Chapter 1290

Chapter 1290

1289. "Savage" (22)

Dongliu Island Hokkaido area. ˜”*°•.˜˜.•°*”˜

Dirty mud dripped down the outer walls of the rammed-earth houses in the dripping rain. Many people with feathers on their heads and robes and feathers that didn't reach their knees were hiding under the eaves of each house, staring blankly at the scene. It rained a lot, and the rainwater gathered into a small stream on the path that was only big enough for three or four people walking side by side. It overflowed over the potholes on the muddy road and flowed forward.

Not far away, there is a hill with various sheds built around the hill-like rooms. The house, a natural cave on the hill, is occupied by the wealthy family of the village and becomes the residence of his family.

At this time, a 'carriage' passed by these hill-like houses.

The horse pulling the cart is not much bigger than a donkey, and the carriage it pulls behind it is completely made of straw woven into an umbrella top and supported on a wooden wheeled cart, which is far from a real carriage.

But such a carriage is very rare in this small village. People who were hiding from the rain under the eaves and dressed like savages stretched their heads to take a look.

All the water flowing down the grass under the eaves was poured on the heads of these people, and they didn't care. They stood in the rain like animals, staring at the horse carriage going away.

In the carriage, there was a man who was dressed very differently from ordinary people.

The man was short in stature and looked at the small mounds that looked like graves around him, his eyes a little desperate: "Who doesn't want to swim across the sea and become a Tang Dynasty?

I heard that people in the Tang Dynasty could get two meals a day and wear clothes made of silk threads.

Most of them no longer wear clothes made of feathers and animal skins...

And how pitiful are we?

Now I have been relegated to such a "ghost place", where I can't even see a decent person around..."

The man's clothes were somewhat similar to those of the Tang Dynasty, but the materials used were very different. As he spoke, he couldn't help but wipe the corners of his eyes with his sleeves, lowered his head and began to cry.

He was originally a samurai born in Kyoto. Just because he offended his master's family, he was sent to such a ghost place to be responsible for the development and construction of this place.

Except for Heian Jing, Dongliu Island is full of such 'ghost places' as the 'Samurai A' sees at the moment.

The Heian Dynasty is still unable to unify the entire island, and most of Hokkaido is currently dominated by the "Ezo indigenous".

There are still ‘savages’ in many areas on the island!

The nobles in Kyoto live in luxury, elegance and glitz, while in the "countryside" outside Kyoto, people are starving everywhere, and the lives of the people are actually no different from those of savages.

“Sir, the rain is getting heavier and heavier!

I can no longer see the way forward clearly!

Let’s find a house to settle down in this village first, and then return to ‘Numata Town’ after the rain! "The attendant who was running wildly with the carriage was now wet all over his clothes in the heavy rain. He was shivering and couldn't help but said to the 'Samurai Armor' who was sitting on the carriage and whose clothes were almost soaked by the rain. .

This 'Samurai Armor' has no surname, and his attendant groom is just like him.

At present, there are castes in Dongliu Island. Their surnames are all awarded by the "Emperor". It was not until the "Shogunate Era" that samurai were officially established to have the privilege of "Miao with sword". The so-called "Miao" is the right to name. meaning.

Therefore, the samurai armor does not have a surname, nor does he have a first name. Because he is a powerful person in the family, he is often called "Ichiro".

When the 'Samurai Koichiro' heard what the groom said, his face suddenly filled with anger: "Do you want me to live with the savages and eat grass with them?!"

The groom looked at the road ahead that was obscured by thick mist, and then looked back at the owner with a scowl on his face. He hesitated and said: "Sir, if we continue to move forward and the rain doesn't stop and we can't see the way forward, we will probably... Getting lost...encountering those evil creatures that often appear in the rain..."

Upon hearing the words 'evil in the rain', Samurai Koichiro couldn't help but shudder.

He looked around.

The small village full of thatched houses became hazy in the mist, as if it was far away.

There are overgrown grasses all around, and the wild trees in the distance are swaying with their rugged branches, giving it a desolate and eerie feeling - in such torrential rain, the possibility of meeting the 'Rain Girl' greatly increases...

As soon as he thought of this, the anger in Samurai Koichiro's heart dissipated a lot.

It's just a matter of living in the same room with those savages, eating grass, drinking animal blood, and eating raw meat with them. Just be patient and endure it. It is much better than having your life taken away by the 'Rain Girl'.

"Then go back...

Let's go back quickly! "The samurai Kaichiro urged the groom.

Except for the 'Shanghuang Lineage', no family on Dongliu Island has mastered the method of communicating with the 'spirits' and avoiding death under the 'divine power'.

Most people nowadays can only wait to die when they encounter Li Wei.

Those who are lucky enough to survive and master the method of communicating with the gods will immediately be appreciated by the emperor, marry the princes and princesses of the emperor's lineage, and become new nobles.

The samurai Koichiro was obviously not among them. He tightened the iron sword at his waist and watched the coachman turn the carriage and turn back to the small village in the distance.

At this time, he seemed to be touched and glanced behind him——

In the misty sky and earth, several figures suddenly appeared, and then they approached the carriage he was riding in!

He watched those figures suddenly appear and approach him. Samurai Kaichiro had no thoughts in his mind, he just felt that he was dead!

Those ‘people’ suddenly appeared, they must be some evil spirits!

They were not living people!

When you meet an evil spirit, what else can you do except wait for death? !

Samurai Kaichiro thought so in his mind, and he couldn’t make a sound in his throat. Those figures were very fast and stopped the carriage he called in the blink of an eye. The coachman was so scared that he fell into the rain with a plop - he was scared to death!

"Eating raw meat often causes hundreds of insects to invade the body, weakening the foundation.

At this time, he was drenched by rain, and was on the verge of the critical point of overturning the balance in his body. When he suddenly saw us, he fainted." The tall and strong white-haired old man glanced at the groom lying on the ground, and then spoke a few words, "It's okay, he won't die."

As he spoke, he took out a black ball from somewhere, squatted down, and stuffed it into the groom's mouth.

Samurai Koichiro was even more frightened when he heard the white-haired figure like a mountain speaking words he didn't understand, and he was stunned and couldn't react.

On the side of the white-haired figure like a mountain, there were two more mountains, and a monk wearing a gorgeous red grid clothes and shaved his head.

Behind these figures, there was a goddess-like woman holding a bird with extremely long tail feathers, like a pheasant.

That bird should be a "Phoenix"?

Samurai Koichiro's dull thoughts suddenly started to turn.

The mountain-like young man cast his eyes at him and asked him, "Where are you going? Can you find a place for us to stay temporarily?"

Samurai Koichiro still didn't understand the young man's words, but he strangely understood the meaning of the young man's words.

He nodded stupidly.

The people in front of him were dressed in gorgeous clothes. Although they were not as good as the nobles in Kyoto, they were not far away. Since they could communicate and were not "ghosts and gods", Samurai Koichiro barely suppressed his fear, especially when he saw his groom eating a black ball from the white-haired old man and climbing out of the mud, he realized that the people at the moment had no intention of harming him.

He swallowed his saliva, and then heard the young man continue: "We have come from the 'Tang Dynasty' across the ocean. I wonder if you know the 'Tang Dynasty'?

If you don't understand, it doesn't matter. Just treat us as travelers from a foreign country."

The samurai Koichiro's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. He nodded and swallowed his saliva, and after a while he organized his words: "I know the 'Tang Dynasty'. I have a good friend who once went to the Tang Dynasty as a 'Tang Envoy' by boat.

According to the people who traveled with him The Tang envoy said that he had arrived in the Tang Dynasty, and encountered a storm on his way back by boat, and died in the sea...

You actually came from the Tang Dynasty? How did you end up in such a haunted place?

Shouldn't a noble like you go to Kyoto? "

When it comes to the Tang Dynasty, Samurai Kaichiro seems to have endless questions. Contrary to his previous dull appearance, he asked Su Wu and his party several questions in succession. Until the end, he suddenly realized that he asked too abruptly and asked too many questions, so he looked timid again and shrank his head like a quail.

Su Wu looked at Jianzhen, who looked haggard next to him, and then smiled and said to Samurai Kaichiro: "We encountered a sea breeze on the boat, and were blown to the coast here. After finding an opportunity to go ashore, we walked and stopped all the way and arrived here. "

The group came to find the trace of the 'Ten Extinction Blades', but they didn't need to take a boat to cross the sea.

They used the breath of the dark to travel through various places, from Hexi'Ganzhou' to Dongliu Island, and the trip took only a moment.

After entering Dongliu Island, the scene that Jianzhen had said before, "the whole area of ​​Dongliu Island is already full of corpses, and most of the islanders are dead or injured", was not seen, and the "Zhuzhao Priestess" was nowhere to be seen.

Therefore, we need to find a place to stay temporarily. After settling down, we will try to find the "Zhuzhao Shrine" to see if there is any trace of this shrine today.

If we can find the Zhuzhao Shrine, we will have clues about the Zhuzhao Priestess, Rashomon, Ten Degrees of Destruction, etc.

"So that's how it is..." Samurai Kaichiro nodded repeatedly.

Su Wu smiled and pointed to the rain all around, and then asked Samurai Kaichiro: "Then can you find a place for us to stay temporarily?

We will not bother you too much, and we will set off again after staying for two or three days."

The Dongliu Islander on the carriage should have some status. Su Wu asked him to help settle his group because he seemed to have a higher status than those islanders who ate raw meat and drank blood.

After all, most of the people in the surrounding small villages could not communicate.

It was not because of the language barrier, but even if Su Wu planted his consciousness directly in their minds and conveyed his thoughts to them, they were more resistant and afraid of Su Wu than curious, and often shouted and drove Su Wu away.

Su Wu and his party really couldn't communicate with them, so they turned their eyes to this local "official" who was patrolling the villages and preparing to return.

Samurai Kaichiro followed Su Wu's gaze and saw the rain line that kept falling obliquely. He turned his eyes back to Su Wu and others, and then he found that although these people were in the heavy rain, their clothes and shoes on their feet were not wet at all!

What the other party said and did revealed to Samurai Kaichiro that these people had unusual feelings.

But even so, he didn't have any extra thoughts, and just nodded to Su Wu: "This is what should be done, but the rain is too heavy now, and we dare not go any further and return to our residence in the town... ...But it would be too rude to place you in a nearby village..."

He looked a little embarrassed.

Su Wu smiled and said, "We will accompany you back to the town."

"Ah... there will be rain girls in the rain. If we encounter a rain girl, it will be even more dangerous. You and I might as well wait for the rain to stop in a nearby village before we set off to Numata Town. "Is this okay?" Samurai Kaichiro asked with some anxiety.

"When we were in the Tang Dynasty, we once learned how to suppress ghosts and gods.

Don't worry about Rain Girl, where are you going?

Just give me directions. "Hong Renkun, a middle-aged man with a square face, looked at the troubled samurai Koichiro and suddenly said.

He was getting a little bored waiting.

When he spoke now, he already had his own sexual intention attached to it, leading the samurai Koichiro to nod in agreement.

Then the horseman showed the way, and everyone followed the carriage all the way to Numata Town.

Compared with those villages, Numata Town only has more houses with grass and rattan walls. Surrounded by these grass houses surrounded by sewage, there are several houses made of wood and rammed earth. The samurai Koichiro's residence is one of the houses.

He led everyone back to a house to the west.

There were many servants in feathered clothes coming and going in the house, noisy and noisy. When they saw the master leading a group of guests who were dressed in "gorgeous" clothes and were so tall that they had to stoop to walk through the courtyard door, they were immediately shocked. It became even more noisy.

Most of the servants were so frightened that they hid in corners.

The few who were not afraid also stood there blankly, staring directly at Su Wu and the others. When the master came back, they did not know how to avoid or salute.

"Bastard savages!" Looking at these stupid servants, Samurai Koichiro's face was so angry that he almost twisted his face. He strode over on straw sandals and kicked them one by one into the mud. Then he turned back and looked at The expressions of Su Wu and the others became apologetic again, "These are all servants and soldiers I recruited locally. These pig-dog-like people are ignorant of etiquette and education. I hope you will forgive me.

I will discipline them well and not let them bother you. "

"It doesn't matter."

Su Wu looked at the servants who were kicked down in the mud and simply lay in the mud, staring blankly at his servants. He sighed lowly, shook his head and said to the samurai Koichiro.