Chapter 4 Section 3

The story goes back to more than 150 years ago, the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan implemented a tyrannical government internally and a closed country policy externally, prohibiting foreign missionaries and businessmen from entering Japan, and only conducted limited trade with China and the Netherlands in Nagasaki. The people are strongly dissatisfied. The vampires, who secretly control the overall political and economic situation, also split into conservative and reformist factions, and each sought military support. Rarely, the human warrior group even became a power chip that both sides wanted to include.

An unprecedented civil war among vampires is about to begin. In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy led a fleet into Uraga on the shore of Edo Bay, demanding negotiations with the Tokugawa shogunate. This was known as the "Black Ship Incident" in history, followed by countless of the strongest vampires at that time The hunter group, with the real guns and guns. The black ship incident brought many unequal contracts, and also brought an opportunity for Japan to become stronger.The Meiji Restoration, which changed the destiny of Japan, is in full swing, and the battle between conservatives and reformers in Vampire has become increasingly fierce.

At that time, Tokyo was not peaceful during the day, and it was even more dangerous at night. At that time, Albus, who was nearly a hundred years old, was still an ordinary member of the imperial guards. In an era when vampire hunters proudly drove themselves in and out of Japan, Albus was on the front line, dealing with the guerrilla vampire hunters.Albus, who was very ordinary at all, almost lost his life several times, but he was never afraid of fighting. The number of times she actually played against hunters was no less than Tokyo Eleven Jackals at that time. One night, an unquiet street.

A quarter of an hour ago, the Underground Imperial City reported that an army of vampire hunters from the West was active in the streets of Yoyogi City. The number of hunters was determined to be rescued from the temporary storage of fresh blood in private houses, waiting to be transported to the Underground Imperial City. . The strange hand Terajima and the blind swordsman Zatoichi from Tokyo Eleven Jackals were ordered to go to support with the patrol team belonging to Albus.When they got to the scene, they suddenly found that the Imagaru Imperial Guards stationed at the Yoyogi Temporary Blood Bank had all been annihilated, and the scene was blood-stained and messy.The heads of all the garrison guards were strung up one by one, tied and hung under the roof beams.

And half a hundred bloody people all looked terrified, with thick sackcloth stuffed in their mouths, and babbled in panic.They were tied together by the vampire's special knot method, and they were trapped in the middle of the house. "All gone?" Blind swordsman Zatoichi frowned, tentatively piercing the heads of a dozen imperial guards hanging on the rope with his stick sword, and said with a low head, "These are outrageous things." "Those hunters didn't have time to rescue the blood goods, but they had time to cut off the heads of the guards one by one. I said that those hunters are simply perverts." The strange hand Terashima was indignant, grabbed it casually, and twisted a blood Talking to the head of a kid to vent his hatred.

More than a dozen patrolling guards were waiting at the scene, and the team leader was thinking whether to stun the blood goods and immediately transport them to another place for safe storage, or call in militiamen who specialize in cargo transportation to deal with them. "..." Albus squatted on the ground, inspecting the decapitated body of his companion in the Imperial Guard. Look at these wounds that cut bones and flesh with one knife after another. Needless to say, the enemy is an expert, but five or six companions were killed by the precise attack of a sword piercing the heart. It seems that the same expert... the leader The strength of the head of the hunter group, Van Helsing, is indeed extraordinary, rivaling that of the Tokyo Eleven Jackals.

In other words, this notorious hunter corps has already attacked three blood goods camps in Tokyo, and if they continue to let their spoofs continue, not only will the imperial guards lose face, but the supply of blood goods will also be difficult. Suddenly, Albus's nose twitched. "Oops." Albus smelled a faint burnt smell in the air. "It's a trap!" Zatoichi quickly bounced back. Under the wet wooden floor, there was a shocking explosion. The frightened expressions of those human blood products instantly turned into smashed faces. Under the evil plan of the Hunter Corps, the house where the bloody goods were imprisoned was blown to pieces by the gunpowder barrels hidden under the floor. The flames engulfed the guards who came to support them like wild beasts, but the sound of the explosion still shook the sky of Yoyogi intermittently. .

"I see, eleven jackals are nothing special!" A quick knife swept through the hot air, and slashed from the back to Sidao, which could not be distinguished from the southeast to the north. Half of the burning head drew a terrifying parabola in the air, and the splashed brains were instantly roasted white. Terashima fell to his knees, and the fire buried his last painful expression. Even if several imperial guards heard the warning in time and escaped from the fire scene by chance, because they were severely burned, they were immediately gathered and wiped out by the hunter corps ambushing outside the houses.

Looking at the flashes of swords rising and falling, there are at least eight to ten vampire hunters waiting outside. "Little man!" Zatoichi's back was full of ruthless flames, furious. Zatoichi's left hand was blown away, leaving only his right hand with a cane and sword to push through the flames, staggering. With a smile that swayed with the flames, Van Helsing, the notorious member of the Hunter Corps, waved his hand, signaling the hunters who set traps not to fight with the sword-skilled Zatoichi, and to keep a safe distance. "Hey! I'm here!" "No! Two more steps to the left... No! Not there!"

"Where are you cutting? A blind swordsman is a blind swordsman after all!" "Hahahahahaha!" Everyone waited for Zatoichi to collapse with a smile on their faces, and then dealt a fatal blow of humiliation. The blind swordsman Zatoichi, who was a tough guy all his life, couldn't find the enemy and cut each other. The flames on his back kept emitting terrible scorched smoke, swallowing his life.The life of pursuing dark sword skills came to an end, and he couldn't die in the brilliant duel. The grief-stricken Zatoichi stuck his stick sword on the ground, stood up his thin body, and let the fire burn to pieces.

Van Helsing took a step forward and kicked heavily, knocking down the scorched corpse of the blind swordsman. "Captain, Zito is dead!" a hunter shouted. Van Helsing broke off the blind swordsman's stick sword and turned his head. Outside the fire scene, a hunter who was ambushing the outside line was holding his bloody throat, his facial features distorted and dead on the ground. It turned out that at the moment when the floor exploded, a member of the patrolling guards not only ran away quickly, but even stabbed the throat of an ambush hunter.Just under the fire, the scene was chaotic, and no one discovered the situation in time. "Even though he's a small shrimp, he's very clever..." The head of the hunter Van Helsing looked at the direction in which Albus was fleeing, and sneered.