Laughing at Chang'an

"That's why indulgence is very harmful to the body."

Facing the adjutant who had committed disrespect and expressed such emotion to him, Li Shen was speechless for the first time, because Geng Yan lying on the bed with a high fever was the proof.

"For at least half a month, you can't have sex again." The doctor gave Li Shen a knife next to him, put away the medicine box and told him some dietary taboos, and then resigned and left.The adjutant also retreated out with interest, only Li Shen and Geng Yan were left in the room, he sat on the side of the bed, touched Geng Yan's sweaty forehead, the latter opened his eyes slightly, and smiled weakly at him .

Li Shen leaned over and kissed Geng Yan, and then he only heard Geng Yan sigh: "It feels like the last time I had a fever, it happened in my previous life."

"It's my fault." Li Shen admitted his mistake frankly, and then changed the topic, "But the problem is that you are too tempting, so I can't control it."

Geng Yan silently looked away, he shouldn't have brought up such a topic with this bastard at all.Li Shen kissed his forehead again, stood up and said, "Then I'm going out, I'll come back to see you later."

Geng Yan watched him walk out of the room, the expression on his face finally disappeared, silently pulled the quilt on his body, and closed his eyes tiredly.

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Li Shen who rushed to the temporary barracks happened to meet Bu Shi who also came to work at the gate, and the two nodded in greeting. The latter glanced at him and asked in surprise, "What happened?"

Li Shen was stunned for a moment, and asked in a daze, "What good thing?"

"Look at the corners of your mouth when you smile almost reaching to the base of your ears."

After Bu Shi got acquainted with Li Shen and got to know Li Shen's temperament, he was not as scrupled in speaking as before, and he no longer used respectful names for Li Shen. He pointed at Li Shen's face jokingly and said, the latter was a little dazed by the words. , After a long while, he calmed down the expression on his face, shook his head and said: "It's nothing good, it's all about worrying."

Bu Shi was keenly aware of the change in Li Shen's mood, so he didn't continue the previous topic, and changed the topic: "That elf princess..."

"I'm warning you not to get her ideas." Li Shen paused, turned his head, and interrupted Bu Shi's words rudely.

Bu Shi smiled: "What's the matter? Your old lover?"

"Oh, I don't dare to take it for free." Li Shen sneered, and asked Bu Shi: "Have you heard of the ancient elf tree?"

Bu Shi was taken aback for a moment, and said, "The legendary tree that killed Li Sanduo's 10 people?"

"Yes, that's it." Li Shen said coolly, "This tree has also been moved to the South China Sea, and only the Dawn Elves can approach it. Trillis is the only Dawn Elf in this generation. If there is something wrong with her, I can only I tied you to the court of the elves, and went to apologize personally."

Bu Shi was silent for a moment, caught up with Li Shen who was walking in front, and said with a smile: "You said that if she was captured by the army of the Bright Empire on the way back, would the Elf King's Court declare war with the Empire?"

Li Shen frowned, thanks to Lin Guo's blessing, he had some understanding of these guys who were plotting and scheming all day long, and these people would definitely take action on what they were sure of.So he straightened his attitude, and said to Bu Shi: "Don't mention this matter again, and don't treat everyone as a fool... I will try to persuade them to send troops to the Elven King's Court."

"It's a bit difficult." Bu Shi shrugged and said, "This battle will not be able to win the South China Sea. There is no need for the Elven King's Court to wade into this muddy water. Anyway, I can't think of any way to persuade them. Go to war."

Li Shen didn't respond, because Bu Shi was telling the truth, but he wouldn't tell the other party that the reason why the Elven King's Court favored him so much was because he was also a half-morning elf, and he was not rejected by the ancient elf tree. On the side of the Elven King's Court, Li Shen is also a rare and protected animal...

The two said goodbye at the entrance of the staff department, and Li Shen continued to walk towards the barracks. The over [-] mercenaries gathered here are the most powerful fighting force in Chang'an City. Effect.How this war will end is still unknown, but no one in Chang'an City thinks that their side will lose.Even if the entire territory of Middle-earth falls, as long as Chang'an is still there, they will definitely win.

However, as Li Shen is concerned, he does not have such blind self-confidence. Chang'an is indeed a myth, but the myth also has a day when it will be broken.Right now, Chang'an is in a weak and chaotic situation, which was created by Geng Yan in ten years. The more Li Shen understands this situation, the more chill will grow in his heart.He didn't know how many hidden threads Geng Yan had buried in this city. If false information incidents like Wang Ziyun happened again, the losses would be immeasurable.As Li Mubai said, he was going crazy for keeping Geng Yan by his side.

Just as he thought of Li Mubai, Li Shen suddenly stopped and turned his head to look behind him.I saw the door of the temporary staff department, Bu Shi and Li Mubai came out one after the other, seeming to be arguing.Li Mubai was wearing a moon white silk shirt today, holding a paper fan in his hand, he was dressed as a dude who hadn't seen him for a long time, his expression was half a smile, and there was a sarcasm that made the teeth itch.He tapped Bu Shi's forehead with the closed paper fan, flicked the paper fan with a flick of his wrist, turned around and left with the fan.

Li Shen stared in a daze in the distance, and forgot to look away, but Bu Shi, who noticed his gaze, raised his head and caught him, and his eyes met.Bu Shi showed a delicate and complicated expression on his face. After a long while, he smiled wryly at Li Shen, shrugged and turned back to the staff headquarters.

...so what are these two arguing about?Li Shen was slightly confused.

This was not the only thing that confused him. After dealing with the matter of the barracks, Li Shen remembered the proposal made by the adjutant yesterday, and made a special trip to visit the president of the Datang General Chamber of Commerce.When he clarified his reason for coming, the latter slapped his head like he had eaten popping candy, hopping left and right in the room, making one call after another, and at the end he held Li Shen's hand earnestly and said, There is a capable person here, be sure to bring me to meet with the old man, and then discuss in detail, be sure, please, please.

Li Shen was personally sent to the gate all the way, and while he was confused, he was also thinking—he remembered that the adjutant said that he was leaving for Donghuang today, and it was too late to call him back now?

So Li Shen called the adjutant, the signal was busy, and when he called again, the signal was still busy.He dialed more than a dozen times in disbelief, but it was all busy.Mo Ran lost the communicator, and Li Shen drove home. By coincidence, he caught the adjutant who was about to leave at the gate of his house.

The adjutant, who was indiscriminately slapped on the back of the head by Li Shen, was very aggrieved, and pitifully took out his communicator, saying that it had been on all the time and that he hadn't talked to anyone on the phone just now.Li Shen dialed him in person, and a few seconds later, the busy tone sounded.

Li Shen finally frowned, changed to the number of the president of the Great Tang General Chamber of Commerce who had just said goodbye, and dialed - busy tone.

Then replace it with Bushi's—it's still a busy tone.

"Master, there is a problem with the communication line." The adjutant also tried with his own communicator, and said with an ugly expression, "You'd better go to the general staff immediately, I'm afraid... something happened to Tongliancheng."

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Tonglian City, the full name of the Datang Communication United Group Autonomous Region, is a giant chamber of commerce autonomous region that monopolizes the civil communication industry in China and even the entire land. It is located in the southeast of Chang'an, surrounded by water on three sides, and has a pleasant scenery... It was bombed.

"According to the news, the Guangming Empire sent [-] warships from the southern sea around Rucheng Bay, and raided Tonglian City at around [-] o'clock this morning." Bu Shi explained to everyone with the information in his hand, "The purpose of the empire is to destroy The central processor of the communication network of Tonglian City did not send land troops to cooperate with the bombing to occupy Tonglian City. According to the report from Tonglian City, the central computer room they buried underground was used as the center of attack and has been completely destroyed. Several spare computer rooms The situation is not optimistic, and the central database has also been completely destroyed, and now we can only rely on manual repairs of the communications of a few emergency lines, and it will take at least half a year to restore communications in the entire Middle-earth territory.”

Everyone was silent, already used to living in the existence of the communicator, and suddenly without this convenient tool, they were really not used to it.So why did the empire go crazy and bomb Tonglian City, and want to change everyone back to the era of flying pigeons?

Bu Shi put down the documents and sat back on his chair, and said with a smile, "Although they are enemies, I still have to say that they play well. The empire has always had a complete post system, and the dependence on new communication is not high at all. In the soil, the cut off of communication can give full play to their air superiority, on the contrary, our side relies too much on the communication network."

"We have always been too passive." Huang Sha, who came directly from the hospital, said, because Wang Ziyun was seriously injured and still awake, his expression was particularly gloomy.

This is correct. From the sudden war started by the Guangming Empire, to the bombardment of Yan Poyuan, and now to the destruction of the communication center of Tonglian City, Chang'an has been responding passively, and the rhythm of the war has always been in the hands of the empire. .It is definitely not acceptable to continue to be led by the nose like this, but to break this situation, it is not enough to just sit here and talk with your mouth.

"What was destroyed was only the confidence processing center of Tonglian City. The signal stations located in various places can still be used and can be reused to build temporary communication lines." As the representative of Donggong, Lu Cang said calmly, "This is not What is difficult, only a manual relay station is needed to manually transfer the dial-in signal and encrypt it if necessary. The manpower required for this can be recruited from Tonglian City. In this way, the most basic communication needs."

Feeling that this matter is as simple as eating and drinking in his mouth, Li Shen hesitated and asked Lu Cang: "Uh, I don't know much about this, so you will be in charge of this matter?"

Lu Xiaonian shook his head and flatly refused, "No, I'm not free."

Li Shen was speechless, technical people generally have more personality, Lu Xiaonian is no exception, he remembered the other party's idea of ​​covering Chang'an with a mechanical canopy a while ago, and asked helplessly: "What are you busy with? It shouldn't be the one I mentioned last time...I'm serious, you should give up that idea."

"Well, that has been given up." Lu Xiaonian said calmly, "I and several other scholars plan to build a sky fortress, and it will be completed within this month."

Li Shen was a little surprised, fortresses in the sky sound very impressive!In the end, before he could ask, Xuetu Bushi next to him suddenly stepped in, and complained indifferently: "I don't think Donggong should waste manpower and material resources on such meaningless things at this time. What can Sky Fortress do? Sending a hundred Swift-class ships from the opposite side can knock you into paralysis, oh..." He looked at Lu Xiaonian, who was sitting in a wheelchair, and added a little apologetically, "...I'm not saying you."

Li Shen pressed his forehead with a headache, Bu Shi's mouth was so vicious, and sure enough, young Lu's face flushed with anger, and as soon as he pressed his hand on the wheelchair, the wheelchair floated back and turned out of the meeting room.Bu Shi, who received condemning glances from everyone, shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands to show his innocence.

"So, as Lu Cang said just now, I will leave it to you to rebuild the temporary communication line." Li Shen made a simple and rough decision, and assigned the task to Bu Shi, a young boy who had lost his temper.

After the meeting was over, Li Shen drove to pick up the adjutant, and wanted to see how the other party was talking with the chairman of the Datang General Chamber of Commerce.As soon as he parked his car at the entrance of the headquarters building of the Datang General Chamber of Commerce in Chang'an, he saw the old president holding the hand of the adjutant, and the two walked out side by side, talking and laughing.

From a distance, I heard the old president praising the adjutant, and this guy said with a humble face: "Don't dare to do it, don't dare to do it, you are too flattering."... Li Shen looked at the two people admiring each other, and wished he could take it The other party boasted to the sky, how hypocritical.

When the adjutant finally said goodbye to the old president, he glanced back at Li Shen, hurried over and got into the driver's seat consciously.Li Shen sat in the passenger seat, put on his seat belt, and asked, "How was the talk?"

The smile on the adjutant's face sank, his tone was a little helpless, and he replied: "It's not very good, it probably won't work."

Li Shen was a little surprised. Seeing how he came out just now, it didn't look like he was on the verge of falling apart, so he heard the adjutant explain: "It's because I thought too simply before, businessmen, no one wants to make a loss-making business, and lose themselves for the country. Few people are willing to do things like wealth. If the hearts of the people are not in harmony, this matter cannot be done. Even if there are a few people who are willing, it will not be able to achieve scale. Lord, tell me this person, why is he so selfish?"

Li Shen couldn't answer this question, maybe there was no answer at all.Even Li Shen kept Geng Yan because of his selfishness.

Back at Li's Mansion on Gubai Road, the adjutant took his luggage and set off for Donghuang.He picked a temporary housekeeper for this mansion, an old man who has worked in a big family all his life, he is very skilled in managing the affairs of the house and taking care of the master, and he is also very clear about the rules that should not be seen or said.Even so, the adjutant was still a little worried, so he kept a special note, filled with various precautions.

In the end, he walked out of Li's mansion step by step, turning his head back three times, waved to Li Shen tearfully, and shouted: "Master, you miss me! I will miss you too!"

Li Shen couldn't laugh or cry, he acted like he was going to die, and he waved his hand in a fit of anger to make people get out of here.

The adjutant left, the new housekeeper was thoughtful and everything was in order, but it was a bit too quiet, and the huge mansion was even less popular.Li Shen was busy with all kinds of unsolvable things, but no matter how late he would come home, he would take a look at Geng Yan and fall asleep with his arms around him.

Time has passed by the beginning of the month without knowing it, and the integration of the Third Army of the Great Tang Dynasty has finally come to an end, and the next step is the decisive battle with the Bright Knights outside the city.

——The day for the decisive battle outside the city was set on July [-]th, at six o'clock in the morning.

The night before the decisive battle, Li Shen returned home, visited Geng Yan, and went to the study alone.He sat at the desk, looked at the blank paper on the desk, and did not write for a long time.

For some ridiculous reason, he didn't really want to write this letter.

The light fell on his slightly drooping side face from above, reflecting the expression that seemed to be covered with a layer of mist. Time passed by, and the night became deeper and deeper.

The door of the room was pushed open suddenly, and Geng Yan, who was only wrapped in a thin quilt, stood at the door, holding a bowl of warm mung bean soup in his hand.Li Shen raised his head upon hearing the sound, and looked at Geng Yan who was standing at the door, silently frowned, his eyes were a little cold.

... He said that Geng Yan could not leave his room without his permission.

Geng Yan's expression was very calm, his usual indifference. Facing Li Shen's cold gaze, he raised the bowl in his hand and said in a low voice, "Mung bean soup, let me calm your anger."

Li Shen slowly relaxed his brows, leaned back on the back of the chair, and waved at others. When Geng Yan came over, he hugged Geng Yan on his lap, wrapped his arms around Geng Yan's waist, and closed his eyes tiredly.

Geng Yan leaned in Li Shen's arms, turned his head to look at the blank letter paper on the table, did not speak, but also put his head on Li Shen's shoulder, and closed his eyes.

After being quiet for a while, Li Shen closed his eyes and said, "I'm writing a letter."

"Ah."

"I want the Argonauts to go to the Westland."

Geng Yan blinked his eyelids, opened them, and asked in a deep voice, "Choutri's Argo?"

Eight years ago, the civil war in the Jutri Principality was the battle for Li Shen to become famous, and because of this he also got the nickname of 'Joutier Death'.And in that civil war, the Argonaut Knights he led also had the nickname of "Reaper's Legion".Most of this legion are mixed-blood orcs, brave and good at fighting, and have a savage temperament... No, to say that they are barbaric is already praising them. All members of this notorious legion are crazy killers. , all could not escape the fate of massacring the city, no one survived, old or young, women or children.The only ones who can survive the massacre are the villains who slashed their butcher knives at their former relatives, companions and friends, and these villains will become new members of the Argonaut Knights.

Now that the Guangming Empire is aggressively attacking Middle Earth, and the territory of the country is empty of troops, if they want to create chaos in the rear of the empire, the Argonaut Knights in Li Shen's hands are the only and most suitable choice.Creating destruction and chaos is what this group of villains are good at, and it is their consistent style to fight to support war. They will not be afraid of danger, but will only cheer for the opportunity to act recklessly. When these demons set foot in the Westland, who knows How many innocent lives fell victim to this carnival.

But this is war.

Li Shen opened his eyes, holding Geng Yan in his arms, picked up a pen to write down words on the paper that had been laid out for a long time.In the name of the leader, he ordered this group of demons to use all means to create damage in the territory of the Guangming Empire, without any scruples, just let go and kill people.

Geng Yan looked at the short words on the paper, his expression was not very excited, but rather indifferent.It seemed that what Li Shen ordered his subordinates to kill was not his people, but a group of irrelevant strangers.

"Did you ever think about the lives of these people when the war started?" Li Shen put down his pen, looked at the letter he wrote, and asked Geng Yan who was sitting in his arms.

Geng Yan didn't answer, and he didn't need Geng Yan's answer.Regardless of whether Geng Yan had considered this issue or not, in the end he still started this war, a war in which countless people lost their lives.

"I once thought that there would be no more unnecessary fights in this world." Li Shen hugged Geng Yan and said, "I was born in the Eastern Wasteland and grew up in that war-torn environment. Seeing more wars... So I, like you, thought about unifying the entire Fanglu into one country."

Geng Yan was stunned, and a complex emotion suddenly rose in his heart. That's right, in his previous life, which was already a long time ago in his memory, Li Shen, as he said, first took control of Chang'an, and then swung his army eastward. Huang, overwhelmed the South China Sea, swept across the Northland, and finally set his sights on the Westland, destroyed his Guangming Empire, and completed the unrivaled hegemony of Fanglu.

"Then why did you give up?" Geng Yan said with some uncertainty, "Because of me?"

"Yeah." Li Shen smiled, "It was just an unrealistic idea, and you asked me to accompany you to see Chang'an Peak all day long, and gradually forgot... Now that I think about it, I feel a little lucky."

As long as there are people, as long as human nature is still so selfish, the fighting in this world will never disappear.Even if Fang Lu was unified, countless lives were sacrificed, and only a short peace was obtained.The only thing he can achieve is his seemingly glorious name in history.

But there are some roads, once you set foot on it, you can't turn back, that's why Li Shen said that he is a little lucky.

Li Shen recalled himself standing on the edge of the cliff back then, pointing to the letter on the table with some amusement, and said to Geng Yan: "Do you know why, will this group of evil spirits admit that I am their leader? Because they think that I am the one who brings death into the world... um."

Geng Yan kissed him.

In the quiet room, Geng Yan held Li Shen's cheeks with both hands, earnestly kissed this man whom he couldn't help feeling affection for, and kissed the scarred but still dazzling soul in his body.

After the lingering and long kiss ended, Li Shen clasped the back of Geng Yan's head, pressed the other's head onto his shoulder, and said softly: "After the war is over, I want to leave Chang'an and live a life of seclusion."

His voice was full of exhaustion and tiredness, and it whispered in Geng Yan's ear.

"Yang Hsinghua, Lin Guo, Haitang, Hades, Gong Yun, Li Xifeng, all of them are dead... I am also tired. I have a Befu in the Eastern Wasteland, surrounded by mountains and rivers. The scenery is very beautiful. You will come with me then."

"If you die, I will accompany you."