Beginning with the Ubume Bird - Chapter 47

Chapter 47: The Japanese Spies! The Corpses! The Nekomata!

“Walker, you are about to start your new Yanfu case.”

“You have gained an additional Yanfu object.”

“You can choose to pass this Yanfu case by trading in your Yanfu object.”

“If you do not wish to trade the item in, you can also choose to sacrifice it so that your status improves in the next Yanfu case.”

“It will be helpful when your status has improved.”

“I’ll sacrifice it.”

[You have chosen to sacrifice Lin Yutang’s handwritten script. Your status will be improved in the coming Yanfu case.]

Li Yan suddenly opened his eyes!

The first thing he did was grab his Han sword tightly and sit up from the mud. He lifted his blood-soaked fingers.

Li Yan laughed at his hand covered in blood.

“What a good sign. The first thing I see is blood.”

The sky was getting brighter and shining on the dark rotten leaves nearby.

All he could see were broken flag poles, scattered swords, and half-buried wheels. There were also terrifying bones and corpses being piled up.

Li Yan was wearing scarred armor and looked like a soldier from ancient times. He searched in his bag for the handgun, bullets, and twenty grenades he had just purchased.

“All of your firearms have been delivered, and you will have to bring them along with you. You cannot hide them or send them to others as gifts, or they will disappear if they are more than two hundred meters away from you.”

Li Yan was glad that he didn’t buy the bazookas If he had, they would be impossible to carry around.

The blood next to his legs started to form words.

Time: Year 1592 – Year 1593

Location: Pyongyang, northern latitude 40 degrees, eastern longitude 127 degrees

After uniting Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi led his well-trained armies to invade North Korea. Within one month, three big cities in North Korea were wiped out and major transportation routes were cut.

Seonjo of Joseon fled Yizhou and asked for support from the Ming Emperor.

Wanli Emperor assigned Li Rusong as the general and Song Yingchang as his assistant to lead relief troops of forty thousand soldiers to support the Joseon army in Pyongyang.

In history, this war was known as the Japanese invasion of Korea and lasted from 1592 to 1598.

In this era, gunpowder still wasn’t dominant. It was the era of cold weapons! They used equipment like the three barrel bazookas, matchlocks, tiger cannons, bows and arrows, and spears and swords, as well as escalades in war.

The main requirements for this Yanfu case are listed below.

The bloody words suddenly smudged and twisted like struggling snakes. Then the blood re-formed into new content.

The main requirements for this Yanfu case are listed below.

[Own a Yanfu object that has the power of Grievance]

[Kill at least three types of Japanese monsters]

[Kill at least one general]

[Kill Konishi Yukinaga, one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s commanders]

Your Yanfu case will only start after you have completed all of the above tasks.

Remarks: You owe me your life. I want it back now.

Li Yan appeared indifferent about the current situation. He suddenly thought of the black light that he had seen before he killed Li Jiangyu.

“You have gained a special skill in this Yanfu case: Equestrianism 70%. You will not obtain this skill when the story is over unless you pay 700 Yanfu points.”

“Your status has been improved.”

“Your current military rank: deputy commander.”

“Mo Tapir’s gifts will appear in twelve hours. Please wait for them patiently.”

Li Yan stood and yanked off his armor. Aside from the additional abilities he received, he was given a new memory which played out like a movie in his brain.

Li Yan was a deputy commander under the Ming Emperor and would lead more than twenty soldiers. Before the forty thousand soldiers led by Li Rusong had arrived in Joseon, the government had sent three thousand of them in first to fight the war. However, they lost in a battle and most of them died due to wrong information provided by Joseon spies.

Suddenly, Li Yan heard a strange sound. He looked in the direction that it came from.

…

Cold wind was blowing the torn flags.

Li Yan held his sword, loaded his handgun, and slowly approached the strange black matter.

It was a monster with rotten flesh the size of a small cow. As it wandered around the dead bodies, crunching noises could be heard.

The crunching stopped and the monster suddenly looked back. A black arrow shot through his skull, and there was not a single piece of flesh on its face. Green flames could be seen burning in his eyes.

Its sharp teeth were chewing on a piece of flesh torn from a corpse. He was eating someone’s finger!

How disgusting!

“Initiate: ‘A Strong Impression’.”

“This is a Nekomata, a type of demon. It has the ability to control the corpses of everything except for the transformed. The teeth and claws of Nekomata are poisonous.”

“Threat level: light red.”

Li Yan shot three bullets at it: one at its eye, one at its front claw, and one at its spine.

The Nekomata seemed unaffected by the bullets. It only took a minute for it to squeeze them out of its body. The bullets dropped onto the broken swords on the ground.

Li Yan kept his handgun and brought up his sword. The Nekomata charged towards him like lightning and raised its sharp claw towards Li’s chest.

Sparks of dazzling light suddenly appeared, and Li Yan squinted his eyes involuntarily. The Nekomata seized this chance to attack Li Yan’s neck.

Li Yan swung the Han sword down as smooth as a boat sailing on a peaceful lake. He kneeled down to dodge Nekomata’s attacks and sliced through its abdomen. Li Yan then flipped his body back up and kicked the Nekomata away.

He held the sword in front of his chest, black blood flowing down the blade.

That move had been invented by the Wudang Sect. It was called “A Snake Coming Out of Its Cave.”

Nekomata rolled over twice, and dark red vicerals flowed out of its abdomen.

Li Yan’s face turned gloomy at the unbearable itch on his neck, though the Nekomata hadn’t even bitten him.

The Nekomata looked indifferent about its wounds. It suddenly jumped up and fled.

No way!

Li Yan rushed to the Nekomata and chopped it in two!

The top half of the Nekomata turned around and opened its bloody mouth to attack Li Yan again.

Li Yan saw Nekomata’s teeth approaching quickly. He immediately lifted his Han sword up to split its mouth!

The swinging sound lasted for a while.

The entire process was unbelievably fast.

The Hooked Star: Improves the possessor’s attack and speed by 90%.

Pieces of flesh landed on the ground one by one.

The Nekomata was finally dead after being chopped into three pieces.

“You have slain the Nekomata. Your Yanfu case is in progress…”

Li Yan covered his neck and rubbed it a few times. His palms were clean, but the itch wouldn’t go away.

He had started off on the wrong foot!

Li Yan swore and turned around. Suddenly, as he was about to walk away a bloody hand grabbed his calf!

Just as he was about to attack he heard someone begging him in a weak voice.

“Help, help me.”