47, the land of fire
"What do you mean?"
Hatsuya didn't say it directly, but the puppet knew that she was talking about Luan.
The air suddenly became cold and hard, and the puppet turned his head and squinted at Hatsuya, who was sitting weakly on the ground: "Are you in a group with them?" β
Of course, Chu Aya didn't know who the puppet was talking about, but she shook her head vigorously and said, "Last time, my sister ...... No, I implanted the spores I used to track into her feet. β
The puppet keenly captured the moment she paused, but did not ask for a question: "How do I know that you are not lying to me." β
Hatsuya is getting weaker and weaker, she is already thin, plus she hasn't eaten anything for the past two days, and she was hung by a puppet last night, and now she can't even say a word.
The puppet looked at her as if she was about to faint from hunger, and thought that he was also a little hungry, so he sat down on the spot.
The morning sun shines down, and in the Tyndall effect, it gradually changes into a bundle of shapes, and shoots straight and obliquely.
The puppet people always have the dry branches and fluff needed to make a fire in the field in the system space, but at this time they were embarrassed to find that some were not enough, and just when he wanted to get up to look for it, Hatsuya behind him suddenly stretched out his hand.
In the next second, I saw a few small saplings growing out of thin air on the ground, the length and thickness were just right.
The puppet looked at her with some surprise, and then remembered that she would escape.
Just as he stacked the wood and looked at her with the slightest hope that he wouldn't have to make his own fire, Hatsuya shook his head, indicating that he wasn't going to get away with it.
β......β
There was no way, so the puppet had to spend a little time building a fire, thinking that it would be nice if he could have a ninjutsu that could make fire.
Thinking of this, he vaguely remembered that he had seen some Magic Fusilier Chakra when he opened the [Second Talent], but he didn't look closely at it at the time, and he didn't know what it was for.
Soon, the half of the wild boar was put on a wooden rack and roasted, and the puppet took out Luan's secret spice and sprinkled it on it, and the tempting fragrance immediately burst out.
The hungry Hatsuya smelled the fragrance, and her eyes immediately widened, only to see her pitifully looking at the puppet opposite, wanting to eat but not daring to say.
"Didn't you pity the soul of that wild boar before, why, it's not pitiful to have meat to eat?"
The puppet looked at her, the corners of his mouth raised as if mocking her hypocrisy.
Hatsuya didn't speak, she wasn't actually pitiing the boar's soul, it was the sound of its constant roar that scared her, but she couldn't control it.
After all, the puppet finally motioned for her to come over and eat together, Chu Aya's appetite was very small, and she was almost one heaven and one underground with Luan, and she was already full before she ate a few bites.
"Thank you, thank you......"
After eating Hatsuya, she immediately stepped aside, and her voice was like a mosquito's groan.
The puppet looked at her in surprise, he felt a little strange from just now, why was this girl so fierce and vicious before, she wanted you to die when she opened her mouth and closed her mouth, but now she is so shy?
His instincts told him something was wrong.
She doesn't look like she has schizophrenia, why is there such a big contrast in personality before and after, is it acting?
But the puppet quickly rejected this conjecture, because there was no motive at all! And if she can really act so well, then what kind of ninja will she be, go directly to Takeshi Kitano to make a movie!
Since he didn't get sick, and he didn't look like acting, what was the reason?
Unable to figure it out with his brain, the puppet decided to ask directly: "...... you?"
But soon he stopped talking, which made him ask, do you often have random nerves and fantasize that you are someone else? Or do you have a dual personality? Twin Martial Spirits?
Recently, there have been more and more strange people and strange things, and the puppet still decided to go with the flow, anyway, even if she suddenly became sick and became a murderer, and she still had a shield by her side, she couldn't hurt herself for a while.
Soon, this half of the wild boar was wiped out by the puppet alone, hunger is one of them, and it will stink if you put it down any longer.
"So, you just said you know where she is, whether it's true or not."
The puppet seemed to question, but in fact, he already believed it, and ran out to chase people without any clues to follow, which is probably something that only a fool would do.
"It's true!" Hatsuya's emotions seemed to be a little excited, "Although I don't know how to describe it to you, I can feel it." β
"Oh?" The puppet pretended to be skeptical, "I think you seem to be a ninja from the sand, so it's a little inappropriate to tell me this." β
The puppet was trying to figure out Hatsuya's purpose, but she didn't think she blurted out directly: "I'm already a traitor, I'm already a homeless person, because only in this way can we live." β
Hatsuya bit her lower lip tightly, her mouth stiff as if she was repeating someone else's words, her face expressionless.
"We?" The puppet vaguely guessed something.
Chu Aya didn't answer, I saw her slowly lowering her eyes, her eyes were mixed, I don't know if she was puzzled or sad.
It's the first time that a puppet feels so difficult to communicate with a person, and Hatsuya's words are confusing at every turn, but looking at her appearance, it doesn't look like she's lying.
"So why are you telling me you know where she is?"
Hatsuya was stunned for a moment when she heard this, as if she was thinking about how to answer.
"I don't know."
What?
The puppet couldn't help but be a little crazy, he thought at first that Hatsuya was an extremely introverted and thoughtful person, but now he can't find any logic from her words!
It's as if she says she doesn't know, she really doesn't know. Say what comes to mind, and don't say what you can't think of.
"Because I want to follow you."
Suddenly, the puppet was stunned.
Hatsuya's eyes were pure, so pure that she couldn't see any impurities, and she looked at the puppet with the same pure gaze and said very seriously.
"I don't know where I'm going, I want to follow you."
The puppet looked at her with some surprise, and her tone didn't seem like a joke.
"Stop pretending to be crazy and stupid, okay?"
The puppet's words suddenly became sharp, and the expression on his face froze into ice.
If it weren't for the fact that she might really have Luan's whereabouts in her hands, the puppet wouldn't have bothered to talk nonsense with her, but I don't know what purpose she revealed to him, so she planned to stay and see if she could talk to her.
But now it seems that this little girl has made it clear that she is playing him like an orangutan in a tree, and she really can't fix him.
Thinking of this, the puppet feels that he is like a clown now, everything he thinks and says in his heart has been seen through, and he has been completely seen as a sketch.
Lies and betrayal are the specialties of this world, and to convince the puppet that there are people in this world who can't lie, unless the sun fights the moon in the sky, it's fucking bullshit.
Hatsuya's gaze gradually dimmed, and then, she said in the same stiff tone as before, "I want to get out of here, but I can't handle those creatures in the forest alone, so I want to use you to escape." β
When the puppet heard that this guy was finally willing to tell the truth, he always felt that what she said was very awkward, as if it was not from the heart.
"I have information on your companions, and you, you must keep me safe."
When the words fell, Hatsuya slowly stretched out her hand, like some kind of invitation to cooperate, but her eyes couldn't find the landing point, and she was a little trance.
"Deal."
The puppet hesitated for a moment and then took his hand up, he knew that Hatsuya's purpose was not just to escape from here, but unfortunately she didn't know that she had a shield around her, and a regular sneak attack would not work at all.
So, when that time came, he decided to take a good look at her true colors.
"It's the Fire Nation ahead, tell me where she is now?"
The two walked one after the other to noon, but unfortunately the puppet didn't even touch a giant creature along the way.
I saw Hatsuya close her eyes, as if she was perceiving: "It's far away, it should have been out of the realm of the Fire Country." β
"Huh?" Hearing this, the puppet turned his head, "Can't you sense her specific location?" β
Hatsuya shook her head: "Now I'm too far away from her, I can only get closer." β
The puppet stared at her suspiciously for a moment, but did not ask.
Soon, the two of them arrived at the border of the Fire Nation, where there were tall border towers at intervals, and border guards would patrol around from time to time.
In the past, the level of security was very lax, and the puppets could smuggle in casually, but now somehow, it is likely that in order to prevent those giant creatures from entering the country casually, the number of border guards has increased, and even ninjas can be seen in it.
Generally speaking, the border guards are samurai with cold weapons and can be thrown off as long as they run fast enough, but ninjas are not so easy to deal with.
Although the puppet is not afraid of them, he does not want to make a big deal out of it, and keeping a low profile is often the most effective solution.
Therefore, he still plans to sneak in, but now the interval between border patrols is only one minute, and if he is not careful, he will be discovered.
Just as the two of them took advantage of the patrol's walk away and crept to the perimeter of the watchtower, about to find an opportunity to dive up, a loud howl suddenly came from behind the two.
Suddenly, a deafening siren sounded, and soon, dense footsteps could be heard from the watchtower.
"Hell, how at this time!"
The puppet panicked, there was no place for them to hide nearby!
Just when he was at a loss, Hatsuya behind him suddenly raised his hand and pressed it to the ground, and in the next second, a rumbling sound came, and he saw a hollow tree hole growing on the ground in an instant.
The small Hatsuya got down as soon as she turned over: "Come down!" β
The puppet glanced at the hollow in the tree, as if it had been formed by natural growth, and there was no flaw at all.
Immediately afterwards, he also rolled over and got down, but because he was too flustered to brake the car, he fell directly into Hatsuya's arms.
"Whew!"
Soon, the fire above the tree hole was overflowing, and the voices of people were boiling, as if they were encircling the beast that had suddenly appeared.
Due to the small space in the tree hole, the puppet and Hatsuya can only maintain the posture they had when they first entered, and the two are so close that they can even feel the ups and downs of each other's breathing.
Hatsuya pursed her lips and lowered her gaze shyly, a restless flush crawling all over her cheeks.
The puppet looked at her and was a little overwhelmed for a while. Suddenly there was an urge to slap myself.
I don't know how long it took, the noise outside the tree hole finally stopped, and both of them wanted to get out quickly, so they stood up together, but the middle of the tree hole was narrower than the bottom, and when they stood like this, their bodies directly attached to a line.
Hatsuya's breathing became even more rapid, her face flushed, and her eyes couldn't find a place like a deer.
The puppet didn't notice her reaction, because just now, he heard someone whispering outside.
"Huh? How did there get an extra trunk there? β
"It seems to be, I haven't seen it before, it seems to be hollow."
"Why don't we shoot arrows into it, and compare who is more accurate?"
"Okay, who's afraid of who?"
βwhatοΌβ Hearing this, the puppet's face suddenly turned white.
Is there a brain disease, go to work and fish? Still playing? Aren't there a lot of idle arrows?!
But now is not the time to complain, the two people outside have obviously noticed the hole in the tree where they are hiding, and they will definitely be found if they go out rashly, but if they don't go out, it's good that the puppet has a shield, he is just worried that Hatsuya will be shot into a sieve.
Although the puppet is very upset to see Hatsuya, he really needs her information now, so it is inevitable to protect her safety.
So, the puppet motioned for her to squat down, and Hatsuya seemed to have guessed something, and just as she wanted to speak, the puppet suddenly bent down and hugged her.
In the next second, the first arrow pierced through the air and shot in, then bounced off the puppet's back, being neutralized by the shield.
Chu Aya didn't know that the puppet had a shield, and when she saw him hit an arrow, she was so anxious that she was about to cry, so she immediately launched a wooden escape and blocked the entrance of the cave tightly.
Puppet: "......"
Hey, big sister, I'm kind enough to help you block the arrow, what kind of nerves are you!
Now the two of them can basically be said to be unable to move, until the two people in the outside competition archery were found fishing, and the sound of falling arrows stopped, Chu Aya slowly raised his hand and launched Mu Dun to open the hole.
A moment later, the two of them came out of it sweating profusely, and the air inside was so hot that it was almost drying them out.
After coming out, the puppet looked at Hatsuya with a strange look, and Hatsuya happened to look over at this time, and the two looked at each other, and the air was like a tasteless and colorless catalyst, gradually stirring their gaze evenly.
"Did you just wipe my sweat off me?"
Hatsuya was stunned for a moment, then shook her head mechanically.
The puppet wiped the fine beads of sweat from his forehead with a blank face, the first time he had been delayed outside the border for so long.
"This woman is really strange......"
Muttering quietly, the puppet saw that there was no one around, and soon climbed the border tower, followed by Hatsuya.
Due to the recent explosion of giant creatures, these frontier warriors have become accustomed to this, and after shooting them, they just leave the corpses there, and some wild beasts will come and eat them at night.
The puppet looked back at the giant gray wolf that had been shot, and his heart was filled with grief.
Brother wolf, it's too late to see each other!
If you and I meet soon, you don't have to be shot like a hedgehog, I can also get the 49th head, it's a pity, it's a pity!
"Ugh."
The puppet sighed helplessly, and then climbed over the watchtower and entered the Land of Fire.
As a big country, the giant creatures in this place may have been surrounded and suppressed by many ninjas, and he doesn't know when he will be able to get the last two heads left.
Sure enough, after entering the realm of the Fire Nation, they didn't touch even a giant creature, not even a slightly larger beast.
At this moment, Hatsuya, who was walking in front, suddenly turned around and said, "That...... I saw the soul of an animal in front of me. β
The puppet wanted to ask her where she saw it, but suddenly remembered something and said, "My name is Liangyu Mu Puppet, what about you." β
"Uh...... That, my name is Yuzu, Yuzu Rina Hatsuaya, and it's Yuzu ...... of Yuzu."
Hatsuya became a little hesitant to speak, and the puppet seemed to have gotten used to it: "So, Miss Yuzu Natsuaya, where did you see the soul?" β
"It's up ahead, puppet...... Monarch. β
Hatsuya's voice grew quieter and quieter, then she turned around and walked briskly ahead with her head down.
The puppet opened his thorny pupils, and saw only a faint soul body in the place where Hatsuya was pointing, and it seemed that he had been dead for quite some time.
The puppet couldn't hear it, so he asked Hatsuya, "Did you hear it just now?" β
Hatsuya nodded at first, then opened her mouth, as if to say something, but the puppet didn't hear a single note.
Could she be in ...... Talk to that soul, right?
Suddenly, a strange conjecture popped up in the puppet's mind, but looking at Hatsuya's appearance, it seems that this is indeed the case.
I saw Hatsuya nodding slowly while talking to the soul, and after a moment, she turned her head again, hesitated for a moment and said, "Puppet King, it wants to ask you for a favor." β
"Help?" The puppet slowly frowned, "I don't have that much time to spare, you can help me ask it if I've seen any giant creatures around here, if not, forget it." β
"It says it can do anything for you as long as you're willing to help him." Hatsuya seems to be trying to persuade the puppeteer to think again.
"It's a remnant, what can it do for me."
As he spoke, the puppet took a closer look, and it was a wild boar again, but this one seemed to be a female, because there were still many remnants of piglets around, about six or seven.
"A bear slaughtered their family, and it said that if you help it get revenge, it can promise you anything."
"Bear?"
The puppet couldn't help but think of the mutant brown bear he first encountered with Luan, and it was there that he gave Luan his soul.
The puppet was silent for a while, and suddenly, he thought of something, and said to Chu Aya on the side: "You tell it that it's okay to help it take revenge, but their family must be willingly bound by me first, and only in this way can I help it take revenge." β
Hatsuya nodded, and then repeated it to the remnant soul of the wild sow.
"It says it's fine!" After a moment, Hatsuya said happily.
"Excellent."
With that, the puppet stretched out his hand and began to slowly restrain the souls of their family.
It turned out that it was such an easy thing for the soul to be bound willingly, and the puppet was surprised to find that he didn't even use a little pupil power, so he restrained this family of eight and used it as a body protector.
"They said, thank you."
The puppet was stunned for a moment, he looked at the family of eight, because of his restraint, the color of the soul body had changed from almost invisible to light blue.
"Alright, now tell me, where's that damn bear?" The puppet tried to change the soul of a family of eight, because it was willing, he didn't feel a little resistance when he changed, and it was very smooth.
"Follow me." Hatsuya stood up and walked in one direction in the dense forest.