At home

"Don't be afraid, I'm still alive." Here, there was only a wick and a thin cheek that was illuminated by the lights. The fat Tomoyuki Tomoto had just coaxed his two daughters to sleep and was talking to his wife. Suddenly, a fire outside the window illuminated him. He looked up and changed his face. When he thought about it, he was a little unbelievable and murmured: "What's going on, right?"

Yuki Hitoshi thought of a terrible guess.

"But that person has saved our village!"

Fortunately, the hot-dojo was unbelievable, and a burst of anger arose. He immediately got up from the bed. He ignored his wife's obstruction and complaining eyes and comforted him: "Don't worry, it's okay, I'll go back!"

As he said that, he immediately went outside.

shrine

The shrine is very simple, but it is very large in area. The land in the world is not worth much. It is a small hill, several hundred meters away from the houses, and most of the mountain are low houses.

The most difficult time has passed, Matsuda Matsuda smiled and swept the ground. She was in a good mood: "Every time there will be at least half a year of gaps, and the village can work and harvest."

"If this samurai could stay, the village would be saved. Now we have sacrificed too much."

Masuda Masuda was wearing a thin witch suit and clearing the filth on the stone steps. She hummed a song in a low voice, cleaning up step by step, and doing some work. She moved a little bit of pain in her body, and couldn't help but look at a little bit of hope. She couldn't help but stand on the stone steps and look at a room in the shrine. Unfortunately... she didn't see the samurai.

At this moment, she looked down inadvertently and the beacon fire ignited.

"..." Seeing this scene, the witch Matsuda Mayumi frowned, her expression changed drastically, and immediately thought of something, and hurriedly threw down her broom and arrived at the room in the shrine.

"Your Excellency!" Matsuda Mayumi opened the door and was about to wake up Pei Ziyun.

But at this time, Pei Ziyun had opened his eyes and woke up.

Seeing Pei Ziyun awaken, Masuda Mayumi was shocked, but she still said quickly: "Please run away quickly, the city lord is sending someone here!"

"Well, what's the situation?" Pei Ziyun lay lazily on the straw mat. There were wooden boards under the straw mat, but the wood was soft and mossy, and the color was dull. But this was already the best room in the shrine. He was not shocked at this time, but just asked, and looked outside the opened door and could clearly see that a beacon fire was illuminated by the village at this time.

"Sir, you'd better hide. I'll tell you about this later!" Masuda Matsuda said in a hurry. At this moment, footsteps sounded again, which aroused her vigilance: "Fato, what do you want to do?"

The one who came up was Tomoyuki Hiroshi. He quickly came up and gasped: "Sir Samurai, please leave quickly. The Jamu family ignited the beacon fire, and the city lord will send someone quickly."

"You saved our village, we cannot repay our grudges."

"...I originally wanted to start a massacre, but now it seems, forget it." Looking at the two of them, Pei Ziyun got up, put on his clothes, and went down the hill without saying a word. The hill, which was only twenty meters tall, reached the bottom in a few steps and was about to walk along the road.

"Stop!" At this time, seven or eight people suddenly stopped Pei Ziyun.

Pei Ziyun looked at the villagers holding weapons in front of him, with some impatient eyes and said, "Why, do you want to stop me?"

Jamuriming, who took the lead, said: "No, sir, we have no intention of making things difficult for you, because according to the customs of our village, today is a festival of God. As long as you pass today, you can leave!"

"Now, I just want you to rest in our village for a while, you don't want to hit the gods!"

Jamuriming immediately gave this reason. Others were sophisticated and did not want to start a war with Pei Ziyun.

"Nonsense, today is not a festival for gods at all, Jamu, I know your thoughts, but the samurai saved us, let him go!" Matsuda Matsuda said loudly.

"Bastard!" Jamu Kyō, who was behind Jamuri Aki, lit a beacon at this time, and made up his mind. He was furious after hearing this: "It must be you, the witch, that's why he suddenly thought of leaving, and you should go to hell like the escaped Makamita!"

"Yes, it's just that you are venting the news!" Others also accused Matsuda Matsumi: "You betrayed our village."

"Noisy!" Pei Ziyun looked at the absurd scene in front of him. The wooden knife slashed and the light of the knife appeared. Jamuriming, who was standing in front, was still talking. His whole person was divided into two sections. Jamu Qinglong, who was scolding loudly behind him, also had a deep bone-sighted wound.

"Ahhh!" The blood sprayed onto the surrounding crowd, making people scream in horror.

"Kill someone!" When other villagers saw the bloody scene, they immediately spread their legs and quickly escaped. Pei Ziyun took a step forward, and Mu Dao was about to continue killing.

But Masuda Matsuda immediately begs for mercy: "Sir, please don't continue to attack. These people have no choice but to do so, just because of the order of the city lord!"

"They have no choice. If the city lord finds out that they have not reported it, everyone in the village will die!"

"Please forgive me!"

"Since it's your plea, let's do it for the time being." Pei Ziyun took back the knife and went outside as he heard Matsuda Matsumi's words.

At this time, the people who fled far away found that Pei Ziyun did not continue to chase him, and all paused, and looked at the witch and Pei Ziyun with hatred.

Looking at the green and faint gazes of those people, Matsuda Mayumi showed a hint of bitterness. After thinking about it, she followed a few steps: "Sir, where are you going? Please give me a guide!"

Not far away from the village, the fog was faintly wide among the trees, and it was hard to see more than ten meters away. Pei Ziyun walked stepping and saw the corpse standing across the road.

It looked like a woodcutter, with maggots on the body, but it did not rot further. Pei Ziyun glanced casually and passed by without expression.

"Sir Samurai, this is a zombie, it will turn into a zombie." Before Masuda Masaki finished speaking, he suddenly saw a light spot suddenly exploded in the corpse, and then white flames ignited on the body, and when he breathed, it turned into ashes.

“…”

"Mayumi, keep talking!" Pei Ziyun said, asking about the situation all the way. "Hi, it was originally very good here, but suddenly changed 350 years ago, and zombies appeared on the earth. At first, it was only a few, but later it became more and more."

"Not only that, there are monsters, real monsters."

"The leader of the zombie is actually a kind of monster, it can be said to be a monster with corpses!"

"The village that could have fought against zombies was gradually being broken by monsters, and fewer and fewer." Matsuda Matsumi said bitterly.

"350 years!" Pei Ziyun didn't care about this. If he remembered correctly, it was the time when the general rose and the time for historical changes.

If you say this, it will be related to the general? Pei Ziyun thought about it, stopped suddenly, pointed to the mountain in the distance and asked, "What is there?"

"That's the city lord's city!" Masuda Matsuda answered without hesitation, with envy and longing: "Only the city lord's city is a safe place."

"Everyone wants to enter the city, but it's too difficult."

"Is that true?" Pei Ziyun saw a different scene in his eyes.

At the city lord's mansion, a murderous aura soared into the sky. This murderous aura was so powerful that the surrounding space was a little distorted. This was a force that even he felt threatening. Pei Ziyun couldn't help but squint his eyes and showed murderous aura.

"Ah!" With a soft cry, Matsuda Mayumi couldn't help but cover her mouth, looked at Pei Ziyun, and dared not speak.

After a while, Pei Ziyun turned around and asked, "How much do you know about the city lord's city?"

"Um?"

"I'm very sorry, actually I don't know much about the castle lord's castle." Matsuda Matsuda's expression was a little shy and his cheeks flushed: "Because I have only entered the castle once, everything I know is from others, and of course the most important thing is to learn from Makamita."

"Makamita was once recruited by the city lord as a samurai and lived in the city for a while." As he said that, a trace of sadness and remembrance appeared in Masuda Masamomi's eyes, and she cheered up again.

"The city lord's city is called Okayama Castle. Asakusa Tatsuya also said that Okayama Castle has existed for a long time, and it is unclear when it was built. However, according to the information he checked, Okayama Castle was originally a main city with 120,000 stones. It has been built for at least a few hundred years and is very prosperous."

"But now only one-third of the villages in the territory are left, and they are becoming more and more desolate."

"Even so, there are still very powerful samurai in the city, and they can kill terrifying monsters with one hand, so no monsters dare to attack nearby. Any monsters close to Okayama City will be cleared."

"Is there really such a powerful person in the world?" Masuda Mayumi looked at the city in the distance, a little unbelievable. She suddenly thought of Pei Ziyun's powerful force and the city lord's request for the attention of "outsiders" in each village. She glanced at it in a blink of an eye and said, "You are related to Okayama Castle?"

Is it an escaped warrior or a failed branch of the head of the family?

Matsuda Mayumi asked, and couldn't help but think of this, her face turned pale, and she hurriedly said: "Ahhh, sorry, sir, I didn't mean to inquire about you!"

Pei Ziyun listened, smiled indifferently, and said softly: "Let's lead the way."

I was led by Matsuda Mayumi, but it was very strange that although I looked at Okayama Castle, I walked for a long time and found that the distance was not much closer.

Matsuda Matsuda noticed the confusion and bowed quickly: "Ah, sir, I'm sorry, there is another thing I forgot to tell you!"

"That is, although Okayama Castle looks not far, it is actually a very long distance away."

"In the past, there was a samurai in our village who tried it. He saw how long it would take to get to Okayama Castle? However, after two or three days, he came back alone, but he failed. His arms and legs were injured. Someone in the village once asked, why didn't he say it, but said that the distance was very far."

"From now on, the village will never have this idea again."

"But strangely, the people sent by the city lord are very fast and can often arrive in one day. Similarly, people with the status of the city can also arrive in one day."

Pei Ziyun listened, without saying a word, just observed silently. After walking for a long time, it seemed that the distance from Gangshan City had not changed, but as he continued to deepen, the fog around him became thicker and thicker.

"Sir, there is Luomu Village in front." Masuda Matsuda was very happy.

“…”

"It seems that Luomu Village is not peaceful either." Pei Ziyun said, calming down, tilting his ears, shouting and screaming from afar, and screaming.
Chapter completed!