Laughing at Chang'an

Red and black banners lined up all over the city, and a big Zhao character was written on it, flying wildly in the wind.

The war is about to start.

The feud between Qi and Zhao has a long history. The borders of the two countries are adjacent to each other, and both are ambitious overlords. The frequency of wars between them is second to none even in the Eastern Wilderness, which is famous for endless wars.

Sergeants of the State of Qi, who were tensely deploying defenses on the city wall, quietly looked at the enemy army below the city. The intruder was Lian Feiru, a famous general of the State of Zhao. Apart from his good reputation for using soldiers like a god, he was also notorious for his cruel methods of treating the captives.His handsome flag of Lian was standing behind the army formation, like a beast with its mouth wide open, eyeing the not-so-majestic Guanzhou City in front of it.

In Guanzhou City, an off-road vehicle with the emblem of a chained long knife inlaid on the front was speeding on the empty streets after the martial law throughout the city.It drove through checkpoints and stopped in front of the main gate that was arrayed by the enemy army.

A dark-haired, one-eyed man stepped out of the car.

On the pitch-black uniform coat, the golden emblem of the long knife in chains was dazzling, and on the overly elegant face, the black eyepatch that slanted over the entire right eye added a bit of ferocity.Under the curious and surprised eyes of many sergeants around him, he strode up the city wall along the curved stairway.

Mu Xiaobai and Luo Zhu, the person in charge of the Qi State branch of the Geng Army followed closely behind him.

"Zhao Guo issued a mission to the guild before declaring war. He must have negotiated the price with Xue Tu in advance. In the name of guarding Lian Feiru, he is actually participating in the war in disguise."

Luo Zhu introduced the current situation to Li Shen in a dissatisfied tone. The iron law of mercenaries forbids mercenaries to intervene in war without permission, and under the classification of war missions, mercenaries are expressly prohibited from assisting the attacker, and even assisting in defense One side, after taking back the original land, will use the border before the war as the boundary, and any mercenary shall not continue to fight across the border for any reason.

However, no matter how strict and meticulous the regulations are, it can't stop people who want to take advantage of the loopholes in the rules, racking their brains to find ways to play around the edges.This time Xuetu followed Lian Feiru in the name of a guard mission, and followed him to attack Guanzhou City, which is the most vivid example.

Li Shen stood on the top of the city above the main entrance, his eyes glanced at the boundless army formation below, and looked at the banner with the word "Lian" standing in the distance.

The gust of wind filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke lifted his black hair.

Hearing the news, the guard of Qi State rushed over from the other side of the city wall. He looked at Li Shen and Mu Xiaobai with a sullen face, smiled a little bluntly, and walked over.

"You are..."

The voice stopped abruptly.

Under the watchful eyes of countless people on both sides, Li Shen jumped down from the city.

With a bang, the entire city wall trembled three times, and a deep pit of Zhang Xu suddenly appeared on the ground in front of the city gate.

A figure walked out of the dust wave that filled the sky.

He walked towards the army array in front of him, his lonely figure appeared extremely small in front of tens of thousands of banners.This may be a ridiculous picture, but no one can really laugh.

Wind hunting.

The resounding bugle sounded, the brightly colored flag waved in the wind, and the silent army suddenly woke up. Under the command of the flag order at the rear, it quickly changed its shape.The densely-packed source patterns on the wall of the primitive energy cannon barrels with simple shapes lit up, aiming the muzzle at Li Shen who was stepping forward.

In the next second, the dazzling cannon light drowned him in an instant.

After the deafening roar, everything returned to silence.

Countless people waited with bated breath.

One foot stepped out of the flying smoke, and then another.

Not even the hem of his clothes was hurt at all, and Li Shen, who was completely unharmed, stepped out of the explosion smoke at a not-so-quick pace, step by step, towards the Zhao Guojun formation that enveloped him faintly in a half-moon shape.

There was silence above and below the city.

There are people in the world, and there is a sky in the sky. Everyone understands this truth, but if you haven't seen it with your own eyes, you still can't really understand... what it means to sit in a well and watch the sky.

Chang'an, Geng Army, Li Shen.

One person can be a hundred thousand troops.

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Among the Fanglu Five Regions, the Eastern Wilderness has always been a place of war.

During the Millennium War, it changed hands several times between humans and non-human races, and was finally smashed into ruins by Li Sanduo and the Knights of Light.After the Millennium War, the Eastern Wasteland was filled with hundreds of countries, and the "Millennium Rivalry" that has continued to this day and will end at an unknown time began again.

There is an immortal deer in the Eastern Wasteland - this has become a well-known joke.

Declining the invitation of the Lord Guanzhou's celebration banquet, Li Shen took Mu Xiaobai to the next destination.His trip to Donghuang was not for a mission, but at the request of Geng Yan to inspect various branches of the Geng Army in Donghuang.

From what we saw on inspection, it wasn't very good.

Donghuang is the base camp of Huiguang. The Geng Army, which has just risen, cannot compete with Huiguang, which has been operating here for a thousand years. Obviously, the opponent does not welcome them to grab food in their pockets. These branches of the Geng Army or They were more or less suppressed by the glory, and it was very difficult to grow up.

Even if Li Shen came, it wouldn't change anything. The only thing he could do was to show off his force, and to the Eastern Wilderness countries, he was also facing the glory.

Even though his cultivation retreated half a step back to the altar under the counterattack of the alien energy in his body, Li Shen, who had already crossed that threshold, could still clearly perceive the external energy and manipulate them to a certain extent, Even facing the altar, he has the power to fight.

Of course, his body is still deteriorating day by day.

Geng Yan sent him to Donghuang, maybe he didn't want to let him take this opportunity to relax.Under Geng Yan's compulsory request, Li Shen underwent various examinations, but even if he invited the most famous doctor in China, he was helpless in Li Shen's situation.The root of the problem is the alien origin energy from other people in his body. When a normal person is forcibly injected with such a huge amount of alien origin energy, he should die suddenly on the spot, but Li Shen survived, not only In this way, being able to fight with others alive and kicking is already a miracle in itself.

Geng Yan did not give up, but this matter needs to be kept secret, otherwise it will definitely cause great turmoil inside and outside the Geng Army.Li Shen had already seen it, but telling him to wait happily to die every day was too much, and it was natural to be in a bad mood.

So there is the line of Donghuang.

Leaving Guanzhou and returning to Linzi, the capital of the Qi State where the Geng Army branch is located, Li Shen had a meal with Luo Zhu, the person in charge here, and listened to the other party's report on the current situation of the branch. Without leaving any instructions, he took Mu Xiao Bai boarded the empty boat to Chu State.

On the airship, he was a little distracted looking at the sea of ​​clouds outside the window, and his thoughts gradually drifted away.

These branches grew slowly under the suppression of the glory, and they still need blood transfusions from the Chang'an headquarters to barely maintain it. Just like what Yang Huxing said at the beginning, the Geng Army looks like a raging fire on the surface, but in fact it is walking on thin ice.

All kinds of problems emerged one after another, and the development of the God-killing Armor also fell into a bottleneck. It was the personal force of Geng Yan and Li Shen that supported the momentum of the Geng Army. No matter which of them had a problem, the consequences would be disastrous.The Geng Army is still far from being able to survive the difficulties without a strong leader like the veteran teams like the Glorious Blood Slaughter and even the Desert, relying on their profound accumulation.

It's still too weak.

It's not that Li Shen doesn't care about the future of the Geng Army, it's just that before this, he doesn't need to think about these issues, or in other words, he shouldn't think about them.Standing in his position, it is not normal to be superior. Even if he believes that Geng Yan will not have such thoughts about him, he does not want to cause unnecessary trouble for the other party.So he doesn't seize power and doesn't ask questions, and he doesn't hear that he is called a mad dog behind his back. The direct descendants cultivated by himself like Mu Xiaobai also expressly prohibit them from forming cliques under his banner.

Li Shen was a "lonely man" in the Geng Army.

So when Geng Liancheng jumped up and down to make trouble for him, there were no allies who stood up to speak for him.Friendship is friendship, even Li Xifeng only said a few words in front of Li Shen himself, asking him to stand up and support Li Shen publicly, he would not do it.

And Li Shen would not accept his favor either.

But at this moment, he had to think about how his death would affect the Geng Army.After ten years of bloody struggles, the Geng Army, which had been pulled together with great difficulty, was really destroyed, and he would not be able to rest in peace.

It is even more impossible to think about what will happen to Geng Yan.

"Boss." Mu Xiaobai walked up to Li Shen with a plate, and said softly, "Eat something."

Li Shen withdrew his thoughts of running away, nodded at the person, pressed his hand, and asked the person to sit beside him.

He asked Mu Xiaobai: "I haven't seen you in the past two years, is everything okay?"

Mu Xiaobai lowered his head, smiled shyly, and said everything was fine.

Li Shen raised his hand and rubbed on his white hair. When he picked up this boy, the boy was only as high as his chest, but now it was almost up to his ears.He also heard the nickname of the other party, Little Mad Dog, and he was in a complicated mood. He was a well-behaved child, but he was forced to have gray hair by this cruel world, and even his temperament was distorted... He didn't Know what to say.

Mu Xiaobai squinted his eyes and obediently handed out his head for him to rub. When Li Shen took his hand away, he sat quietly and watched people eat.On that young face that always looked a little shy, there was a faint smile that he didn't even realize. He occasionally picked up the water glass to add water, or handed a tissue to Li Shen, caring about Li Shen without any trace. Be careful with every move.

"Is this ship landing in Yingdu?" Li Shen asked suddenly.

Mu Xiaobai nodded and said yes.

Li Shen put down the chopsticks he was holding in his left hand.

"After finishing the business in Yingdu, I'm going to go to Yanguo on the way." He told Mu Xiaobai, "You can adjust the schedule for me and allow two days."

As he spoke, he turned his head and looked out the window, towards the other end of the endless sea of ​​clouds.

——Chang'an is far away, but my hometown is near.