Chapter 709 The Real Boss Looks Mediocre [5400]

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"Miss Chuguang, Mr. Shibata." A-cho asked Chuguang and Shibata beside him, "Do you know this old man in the prison?"

The two stared at the old man in the prison, then shook their heads at the same time.

"I haven't seen him before," Chuguang said.

Shibata also nodded in agreement.

"Oh?" The old man in the prison looked at Chuguang and Shibata with interest at the moment, "You two are wearing Iga no Sato ninja costumes..."

"The two of you...couldn't be the traitors who betrayed the Toyotomi Clan's enemies?"

"It's normal that you don't know me."

"After all, the place where I used to work was a place that couldn't see the sun."

"Hello." Mu Cun strode forward at this moment, grasping the railing of the cell tightly with both hands, "Who the hell are you?!"

According to the old man's remarks just now, it is not difficult to hear that this person seems to have a lot of understanding of the Toyotomi family.

"Who am I..." The old man with no fear on his face looked directly at Mucun, "It's not impossible to tell you who I am..."

"But... before I introduce myself, can you let me know who you are?"

"Who are you?"

"This should not be a place where idlers can come in and out at will."

"What's going on out there? How did you get in here?"

Although the old man was unkempt, he was still very energetic, and with a clear eloquence, he posed questions to Yuanyi and the others one after another.

Mamiya frowned slightly at this moment.

"Master Yuan." Mamiya turned his head and said to Yuan Yi beside him, "The wildfire outside is still raging, if the wildfire burns here, it will be troublesome."

"It's not suitable to stay here for a long time."

"And the lord is not here,

There is no need to stay here any longer. "

"Let's take the old man in the prison away first, and slowly question the old man while leaving the underground prison."

"Yeah." Yuan nodded, "That's exactly what I was thinking. Mamiya, please open the door."

"yes."

Mamiya raised both hands abruptly, holding the scabbard with his left hand, and grasping the handle of the saber with his right——

Step forward, draw the knife!

Vairocana's purple knife light illuminated the narrow tunnel.

Naturally, they did not have the key to unlock the cell door.

But who said you need a key to open the door?

The purple knife light flashed, and then flashed again.

Click.

At the same moment when Yu Jiangong retracted the knife, the sound of wood breaking was heard.

On the wooden cell railing, a hole big enough for an adult to get in and out was cut out by the light of a purple knife.

When Mamiya talked to Genichi just now, he didn't deliberately lower the volume.

Therefore, the old man in the cell clearly heard the conversation between Mamiya and Genichi.

When the conversation between the two fell and Mamiya pulled out a knife to "open the door", the old man seemed to have heard something terrible, and kept looking at Yuanyi outside the prison with surprised eyes.

"Master Yuan..."

After repeating in a low voice what Kamamiya called Yuan Yi just now, the old man who had been curled up in the corner of the cell suddenly used both hands and feet, and hurriedly crawled to the center of the cell, getting closer to Yuan Yi. The place.

"Yuanyi..."

The old man stared at Yuan Yi's face.

"Couldn't you be 'Toyotomi Genichi'?"

Yuan Yi's eyebrows twitched slightly.

He stared at the old man for a long time with sharp eyes that seemed to penetrate the old man's body.

"...Yes. I am Genichi Toyotomi." Genichi admitted generously, "It seems that your status in the Toyotomi Clan is really not low, even the name 'Genichi Toyotomi' all know."

Hasegawa and his subordinates, who know little about Toyotomi, are all staring with puzzled faces...

Especially Hasegawa.

At this time, he looked at Genichi who called himself "Toyotomi" in astonishment, and his brain fell into a state of near chaos because his thinking speed could not keep up with the changes in reality.

"Hahaha." The old man grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth that hadn't been brushed for an unknown amount of time, "You are Genichi Toyotomi... You really have known your name for a long time. I used to hear Nobuhide mention you often."

"Heh." Yuan Yi let out a laugh that he didn't know whether it was joy or sorrow, "Xinxiu told so many people about me...he really misses me more than I imagined..."

At this time, Jian Gong had opened the cell.

Mucun took the initiative to step into the cell that was emitting an unpleasant smell, and brought the old man who was also emitting an unpleasant smell out of the prison.

Afterwards, under the command of Yuan Yi, everyone began to turn back along the road they came from, preparing to leave this underground prison that no longer needed to stay here for a long time.

Perhaps it was because of living in prison for a long time and lack of exercise, the old man's body was visibly weak.

Walking is okay, but running is a bit difficult for this old man.

Fortunately—Makimura is a person who doesn't stick to details.

Seeing that the old man's body was weak, he simply carried the old man on his back, regardless of the dirt and bad smell on the old man's body.

"We can tell you our situation." Yuan Yi ran to the front to lead the way, and said quickly to the old man lying on Mu Cun's back beside him, "But on the contrary, I hope you can do it before we finish. After 'introducing yourself', be able to tell everything, at least let us know who you are."

"We are here to find our companions..."

Yuan told the old man succinctly and concisely about their identities, where they came from, and how to find this place.

After carefully listening to Yuan Yi's words, the old man murmured:

"It turned out to be like this..."

"Ha, Mr. Toyotomi Genichi, you are really just like what Nobuhide said, you are a person who never lacks courage... How dare you take Koyasan directly with such a small number of people."

"Hahaha, what a joy!"

The old man laughed loudly.

"If there is a chance, I really want to see what Nobusu will look like after learning that Koyasan was attacked..."

"Well, but I guess he shouldn't show any facial expressions."

"After all, he is the kind of person who can keep his expression unchanged even if he is extremely unhappy."

"Hey, can you tell us: who are you?" Mucun, who had been carrying the old man on his back, turned his head and glanced impatiently at the old man on his back, "We are just as you asked , we introduced ourselves. It's your turn to introduce yourself."

"Me?" A look of remembrance slowly appeared on the face of the old man, "I... I am... no, I used to be a doctor under the Toyotomi family who was in charge of doing some shady research .”

As soon as the old man said this, A-Ming on the side seemed to remember something, twitched his pretty eyebrows, then raised his eyes, and carefully looked at the old man from head to toe.

The old man, who didn't notice Ah Ding's scrutinizing gaze, continued to speak slowly:

"I worked very hard for Xinxiu and made some achievements smoothly, so I was personally interviewed by Xinxiu many times."

"After going back and forth, I became acquainted with Xinxiu."

"Heh... It's a pity... No matter how close the relationship is, once it encounters a conflict of dreams, it will be extremely fragile..."

The old man slowly clenched his hands around Mucun's neck.

The look of reminiscence on his face gradually changed into resentment and...a touch of remorse.

"I gave everything I could to Shin Soo."

"But in the end, it's all about jail time."

"Oh, unexpectedly, I also felt that it was a wise move for Xuanzhi to choose to leave directly..."

Hearing the old man's words just now... or hearing the name "Genzhi" mentioned by the old man just now, the pupils of A-Machi who had been staring at the old man with scrutiny just now shrank suddenly.

"Wait a moment!"

A Dingjiao shouted.

"You...couldn't be Xuanzhi's master——Xuanzheng?"

"Oh?" The old man turned his head and looked at Ah Ding suspiciously, "Little girl, you...know me?"

"It's really you..." A-Ming gritted his teeth tightly, his expression became strange because of various emotions such as joy, resentment, relief, doubt...etc.

As for the name "Xuanzheng", Ah-Ming felt that even after decades, he could still remember this name.

In order to find this man and his apprentice Xuan Zhi, she and Ogata traveled all over Japan.

For the character named Xuanzheng, who Ogata and A-Ming have spent countless efforts to find, they have naturally heard of the name Minamoto for a long time.

"You are that Xuanzheng..." Yuan Yi stared closely at Xuanzheng's eyes and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Hey..." Xuanzheng looked at A-cho, and then at Yuanyi, "Do you guys even know me? This surprised me..."

During the conversation, everyone had already turned a 90-degree corner.

As soon as he turned the corner, Hasegawa saw a small hole in front of him that was only big enough for two adults to get in and out side by side.

The light emanating from the entrance of the cave made Hasegawa, who had been in the ground for a long time, couldn't help but lower his eyelids, and used his eyelashes to filter out the glaring white light.

Looking at the entrance of the cave, which was already close at hand, joy slowly climbed up Hasegawa's cheeks and pupils.

He can't wait to go to bathe in the long-lost sunshine and breathe the long-lost fresh air.

Thinking that he was finally going to leave this damn underground prison, Hasegawa felt that the pain in the wound on his leg had eased a lot, and his pace became faster.

However——the cruel fact that was coming soon made the joy that had been hanging on Hasegawa's cheeks and pupils froze instantly.

After rushing out of the cave following Yuanyi and the others impatiently, it wasn't fresh air that fell on Hasegawa's face.

It's a nasty burnt smell.

Along with this burnt smell, Hasegawa suspected that his eyelashes might be ignited by scalding hot air.

"This is..." Hasegawa stared blankly at the sea of ​​fire in front of him.

Not far in front of them, Zhu Rong was raging.

It seemed that the boundless sea of ​​fire devoured the grass and trees, spewing out a large amount of sparks, the fallen trees, the "groaning" of broken wood, and the scorching hot wind constantly blowing on Hasegawa's face.

"Tsk..." Mamiya's face darkened, "Even if the current season is the season when fires are most likely to get out of control, it is impossible for the wildfire to spread to this extent in such a short period of time."

"For the mountain fire to burn like this in such a short period of time... how much fire oil did Toyotomi's people use...!"

Ah-Ming didn't say anything.

But she still uncontrollably cast a worried look at the sea of ​​fire in front of her.

On the other side of this seemingly endless sea of ​​flames is Xianyuan Temple.

It is the direction that Ogata attacked in order to attract Toyotomi's attack.

"...Don't worry." Mucun, who has a thick and delicate personality, noticed the worry in A-Machi's eyes, and he only heard him comfort A-Machi in a soft voice, "It's impossible for a mere mountain fire to end up with brother Ogata."

"He should be joining us soon."

Just as Makimura finished speaking——

"Machi! Minamoto-sama!"

Mucun, who had just finished comforting Ah Ding, was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled.

"Look, Macho, am I right?"

Mucun raised his gaze following the sound.

After raising their eyes, everyone saw a familiar figure on the hillside in front of them.

Looking at this figure, the worry in A-Ming's eyes quickly turned into a sense of relief.

...

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"Speaking of which, I don't know your name yet." Ogata asked the old monk behind him, "Can you tell me your name? I don't know your name, it's rude."

"...The poor monk's name is Qingyan."

"Qingyan...it's a very artistic title."

Compared with wandering around the unfamiliar mountains alone, it is obviously more convenient to bring someone who is very familiar with this place.

The Toyotomi family who set fire to the mountain obviously did not want to have any entanglement with Ogata at all.

Attracting the main force of the Toyotomi Clan to attack, the "woodpecker tactics" that helped Yuan Yi and others find the Toyotomi Clan's stronghold in the back mountain went bankrupt-faced with this situation, Ogata's current top priority is to go to the back mountain and find Yuan Yi A group of people, join them.

Therefore, after the "goatee old monk" proposed to act with him, Ogata, who was eager to join Genichi and the others, agreed to the proposal after only thinking for a while.

Because the "goatee old monk" had poor legs and feet, Ogata directly carried him behind his back and asked him to lie behind him to show him the way.

Bringing such a person who is familiar with the topography and terrain of Koyasan is really convenient, as Ogata expected.

Under the guidance of the "old monk with goatee", Ogata bypassed those places with many trees that were easily affected by wildfires. Although there were a lot of detours, the speed of progress increased.

"This fire... seems to be burning too far..."

At the back of Koyasan, a large-scale mountain fire also appeared at this time, and the speed of the fire spread was so fast that the "old monk with goatee" who was lying on Ogata's back also discovered that the fire was spreading at an unusual speed .

"It's probably because the thugs lurking on Koyasan spilled fire oil everywhere." Ogata said with a sullen face, "It's crazy to set fire to the mountain... Once the fire gets out of control, it's not just Koyasan It's so easy to suffer...Even Osaka and Nara, which are close to Koyasan, will be implicated by it..."

"... Are there really a large number of thugs lurking on Mount Koya?" The "old monk with a goatee" asked Ogata this question that he had asked countless times.

But this time, the tone of the "old monk with goatee" was obviously much softer than the previous few times, not as aggressive as before.

"Yes." Ogata answered patiently, "I can't possibly be the one who started the fire, right? If I wanted to set fire to the mountain, I didn't need to show up at Xianyuan Temple from the beginning."

"Who are these thugs?" the "goatee old monk" asked.

"If I tell you, you won't believe me."

"Just say it. Whether you want to believe it or not, I will judge slowly later."

"...The thugs lurking in Koyasan are the descendants of the 'Taiko' Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his henchmen. They have been dormant until now in order to rebuild the world of Toyotomi."

"I have some problems with them, so I came here to settle accounts with them."

"...Are you kidding me?" The "goatee old monk" opened his mouth wide.

"I've told you...you won't believe me when I tell you."

The "goatee old monk" pursed his lips with a complicated expression: "I, Koyasan... have been infiltrated by mobs all the time, but I have never known it..."

After muttering like this, the "old monk with goatee" stopped talking at all except to show Ogata the way.

And Ogata is happy to use this to concentrate on finding Yuanichi and others.

After being strengthened by the "power of immortality", Ogata's five senses such as vision and hearing have been greatly enhanced.

I can clearly see the flight trajectory of a fly tens of meters away——Machi, who has excellent eyesight, once told Ogata that.

The former Ogata had never been able to understand what level of vision this was.

And now, he understood.

What could only be seen with a telescope before, Ogata can now see with the naked eye.

The raging wildfires, to a certain extent, make it easier for Ogata to find someone—because Yuanichi and the others can only appear in places where there are no wildfires.

Ogata originally thought that it would take some time for him to find Yuanyi and his party. After all, the back mountain is very big, who knows where Yuanyi and the others are currently.

But I didn't think about it—maybe it was luck. When I was going down a steep hillside, Ogata suddenly caught a glimpse of familiar figures coming out of a certain cave not far away from the corner of his eye. .

"Machi! Minamoto-sama!"

Ogata accelerated the speed of going downhill, and when he reached the bottom of the slope smoothly, Ogata quickly walked towards Yuanyi and his party with the "old monk with goatee" on his back.

"Ayi!" A-Ming was the first to run up to Ogata, and carefully looked Ogata from head to toe, "Are you all right? Who is this?"

A-Machi looked suspiciously at the "old monk with goatee" on Ogata's back.

"I'm fine, it's just a few spots on my face and clothes that were blackened by the fire." Ogata replied, "The one on my back is a monk from Mount Koya. Thanks to his help, I managed to get around Where there are more wildfires."

After all, Ogata looked at Hasegawa and the others standing behind Genichi and the others, as well as Isshiki Naoshu's family, with complicated eyes mainly of surprise.

Just now, when he was going down the hillside, Ogata had already discovered Zhiyi's family, and... this official who has always had a wonderful relationship with him.

Ogata did not speak to Hasegawa.

After taking a deep look at Hasegawa, he immediately looked away as if he didn't know Hasegawa.

All this was because he saw the official servants behind Hasegawa who were wearing the uniforms modified by Huofu thieves.

If Hasegawa's subordinates know that their leader seems to have a close relationship with the notorious Ogata Ittosai, it will definitely bring Hasegawa a lot of trouble.

So, even though he was extremely puzzled about why Hasegawa was here, Ogata still pretended not to know Hasegawa and didn't say hello to Hasegawa.

And Hasegawa is not a fool.

Ogata ignored him.

And he ignored Ogata.

The two tacitly regard each other as strangers.

But... Although Hasegawa wanted to pretend that he didn't know Ogata, and took the initiative to look away from the direction where Ogata was, his eyes couldn't help but stared at Ogata... the "goatee" behind him The old monk".

--Ok?

Hasegawa stared closely at the face of the "goatee old monk".

——This old monk...have I seen it somewhere before...

——He seems to be from Koyasan... Who is that?

Hasegawa thought hard.

But after thinking hard for a long time, he still couldn't remember who this "old monk with goatee" was.

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Can anyone blindly guess who this "old monk with goatee" is? In fact, there is some foreshadowing of the identity of this "old monk with goatee" in the previous article.