Luo Jie was startled, and without even bothering to pick up "Minamoto Noraimitsu", he directly jumped on his sword and flew vertically to the top of the cliff hundreds of meters higher.
On the top of the cliff, "Mrs. Seam" was holding a small baby corpse and crying loudly. The tall girl "Red" was silently beside her. Next to her was a foot-long poisonous snake that was smashed to a bloody pulp.
Seeing this scene, Luo Jie had already guessed the situation and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
In the fantasy world, the escort mission is always the most difficult. No matter how powerful you are, a small oversight may cause the boat to capsize in the gutter.
It's a pity, but Luo Jie will not become decadent and depressed because of such a failure.
No player can complete every task 100%, as long as they can learn lessons from failures, it can be considered a gain.
Moreover, although I didn't get the mission reward, at least there was no punishment.
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Although there was no "Hyakkimaru", Luo Jie still sent "Mrs. Tailor" and "Red" to the border of Mount Kurama in the outskirts of Kyoto as promised.
After lingering in the mountain temple for several days, Luo Jie took "Minamoto Yorimitsu" and set off again.
This time he had no clear destination, he just planned to wander around casually before the time limit for the illusion came.
It would be great to be able to discover some hidden missions, but if you don't have that luck, you should experience the customs and customs of this era.
Of course, traveling through troubled times is not a pleasant experience.
Along the way, we could see barren fields and civilians with withered faces. The bones on the roadside were not buried and were eaten to pieces by wild dogs.
This desolate scene only improved slightly when approaching the city.
"Master, I just asked the farmers nearby. Just follow the road and you will find Anzuhara Castle." "Minamoto no Yorimitsu" held a bamboo hat in hand and walked on the field path on the soft soil after the rain.
return.
"Xingyuan Castle?"
Luo Jie suddenly felt as if he had heard the name of this city somewhere. The few cities he had passed before had never given him this feeling.
"Master, does he know about Akihara Castle?" "Minamoto no Yorimitsu" looked a little surprised and said, "I heard from the farmer that there is a part of Akihara Bay to the west of Akihara Castle, and the saury there is very famous."
Luo Jie smiled and shook his head, saying he had never heard of it.
There are many repeated place names in the fantasy world, coupled with the confusion of the background and timeline of the work, this feeling of "déjà vu" is actually very common. If you can't remember it, there is no need to dwell on it.
Next to the road above the field ridge, a clear stream gurgled from a pebbly river bed.
Luo Jie stopped "Minamoto Yorimitsu" and stopped temporarily, jumped down the slope, squatted by the stream and tried to wash away the dust and sweat on his face, but suddenly he heard a girl's singing coming from upstream along with the cool breeze.
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The girl is probably not very old, and there is still a bit of a childish voice in her voice, but it is this childishness that makes this casual nursery rhyme reveal a cleanliness and innocence that is enough to cleanse the soul.
Luo Jie stood up and looked around, and saw a girl in coarse cloth standing barefoot in the middle of the stream, bending over and washing something in the upper reaches of the stream.
Perhaps feeling the outside gaze, the girl turned her head and looked here, their eyes met, and a slightly shy and pure smile appeared on her childish face.
Like white daisies blooming in the wind in the mountain fields.
Luo Jie nodded politely in response. He originally thought that the other party would avoid him as a stranger, but he didn't expect that the girl actually walked in the stream and came to him on her own initiative.
"Are you a merchant from out of town?"
The girl was very short, even less than Luo Jie's chest, but her well-proportioned figure made her look not deformed, but rather childlike and cute.
Luo Jie smiled: "I'm just an idler traveling around, and I just happened to be passing through here."
"Then do you need to lead the way? I am very familiar with Xingyuan City."
The girl tried her best to promote herself.
"Thank you, no need. I don't have a specific place to go. I'm just walking around casually. I don't need a guide."
Luo Jie shook off the water on his hand, turned around and was about to leave, but the girl persisted and followed him again.
"Ten coppers! Sir, I am very cheap. I only need ten coppers a day, and I can also serve you at night!"
When Luo Jie heard this, he couldn't help but take another look at the girl.
Although he knew that in this era when human life was at stake, it was very common for women to sell their bodies for a living, but the impression this girl had left on him before was too good, and this sudden collapse of her personality made him more or less confused.
I feel a little uncomfortable in my heart.
Several young children chased each other across the field ridge. One of them waved to the girl from a distance and shouted: "Sister Mio, so you are here! Remember to bring us delicious food at night!"
The girl waved in response: "I know, be careful, don't fall into the river!"
The conversation between the child and the girl made Luo Jie slightly startled.
"Your name is Mio?"
"Yes, my lord."
"You are hired, come with me."
"Why?"
The girl was very surprised. She never understood why the man who didn't seem to want to hire her suddenly changed his mind.
"Mio" is a main character in "Dororo". As an orphan, she took in a group of children who also lost their parents due to the war. Every day, she sold her body to nearby samurai in exchange for meager remuneration.
Brothers and sisters.
Despite doing the dirtiest job, this girl has the kindest and purest heart in the world. Unfortunately, she did not get a happy ending in the original work. She was framed as a spy, and the children she adopted were also killed by the samurai.
kill.
Judging from the strategies of previous life explorers, this girl does not have any missions and can only be regarded as a passerby NPC character with a personal independent plot.
But the value of many things cannot be measured solely in terms of income. Luo Jie's desire to help this kind-hearted girl get rid of her predetermined tragic fate is actually the purification and redemption of his own soul.
If you travel too much in the fantasy world and kill too much, people's sense of morality and right and wrong will become increasingly blurred.
In this life, Luo Jie has successfully entered the first rank of players. With absolute force, he can even do whatever he wants regardless of the rules in some cases, but this is also an extremely dangerous signal.
Those who use reason to drive their power are humans, and those who use desire to drive their power are beasts.
Luo Jie didn't want to live like what he hated most in his previous life.
They introduced "Yorimitsu Minamoto" as a bodyguard, and with "Mio" leading the way, the three of them set off for Anbara Castle.
Probably because she got a job and no longer had to worry about her livelihood in a short period of time, "Mio" was in a good mood, with a bright smile on her face and humming an unknown and beautiful tune all the way.
"Mio, you sing so well, why don't you consider becoming a singer?"
"Mio" turned around, her face blushed unconsciously, and she waved her hands repeatedly: "Sir, you are just kidding me. How can I be a singer with my country song skills... And I heard that those singers are trained since childhood.
Not only do you have to practice singing and dancing, but you also have to read, read, and learn chess and tea ceremony. In the end, only those who are good at sex and art can perform on the stage as the top performer, just like Miss A Li from Liren Pavilion."
"Liren Pavilion?"
Luo Jie's pupils shrank, and he finally realized where the strange feeling of familiarity came from.