Chapter 75 The World of the Underworld (III.)
In the seventh group competition, a teenager's agile skills attracted everyone's attention. The teenager used a strange knife, which could be flipped freely in the teenager's hand and could be thrown out as a knife or as a hidden weapon.
"Mufanlong" Masako exclaimed, "Mufanlong? What is it?" Xiaopei asked. Masako thought for a moment and explained: "This Mufanlong is also an organization that practices ninjutsu. In the Edo era, it was a deadly enemy of a samurai institution in their society. But later, I don't know why my opponent later fell. It seems that this organization has disappeared in Japan. The short knife used by this teenager is the iconic knife of Mufanlong.
Acuo was very surprised to see the teenager's moves, because it was basically the same as the knife method he learned. His knife skill was passed on to him after his grandfather went to school on the stone wall of a cave. However, Japan and China are across the ocean, and he was full of doubts about how the teenager could use this knife method.
He told everyone his doubts, and everyone also felt strange. Zhong Yueming speculated, "Is your knife set itself from Japan? Someone has learned to return to China. For some reasons, he was trapped in the hole and was afraid of being lost before he died, and engraved on it."
Liu Peng said, "That man has gone too far! Think about it, when you come back from Japan and run to the inaccessible black bamboo ditch in the southwest to hide in a cave, which is too ridiculous! What's more, the traffic was inconvenient before liberation. Maybe it was invented by the local Yi people. Liu Peng has a strong nationalism, but he is unwilling to say that any interesting things in China are Japanese.
Acuo stared attentively at the teenager on the field. The teenager's moves were neat and agile, and he became the most dazzling dark horse in the seven groups with the skill of four or two sets of gold. The last neat turn over and stab, and after the opponent dodged, the knife of the other hand pressed against the opponent's back against his neck. Finally, he stood at the last peak of the seven groups and will take turns to challenge the winners of the first six groups tomorrow.
After the scene, Zhou Xirui asked the others to go back to the hotel first. He and A Cuo followed the teenager all the way to find the root of the knife method, but Masako insisted on going with them, so Xiaopei had to go with them. After turning around several times, they followed him all the way out of the city to a remote village in the suburbs.
The teenager came to a tall house in the countryside. As soon as he was about to pull the door, he heard an old man inside say, "Ryu Taro, you brought your friends back. Why didn't you invite them to come in?" The teenager was alerted by someone behind him and said that sooner or later, the teenager's knife had come out of his hand and flew out. At the same time, Acuo's bamboo stick also flew out. He only heard a "ding" sound, and the knife and bamboo stick fell to the ground.
Suddenly, the figure flashed, and the bamboo stick had been picked up. An old man burst into tears with the bamboo stick. Atso and the others knew that they had been found, and they no longer hid and came out.
The old man took the bamboo stick and asked, "Young man, where did you learn this skill?" Masako translated the old man's words. Acuo said, "It's on the wall of a cave in a deep mountain in southwest China." The old man said, "Is there anyone there?" Atso shook his head and said, "I only saw a skeleton." The old man suddenly came sad and shed tears of pain. Everyone put the old man into the room. Everyone sat around the table. The old man talked about the rise and fall of their Mufanlong family.
Decades ago, due to the war launched by Japan, the number of the Mufanlong clan, which was originally a large population, decreased sharply, and since then, their clan has declined. The rest of them tried to support the flag, but there was no money or anyone. Everything was empty talk.
A chance, my brother grabbed a treasure map from a soldier who came back from China. It is said that there is a gold mine rich in gold in a mysterious valley in the southwest border, so my brother immediately decided to go to China to look for this gold mine in order to dig out the deposit and revitalize the Mufanlong family. But he never came back this time. I guess my brother may have died. Now that I am old, my descendants no longer advocate practicing ninjutsu and have gone to Tokyo and other cities to make a living.
Now only this little grandson is willing to follow himself to practice ninjutsu, so this Yamaguchi Group's selection of president felt that it might be an opportunity for Ryutaro and the entire Mufanlong family, so he let his grandson participate.
The old man looked at Acuo and said, "Although you are not Japanese, you are learning the ninjutsu of our Mufanlong, and you are also a ninja of our family. Just now, I saw your technique. The upper plate kung fu is okay, but there seems to be no rules at the lower plate. Acuo was very happy to see the old man guiding himself and quickly said, "On the stone wall of the cave, there are only knives and hidden weapons flying needles, and there is nothing else."
The old man said, "You kowtow to me. It's a formal teacher. I'll teach you how to do it." Acuo quickly kowtowed to him. The old man said, "You still have to promise me one more thing." "What's the matter? Master, say it!" Atso said devoutly. The old man asked Atso to swear that he would revitalize the Mufanlong family in his lifetime. He thinks that he is old and won't live for a few days. Put all the hopes of his life in the hands of young people. They still have hope.
After Acuo agreed with the old man, everyone stayed here this night. Masako doesn't care about the old man. She doesn't care who sits on the throne of the president and feels that as long as she can make the leader of the Yamaguchi Group better and better. So she and Xiao Pei chattered about some girls' topics together.
Acuo has been learning from the old man. Zhou Xirui was bored and watched Acuo practice. Who knows that if Acuo wants to finish learning in one night and understand the essence of ninjutsu, it is inevitable that he is a little too anxious for him. Sometimes he doesn't understand a key point for a long time.
How can I know that Zhou Xirui's understanding is better than A Cuo's? Just listen to it and grasp the key point of the practice. Seeing that Acuo really couldn't understand, he went to kick him and teach him hand in a hurry. He didn't expect that he would learn faster.
The old man felt that Zhou Xirui was a wizard practicing ninjutsu and wanted to get started with him, but Zhou Xirui refused to agree, because he was used to idleness and could not shoulder the belief that others want to revitalize Mufanlong. This kind of thing is suitable for the stubborn Acuo. Seeing that he disagreed, the old man had to shake his head regretfully.