Laughing at Chang'an

The clover blown by the wind, with a golden luster in the sun, flew gently into the distance one by one.

On the eastern border full of refugees, holding a soiled rag doll, the weeping girl saw the flying golden clover, she subconsciously stopped sobbing, stared at it with innocent and clean eyes, and watched it whirl Fly into the sky in front of you.

She ran after it, pointing to the sky and yelling, "Mommy! Golden clover! Look, Mommy!"

The tired-looking woman raised her head with a frown, the old man who had fallen to the ground numbly raised her head, and the men who were robbing food and drinking water raised their heads, and impatiently reprimanded the subordinate officers to raise their heads. He raised his head, and the subordinate who was reprimanded by him also raised his head... People raised their heads and looked at the golden clover flying in the sky.

They whirled lightly and disappeared into the west.

The mottled and dilapidated city walls of Chang'an had just repelled a fierce attack from the imperial army, and the mercenaries were enjoying a short and rare rest time.Lao Gang carried the shield on top of his head, leisurely lit a cigarette, took a puff, poked the idiot sitting next to him with his knees hugged, and passed the cigarette over.

The young man who had just survived from the life-and-death line was still in shock. He froze for a moment before reaching out to take the cigarette and taking a deep breath.

He breathed out the smoke blankly, and suddenly remembered the girl he secretly liked. If he could go back alive this time, he must confess to her.

A golden clover flew past his eyes, and the young man's bewildered vision suddenly became bright. He shook the old steel beside him, pointed at the golden leaves flying in the sky, and let out a wild cry full of surprise——

"Look! It's a golden clover!"

The mercenaries raised their heads one after another, and surprised smiles appeared on their tired and dirty faces. They cheered excitedly, and took out their mercenary licenses with the golden clover emblem and waved them towards the sky.

Amid deafening cheers, these golden elves jumped and flew north happily.

On the smoky battlefield, in the line of sight that was gradually replaced by bright red, everything became quiet unknowingly.The sea of ​​blood that had spread to the extreme stopped expanding and spread quietly. The escaped people stood outside the sea of ​​blood, staring blankly at all this.

The vampires suspended in the sky silently bowed their knees and bowed their heads deeply to the young emperor.The young empress chose to die in this way, this terrible and sad emperor's death...they have no right to stop it, they can only mourn for it.

This is the end of the queen, or perhaps the end of the blood race—their crazy and sad race has lost the meaning of its own existence for an endless and long time.

The sea of ​​blood that seemed to have life rolled back backwards, and waves turned up from all directions, rushing towards the kneeling figure in the center of the sea of ​​blood.Under the furious turmoil, Lisselint's figure appeared extremely small, and on that beautiful face, there was a calm and relieved expression.

She hugged Li Shen tightly in her arms.

In the next instant, a sea of ​​blood fell from the sky.

In this terrifying and shocking scene, everyone lost the ability to speak.It is hard for humans today to imagine what a strange and magnificent world it was when this Fanglu was ruled by non-human races thousands of years ago...Of course, no one could have imagined at that time that when human beings became Fang... Lu's master, what will the world look like after a thousand years.

The vampires fell back to the ground one after another, waiting for the moment when the sea of ​​blood dissipated. The queen who chose to self-destruct would not leave any corpses behind, and everything there would disappear. The tooth stays, re-entering a long slumber, waiting for its next owner.

I don't know who was the first to raise his head, and he didn't know who was the first to exclaim.

—golden, tiny specks of light falling from the sky.

Frail and fragile golden leaves swirled in the sky, and in the eyes of people who were surprised and confused, they rushed straight to the bloody vortex that rolled up to the sky.

Perhaps it was an illusion, but there was a certain voice in everyone's ears.

Faint, but extremely clear, pulsating...

A gust of wind blew up without warning, and the scattered sand, earth and rocks on the ground were rolled up, blinding everyone's sight. The bloody vortex soaring into the sky suddenly fluctuated violently, twisted, swelled, and exploded——

The burst of strong light filled the sky and the earth in an instant, and the soil blown away by the air flow slapped everyone. When the smoke and dust dispersed, people raised their heads in a trance, and the bloody whirlpool standing upside down in the air had disappeared.

A figure stepped out of the smoke and dust.

The blood clans around widened their eyes, looking in disbelief at Li Shen who came out, and Liselint who seemed to be asleep in his arms.Long scarlet hair hung down from Li Shen's arms, brushing the hem of his clothes lightly as he moved. Under the unbelievable gazes of the vampires, Li Shen walked up to them and held the Liselinte in his hand. Pass it forward.

"She has consumed too much energy and has fallen into a deep sleep. I don't know how long she will sleep. You take her back to the North... let her rest well."

An old vampire stepped forward, took the sleeping Liselint from Li Shen's hands, nodded silently to him, and then led the vampires away.Li Shen watched them fly into the sky, then looked back at the Chang'an mercenaries who were flying towards him from a distance.

From a distance, they began to call his name, waved at him, and showed joyful smiles.

Li Shen also smiled.

"Let's go."

He smiled at them.

"Let's go back to Chang'an."

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From dark to dawn, from early morning to sunset, day after day, every minute and every second, this long attack and defense has been going on by this time, and both sides have reached the limit of exhaustion.

"The guards on Dongyi No. 26 are all gone! Urgent support is needed!"

"La Liga No. [-] city wall collapsed! Fortification squad!"

"No.17 of West Second Division needs medical staff! Speed!"

"No. 41 Beibing applied for retreat! I am the only one left alive!"

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I don't know if he got the news from the northern front. The empire's offensive suddenly became unprecedentedly crazy this evening. Li Bushi in the staff department had no room to sit down. Almost all defenses were in a hurry. His hands Grabbing a communicator, with one tucked around his neck, he held a pen in his free right hand and wrote down on paper in scrawled words that no one could understand, order after order quickly issued from his mouth to the staff in the staff department. The others were then conveyed to every corner of Chang'an City.

But gradually, he didn't even have anyone to give orders to... All the power that could be put on the defense line had already been thrown, and everything that could be done was done.

The people of Chang'an held the weapons they could find, stood outside their homes, on the street, quietly listening to the intense artillery fire in the distance, and waited.

Then everyone heard that huge roar—the ground of the whole city was shaking, and in front of the west gate, which was the most aggressive, the whole huge city gate collapsed down together with the city wall, revealing a huge Gaps.The imperial army swarmed in, rushing towards the sunken gap like a tide, and the mercenaries guarding the surroundings showed despair and determination in their eyes, they clenched their weapons tightly, and stood firmly on the spot...

A bright meteor fell from the sky and hit the imperial army rushing towards the gap. Huang Sha, who was hunched over his shoulders and held a copper mace in both hands, suddenly shouted loudly, and the invisible source like a violent wave pushed the huge army towards It retreated more than ten meters, then shrank and burst, and countless corpses flew into the air, and the tragic and scarlet blood rained down one after another.

The humming of the engine sounded from the sky, and the joy on the faces of the Changan mercenaries disappeared after seeing the flying boats clearly. They saw civilian empty boats without flags or establishments like locust swarms. They rushed towards Chang'an without any rules, like moths to a flame, and exploded into balls of dazzling light in the intercepted artillery fire of Chang'an City.

The mercenaries fired desperately into the sky, trying to shoot down the airships that escaped the interception and prevent them from falling into the city... But it was undoubtedly in vain.

They could only helplessly, watching them fly overhead.

The light blue energy barrier floated layer by layer over Chang'an. Li Mubai stared indifferently at the densely packed airships flying down above his head, and jumped onto the top of the tallest nearby building first, and pulled out the Ronghua Whip from his waist.

The first airship fell, exploded, and the protective wall trembled violently, followed by the second ship, the third ship... the hundredth ship, the two hundredth ship...

The hot wind blew the black hair around Li Mubai's ears, and the shock wave of the explosion shook his surroundings. He closed his eyes and opened them again.

One after another figures jumped from the roofs of the houses, facing the falling airships in the sky... But faster than them were countless swords coming from the north.

——Thousand swords pierced through the air.

On the ground floor of the Chang'an Arena, a white-haired young man knelt on the ground, bowing his head in thanks.

On the city wall amidst the gunpowder smoke, Geng Yan swung down the pitch-black long knife in his hand again and again, strenuously advancing in the fight, pulling his already hoarse throat, roaring at everyone who passed by——

"hold onto!"

The original color of the battle armor on his body could no longer be seen, and his dazzling blond hair was also mixed with blood stains into a dirty appearance. He looked no different from any mercenary around him.But even so, he is still Geng Yan.

He hasn't fallen yet, and Chang'an can't fall either.

The sunset is like blood.

There was a strange smell in the wind filled with gunpowder smoke, and the long black line coming from the horizon gradually became clear, and the battleship group from the north spread out to both sides, attacking the imperial army array surrounding Chang'an.Black shadows jumped down from the diving battleship, roaring angrily, sweeping from north to south.

The Imperial Army finally began to retreat.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, this short but extremely long battle finally came to an end.When the imperial army retreated from the range of sight, the exhausted mercenaries stopped their pursuit, and many of them even lay down on the ground exhausted.Scavenging birds spread their wings and circled in the sky, making shrill calls.

The dilapidated city gate slowly opened to welcome the mercenaries returning from the northern line. A figure walked out of the crowd standing inside the gate. Everyone silently looked at Geng Yan's back, and saw him carrying the blood-stained long hair. Dao, a little tired, but firmly walked towards Li Shen who was oncoming.

No one knew what he was trying to do... and no one was going to stop him.

The setting sun dragged the shadow very long, and the two shadows gradually overlapped together.Li Shen stretched out his right hand, touched Geng Yan's blood-stained cheek, and then grinned.

"I……"

The unfinished words came to an abrupt end, and under Geng Yan's astonished gaze, Li Shen fell forward without warning.The pitch-black long knife slipped from his palm, Geng Yan raised his arm, caught Li Shen, and then was carried by the opponent's weight and sat down on his buttocks.

He held Li Shen's face with his hands, stared at it quietly for a moment, then put that head in his arms.

"Just come back."