In the dense jungle, the lush foliage blocks out the sun, but the heat is still transferred from the air, making the whole jungle dark and damp, feeling like a big steamer, no matter who walks here, they will feel sweaty all over, as if they will be steamed at any time.

On the trunk of a tall Nanyang laurel tree, a colorful poisonous snake about two steps long is winding forward, two black eyes are staring closely at a bird's nest in the tree, where there is a nest of newly hatched birds, the mother bird has gone out to forage for the birds, now is a good time to hunt.

It's a pity that the snake's luck is not very good, just when it just climbed not far on the trunk, suddenly there was a "whoosh~" sound, a shining flying knife shot out of the jungle, and the poisonous snake was nailed to the trunk at once, and then only heard a chaotic footsteps in the jungle, and a team of dozens of people walked out.

These people are wearing special jungle clothes, the cuffs and trouser legs are tightened to prevent mosquitoes from entering, the collar is also erected to wrap the entire neck, and the color of the clothes is mainly green and yellow, which is very similar to the surrounding environment, which is very convenient for camouflage. I saw that these people had bows and arrows hanging on their shoulders, horizontal knives hanging from their waists, and big bags behind their backs.

The few people at the front of the team brandished the firewood knives in their hands to clear the way, cutting down the bushes and branches that stood in front of them. Immediately behind these people was a short and sturdy man, who was dark-skinned, but different from the kind of black of the Nanyang natives, but a kind of tanning that was tanned all year round, judging from his appearance. He was supposed to be a yellow man.

The man's hair is short and looks completely different from the traditional hairstyle of the Han Chinese. When I first explored the Americas route. Some crew members shaved their long hair short in order to maintain hygiene. Later, this hairstyle spread, and many men who work on boats or in the jungle all year round like to shave their hair short. However, this hairstyle is not the mainstream of society, even if it is temporarily shaved short, as long as it returns to a peaceful life, it will still grow its hair.

The short-haired man looked to be in his thirties, at the peak of a man's height, not tall, but extremely strong. On his shoulder was a strap with two rows of knives in the same style as the one that had crucified the viper.

This short-haired man's name is Kawashita Ishioshi, and you can tell by looking at the name that he is a Japanese man, and he also comes from a noble family in the original Japanese country. However, Kawashita Ishi, who is now the leader of a well-known slave hunting team, the "Kawashita" slave trapping team, is also the leader of this team, and this time he is hired by a wealthy man to come to Java Island to carry out a lucrative mission.

The Kawashita family was originally a prince of the Wa Kingdom. However, when the Wa Kingdom was destroyed, the Kawashita family was very aware of the current affairs and immediately surrendered to Li Su's army, and most of the family became the administrators of the Wa Prefecture. Originally, it was born with Kawashita Stone. Now he should serve as a low-level official in Wazhou and do things for the Han officials above.

But it's a pity that the Kawashita family before surrendering. However, he vigorously supported the extermination of the Su family at that time, and later the Su I family took refuge in Li Su. Together with the Ishigami family, they became the two overlord families of Wazhou. In addition to the Han people, these two families are the most powerful, and the power of the Kawashita family cannot be compared with these two families at all.

At the very beginning, for the sake of the stability of the Uzhou, the Su I family did not dare to retaliate against the family that had participated in the purging of them before, but with the strengthening of Li Su's rule over the Uzhou, no one dared to disobey Li Su's orders, and the Su I clan and the Shishang clan also became the two major thugs of Li Su's rule in the Uzhou, and their power became stronger and stronger.

In this case, the Soga clan began to take revenge on the hostile families who participated in the encirclement and suppression of them, among which the Kawashita family bore the brunt, many members of the Kawashita family who held official positions in the government were framed and imprisoned, and many clansmen also had accidents one after another, and even Kawashita's sister was raped and killed by a group of unknown hooligans.

This made Kawashita Ishishi really unbearable, and even wanted to break into the Soga family desperately, but was stopped by his father, and finally the people of the Kawashita family chose to leave the Wa Kingdom in humiliation and relocate to Luzon to live. Just for the smooth relocation of the family, the Kawashita clan took out most of the family property to ask the Ishigami clan for help at that time, the Ishigami clan and the Soga clan are also the two major families of Wazhou, and there are a lot of dirt between them, and they have no enmity with the Kawashita clan, so they happily accept the bribes of the Kawashita clan, and then shelter them to leave the Wazhou.

It is precisely because of this that the Kawashita clan, which moved to Luzon, fell into a financial crisis, and hundreds of clansmen could not even eat, and in the end, in desperation, the Kawashita clan had to organize the young people in the family to go out to work to support the family, and Kawashita Ishi was one of them.

As the most courageous young man of the younger generation of the Kawashita family, Kawashita Ishi certainly did not enter the mines or plantations to work as an overseer like the others, but chose to enter the dangerous slave catcher, although he had to risk his life, but the money came quickly, and if he was lucky, he should soon be able to accumulate the first pot of gold.

Facts have also proved that Kawashitashi's choice is correct, after he joined the slave hunting team, with his bravery, especially his flying knife skills, he quickly accumulated a sum of money, and then he used this money to recruit a group of Japanese people who were similar to him, and formed a slave hunting team called 'Kawashita', which entered Africa and other places to catch slaves many times, and was also well-known in the slave hunting world.

Kawashita walked under the laurel tree, pulled his flying knife and snake body from the tree together, took out a dagger to cut off the poisonous snake head, and then took out the snake gall bladder and swallowed it, and the remaining snake body was coiled on his arm, and he was ready to add food to everyone when he was ready to eat.

At this moment, a young man behind Kawashita Stone saw the snake meat in his hand, swallowed his saliva at the moment, and stepped forward to say in a Japanese language with the courage to say: "Big brother, it's noon now, and we've been advancing for three hours in a row, do you want to take a break and eat something to replenish your ......?"

"Bastard!" Before the young man finished speaking, he was slapped in the face by Kawashita Shi, and he said with an angry face: "How many times have I told you, you have to call the leader outside, and you must speak Chinese, don't say that kind of inferior Japanese language, can't you remember it until now?" ”

When they moved out of Wazhou, Kawashita Yuji was just ten years old, and now he is finally eighteen years old, so Kawashita's father asked him to follow Kawashitashi, hoping to help Kawashitoshi better manage the slave capture team, but because he just came out of the house, he often made some mistakes, which made Kawashita Ishi very annoyed.

Kawashita Yuji also knew that he had made a mistake, and after receiving a slap, he immediately confessed his mistake to his eldest brother in Chinese: "Thank you for the leader's lesson, my subordinates know their mistakes, and they will never make them again in the future!" ”

Seeing that his younger brother's attitude of admitting his mistake was okay, Kawashita Ishi dissipated his anger, and then announced to the people behind him: "Everyone stop and rest, drink some water and eat something." ”

Hearing the leader say this, everyone in the team breathed a sigh of relief, they had been on the road for so long, and they were already tired, but they also knew that Kawakami Ishi was a very strict leader, if he didn't open his mouth, others wouldn't even dare to ask, and only newcomers like Kawashita Yuji dared to speak.

In the tropical jungle full of dangers, it is not easy to rest, first of all, you must find a safe place, you can't just sit down, otherwise if you are pricked by the poisonous insects on the ground, you may even lose your life.

So after they received the order, the team members found a piece of high ground in groups of 350,000, and then cleared out the weeds on it, and finally took out a piece of canvas and spread it on it and sat down, so that even if there were poisonous insects underground, they could not bite through the canvas. Of course, if you can find a fallen tree trunk, then you don't have to go to such trouble, just lay the canvas on it.

Kawashita Ishi and Kawashita Yuji also found a piece of ground to sit down, and then Kawashita Ishi cut the poisonous snake in his hand into several pieces and asked his younger brother to distribute them to several high-ranking members of the team. Although they brought a lot of food, they have been trekking in the tropical jungle for nearly ten days, and there is not much food on their bodies, although the jungle is full of animals, but because the bushes are too dense, it is difficult for the prey to be hit, so every prey is very rare for the team.

Kawashita Ishi left himself a piece of slap-length snake meat, then took out salt and pepper from his backpack and smeared it on the snake meat, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly. Although the tropical jungle is full of firewood, it is so wet and damp that it cannot be lit at all, so you can only eat raw meat. Although the raw meat has a very fishy smell, Kawashita Ishi has long been used to it, and after smearing it with salt and pepper, it tastes good.

However, Kawashita's younger brother Kawashita has two, but he can only take out a dry noodle cake from his backpack that is about to be rancid, sit on the side and gnaw it slowly. Kawashita Ishi and several important people are the soul of the team, and they must maintain good physical strength at all times, so food naturally gives priority to them, which is the common sense of the whole team.

Everyone ate something, and then rested for half an hour, and then Kawashita Ishi urged the team to stand up, they had been walking in the jungle for ten days, and if they couldn't find their target, they would have to go back empty-handed. This is absolutely not allowed for Kawashita, who spent a lot of money to prepare for this operation. And the people who hired them are also very urgent, if they don't show some results, then they are likely to be abandoned by the employers, and then they will not only lose a lot of money, but also let the little reputation that they have built up with great difficulty in the Kawashita slave hunting team go to waste.

However, just as Kawashita Ishi was about to move forward, he suddenly heard a sharp whistling sound faintly from the jungle in the distance. And when they heard this voice, Kawashita Ishiki and the others were all in high spirits, and their faces all showed ecstasy! (To be continued......)