I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

There is a thick circle of black cloth tied to the handle of the knife.

On the one hand, this circle of black cloth is to prevent sweaty hands from slipping, and on the other hand, it is convenient for A-machi to use this wakizawa to climb over tall buildings like the wooden walls of Toyowa Village.

A-machi used Wakizashi's blade as a foothold, stood on it, then untied the thick black cloth wrapped around the handle of Wakizashi, and bit the bottom end of the black cloth with his mouth.

Looking up at the top of the wooden wall, after confirming the distance between each other and the approximate strength to be consumed, he bit the black cloth connected to the handle of Wakizasa's knife, exerted force with both feet, and kicked hard towards the wooden wall. Catch the top of the wall.

The top of the wooden wall in Fenghe village is not sharpened, so it is very easy to grasp.

After easily grasping the top of the wooden wall, Ah-Ming did not rush to pull himself away, but poked his head out of the top of the wall to check if there was anyone nearby.

"Good luck..." A-cho muttered inarticulately while biting the black cloth, "No one..."

After confirming that there was no one around the wall, A-Machi pulled his arms to the top of the wall, and then waved to Ogata below, indicating that Ogata could come.

Seeing that A-cho had climbed the city wall very smoothly and signaled himself to do so, Ogata did not hesitate, and began to repeat A-cho's actions just now.

A-cho's move to climb the city wall just now seems to be quite simple, but in fact there are a lot of little tricks.

For example - how to stand firm on the wakizashi inserted into the wall, there are a lot of skills in it.

If it weren't for the fact that he has already mastered the basic "Shiranui-ryu stealth technique", Ogata would not be sure to stand firm on such a narrow foothold.

Atachi, who is only 1 meters tall, can jump from the top of the wooden wall, and Ogata, who is far taller than A-machi, is naturally no problem.

Relying on Shiranui's stealth technique, as well as the advantages of his height and long arms, after easily climbing to the top of the wooden wall, A-Ming let go of the black cloth in his mouth, grasped the black cloth tightly with both hands, and pulled his wakizashi Give a little bit of recycling.

This is the purpose of this black cloth - after using the blade to climb a high place, it can be used to recover your own knife.

"I'm going down first."

Whispering in the ear of Atachi, who was recovering the knives, Ogata pressed the two knives around his waist tightly to prevent the scabbards of the two knives from colliding with each other and making too much noise when he fell later.

Then he jumped down lightly, pressed his back against the wall of the wooden wall, and slid down the wall to the ground in a posture similar to "sliding".

As soon as Ogata fell to the ground, Ah-machi also just used the black cloth to retrieve her knife.

Immediately following Ogata, after jumping to the ground, A-Machi looked around.

"It's so dark... so quiet..."

"And the atmosphere feels a bit strange..." Ogata added.

The world inside the wall and the world outside the wall—although there is only a wall separating them, Ogata feels that the air between the two is vastly different.

It's not that the air inside the wall is filled with an unpleasant stench, but—the atmosphere in the air is a little... weird.

Obviously there should be some human beings living behind this wooden wall, but the air inside the wall has been exuding a deadly atmosphere, and there is no smoke and fire.

"Let's go in and have a look first." Ogata said.

"Ah."

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The two cats, Ogata and Atachi, lowered their bodies and moved forward bit by bit along the dark place.

Tonight's cloudy sky made most of the area completely dark, which brought great convenience to the stealth of the two of Ogata.

After going forward for a certain distance, the two found a crop field.

At the same time, the villagers of Fenghe Village were finally discovered.

This piece of crop land is just an ordinary paddy field. Several young people are standing in every corner of this paddy field, as if they are guarding this paddy field.

There were men and women in these young people. Although the light was dim and the vision was not good, Ogata could still vaguely see that the complexion and physical condition of these young people were extremely poor.

They were all skinny, sallow and emaciated, with deeply sunken cheeks—you could tell they hadn't eaten properly for a long time.

Ogata suspected that if there was a strong wind, these young people might not even be able to stand still.

Looking at the young men standing guard in the paddy fields, Ogata and A-Machi felt relieved.

Before sneaking into Fenghe Village, Ogata and others had prepared for the worst, that is - all the villagers in Fenghe Village were dead.

Since Fenghe Village isolated the outside world with a wooden wall, Zong Hai has never communicated with the islanders hiding behind the wooden wall, so Zong Hai doesn't know if there are any living people behind the wooden wall.

There are still people standing guard in this paddy field, which means that many people are still alive inside the wooden wall.

After carefully avoiding this paddy field and the young people in this paddy field, Ogata and A-Machi continued to move forward cautiously.

"I said...A-Machi." Ogata, who was following closely behind A-Machi, smiled wryly at A-Machi and whispered, "Is that iron cannon behind you really all right..."

Because A-Machi was walking ahead of Ogata, Ogata could clearly see the iron cannon behind A-Machi shaking slightly because A-Machi was moving.

Ogata looked at it and felt that the iron cannon was in the way, so he couldn't help asking A-cho.

To Ogata's question, Amachi replied without hesitation:

"It's not in the way, it's not in the way. I've long been used to carrying an iron cannon on my back. Carrying an iron cannon on my back won't hinder me from doing any actions... Ah, Ah Yi, look quickly, I see the village."

Ogata looked forward in the direction that Machi's finger pointed.

I saw a little fire flickering in the dark in front of the two.

With the light of these fires, Ogata could barely see the shadows of the buildings and the figures already shaking under the fires.

"Here." Atachi threw a black handkerchief to Ogata.

Ogata took a closer look—this black handkerchief looked very familiar to him. It was the handkerchief that A-Machi had lent him to cover his nose and mouth when the two of them searched the deserted village the day before yesterday.

"Wrap your mouth and nose like I did." As he spoke, Ah-Machi also took out a black handkerchief and covered his face below the eyes.

"Why do you cover your mouth and nose..." Although Ogata was puzzled, he obediently followed what A-Machi said, picked up the handkerchief that A-Machi just handed him, and wrapped his own handkerchief neatly. nose and mouth.

"This will reduce the sound of your breathing... But the main reason is because this is the rule of our Shiranui - when sneaking into the destination, you must pay attention to protecting your identity. Let's go, Ayi."

Following the dim shadows, Ogata and A-machi approached Fenghe village little by little.

As soon as they got close enough to clearly see the outermost houses of Fenghe Village, Ogata and the two heard a loud shout from inside Fenghe Village:

"Everyone! Let's start distributing tomorrow's breakfast! Please come and assemble!"

Chapter 222 The "Monarch" Inside the Wall

The maid nodded vigorously, indicating that she understood.

"Don't forget what I just said."

After reminding the maid at the end, the owner of the female voice slowly let go of the maid's mouth.

After the mouth was freed, the maid was very obedient and did not scream loudly or say any more irrelevant words.

"First question—where is Konnosuke?"

"On the third floor...in his room..."

Because of fear, the maid's voice trembled so badly that she couldn't even utter a complete and fluent sentence.

"Second question—where is his room?"

"Go to...the stairs next to it...turn right to the second room...it's Mr. Konnosuke's room..."

"The third question—is Konnosuke in the room now?"

"At... definitely at... this time of day... Konnosuke-sama is about to go to bed..."

"The fourth question—has Konnosuke ever practiced martial arts? For example, he has learned Jiu-Jitsu, Aikido, etc."

"No……"

"The fifth question-does Konnosuke have a guard? There will be a guard in front of his room door after he goes to bed."

"nor……"

"...I see, thank you for your answer."

Speaking of this, the owner of the female voice suddenly fell silent.

Her sudden, somewhat strange silence made the maid unable to help thinking wildly. The fear in her heart became more and more intense, and her body trembled more violently.

After a while, the master of this female voice finally spoke again:

"One last question for you—what's the matter with this room?"

"Ah... this ah..."

The maid glanced at the three huge lockers that were attached to the three walls.

"This is... Konnosuke-sama's storage room..."

"These 3 cabinets... are the storage cabinets Mr. Konnosuke bought 5 years ago... There are... 210 cabinet barrels..."

"Master Konnosuke put all his sundries in this locker..."

"...Why are there no characters on the outside of these cabinets to identify the items in the cabinets? There are so many cabinets, and there are no reminders on them. Don't you forget which cabinet you put something in?"

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"In these cabinets...all the things...are arranged according to certain rules...so Mr. Konnosuke doesn't need to paste the characters for reminders on the outside of the cabinets...he never misses something or I forgot which bucket to put things in..."

"The law...? What law?"

"This...I don't know...Only Mr. Konnosuke knows what the rules of his things are..."

"That's it...well, thank you for your answer."

As the words of this voice fell, the maid felt as if something had hammered her hard on the back of her neck.

The intense pain caused the maid's eyes to turn black, and then she rolled her eyes and passed out directly...

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After knocking the maid unconscious with the bottom of the handle, Machi waved to the ceiling above her head.

Ogata, who had been hiding on the ceiling just now, removed one of the ceilings, then jumped down, and landed right next to A-Machi.

While working with A-Machi to put the fainted maid in place, Ogata asked A-Machi in a helpless tone:

"You just need to ask where the maid Konnosuke is. Why bother, ask her what these lockers are for..."

"Because I'm really curious. It's the first time I've seen a locker with such an exaggerated number of barrels..."

After placing the maid in the corner of the room, A-Machi, who couldn't hold back his curiosity, walked towards the locker closest to him.

After pulling open a bucket, A-Ming let out a small exclamation:

"These buckets are so big..."

Ogata went over and took a look at the cabinet that Ah-Ming had pulled out.

Just like what Ah-Ming said-although these cabinets are not very wide, they are all very narrow and long.

There were only 2 cups inside the bucket that A-Machi opened casually.

There are only 2 cups in such a long and narrow cabinet—it looks rather abrupt.

"Okay, don't look at it." Ogata said angrily, and took back the bucket that Ah-Ming pulled out, "Before the maid wakes up, let's go to Jinnosuke .”

"Got it. Let's go."

After saying that, A-Machi walked back to the place where Ogata had just jumped, and jumped to the ceiling nimbly, following the hole that Ogata just moved the ceiling and jumped to the ceiling.

Ogata, who followed closely behind, jumped back to the ceiling with A-Machi, and reinstalled the piece of ceiling he had just removed.

The room, which had been noisy before, returned to calm.

Only the maid who was beaten unconscious by Ah Ding was lying in the corner of the room, sleeping soundly.

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The dim light from the candlelight hit Konnosuke's body, and cast a long, long shadow behind Konnosuke.

This long shadow pressed like a mountain against the wall behind Konnosuke.

Konnosuke, who was about to fall asleep, had already changed his clothes, but he didn't immediately shrink into the futon and fell asleep. Instead, he sat on the futon, looking at the sky outside the window, thinking about something, with a heavy expression on his face.

At this moment, Konnosuke suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing behind him.

Before he had time to turn his head and look behind him, two small hands stretched out from behind him on the left and right sides, and quickly controlled Konnosuke.

The person who controlled Konnosuke was naturally A-Machi.