Konoha Ninja Samurai

Chapter 50
In the house of the village chief, Tokugawa Yukimura and Sasaki sat in a circle with the village chief. The whole house was silent, except for the occasional crackling of the matches burning in the fireplace.

The old village chief sighed, could it be that the village was cursed, otherwise how could he provoke such a terrible enemy.

"Now is not the time to sigh, now we have to find a way to deal with it." Tokugawa Yukimura knocked on the table and said to the two.

"That's right, we'll do what the samurai says." The village chief nodded as if he had found a straw.

Tokugawa Yukimura was a little dissatisfied with the other party's way of shirking responsibility, but he didn't say anything. He added: "First of all, the villagers were notified to cancel the spontaneous guarding of the deer. The use of force is to deal with it unexpectedly, but it will cause innocent casualties."

"Yes, I'll notify you immediately." The village chief wiped the cold sweat off his brow. Thinking that he and others had been thinking about dealing with such a terrible thing all day long, he couldn't help feeling afraid for a while. Fortunately, he hadn't encountered it head-on these days.

"Secondly, the 20 members of the hunting team are divided into two groups, and they take turns on duty at night. If there is a situation, don't fight recklessly, just send me a signal, and I will solve it." Tokugawa Yukimura said to Sasaki.

"Our hunting team is all good hunters, and a few people can take care of that beast." Sasaki seemed dissatisfied with Tokugawa Yukimura's arrangement.

"You don't know its power, so just do as I say." Tokugawa Yukimura shook his head and said a little forcefully.

This is the difference between the missions of the Kingdom of Iron and the missions of Ninja Village. Except for the mission of the Kingdom of Craftsmen last time, the missions of the Kingdom of Iron are generally issued by the government and have the nature of administrative orders, so the parties must cooperate with the mission Completion, unlike Ninja Village, needs to take into account the client's opinion.Besides, the samurai class is an aristocrat in the Iron Country, and it is not something ordinary people like Sasaki can compete with.

Sasaki obviously knew this too, and he also acquiesced to this approach after hearing it.

"According to the previous statistics, what is the attack frequency of this Ninja Beast?"

"Usually there is an attack every three to five days, but the last attack was two days ago." The village head remembered these things clearly.

"Well, let's do this for now, don't let your guard down." Tokugawa Yukimura said forcefully, "Since it will come in a few days, let's weave a net and wait for it to come in by itself."

The order was conveyed in the name of the village head and Sasaki. Although the villagers were puzzled, they chose to carry out the order. For most of the villagers who had never left the village in their entire lives, the village head was the biggest official they had ever seen.

It's just that the night of this day was calm, and the villagers who had been tortured by fear for a long time finally calmed down. In their opinion, no matter how ferocious the beast is, it must be afraid of the sharp blade of the warrior.

Although the ambush plan is to wait for work at leisure, but nocturnal animals like wild wolves, if they want to sit and wait for rabbits, they must not take it lightly all night. Even Tokugawa Yukimura has a strong body, and it is a bit tiring to guard it all night.

Rested hastily for a few hours, and simply ate something to pad his stomach. Tokugawa Yukimura asked someone to take a look around the village to judge whether there were any "guests" visiting yesterday. The person who led the way was Kobayashi who met yesterday. .

Although Kobayashi didn't dare to show his airs in front of Sasaki, Xu looked at Tokugawa Yukimura without airs, but he was eloquent in front of this foreign samurai.

"Oh? Are you also a member of the hunting team?" Tokugawa Yukimura was a little surprised.

"Of course." Kobayashi was a little proud, "Except for Captain Sasaki, no one is as familiar with the terrain around here as I am."

"Then do you know how the number of wolves near the village is based on the situation in previous years?"

Kobayashi scratched his head and said, "I don't know the exact number, there are probably hundreds of wolves. But this is the southern foot of the mountain. If you go to the northern foot, you have to cross the snow line to get there. Only Captain Sasaki has been there in the whole village."

"Oh?" Seeing that he admired Sasaki very much, Tokugawa Yukimura couldn't help asking: "Sasaki is very good? I think you are all afraid of him."

"It's not fear, it's awe." Speaking of the captain, Xiao Lin's eyes showed envy, "The captain is the most powerful hunter in the vicinity, especially wolf hunting. Although he is very strict with us, he is really capable."

Speaking of this, he looked around subconsciously, and after finding no one, he continued: "The captain knows wolves best, you can judge the number of wolves based on their footprints, and sometimes a few hairs can be a clue for tracking. The howling of wolves that sounds normal to us can be heard by the captain with different meanings. A few years ago, a hungry wolf with a wounded head escaped to the vicinity. Captain Sasaki spent a month to find out its habits, and then In the snow where it was most likely to appear, it lay in ambush for a day without moving, and the final blow was fatal."

Speaking of this incident, Xiao Lin was also very proud, looking proud.It happened that they passed a trap set up here, and they pointed it out to Tokugawa Yukimura: "Look, this is the trap set by the captain."

After careful observation, it was discovered that the hidden trap was not only hidden, but also fully considered the wolf's habits, including body length, jumping distance and other factors.The traps set up by the chain even took into account the escape direction of the wild wolf, Tokugawa Yukimura asked himself that he couldn't do it.

"Oh, it's not good. We left a smell when we came nearby. We need to eliminate it again." As if thinking of the horror of Sasaki, Kobayashi shivered and cleaned up the footprints, and sprinkled things like mud to mask the smell.

"By the way, Kobayashi, do you know how the huge silver wolf fur in your captain's house came from? It also came from your hunting team's collective hunting?" Tokugawa Yukimura suddenly thought of the eye-catching decorations in Sasaki's house, and was eager to check the situation before. And I didn't have time to ask him himself, but judging by the size of the giant wolf, it is not something ordinary people can deal with.

Kobayashi, who was bent over to process the footprints, couldn't help but trembled when he heard Tokugawa Yukimura's words, but he didn't dare to refuse the noble samurai, so he said in a low voice: "The captain came back from hunting alone a few months ago. He had been missing for a week, and we were going to launch a hunting team into the mountains to find him, but the captain came back with the wolf skin.” Xiao Lin said with some fear, “At that time, I went up to congratulate the captain. I was severely punished, and I don’t know why, and no one dared to mention it after that.”

"Really." Tokugawa Yukimura tapped the scabbard unconsciously with his fingers, "This is really interesting, isn't it." He said, showing an interested smile.

(End of this chapter)