Zongman: Harem's Music

Nishimiya Tsuyoshi pulled the reins, and the horse under his crotch raised its front hooves and stopped. He took out a map and compass from the bag hanging from the saddle, and determined his current approximate location... and found the three mountains marked on the map that seemed to be the location of Mikasa's family...

Snapped!

He tapped his finger on the map. A village nestled in the middle of three suspected mountain ranges was the ideal location for gathering intelligence...

"It's not far, keep up!" Putting away the map and leaving the compass to determine the direction, Xigong Siyi glanced at Xiton in front of him, and controlled the strong horse to gradually spread its four hooves!

……

Hua Hua Hua...

The rain in winter is not as vigorous as that in summer, nor as gentle as that in spring. The dense rain between the two pours down on the southern area of ​​Wall Maria with a bone-chilling chill!

Boom boom boom!

Sidon knocked on the door of one of the houses in the small village of about a dozen.

"Who?"

squeak~

The person who opened the door was a skinny man.

"We're from Wall Sina... er, tourists, and since it's raining heavily..."

"Do you know that there is a man named Ackerman living on the nearby mountain?" Before Sidun could finish his words, Xigong Siyi interrupted him!

After riding in the rain for nearly two hours, the rain completely wet his hair and soaked his clothes, but even so, he still kept a smile on his face and took out a bag of coins from his arms.

"I know!"

A knife and money are always the best way to open someone's mouth. The man blurted out without thinking, "They live in the mountains to the east. They sometimes come to our village to trade game for food!"

"Excellent!" Nishimiya Tsuyoshi raised the corner of his mouth and asked, "Besides us, has anyone else inquired about Ackerman?"

The man shook his head, his eyes never leaving the purse in Xigong Siyi's hand. Seeing Xigong Siyi shaking it, as if he would put it away at any time, he added: "But before it rained, a few men passed by our village. Judging from the direction they were going, it seemed that..."

Nishimiya Tsuyoshi asked, "Was it walking or riding a horse?"

"walk!"

"Very good!" Xigong Siyi threw the purse to the man, then turned around and left into the rain!

"It's been raining for about two hours. If the other party is walking... they should still have time!" Xigong Siyi murmured as he walked towards the horse tied to the fence at the entrance of the village.

"My lord, my lord, put this on!"

Sidon caught up with two simple animal skin raincoats, which he must have asked for from the villager.

"Is it still necessary?" Nishimiya Tsutomu spread his hands, "It's already soaked anyway!"

"It's better than nothing!" After putting on his own coat, Sidon still insisted on putting it on Xigong Siyi.

Xigong Siyi mounted his horse, looked down at Xidon and ordered: "You go find the garrison troops... I'll go up the mountain first!"

Sidon frowned. "Don't be ridiculous. Normally, I'd listen to you, but things are different now... The Ackerman you're talking about must be that legendary minority, right? It's said that women fetch a high price on the black market... Those who target them are probably desperate criminals willing to do anything for the money..."

"So?" Nishimiya Siyi smiled. "It's impossible for me to give up. There are at least three people on the other side. Your flintlock rifle has been in the rain for two hours and is no longer usable... Even if you go with me, you won't be of much help. It's better to go find the people from the garrison!"

"But……"

"No need to say more, just do as I tell you!" Xigong Siyi interrupted Xidon, "Go!"

The horse let out a long breath, blowing away the rainwater that had accumulated in its nostrils. Its four hooves stepped on the mud and water, carrying Xigong Si towards the distant mountains that were infinitely close to the dark clouds in the sky and filled with a lot of water vapor.

The cold rain slapped Nishimiya Tsuyoshi's face, causing it to hurt. He knew full well that everything has two sides, or even multiple sides. If Hisoka had followed his instructions and successfully held back the Jaegers, although it would have prevented the encounter between Eren and Mikasa in the plot, it would also mean that the possibility of Eren rescuing Mikasa from the bandits would no longer exist. If that were the case, the only person who could save Mikasa would be him, the one who disrupted the plot, Nishimiya Tsuyoshi...

Looking at Xigong Siyi's figure going away, Xidon gritted his teeth, mounted his strong horse and rode in the opposite direction!

……

"Wow, you're indeed a wealthy person in Wall Xena, you're truly generous!"

In the wooden house, he looked at the open purse on the table, or to be more precise, the orange coins in the purse, and laughed out loud!

"Dad!" A sleepy child came out from the inner room, rubbing his eyes and saying, "I thought I heard a carriage passing by the village..."

"Carriage?" The man carefully put away the coins, enough for the couple's annual expenses, and said with a smile, "You're still asleep, aren't you? But we can definitely buy a carriage and start a small business!"

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Chapter 49 Blood-stained Mud!

At the foot of the mountain, three freight carriages were moving at a constant speed on the bumpy mud. There were some boxes on the carriages, and there were five or six men in black hooded raincoats in front and behind the carriages, responsible for escorting!

The road was not wide, and Nishimiya Tsuyoshi, who was riding alone, met the convoy.

Both sides stopped, and Nishimiya Tsuyoshi didn't know if it was an illusion, but he realized that the other party seemed to be very wary of him...

A caravan? Nishimiya Tsukasa steed his powerful horse to make way for the other party.

"drive!"

The leader controlled the horses and continued forward, and the convoy slowly passed by Nishimiya Tsuyoshi...

There were five horsemen, three carriage drivers, and two more people in the second carriage, for a total of ten people...

How could there be a caravan in such a remote place? And their alertness... there's something wrong!

Are these the gangsters who targeted Mikasa Ackerman?

Nishimiya Tsukazu proposed a hypothesis, but quickly denied it!

There are only three bandits in the plot, but this group of people consists of more than ten people. Moreover, the villagers in the village said that the people passing by were walking, but almost everyone in this group of people had a horse... Obviously, they can't be equated!

It should be an illegal activity like smuggling... Xigong Siyi guessed that he really had no intention of stealing the bad guys' wealth. His gaze shifted to the mountains beside him. He had more important things to do!

dong dong!

Just as Nishimiya Tsuyoshi was thinking this, as the second carriage passed by, a noise came from the wooden box on the carriage floor, or more precisely, from inside the wooden box. The noise was so audible that it could be heard even in such a heavy rain...

bang~

"You beast, if you move again I'll kill you right now!" A man on the carriage kicked the wooden box sideways, then glared at Xigong Siyi, as if giving him a warning...

The convoy continued to pass, until the last carriage, until the last rider...

Inside the wooden box, bound and gagged, the black-haired girl anxiously peered through the cracks in the box's formwork, peering out at the narrow, swaying world outside. The boy on horseback was gone. This was the despair left by the final hope vanishing...

"Wait a moment!"

Just as her tears were rolling down her cheeks, a clear and unison voice, whose voice had not yet changed, sounded with an unquestionable tone.

Is this what they call a guilty conscience? You absolutely shouldn't have glared at me!

Nishimiya Siyi grasped the crescent-shaped hilt of the sword tied to the saddle, turned sideways to look at the caravan, and chuckled, "Can you show me what's in the box?"

The leader said directly: "Hurry up!"

Quickly, of course, not quickly showing Nishimiya Tsutomu the box... The three people following the convoy controlled their horses and surrounded Nishimiya Tsutomu, each of them revealing a cold blade from under their raincoats...

"Looks like I have to go and see it myself!" Nishimiya Tsuyoshi drew out his katana and his expression turned cold.

Ten people... I don't know if they have guns, this is a bit troublesome! Nishimiya Siyi took a deep breath, took off his raincoat and threw it aside, raised his long sword horizontally, and the blade clanged under the slapping of rain, "Come on!"

"Hahaha, you little brat, do you want to make me laugh so hard that my teeth fall out?" A man sneered contemptuously, controlling the strong horse under him with the reins to gallop forward.

Xigong Siyi controlled his horse and rushed forward. Seeing that the two men and their horses were about to miss each other, the man took advantage of his height and raised his long axe high, ready to chop down. He smiled as if he had already seen Xigong Siyi being killed by his axe, "Idiot, die!"

bang~

A steel ball streaked out a white streak in the rain, and blood and rain mixed together between the man's eyebrows... The man threw his head back and fell off his horse!

While the other two were stunned by the sudden change, Xigong Siyi rode his horse at full speed and rushed towards them!

Zheng~

A sword cut the throat, and the splattered blood was washed away by the rain and splashed into the mud below. Xigong Siyi squeezed the horse's belly, tightened the reins and raised it with all his strength!

The strong horse raised its front hooves while neighing and suddenly kicked the other person away!

The three people at the back of the convoy were dealt with in a lightning-fast manner. In his peripheral vision, Xigong Siyi saw the worst-case scenario imaginable: the coachman pulled out a spear from under the rainproof animal skin on the carriage board!

Without thinking too much, Nishimiya Tsutomu grabbed the saddle with one hand, used the horse facing the enemy as a human shield, and turned over to lie horizontally behind him...

boom!boom!boom!boom!

The next second, several gunshots rang out, and blood splattered on the horse in equal numbers. Fortunately, Xigong Siyi, who was hiding on the other side of the horse, escaped.

The horse fell with a wail, and Xigong Si took advantage of the momentum to roll back to his feet. The reloading procedure for the flintlock rifle was extremely complicated, and in such a dense rain, there was basically no chance of firing a second shot...

Starting from the horse's belly, which was still breathing, Nishimiya Siyi galloped towards the convoy. At the same time, he took out three steel balls from his pocket with his left hand, and there were three steel balls between his fingers!

"what--"

[Superpower: Metal Manipulation] He exerted all his strength...throwing it with his left hand, three steel balls with a flawless mirror-like surface were accelerated a second time by Nishimiya Siyi's superpower, and drew three sharp white lines in the rain, pointing directly at the heads of three gunmen in the distance.

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Chapter 50 Something’s wrong!

Bang!Bang!Bang!

In the blink of an eye, three steel balls simultaneously penetrated the eyebrows of their respective targets, and bright red liquid gushed out, and the three people fell to the ground and died.

it's not finished yet!

Zheng~

After throwing three steel balls, Nishimiya Tsugumi swung out the katana in his hand. Under the pounding rain, the sword's edge vibrated with an unusually long sound...

The sword, spinning at a high speed in a spiral, pierced into the fourth person's neck with its blade, tearing the skin, turning the flesh, and severing the veins and arteries... The sword blade was embedded in the person's cervical vertebra, and under the high pressure of the human blood vessels, bright red blood spurted from the completely cut carotid artery to a height of several meters!

Three carriages, three driver's. The second carriage carried two people besides the driver, making a total of five people... Three steel balls and a long sword, Nishimiya Tsuyoshi dispatched four of them. At this moment, the last remaining man looked at the fountain of blood splattering in front of him, and his hand holding the gun trembled uncontrollably. As he watched Nishimiya Tsuyoshi rushing towards him head-on at unabated speed, his pupils constricted, and his rain-washed face was filled with terror: "Evil... demon..."

"Die!"

bang——

With a great leap and a side kick, Nishimiya Siyi did not give him time to continue to be frightened, and broke his neck with one kick.

As the tall man in front of him was kicked away, Nishimiya Tsuyoshi saw... the last two people on horseback at the front of the convoy, the last two of the ten people. What was revealed from their wide cloaks was not the blade of an axe, but the muzzle of a gun...

"Oh no..." Xigong Si's expression froze.

They pre-loaded the rifle with lead bullets, inserted the wooden hammer into the musket shaft, and finally filled the powder reservoir with gunpowder... This was the complete process of loading a flintlock rifle. They meticulously prepared everything before setting out, so that they could immediately kill the enemy at the crucial moment...

Now is the critical moment...

Hidden under the cloak, the triggers of the flintlock rifles were pulled by the index fingers of the two men. The flint on the hammer was hit heavily into the gunpowder pool by the action of the spring, and sporadic sparks ignited the gunpowder... Two gunshots rang out throughout the valley, and the sound of the endless rain seemed incomparably small in an instant.

At this extremely urgent moment, in Xigong Tsuyoshi's eyes, time seemed to slow down...

In the blinding firelight and the smoke rising from the two men's cloaks, two pitch-black lead bullets came straight towards them... They were not as smooth and flawless as steel balls, and even looked a little ugly... But the white lines they drew in the rain were equally gorgeous. I think... the bright red color they bloomed when they penetrated a person's body would be equally spectacular!

Lead, a weak metal… although a weak metal is still a metal!

Nishimiya Tsuyoshi desperately activated his supernatural powers with unprecedented concentration, pouring his ethereal thoughts into the two seemingly unstoppable lead bullets...

A little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more!

bang——

bang——

From the outside, the lead bullet streaked through the rain, with a trajectory that was difficult to capture with the naked eye. However, with Xigong Siyi's gaze and gestures, there was an incomprehensible large deviation. Two white curves flashed by, and the lead bullet that should have hit Xigong Siyi's body penetrated the carriage board, causing a cloud of wood chips to fly!

The two people who fired the gun opened their eyes wide in shock at this incomprehensible scene, and two smooth and flawless steel balls pierced their heads.

Snapped!Snapped!

They fell off their horses into the mud, and a lot of blood, mud and rain mixed together.

Finally... everything is solved!

His tense nerves relaxed, and a strong feeling of dizziness and exhaustion washed over him like a tide...

"This is my ultimate move..."

Pulling his sword from the neck of the corpse beside him, Nishimiya seemed to look around. Corpses were everywhere... The horrifying scene and the smell of blood, which even the heavy rain couldn't completely dispel, coupled with the fact that ten lives had been lost at his hands, caused his stomach to churn, both psychologically and physically.

The combined effects of power depletion and first murder weren't exactly pleasant...

Enduring the weakness and discomfort, Nishimiya Siyi dragged his heavy body, picked up the crowbar on the car board, and came to the wooden box that was moving continuously.

After knocking open the locked lid, a girl in a long black dress, with her limbs tied up and her mouth stuffed with rags, curled up at the bottom of the box, came into view...

"Woooo~oooooo~"