By the way, today's ghoul elders don't know where to hear about it, and the real names of mythical creatures like them can't be known to others, especially those magicians, because they will be killed by magicians using their real names, so Aoki only told Liu Xing the ghoul elder's current pseudonym - Fujiwara Gengaku, of course, this is also the reason why Aoki only told Liu Xing his surname.

Getting back to the point, the ghoul elder Fujiwara Gengakure, who was still the leader of the mercenaries at the time, was bent on opening up the fame of his mercenary group, although he was a little frightened by the name of the demon clan, but he still chose to lead his mercenary group to Ziwu City.

However, at that time, Aoki always felt that something was wrong, and felt that his mercenary group went to rescue Ziwu City to die in nine deaths, after all, most of the local troops in Ziwu City had been dispersed, and the strength of the demon clan was also said to be miraculous by those defeated soldiers.

But Fujiwara Gengain insisted on his opinion, and finally sent Aoki away on the grounds of "seeking wealth and danger", so on the outskirts of Ziwu City, Fujiwara Gengaku took the mercenary group to meet Sawada Tomohiko who went out for help, and then the two naturally hit it off, Fujiwara Gengaku accepted Sawada Tomohiko's employment and continued to go to Ziwu City for support.

In Aoki's eyes, Sawada Tomohiko at that time was a typical rich child, white and fat, with fine skin and tender meat, and at first glance he was the kind of person who couldn't lift a knife, but Aoki was very puzzled about how Sawada Tomohiko escaped from Ziwu City alone.

That's right, Sawada Tomohiko was alone at that time, he didn't even have a servant guard by his side, and he didn't have any baggage and weapons on his body, he was completely bare-handed, going out for a walk after dinner, and the most important thing was that Sawada Tomohiko was well-dressed at the time, dressed in white, and there were no stains at all, which felt wrong no matter how you looked at it.

So, this made Aoki feel a little puzzled, could it be that the demon clan did not impose martial law in Ziwu City at all, and directly let Sawada Tomohiko walk out?

However, Fujiwara Gengaku, who was promised heavy benefits by Sawada Tomohiko at that time, had been carried away by interests, ignored these details, and continued to advance towards Ziwu City with the mercenary group in a hurry.

As a result, when there were still more than ten miles away from the then city of Ziwu, it suddenly rained heavily, and the rain fell from the sky like a waterfall, and the embarrassed Sawada Tomohiko asked to stop the march and take refuge in a dilapidated shrine nearby.

Aoki didn't expect that the god society would become the beginning of his nightmare life.

At that time, Aoki was still complaining in his heart, although the rain was quite heavy, it did not have much impact on the march, and it only took one or two hours to reach Ziwu City, and this young master Sawada Tomohiko was not in a hurry to support Ziwu City at all, and now he is still in the mood to avoid the rain.

But no matter how Sawada Tomohiko is also an employer, since the mercenary group has accepted Sawada Tomohiko's employment, then it has to obey all the commands of Sawada Tomohiko, and most of the mercenaries are eager to pay attention for a while and face those hateful demons later.

So, under the guidance of Sawada Tomohiko, the mercenary group came to the dilapidated shrine, the atmosphere of this shrine made Aoki feel very uncomfortable, and it also felt a little strange, because this dilapidated shrine is very large, the building materials used are very particular, and the decoration and carving are also very exquisite, but this dilapidated shrine is actually built in the wilderness of the village in front of the village and the store in the back, which feels wrong no matter how you look at it.

The most important thing is that a shrine of this size should be famous far and wide, but Aoki, who is next door to Ziwu City, has never heard of the existence of this shrine.

Aoki, who was a little uneasy in his heart, wanted to warn Fujiwara Gengaku, but Sawada Tomohiko had already dragged Fujiwara Gengaku to drink, so Aoki could only choose to put aside the uneasiness in his heart for the time being, anyway, there were more than 200 people in his mercenary group, so there should be no problem.

Hearing this, Liu Xing looked at Aoki with some surprise, because when he was listening to Naoki Kuroba telling the story this afternoon, Liu Xing thought that there were only about a hundred people in the mercenary group, but he didn't expect that there was a gap of more than a hundred people here.

"Liu Xing, I know what you're thinking, about the story of the great hero Sawada Tomohiko, I have heard many versions over the years, almost all of them mention that the number of our mercenary group is about one hundred, in fact, this is wrong, because our original number should be two hundred and ten, but before arriving in Ziwu City, that is, when we were sheltering from the rain in that dilapidated shrine, an incident happened, which caused us to directly lose half of our staff!"

Speaking of this, Aoki's tone was full of anger and helplessness.

The story continues.

Hitting a child on a rainy day is also idle.

I don't know where Sawada Tomohiko took out a few bottles of good wine and called Fujiwara Gengaku to drink and eat meat, and Aoki, as the second-in-command of the mercenary group, naturally wanted to accompany the wine.

After three rounds of drinking, Sawada Tomohiko began to bitter water on Aoki and Fujiwara Gengakuin Avenue, it turned out that Sawada Tomohiko was leaving Ziwu City with a team of guards, but when he arrived at this shrine, those guards chose to flee because they were afraid of fighting with the demons, so only Sawada Tomohiko was left.

In this wilderness, Sawada Tomohiko, who was born in a large family, naturally did not dare to act casually, after all, the island country bandits were rampant at this time, so Sawada Tomohiko finally chose to stay at this shrine and wait for mercenaries like Fujiwara Gengain who were willing to come to the rescue of Ziwu City.

Then Sawada Tomohiko and Fujiwara Gengakure and Aoki mentioned the demons of Ziwu City.

The demons of Ziwu City,The first appeared around the ruins of the Kingdom of Tyndaros,Its image is somewhat similar to a zombie,Although it can't be said to be invulnerable,But the damage of the demons with slightly inferior quality weapons is minimal,And these demons have good wisdom,Able to carry out tactics such as encirclement and interspersing without command.。

The most important thing is that the leader of the demon clan can speak people's words, and can use words to kill the fighting spirit of the defenders of Ziwu City, and even rebelled against an official of Ziwu City, so the defenders of Ziwu City were defeated and retreated, and soon gave up half of Ziwu City.

However, according to the demon leader, they were originally criminals of the Tyndaros Kingdom, and they were imprisoned in the secret prison of the Tyndaros Kingdom and underwent reforming surgery, and became this ghost, and someone opened the prison door a few days ago, so they broke out of the cage, but they still feel that they belong to human beings in their hearts, so they want to occupy a corner of Ziwu City, so they ask all the residents of Ziwu City to leave Ziwu City, and they will not kill.

Therefore, the officials of Ziwu City fled directly from Ziwu City with their troops, after all, they were not in Ziwu City at all, and it would not hurt them to leave Ziwu City.

But Sawada Tomohiko and their people, as natives of Ziwu City, are naturally reluctant to leave Ziwu City, after all, their industries are in Ziwu City, even if the demons are willing to let the Sawada family take away everything they can take, the capital of the Sawada family will shrink by more than half, not to mention that the network resources of the Sawada family can only be used in Ziwu City.

And the demons are really planning to set up camp in Ziwu City, when a small family wants to take some cloth from the shop in the fallen area, the demons categorically refuse, after all, the demons have lost their hunger and taste, and they don't plan to go to other places, so they go to the middle of the two with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the demons plan to enjoy "clothes" and "shelter".

At that time, cloth was also considered hard currency in the island country and could be used for equivalent exchange, so the Sawada family stored a lot of cloth, and the total value accounted for one-third of the Sawada family's assets.

Therefore, there was no room for negotiation, and the head of the Sawada family, that is, Sawada Tomohiko's father, decided to give it a go and called on the local families and civilians in Ziwu City to unite against the demons.

The other families thought about the same as Sawada Tomohiko's father, if they gave up the property in Ziwu City, the family would definitely fall, and those civilians were reluctant to cultivate the land themselves, so the rest of the people in Ziwu City decided to continue to rebel against the demons.

But although the idea is good, the gap between the two sides cannot be ignored.

According to the information that Sawada Tomohiko knows, the number of demons has reached five hundred, and all of them are soldiers, one can fight more than one, and some demons are also armed with strange weapons from the time of the Tyndaros Kingdom, although they are only the size of a palm, they can kill people with their voices from a distance of 100 meters.

Hearing this, Liu Xing felt that the weapons of the Tyndalus Kingdom period in the hands of those demons should be weapons such as pistols.

On the side of Ziwu City, because the officials of Ziwu City left with their troops, only the guards of each family and some strong farmers could fight, and the number was about 800 people, but because of the lack of necessary military literacy and weapons and equipment, the defenders of Ziwu City would definitely not be able to defeat the demons.

Therefore, Sawada Tomohiko was sent out to find reinforcements.

After listening to Sawada Tomohiko's introduction, Aoki also began to retreat, after all, Aoki was just an ordinary person at that time, and he was still a little weak in the face of a terrifying creature like the Demon Clan.

And the other mercenaries, after hearing that the demons they were about to face were so terrifying, also began to shout and ask Fujiwara Gengaku to give up this mission, after all, even if it was a mercenary who licked blood from the knife's edge, he didn't want to accept this kind of mortal mission.

However, after Sawada Tomohiko increased his pay and guaranteed a high pension, Fujiwara finally persuaded the other mercenaries to accept the mission.

Because the heavy rain has not stopped, Sawada Tomohiko asked the mercenaries to continue to rest in the shrine until the heavy rain stopped, as for Aoki asked Sawada Yuhiko why he waited until the rain stopped before leaving, Sawada Tomohiko just perfunctory.

Aoki, who has more and more doubts in his heart, can only choose to follow the instructions of his employer Sawada Tomohiko and lead the mercenaries to set up camp in the shrine.

Although this shrine is a little dilapidated, the space is large enough to accommodate more than 200 mercenaries after tidying up, but people like Sawada Tomohiko, Fujiwara Gengakure and Aoki, as well as senior members of the mercenary group, live in a row of wings behind the shrine, while other ordinary members are crowded into the main hall of the shrine and lay on the floor.

Because he had drunk a lot of alcohol, Aoki went to his room, cleaned up and fell asleep.

The next morning, the rain continued unabated.

When Aoki came to the main hall of the shrine, he found that something was wrong with the number of people in the main hall.

After Aoki's inventory, more than twenty mercenaries were missing, and no clues were obtained after questioning other mercenaries.

However, at this time, Aoki didn't pay much attention to this matter, because Aoki thought that these mercenaries were afraid of fighting the demons, so he chose to escape on a rainy night.

So, after Aoki taught the other mercenaries to keep their word and not to escape, he didn't take this matter to heart.

Heavy rain is still falling.

Aoki, who had been bored for a day, went back to his room to rest after drinking with Sawada Tomohiko for a while.

As a result, Aoki, who got up to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, suddenly heard a strange sound, as if someone was chanting, but Aoki, who was still a little drunk, chose to ignore it and went back to sleep.

Then he woke up early on the third morning to find that more than thirty mercenaries were missing, and Aoki realized that something was wrong, and recalled the strange sound of the previous night.

So, because of the heavy rain, he continued to stay at the shrine, so Aoki deliberately pretended to have a cold and returned to his room to rest in advance, and then paid attention to the movement in the shrine.

In the middle of the night, Aoki heard the strange voice again, and although it was mixed with the sound of rain, Aoki was still sure that the sound was coming from Sawada Yuhiko's room.

Therefore, when Aoki was about to go to Tomohiko Sawada's room with his weapon, his eyes suddenly went dark and he lost consciousness.

When Aoki woke up, it was already the morning of the fourth day, and this time more than thirty mercenaries were missing, but at this time, Sawada Tomohiko suddenly took out a large knife, claiming that he had been favored by the great god Suru enshrined in this shrine, and obtained divine power and artifacts.

At this moment, the heavy rain came to an abrupt end, and the sky cleared after the rain.

At this time, Aoki began to suspect that Sawada Tomohiko was sacrificing the missing more than 100 mercenaries to the so-called Suru God in his mouth, but because there was no evidence, and Sawada Tomohiko showed amazing strength at this time, Aoki could only choose not to mention the matter and began to secretly observe Sawada Tomohiko's every move.

Speaking of this, Aoki looked at Liu Xing and said, "Now I want to ask you a question, do you believe what I said?" ”

Liu Xing nodded without hesitation, and said seriously: "Of course I believe your words, because you don't need to lie to me at all, because you can't get any benefit from fooling me." ”

Aoki smiled and said, "That's great, then I'll continue to tell you the rest of the story." ”

PS: It's not good to break the chapter, so it's two in one, these stories are mainly to plump out the characters of the NPC, and also to pave the way for the plot later.