Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 257 Self-rescue
Yichun, who collapsed limply on the ground, did not die immediately.
After falling to the ground, he tried hard to stand up.
It’s just that his injuries were too severe, and there was no possibility for him to stand up.
The huge wound that penetrated from the right abdomen to the left shoulder, plus the two penetrating wounds on his chest left by Ogata before - with such injuries, there is no possibility of survival.
His lips moved as if he wanted to say something.
His mouth was full of blood foam and the words he uttered were unclear.
Ogata could only barely hear what Junzheng said:
"I don't want to die... I don't want to die... I don't want to die..."
There was fear on Yichun's face and in his eyes.
He was afraid of the coming of death.
Yichun struggled to get up, not wanting to die like this, and rolled over on the wooden floor - like a maggot.
As for Ogata——he silently watched Ichijun's struggle in fear of death.
Yichun didn't struggle for long.
After a while, his breath finally dissipated slowly as a large amount of blood flowed out.
[Ding! Use the Mugu Two Swords Style: Raikiri to kill the enemy]
[Gained 750 points of personal experience and 700 points of swordsmanship "Two Swords of Mutual Self" experience]
[Current personal level: Lv24 (1030/3200)]
[Mutual Dual Blade Level: 8th Stage (120/6500)]
[Ding! Experience value is full, Wuwo's dual sword style level is increased by 1 level, and 2 skill points are obtained]
[Currently remaining skill points: 2 points]
After the system prompt sounded in his mind, Ogata looked at the body of Kazujun at his feet and said softly:
"How ridiculous... People who take pleasure in taking people's lives would be so scared when death is imminent..."
He swung the two swords in his hands downwards with force, shaking off all the blood on the blades, and then slowly put Daishikatsu and Daishizai into their sheaths.
After the two swords were sheathed, Ogata suddenly felt fatigue coming over him like a tide, like a wet towel, instantly wrapping his body layer by layer.
I have been on edge tonight.
When fighting a life-and-death duel with Yichun, every nerve in Ogata's body was stretched to the limit, and his attention and concentration were focused to the highest level.
Although his whole body was tense and he had devoted all his energy to the battle, Ogata did not feel physically tired.
It was not until his muscles and nerves relaxed that Ogata realized how tired he was.
I was so tired that even standing still felt quite strenuous.
After shaking a few times, Ogata fell softly to the ground...
However, before Ogata fell to the ground, a small hand suddenly stretched out from his side and supported his body.
"A-Ting..."
Ogata raised his eyes and looked at the person who was supporting him.
For some reason, after seeing Atachi's face, Obunaga felt a smile appear on his face uncontrollably.
"Thank you for your hard work..." Ating said softly.
"A-Ming, you've worked hard too..."
Ogata raised his hand and patted the two swords on his left waist, and said in a half-joking tone:
"If you hadn't delivered these two knives in time, you might not have seen me."
"I put a lot of effort into finding Dashitian and Dazizai for you..."
Ating smiled bitterly.
"Chikanosuke also put these two swords in his storage room."
"You know the storage room, right? It's the place with more than 200 cabinets and barrels."
"I just had a sudden inspiration and discovered the pattern of how Kinnosuke stored his things, so I was able to send these two knives to you in such a timely manner..."
"Rule?" Ogata raised his eyebrows. "What rule?"
"Kinnosuke puts things according to their pronunciation." A-Machi sighed softly, "He puts things with the same first pronunciation in the same row."
"I discovered this pattern only after I saw the nails and the locks ."
"The nail and the lock have the same first syllable, so Chikanosuke put them in the same row."
"The key and the mirror also have the same first note, so they are also placed in the same row."
"My luck was pretty good. After I discovered this pattern, I immediately found items with the same first syllable as the word for knife - lamp oil and rice paper."
“So I searched the cabinets and barrels in the same row as the lamp oil and rice paper one by one, and soon found the Great Buddha and Great Freedom stored in the cabinets and barrels.”
"I see..." After listening to Atachi's story quietly, Ogata couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Storing items according to the first sound... What a strange way of storing things..."
"That's right." Atachi agreed with a helpless look on his face, "I will definitely give that Chikanosuke a good scolding later ."
After saying that, Ating couldn't help but glance at Yichun's body at his feet.
Looking at Yichun's body, A-Ming couldn't help but sigh:
"Ayi, it's amazing that you can kill this monster..."
"You're wrong." As soon as Ating finished speaking, Obe immediately corrected him, "It's a pity that we were able to kill this monster."
Ogata emphasized the word "we".
"Without your weakening of him earlier and your timely delivery of the sword afterwards, I might not have been able to defeat Yichun."
"Well done, Atsumi."
Ogata said this solemnly.
After hearing what Ogata said, Atachi was slightly stunned.
After a while, a faint smile appeared on her face.
"……Thanks."
Ating said softly.
"It's been a while since I've heard people praise me for my achievements... Come on, Ogata, let's go downstairs. The battle on the first floor should be over. Do you need me to help you?"
Although Atachi asked this, she had silently hooked Ogata's left arm around her shoulder.
"If you can, please hold me up...but is your foot okay?"
Ogata looked at Atachi's left foot.
"It's okay." Ating turned her left ankle. "It's just a little sprained. After resting for a while, I feel much better now. It will be no problem for me to help you downstairs."
"Then... I'll leave it to you..."
After saying that, Ogata, with his left arm hooked on Atachi's shoulder, put all his weight on Atachi.
A-machi used her left arm to lift up Ogata, who was leaning on her shoulder, and helped him walk slowly towards the stairs.
"Don't take this opportunity to touch my body."
"Don't worry, I'm not interested in women covered in dirt and sweat... Wait! I'm kidding! Don't leave me behind!"
"snort."
After helping Ogata stabilize himself again, the two of them slowly walked down the stairs.
After entering the staircase corridor, Atachi was shocked to find that Ogata had a wound on the left side of his neck.
"Ayi!" Ah Ting exclaimed, "How did your neck get hurt?"
"Hmm?" Ogata was stunned when he heard what Atachi said, and raised his hand to touch his left neck.
As soon as his fingers touched his left neck, he immediately felt a large patch of sticky blood and a knife wound that was neither long nor short.
But the strange thing was—Ogata didn't feel any pain at all.
Adrenaline?
Ogata thought to himself.
The reason why he didn't feel any pain was probably because of adrenaline.
The large amount of adrenaline secreted can make people feel no pain for a while.
The pain will slowly return once the adrenaline wears off.
Touching the wound on the left side of his neck, Ogata gradually recalled how he got this wound.
"I was injured by Isshun's naginata when I was using Great Freedom to block Isshun's downward strike just now."
Ogata explained to Atachi.
"Although I managed to block his attack with my Great Freedom before Isshun's naginata chopped off my head, his sword still managed to hit my neck."
After hearing what Ogata said, Atachi recalled what happened just now - Ogata had used his one-armed sword to block Issun's naginata, but Issun's naginata had been lowered very low at that time, almost touching Ogata's neck. It should be at this time that Ogata's neck was cut by Issun's sword.
"Don't worry, it's just a simple flesh wound."
As Ogata spoke, he withdrew his hand from the wound.
"Just a little bandage will do."
After seeing that the wound on Ogata's neck did not seem to be serious, Atachi withdrew her gaze and focused on helping Ogata walk downstairs.
As for Ogata, after thinking for a while, he pulled up his personal system interface.
——Just in case…
Ogata said this in his mind as he added his newly acquired 2 skill points to "vitality".
As the system sound fell, Ogata's vitality rose to 19 points, and his skill points returned to 0 points.
In this era before the invention of penicillin, a minor injury could lead to infection and death.
Ogata didn't want to die miserably from a wound infection after finally defeating a powerful enemy.
Therefore, just in case, Ogata decided to add the newly acquired 2 skill points to vitality. Anyway, "vitality" is also a very important attribute, and adding it to it will only benefit you and not harm you.
…
…
After going down to the second floor, Ogata and Atachi first informed the villagers hiding on the second floor of the good news that the "giant" upstairs was dead.
Amid the cheers of the villagers, Ogata and Atachi went down to the first floor again.
The corridor opposite the main entrance is now littered with corpses.
The bodies of the shogunate soldiers were piled everywhere.
As for Mamiya and Makimura, they sat in a clean corner, silently recovering their strength.
It is not difficult to see from the battle situation on the scene that the shogunate army has been completely wiped out.
However, without Ogata, an important fighting force, it was not easy for Mamiya and Makimura to fight - this could be seen from their blood-stained appearance.
However, although it was not easy, it was not to the point where the two of them were so tired that they could not move.
After seeing Ogata and Omachi walking slowly towards them, Mamiya said to them in a half-joking tone:
"You two look pretty miserable. What happened upstairs?"
"The battle upstairs is much more intense than here." Ogata also responded to Mamiya in a half-joking tone.
Ogata used the shortest possible sentences to explain a series of events after he left the battlefield on the first floor, first fighting against Seitaro and then fighting against the evil monk.
"I see..." Mamiya said softly, "Ogata-kun, it's not easy for you either..."
After Ogata finished talking about his battle situation and achievements, Mamiya began to describe his battle situation and achievements with Makimura.
He and Makimura blocked the shogunate army's advance and retreat routes one after the other.
The shogunate army was unable to advance or retreat, and therefore was determined to die. It unleashed an even more powerful force, making the mopping-up operation by Mamiya and Makimura much more difficult.
After killing all the shogunate troops except for a few men, Mamiya deliberately left a few of them alive and extracted a lot of information from them.
For example, why did they suddenly land on the island and attack the inhabitants? Where did they land? How many companions were there? Did they carry cannons and other items?
After asking all the questions worth asking, Mamiya did not hesitate to wipe out these shogunate soldiers who had lost all their value.
"Did the higher-ups order us to kill all living people on the island..." Ogata muttered.
Those who were questioned by Mamiya only received the order to land on the island and kill all living people on the island, and they didn't know where such an order came from - this was normal.
They said that after all, they were just ordinary soldiers, tools used to carry out the mission. How could they know the reason for launching this mission?
Although they didn't know the exact reason, Ogata and the others could roughly guess why - perhaps some senior official suddenly became afraid that the living people on the island would take the opportunity to leave Choujima, leading to the danger of cannibal ghosts landing on the main island of Japan. In order to eliminate this risk, he decided to wipe out all the living islanders on the island.
This is a common thing in this era when human life is worthless - when an uncontrollable plague breaks out in a certain place, the place is simply blocked off and all the living people there are killed.
At this moment, Ogata suddenly heard noisy footsteps behind him.
Following the sound, they looked and saw the surviving villagers walking towards them in twos and threes.
The leader of the group of villagers walking towards them was Chikanosuke, who was being supported by someone and had a face as pale as a piece of paper.
Looking at Chikanosuke who had just woken up, Omachi, who was standing beside Ogata and supporting him, muttered in a voice that only she could hear with displeasure:
"You didn't wake up when I needed you just now, and now that the battle is over you wake up..."
With the help of the villagers, Chikanosuke slowly came to Ogata and the others, and the first words he said were -
"Thank you..."
Although he was seriously injured, Chikanosuke still forced himself to bow deeply to Ogata and others.
"Really...thank you so much for saving us..."
After Chikanosuke bowed to Ogata and his party, the rest of the villagers also bowed to Ogata and his party with expressions of gratitude.
In response to the thanks from Chikanosuke and others, Ogata simply remained calm.
"Kinnosuke, please stand up. We didn't make such a fuss just to save you."
"We are just saving ourselves and saving you as well."
"But - we can save you temporarily, but we can't save you forever."
At this point, Ogata's tone gradually became serious.
Ogata informed Chikanosuke and others of the important information he had obtained from those shogunate soldiers - that the shogunate intended to kill all living people on the island.
After learning that the shogunate planned to kill them all without leaving a single one alive, everyone, including Chikanosuke, showed despair on their faces.
"The shogunate has as many soldiers as you want."
Ogata said softly.
"If this attack fails, they will be able to organize a larger attack soon."
"We have no obligation to protect you all the time."
"We don't have the ability to protect you all the time. No matter how good we are at fighting, we can only defeat a hundred or a thousand people at most. We can't deal with an army of thousands."
"So what should we do next? Think about it carefully."
"Find a way to survive on your own."
