Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 98 The Shame of the Ten Great Time Travelers in the st Century

When Yuanye woke up slowly, he felt very cold.

He managed to prop himself up and looked around, and found himself in a cave with a dying fire next to him. It seemed to be daytime already, but he just propped himself up and immediately felt a sharp pain in his waist and ribs, and his throat still felt sweet.

"You... are awake!" Ah Qing came back with an arm full of dry and yellow reed firewood. A hint of joy appeared on her pretty face, as if she was relieved to see him wake up. She quickly dropped the things in her arms and went to help him.

Yuan Ye felt relieved when he saw her. He lay down again and asked while enduring the pain, "Where are we?"

Ah Qing immediately recounted in a low voice what had happened the previous night, and kept saying how she had dragged him along the way hiding and dodging with a makeshift straw rope and reed bundle, and that it had taken her most of the day to get out of the wetland. However, because they did not dare to see anyone for the time being, they had to continue walking into the mountains, and finally they could only temporarily stay in this small cave that they had discovered by accident.

Yuanye didn't expect that he had been dragged for most of the day without waking up, or he had woken up but was unclear and didn't have much memory. He didn't expect that this wild kid Aman... This guy Aman was willing to sacrifice himself and take the initiative to divert the pursuers.

In theory, she should have thrown him into the lake together with the door panel, and let him hold on to the door panel for a last fight, and whether he could survive would depend on fate.

After Ah Qing finished speaking, his eyes turned slightly red. He lowered his head and pretended to be smoked by the smoke, then wiped his tears and asked in a low voice: "How is your injury..."

Yuanye endured the pain and pressed his waist and ribs, feeling it silently for a moment. It was not in vain that he had been a Mongolian doctor for so long. He said softly, "It's not getting worse, but I'll have to trouble you a little more. I need some stronger straw ropes, and...earthworms and reed roots."

He needed to give himself a thoracotomy to fix his ribs to prevent the broken ends from rubbing against each other and causing him to be unable to move due to the pain. The only recovery medicines currently available were earthworms and reed roots. The former could help dissipate blood stasis and mend tendons and broken bones, while the latter could provide mild analgesic effect.

A Qing nodded and went out again. Yuan Ye lay on the ground, staring at the dark cave ceiling in a daze. It was not until A Qing came back with a lot of reeds and made straw ropes that he forced himself to save himself.

He tossed and turned until night. Ah Qing shot a bird and roasted it for him to eat, but he didn't eat much, so Ah Qing helped him eat it himself. After Ah Qing finished eating, she brought more reeds and tied them into bundles, buried him in them, and then she also crawled in, leaning against the uninjured half of his body to keep him warm, and rested in silence.

Yuan Ye also did not speak. There were too many accidents and too great losses, which made him very depressed. He felt that if he could return to the modern era and write his experiences into a novel and post it on the website, he should be able to compete for one of the top ten time travelers of the 21st century. After more than a year of hard work, the life and death of his loyal friend was unknown, and he himself was sleeping in a cave.

He reflected on his mistakes for a long time, sighed silently, turned his head to look at Ah Qing, only to see that her eyes were slightly red and swollen, and she was in a daze, completely losing her former coldness. It seemed that Ah Man's life or death was uncertain, which was a great blow to her.

Seeing her like this, Yuanye cheered up again. After a slight hesitation, he reached out and held her close to him to make her feel warmer.

Ah Qing didn't refuse, but her eyes became even redder. She buried her head in his shoulder and asked in a low voice: "If Sister Ah Man really...will you do what she says?"

"Yes." Yuanye answered very concisely without any empty words of comfort. More than 20 people were chased by hundreds of people in the plains. Aman was still one of the main murderers of Lin Zhenzheng. Unless she became a ninja in later anime and could fly and hide underground, her chances of survival were very small.

As for revenge for her...

A'man sacrificed his life for his, so it was his duty to avenge A'man. He would not shirk his responsibility even if he could not find out and kill all the chickens of the Lin family. However, no one of the Lin family, from the lord to the retainers, could escape.

Ah Qing nodded gently, as if she finally felt relieved, and closed her eyes slightly. She was also very tired, so she just nestled in the thick bundle of reeds and fell asleep against the field.

Yuanye did not disturb her, but just gently held her to his side again, trying to transfer more warmth to her, and slowly closed his eyes.

This matter will not just end like this. He has been honestly trying to survive and live a slightly better life. He has done a lot of good deeds and has never harmed a good person. Even after all this, these ancient people still don't want him to live. That's fine!
If he can't survive, no one can survive!

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The night passed quickly. Because it was difficult to move in the wilderness and the situation outside was unclear, they temporarily settled down in this cave. Ah Qing had a lot of experience in independent living. She made several straw mats and went to a distant village to steal things. She brought back some pottery jars, worn-out clothes and grains. She also set traps and buried some game from time to time. In just two days, she lived a happy, quiet and leisurely life. If she was going to retire to the mountains, it would be nice to live here with her.

At Yuanye's instruction, she went to Hibitsu Village, but waited outside for a long time. She didn't wait for Yayoi and others, and she didn't dare to go in for a while. In case something unexpected happened, Yuanye could only wait to die in the cave. In the end, she returned empty-handed. Yuanye couldn't move now. Even if Yayoi and others were in trouble, he couldn't help. He could only give up for the time being and didn't continue looking for them.

He rested and recovered, hoping to regain some mobility as soon as possible. He originally thought it would take more than ten days, but after six or seven days, he found that his ribs seemed to have begun to heal. As long as he moved slowly, the pain was no longer so severe, which was nearly half a year earlier than he expected.

He was somewhat surprised by this and somewhat doubted whether this was a benefit brought by time travel.

If he thought about it carefully, he had been in very good health since he traveled through time. He hadn't even had a headache or fever. His physical strength and energy seemed to be stronger than before. He hadn't brought any modern germs with him to kill a large number of ancient people. Perhaps his body had really benefited from the process of traveling through time and had undergone some kind of enhanced purification.

But after thinking about it carefully for a while, he suspected it was an illusion. After all, he used to be very afraid of being beaten. He paid great attention to physical exercise since he was a teenager so that he could beat up anyone who wanted to beat him at any time. Therefore, he was much stronger than the average person. He only had the flu once in the two years when he was eighteen or nineteen, so it didn't seem strange that he didn't get sick for a whole year at the age of twenty.

Besides, he is still young and his recovery speed is faster than the average level, but it doesn't seem to be a miracle. After all, he won't be healed all at once. For the time being, he can only move slowly and the pain is not too severe.

If one could fully recover overnight, that could be considered a golden finger for time travel, but this golden finger is almost the same as having it or not, and is still of little use.

He thought about it for a while but couldn't figure it out. He decided to study it slowly later, but it was more important to get down to business first. He took A-qing with him and slowly moved towards Hibitsu Village. He didn't dare to take the main road, so he just went around in the mountains. With the help of A-qing, he rested as he walked. It took them a whole day to finally reach their destination, a journey of more than three hours.

Ah Qing hid him in the nearby woods and went to investigate outside Hibizun Village. This time he finally found someone, and soon brought back Yayoi's father Jikuro alone. Then he found out the whereabouts of Yayoi and others. When Jikuro heard that Takeuchi Village was attacked, he instinctively felt that this was a big deal. He was not sure how Maeda Toshiharu would react. For fear of accidents, he did not dare to hide his daughter and her group in the village. He chose to place them in a secret valley, and planned to wait and see what happened next.

This was considered a mature and prudent move, and Yuanye had no objection. With the help of Jikuro, he rushed to a small valley in the Ise Mountains and joined forces with his own forces.

In fact, it can't be called a force. The strength he accumulated for a year has been lost. All that is left is a group of family members with no fighting ability and some money. Most of the work has to be started all over again.

He didn't care much about this aspect, but just asked Maejima Juichiro and Jikuro about the current situation. It turned out that Maejima Juichiro knew nothing, and Jikuro only knew that the Maeda family in Arako had mobilized all their forces, and a large number of farmers were drawn from each village to form miscellaneous soldiers and gathered in Arako Castle, but they didn't know who they were going to fight, and no one would inform him about this.

Yuanye had no other choice but to ask Qing to go again to see if he could find out the current situation. However, Qing was a little dull and not very professional in this area. After a day of wandering around, he didn't find out the cause and effect of the matter, or the various inside details. He only found out some things that everyone knew:
Lin Xiuzhen did rebel. She launched a coup d'état in Naguru Castle that night, attempting to expel Oda Nobunaga and occupy Naguru Castle, but she failed.

At the critical moment, the guardian of Furuno Castle, Dai Sawakiie, suddenly sided with Oda Nobunaga and stabbed him in the back, causing his sure victory to fail. He finally retreated to the Hayashi family's territory after a chaotic battle in the castle. However, he did not fail to achieve any results. The armed forces in the Hayashi family's territory that could not be transferred to Furuno Castle were divided into three groups and launched a surprise attack. They occupied Oda Nobunaga's three important direct territories and crippled or incorporated nearly half of Oda Nobunaga's direct forces.

Oda Nobuyuki of Suemori Castle also rebelled, and officially changed his common name to Dan Masatada, making it clear that he was the heir to the "Tiger of Owari". He also called on the powerful families of the four counties under Owari to fight against his brother Oda Nobunaga together. However, there were not many responses for the time being. Moreover, his family elder Sakuma Motoshige also rebelled and suddenly launched an attempt to control his lord Oda Nobuyuki and make him apologize to the head of the family. However, he was defeated by Shibata Katsuie and was forced to retreat to his territory with his retainers and gang.

As for the brothers Oda Nobunaga and Oda Nobuyuki...

The two sides had already fought a battle at Shinogi Castle a few days ago. The course of the battle was unclear, and the number of troops was also unclear, but in the end Oda Nobuyuki's side failed to capture Shinogi Castle and retreated to the north bank of the Odai River to build forts, preparing to launch a new attack. Oda Nobunaga also ordered the construction of forts on the south bank to confront his younger brother. The defending general was Sakuma Shigeshige.

Now both sides are recruiting people and trying desperately to persuade the neutral Oda Danmasatada's family members, important ministers and powerful families to join their side. It seems that it won't be long before the two sides have another battle until the winner is decided.

Yuanye was silent for a long time after hearing this. He didn't expect that coups d'etat had taken place in Furuno Castle and Suemori Castle one after another, and both sides failed. In the end, the two Oda brothers exchanged family elders. There must have been a lot of conspiracies and intrigues involved. It is very likely that both sides were secretly planning to attack each other, and it turned out like this by accident.

This day finally came. After there was no external threat for a while, and after Hirate Masahide, the lubricant of the Oda Dan Masatada family, disappeared, the Oda Nobunaga brothers finally resorted to internal strife.

(End of this chapter)