——What on earth am I doing…
From the beginning, Azhu has been having a trance-like, unreal, and confused feeling as if he is floating in the clouds.
All of this started just now, before they broke into Longshui Temple.
About 3 sticks of incense ago——
Osaka, somewhere some distance away from Ryusuidō Temple—
"There is indeed something wrong with this Ryusui Temple." Atachi, who had just climbed a large tree and used his excellent eyesight to observe the current situation of the Ryusui Temple, returned to Genichi and his companions and reported to them, "I saw many guys dressed as Iga ninjas going in and out of the Ryusui Temple."
"Is there really something wrong with Ryushui Temple?" Asai's eyes widened with disbelief.
Not only Asai felt this way, everyone present, including Mamiya who proposed the hypothesis that "Ryusui Temple might be the enemy's headquarters", and Genichi who suggested going to Ryusui Temple to try their luck, now had an expression of disbelief.
A-Machi and his crew just listened to Genichi's advice and decided to knock out and tie up the captured Jie Zheng and Aqing, and then go together to "inspect" Ryushui Temple.
Their choice to "inspect" Longshui Temple was actually a helpless act. After all, they had no other clues about the enemy.
Therefore, on the way to Longshui Temple, everyone was in a mentality of drawing lots and trying their luck.
That's why Genichi and the others couldn't help but make expressions like w(°Д°)w...
Going to the lottery with the mentality that winning 10 yuan would be a victory, but in the end you won 1 billion - if this happened to anyone, the expression would become like this: w (°Д°) w
The good luck was so strong that it made everyone's mind dazed for a moment.
"...Haha." After a brief shock, Mamiya chuckled a few times, "It seems that we are starting to get lucky..."
After Mamiya laughed, Azuki, who happened to be standing next to Mamiya at the time, also laughed.
Because she was thinking at that time: I finally have a place to use my skills!
After learning that Ogata and Huluwuya's group were attacked by unknown people, Azhu has been wanting to help everyone.
The reason was simple - among those who attacked Ogata and Huluya's group, there was an Iga ninja.
Hatred for the Iga ninjas who tore apart her family, and her eagerness to find her parents and sister, made Azuki decide without hesitation to stand on the same front with A-machi and Huluya's group.
Azuki's idea is to work with Miss A-machi and the others to deal with this unknown group that includes both Iga ninjas and sharp arquebusiers, and maybe they can find clues about their parents and sister.
Azhu was full of confidence and wanted to lend a helping hand to A-Ming and the others - but she found out to her embarrassment that she seemed to be of no use...
So far, Azhu has been like a group pet, being brought around by A-Ming and the others. The only thing she can do is to increase the number of women in their small team...
This made Azhu feel embarrassed, ashamed and unacceptable.
She wants to help.
She didn't want to be dispensable.
So she kept waiting.
He was eagerly waiting for the opportunity to show his skills and be able to help Ating and the others.
And now——the opportunity she had been waiting for had finally arrived!
It has been confirmed that Longshui Temple is one of the enemy's strongholds.
Azhu thought to himself: Now that we have discovered the enemy's stronghold, we must first send people in to investigate and gather intelligence. After collecting enough intelligence, we can make plans for the next step.
A reconnaissance mission - such a mission is just right for her who has received strict ninja training!
Azhu is still very confident in his skills and lurking techniques.
Thinking that he had finally gotten the chance to show off his skills, Azhu straightened the two big buns on his chest, smiled with confidence, and cheered in his heart with excitement:
——Okay!ヽ（°▽°）ノ
——It’s finally here! My chance to show off my skills…
"Okay, let's charge in. If we meet someone who looks like an important person, capture him alive. If we see anything like information or documents, try to preserve it." Yuan Yi announced to everyone in a serious tone.
——Huh?
Azuki's expression suddenly changed from ヽ（°▽°）ノ to this: Σ（°△ °|||）
"What a coincidence, Master Genichi." Mamiya said seriously, "You and I are thinking the same thing."
——Eh? ! ΣΣ（°△°|||）? !
"Just charge in directly..." Mucun said softly, "That's good...it saves time and effort. I just hope we can catch some powerful people and get enough information."
"Just barging in without any strategy... I really miss it. I used to do things like this with you, Genichi." Fuma sighed softly.
——Eh? ! ! ΣΣΣ（°△ °|||）? ! !
Azuki opened his mouth wide and looked back and forth at the faces of Genichir, Mamiya and others with a dazed look.
Genichi and the others all looked serious, and it didn't look like they were joking at all...
"Wait, wait a minute!" Ah Zhu couldn't help but said anxiously, "It would be bad if we don't send someone to Longshui Temple to investigate the situation first, right?"
As soon as Azhu finished speaking, A-Ming, who was standing next to him, frowned and echoed:
"Yeah, isn't it a bit too reckless to just charge in like this?"
A-Tsuki was deeply moved by A-Ming's words. He felt like he had finally met someone who understood him...
"Send someone in to investigate first? That's too much trouble." Yuan Yi showed a carefree smile, "Ogata-kun and Xiaolin are both missing now. If we don't delay for a moment, something unexpected might happen. We don't have that much time to waste here."
"Don't worry, Miss A-machi, Miss A-tsuki."
Yuan Yi gave a calm smile, then slowly pulled the Yangshen from his left waist out of the sheath.
The moonlight reflected on Yang Shen's blade, emitting a sharp cold light. A breeze with just the right strength blew over, causing Yuan Yi's clothes to flutter.
"As long as I and my sword are here, there won't be any unexpected events that are difficult to deal with."
"Besides, besides me, there is also Mamiya."
Hearing what Genichi said, Mamiya smiled slightly and then sat cross-legged on the ground.
"Sorry, please give me two incense sticks of time."
After saying this, Mamiya closed his eyes, assumed a meditative posture, and his chest began to rise and fall in a special rhythm.
After listening to what Genichi just said, A-Machi stared at Genichi with complicated eyes for a while, then sighed softly.
"Okay... I understand."
After saying this, Ating took off the large cloth bag on his back and untied it. Inside the bag were five extremely long muskets.
Not long after she started traveling with Ogata and Atachi, Azuki heard Atachi introduce these five muskets. These five muskets were called "Kentucky Long Rifles" and were powerful weapons that Atachi had accidentally obtained in Ezo.
After following Genichi and others to Ryushui Temple tonight to "try their luck", Atachi once again carried this set of powerful weapons on his back for the first time in a long time.
The only soulmate...also "defected to the enemy"...
The process of following Genichi and others to charge into Longshui Temple... was unusually concise and boring.
Mamiya, who had been sitting on the ground in a meditation posture for two incense sticks, suddenly became unusually brave for some reason.
He and Genichi rushed to the front, while Atachi, Makimura and others followed closely behind them, responsible for dealing with the enemies who had managed to escape Genichi and Mamiya's attacks.
It seemed that those who stayed in Ryusui Temple were all Iga ninjas, and there were no musketeer troops stationed here.
Mamiya and Genichi... are like boiling water. And the ninjas in Ryusui Temple are like snow in winter.
Just as accumulated snow meets boiling water, so the enemies in the temple met Mamiya and Genichirō.
It collapsed at the first touch and was unable to withstand the fierce attack from Jian and Yuan.
Because the attack speed of these two people was too fast, Fuma, Atachi, Makimura and others accidentally lost touch with them and were left behind by them for a long distance.
Azhu also thought: Since his hope of carrying out the "reconnaissance mission" has failed, he should help as much as possible in the attack on Longshui Temple!
Her idea is beautiful.
However, the reality is still bleak...
Fuma, Makimura and the others are really capable.
Especially the wind demon, the chain technique has an extremely wide attack range, which makes it basically impossible for those ninjas who were missed by Jian and Yuan to escape.
Whenever Azhu wanted to deal with an enemy, that enemy would basically be quickly killed by Fuma and his men.
Until now, Azhu has not even drawn his sword once, nor has he even thrown a fist once... He has just been running behind Fuma and the others...
——What on earth am I doing…
Azhu felt a strong sense of emptiness in his heart, and he muttered to himself, "What on earth am I doing..." Then he followed Fuma and others into a room.
As soon as she entered the room, Azhu's vision was covered by the flashing of swords and the shadows of knives - she saw Genichi and Mamiya fighting fiercely with an old man holding a pistol and a crazy woman holding two knives respectively.
Azhu didn't recognize the crazy woman, so after glancing at her, he quickly turned his gaze to the old man.
And after shifting his gaze to the old man's face, Azhu's expression immediately underwent... a wonderful change.
Then, Azhu saw that in the room, in addition to the two groups of people fighting fiercely, there was also a girl who was tightly tied up and lying on the ground unable to move.
If the change in Azhu's expression when he saw the old man could be described as "wonderful", then the change in Azhu's expression after he saw the girl... I don't know what other words can be used to describe it...
…
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Just now, after hearing the brandished woman yelling "I'm going to kill you" over and over again, Ji Jiu secretly said "not good" in his heart.
He knew without even looking - it must be that the woman with extremely poor self-control had lost control again.
This is why Jijiu likes to secretly call the brand woman a mad dog. This mad woman is extremely irritable. Once she gets angry, she will enter a state of losing her mind and hack indiscriminately at friend or foe like a madman. At the same time, she becomes reckless and irrational, losing the ability to think and observe that she should have in battle.
Just like now - the only thought in her mind at this moment was "kill Mamiya", so she didn't notice A-Ming who secretly jumped onto the beam and pointed the muzzle of the musket at her.
Fortunately, the lady didn't find Ating, but Yoshihisa did.
Yoshihisa, who was fighting with Genichi, immediately devoted a small part of his attention to observing this new wave of enemies after the bald man...ah, no, Fuma and others arrived. Because of this, he was able to discover Ating who was about to launch a sneak attack on the branded woman in the first place, and warned the branded woman out loud.
Yoshikyu's warning saved the crazy woman's life.
The muzzle of Ating's gun was aimed at the head of the branded woman, who happened to be standing still at that time.
At such a short distance, shooting at a standing target - Ating was 100% sure that he could blow the woman's head off.
Unfortunately, Jijiu's warning forced Mrs. Lao to dodge to the side in time, so the bullet that could have blown her head off only hit her abdomen.
The sneak attack failed. Ating smacked his lips and said "tsk" with a bit of regret. Then he put the empty Kentucky long rifle in his hand on his back, and then took out a new rifle that had not been fired from his back.
"Everyone be careful!" Mamiya was keeping a watchful eye on the branded woman while shouting to Fuma and the others who had finally arrived, "It is said that this crazy woman and that old man have some incomplete immortal body!"
"It seems that we need to attack their heads, or inflict enough damage on them in a short period of time, in order to kill them!"
"Also - the 'immortal power' in their bodies also makes their physical strength far beyond that of ordinary people! We can't treat them as ordinary women and old people."
Mamiya's words made Fuma and others who had just arrived look shocked.
A Ting, who was still squatting on the beam, quickly turned his attention to the branded woman's abdomen, which had a large bloody hole.
As soon as she turned her eyes, she saw red blood threads oozing out of the blood hole in the branded woman's body. These red blood threads squeezed the bullet out of the branded woman's body, and then in the blink of an eye, they repaired the hole in the branded woman's abdomen.
"Ah!" Shimada, who was standing by the door, screamed, "It's the remaining enemies, the remaining enemies are coming!"
Makimura, who happened to be standing near the door, looked outside the room quickly - outside the room, about twenty Iga ninjas were rushing towards them aggressively.
"Makura!"
Mucun suddenly heard someone calling him.
So he quickly followed the voice and looked towards the person who was calling him - Genichi.
At this time, Genichi continued to fight with Yoshihisa while loudly asking Makimura:
"How many remaining enemies have arrived?"
"About twenty or so!" Mucun responded loudly.
At this time, Genichi and Yoshihisa were engaged in a fierce offensive and defensive battle.
Yoshihisa brandished his pistol, stabbing at Genichi with a series of afterimages.
Facing Yoshihisa's torrential attacks, Genichirō put up an impeccable defense while looking thoughtful.
After thinking for a while, he shouted:
"Makimura, Asai, Shimada, the three of you stay outside the room and stop the ninjas coming to reinforce you. Don't let them come over!"
"Kanshi, Ms. Atachi, the two of you go help Mamiya."
"Ms. Azhu, please take the tied-up girl next to me aside and protect her. She seems to be our ally, so let's protect her for now. It's not good to let her lie there all the time, as she will be too much of a hindrance."
"As for this old guy, I will continue to deal with him alone."
When Lin was away, Yuanyi was the head of their gourd house.
Therefore, after Yuan Yi gave this series of orders, no one in Huluwu expressed any objection.
Makimura, Asai and Shimada rushed out of the room.
And Ating once again pointed the muzzle of the Kentucky long rifle at the woman.
After Genichi gave the series of orders just now, Mamiya immediately understood Genichi's intention - concentrate their strength and kill one first.
Genichirō continued to hold Yoshihisa back, while Mamiya, Atachi, and Fuma concentrated their efforts on killing the branded woman. After the branded woman was killed and Mamiya and the others were free, they could launch a very enjoyable four-on-one fight against Yoshihisa.
"Come on! Come on!! Come here, all of you!" The branded woman, who had just had a hole in her abdomen, roared even more crazily.
She roared, then rushed in the direction of A-Ming.
"Do you still remember to prioritize eliminating those who can launch long-range attacks..." Mamiya curled his lips, then raised his knife to block the woman who was branding her.
"Get out of here!" The woman swung her knife at Jian Gong.
The purple sword light and the white sword light once again complemented each other.
In a one-on-one fight, even the Lao woman couldn't defeat Jian Gong.
Now it's three against one, and Mamiya has two new helpers, one is Fuma Kotaro, and the other is a shooter who is skilled in shooting - the outcome of this battle has been doomed from the beginning.
Mamiya stubbornly stood in front of the lady, preventing her from moving forward even a single step.
laugh!
Mamiya seized the opportunity and stabbed the branded woman in the head.
The branded woman tilted her head back to avoid Mamiya's stab. Because her upper body tilted back so sharply, she subconsciously took a step back.
At the moment when the branding woman took a step back with her right foot——
Crash.
The sound of chains swinging could be heard.
An old man who had been standing not far away waiting for the opportunity swung the chain in his left hand.
The iron chain was like a poisonous snake with its own intelligence, and it nimbly wrapped around the branded woman's right foot.
This is the opportunity Fengmo has been waiting for.
The moment when the brandishing woman changed her steps and her center of gravity became unstable.
Fengmo tightened the chain hard, trying to destroy the woman's center of gravity, and finally made her fall to the ground.
But Fengmo's physical strength, which had been weakened by old age, was simply unable to contend with the woman with immortal power, so he was unable to pull her down. He only made her body a little sluggish - and that was enough.
The purple blade light filled the entire pupil of the woman.
Mamiya swung Vairocana horizontally, slashing towards the neck of the brandishing woman.
The woman gritted her teeth, raised the two swords in her hands, and narrowly avoided Vairocana. The blade of Vairocana brushed past her scalp.
Before the crazy woman could even take a breath, a new light came into her eyes - this time it was not the shining light of a knife blade, but the light reflected from a person's scalp.
While the branded woman was concentrating on Mamiya, Feng Mo sneaked up to her side and put his right hand into her arms, then -
Bang!
Fengmo suddenly pulled his right hand out of his arms, and a ball of light yellow powder flew out of Fengmo's arms and hit the woman's face.
The branded woman turned her head to avoid the blow reflexively, but she was still a beat too late.
The ball of yellowish powder hit the left half of the woman's face, and she instantly felt a pain like a needle pricking her left eye.
“Aaaaaaaaaaah!”
The pain from her left eye made the woman scream like a pig being slaughtered. She couldn't even open her left eye. The light yellow powder had a pungent smell. Although her right eye was not hit by the powder, the smell of the powder irritated her and she burst into tears.
Her left eye could not be opened and her right eye was filled with tears. The wind demon successfully took away the woman's eyesight temporarily.
“Aaaaaaaaaaa——!”
The branding woman wiped the tears from her right eye with the back of her left hand, while swinging the knife in her right hand around, trying to prevent anyone from approaching.
The crazy woman's efforts were doomed to be in vain - because someone didn't even need to get close to her to attack her.
"Huh..." Ating, who was squatting on the beam, exhaled all the foul air in his lungs, then suddenly retracted his right finger on the trigger.
Bang!
The bullet from the Kentucky long rifle once again caused a flower of blood to bloom on the woman's body.
The branding woman was moving around, making it difficult for Ating to aim, so unfortunately Ating's attack still did not hit the crazy woman's head.
But Ating's sniper shot was effective - although it did not hit the woman's head, it hit her right knee.
The branded woman, who was unable to stand steadily for a moment, fell to the ground with her right leg kneeling on one knee.
At this time, the branding woman finally wiped away the tears that had accumulated in her right eye.
The first thing that came into the eyes of the lady was Mamiya, who was standing two steps away from him, with his center of gravity extremely low, and in a sword-drawing stance...
--not good!
The branded woman subconsciously wanted to step back and distance herself from Mamiya, but her right knee had not recovered yet and she could not move...
The moment Vairocana was unsheathed, it seemed as if all the light in the world was concentrated on this sword.
The purple light rising into the sky seemed to be about to smash the roof of the temple into pieces.
The purple light penetrated into the woman's right armpit and exited from her left neck.
The crazy woman's half body flew high into the sky.
"Feiyan Zanshinliu
Secret
--moment."
The man who once bore the name of "Yoshitsune" swung the purple sword in his right hand vigorously, shook off the blood on the blade, and slowly put the sword back into the black and purple sheath.