After thinking for a while, Lu Xiao decided to deal with Snake Eyes, who had extraordinary vision, first, otherwise Snake Eyes might find some clues when he assassinated the soldiers.
Silently, Lu Xiao used the Buddha statue and the mountain wall to gain strength, and Lu Xiao quietly approached from the blind spot in the sky that was difficult for snake eyes to observe.
Snake Eyes' vision is very good, but her hearing is average, no different from normal people.
Due to relying too much on visual detection of enemies, Snake Eyes' ability to perceive danger is far inferior to that of ninjas who lick blood from their swords all day long.
As long as he avoids her frontal observation angle, Snake Eyes is actually no different from a random soldier in Lu Xiao's eyes.
"Ugh!"
A suppressed scream came from the mouth of Snake Eyes who was grilling meat. Her bright eyes suddenly widened, and her heart was pierced, which quickly weakened her struggling strength.
After confirming that Snake Eyes was dead, Lu Xiao closed her eyes and quietly dragged Snake Eyes into the cave passage behind her and hid it.
After solving the global monitor of Snake Eyes, the next operation to clean up the Iron Cannons will be much smoother.
Lu Xiao used the Buddha statues and the huts built by the iron cannons to cover up, and assassinated the soldiers in the swampy cave one by one.
"Done."
After kicking the last corpse into the poisonous swamp to degrade on its own, Lu Xiao continued to advance deeper into the cave through the iron cannon group's stronghold.
Next door to the iron cannon group's stronghold is also a wide and empty cave, but no one lives here.
Lu Xiao found a huge ape skeleton on the platform above the cave. He thought this place should be the place where the lion ape and his partner lived together.
As a parasite, the lion ape has an extremely long lifespan, but its partner cannot live forever. This is where the bones of the lion ape's wife are buried.
After passing through this huge cave, Lu Xiao returned to the outside world again.
At this time, the afterglow of the setting sun had completely disappeared. The bright crescent moon and bright stars provided some illumination for people traveling at night. The large number of fireflies flying among the mountains and forests also added some light to Lu Xiao's path forward.
Walking through this pristine mountain forest, Lu Xiao never relaxed for a moment, and the sense of threat that came from nowhere never left him.
Japanese onmyojis like to call the dusk and dawn times the time of encountering demons. They believe that this time period is the junction of yin and yang, and most demons and ghosts like to appear at this time.
But in fact, the night of ignorance is the best time for demons and monsters to appear.
When Lu Xiao was walking through the mountains, he always felt that something was spying on him in the darkness nearby, but his eagle eye vision scan found nothing.
Just like the previous Seven-faced Samurai.
This strange forest is filled with mist that comes from nowhere, and the visibility is very low. The rotten wood connecting the various platforms is very slippery under the infiltration of the mist, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the deep pit below.
Lu Xiao carefully stepped on the rotten wood and moved forward. The roaring and ghostly sounds coming from below the platform made his hair stand on end. He looked carefully but could not see anything.
Lu Xiao, who has passed the Sekiro process, knows that the fog and ghosts here are just illusions created by someone, but the strong murderous aura coming from somewhere at the bottom of the valley is real.
'Headless?'
In the long past, Minamoto Palace once had a war with Ashina Country. The leaderless people scattered around Ashina were the Ashina heroes who lost their lives to protect the country in the war at that time.
No one knows why they degenerated into headless people who kill everyone on sight, and Lu Xiao has no intention of provoking these difficult headless undead monsters.
Avoiding the area filled with headless murderous intent, Lu Xiao climbed up the trees in the forest and came to the outside of a large thatched house enclosed on all sides.
The sound of the flute can be heard very clearly in this big house, and a large number of translucent ghosts gather around the house, kneeling and praying to the flute playing in the house.
Entering through the broken window on the upper floor of the thatched house, Lu Xiao saw the mutated Yujiamei people from the Palace of Origin for the first time.
It was a Yujiamei nobleman dressed in red. He had a very strange appearance as he was kneeling on the ground and playing the flute.
His neck is several times longer than that of an average person, and his appearance is also very different from that of a normal person. His ugly appearance looks like a half-man, half-fish, with a weird body part like a fish tail trailing behind his butt.
This kind of noble nobleman has very weak fighting ability. He was once called Miyazaki Hidetaka's last conscience by players. Lu Xiao easily killed him after jumping off the rafter.
As the flute sound of the noble Yujiamei disappeared, the thick fog and ghosts surrounding the forest also dispersed, and the way blocked by the illusionary fog finally opened.
Lu Xiao originally wanted to check the body of this beauty, but the dead beauty quickly turned into water foam and dissipated automatically. If it weren't for the real feeling of hitting her body when she killed him, Lu Xiao would have thought that he was hallucinating.
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'What is the principle of this...'
Unable to find an explanation, Lu Xiao could only temporarily put aside what she couldn't figure out and move on.
Leaving the virgin forest at the bottom of the valley, Lu Xiao finally arrived outside the hospitable aquatic village.
The villagers in Shuisheng Village don't look normal. They are skinny and have dull eyes, wandering around aimlessly inside and outside the village.
Hiding in the grass, Lu Xiao tried to throw a stone towards the small lake in the center of the aquatic village.
"Wow~"
As the sound of falling water sounded, the villagers of the aquatic village who originally seemed to be in a dormant state immediately sped up their actions and gathered towards the small lake one by one with hoarse screams.
Taking this opportunity, Lu Xiao bypassed the villagers and continued deeper. The stone of knotting was stored in a secret cave deep in Shuisheng Village. It was also the only way to the Palace of Origin.
Lu Xiao restrained all his aura and moved forward quietly. Most of his attention was on the group of villagers by the lake, and he needed to avoid their observing eyes at any time.
"Wow!"
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of ground breaking under Lu Xiao's feet, and a withered arm grabbed Lu Xiao's calf and refused to let go.
‘Gan! I forgot that there is this one.’
"Brush~"
Lu Xiao quickly took out his hidden sword and cut off Xian Zhu's hand, but the noise produced when the arm broke through the ground had already attracted the attention of the villagers.
"Ahhh!"
The hospitable villagers rushed towards Lu Xiao in groups, with simple weapons such as kitchen knives and pitchforks in their hands raised high.
Lu Xiao didn't expect that his whereabouts would be exposed because of such a nonsensical act. As he ran all the way to the depths of Shuisheng Village, he paid special attention to some raised earth bumps under his feet to avoid being caught again on the way to escape.
The residents of Shuisheng Village have become neither human nor ghosts under the inducement of the corrupted beauty.
The nobles of Yujiamei in the lower realm "generously" gave the special wine of the "capital city" to Shuisheng Village, and the local Onmyodo priests distributed these wines to the villagers for enjoyment.
Villagers who drink Beijing wine will become very thirsty. At this time, they will run to the lake and drink the lake water that has been tampered with by Yujia Beauty. From then on, they will gradually become unconscious and only know how to obey orders.
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Lu Xiao killed at least a dozen villagers with various weapons on his way out of Shuisheng Village. However, shortly after he left, in addition to the villagers killed by the Immortal Slash, the others stood up staggeringly from the ground.
stand up.
‘It is another type of undead. What kind of aquatic village is it? One that possesses insects, or does it turn into water?’
After escaping from the core of the village, Lu Xiao hid in the thick grass and waited for the villagers who could not find his whereabouts to return to their places.
During this process, Lu Xiao vaguely heard the playing of some kind of string instrument, which seemed to be the shamisen, which is very common in Japanese folk.
'Uh~ Could it be...'
The corner of Lu Xiao's mouth twitched, as he thought of a certain existence known as the Sword Master of Aquatic Village.