By the way, today's ghoul elders don't know where they heard that the real names of mythical creatures like them cannot be known to other people, especially magicians, because they will be cursed to death by magicians using their real names. So Aoki only told Liu Xing the current pseudonym of the ghoul elder - Fujiwara Gengyin. Of course, this is also the reason why Aoki only told Liu Xing his surname.
Back to the subject, the ghoul elder Fujiwara Gengyin, who was still the leader of the mercenaries at the time, was bent on making his mercenary group famous. Although he was a little frightened by the name of the demon clan, he still chose to lead his mercenary group. The Corps headed to Ziwu City.
However, at that time, Aoki always felt that something was wrong. He felt that his mercenary group had a narrow escape when going to rescue Ziwu City. After all, most of the local troops in Ziwu City had been defeated, and the strength of the demons had also been destroyed by those who had defeated them. What Bing said was incredible.
But Fujiwara Gengyin insisted on his opinion, and finally sent Aoki away on the grounds of "finding wealth in danger", so on the outskirts of Ziwu City, Fujiwara Gengyin led a mercenary group to meet Sawada Tomohiko who was out asking for help. The next two people Naturally, they hit it off immediately, and Fujiwara Gengyin accepted Sawada Tomohiko's employment and continued to Ziwu City for support.
In Aoki's eyes, Sawada Tomohiko was a typical rich boy at that time. He was fair and fat, with thin skin and tender flesh. At first glance, he looked like the kind of person who couldn't lift a knife. However, Aoki was very confused about who Sawada Tomohiko was. How to escape Ziwu City alone.
That's right, Sawada Tomohiko was alone at that time, without even a servant guard around him, and he didn't bring any baggage or weapons. He looked like he was going for a walk after dinner with his bare hands. The most important thing is that Sawada Tomohiko At that time, he was well-dressed, with flowing white clothes and no stains at all. This didn't feel right no matter how he looked at it.
Ever since, this made Aoki feel a little confused. Did the demons not implement martial law in Ziwu City at all and just let Sawada Tomohiko walk out?
However, Fujiwara Gengyin, who was promised a huge profit by Sawada Tomohiko at that time, had been dazzled by the benefits, ignored these details, and continued to advance towards Ziwu City with the mercenary group in a hurry.
As a result, when we were still more than ten miles away from Ziwu City at that time, it suddenly rained heavily. The rainwater fell from the sky like a waterfall. The embarrassed Sawada Tomohiko asked to stop the march and temporarily took refuge in a nearby dilapidated shrine.
Aoki did not expect that that shrine would become the beginning of his nightmare life.
At that time, Aoki was still complaining in his heart. Although the rain was quite heavy, it did not have much impact on the march. It would only take an hour or two to reach Ziwu City, and this young master Tomohiko Sawada actually wanted to support Ziwu. The city is not in a hurry at all, and is still in the mood to take shelter from the rain.
But after all, Sawada Tomohiko is also an employer. Since the mercenary group accepted Sawada Tomohiko's employment, they have to obey all commands of Sawada Tomohiko, and most of the mercenaries are eager to pay more attention for a while and face those faces later. Abominable demons.
So, under the guidance of Sawada Tomohiko, the mercenary group came to the dilapidated shrine. The atmosphere of this shrine made Aoki feel very uncomfortable and a little strange, because this dilapidated shrine was very large in area and chose The building materials are very particular, and the decorations and carvings are also very exquisite. However, this dilapidated shrine is actually built in the wilderness with no village in front and no store in the back. This feels wrong no matter how you look at it.
The most important thing is that a shrine of this size should be famous far and wide, but Aoki, who lives next door to Ziwu City, has never heard of the existence of this shrine.
Aoki, who was a little uneasy, wanted to warn Fujiwara Gengyin, but Sawada Tomohiko had already taken Fujiwara Gengyin to drink, so Aoki could only choose to put aside his uneasiness temporarily. Anyway, there were two members of his mercenary group. With more than a hundred people, there shouldn't be any problems.
Hearing this, Liu Xing looked at Aoki in surprise, because when he listened to Kuroba Naoki's story this afternoon, Liu Xing thought that the mercenary group only had about a hundred people, but he didn't expect that more than a hundred people appeared here. difference.
"Liu Xing, I know what you are thinking. Regarding the story of the great hero Sawada Tomohiko, I have heard many versions over the years. Almost all versions mentioned that the number of our mercenary group is less than one hundred. Right or left, actually this is wrong, because our original number should be two hundred and ten people, but before arriving in Ziwu City, when we were hiding from the rain in that dilapidated shrine, something happened that caused us to directly Reduced by half!”
Speaking of this, Aoki's tone was full of anger and helplessness.
The story continues.
Beating a child on a rainy day is just idle time.
I don’t know where Sawada Tomohiko brought out a few bottles of good wine and invited Fujiwara Gengyin to drink and eat meat. As the second-in-command of the mercenary group, Aoki naturally wanted to accompany him.
After drinking for three rounds, Sawada Tomohiko began to complain about Aoki and Fujiwara Gengyin Road. It turned out that Sawada Tomohiko led a group of guards to leave Ziwu City. However, when they arrived at the shrine, the guards were afraid of fighting with them. The demons fought and chose to escape, so only Sawada Tomohiko was left alone.
In this wilderness, Sawada Tomohiko, who came from a wealthy family, naturally did not dare to act casually. After all, bandits were rampant in the island country at this time, so Sawada Tomohiko finally chose to stay in this shrine, waiting for someone like Fujiwara Gengyin to come. The mercenaries who rescued Ziwu City.
Then Sawada Tomohiko mentioned the demons in Ziwu City to Fujiwara Gengyin and Aoki.
The demons in Ziwu City first appeared around the ruins of the Kingdom of Tindalos. Their appearance is somewhat similar to zombies. Although they cannot be said to be invulnerable, weapons of lower quality will do little harm to the demons, and these demons are all He has good intelligence and can carry out tactics such as encirclement and insertion without command.
The most important thing is that the leader of the demon clan is even more eloquent. He can use his words to kill the fighting spirit of the Ziwu City defenders, and even instigated an official from Ziwu City. Therefore, the Ziwu City defenders They retreated steadily and soon gave up half of Ziwu City.
However, according to the leader of the demon clan, they were originally criminals from the Kingdom of Tindaros. They were imprisoned in the secret prison of the Kingdom of Tindaros and underwent transformation surgery, turning them into this ghostly appearance. A few days ago, someone changed the shape of the prison The door was opened, so they broke out of the cage. However, they still felt that they belonged to humans in their hearts, so they wanted to occupy a corner of Ziwu City. Therefore, they asked all residents of Ziwu City to leave Ziwu City, and they would not There will be a killing spree.
Therefore, the officials of Ziwu City took their troops and fled Ziwu City directly. After all, they were not in Ziwu City at all, and there was no harm in leaving Ziwu City for them.
But Tomohiko Sawada and the others, as natives of Ziwu City, are naturally reluctant to leave Ziwu City. After all, their properties are all in Ziwu City. Even if the demons are willing to let the Sawada family take away everything they can, The Zetian family's capital will also shrink by more than half, not to mention the Zetian family's network resources can only be used in Ziwu City.
Moreover, the demons really planned to set up camp in Ziwu City. When a small family wanted to take away some cloth from a shop in the occupied area, they were flatly rejected by the demons. After all, the demons had lost their sense of hunger and taste. They don't plan to go to other places, so if they choose the middle one for food, clothing, housing and transportation, the demons plan to enjoy "clothing" and "housing".
In the island country at that time, cloth was considered a hard currency and could be used for equal exchange. Therefore, the Sawada family stored a lot of cloth, and the total value accounted for one-third of the Sawada family's assets.
Therefore, there was no room for negotiation. The head of the Sawada family, Tomohiko Sawada's father, decided to give it a go and called on the local families and civilians in Ziwu City to unite against the demons.
The other families had the same idea as Sawada Tomohiko's father. If they gave up their property in Ziwu City, the family would surely suffer. And the common people were reluctant to part with the land they cultivated, so the remaining people in Ziwu City decided to continue to resist the demons. clan.
But although the idea is good, the gap between the two parties cannot be ignored.
According to the information known by Sawada Tomohiko, the number of demons has reached 500, and all the people are soldiers, each one is more capable of fighting, and some demons are also holding strange weapons from the Kingdom of Tindaros. Although they are only the size of a palm, they can Kill people with your voice from a hundred meters away.
Hearing this, Liu Xing felt that the weapons from the Kingdom of Tindaros in the hands of the demons should be weapons such as pistols.
On the Ziwu City side, because Ziwu City officials left with their troops, only the guard servants of each family and some strong farmers were able to fight. The number was about 800. However, due to the lack of necessary military literacy With weapons and equipment, the defenders of Ziwu City would definitely not be able to defeat the demons.
Therefore, Sawada Tomohiko was sent out to find reinforcements.
After listening to Sawada Tomohiko's introduction, Aoki also began to retreat. After all, Aoki was just an ordinary person at the time, and he still felt a little guilty when facing a terrifying creature like the demon that he had never seen before.
After other mercenaries heard that the demons they were about to face were so terrifying, they also began to clamor for Fujiwara Gengyin to give up the mission. After all, even the mercenaries who licked blood from the edge of their swords did not want to accept such a fatal mission. .
However, after Tomohiko Sawada increased his remuneration and guaranteed a high pension, Gengyin Fujiwara finally convinced other mercenaries to accept this mission.
Because the heavy rain showed no sign of stopping, Sawada Tomohiko asked the mercenaries to continue to rest in the shrine until the heavy rain stopped. As for Aoki asking Sawada Tomohiko why he had to wait until the rain stopped before setting off, Sawada Tomohiko just hesitated. It was perfunctory.
Aoki, who had more and more doubts in his heart, could only choose to follow the instructions of his employer Tomohiko Sawada and lead the mercenaries to camp in the shrine.
Although this shrine is a bit dilapidated, the space is large enough and can accommodate more than two hundred mercenaries after tidying up. However, senior members of the mercenary group such as Sawada Tomohiko, Fujiwara Gengyin and Aoki, are the ones who live in the shrine. In a row of side rooms at the back, other ordinary members crowded into the main hall of the shrine and made beds on the floor.
Because he drank a lot, Aoki came to his room, tidied up and then fell asleep.
Early the next morning, the heavy rain still didn't stop.
When Aoki arrived at the main hall of the shrine, he found that there was something wrong with the number of people in the main hall.
After Aoki's inventory, more than twenty mercenaries were missing, and after questioning other mercenaries, no clues were obtained.
However, Aoki didn't pay much attention to this matter at this time, because Aoki believed that these mercenaries were afraid of fighting the demons, so they chose to escape on the rainy night.
As a result, after Aoki taught other mercenaries that they should keep their word and not run away from the battlefield, they no longer took this matter to heart.
The rain is still falling.
Aoki, who had been bored for a day, went back to his room to rest after drinking with Sawada Tomohiko for a while.
As a result, Aoki got up to go to the toilet in the middle of the night and suddenly heard a strange noise, as if someone was chanting sutras. However, Aoki, who was still a little drunk, chose to ignore it and went back to sleep.
Then when he woke up early on the third day, Aoki found that there were more than thirty mercenaries missing. Only then did Aoki realize that something was wrong, and recalled the strange sound last night.
Ever since, because of the heavy rain, Aoki continued to stay at the shrine, so he deliberately pretended to have a cold and went back to the room to rest early, and then paid attention to the movements in the shrine.
In the middle of the night, Aoki heard the weird sound again. Although it was mixed with the sound of rain, Aoki was still sure that the sound came from Sawada Tomohiko's room.
Therefore, when Aoki was holding the weapon and preparing to go to Sawada Tomohiko's room, his vision suddenly went dark and he lost consciousness.
When Aoki woke up, it was already the morning of the fourth day. This time, more than thirty mercenaries were missing again. However, at this time, Sawada Tomohiko suddenly took out a big knife and claimed that he had been enshrined in this shrine. With the blessing of God Sulu, he gained divine power and artifacts.
At this moment, the heavy rain stopped suddenly and the sky cleared up.
At this time, Aoki began to suspect that Sawada Tomohiko used the missing more than a hundred mercenaries as sacrifices to the so-called Sulu God. However, because there was no evidence, and Sawada at this time Tomohiko showed amazing strength, and Aoki could only choose not to mention the matter, and began to secretly observe Sawada Tomohiko's every move.
At this point, Aoki looked at Liu Xing and said, "I just want to ask you a question now. Do you believe what I say?"
Liu Xing nodded without hesitation and said seriously: "Of course I believe what you say, because there is no need for you to lie to me, because you won't gain anything by lying to me."
Aoki chuckled and said, "That's very good, then I will continue to tell you the next story."
PS: It’s hard to separate the chapters, so I combined them into two. These stories are mainly to flesh out the characters of NPCs and to pave the way for subsequent plots.
