Chapter 63: Why Is There a Jade of the Four Souls?
"Ahem." Naturally, Pei Chen's face turned red when he said this, and he couldn't help coughing a few times and changed the topic, "Are you interested in attacking Mino...... Any thoughts? After all, you were ...... before Uh, that's the ......."
When Pei Chen was still trying his best to think of some euphemistic words, Wise Guangxiu had already spoken very seriously: "What I care about now is only the safety of the three major Dao people, besides, even if I don't participate, can Meinong really be safe and sound?" No matter how you look at it, it's impossible! ”
"Okay, I'm too worried......" Pei Chen smiled slightly bitterly, and then his face turned grim, staring closely at the deep mountains and old forests on the side of the riverbank, not knowing what he was looking at.
"What's the matter, Master Pei Chen?!" The girl was very alert, and immediately watched the surroundings and put on a defensive posture, half-kneeling on the raft, pressing one hand on the handle of the saber at her waist, like a refreshing and capable beautiful girl swordsman.
"I just ...... It seems that I saw that there was something ...... there," Pei Chen said softly, and was thinking about whether to notify the whole army to be on guard. Because of the habit of turning on the heat energy line of sight warning, he just turned his head and saw a long snake-like heat source in the mountains and forests sliding through his field of vision.
"There?!" Wise Mitsuhide followed Pei Chen's line of sight, but what caught his eye was the outline of the pitch-black mountain forest, and he couldn't see anything. Because torches were not yet allowed on the night march, the only light now was a hazy crescent moon in the sky.
In such a dark environment, can you really see things? Wise Guangxiu didn't suspect that Pei Chen was talking nonsense, but she just thought that he might have read it wrong or something else.
"Do you see what it is?"
“…… Like a snake, a big snake...... But I'm sure it's not a snake! Carefully recalling the general outline of that heat source, Pei Chen said in a somewhat strange tone, he had never seen a snake with hot blood, "It seems to have ...... Hands and feet? Uh, is there an abundance of aliens in Mino? ”
"Please don't add those strange impressions to Mino Country without permission, Lord Pei Chen!" sighed helplessly, after finding that someone's temperament was more easy-going, Akechi Mitsuhide also obviously let go a lot, "According to your adult, it should be some remnant monsters or something!" ”
Hearing what Pei Chen said, Akechi Mitsuhide didn't think he was wrong, but began to analyze it for him seriously: "Although Sumamata is the confluence of the Nagara River and other rivers, it is also a place of great evil after that incident, and it is actually not a good choice to build a city there. There is a valley near there that is very demonic, and it is said that many inhuman things are hidden in it. My lord, what you see may be a youkai that has just left the nest and passed by here. ”
"......" Pei Chen bit his lip, his expression was weird, and after looking around for a while, after making sure that the big guy just now was indeed missing, he turned his head to look at Wise Guangxiu, "Guangxiu, do you mean that there are really a lot of inhuman things there?" "This guy is calling him by his name again.
"Hmm......"
Blushing slightly, Akechi Mitsuhide said calmly: "It's not a lot, it's just a lot more than other places, Lord Hanbei said that the inhuman luck has been completely destroyed in several major events in the past two hundred years, and the one a few years ago was considered to have exhausted the last bit of luck." ”
After thinking about it, maybe she didn't think it was very convincing, she gave an example: "Lord Pei Chen, you should know, just three years ago, you could often see demons rampant, but now, there are very few such things happening, just because those monsters are hiding and dying, and the rest are completely powerless to fight against the power of human beings." ”
However, Pei Chen's attention was not on this aspect at all, "Half-soldier? ”
"Ah, this...... Ahaha," the girl found her gaffe, and she could only be embarrassed to laugh haha, wanting to perfunctory the past, that kind of expression was unexpectedly cute. Pei Chen also knows that Takenaka Hanbei is Minong's biggest secret, a genius onmyoji and a military strategist double-career girl - or Lori.
So he didn't ask any more questions, and put aside the topic: "Guangxiu, what is the big event you have been talking about a few years ago?" How did I not know? ”
"Lord Pei Chen, you are from the Ming Kingdom, maybe you don't know so clearly!" Wise Mitsuhide hurriedly took over the conversation, but looking at her expression, it seemed that she decided that even if she was a member of the Ming Kingdom, she must know about it, and felt that she was just changing the topic for her?
So, what kind of earth-shattering memorabilia is that! It makes everyone think that it must be known to the world?
With a quick turn of thought, according to some of the words of Wise Guangxiu before, Pei Chen still pieced together some bits and pieces. He asked tentatively, still calm and impassive on the surface.
"That valley is a battlefield?" He deliberately used such ambiguous sentences.
However, Akechi Mitsuhide did not doubt him: "Sort of, a small part of the battlefield that has been preserved...... In other places, it is said that the demons died so much that the corpses were piled up as high as a mountain. With the full strength of those terrifying demons, only the battlefield that was on the edge could barely remain, and the rest of the place was shattered. But I was too young to see it, and I heard it all from others. ”
I'll rub it! Was this world still a few years ago a world of middle demons or even high demons?! It sounds dangerous!
But why the fight?!
Pei Chen thought about it, and always felt clueless, and then after substituting the settings of some classic martial arts novels, strange ideas such as "a peerless sword or other divine weapons of similar nature" immediately popped up in his mind.
Probably...... It should be something similar in nature that attracts so many demons, monsters, and ghosts to participate in the event, and in the end, they even go crazy and cripple their entire race!
However, because Pei Chen couldn't determine which reason they were, he still had to use that kind of vague sentence to set the words, "None of them succeeded?" ”
Fortunately, Akechi Mitsuhide now has no suspicion that Pei Chen doesn't know about that incident at all, and he gives a small arrow to continue the conversation very face-saving, and also reveals the tip of the iceberg of some historical truths that are hidden in the dark side of the world-
"It should ...... Didn't you? Akechi Mitsuhide said uncertainly, her fingers unconsciously stroking her black and shiny hair, "No matter which country or daimyo it is, the news after investigation is that the Jade of the Four Souls has been shattered, which is a fact that can already be confirmed...... Huh? Master Pei Chen? What happened to you? ”
"No, it's nothing, I'm just, Sanguan needs to be reshaped......" After finally reluctantly grasping the thread of something he had been trying to figure out, Pei Chen's reaction was a blank expression and empty eyes.
It is clear that the three views have suffered a great impact.
Jade of the Four Souls...... Inuyasha...... Is it actually a scene that overlaps with the world of "Oda Shinna's Ambition"? Or is it something that happened just two or three years ago?
Damn, it's too late! This is Pei Chen's unwilling wail in his heart, but he doesn't want to think about his own strength, which is a little reluctant in the current scene of the general's battle for hegemony, and he still wants to open the side plot of the demon chapter?
Akechi Mitsuhide looked at Pei Chen very worriedly, wondering why this adult was suddenly so depressed. It's going to be a war, and this state is not good.
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The raft ran aground, and the soldiers could only move down the semi-processed timber that had just been loaded on the raft with a hard face, and stack it on the river beach in a neat and orderly manner according to the command. But you think that's the end of it? For the rest of the night, they had to work hard to assemble a city!
"Am I going to help too?"
Looking at Pei Chen, who had adjusted his mentality, lifting weights lightly and carrying several thick logs as support columns, and walked over with several thick logs as support columns, Wise Guangxiu's face changed suddenly. She is a delicate and tender girl, does she also have to help?
"No need, you can go and take a break!" Pei Chen stopped and carefully looked at the girl's slender and weak body and waist, and immediately made a decision: Wise Guangxiu's excellence should be more reflected in the intelligence attributes, even if it is strength and agility, it is estimated that it is higher than ordinary people at most, about ten o'clock.
It's really hard for her to let her be a porter.
The construction of the castle went smoothly and was not discovered, of course, because of their caution, but more often than not, no one in Inabayama Castle thought that the madman would really come to build the castle, and they came in the middle of the night in the third watch, so they started to build a simple and strong castle there.
It may be much worse than the real castle of Inabayama Castle not far away, which has been built over the years and has been perfected from generation to generation, but it is indeed a castle, a castle that was built overnight.
Coupled with the more than 3,400 troops of Imagawa Yoshimoto brought by Pei Chen to garrison the city, it can be said that it is as solid as a rock - at least the current troop reserves in Inabayama Castle are impossible to defeat Pei Chen, unless Saito Yoshiryu hears the news and gives up attacking his father's class to return to the court.
Looking at the humble city that was gradually taking shape, Pei Chen's eyes swept over the wooden horse repulsion guns, road posts, wooden fences and other equipment used to defend the city one by one, and finally stopped at a five- or six-meter-high arrow tower in the city.
Counting the two that are about to be completed, when the dawn comes, when the people in Inabayama Castle find out, there are six of their own castles alone, which is much stronger than the castle built by Sagara Yoshiharu in the original plot!
But it's no wonder, after all, after Oda Shinnara left the army, even if Sagara Yoshiharu found the help of Wasuka Goemon and all the ninja troops under her, it is estimated that he will not be able to gather 500 people, let alone more than 3,000 people!
Looking up at the faintly bright sky in the east, Pei Chen felt that he could do a little better with more effort - his method was: urge those soldiers.
"I can't believe it......" muttered to himself, as if he was talking to the person next to him, Akechi Mitsuhide looked at the city in front of him, which had been fully formed after working hard in the middle of the night, and his face was full of shock.
"Lord Pei Chen! I'm sure if your previous prophet's plan to defeat Oda Shinna was just the beginning of the day, then this One Night City will definitely make you famous! Turning around suddenly, the long hair tied up hit Pei Chen's face directly, and Wise Mitsuhide grabbed his shoulder and shook it violently, looking fanatical.
After this miracle of the night city in which she personally participated, she no longer doubted that Pei Chen had the capital to build down Inabayama City and make a name for herself!
"Uh, calm down, calm down......"