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"...Master Taibu, I am only analyzing this from the perspective of a general rescue operation, not from the perspective of a hunter—"
Kong smacked his lips - the way Fu Xuan looked at him before and after had fallen all the way from "the white moonlight in my heart" to the current level of "all men are the same". Of course, it was her fault that she had too high expectations, but it was also inevitable to sigh.
It is unwise to have unrealistic fantasies about a person who has so many girlfriends under his feet, but what makes Kong feel even more troublesome is that even after Taibu realized that he was not a clean person, he still did not intend to give up. He was somewhat competitive and could not let go of his sunk costs.
"The martial arts arena in the front hall is right here."
Just when he was about to explain in detail and to tell Fu Xuan in a roundabout way that she deserved better, Alan, who was still upset about not being able to catch up with the battle and whose eyes were almost piercing through the clouds, shouted at the faintly shaking flag.
The last point of the formation.
To the north is the "gate" of the Shen Ce Mansion in the physical sense. The front door is closed and there seems to be no life in the mansion, but on the empty small map, densely packed red and green dots are entangled together, crossing the phase dividing line. I'm afraid that the inside has been bustling with activity for a long time.
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"General! The vestibule has been taken away by evil creatures again. Lead your brothers to charge again!"
"Captain, please be patient. If I am not mistaken, the special forces will arrive soon."
Compared to the initial anxiety of the six departments in the outside world who wanted to mobilize all the mobile forces on the ship and turn into meteorites to drill into the Shen Ce Palace to rescue the general, the military formation of the inner palace seemed too well organized. It had the shape and meaning of the Tang army and the Roman battle formation, and used the wisdom and weapon technology of the new civilization.
The outer cloud cavalry entangled with those evil creatures for a while, leaving behind a few corpses before quickly retreating back to the main formation, allowing the monsters that were rushing back to crash into the forest of guns set up by their comrades, thus conserving their physical strength well and reducing the energy consumption of individual soldier shields, gradually eroding the evil creatures' space for activities until they reached the stairs of the mansion gate.
But every time they approached the phase gate, they would be forced back by monsters that grew naturally, as if they came out of an oil-paper bag or grew out of the ground. Several powerful attacks instead caused greater losses, and several of their comrades had turned into "tree men" under the influence of the evil fog and radiation.
While the densely packed army was hesitating to move forward, there was one man who disobeyed orders, wielding a blood-red sword, and rushed all the way from the edge, wantonly hacking and killing the monsters, and tying up a lot of the monsters' main force in the center of the formation.
Facing those who were trapped in the evil spirit, he did not care about the friendship between his "comrades" and hacked and killed them together, laughing happily as he killed. The scene was extremely weird.
If the sword in the man's hand had not carried some unforgettable memories, Jing Yuan would have imagined that the sword he was holding was not a divine weapon but a machete picked up from somewhere in the vegetable market - seeing how its owner swung it without any care and without any treasure, it was estimated that if it had not been made of fine material, it would have broken countless times on the shell of the evil creature.
"General, are we just going to let him mess up the battlefield?"
"Since he can't die, and he and the evil creature are mortal enemies, then let him chop more and reduce the casualties of the central army. Isn't that wonderful?" 5〉￣
Although the white-haired man at the head of the seat was holding a formation knife, he was not seen waving it. Instead, he looked relaxed and contented, as if he was enjoying the results of the "evil wolf" he had released ferociously biting the evil creature - at least on the surface, he did not seem to be in any hurry to be trapped in the mansion.
"——But he is a serious criminal after all... ahem..."
The captain's uncomfortable cough and muttering naturally did not escape the white-haired man's ears. He put away the confident smile he had put on to boost the morale of the troops and explained more seriously:
"If Fu Qing hadn't figured out that something might happen in the mansion, I wouldn't have brought him to the palace for interrogation. Now it comes in handy."
"Why would people who are 'polluted' by abundance hate evil creatures? Aren't they in the same group?"
"It's a long story. Brother Shen has been in the army for less than two hundred years. He doesn't know... Before he rebelled against the Immortal Boat, he hated the Longevity Plague Ancestor even more. Even with a powerful enemy in front of him, he has to prioritize. For the time being, we can trust him not to draw his sword against us."
When talking about the man's background, the white-haired official seemed to have something to hide and only said some meaningless words to evade the question.
Not to mention the exquisite exchange of offense and defense in front of the Cloud Cavalry Formation, the crazy blue-haired man leaped into the middle of the monsters that were driven back again, and one sword chopped out the AOE effect of more than a dozen swords, like a blooming red spider lily, cutting the broken limbs and bodies into flying pieces.
Outside the Phase Gate, the evil fog that floated in along with the monsters quietly dissipated. The tree man who was driven out of the front courtyard bumped into the chains and awls that flew in from the "light curtain", and his face was pierced. Then, he was dragged out of the Shen Ce Mansion as if Yama was demanding his life, and disappeared into the light.
Like a magical replacement reaction, a wooden man was dragged in and a beautiful woman from the Ten Kings Division popped out.
"Judge Xue Yi from the Ten Kings' throne! Come to help!"
She held a magic-breaking cone in one hand, and in an instant, it swung like a whip of light, smashing the monster in the yard that the green-haired man had not had time to chop into pieces, and then she kicked forward with both feet and stepped on another prey that he had set his eyes on. The exaggerated weight of the puppet immediately crushed the facial bones under its visor into a pool of water.
"……Ah……"
In an instant, a large area at the entrance was cleared, leaving only the man with ominous red eyes. He was spewing white mist from his mouth, and his eyes met with Xue Yi's. Just as he was about to swing his sword, he seemed to be awakened by the noise coming from other directions. He did not kill the unruly woman at the same time - instead, he went to look for another target with hatred.
"Huh? The gate of the mansion was opened from the outside?!"
"The Judge of the Ten Kings! You've come just in time—ahem!"
The captain's eyes lit up, and he turned around with a cough to ask for orders. When his superior nodded, he immediately rushed forward with his gun. Hundreds of cloud riders joined the white-robed judge and seized the phase gate to provide buffer space for subsequent reinforcements.
Oddly enough, when the Cloud Riders stepped onto the decorative soil and lawn of the inner palace in large numbers, the evil creatures that were "automatically extracted to the current folder" suddenly became much thinner. The soldiers didn't know the mystery, and only thought that the restrictions outside had been removed, which caused this change. The army's morale was greatly boosted, but they didn't see Ruan Meifu and Ruan Shiran also step into the door and nod to the general with golden eyes from a distance.
"...Is this the method of genius number four? It is really mysterious and wonderful." Three▲3＊０"wu&
As the general exclaimed, another young man slid in from the door with a big sword in his hand. The tip of the sword swept across from a low position, cutting off the legs of another prey that the blue-haired man was targeting on the spot.
The man who had his target snatched away again should have been furious, but a ray of golden light that came in through the door right after Alan and Ruan Mei made him regain his consciousness.
Sora raised an eyebrow when he saw the hunter called "Blade", racking his brains to think of how to greet him without being abrupt or overly enthusiastic.
"It's you who came - huh, Kafka is also in trouble?"
The latter actually took the initiative to talk to him, as if the frenzy he had just experienced in the battle had left him... This made Kong a little puzzled - could his calming effect also work on men?
The epic "meeting" of the Star Core Hunters did not involve any earth-shattering love, hatred, or vengeance, but only the confused look on the face of the golden-haired man and the amused look on the face of the green-haired man.
Xue Yi, who had once had a conflict with Ren, was now immersed in crushing monsters and had "no time to care about anything else". The moment Kong made eye contact with him, both the Cloud Riders and the Judge Squad who were following closely behind them temporarily became deaf or blind and avoided them, very deliberately leaving them a short gap for communication. It was not known whether it was Fu Xuan's instruction.
In the end, Kong could only remember a little bit of his past work with the man in front of him - Party A seemed to be limiting his access to information and did not want him to communicate too deeply with the man in front of him. All the fragments of the missions with Blade in his memory were vague.
"...What are you standing there for? Hurry up and run." ⒏伍≮｝戚⊥¨《6＿｜3肆‖{咝⒉雨涵〃～:
Kong didn't even know how to greet him, so he could only wink at him repeatedly, asking him to take the opportunity when the mansion was empty and no one was paying attention to him to leave.
"...I'll wait for you at the Industrial Construction Department." Seeing that Kong's answer was overly pragmatic, Ren's sarcastic expression subsided a little. After saying this, he raised the hilt of the sword and swaggered into the phase gate. Before leaving, he glanced back at Jingyuan provocatively.
But General Shen Ce remained unmoved. He did not participate in the battle, did not give orders, and did not ask any questions. Instead, he gave him a meaningful smile and let him leave.
"What happened to that fierce man just now? Isn't he Yunqi?"
When Ren disappeared outside the door with murderous intent, San Yue Qi drew his bow belatedly.
"…That's the person Elio asked us to save, Mitsuki."
"Ah?? That's him? Damn! His face in the hologram glows blue, I totally forgot what he looks like!"
"Calm down. It doesn't matter if we stagger. We have already achieved half of our goal anyway..."
"How did the serious criminal take the opportunity to escape? Why can't we contact the Yunqi outside the door! Damn it, General, are we going to hunt him down - uh..."
The judge was "blind" but the Yunqi officers were not - the captains on the other two sides each led a battalion to surround the remaining evil creature and asked Jing Yuan for instructions, but Jing Yuan just shook his head. It was obvious that he had deliberately let the blade out to chop people so that he could slip away when the door was opened.
The boss must have had his own reasons for doing this - the captains immediately shut up, and when they went to command their subordinates again, they found that the battle was already over.
In just a moment of daze, Shen He had grabbed the necks of the two demons in front of them, lifted them up, and knocked their heads together, as if beating two eggs to put into the pot at the same time, and easily cracked them. The splashing golden liquid completely covered her cold beauty like blood, making it impossible for people to have the slightest blasphemous thought.
Fortunately, she didn't lick the golden blood again to taste it, otherwise the Cloud Riders would have surrounded her as a monster - it was really too annoying.
In addition to the two small leaders in Shen He's hands that had been smashed to pieces, all the evil creatures around Liu Yun who were obviously in command positions also entered the state of "wandering in the air without support" and were hung in the air by her Qi power.
Then, in front of the Cloud Riders who were acting as if they were facing a formidable enemy, Ruan Mei, who was standing by, put away her musical instrument as if she had discussed it in advance, and picked a few leaves from the unlucky guy who couldn't control his body and put them into the collection dish. She even nodded to Cocolia, asking her to use an ice spear to blatantly cut and freeze one of the "fairy branches" and "de-ice it and take it away" for Ruan Mei...
This arrogant attitude, which disregarded the dignity of the Demonic Yin Body and the law of the Immortal Boat prohibiting the collection of evil creature materials, made all the officers frown, but after seeing that her body was covered with RNA elements, no one dared to be the first to criticize her.
"It's faster than I expected, Fu Qing."
Jing Yuan also put down his sword and put on a genuine and relaxed smile - in this battle, his sword was only stained with blood once, and his whole lazy and elegant state did not look like a general at all. Instead, he gave people the illusion that he was a big cat that had sneaked out from someone's house and did not get enough sleep.
Logically speaking, Jing Yuan could be considered a benchmark of handsome men in the world, no worse than Kong, but when Fu Xuan saw this face, he just wanted to kick him a few times - maybe the old man had tricked her too many times and had worn away her trust.
"Thanks to the cooperation of the Nameless Guest and the geniuses, the operation was able to go so smoothly. General, are you too careless? We have been disconnected for almost a day! The Star Port was almost destroyed!"
Even the immortal species who have a strong sense of relaxation have to race against time in military affairs. It is unacceptable for the Shen Ce Mansion to lose contact for a few minutes, let alone a day. However, Jing Yuan's face is as anxious as an old man walking his bird in the garden, and Fu Xuan almost got him into trouble.
She had thought a lot while the general was away, including how to sell her own "happiness" in exchange for Kong's full assistance - but it turned out that not only did Kong bring his own "drinks", but the leader she was trying her best to help also looked sleepy.
Is this divination still worth it? What happened to the crisis you promised me? I only regret that I didn’t communicate with Dr. Kong and come back to collect your body in a few days——
Among the several possibilities that Taibu had originally calculated, if the train crew did not intervene too much, the best outcome would be that the general would be seriously injured and half or six out of ten soldiers from the inner court would be killed.
However, due to the coordination of many parties and Shen He's desire for a reward from his beloved, he showed his true colors and blew away all the evil creatures guarding the gate. When the gate was opened from the outside, the losses of the Yunqi Army were not serious, and the supplies in the mansion were not consumed much. There was still room for recovery. It can only be said that apart from the terrifying scene, the actual losses were far less than the estimated level. Jing Yuan was not as dejected as Fu Xuan expected, and he praised her judgment on the surprise attack.
…She selectively forgot that after she figured out the good luck, she wasn’t as anxious as she was at the beginning, and even let Kong go shopping.
"Thank you for your concern, Mr. Fu. Friends on the train, distinguished guests of the club - Taibu once told me that you would visit Luofu, but I didn't expect it to be at this critical juncture. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you all."
Although it was foreseeable that the mess would crush him to death, this general, whose hair curtain covered half of his eyes and looked kind, crossed the central army and greeted the train crew formally, as if to make a fuss:
"I am General Jing Yuan of the Alliance Luofu Ship. I am very grateful for your help. It is not convenient to discuss with you in detail in the mansion for the time being. Let's talk about it in detail after we leave the mansion. The interference of the star core is too serious. Alas, I am always talking about the government decree and it is difficult to go out. I didn't expect that one day I would be locked in."
It was a bit strange and disgusting to describe a man as having “talking eyes”, but he gave Sora the feeling that there was a lot to express in the look in his eyes, as if he hoped that he, as the leader of the team, could understand.
But again, although Kong's brain is better than most people's, he can't read minds. Every time he encounters this kind of "You understand? You understand!", it's like he's drunk and is a "lunatic", it's always more uncomfortable than eating shit.
Why don't you just say something to me instead of making faces? It's the first time we've met, so we don't have that much tacit understanding -
[Eh... this guy is so casual, is he really a general? ]
Not only Sora, but Sanyue's first impression of Jingyuan was also somewhat biased due to his "happy expression" -
[But he should be the real thing - I see that he has endless energy flowing through him, and he is not inferior to Cocolia at all.]
[You think too highly of me, Sora.]
[No, I'm not actually praising you... This guy has a big guy hidden behind him, and his power level is incredible, but judging from the traces of the battle, it should not be used - hehe, it's really not the time to show your trump card yet, Luo Fu is really good at hiding it.]
356. Let my sister go, I'll do it
Kong could see the shadow behind Jing Yuan that had not yet solidified, and Jing Yuan could also feel the favor of several beings towards him from the terrifying power of destiny lingering around Kong. After just one encounter, both sides were quite satisfied with the martial arts and intelligence level of their partners.
However, compared to the pure source of Jing Yuan's power, Kong's destiny power is a little bit mixed, like a colorful ball of wool. It's hard to say which one has the upper hand. Jing Yuan saw that there was also Lan's part in it. He was most familiar with this sharp destiny power... But there was information that he came to Luofu to pay homage to the Emperor Bow. Was he here to "repay a vow"? Or did he want to seek more favor from the Emperor Bow?
In the process of moving out of the palace, they couldn't help but look at each other.
But before Kong deals with General Luofu, he has to report to the real person who commissioned the mission.
[Someone just ran out, Silver Wolf, check.]
[No problem, the blade's bio-signal reappears in Changletian——]
[He wants to go to the Industrial and Construction Division to find Kafka, and asked me to go there to meet him after I have established good relations. I am quite curious about how he plans to break through the blockade of the pass... Let me ask you something, is he familiar with General Jing Yuan? When we entered the door just now, he was fighting with the evil creature. It seems that Jing Yuan's attitude towards him is not like treating a wanted criminal. He is a bit too indulgent to him.]
[Yes, he is originally from Luofu. Well, I won’t talk about him behind his back. He will really kill me. By the way, have you included him in the public channel? ]
[No, can't you contact him? ]
[I just remembered that he didn’t bring his phone with him when he went out… I confirmed that he was in the Shen Ce Mansion by hacking into the interrogation data of the Yin and Yang Hall——]
The Silver Wolf, who was lying on the bed connecting wires, turned over without realizing that he had done anything wrong and scratched his belly button.
【…】
It is better to destroy this unreliable organization as soon as possible.
[Well, Kafka brought her cell phone, so it'll be easy as long as we can contact her. I'll put up some black billboards on the road to show Ren the way, so he can get there earlier - how long do you have to argue with that general? ]
[I heard he has a lot of things to ask us for help. Don't hang up, wait a moment.]
Even though he was about to poke the lazy Silver Wolf's spine to pieces in secret, in reality Kong still pretended to be serious and waited for the general who showed no urgency at all to make a request.