old man Sun waved his hand and said, "I still say that, I never wanted to lie to you." I'm in a better hurry than you are to find the Golden Mask. I will say a few words, and those who say, I will die as soon as I finish, and you can listen as much as you can. If you meet me somewhere next time, you must talk to me quickly, and ask me something while I can remember and speak. And ......"
Old man Sun said unusually solemnly: "Go find the sick seedling, he is not dead." Now there are only three dead and one living who can save you. You must remember that the people around you are not necessarily living people, so don't easily believe in anything, and don't easily deny anything. โ
Old man Sun said quickly: "The golden mask is in the Black Wind Col, and there are seven cottages in the Pingtian Sea, according to the Big Dipper...... Poofโ"
Before Old Man Sun finished speaking, a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth, and after shaking his body a few times, he forced himself to take a breath and roared: "Find the North Star, the North Pole will ...... Poofโ"
At the same time, blood spurted wildly from Old Man Sun's seven orifices, and the person also fell to the ground. Ye Xun and I walked forward quickly and turned the body over - Old Man Sun's two pupils had completely dilated, and there was no way to save him.
Among the people brought by Old Man Sun, plus me and Ye Xun, there was only one old man, one young man and one madman, and I walked to the remaining two people: "Can any of you explain to me, what is going on with Scar and Old Man Sun?"
The middle-aged man said tremblingly, "I don't know either...... We've been eating with Uncle Scar, who knows he's Japanese!"
That middle-aged man didn't look like he was pretending, and I had no idea for a while.
Originally, I thought that I could find any clues on Old Man Sun and them, but this time, not only did I have no clues, but also made things more and more complicated.
How could Old Man Sun and Scar suddenly die? What was the secret they hadn't revealed?
What does it mean to have three dead people and one living person?
What do you mean by Beidou and the North Pole?
Why would Old Man Sun let me go to the sick seedling?
A flurry of questions kept buzzing in my head.