This is the unique thick smoke and stench after the fire rages everywhere...

Immediately afterwards, A Zhu saw a woman suddenly coming outside his prison door.

The woman covered herself tightly, with only her two eyes exposed, so A-Zhu couldn't see her face clearly. He could only tell from her voice that she was very young.

This mysterious woman only said coldly to A Zhu, "Go away quickly", and then opened the prison door.

This young woman secretly released her... no, it should be said that she released many people including her who were imprisoned in other prisons.

Only then did Ah Zhu realize that there were so many people like her, imprisoned in such a dark place.

If A Zhu remembers correctly, there were about a dozen people, including her, who were rescued by the mysterious woman.

When they were first rescued, the mysterious woman gave them a small cloth bag one by one. Each bag contained two hundred yuan.

Then, after escaping with the help of the mysterious woman, A Zhu and the others discovered that there were flames and thick smoke everywhere. Under the cover of the fire and the leadership of the mysterious woman, they escaped from this dark place.

A Zhu remembered clearly that they came out of a cave. As soon as they came out of the cave, they saw layers of mountains.

Before they had time to rejoice, soldiers were chasing them.

"You guys run separately, keep walking in that direction and you will reach a place with people. This will save you some money. I will try my best to help you distract the pursuers." This was the last sentence A Zhu heard from the mysterious woman.

When saying this, the mysterious woman pointed in a certain direction.

A-Zhu and the others obeyed the mysterious woman's order and ran away separately. Since then, A-Zhu has never seen the mysterious woman again.

Ah Zhu ran desperately until he couldn't even move his toes.

She was lucky that there was no sound of any pursuers behind her when she was too tired to move.

Unfortunately for her, when she first ran away, there was a man and a woman about the same age as her running away in the same direction as her. But when A Zhu was too tired to move, the man and woman had disappeared.

It is not clear whether they were weak and fell behind, or whether they ran off to another route.

In short, Ah Zhu has been walking aimlessly forward alone in this mountainous mountain.

Although the mysterious woman had given them directions before, A-Zhu, who had already fled to a place where he could not even tell which direction was from east to west, had unfortunately forgotten which direction the mysterious woman was pointing...

…

So, she could only walk forward aimlessly.

Then, a lucky thing and an unfortunate thing happened to A-Zhu.

Fortunately, she walked aimlessly and managed to get out of the mountain. As soon as she got down the mountain, she found a village. After asking around in the village, she found out that she was in Kii and there was a port there.

Not far from here.

A-Zhu was just an ordinary 15-year-old girl. At that time, she didn't know what to do or where to go other than going home.

In order to get on the ship to Osaka, Atake resolutely went to that port.

The current public security situation is generally not very good, but A Zhu, who was alone, actually managed to walk to the port smoothly.

Unfortunately, after arriving at the port, she encountered an unscrupulous ship dealer.

The ship dealer said that their ship was bound for Osaka, and he would let Atake board the ship as long as he paid enough money.

A-Zhu was new to the world and could not tell the good and evil of people's hearts, so she foolishly gave most of the money that the mysterious woman gave her to this unscrupulous ship merchant.

This man claimed that his ship was a ship dealer going to Osaka, but the destination of his ship was actually Edo...

Atake arrived in Edo in such a daze.

She was uneducated and didn't know how long it would take to get from Kii to Osaka. She didn't realize she had been deceived until she arrived at Edo Port...

She didn't have the guts to argue with the vicious ship dealer, so she could only swallow the bitter pill silently.

She wanted nothing more than to go home.

She was unfamiliar with the place in Edo and had no choice but to place her hope on the government. She hoped that the government people could help her return home or help her recover her debt from the unscrupulous ship merchant.

As a result...she was entangled by two gangsters before she even reached the door of the Edo Administrative Office.

And then... I met Wen Xian and Yoshitomo who happened to be passing by.

There is no need to go into details about what happened after that.

The above is what happened to Atake after she was kidnapped in Osaka.

The expressions of Lin and Mamiya are now very complicated. The tragedy of Atake's experience makes them both not sure what kind of expressions they should show...

As for A-Zhu, who was remembering and telling her story, her eyes had been red since just now.

The tragedy of her experience made even listeners like Lin deeply moved.

Looking at A-Zhu, whose eyes were red, as if she might cry at any time, Lin sighed softly, then walked to A-Zhu on her knees, and then opened her arms like a mother bird to protect her chicks, and held A-Zhu away.

Hold him in his arms.

"It's okay." Lin gently patted the back of A-Zhu's head with one hand and stroked A-Zhu's back with the other hand, "You have now eaten all the hardships you deserve, and everything is fine from now on.

"

Lin's comfort made A-Zhu's already fragile psychological defense plummet in an instant.

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa!"

A-Zhu hugged Lin tightly, put his face on Lin's shoulder, and cried loudly.

Lin did not shy away from A-Zhu's tears and snot that were wiped on her clothes. She just continued to hug A-Zhu silently, patting the back of A-Zhu's head and back.

It wasn't until A-Zhu's mood gradually stabilized and she stopped crying that Lin let go of A-Zhu in her arms.

"Azhu, do you still remember the approximate location of the cave where you were imprisoned?" Lin suddenly asked at this time, "Or maybe you have a way to lead us back along the route you took to escape and find that place?"

A cave?”

"I... don't remember..." A-Zhu shook his head, "After escaping, I ran away aimlessly without knowing the direction... so I can't take you back the way you came... and I don't remember the cave.

Probably somewhere..."

"That's it... forget it." Lin smiled at A Zhu.

The smile Lin showed now was much softer than the friendly smile she forced out just now.

"Thank you for your hard work. Do you want to go down and rest first? Is there anything you want to eat?"

…

…

Lin actually still has many questions to ask the child.

For example, what is the taste and color of the meat and pills she was forced to eat?

But she didn't want to tire the child out by asking questions all at once, so she decided to take her time and eat the food one bite at a time.

Lin asked Mamiya to take Atake down to rest first, and asked Mamiya to go to the kitchen later to count how many ingredients were left. She would make something delicious at noon today to replenish the poor girl's long-suffering body.

After Mamiya left with Atake, Lin stood up and left the room.

As soon as he left the room, he saw Genichi, Makimura and others waiting for news outside the room.

"My Lord," Makimura asked first, "What was the result? Did you ask anything? I just heard the girl crying very loudly."

Lin did not answer Makimura's question, but first said in a tone that left no room for doubt:

"Our next itinerary has to be changed. We won't go back to Owari for now. After that, we have to go to Osaka in Kansai first."

After finishing speaking, Lin turned her head and looked to the west.

Her sharp gaze seemed to penetrate thousands of miles and see Osaka in Kansai.

"I really didn't expect it..." Lin whispered in a voice that only she could hear clearly, "I actually got information about the 'immortal' in such a hazy way..."

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…

about a month later

Owari, somewhere

"Then, in order to practice breath-holding, we had to put our faces into a basin filled with water every day, using this silly method to train."

"Are you using a washbasin for training?" Azhu complained in a very timely manner.

"After all, it's convenient." A-Machi said, "Training also requires cost. Going all the way to the river to practice breath-holding is such a waste of time."

"Hey, you two, please stop chatting for now." Ogata, who was sitting on the radish, said to Azuki and Azuki, who were sitting on the grapes one behind the other, "The ground in front of you is full of bumps, be careful not to bite them.

Tongue."

Don't talk when the horse is walking on the rough ground, as long as you still want to prevent your tongue from being bitten by your teeth. This is a piece of trivia that every horseman knows.

More than a month has passed since it landed in northern Oshu.

For more than a month, Ogata and others have been heading south, heading straight towards Owari.

It has been calm for more than a month,

Although there was no human skin mask, Ogata had always used a bamboo hat and other objects to cover his face, so he did not encounter any trouble caused by the exposure of his true identity.
To be continued...