1924, spring, before dawn.

On the banks of the Tone River on the border between Chiba and Ibaraki Prefectures in Japan, Nakajima Kendo Dojo.

The demon is not there.

Ah You, Lao Jin, Zhongshan and Jiuse, they only captured the girl Fangzi who graduated from the "Heavenly Academy".

Today, her name is Yoshiko Nakajima.

Dressed in men's clothes, shaved a man's head, without powder, like a ghostly Fangzi.

"You said Qin Beiyang is in Taibai Mountain?"

Ayu's dagger rested on Yoshiko's neck, and the nine-colored sharp antlers pressed against her vest.

"It's not China's Taibai Mountain."

"Is there a second Taibai Mountain in the world?"

"North Korea – In the eastern part of the Korean Peninsula, there is a Taebaek mountain range that runs north and south."

Lao Jin touched his scalp: "North Korea's Taebaek Mountain? Oh my god! No wonder, we and Kuse have traveled all over the Japanese archipelago, and we haven't even smelled the farts that our master has released, so we are not in Japan at all. ”

"Yoshiko, what else do you know?"

"That's all I know, the demon took him...... I'm sorry, I really don't want to hurt him. But I'm really fed up, it's not that I haven't thought about it, secretly climb on that steamer and go back to China with Brother Beiyang. But wherever I flee to the ends of the earth, the devil will take me back. The solution once and for all is to kill that demon! I also know that this is very dangerous, but in this world, only he can help me do it......"

The eighteen-year-old transvestite girl is already crying like a pear blossom, after all, she is just a fake man, but can she still be considered a woman?

"Yoshiko, I want to say, you're too selfish! You only think of yourself! You're like a gambler, always lucky enough to win this one! You don't have anything to lose, you have nothing anyway, you're a prisoner of that demon in the first place. Once the bet is lost, my husband will be in a desperate situation, and I will be in a desperate situation......"

"I'm sorry, little master."

The true master of Taibai Mountain put away his dagger, paused for a moment, and asked in a low voice, "Have you ever met Ah Hai?" ”

Yoshiko's gaze became panicked: "Ah Hai...... Be! I've seen him. ”

"Oops!" Ah You's hands were trembling, "My brother fell into Ah Hai's hands!" ”

Suddenly, Zhongshan flew back and said, "There's movement outside!" ”

Ah Yu leaned over to the wall of the kendo dojo, clicked through the window paper and looked out, in the dark night, there were many figures in the moonlight, each of them seemed to be carrying a blade - it was a Japanese sword, I am afraid that it was the kendo apprentices of Nakajima Naniwa.

Haneda Taiki lay beside her and said tremblingly, "What happened to Princess Koko?" Will my three bodyguards be able to protect her? If the Marquis finds out, he will kill me with his own hands! ”

Ah You grabbed the dagger and replied coldly: "I will protect the light!" ”

The kendo dojo has been surrounded, and it is feared that there is some kind of automatic alarm device hidden in it, and in the event of an invasion by a foreign enemy, the nearby disciple dormitory will sound an alarm.

But before dawn, there are nine colors of the town's tomb beasts, so what is there to fear?

When the kendo disciples brandished Japanese swords, it was like the disciples of Yanagi Valley rushing towards the dojo, and the nine colors stood up with snow-white antlers and spewed out glass fireballs.

It was a massacre.

In the dark night, there were screams one after another, and the disciples of Nakajima Naniwa turned to ashes like withered cherry blossoms, and were blown into the Tone River by the wind......

The few remaining fish that slipped through the net have been killed one by one by Lao Jin's miner pickaxe, Zhongshan's fast gun, and Ah You's dagger, leaving no living mouth.

It's all gone, it's neat.

When Ah Yu wiped the blood off the dagger and returned to the depths of the Japanese house, he found that Yoshiko was missing.

The back door was open, and they chased them out, a series of footprints in the wetlands by the river, until they were submerged in the icy spring water.

"Yoshiko took the opportunity to dive and slip away!" Lao Jin picked up the miner's pickaxe and spat into the palm of his hand, "I'm afraid I'm going downstream, let's search for her!" ”

Ah You inserted the dagger back into his waist: "Don't be in vain! The day is almost dawn, and once the sun rises, the nine colors are useless. ”

Taiki Haneda trembled and added: "Maybe there will be ronin, the Black Dragon Society, the Metropolitan Police Department, and even the Japanese Army." ”

There was a morning star hanging in the sky, Ah You touched Jiuse's head, and walked out of the Nakajima Kendo Dojo.

In the reeds, three bodyguards followed Sagako, she trembled and stared at the corpses and ashes all over the ground, and asked in a low voice, "Sister, is there any news?" ”

"Qin Beiyang in North Korea's Taebaek Mountain."

Hikari frowned: "I see! They were afraid that Jiuse would find his brother in Japan, so they imprisoned him in Korea. ”

"Let's go to North Korea! Go to Taibai Mountain! Go and save Qin Beiyang! Princess Light, please go back to the Marquis, and don't venture out again. ”

She let out a sigh of relief, held Ah You's hands and said, "Well, Mrs. Qin, please, you must rescue my brother." ”

"I'm Mrs. Qin, so I don't need your help. Princess Light, if I rescue him, I will allow him to write you a handwritten letter, so you can rest assured! ”

"Thank you!"

As the sun rose over the Pacific Ocean, the Assassins quickly left the kendo dojo on the banks of the Tone River and set a fire to destroy the corpses.

The flames were blazing, and Ah You carried the direction of the sunrise with his back to him, his eyes were gloomy, and he walked westward......

Seven days later.

Ah You, Lao Jin, Nakayama and the nine colors disguised as big dogs, with Qin Beiyang's Tang sword and cross bow hidden in their baggage, crossed Japan to Shimonoseki, boarded the Haneda family's ship, crossed the Korean Strait, and arrived at the port of Busan.

In late spring, they were both setting foot in the Japanese colony for the first time. Koreans and Japanese are so distinct that they can be distinguished even in Western clothes. There are still many men and women dressed in Korean folk costumes on the streets, and women in white hanbok are accustomed to walking with clay pots on their heads.

Lao Kim summoned a Korean Assassin named Yoon Gil, a man in his twenties, who could not bear the Japanese colonial rule as a teenager and went into exile in the three eastern provinces of China, joined the Assassin League, and was wanted by the Korean Governor's Office last year for a failed assassination of the traitor Lee Wanyong. But he is good at disguise, has countless fake names, speaks authentic Northeast dialect, and is fluent in Japanese.

Yoon Gil unfolded a map of the eight provinces of Korea and proudly explained the 3,000 miles of rivers and mountains, even though they were only two provinces the size of China. He pointed to the right side of the map, next to the Sea of Japan, running north and south across the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, which is known as the roof of the Korean Peninsula. As for the other roof of North Korea, it is the northernmost plateau and mountainous area, next to China's Changbai Mountains.

"Taibai Mountain, the total length of more than 500 kilometers, the average altitude of 800 to 1,000 meters, the world's famous peaks have King Kong Mountain, Xueyue Mountain, Wutai Mountain, and the main peak is also called Taibai Mountain."

After listening to Yin Ji's Northeast dialect, Lao Jin knocked on the barrel of a dry smoke gun and said: "China's Taibai Mountain is the main peak of the Qinling Mountains, and there is only one big mountain. North Korea's Taebaek Mountain is a mountain range, and the search range is large. ””

"Put out the smoke!"

Ah You didn't like the smell of tobacco, Lao Jin hurriedly threw away the cigarette stick, knelt down and kowtowed: "Subordinates should be damned!" Offended the little master! ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's go over the hills! As long as my brother is there, Nine Colors can sense it! I won't give up until I'm old! ”

She touched the head of the town's grave beast, and her glass-colored eyes glowed with a terrifying light.

The Assassins decided to search the entire Taebaek Mountains, starting from Pusan, from south to north, along the east coast of the Korean Peninsula. The topography of the Korean Peninsula, contrary to Chinese mainland, is high in the west and low in the east, rivers mostly go from east to west, plains, cities and densely populated areas are concentrated on the west coast facing China, so it has been deeply influenced by China historically. Even during the Japanese colonial era, Zhongshan bought a few newspapers on the street, which were written in Korean proverbs and kanji, and the important titles were almost all in kanji, which was quite like the same book of Japanese kanji and kana.

The first stop was Ulsan, where the Wanli Korean War fought a vicious battle that almost killed Kiyomasa Kato. The second stop is Pohang, which bypasses Yeongri Bay and enters the narrow east coast. With the cold Sea of Japan on one side and the majestic mountains on the other, the weather is unpredictable and the sea is often rough with waves.

Jiuse walked in the front, and in order to hide people's eyes, Ah You also changed into a North Korean girl's dress. Lao Kim put on the bloomers and shoulders of a North Korean man, and held a dry tobacco pole in his mouth, absolutely fake and real. Nakayama wears a Japanese school uniform, which is also a Korean student's attire. The people here are extremely poor, many of them are stuck in the old days, and women even bare their breasts in order to breastfeed.

The road was very slow, and the nine colors often seemed to have a sense, and led the group to the west over the ridge, searching on the lofty mountains, but returned in defeat. Stop and go, along the coastline past Mt. Seoraksan and Mount Kumgang, both of which are famous mountains in the history of Joseon, and many places of interest have been visited, until the port of Wonsan at the end of the mountain range, which has reached the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, but there is no trace of Qin Beiyang.

But Nine Colors won't give up.