Fairy, please let me explain

Chapter 649: Show Your Cards
Nine bells?

Looking up at the ripples on the city defense sky, Xu Yuan's eyes were filled with hesitation.

At the border of Dayan, there are extremely strict rules and regulations for ringing the bells according to the enemy.

Three bells mean a small enemy attack, six bells mean the whole city is on alert, nine bells mean a large army is approaching, and if a high-level cultivator attacks the city, according to the law, only seven bells should be sounded.
"Third Young Master, please follow me to the government office immediately."

While he was thinking, Si Zijing's voice suddenly came from the side. He didn't know when the Black Scale Guard Jingji Chief had walked out of the tavern and was staring at him seriously:
"Zhenxi Prefecture City is now a rear town. If it is suddenly attacked, it will probably cause a series of chaos."

Xu Yuan frowned slightly and glanced at the deserted street:

"Hasn't everything in the city been put under military control?"

Under the organization of the Zhenxi Army, most of the streets along the way to Xu Yuanlai's tavern had been cleared.

Si Zijing spoke very quickly:
"Not enough, not enough time. They came too fast. Even if the army intervened by force, it would only take half a day to clear out the lowest-level common people. There is no time to do more. Not to mention that the entire Zhenxi City is only nominally under the control of the princess. There are still spies from the sect and a large number of fence-sitters."

At this point, Si Zijing paused, his voice becoming more urgent:

"Now that you have revealed your identity, it is very likely that someone will want to harm you during this most chaotic time."

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Of course Xu Yuan knew that someone wanted to harm him.

After all, in the eyes of some people, Li Junwu and Jia Yi combined might not be as important as Xu Yuan alone, so he might be fishing when wandering around the city alone.

After all, it is unlikely that the sect would send strong men to lurk in the Zhenxi City, which is already under martial law, to assassinate him. If they want to do so, they will have to use high-level spies in the Zhenxi Army.

If you dare to assassinate me, let Tian Ye deal with it.

However, looking at the serious face of the feminine man in front of him, Xu Yuan also knew that the risk of continuing to use himself to make a nest was almost out of control.

after all,

Those important city defense weapons that can seriously injure or even kill Tufan have been activated at this moment.

Even if Tian Ye was protecting him, he would still be in serious trouble if hit head-on.

Thinking of this, Xu Yuan looked at the towering city wall at the end of his sight and uttered a word:

"Walk."

As soon as the words fell,
Si Zijing bowed and rushed with Xu Yuan towards the safest government office in Zhenxi Prefecture.
The sudden ringing of the bell disturbed the common people in the city and the noble families, but it did not disturb the guards on duty on the city walls.

The Second Regiment of the Zhenxi Army was not a second-line force permanently stationed in the rear, but an elite force rotated down from the front line of the Mo Nan Du Jurisdiction to rest.

On the distant horizon, a huge cloud of dust was rushing towards Zhenxi City like an ancient giant beast.

But on the city wall, many veteran soldiers among the defenders were even still chatting and laughing.

"Old Liu, didn't the higher-ups say that the attackers were high-level cultivators? Why did the government office ring the bell nine times?"

A garrison commander knocked the battlements with his five fingers wrapped in gauntlets and asked curiously, "Looking at the smoke and dust, they don't look like high-level cultivators, but more like a beast tide."

Xizezhou has a long and narrow territory, bordering the desert to the north and the Wanxing Mountains to the south. The enemies of the Zhenxi Army are not just the Tatars. When the military situation is urgent, a part of the army is dispatched south to the Wanxing Mountains to help fight Gu Yuan. Moreover, when patrolling in the desert, they will occasionally encounter attacks from wolves or insect swarms.

The general named Liu beside the garrison commander stared at the smoke and dust that was covering the sky in the distance through the sky curtains protecting the city, and his tone was serious:
"On a clear day, the city defense formation can detect an area of ​​100 miles. The nine bell sounds must be a beast tide. It is probably lured out by those saints."

Tunjiang touched his chin, chuckled and said:

"This is quite good. If only the saints attacked the city, the achievements would have nothing to do with us soldiers. Now that the monsters are attacking, it just makes up for it."

General Liu frowned visibly and lowered his voice:

"Li Mazi, are you really not afraid of death? Do you know what a saint represents?"

Upon hearing this, General Tun said without hesitation:
"Didn't the people above say that we have saints to help us? We just need to practice martial arts after the fight starts."

"You are so naive"

"Why am I so naive?"

"Think about it carefully with your brain. We all know the power of the military formation and the city defense formation. How could those Saint-level masters not know? If they dare to come, they must be able to break into the city!"

"Oh."

"oh?!"

General Liu clenched his sword tightly and said, "Oh, you bastard!"

"No, why are you so excited? I know that your brain works quickly at ordinary times, but in the battlefield, it is better to think slowly."

Li Mazi grinned, then suddenly stopped smiling and said meaningfully, "Brother, I will just pretend I didn't hear what you said just now. Old Liu, you should also know very well what the consequences will be if the army loses its morale before the battle."

"."General Liu was silent.

Li Mazi took out a token from his waist, sensed it slightly, reached out and patted his friend in front of him, and laughed softly:

"The authority over the city defense formation has been delegated."

Before he finished speaking, Li Mazi's expression suddenly froze. He ignored General Liu and turned around and jumped to the giant crossbow on the city wall.

Seeing this scene, General Liu opened his mouth subconsciously, but in the end, after a light sigh, he chose to turn around and head towards his own defense area.

Heavy city defense equipment is used to deal with high-value targets such as high-level cultivators, but the operators' cultivation level is usually not enough to even see the corners of the high-level cultivators' clothes, so when the battle is about to begin, some formation authority will be given to them for aiming.

"clatter"

"clatter"

"clatter"

The city is noisy, but the walls are quiet, and footsteps echo.

Step out and count your breaths.

General Liu suddenly stopped.

He found that something seemed wrong.

Something is wrong with the sound.

The subtle tapping sound did not seem to be his footsteps, but came from behind him.

A hint of doubt arose in his heart, and General Liu subconsciously looked back at the top of the city wall.

then,

The pupils shrank suddenly.

In his vision,

At this moment, Li Mazi had already turned the heavy crossbow 180 degrees and aimed it at the city.

What do you mean?
His brain, which usually worked very fast, suddenly stopped working at this moment, but his body started moving subconsciously.

He rushed towards the top of the city wall at the fastest speed in his life.

He didn't know why Li Mazi turned the crossbow around, but he knew that such a heavy weapon must not be fired into the city!

The technique started to work.
After receiving the induction, the soldiers under his command also responded one after another.

The speed increased sharply at this moment.

The sound of the wind and the hum of the charging crossbow entered my ears, and the city tower was getting closer and closer in my sight, but everything seemed too late.

A shadow so fast that it was almost invisible suddenly passed by him from under the city wall, and almost in an instant it arrived in front of the crossbow that was about to be fired.

next moment,
The jade sword was unsheathed.

"bass--"

A familiar head flew in front of General Liu, fell to the ground with a thud, and rolled to his feet, with bright red blood drawing an arc-shaped trajectory on the ground.

It was as if the stagnant time was flowing again at this moment. General Liu looked at Li Mazi's head, then looked at the ghostly figure.

Zhou Chen wiped the blood stains off the jade sword, glanced at the general below, and said indifferently:
"This man is a traitor to his country. Take this as a warning."

After he finished speaking, he quickly rushed to the next location, leaving General Liu standing there.

After counting the interest,

General Liu seemed to have just woken up from a dream, his eyes drooped, and he punched the battlement.

He didn't understand why Li Mazi wanted to betray him.

I also don't understand why the high-level cultivator just now seemed to have known that Li Mazi would betray me.

But when he raised his eyes, he saw a scene that he would never forget.

The tower stands on top of the long city wall, and the light spots on it at this moment are like stars forming a line.

Under the gaze of the garrison commander surnamed Liu, many of the bright spots of light quickly dimmed, but at the same time, many spots of light shot towards the Zhenxi City at a speed that he could not even see.

As a garrison commander, he knew very well what those light spots represented.

But as a garrison commander, he had no idea what Zhenxi City would face?
When the incident on the city wall happened, Xu Yuanzheng was being carried by Si Zijing to fly in quickly at a low altitude, but almost at the same time, Si Zijing discovered something unusual.

His extraordinary cultivation allowed him to clearly see everything that happened on the city wall, but the long distance prevented him from dealing with it immediately.

Looking at everything over there, Si Zijing cursed subconsciously:

"What is Huang Shiwei, that good-for-nothing, doing over there on the city wall?! Hurry up and kill those people operating the crossbows!"

Hearing this, Xu Yuan instantly looked towards the city wall and started to use his skills. The moment a faintly visible light came into his field of vision, his heart sank.

He thought that the sect's spies in the city would use the city's heavy weapons to assassinate him, and he had made arrangements in advance, but he really didn't expect to see most of the heavy weapons in Zhenxi City aimed at him alone.
"Third Master Wen said that the entire Zhenxi Prefecture belongs to us. What do you have to fight me?"

As his mind raced, a gentle and smiling female voice suddenly rang out from the street below: "Are you satisfied with this return gift from Wen?"

Confucian scholar with the surname Wen?

The moment he heard the voice, Xu Yuan subconsciously looked in the direction where the voice came from. At the end of the voice, a woman with average looks was looking up at the sky with a smile on her face.

His cultivation level is not high, he has only condensed his soul.

Before she could speak again, a stream of Qi shot out from Si Zijing's palm, and a series of strange patterns instantly appeared on the woman's face.

next moment,
The body of the woman who spoke became limp like tofu and was picked up by Si Zijing in mid-air.

Seeing this scene, Xu Yuan's mind raced, without any hesitation, he said quickly:
"This is a clone, just kill it."

"boom!"

Blood and flesh splattered onto the ground.

Almost at the same time as the woman died, the first giant crystal arrow from the city wall hit the two people who were flying at low altitude.

Si Zijing was suspended in mid-air, and a magic talisman condensed in the void, blocking the path of the giant arrow, but this only delayed the crystal arrow for a moment.

The city’s most powerful defense weapon is designed to kill high-level cultivators!
There is a magic-breaking array pattern engraved on the tip of the arrow, and ordinary magic will be disintegrated the moment it comes into contact with it.

Si Zijing knew this, and he condensed the talisman just for this moment of delay.

In the blink of an eye,

Strands of purple markings had already clung to his right hand, and he swung his hand towards the arrow.

"boom--"

A strong shock wave spread out from the sky, and the aftermath alone razed half of the block below to the ground, but the price was that half of Si Zijing's forearm disappeared.

Si Zijing kept thinking about how to deal with the situation, and the anxiety in his eyes was evident.

How to do?
Now Linlang is guarding the princess and the Desert Goddess in the government office, and he won't be able to get here for a while.

Huang Shiwei was arranged by the Third Young Master to go to the city wall in advance to deal with possible traitors, but now it seems that almost all the garrison commanders in the city have rebelled, and it is impossible to deal with them all in a short time.

Moreover, he was a cultivator of magic, and the skills he practiced were particularly good at concealing assassinations. This kind of heavy city defense weapon was almost a natural nemesis for him. Even if he unfolded his Dao Domain, holes would be shot in it by this giant crystal arrow.

The only hope is that the princess, who is in the government office, will discover the incident on the city wall.

Although judging from the formation patterns, it is too late to take back control of those rebellious garrison commanders, the city defense formation can still be manipulated to help them block the bombardment of these heavy city defense weapons.

Si Zijing glanced at the sky, and layers of ripples were slowly emerging on it.

It seems that the princess has already responded, but it will take time to form a shield with the city defense formation, unless the city defense formation is used directly to blow up those formation crossbows.

The government office and the military hall.

"Get out of here, Jin Shaoxiu, do you want to die?!"

Li Junwu's angry shouts resounded throughout the room, and he tried to shake off the other party's grip on his wrist: "We must destroy those crossbows immediately, otherwise Xu Yuan will be in great danger!"

Instead of loosening his grip, the old general surnamed Jin tried even harder to disrupt the other party's internal energy, and shouted in the same loud voice:

"Princess, with your temper, how can you be responsible for the future of millions of people in Zhenxi Prefecture?!

"With the death of Zhan Xian'an and Lu Bozou, there is no one in the city who has the ability to lead a town of soldiers. If all the crossbows are destroyed, how can we deal with the six saints who are attacking us?!
"You have already sent Linlang forward, and Mr. Xu San must have other cards in his hand!"

"boom!!!"

Another loud explosion sounded in the air, and this time Si Zijing's entire right arm was gone.

Xu Yuan, who was standing behind him, was also practicing his skills while his brain was working rapidly.

However, he was not thinking about how to break the impasse, but the motivation behind the Confucian scholar named Wen's actions.

The two separate attacks of giant crystal arrows also caused him to feel a little doubtful.

Considering the power of the city defense weapons, even if Si Zijing died, he would not be able to withstand a volley of attacks.

Moreover, if the Confucian scholar surnamed Wen chooses to activate this trump card at the same time, the number of traitorous generals that Huang Shiwei can deal with will be reduced to a negligible level.

At that time, the simultaneous firing of dozens of crossbows could create a sure-kill situation for Xu Yuan in almost an instant.

Si Zijing couldn't possibly block it.

With this kind of number and power, even if the Kirin Wolf came, he would have a hard time.

Glancing at the clone woman who had just been blown into a pool of blood, Xu Yuan's thoughts finally came to a complete conclusion at this moment.

The Confucian scholar named Wen's action was not intended to kill him from the beginning, but to force him to reveal one of his trump cards in order to save himself before the war.

Judging from the extremely short and continuous crystal crossbow arrows, the enemy should be targeting Tianye at that time.
(End of this chapter)