Chapter 20: A Seaside Town
The three of them walked to the dock and saw a group of boatmen-like people resting on the dock, they saw Mianma and others coming, and hurriedly lowered their heads, looking like they didn't want to be noticed, and some even curled up.
Mian Ma looked at these boatmen with dodging eyes with interest, and asked Terumi beside him:
"Our next stop is the capital of the Land of Water, what do ninja-sama think of these boatmen in front of you? If I, as an employer, asked a ninja-sama to choose a ship, what would the adult choose? ”
Terumi first covered her mouth and smiled:
"Feng-kun, call me Stygian."
Then she seriously thought about the other party's problem, it was not that she didn't know the risks that these boatmen had to take to carry ninjas on their voyages, and she was afraid that there would be no return in wartime, but she never paid attention to it, after all, where would ninjas care about the life and death of civilians?
Mian Ma didn't wait for Zhao Meiming to reply, and walked straight forward and handed a cloth bag to a fairly normal young boatman. The latter tossed upside down, changed his previous fear, the corners of his mouth hooked, and came up with a respectful face:
"My lord! My name is Naraku! What are the instructions? ”
Mian Ma smiled:
"Take us to the Isle of Water."
The young boatman was busy:
"No problem, my lord, this trip will take 1 hour, please get on the boat, if you come back, you still need a small one, and the small one will wait for the adults at the dock of Mizunoshima."
The three of them sat in the boat, and Terumi glanced at Jun Maro and Miami who were sitting opposite, and found that the former did not have the slightest mood swing, while the latter looked at the boatman who was holding up the paddle board with a smile. She looked at the young boatman like a black bamboo pole, and the paddle board in his hand looked stronger than his. She swept around again, and found that the surroundings were basically a combination of black bamboo poles and small wooden boats.
Retracting her gaze, Terumi looked down at the small plank beneath her feet, and did not fall on the water until the boat had rowed some distance out of the dock.
The four of them didn't say anything all the way, and soon the boat docked at the dock of Mizunoshima.
Mizunosa Island is home to the largest wharf in the Land of Water, and is considered the most prosperous island in the Land of Water, and it is home to the capital of the Land of Water, the capital of the Land of Water, as you can see it from the prosperity of the seaside town and the wide streets.
The three of them got off the boat, and he said to Naraku:
"Let's go back to the Isle of Mist, we'll stop here for a long time."
The young boatman in front of him suddenly showed a complicated look of disappointment and pleading, and Terumi also saw this scene, and when she turned around and left with her face, she glanced at the black bamboo pole again.
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The Wharf of the Land of Water is built on the seaside of a small town, with all kinds of facilities in the town, and the flow of people is even denser, with hawkers, busy workers, and passers-by.
Mian Ma looked at the scene in front of him and sighed:
"It's more vibrant than Kirijima, so there should be a lot of business opportunities."
Terumi also watched the lively town in front of her, dispelled the previous unhappiness, and responded in a relaxed tone:
"This is the most prosperous place in the land of water, and the life of the common people is the best."
At this time, Jun Malu, who had been sent by Mian Ma to ask for directions, came back:
"My lord, there are two ways to reach the inn, one is a short journey through the civilian ghetto, but there will be a lot of uncertainty on the way; The other is a post station by taking the main road to the end, but you have to pass through the crowded and narrow coastal commercial street. ”
If the three of them want to get to the water capital, they need to go to the town's post station to rent a horse-drawn carriage.
Mian Ma smiled:
"We have the protection of the Underworld, and the idle little thief can't get close at all, so let's go to the residential area! By the way, you can experience the human flavor of Mizunoshima. ”
As he spoke, he glanced at Terumi, who looked indifferent.
Jun Malu responded:
"I'll clear the way for you, my lord!"
Mian Ma shook his head, smiled and touched Jun Malu's head:
"Jun Malu, take a good look and think about it along the way, and when you come out, I need to know your understanding."
Jun Maro straightened up and nodded violently.
The three of them walked towards the living quarters. Looking at the trail in front of him that extends in all directions and has many forks, his face numbness felt numbness in his scalp, adhering to the principle of "there is more than one road to the square", after checking the direction, he picked a pleasant alley and drilled into it, and began to rush violently.
Half an hour later, his face was a little embarrassed and looked at the dead end in front of him.
The direction is right, but it's not wrong to go into 9 out of 10 alleys and end up dead ends. So far, they have only gone in a straight line for about 200 meters, and they are still a long way from the finish line.
Along the way, I admired the houses along the street with great interest, and looked leisurely. Seeing this, Mian Ma shook his head helplessly, looked at Jun Malu, and found that the latter was looking back at him with an innocent face.
So under the leadership of Mian Ma's "confident", the three of them gradually stepped into the depths of the residential area, and the surrounding environment became darker and more dilapidated.
Garbage is piled up on both sides of the road, covering most of the road, and human and animal waste is mixed in, and dirty water that has not seeped into the soil flows sideways on the road. There were even a few scattered bodies of flesh faintly visible in some hidden places in the alley, and there were many small black shadows crawling out and crawling in on them.
The stench of filth and the putrid smell of the corpse filled Terumi's nasal cavity, making her face very ugly, and Jun Malu on the side also frowned slightly, and after walking among the three of them, Mi Ma flashed a look of remembrance, and walked forward as usual.
At this moment, there was a loud noise, and a thin figure stumbled out of a door, knelt in front of the three of them, and cried in a hoarse voice:
"Please, please give me something to eat, just a little, my mother is dying of hunger! A little is enough! ”
As he spoke, he slammed his head to the ground.
Jun Malu, who had originally entered the battle mode in an instant, glanced at the man in front of him who did not have any threat, silently withdrew the bone spurs sticking out of his palm, and strode forward with the indifferent face of the numb.
Only Terumi stopped where she was, gave some of the dry food she had with her, and left some money, and the thin man took the food and copper coins with both hands and staggered away.
A quarter of an hour later, the three of them looked at the familiar stone wall in front of them, and their bodies skillfully retreated towards the way they came.
On the way back, he asked with a numb face and no emotion:
"Stygian, what do you think will happen to that man just now?"
Terumi was stunned for a moment, then remembered the scene where the man fed the food he gave to her mother, and a smile appeared on her face, and she was about to describe it to her face when a chaotic footstep interrupted her.
A group of men with fierce faces surrounded the three of them, holding wooden sticks as weapons, and the leader was holding a kitchen knife with a cold light, the blade was still dripping with blood, and the cloth was stained with blood in many places.
Although it was such a battle, all of them looked like vegetables, and it was obvious that their combat effectiveness was very low.
The kitchen knife man led by the man shouted with insufficient energy:
"Hand over the food and the money! Otherwise, the outside world wouldn't know what was happening here! ”