Chapter 8: Digging Out the Kappa
He was not in the mood to continue enjoying the scenery. After all, time waits for no one. Yan Xu had to find a place to stay as soon as possible. He did not want to wait until dark and still have no place to stay.

Although the future was uncertain and he was a little panicked, Yan Xu still had some confidence because he was not sure what kind of situation he would encounter before coming. Therefore, he made sufficient preparations and brought a large amount of supplies. Not only did he prepare twenty donkey carts, but each foot soldier and farmer also carried some extra supplies just in case.

However, being fully prepared also means that the load is a bit heavy. Fortunately, the foot soldiers and the farmers have good endurance, and they have been well fed and well fed at the pig farm these days. Even though they carried a lot of things and walked for more than an hour without rest, Yan Xu was the one who was sweating profusely and began to breathe heavily.

There is no way. Strength and endurance are two different things. My predecessor has no experience in doing physical work, so how can he have good endurance?

"Sir, we found a village ahead." A foot soldier who was responsible for exploring the way came running over from the front, panting, and excitedly threw himself at Yan Xu's feet and said.

"Are you sure it's a village? Are you sure there is no danger? Are you sure there are no enemies?" After getting repeated confirmation, Yan Xu suppressed his excitement and asked everyone to stop eating and rest to recover their strength.

When they heard that they had to stop to eat and rest, both the foot soldiers and the farmers carefully took out rice balls wrapped tightly in rice dumplings leaves from their arms.

The brown rice balls, which were still at body temperature, were sprinkled with only a little salt, but the foot soldier and the farmer still ate them with gusto. If you didn’t know, you would think there was abalone in them.

This is not surprising, because Japan has had a mysterious obsession with rice since ancient times. Especially in ancient times, whether it was a foot soldier or a samurai, white rice balls were indispensable when going to war. They were strategic materials that were related to morale.

The foot soldiers and the farmer, who were enjoying the delicious food, uncorked the bamboo tube and drank a few sips of cold boiled water. They savored the taste of the rice balls while resting quietly. No one spoke for fear of disturbing the adults.

Yan Xu did not take off his armor. He sat upright on a stool with a folding table in front of him. He looked like he was having a barbecue on the roadside. However, he was not eating barbecue, but packaged roast chicken, and drinking happy water. His young body was the capital for him to eat and drink as much as he wanted.

Even though Yan Xu ate and drank to his heart's content while the foot soldiers only had two rice balls, no one felt it was unfair, and everyone even thought it was natural.

After eating and drinking, Yan Xu took out his old mechanical watch to check the time, then stood up, waved his hand, and continued on his way.

After walking another three or five miles forward, he saw a river and a village by the river, but the situation ahead was not peaceful, so Yan Xu did not approach rashly. Instead, he stood on a high place and raised a telescope to watch.

There was a group of people gathered by the river, holding farm tools and making a lot of noise. No one knew what they were doing. Were they catching pigs?

After everyone dispersed and got a clear look, Yan Xu took a deep breath and almost fell to the ground with his legs going weak.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?!" Yan Xu put down the telescope in disbelief, then rubbed his eyes hard and raised it again to look.

A group of farmers surrounded two knife-wielding ronin by the river and were confronting a giant green turtle. It was unknown whether this giant turtle was from Fukushima. It was four or five feet tall, with a thick shell on its back, revealing its long and powerful limbs and a strange-looking turtle head.

This turtle not only has a circle of hair on its head, but also a bird's beak, which immediately made Yan Xu recognize its identity, a kappa. Yan Xu's biggest hobby in his previous life was reading novels. He liked to search for some weird things when he had nothing to do. He knew a lot of random things, so he knew the characteristics of a kappa.

Kappa is a monster in Japanese legend, but Yan Xu never thought that he could actually see a living one!

"It's going to cost him his life." Yan Xu said in a low voice, his hands shaking.

There was no way. The world he traveled to actually had monsters. How could he not be nervous?

Relying on the golden finger of exchanging food for soldiers and backed by the abundant resources of modern society, Yan Xu is not afraid of the so-called hegemony in ancient Japan at all, because even the armed fights in the village cannot outlast him, but monsters and the like cannot be dealt with by common sense.

Besides, since we already have monsters, how far can gods be?
Even though the Japanese monsters and gods are of unexpectedly low quality and very rustic, their strength is still above that of ordinary people.

The local guy behaves as obediently as a grandson in front of the Monkey King, but not everyone is the Monkey King.

Just when Yan Xu was worried, two ronin rushed forward, shouting and waving their swords. The frightened Kappa waved his arms vigorously, but accidentally got a piece of it chopped off. The Kappa screamed in pain and disappeared into the river.

The ronin who cut off the kappa's arm picked up the severed arm and held up the katana in his hand to show his bravery to the villagers. However, he underestimated the kappa's vitality. The kappa with the severed arm did not run far away, but lurked by the river. When the ronin who cut off its arm turned his back to it, a strong airflow spurted out of the kappa's hips, and it flew out of the water with the help of its force, and performed the stunts of an African hyena with one hand.

Because the surface of the kappa's body is covered with a layer of slippery mucus, the digging was very smooth, and Yan Xu, who witnessed the scene, couldn't help but tighten his anus and abdomen, and mourn for it in silence.

The kappa was thin but had long arms, so even if the gouge didn't reach its stomach, it would have at least made the ronin feel sick. The pain made the ronin kneel down and wail with his hips raised. A group of villagers were so scared that they ran away, and even the ronin's companions didn't know how to start for a while.

Fortunately, the ronin who lost his retreat was also very ruthless. He endured the severe pain, turned over and raised his legs to clamp the kappa so that it could not move.

Yan Xu looked at it with grimace, but he was less panicked, because the monster was not as strong as he imagined, and was even weaker than an African hyena. At least an African hyena would not be pinned down by someone, so he rushed over with twenty foot soldiers.

"Jiro, don't worry about me, kill it quickly!" Taro shouted to his brother, suppressing the excruciating pain in his heart. As long as they killed the kappa, they would gain fame, and maybe be noticed by a daimyo. He couldn't even say he would become a noble samurai, but at least he could be the head of an ashigaru. That's why he fought so hard, because this was a chance to change their fate.

Inspired by his brother's heroic posture, Jiro raised his katana and was about to rush over with a roar, but then, in front of Taro's stunned gaze, he took only two steps and dropped his precious katana, falling to his knees with his butt raised higher than Taro.

Before the desperate Taro gave up resistance, a huge shadow enveloped him with the sound of heavy footsteps, and then there was a muffled bang. He could feel the violent vibration from the kappa's arms, and then he saw the kappa with a deformed head lying on his lower abdomen, and the hot and wet brains wet his stomach in an instant, making him unable to hold back and almost pee.

(End of this chapter)