I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

In front of Shichiemon and the others was the deepest part of the valley.

In the deepest part of this valley, stands a huge boulder.

There was one person lying on his back on this boulder so carelessly.

After hearing Sotaro's voice, the person immediately stood up, and then jumped off the boulder with extremely light movements.

It wasn't until the person jumped off the top of the boulder that Shichiemon finally saw the person's appearance clearly.

The man was of average height and weight.

He was wearing a special black suit that was almost exactly the same as Sotaro's.

The two are not only similar in clothing, but also in appearance.

Reminiscent of Soutaro calling this person "big brother" just now, Shichiemon can easily deduce that Soutaro and this person should be brothers.

"This is our brother, and at the same time my elder brother—Aotaro." Sotaro, Qiemon and others introduced their future leader.

"Sotaro, you did a good job!" Aotaro gave Sotaro an appreciative look.

"Hey! All of you! Sign up!" Ao Taro shouted at Shichiemon and the others.

Seeing Aotaro asking them, Shichiemon and the others hurriedly declared their lives.

"We don't have too many rules here." Ao Taro said loudly, "The only rule is to obey my orders! And you can't kill each other."

"Other than that, I have nothing else to ask of you!"

After hearing what Aintaro said, Shichiemon secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Judging from the current situation - the group headed by Aintaro is not bad, not the kind of organization with many unreasonable rules .

"By the way, Sotaro. You came back just in time, and I just happened to have another task for you to do."

"Won't you ask me to borrow rice from those guys in Fenghe Village again?"

"Besides this task, what other tasks can I entrust to you?" Qing Taro asked in a half-joking tone.

"It's night now. You're going to ask me to borrow rice in the dark again..."

"No way, our food is almost finished. If we don't borrow rice quickly, we won't even have breakfast tomorrow."

"Okay, I got it." Soutaro sighed with helplessness on his face, "I'll go back as soon as I go."

"Remember to bring those people with you by the way." Qing Taro's face showed a few smug expressions, "As long as you bring those people with you, no matter how reluctant those hillbillies are, they will obediently hand over the rice to us .”

"You don't need to tell me, brother, I will take them too." A meaningful smile hung on Sotaro's face.

"That..." Qiemon said in a cautious tone, "I would like to ask——Where is Fenghe Village?"

"Come with me, rookie." Sotaro hooked his fingers towards Shichiemon, and then led Shichiemon to the valley entrance.

After Nanaimon followed Sotaro, Sotaro introduced to Shichiemon:

"Fenghe Village is the only village on this island where there are still living people."

"Didn't I tell you just now that our usual source of food is borrowed from the islanders of this island?"

"The islanders I'm referring to are the villagers of that Fenghe village."

"Did you see it? That's Fenghe Village."

When he was about to reach Taniguchi, Sotaro pointed out.

The valley they were in was on a high terrain, and when they stood at the mouth of the valley and looked out, they seemed to be condescending.

Shichiemon looked in the direction that Shichiemon's finger was pointing at—on a flat ground not far away, there stood a rather conspicuous unknown object.

"That's... what..." Because of his dim vision, Shichiemon could barely make out a vague shadow, "Is that...a wooden wall?"

"That's right." Sotaro said, "These country bumpkins are pretty amazing, they can actually build such a tall wooden wall."

"Okay, newcomer, go down and have a good rest."

"I'm going to borrow rice from those bumpkins in Fenghe Village."

A faint smile appeared on Sotaro's face.

Although it was a smile, but when outsiders saw Sotaro's smile, they would definitely not feel like a spring breeze, but would only feel shuddering.

"Speaking of which - I haven't been to Fenghe Village for a long time... When was the last time I went to Fenghe Village... Forget it, this kind of thing doesn't matter."

...

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Fenghe Village, Konnosuke's home.

A girl dressed as a maid was holding a basin and a rag, and walked quickly along the corridor with small steps.

After coming to a huge paper sliding door on the second floor, squatting halfway by the paper sliding door, gently opened the paper sliding door, and quickly stepped into the building with a basin and a rag in hand. Room.

There is no other furniture or objects in this room.

Only 3 huge lockers are attached to the 3 walls of this room.

The top of these three huge storage cabinets is against the ceiling, and its style is very similar to those medicine cabinets in the pharmacy for storing medicinal materials.

There are at least 200 densely packed cabinets and barrels.

Although the style is very similar to that of a medicine cabinet, it is different from a medicine cabinet—in general medicine cabinets, there will be characters on the outside of each bucket, indicating what medicinal materials are contained in the bucket.

And the more than 200 barrels of these three huge lockers have nothing posted on the outside, making it unclear what is inside these barrels.

This maid is here to clean this room.

After placing the basin filled with water in a corner of the room and tying up his sleeves on both sides with cuff ties, he lay down on the ground and was about to start wiping the tatami mats in this room.

However——just as the maid was prostrate on the ground, a sharp blade suddenly extended from her right rear, hitting the maid's neck artery.

While the sharp blade was touching her neck, a small hand also stretched out from behind her left, firmly holding down the maid's mouth.

"Uh...! Uh...! Uh...!"

The maid who was taken aback by this sudden turn of events quickly let out a scream.

But because her mouth was tightly covered by that little hand, her screams only changed into low screams after she exited.

"Don't move. Don't bark."

A female voice that was extremely unfamiliar to this maid sounded from behind her.

"If you want to survive, just be obedient and don't move or scream."

"otherwise……"

The owner of this female voice did not say the second half of the sentence.

But she silently moved the sharp blade closer to the maid's neck.

The sharp blade has slightly cut the maid's skin.

A few drops of blood have begun to leak out along the cut skin.

After experiencing the naked threat, the maid who was shaking more and more violently, although her heart became more frightened, she still forcibly suppressed her desire to scream, and she didn't make a sound, and didn't dare to move any more.

"Very good." The owner of the female voice said softly, "I will let go of your mouth later. I will ask you some questions. Answer whatever I ask you."

"Don't say anything irrelevant, and don't bark. After I let go of your mouth, don't bark."

"If you dare to scream, I will kill you with one knife."

"have you understood?"