I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Using the Shiranui-ryu stealth technique, the two tiptoed out of the clinic, and then lurked in an inconspicuous corner on the west side of Hirachiyo's house.

The division of labor between the two is very clear. Ogata is responsible for alerting whether there are outsiders approaching around, while A-Machi is responsible for listening to the movement in the house attentively.

Although there is no wind or snow tonight, it is "a winter night in the northern land" after all. If you stand in the same place for a long time, you will still feel the cold air penetrating into every pore of your body.

However, Ogata and his wife were very lucky. Before both of them started to feel the cold, A-Machi pulled Ogata's sleeve suddenly.

This is the secret signal that the two of them agreed before: There is movement in the house!

Ogata quickly pressed his ear to the wall.

The sound insulation effect of the wooden wall is quite average. After putting his ear against the wall, Xu Yi could hear the sound of someone walking, and... the sound of a door being opened.

Then, strange voices of dialogue entered the ears of Ogata and A-Ming...

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"Xuanzhi. A strange young warrior came today, and he threatened that he was looking for you and your master."

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"...I really want to see what kind of disease the young warrior wants my master and I to treat."

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"Xuan Zhi, you should ignore that young warrior. Who knows if they really came to see you and your master for medical treatment? You should obey me obediently and hide for now."

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"...Do you want me to hide first...Then where should I hide?"

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Ogata and A-Machi looked at each other with a tacit understanding, and they both found the color of horror in each other's eyes.

According to the conversation in the house, it is not difficult to hear that this is a conversation between two people.

But the paradox is: the timbre of this group of dialogues is exactly the same.

It's all Hiraichiyo's voice.

What should we do now, Machi asked Ogata with his eyes.

The scene was so weird that A-Ming was at a loss for what to do.

After pondering for a moment, Ogata responded to A-Ming with actions: striding towards the door of the house.

Hirachiyo's house is a typical Ainu-style house without a door, and only a curtain made of hay and other materials is hung at the door.

So Ogata and the others could easily enter Hirachiyo's house as soon as they opened the curtain.

This set of weird conversations came from the room that caused Lin Ziping to be kicked out of the village last time...

Ogata used the Shiranui-ryu stealth technique, and walked slowly towards the room at a silent pace.

After looking inside along the open door of this room, Ogata only felt the hairs and goosebumps on his body stand up one by one.

He saw Hirachiyo kneeling on the ground, as if he was talking to someone in front of him.

But there was nothing in front of him but air.

Hirachiyo was just talking to himself to the air in front of him.

At this time, A-Ming was also frightened by the weird scene in front of him, and his face changed drastically.

"...Hello." Ogata, with a solemn face, said in a deep voice, "...what are you...doing?"

Hearing Ogata's voice, Hirachiyo turned around in a hurry, and then yelled "Hurry up" or something.

After silently putting his left hand on Da Shitian's scabbard, Ogata continued:

"I said... what the hell are you doing? What are you talking about, what are you going to do? You are the only one in this room...from the beginning to the end?"

Hirachiyo showed a surprised expression, then turned around and looked behind him who was empty.

Ogata and Machi waited for Hirachiyo to react.

In order to deal with emergencies, Ogata had silently put his right hand on Da Shitian's handle and lowered his body's center of gravity.

Hirachiyo stared blankly behind him, and Ogata and the two waited for Hirachiyo to react, and the room fell into a strange silence.

It was not until a long time passed that the atmosphere of silence was finally broken.

Broken by Hirachiyo's scream.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"

Hirachiyo hugged his head and prostrated himself on the ground, not like the scream that a human being could make, spewing out from his throat.

Ogata and Atachi were frightened by Hirachiyo's terrifying scream, and the rest of the villagers in the village were also like this.

Hirachiyo's scream directly covered the entire village.

The originally quiet village suddenly became noisy.

"What happened?!"

"It's Hiraichiyo's voice!"

"Go! Go and see what's going on!"

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The village is not big, so in the blink of an eye, circles of villagers gathered around Ogata and Atachi, and the number of villagers coming here is still increasing.

The villagers who came here saw Hirachiyo lying on the ground with slightly trembling body, and then saw Ogata and Atachi standing next to Hirachiyo, what kind of thoughts would they have? One can imagine.

"Hey! What did you two do to Hirachiyo?!"

"What happened to Ping Chiyo?"

"Quick! Go and call the rest!"

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"Please calm down!" Ogata, who didn't want to have any unpleasant things with the villagers, shouted loudly, "Is there anyone who understands Japanese? Please tell everyone for me: Nothing happened to Hirachiyo, and neither did we." Do anything to Hirachiyo!"

"Xu, Ogata-kun! What happened?" At this moment, Lin Ziping's voice came.

Ping Chiyo's scream just now naturally woke up Lin Ziping.

However, as soon as Lin Ziping appeared, he was quickly surrounded by villagers three times inside and three times outside.

It seems that Hirachiyo's status in this village is really high...

Just as Ogata was thinking in his heart like this, while thinking about whether there was any way to calm the villagers down, a hoarse voice suddenly sounded from not far away from Ogata:

"Everyone... don't worry, I'm fine. Don't worry, this Kazuto didn't do anything to me... Ainu"

The owner of this voice... is Hirachiyo.

Be it Ogata and the others, or the villagers, they all focused their gazes with different emotions on Hirachiyo who was slowly standing up now.

Hirachiyo's timbre is still the same timbre.

But the tone is quite different from before.

It has...become like someone else's voice...

"Ping Chiyo!" An old man came out, "What happened?"

"Nothing big happened..." Hirachiyo said softly, rubbing his head, "I'm sorry, village head. Can you please leave here first?"

Hirachiyo raised his eyes, and took a deep look at Ogata and Atachi with calm eyes.

"I have... something to say to this couple."

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Hirachiyo squatted somewhere not far from his home.He washed his face with water from the basin in front of him.

A basin of clean water slowly turned into turbid sewage.

And as the dirt was washed away, Hirachiyo's face slowly "reappeared in the sky".

It was a dull, haggard face.

After washing his face, Hirachiyo reached into his arms and groped for a while.

After a while, he took out a small paper bag.

After unfolding the paper bag, there were 2 small red pills lying quietly inside...

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Right now

Hirachiyo's house

Hirachiyo's house, which was still "bustling" just now, has become quiet again.

There are only two people in the house, Ogata and A-machi.

The two of them knelt side by side, waiting for Ping Chiyo's return.

The rest of the villagers had been persuaded by Ping Chiyo just now to go home.It took him a lot of effort to convince the villagers not to worry about him.

Lin Ziping also returned to Ping Chiyo's clinic with great interest.

"Wait here for a while, I'll go wash my face." These were the exact words that Hirachiyo had just said to Ogata and the others before leaving the house.

Hirachiyo didn't keep Ogata and Acho waiting too long.

Ogata and the others hadn't heated up the floor under them when Hirachiyo's figure slowly appeared from the door.

At this time, Hirachiyo... can be said to be completely different from just now.

His face was washed clean, and his long hair was combed into a ponytail behind his head.

Ogata could finally see Hirachiyo's face clearly.

Hirachiyo's voice is that of a young man in his 20s.

And his face... a dull complexion, a haggard face, looks like a middle-aged person in his 3s or 40s.

The age of the voice and the face are extremely mismatched, which makes Hirachiyo exude an indescribable sense of dissonance and weirdness.

"Sorry... for keeping you waiting." Hirachiyo said while sitting cross-legged in front of Ogata and the others.

"That..." After Hirachiyo sat down, A-Machi seemed unable to hold back, and couldn't wait to ask Hirachiyo, "You just spoke to the air in that room...what the hell is going on? ?”

"To put it simply..." Ping Chiyo laughed at himself, "You can understand that there are two people in my body."

"One is a warm-hearted village doctor: Ping Chiyo."

"The other... is Xuanzhi, one of the two you are looking for."

It was the first time for A-Ming to face a person suffering from "split personality", and his face could not hide the color of horror.

"Then" Ogata said at this moment, "Are you Hiraichiyo now, or Genzhi?"

"Thanks to you." Ping Chiyo said slowly, "After the series of stimulation you caused me just now, Xuan Zhi woke up after a long absence."

Ogata: "Then...for convenience, let me call you Xuanzhi now."

"Whatever you want." Ping Chiyo...or Xuan Zhi said softly, "Anyway, Ping Chiyo and Xuan Zhi are one, it doesn't matter whether you call me Ping Chiyo or Xuan Zhi."

"I have all the memories of Hirachiyo. So I know what you want when you come here."

"You who finally found me must have many questions to ask me. But I also have quite a lot of questions to ask you."

"For this reason, I have specially cleared the venue so that no one will disturb us."

"You can tell me first: How did you know that Master and I might be in Ezo?"

"Your junior brother Xuanren told me." Ogata said.

"Xuanren...?!" After hearing the name of this person, Xuanzhi's originally dull eyes burst into light, "...you said that you came to Ezo for medical treatment Ask me and master, what kind of disease can make you work so tirelessly?"

"To be precise... this is not a disease." After finishing speaking, Ogata slowly loosened the scarf wrapped around his neck, and then pulled back the skirt of his upper body, revealing the large area of ​​his left neck and left chest. Dark purple flesh.

"This is?!" Looking at the large piece of dark purple flesh on Ogata's body, Xuan Zhi stared wide-eyed.