Laughing at Chang'an

The roar at the foot of Penglai Mountain rang all day and all night.

The imperial army obviously lost the composure and composure they had at the beginning when they were sure of winning. The impetuous shelling and more and more human shields being pushed out as if to vent their anger all undoubtedly proved this.The camouflaged stone wall at the bottom of the cliff no longer exists, revealing the steel fortress hidden inside. The car wreckage and human flesh and blood piled up outside the black iron wall, replacing its original color and dyeing everything into a turquoise. Dirty black and red curtain.

Inside the fortress, even the cold-blooded Chang'an mercenaries were exhausted, not to mention the Penglai chamber of commerce's armed men who lacked war experience, and some even cried—more than one.For the sake of safety, the resting troops are not allowed to enter and exit the main city on the cliff at will, and can only stay in the rest area allocated in the fort. Go to the top of the cliff to let the wind out, smoke a cigarette to relax the tense emotions.

By the way, let's take a look at Li Shen's heroic appearance after killing... Just kidding.

A pitch-black figure smashed into the empty platform where the mercenaries were resting from the sky like a cannonball, rolled twice on the ground, and stopped moving.Soon, a medical team from the Penglai Chamber of Commerce rushed over, and in front of the surprised or surprised eyes of the mercenaries nearby, they picked up a large bucket of coolant and poured it on people.Immediately there was green smoke rising, and the person who looked like he had been made a teppanyaki sat up slowly from the ground, took the nutritional supplements made from various natural treasures from the hands of the medical staff, and drank them dry in one go. , At the same time, the charred body was regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the charred slag faded away, returning to white and tender skin.

Then the white and tender Li Shen began to strip off the battle armor with clothes debris on his body, put on a brand new battle uniform with his bare buttocks, and put back the divine armor Overlord Nu one by one.The whole process took less than half an hour, and he was completely new from head to toe, and even his pitch-black hair had grown back behind his ears, a little messy and flamboyant.

A familiar mercenary beside him raised his voice and asked with a smile, "Master Shen! How did you get off this trip?"

"It's okay." Li Shen lowered his head and lit a cigarette, walked towards the person who spoke, took a bag from the medical staff, took out a crystal clear source crystal and stuffed it into his mouth. He chewed it up and swallowed it.The mercenary who spoke looked at him with a horrible expression, and couldn't help but ask, "Is it delicious?"

Li Shen smiled, handed over the half-eaten source crystal in his hand, and urged, "You try?"

"No, no, no." The mercenary waved his hands dumbfoundingly, thinking that he knew it was no different from chewing glass, and his teeth were not as good as Li Shen's.Normal people absorb source crystals by shaking their hands to adjust their breath, and in an emergency, they can at most hold them in their mouths. He has never seen Li Shen chewing directly like this.

Li Shen sat down next to him, with his back leaning on the stone pillar, let out a long breath, and asked with a cigarette in his mouth after a while, "How's the situation down there?"

"According to this method of bombardment, the remaining shells can last for less than three days. Without shells, the impact power of the source energy alone is not enough. If this continues, the mountain will collapse in two days."

The mercenary was talking with half-closed eyes, the cigarette in his mouth was already burnt to the end, he snuffed out the cigarette in his hand, raised his eyes tiredly and looked up at the sky above his head.

As far as the eye can see, the blue is like washing.

"My wife and children are all in Chang'an." He whispered, "I'm a gangster in a sea of ​​swords and blood. I never thought about marrying a wife, but she, a woman, offered to be with me, so I agreed... I have a son, two years old this year, I save money for him to live a good life in the future, go to school, be an official, do business, everything is good, just don’t be like me, be a mercenary...everyday I see him either killing or being killed , boring, really boring."

Li Shen also looked up at the sky, with a cigarette in his mouth, shrugged and smiled.

After finishing a cigarette, he patted his buttocks and stood up, his body pierced into the sky like lightning, turned into a small black dot, and disappeared.

………………

On July 25th, Ninth Year of the Tang Dynasty, Zhongtu, Penglai City.

This is the fourth day of the siege of Penglai City. The senior leaders of the coalition army, including Zhu Zifeng, gathered again to decide the next step.

During the past four days, the continuous shelling and bombing of the Guangming Empire caused a certain degree of damage to the root of the fortress of Penglai Mountain. If the damage further expanded, the mountain would tilt due to its own gravity, causing even greater damage to the damaged part. So stressed that it was torn apart by its own gravity and collapsed.Therefore, the situation has reached a time of urgency, and continuing to hide and defend is a dead end.

On the other hand, thanks to Li Shen's efforts, the empire's warships no longer dared to stay within a hundred miles of Penglai City, and their numbers were considerably reduced—the original [-]-ship imperial fleet now only There are less than two thousand scales left.

"It's time to fight back." Li Shen stood up propped on the table and said, his face was a little tired, but his tone was extremely forceful, "All the warships will attack with me, this time we must wipe out the entire fleet of the empire... The others gather and stand by. Under Lieselint's command, be ready to attack at any time."

After the generals left, Liselint looked at Li Shen who was slowly sitting back on the chair, and frowned, her voice was so cold that she couldn't hide her concern: "I can change with you if I can't hold on, don't forget, I It is also an altar."

She is of course an altar, speaking from the realm of human beings.But this altar only refers to the combat power, and its content is completely different.Although most non-human races have human-like appearances, they are completely different creatures from humans after all. Human cultivation methods are not suitable for non-human races. It’s okay for mixed races like Li Shen whose blood has been sparse. As a non-human race with pure blood, the more the body rejects human cultivation methods.Just like the blood queen, it is impossible to practice human cultivation methods, but for non-human races, they naturally have their own methods of becoming stronger.

For the blood race, it is natural to absorb blood—absorb the blood belonging to the strong, and turn the power contained in it into their own.Back then, Baby Yang massacred millions of people in the South China Sea to hold a blood feast, and preserved the essence of the blood with the sacred blood tooth, so as to awaken the memory of the emperor who was sleeping in her blood inheritance, and in one fell swoop her own combat power Strengthened to the realm of the altar.But this power is plundered from others, not her own, so once it is consumed, her combat power will drop accordingly.

Today is no longer the grand occasion of the Blood Empire during the Millennium War, and it is impossible for Liselint to absorb the blood of the strong unscrupulously. What's more, the blood not only carries power, but also carries memory and soul. Absorbing without restraint will only make Turn yourself into a confused lunatic.That's why the blood emperor who can be said to be immortal needs to continue to inherit. In fact, every inheritance is a cleansing of his own memory and soul, locking up everything that is not needed, and restarting from a blank sheet of paper .

Li Shen shook his head, let go of his right hand propped on the table, stood firm and said, "I have already figured out the habits of the imperial warships, so I dare to say that they will be wiped out. If I don't knock out the flies on these heads, I won't even feel it." Can't sleep well... um."

The voice stopped abruptly, Li Shen suddenly covered his mouth, scarlet blood dripped from between his fingers, the red was dazzling.Lieselint narrowed her eyes slightly, smelling the smell of blood that was unusually sweet to her at the end of her nose, as if carrying an incomparable allure, she used great willpower to keep herself from looking away, not to look at the With the blood dripping from Li Shen's hand, he said coldly: "You can do whatever you want, if you want to die, it's up to you..."

The last words were swallowed back into her mouth, turned into a cold snort with anger, and she turned and left angrily.Li Shen stared at her back, shook his head helplessly, a doting smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and then he suddenly realized, and blinked a little dazedly.

On this day, it is still a fine weather with a clear sky.

More than [-] warships lifted off from the main city on the top of the cliff, arranged in a triangular shock formation, followed Li Shen at the forefront, and disappeared into the sky.When the fleet disappeared from sight, Liselint, who was standing above the city wall, lightly grasped the hilt of her sword at her waist. She was bathed in the bright sunlight above her head, and she quietly closed the pair of scarlet blood-red robes. eye pupil.

In the distance, in the military formation of the Guangming Empire, an unusually huge alloy metal box was being transported off a long-distance transport boat.Dozens of masked men in gray robes carefully cut around the box, dismantling the outer metal box wall.Inside the box was another wooden box exuding a strange and simple atmosphere. Those masked people spread out a huge black curtain and wrapped it in it completely, so that outsiders could not see it.

The third gray-robed knight with three fingers pinned to his chest was standing not far away. This area had been ordered to be sealed off, and he personally supervised the entire unblocking process.It took so much trouble, naturally, because the thing to be unsealed is very important.

A woman dressed in a general's uniform crossed the blockade and came to the third gray robed knight. She had an astonishing beauty. Even wearing a military uniform, she couldn't conceal the charm that made it difficult to look away.And the third knight just looked back at her, with no abnormal expression on his face, and said indifferently: "What's the result of the military discussion?"

"In the end, the only one who can deal with the altar is the altar. What can be the result? A group of people are making a lot of noise, and they are all stunned." The woman's tone was sneering, showing undisguised mockery of the general's disappointment In other words, she stared at the huge arched curtain not far in front of her, a trace of curiosity flashed in her eyes.

"Is it in here?" she asked.

"Yes." The third knight nodded, a proud smile appeared on his cold face.

"My family has guarded it since the Millennium War, and now, it will finally see the light of day."