The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 323 Night Owl (I)

A huge arrow pierced through the night and shot towards the Vajra Arhat-like monk beside the fire.

Without waiting for the heavy arrow to hit the target, Jin Yinghe pulled the bow again, pressed the arrow shaft with his thumb, and looked forward calmly.

However, the next second, the North Korean general was stunned.

"What about people?"

In such a short time, the monk in front of him disappeared out of thin air, leaving only the Japanese warrior groaning on the ground.

"The evil monk really knows some magic? Damn it!"

A group of straw raincoat guards who followed the two men looked at each other as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

It was pitch black all around, with no one in sight. The few of them were in a foreign country at the moment, and suddenly encountered such a strange thing. They cursed only to muster up their courage.

"there."

Lin Yu let out a dull cry, picked up a Japanese sword, and threw it hard into the night.

The five men quickly dispersed, weapons in hand, standing back to back on guard.

"I've encountered a monster!"

A straw raincoat guard calmly loaded ammunition into his flintlock pistol, looked at the direction where Lin Yu threw it, and looked carefully, but saw nothing.

A thin man nearby cursed, "Tu Laosi, what are you afraid of? We Kaiyuan soldiers will bite and eat monsters if we encounter them!"

The third remaining member of the Raincoat Guard was a small team leader. After listening to the two team members' conversation, he also said:
"With Brother Lin and General Jin here, don't worry. Even though the Central Army Guards are a little weaker than us, they can still be of help. When we capture someone and hand them over to Captain Shen, he will definitely praise us for our excellent work."

Before the captain could finish his words, a strange cry of a night owl suddenly came from behind the temple.

Jin Yinghe signaled to the three of them to stop talking.

The five men each raised their weapons, facing the empty darkness. They heard the cry of the night owl getting closer and closer, and the owl was almost touching their scalps.

"careful!"

Jin Yinghe shouted hurriedly, and a huge night owl flapped its wings and swooped down, and the sound of weapons clashing was heard in the air.

"boom!"

Jin Yinghe released the bowstring, and the straw raincoat guard named Tu pulled the trigger at the same time.

The night owl fell to the ground in response, and was still jumping around after landing.

"Damn it, it's not a monster! It's a person!"

The person who was shot was a man in black.

He was stabbed by Lin Yu, and was hit by Jin Yinghe's heavy arrow and the Suoyi Guard's musket at the same time, but he was not dead yet.

Seeing everyone surrounding him, he actually struggled to stand up, leaning on his samurai sword.

"Hey, wait, let's interrogate him first and ask his master..."

Jin Yinghe shouted hurriedly.

However, the big guy Lin had already swung his long axe and swung it down at the man in black.

Tu Laosi reloaded the musket and kicked the motionless corpse with his foot.

His thin companion turned over the body, fumbled around on it, found the rope hanging on it, spat, and started cursing again:
"You thief bald ass! You turned out to be a juggler. If you're a juggler, then do your juggling well. If you're a martial artist, then do your martial arts well. You haven't learned your magic well, and your martial arts skills are terrible too. Now that you've met us, who else will die if not you?"

After the thin man finished speaking, he looked up at Lin Yu, whose face was covered in blood, and added.

"You thief bald donkey, you dare to show off your skills in front of Brother Lin, you deserve to die!"

Lin Yu glanced at the chatterbox, carefully wiped the blood off the axe blade with his armor leaf, and smiled awkwardly but politely.

Everyone looked around and was on guard against each other. After a long time, no one attacked them, so they moved towards the warrior who was still groaning in the distance.

Lin Yu was the first to run to the fire.

The warrior lying on the ground shouted something in Japanese at him. Lin Yu grew up in eastern Zhejiang and had a deep hatred for the Japanese pirates, so he immediately raised his axe.

The warrior raised his crossbow and shot a poisonous arrow at Lin Yu.

The black bear took two steps back, roared, swung the axe, and swung it down, trying to kill the man again.

Jin Yinghe shouted again from behind:
"Hey! Wait a minute!"

Two poisonous arrows sprang from the ground like poisonous snakes, their fangs sticking to Lin Yu's forehead and disappearing into the darkness.

The twenty-five-pound long axe whizzed down and smashed into the Japanese pirate's face with the force of a mountain.

"He's not a demon monk! Brother Lin, don't kill anyone!"

Jin Yinghe chased after him in a hurry. The axe blade stopped just short of the forehead of the man who wasn't the demon monk. Lin Yu lost his balance, stumbled, and nearly fell to the ground.

He looked confusedly at the Japanese pirate in front of him who was as tall as himself and wanted to kill him.

In the light of the fire, it was discovered that the man looked quite strange.

They look a bit like the Japanese, a bit like the red-haired barbarians, and even have some shadows of the Ming people.

Fujiwara Kyoji had used up all of his poison arrows, so he sat on the ground holding a dagger, staring at the giant in front of him.

Jin Yinghe arrived in time, blocking the two of them, and shouted to Fujiwara in Japanese:
"I'm Korean, and he's Ming. I'm not a demon monk. It's a misunderstanding!"

Fujiwara Kyoji looked at the people in front of him with suspicion, clenching the dagger in his hand.

Jin Yinghe pointed at the guards around him and explained:

"Marquis Ping Liao, Marquis Ping Liao of the Ming Dynasty, have you heard of it? The elder of the Hosokawa family killed the people of Kaiyuan, and the army will soon reach Kaga. We are the vanguard and will not harm you if we pass by here."

Jin Yinghe took out a bottle of medicine from his arms and handed it to the mixed-race child.

"Since you are the enemy of the evil monk, you are a good person. Give me the Ming Dynasty's golden medicine."

It was undoubtedly the most prudent approach for the Koreans to move out the Kaiyuan army at this time.

Even if we really encounter the enemy, it can serve as a deterrent.

Fujiwara took the medicine bottle with some doubt, opened it, put it in front of his nostrils and sniffed it, while the short knife in his hand had already been released.

"Are you a samurai or a townie?"

"I am a Catholic. The shogunate wants to drive us out of Japan. My sister was captured by a demon monk and taken to Mount Unknown."

Fujiwara sprinkled the golden medicine on the wound.

"You are not Japanese?"

"Half yes, half no. My father is Portuguese. Ten years ago, he fled to Jakarta alone, leaving his whole family behind."

Jin Yinghe shook his head and sighed. It was another tragic story.

"Did you kill that evil monk?"

Jin Yinghe shook his head and said:

"Only one was killed. There are still ten evil monks. Huiran took them to Edo."

Jin Yinghe then explained to the mixed-race child the reason why he came here.

"Master Qianye, do you know him? He gave me a scroll that contains the secrets of Mount Unknown. The monks there use the souls of babies to make elixirs for their cultivation, harming countless people."

Jin Yinghe pointed at Lin Yu who looked confused.

"My brother heard about this and was going to rescue people from the Unknown Volcano. He just came from the White Mountain Tunnel and saw you fighting with the evil monk."

The mixed-race man from Osaka came up to Lin Yu, holding a samurai sword, and bowed to him.

"Thank you. It turns out that in Ming China, there are warriors who are willing to help those in need."

Jin Yinghe translated Fujiwara's thanks to Lin Yu, and the giant nodded without much expression.

Fujiwara Kyoji turned and looked at Jin Yinghe, and said with concern:
"Where's Master Qianye?"

"He died the night before last. He must have been killed by the evil monk."

Jin Yinghe pointed at the corpse of the evil monk with a sad expression.

Fujiwara couldn't help feeling sad. Chiba was a monk he met in Osaka. He was passionate about Buddhism, traveled around the world, and even said he wanted to study abroad in Ming Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, he was killed by the evil monk in the end.

Jin Yinghe helped Fujiwara up and asked Lin Yu for some dry food for the mixed-race child.

The crowd gathered around the burning ruins, warming themselves by the fire, surrounded by the corpses of monks.

After Fujiwara finished eating, he struggled to go look for his sister again.

Jin Yinghe held him back and told him:
"Master Qianye told me that Huiran hid them all and no one can find them."

"So what do we do?"

Jin Yinghe looked at the silent Lin Yu, then looked at the raincoat guards who were still chatting, and said to the mixed-blood boy:

"Wait, wait until he comes back and kill him."

(End of this chapter)