"Stepping—" With neat and dense steps, Qingshi, who had stayed outside, led a group of men in.

"What's going on. The one-eyed Ryuzaburo remained calm, even though the flames were screaming in the background. He told the wounded patrol leader to follow his maid to the other side of the house, and then looked at Qingshi.

"It's the eldest son of the Kaga family. The middle-aged leader bowed, lowered his head and replied, "Shouting what to make the villain who killed his brother pay for his life." ”

He said, then turned his gaze to Henry and the group.

Possibly needing to disguise herself as a samurai on horseback, Mira still hasn't removed her armor. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that she was not wearing her own armor, and even if it was temporarily painted with black paint, it still could not hide the magnificence of the armor itself.

"Click, click, click——!" The long knives in the wooden sheath were pulled out one after another, and the samurai who had been sitting in the precarious position stood up with angry faces. Then, from the darkness on both sides of the lobby stepped out a line of hoplites armed with spears.

More than 50 people surrounded Henry and the others in the center, and then one of them spoke, "Lord, hand these guys over." ”

His statement drew a response from a handful of people, and the person who made this claim was dripping with cold sweat despite his serious expression and frowning brows, and it was obvious that there was a lot of turmoil in his heart under the majestic face. Even if they say they die, they won't admit it, but in their hearts, they know that they can't compete with the real samurai forces, so they are eager to hand over the sage and others in exchange for their own survival.

But the one-eyed dragon, as the master, didn't speak, and the Qingshi brothers, who were obviously confidants, were still calm and did not panic, and these people's ideas sank like this.

"Whew—" The woman sitting on the side took one last puff of her cigarette, then got up and walked down the steps.

"You're out of the way?" he glanced back at her, and the woman, who was still very calm, nodded lightly and beckoned, and a line of similarly dressed women walked out from behind.

Henry, Mira and the others looked at this beautiful woman in silence, whose name they didn't even know.

The fact that she was able to sit on the side of those in power proved that her status was not low, at least in this village. And this place is illegal in the eyes of the above, but it can still survive tenaciously, in addition to keeping a low profile and not arousing suspicion, on the other hand, it also has a great relationship with the connections involved.

The bazaar was made up of down-and-out nobles, and although the nobles who were removed from the list had lost their status and fame, some of their blood ties were still retained.

She is now the top Oiran of the Swamp Village Prostitution House. But once upon a time, he was a noble cousin of a feudal king.

To survive, a connection with people is essential. The underground rulers of Swamp Village have understood this, and they are powerless to compete with the vassal kings of Shinkyo and even the Northlands, but they have the ability to infiltrate them.

bribing with money and serving with women, so that the other party is indulged in wine and cannot extricate himself. Even if Xinjing realizes this and removes the local family and replaces them with new ones, they can still do the same trick again.

That's why in the Moon Country, where women have a low status, there is a woman in the swamp village who can sit next to the male leader.

She's not the one-eyed Ryuzaburo's plaything, and it's probably not an exaggeration to say that the village is built on a woman's skirt.

Mira noticed that Aya had been staring at each other.

She could more or less understand what Miss Doctor was thinking, combined with some previous exchanges, they were both women, even across the ocean, and in this male-dominated society, their situation was similar.

Aya's status in Xinjing is indeed very high, and Dr. Xingyong's identity is even if it is a high-ranking Chinese who has to bow and salute when they see her, which is what the Luoan girl learned during the exchange of traveling together. But this identity, combined with the fact that she came to the Northland alone, seems to be more or less contradictory.

She can see why.

It's being sidelined. Even if what Aya said was undoubtedly true, even if she could come up with more evidence to prove her arguments, she would not be taken seriously. No matter how accomplished she was in her position, the fact that she was a young woman was only visible to everyone in Aya's place.

Clearly intending to explore a new type of creature that may pose a threat to the country and the people, the most important thing her mentor told her was, "Don't be willful." ”

In the end, even if he stubbornly wanted to find out the answer, he went on his own road, but there was never a guard or helper who matched his identity to catch up. She was always on her own.

She is not seen as a doctor, but as a headstrong little girl. In the eyes of the others who have taken the lead, she is just like a little girl who has been wronged and ran away from home, and when she is done making trouble, she will go back by herself.

Nine times out of ten, there are still countless colleagues on the side of the House waiting to see her cry back after her setback, so as to show their inner superiority.

This is why Henry weeps after listening carefully to Aya's explanation of monsters, and why she argues loudly with this woman when she meets her in the opposite way of life.

It is not a simple personal emotional conflict, but a more complex inner entanglement.

When you see people who live well in a way that they think is wrong and that they have spent their lives trying to reject. That emotion is not simply disgust, but mixed with bitterness, helplessness, and self-doubt that involuntarily arises.

Miss Doctor hung her head, and Oiran with a dozen women dressed in the same costume paused as she passed by, but at last she did not say anything, and walked out of the door.

As the others screamed and fled, the dozen or so women, dressed out of place on the battlefield, fearlessly walked towards the more than 2,000 warriors.

"Alright, let's go. But less than five minutes after they were out of the door, the one-eyed Ryuzaburo said this with a nonchalant look on his face.

"Lord?" Qingshi's younger brother said in a daze.

"That woman overestimated her charm, and felt that the Chinese who liked her would protect her behind her back, and felt that she had a strong background. But she didn't realize that times had changed, and in the coming troubled times, a woman like her was no longer a target to please. He spoke unwaveringly, and Aya looked up at the man with a shocked look on her face, and Mira turned her gaze to the sage.

Henry gave her a look and motioned for Miss Loan to hold still. The spear was still pointed at them, and there was still a distance between the group and Temulun and Miss Doctor. There are too many people who are defenseless and powerless to resist, and if they want to break through, there will inevitably be casualties.

"And ha, you may not know, but the eldest son of the Kaga family-" Saburo dug his nose and said, "It is said that it is one, and there is a good Excellency of Longyang." ”

"This-" Many of the warriors' faces changed, as the second largest force in the swamp village, it was obvious that Oiran also had a lot of connections with these people. But people always have to run for life, and although many people have pity in their hearts, Saburo intends to flee alone when Oiran buys time, and they naturally do not choose to pursue the person who will surely die.

"Please come with us, after all, I want the answer. The one-eyed dragon turned his head again, smiled coldly and tapped his index finger on the side of his face: "I haven't got it yet." ”

"Get acquainted, it's your best choice to follow me. With the things you control, we can become a third party. He continued, and the sage shrugged, "Even if you don't even know what those are?"

"If these people are so aggressive, there must be corresponding value. ”

"I'm a businessman, do you know what the most important thing for a businessman is?" Saburo continued to knock on his face and said, "Intelligence, intelligence. ”

"With intelligence, you can make more profit if you know where things are cheaper. If you know what kind of beauty or antiquity you like, you can get a relationship with them. The thin man who was as cold as a snake continued: "What you have, I guess, should be some kind of information that is crucial to their plan, and if Xinjing learns about it, it will cause their plan to collapse completely, right?"

"For example, the list of those involved in the rebellion—" "Ah!" "It's not always a good thing to understand the language of the Moon Country, and the stunned young coffee Leyva was confused, but this time it was Edge, who was also frizzy and mentally unstable, who reacted under pressure.

"Oh yo. Saburo smiled playfully, and Alfonso looked at Edge with a look that wanted to kill him.

"If Xinjing learns about it, then you can send troops to break them one by one before they are ready to finish. And it is because of this realization that they will not allow you to flee the Northlands. And secretly had to speed up the process of various plans, even if the preparations were not fully completed. San Lang continued to knock on his side face: "I said, why have they been moving so much recently." ”

"And those of you who have obtained these things, who have made outstanding contributions, must be able to strive for great benefits. He leaned in front of Henry again: "How?

The sage lowered his head, looked at the man who was much shorter than him, and smiled slightly: "No." ”

"You don't want this—" Then, when Saburo was about to say something, he flicked his hands like lightning, grabbed him, and turned around and held the man hostage.

"Lord!" the warriors and heavy infantry all reacted, but only the most perceptive Qingshi understood the situation, took a step forward, pulled out his dagger, and laid it across the delicate neck of Miss Doctor.

"Don't act rashly, outsiders!" the gray-haired leader did not waver at all, and he glanced at his younger brother: "Ah Shui." The latter immediately led a group of people to the rear and sealed the gate.

All of this happened less than 10 minutes after Oiran left.

Qingshi and his younger brother Shimizu are worthy of being from elite backgrounds, practices.

It was exactly what Henry expected.

In order to confront each other with important targets, in order to ensure that the other party does not act rashly, he must show his threat - that is, he must stand directly opposite Henry.

In order to prevent them from escaping after kidnapping the lord, the other led the men on the left to retreat to the rear and block the exit.

This allowed the sage to access Temulun and where Aya and Lulu were unimpeded.

"Boom—ahem!" the sage knocked Saburo sideways with his elbow joint, and then took a step forward and threw his throwing knife into the door of one of the infantry closest to Lulu.

"Wow!!" His speed was so fast that even Qingshi, who was born in the elite, couldn't react at all.

"Tsk-" But the older ninja leader didn't slit Miss Doctor's throat, he shoved her away and stabbed the rushing sage.

"Smack!!" Henry clasped his hands together and caught the dagger with unmistakable accuracy, and then flew up and kicked at Qingshi. "Boom!" the ninja leader threw a punch into the sage's leg in an attempt to counteract the force with an active attack, but Henry's strength was several times that of him, so he was still kicked and flew away, and after rolling out several laps, his left hand hung down weakly.

"Damn outsiders!" the warriors shouted, raising their swords alof. "Ahem. Aya, who was being held hostage, coughed at the same time, and a sage who rushed to Aya, Lulu and the others with an arrow picked up the spear dropped by the infantry who had just been stabbed to death by a throwing knife with his toe and threw it at Temurun.

"All of you, all of them follow me!" shouted the patriarch of the Yiren and charged at the infantry on his left who surrounded the women and children on his left, and Henry had stepped out before him.

And then.

Drew the greatsword behind his back.

"Bang !!" was an innocent one-handed swing, but under that, the first three spears broke in response.

He stopped everyone on this side by himself, and the men quickly grabbed the fallen weapons and armed themselves after merging with the women and children.

Seeing this, Qing Shui and the others, who had sealed the gate on the other side, killed Kaleva and the others, who were still at a loss for what to do in the center, but Mira, who also reacted at the moment of the sage's departure, rushed in front of this line of martial artists first.

"Bang!!" the girl in armor pulled out her knife in an instant, cut the rope on the side, and removed the heavy armor from her body. He then took the one-handed sword and shield from Alfonso's hand, hidden under the priest's robes.

"Koumu Simei (little girl)!" The long knife used by the people is always raised high and slashed down with a rush, and the first warrior despises the gender of the Luoan girl, but he doesn't know that she has more actual combat experience than himself.

"Click-" Mira with a fist shield in her left hand and a one-handed knife in her right hand clasped her hands together, blocking the opponent's offensive route with a small shield before the long knife fell.

"Hmm——!" The warrior who was only accustomed to long knife fights between the country of the moon couldn't react for a while when he saw the swordsmanship of the foreign country, and he drew his sword back according to the common practice of the sword method of the country of the moon, intending to attack from another angle, but Mira had already turned the one-handed knife in his hand at this time and took the initiative to take it.

"Oh no!" (damned)!" the warrior shouted as he tried to draw his sword again—the Moon Country's sword technique was fast-in, fast-out, and he was a good player among the warriors present.

But he was confronted by Rigal's swordsmanship.

——!The long gauntlet on Rigal's sword is different from the round gauntlet of the Moon Country, which only has a passive protection function, and it is also an integral part of countless sword skills.

"At the same time. ”

This technique is referred to in the sword art curriculum of the Padrosi Empire, which jams the opponent's blade with its gauntlet, restricting the opponent's attack to complete self-defense while stabbing forward to attack.

Offensive and defensive at the same time, a veritable skill.

"Ahem—" Mira stabbed the man as tall as her but twice as strong as she in the throat, and stepped back, "Kaleva!" she cried out loudly, and the young man who had come back to his senses had been through some battles, and was somewhat calmer than the three missionaries.

He picked up the weapon that had fallen on the ground, and the Luo An girl quickly opened her mouth to point: "The tip of the sword is against the enemy, keep moving." ”

"Don't be afraid, there are fewer of them!" Qing Shui said, but he forgot that the sage had a companion in his party.

"Shhh

"Beep——!!"

"Shh

"Knock knock knock ——!!"

"Bang !!!" "Wow, ahh

A knight's most powerful weapon is not a lance or a sword, but a trusted companion warhorse.

"Shh——!!hhh The arrogance of Saburo and the others who did not check and unarm the crowd became their chance to turn the tables, but the light wooden door that people are used to was not enough to cause real crushes.

Except for a few people who were stepped on by the little unicorn, everyone else got back up.

"Seal the door, don't let them run away!" said the embarrassed water with the horse's tail scattered and the blood on his face still stained with blood on his face said loudly, but on the other side, with the cooperation of Temulun and the others, the sage who had already wiped out all the spear-wielding infantry glanced at them lightly and raised his foot.

"Bang !!!"

The gray wall was kicked straight through, which was Henry's usual way of breaking through - there was no door.

Let's open one.

"Let's go!" the Luoan girl shouted loudly, and the young porter and the Yi girl shot an arrow at Saburo and Shimizu respectively to buy time.

"Hide!" Qing Shui shouted and fell down.

"Lord!" and the wounded Kiyoshi lunged forward and blocked an arrow for Saburo with his body.

"Bang ——!" After the sage and his party broke through from the side, they saw the monstrous fire in the distance, and there were screams and shouts everywhere, and it was no wonder that Saburo's other subordinates couldn't come in time.

"Go quickly, quickly, to the embankment, lest the ships be burned or all flee." Temuron was eager to take the opportunity to escape, but at this time Aya grabbed the corner of the sage's clothes.

"Oiran ......." She seemed a little reluctant to speak, and it was obviously a little stupid to take care of a stranger who met in the water when she could not protect herself.

But somehow, Aya just felt a little blocked in her heart.

Contrary to her way of living, she gained the status of second place here by relying on men. But when the times changed and were not taken seriously, she was ruthlessly abandoned by her subordinates and partners.

Miss Doctor's heart did not have disdain because of the opposition between positions and ways of living, or the idea of gloating when the other party was unlucky.

She just felt a little bitter, a little stuffy.

She knew the snake-like man very well, after all, he was also a big man in the swamp village. Even if the village is destroyed, there may be other connections in the north. Mira spoke to the sage as well, though she knew that her teacher must have seen more than she did.

"Well, then you go first. Henry didn't hesitate for long, he glanced at his disciple and Aya's pleading eyes, and turned back to Temulun and the others to speak.

"Then I'll too—" "Fuck off." As soon as Kaleva spoke, she was pushed back by the Luoan girl: "You just look tall, you can't fight at all." Take care of her. ”

"Shhh The little unicorn leaned over, and Mira touched its cheek: "It's okay, I'll come." ”

"There's no time to talk, let's go!" Just 20 minutes after the fire broke out, Mira and Henry broke away.

The large army running towards the embankment soon found a large boat, because most of the people who fled for their lives were running for the faster boats, and the large boat, which was tied to six cables, blended into the night scene without moving.

"Heh——!!" The tall man was once again stunned, forgetting that he was still holding a long knife in his hand, and with a single thrust of the knife he pulled the stake out of the embankment, leaving the others stunned.

"Knives, knives!" he didn't react until Temurun reminded him, and as the others got aboard, he slashed and cut off the remaining cables, and then threw aside the long knife that had accidentally slashed into the stake and bent it, and climbed aboard the boat.

"How, how to open this!" was originally intended to be taught by the sage, but now Henry was not there, fortunately the young man who had been a porter on the ship in Polusaro for many years had never eaten pork and had seen a pig run, he glanced at it and saw the oars stacked on both sides of the ship, but it was difficult to explain because of the language barrier, and finally it was Miss Doctor who translated it for a long time, and let the young man take the oars and stuff them into the hole on the side.

"Don't row too fast, chant the slogan, and row in unison!" Uh-huh—" As Aya translated again, Kaleva used a bamboo pole to prop the boat away from the shore.

"Whoa!!" the uprooted stake fell down the cable into the river as the boat moved, splashing into the waves, and Temulun and the others, who began to shout slogans, rowed their oars one after the other in a chaotic manner, and it took a little while to find a suitable rhythm to get the boat into the middle of the wide river.

"And then yes, then yes. The stunned young man used his mind quickly for the first time in a long time, and he desperately remembered how the others he had seen steer the ship: "Rudder, rudder!" and then turned to the rudder of the same ship, seized it, and began to steer the ship carefully.

"Ahhh

"Not fast enough!" Aegie cried out nervously.

"Isn't that a sail?" and Miss Doctor, who was sitting on the board with her legs limp, looked up and suddenly saw the ship's mast standing high in the night.

"Ahh

"Don't light the lamp, lest you be discovered. Priest Alfonso stopped the women from lighting the lantern as they found the ship, while Aya and Lulu walked to the stern rudder of the Kaleva and looked behind them towards the flaming swamp village.

"The two of them. Miss Doctor stopped talking, while Lulu stared at the young man in silence.

"It's going to be fine. Caleva said in a rare and steady tone.

"They're the most powerful people I've ever met. ”