Chapter 719: Know yourself and know the enemy and you will never be in danger
Chapter 719 Know Yourself and Your Enemy, and You Will Never Die in a Hundred Battles
"Oh, I see!"
I thought Kong Xuan might not understand my explanation, but he nodded and said, "Isn't this the application of 'Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be in danger in a hundred battles' in Wen Zi's Art of War?"
"What mosquito tactics? What eight methods of killing mosquitoes...ah, right, right..."
Because of plagiarism, Wen Ruidu sometimes forgets what he has copied. He only remembers it halfway through speaking and quickly changes his words.
"Without investigation, you have no right to speak. It's the same with us immortals fighting. When we encountered tough opponents on the battlefield, we liked to use a magic mirror to look at the opponent and find out the original form of the opponent. Only after we know the inside story can we think of countermeasures."
"Many of my fellow Jie teachers suffered because their true intentions were discovered by others. I summarized the lessons learned from those years and summarized them in Wenzi's Art of War, and wrote a book to warn future generations."
Shunhou made up a lie and explained in a very convincing way the reason why he plagiarized this article from "The Art of War".
After talking for a while, Wen Rui couldn't come up with any more follow-up, so he quickly changed the subject: "How come Brother Kong, who is so far away in Hezhou, Xiniu, has heard of my humble work?"
"More than a decade ago, the Maurya Empire was invaded by a neighboring country. The general of that neighboring country was a Jiejiao believer who had returned from studying in Liberty City. He defeated the Maurya Empire with the help of Wen Zi's Art of War."
Kong Xuan said solemnly: "Your "Wen Zi Bing Fa" has been translated into "The Art of War" in the West. It has been spread and praised as a military book that will be immortal for thousands of years."
At this point, he lowered his head and said, "In fact, when you raised the demon-summoning banner to summon me, I had already read a lot of Jiejiao books that spread to the West, and I admire you as the author. Otherwise, with your seniority and insignificant practice, how could I have the patience to listen to your nonsense and accompany you to inspect the cities of the Demon Alliance?"
"I see……"
Wen Rui suddenly realized that this was the benefit of spreading advanced culture. If the popular science books and basic textbooks of Jiejiao were learned well, they would have a real positive impact on people's real life. Facts speak louder than words.
Even in areas that have been brainwashed by Western religions, ordinary people do not follow scientific laws, but only kneel down and pray to Buddha, but they will never be able to have a good life.
The spread of Jiejiao knowledge not only slowly influenced the ideas of the people in Xiniu Hezhou like a spring breeze and rain, but also won the favor of knowledgeable and great figures such as Kong Xuan.
"However, you are obviously the most knowledgeable god in the way of war among all the gods in the heavenly court. Why didn't the Jade Emperor reinstate you as the Grand Marshal of the Heavenly Army and deprive you of your control over the remaining 90,000 Heavenly Army soldiers?"
Kong Xuan was puzzled and asked, "Is it really as you speculated? The Jade Emperor wants to sacrifice all living beings in the mortal world, use the hand of the devil mosquito to cleanse the intelligent beings influenced by Jiejiao, vacate the mortal world, and then let Nuwa create a new batch of 'clean' people?"
"It's hard to say..."
Wen Rui curled his lips. "Putting aside conspiracy theories, let's just talk about politics. The Jade Emperor is the king of all gods who is always right. If he reinstated me, wouldn't it mean that the previous decision was wrong? Knowing one's mistakes but not admitting them is the basic quality of a superior, and it is the physiological instinct of political creatures. So I am not surprised at all that I am now marginalized and deprived of my military power. It is all within my expectations."
Kong Xuan nodded in understanding, and said no more. He spread out his hands, and five-colored divine light burst out from behind him, sweeping towards the dense swarms of insects in the air and on the ground.
Wherever the beam of light passed, the swarm of insects was wiped out.
The strong fluctuations of immortal power generated by the activation of the magical power made the two people's invisibility ineffective, and they suddenly appeared.
An ugly caterpillar covered with eyes and tentacles on the ground trembled all over, and all its compound eyes focused their gazes at the airspace where Wen Rui and Kong Xuan were. The ground cracked open, and many big-bellied beetles with faint blue fluorescence on their abdomens emerged from the ground. Those beetles aimed the nozzles on their buttocks at the position the caterpillars were looking at, and their abdomens squirmed and squeezed, and a ball of blue liquid flashing with electric sparks was ejected from the nozzle at the end of the tail.
The beetle's squeezing force was extremely strong, and the liquid mass it sprayed out was incredibly fast. The dense liquid mass rising into the air illuminated the dim space on the ground and shot towards the two of them.
Kong Xuan mobilized a divine light to intercept the incoming slurry balls, but because there were too many of them coming from all directions and the shooting frequency was too fast, the divine light could not block them at all.
"Let me do it. You just need to focus on capturing the demon mosquitoes!"
Wen Rui reminded Kong Xuan in a low voice, patted his chest, and released a large ball of dense golden mist from the secret space channel.
These golden mists are the macroscopic phenomena of high-concentration fairy-level nanorobot units scattered in the air.
The golden mist condensed into densely packed immortal-grade flying swords around Wen Rui, there were hundreds of them. As Wen Rui performed the sword technique of "Piao Misty Water Drop Sword Technique", the flying swords turned into countless silver lights, and in an instant, a sky-covering sword net was interwoven in the air.
In less than a millisecond, all the slurry balls shot into the air were pierced by the flying swords and exploded into a ball of lightning in the air.
In the next millisecond, all the thousand-eyed caterpillars on the ground were pierced by the flying swords from the head, their bodies were crushed and they came out from the tail.
Wen Rui called upon the quantum computing power of the Demon Alliance, which was enough for him to control tens of thousands of flying swords by himself, calculate tens of thousands of Weierstrass function curves, and weave the most complicated sword trajectory in the history of the prehistoric world.
Under real-time calculation, the complex sword path curve was deadly, changeable and agile, and it automatically avoided the sweeping range of Kong Xuan's five-colored divine light as if it had been predicted. Although it fought against the swarm of mosquitoes together with the divine light, they did not interfere with each other at all, and the cooperation was seamless.
The two of them joined forces and in less than ten minutes, the dense swarm of insects became sparse, almost wiping out the vanguard of the Blood Sea Demon Clan.
The number of demon mosquitoes killed and captured was no less than hundreds of thousands.
But this sudden attack and killing was like stirring up a hornet's nest. From far and near in the empty space of the earth, there came the deafening sound of the flapping wings of demonic mosquitoes. The buzzing sound became one and the whole thing seemed to be filled with mosquitoes between heaven and earth.
Before the excavation site of the artificial lake camp was completely cleared, more magic mosquitoes came from afar to support, covering the sky and the earth, and all over the mountains!
"Let's retreat. We have enough samples! If we delay any further, the witch will surely come."
Wen Rui decided to stop while he was ahead and called Kong Xuan to evacuate in time.
"It's good to be here. Wouldn't it be even better if we could capture a witch and bring her back?"
Kong Xuan still felt a little unsatisfied, but although he said so, he was convinced by Wen Rui's judgment. He no longer wanted to fight, retracted his divine light, and flew towards the gates of hell under the cover of Wen Rui's flying sword and sword net.
The two were about to speed up to get away from the mosquito swarm, but they saw a blue light spot in the distance that was as fast as thunder. Its speed exceeded an unknown number of Machs. It was like a black-tech UFO. In a few flashes, it rushed from the horizon to the front, bypassing Wen Rui's dense sword net interception, and blocking Wen Rui and Kong Xuan's retreat.
(End of this chapter)