Chapter 103: Find Someone
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Yao Ping followed Zhanye's whisper, and after continuing to explore and find a few houses, they soon came to the area in the center of the village. However, just as they quietly approached the village square where the tall insect and bird totems were standing, they suddenly saw a torch suddenly appear on the village road at the other end of the square.
Yao Ping quickly hid behind a tree and looked at the light of the torch, and he was surprised to find that the person holding the torch was none other than Liu Enya. "Yoo Eun Jae!" After Zhanye saw Yoo Eun-jae illuminated by the firelight, he shouted at him angrily.
With Zhanye's shout, Yoo Eun-jae immediately noticed Zhanye and Yao Ping. But he didn't respond, and after glancing at where Zhan Ye and Yao Ping were, he immediately turned around and ran briskly into the square.
Yoo Eun-jae quickly walked around the perimeter of the Totem Square with a torch in his hand, and quickly lit the braziers and torch stands placed on the periphery of the square one by one.
As the firelight around the square lit up, Yao Ping and Zhanye were surprised to find that the square was covered with dead bodies, and the corpses were even more men, women, and children.
"God..."Yao Ping muttered in astonishment after seeing what he saw, "this is really a sin, a sin, so many people have died..."
Zhan Ye saw the dead bodies all over the ground, and Yoo Eun-jae did not respond to his shouts, but just continued to light the circle of torches in the square one after another, and he couldn't help but run towards Yoo Eun-jae quickly. Zhan Ye ran towards Yoo Eun-jae and continued angrily at Yoo Eun-jae, "Yoo Eun-jae, what the hell are you in! β
Seeing Zhanye leave quickly, Yao Ping also stepped over the corpse on the ground and walked quickly with him towards the square where Yoo Eun-jae was. After Yao Ping stepped past the corpse of a woman, he finally couldn't help but ask Yoo Eun-jae, who was still lighting the torch stand, "Eun-zai, did you kill all the people here?!" Where are Li Jun and Chen Dahua?! β
Yoo Eun-jae didn't respond to Zhan Ye or Yao Ping's words, he just lit as many braziers and fires as quickly as he could.
"Yoo Eun Jae!" After Zhanye approached Yoo Eun-jae, he clutched the short knife on his waist and asked him, "Let me ask you, did you kill those three brothers of mine?!" β
"Don't move!" At this time, after lighting nearly twenty torch stands in the square, Yoo Eun-jae suddenly spoke to Yao Ping and Zhanye.
Hearing Yoo Eun-jae say this, Zhan Ye couldn't help but be stunned, and he immediately noticed a hint of something strange from Yoo Eun-jae's tone.
"Well, why did you kill so many people?" Yao Ping continued to say to Liu Enya with a little excitement, "Have you seen where Li Jun and Huahua are?" Did you kill so many people and save them? β
"Go and stand under that pillar and don't move." Liu Enzai drew a knife in his hand, and urgently said to Zhanye and Yao Ping, "You two go quickly, do as I say!" β
Zhan Ye hesitated for a moment, he didn't wait for Yao Ping to speak again, and quickly pulled him to move quickly to the big totem pole in the center of the square.
"Lieutenant Zhan, what are you doing? What's going on? Yao Pingchong asked Zhanye, who was pulling his sleeve.
"It's not quite right." Zhanye ran and said to Yao Ping, "Let's do what Yoo Eun-jae said first." β
The two walked quickly to the totem pole that stood up, Yao Ping leaned back against the totem pole and looked at Liu Enzai, but he saw that Liu Enzai was also holding a knife in one hand and a torch in the other, and slowly retreated to their side. He saw him looking around as he retreated, as if he were facing a great enemy.
After seeing Yoo Eun-jae's actions, Zhanye immediately drew an arrow from his quiver in his hand, and he vigilantly looked around the square illuminated by torches.
Seeing the posture of Liu Enjae and Zhanye, Yao Ping's heart couldn't help but get nervous, he touched the "shadow cut" on his back with his backhand, and then untied the sheath belt and held the knife in his hand.
"County Lieutenant Zhan, what's going on...?" Yao Ping asked nervously in a low voice.
"Shhhhhh Zhan Ye booed.
Without waiting for Zhanye's booing voice to fall, Yao Ping saw that in the corner of the square, the three torches that Liu Enya had just lit before were suddenly extinguished. The open space in the corner of the square and the nearby houses were suddenly plunged into darkness.
When Yoo Eun-jae stepped back and slowly approached Yao Ping and Zhanye, he threw the torch in his hand towards Yao Ping, and then said, "Go and light all the torch stands nearby." β
Yao Ping looked at the torch thrown not far from his feet and hesitated slightly.
"Go." Yoo Eun-jae said again.
Yao Ping stepped forward to pick up the torch and looked around. She found that there were still many torch stands around the totem that had not been lit. Just before going to light the first torch stand, Yao Ping wanted to open his mouth and continue to ask where Liu Enzai Lijun and Chen Dahua were, but before he could speak, he listened to Zhanye speak first.
"Yoo Eun-jae, what are you wary of?" Zhanye asked Ryu Eun-jae.
"Enemy." Yoo Eun-jae said, holding a knife, staring at the corner of the square where the torch had been extinguished.
"What enemy?" Zhan Ye asked.
"It's not quite clear yet." Yoo Eun-jae said.
Zhan Ye hesitated for a moment and continued to ask, "Okay, then let me ask you again, these people in this village, as well as my three soldier brothers, did you kill them?" β
"The three soldiers, they're dead?" Yoo Eun-jae asked.
"Yes." Zhanye said, "Don't you know? β
"I took shelter in a windowless wooden hut." "When I left, they were still alive. β
Zhan Ye was stunned.
"What about Li Jun and Chen Dahua?" Yoo Eun-jae immediately asked.
"It's... I also want to ask you. Zhan Ye said, "You killed so many people in the village, didn't you rescue them?" β
"Brother Zhan, do you really think that I killed all the people in these villages?" Yoo Eun-jae looked at the darkness without looking back and asked Zhan Ye rhetorically.
Zhan Ye hesitated for a moment and said, "Although I don't want to believe that these villagers and my three soldier brothers were all killed by you, but apart from you, who else here can kill all of them with a sword and seal their throats?" β
"So it's because of this..." Yoo Eun-jae said, "Okay, then I'll tell you, now in addition to me, there are also enemies who are guarding against us now, and they can also kill people with a sword. β
"Huh...? What did you say? Zhan Ye immediately asked in surprise, "Brother Liu, do you mean that there are other people here besides us and the villagers in this village?" And it's still a master, and not just one? β
"Yes." Yoo said, "More than one. β
"That's when they killed all the people here...?" Zhan Ye said in surprise, "But Yao Ping and I didn't see anyone else along the way." β
"They're very well hidden." Yoo Eun-jae said.
Zhan Zhi was shocked and immediately asked, "Then are they still good at firing hidden weapons?" β
"Yes." Yoo Eun-jae said.
"I see." Zhan Ye said, "Brother Liu, it seems that Yao Ping and I misunderstood you just now. β
While Zhanye and Yoo Eun-jae were talking, Yao Ping had already quickly lit all the nearby torch stands with torches.
When the firelight illuminated the snow around the totem pole, Yao Ping turned around and suddenly saw that Yoo Eun-jae had quickly come to his side with a knife, and stared at a dark corner of the square without moving. Zhanye had already slowly half-drawn his bow and pointed the arrow at the place where Yoo Eun-jae was looking.
Following Yoo's gaze and Zhanye's arrows, Yao Ping soon noticed that just behind a flickering torch, in the shadows under the eaves of a thatched house, stood still.
The man was dressed in a purple and black bodysuit, a pair of split-toe shoes, and his legs were tied tightly by strips of cloth of the same color. His feet were a little loopy but tightly together, and he was small but standing straight in this direction. The shadow of the debris behind the torch obscured his upper body, so Yao Ping could not see his face. The only thing he could tell from the flickering light of the fire was that the man was doing something with his hands folded across his chest.
"Who?" After hesitating for a moment, Yao Ping instinctively opened his mouth and asked the person standing in the shadows.
The man was silent.
"Did you kill the villagers here?" Yao Ping strengthened his courage and looked at the man in the shadows and continued to ask.
"You don't have to ask Yao Ping, he won't answer you." Zhan Ye said.
"Why?"
"Because it was he or his accomplices who sent you a secret weapon." Zhan Ye said.
Yao Ping's heart was shocked, and he immediately clenched the "Shadow Cut" in his hand, he stared at the person and asked Zhanye, "Captain Zhan, do you know who they are?" β
"It's Sakura's scout, ninja." Zhan Ye raised his bow and stared at the enemy.
"Huh?" Yao Ping said in surprise, "The ninjas of Sakura Prefecture..... How did they end up here.."
"I don't know." Zhanye said, "But be careful. β
After a moment of stalemate between the three of them and the black-clothed ninja, Ryu Eun-jae suddenly took a few steps forward with his sword. Then, as he approached the ninja, he raised his sharp knife and pointed it straight at the enemy in the shadows. Yoo Eun-jae's move is self-evident, he is provoking his opponent, trying to make that ninja come out of the shadows and fight him.
But the ninja didn't get out from under the eaves because of Yoo's movements, he stood motionless on his legs as before. The two continued to be at a stalemate, and the tense stalemate made everything quieter. In the tense silence, Yao Ping heard the sound of torches burning, but then he seemed to hear a slight collision from somewhere nearby.
As the sound of the collision continued to sound, Yao Ping turned to find that the source of the sound seemed to be near the totem pole. Alertly searching for the source of the sound, he looked sideways near the totem pole, but there was nothing there, except that on the totem pole, there was a very carved owl, staring at the people here with its round eyes.
"What did you find?" Zhan Ye asked Yao Ping without looking back.
"Nothing." Yao Ping said.
"Look closer." Liu Enzai suddenly said without looking back at this time, "I didn't find Li Jun and her in the village before, and now the whole village is only near this totem pole. β
Hearing Yoo Eun-jae say this, Yao Ping immediately turned around to the totem pole and turned to find the source of the slight collision sound again.
Then, when the collision sound came again, he found that the collision sound, which was originally a little chaotic, suddenly became regular. And as he remembered the law of the collision sound, Yao Ping immediately realized that the collision sound was definitely made by a person on purpose. As for who would make this slight collision sound, he thought, perhaps it was the one who was bound and gagged. It is very likely that it is Li Jun and Chen Dahua.
Thinking of this, Yao Ping hurriedly stepped forward and attached his ear to the totem pole and listened. As he heard the sound of collision from the totem pole, Yao Ping looked up at the totem pole and guessed that the source of the slight collision sound might be in the ground in the totem pole.
Immediately after, Yao Ping fell to the ground, and pressed his ear to the ground to continue listening to the sound of the collision. As the sound of the collision came from the ground again, Yao Ping verified that his guess was not wrong. He thought that maybe there was a space under this totem pole, and that space should be a dungeon.
"Bang!"
Before Yao Ping could get up and look for the entrance to the dungeon under the totem pole, he suddenly heard a string sound behind him. He immediately looked back and saw that it was Zhan Ye's arrow.
Zhanye's arrow broke off the string and headed straight for the ninja under the eaves. However, at the moment when the arrow flew towards the ninja, the ninja suddenly disappeared into the shadows.
With a bang, the arrow blade plunged into the wooden wall of the thatched house where the ninja had been, leaving only the arrow feathers to shake rapidly in the air.
Seeing the ninja disappear, Ryu Eun-jae and Zhanye once again vigilantly searched for the ninja's whereabouts. Yao Ping took the opportunity to quickly knock on the various locations of the totem poles in order to find the entrance to the dungeon.
After several torches in the corner of the square were suddenly extinguished, Yoo Eun-jae slowly moved to the vicinity of the totem pole with "insight" to protect Yao Ping, who was searching. After re-attaching the arrow to the bowstring, Zhanye continued to search for the enemy.
"How many of them are there?" Zhanye searched around the square and asked Yoo Eun-jae.
"At least three people." "Two ninjas, one swordsman. β
"Do you know what they're here for?" Zhan Ye asked.
"I think they seem to be looking for someone." Yoo Eun-jae said.
"Who do you think they're looking for?" Zhan Ye asked.
Yoo Eun-jae paused for a moment and then whispered, "Li-kun." β
"Whew" Suddenly two more torches were extinguished in one corner of the square.
At the moment when the torch was extinguished, without waiting for Zhanye's gaze to move back from the direction of the extinguished torch, he saw a figure quickly attack Yoo Eun-jae from one side with his peripheral vision.
Although the man's movements were extremely fast, Yoo Eun-jae had already seen the enemy attacking. He immediately held a knife to block the enemy's blade, Cangmin's sharp knife and Yingzhou ninja knife, the two knives quickly collided and intersected, and a spark immediately popped out. While Yoo Eun-jae and the attacking ninja continued to fight, Zhan Ye also aimed his arrows at the enemy.
However, due to the rapid shaking of the figures of Yoo Eun-jae and the ninja, Zhan Ye was afraid of injuring Ryu Eun-jae, and he did not dare to shoot arrows easily.
Just when Zhanye was holding his bow and waiting for the best time to launch the arrow, he saw that after Yoo Eun-jae swung a knife at his opponent, he suddenly shouted at him, "Zhanye, be careful on the left!" β
Listening to Yoo Eun-jae reminding himself so urgently, Zhanye immediately knew that the situation was not good. He turned to his left and walked to his right, and at the same time, he suddenly saw a ninja with a scythe in his hand emerging from the shadows and throwing a scythe at him.
Zhanye hurriedly dodged, and the scythe slashed in front of him. Zhanye, who flashed to the side, immediately fired arrows at the ninja to fight back. The arrow flew out quickly, thinking that this arrow would hit the enemy's field, but he didn't want to see the ninja quickly turn sideways, and turned to dodge the arrow.
Seeing that the arrow he fired was dodged at such a close distance, Zhan Zhi was greatly surprised. Realizing the skill of his enemy, he drew three more arrows and prepared to fire them again. But the ninja didn't give Zhan Ye a chance, and after swinging the scythe and flying hammer on the lock scythe and continuing to attack Zhan Ye, he quickly turned around and fled into the darkness while Zhan Ye was dodging.
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