Chapter Seventy-Eight: Watanabe, the Ghost Witch
Watanabe Jiro was originally an ordinary ghost witch who worked in the temple of Vortex Country, because of his weak combat ability and not good at ushering in the send-off, his status in the temple was not high, and he was mainly responsible for logistics and miscellaneous work on weekdays. It just so happens that Watanabe himself doesn't like to live a life of fighting, killing, and cheating, but is willing to be happy with his current situation.
However, everything has to start with an accidental accident a year ago, the four princes loyal to a junior of the Watanabe family were inexplicably made the prince by the snake emperor, and the four princes, who were originally not taken seriously, suddenly entered the sight of the major forces of the vortex country and became a hot new star of power, and the status of its followers naturally rose.
Jiro Watanabe benefited from this, and in two years, he was promoted from the original third-level ghost witch to the sixth-level ghost witch, and under the operation of the family, he was transferred from the temple to serve in the amphibious corps, which is equivalent to being directly transferred from the logistics research institute to the front-line combat unit.
This is obviously for the sake of mixed military merits, and the commander of the amphibious corps, Hinata Yujian, placed Watanabe in the rear very well, and in order not to teach him to speak, he also specially set up a new department for him-the Special Warfare Research Institute.
Watanabe naturally became the first director of the institute, and the main function of this newly established department was to study various tactics of warfare, but also to develop some new weapons and tools or improve martial arts.
Originally, everyone scoffed at this department and waited to see Watanabe's jokes. But compared to most of the gentlemen, Watanabe is still a bit talented, he used to make some small inventions in the temple, and he likes to read all kinds of books, so he is not lacking in creative enthusiasm and theoretical level. In the past six months, Watanabe's achievements have been greatly unexpected, he has not only improved dozens of military general exercises, but also developed a half-finished blood-burning potion, which has won many awards from the royal family of the Vortex Kingdom.
This time the amphibious corps went to the Wu Dynasty, and Jiro Watanabe took the initiative to apply to join the front line, just because he had encountered a bottleneck in his recent research exercises. Watanabe found that each person seems to have one or more latent energy molecules in their body, and once they are activated in some way, they can obtain the abilities provided by the corresponding molecules. This ability can be internal power, soul power, magic power, or even other unknown abilities.
Through continuous in-depth research, he was pleasantly surprised to find that his hypothesis could be said to be almost completely correct, so he set out to develop a potion, that is, a blood-burning potion. Theoretically, as long as any ordinary person takes this kind of medicine, there is a high probability that they will directly activate the latent ability in the body, and once this medicine is successfully developed, it will increase the strength of the sparsely populated vortex country by a hundredfold, which is enough to sweep through any country in the Eastern Continent except the Wu Dynasty.
But unfortunately, the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. Watanabe's potion was only partially successful on animals, and about half of the animals who took the potion survived, such as a pocket pig in the Vortex Country that grew to nearly two tons, and an ordinary guinea fowl sold in the Vortex Country Market eventually grew twelve pairs of wings, which is a bit of a Western twelve-winged angel.
The civilians of the vortex country who volunteered to participate in the experiment exploded and died, and all of them were spared, and their hope of becoming stronger ended up in a puddle of minced meat.
In a low basin somewhere in the Endless Forest, several large circles are surrounded by barbed wire, and in the middle is a small wooden two-story building, although the environment is extremely simple, but there are more than 200 people from two brigades of the Amphibious Corps of the Vortex Country stationed here, and the defense is extremely strong.
Xuanyi rested for a moment under the tree in place, calmed his beating heart, and then slowly approached the small building. The outside of the small building is surrounded by two large circles with barbed wire, and there are several camp tents on the outermost side, and hundreds of warriors of the vortex country can be vaguely seen practicing martial arts to pass the time, and some people and animals are locked up between the two circles, and there are dozens of warriors of the vortex country in different clothes in the core of the innermost circle are patrolling.
Xuan Yi looked at this vortex country camp hidden in the forest, and his heart was full of doubts. There are more than 200 elite samurai here, so it is a vacation place for some big man. He couldn't help but feel a wave of excitement in his heart, no matter what the purpose of these vortex people was, they had to find a way to do it.
There are few watchtowers or patrolling sentinels around the camp, and there is an apparently artificially carved river at the back of the basin leading directly to the middle hut, and it can be clearly seen that a strange boat is tied to a stake in front of the hut, presumably for the big men inside. After carefully observing the terrain, Xuanyi bent down and continued to approach, intending to see more realistically.
Who knew that the journey was unimpeded, and even the trap mechanism was not triggered, at this time Xuanyi was already close to the outermost barbed wire, he could even see the faces of the people locked in the barbed wire, and he could hear the chatting words of the nearby warriors of the vortex country.
At this moment, a cold aura hit the back of Xuanyi's head.
The reason why the enemy did not set up sentries was that they had arranged for ghosts with more sensitive perceptions to patrol nearby, and they had obviously been exposed and discovered.
"Bah!" a piercing scream sounded from behind him, and a sharp claw slapped down on the back of Xuanyi's head in the yin wind. Xuanyi didn't look back, and shouted: "Extinguish!" A huge soul power poured out from the dantian, and swept towards him with him as the center.
Hearing a muffled sound behind him, Xuanyi turned around and looked at it, and there was only a pair of stumps shaped like cat's claws left on the ground, and the ghost had already escaped. The three-character formula can be said to be the strongest Taoist technique that Xuanyi has mastered at the moment, although it can only act on demons and ghosts, but its power cannot be underestimated.
was actually run away by this ghost, Xuanyi was a little unhappy in his heart. At this time, the sound of the horn of the assembly came from the military tent of the vortex country in the distance, and a large number of samurai poured out from all directions to form a queue, as if they had heard the scream of the unknown ghost just now, and wanted to search for him.
Without doing anything, Xuanyi took out the long sword behind his back and rushed to the barbed wire fence to slash and pick thorns, and finally made a big hole in the barbed wire. The search team in the distance had already discovered Xuanyi's location, and chased after him with a loud shout, and Xuanyi ran towards the forest with his long sword in his hand.
In the basin hut, Watanabe took off a pair of simple glasses from his forehead and sat down on a bench beside him, and the maid on the side immediately fed him pastry juice and gently massaged his head to relax. He had been observing the chemical reaction of the green potion in the test tube in front of his desk for four hours, and his mind was extremely tired.
"Knock knock!" The sound of a heavy object falling to the ground sounded outside the door, startling Watanabe, who had closed his eyes slightly and pretending to sleep, and the maid on the side lowered his face to open the door to investigate the situation, and after a while, the maid with a disgraced face stammered back: "Big... It's Lord Aragami.。。。 It's not going to be in a good situation ... You'd better take a look. ”
"What? what's wrong with Aragami?" Watanabe slammed into his body and hurried towards the door.