Chapter 180: Prelude to the Attack (End of Chapter 6)
Chapter 180: Prelude to the Attack (End of Chapter 6)
At dawn, on a hill outside the imperial city of Andresa. The hilltop was very low, probably just the height of a hillside. Looking forward, one could see the imperial city. The hilltop was bare, without any vegetation.
However, on top of this hill, there were a few guards gathered. They were all wearing medieval full-body plate armor, and they all had a lion head pattern on their chests.
The guards hid far behind. On the edge of the hill, a man in red was sitting cross-legged.
The man sat on a gorgeous scarlet carpet. To his right was a dark wooden square coffee table, very small, only about 40 centimeters square. The man rested his right hand on the coffee table, holding a tea bowl in his palm, watching every move in the imperial city with interest.
"Interesting, really interesting." The man chuckled, put down the tea bowl in his hand, slowly stood up, and faced the imperial city. "I didn't expect this guy to have such a strong power. It seems that we should be wary of this brother Xueyan instead of the second brother. Fortunately, I used these two idiots, the desperate sister and brother, so that I can see the current situation in the palace clearly. As for the others, they should be just like that."
The guards behind the man certainly saw the Imperial City of Andressa disappear in an instant, but then recover again in a moment, and began to whisper to each other in private.
"No way, the Imperial City disappeared and reappeared?"
"I can't believe how powerful that is."
"No way, we are going to fight that guy next..."
The man turned his head slightly and said with a smile: "Why, you don't trust my ability?"
"No, Your Highness!" After hearing the man's words, all the guards stood at attention again and looked at him. The whispers just now disappeared in an instant.
The man raised his lips slightly: "Feili, how are your preparations going?"
After the man finished speaking, two guards dragged a shirtless boy in front of the man. The boy did not have any wounds on his exposed skin, but sweat was constantly oozing out of his skin, and even his limbs were shaking constantly.
If Lingyi was present, he would definitely stand there with his eyes wide open, in disbelief. The embarrassed young man in front of him was none other than the son of the mayor of Nord Town, Fili.
Fei Li's lips turned pale, his face was ashen, and his slightly trembling lips slowly opened and closed: "My Lord..."
Bang! The guard beside Fei Li punched Fei Li in the stomach without any hesitation and shouted, "How many times do you need to teach me to call you His Highness?"
"Crack, cough cough... I'm sorry, Your Highness..." Feili coughed up blood after being beaten, and then quickly changed his words.
The man in red didn't have any idea. He turned around slowly, and his brows were actually a little similar to Emperor Fei Ren, but his cheeks were long and thin, making his face look like a winter melon.
"What are you doing? You hit our distinguished guest. Let go immediately." The man in red pretended to be angry and scolded the two guards who were dragging Feili.
The two guards bowed slightly to admit their mistakes and then tacitly let go of each other's hands.
Puff. Feili's body fell to the ground, but Feili had no strength at this time, and it was extremely difficult for him to even raise his head to look at the man in red.
The man in red put his hands together, palms facing inward, rubbed his palms, and said with a respectful smile: "Brother Feili, how are you doing over there?"
"Your Highness." Fili's voice was somewhat difficult to hear clearly, hoarse and weak, as if he had been tortured inhumanly. "My father will lead Andressa and the southern capitals, a total of 50,000 troops, to come to reinforce."
"Hahahaha, good, good!" The man in red laughed wickedly and returned to the carpet to sit cross-legged. "Feili, Feili, you know that no matter when I hear this news, it always makes me excited. After so long, we can finally plan something big together."
The man in red laughed loudly, drank the tea in the bowl and smashed it to pieces.
"Great! Come here, tell me how many troops I have now!" the man in red laughed.
After that, a fully armed guard slowly opened a bamboo slip in his hand and said, "There are already 5,000 Royal Guards, 12,000 assassins from the "Lamo" underground organization, and 3,000 demon slaves. In addition, there are 10,000 God Worshipers, 20,000 adventurers recruited from all over the country, and 50,000 troops in the south, a total of 100,000 troops."
"Hahahaha! Good, very good!" The man in red laughed, turned around and looked at the imperial city again, with a slight smile on his face. "Next, it will be a big show. Feiren, I'm looking forward to seeing how you're going to handle it this time."
As the man in red was speaking, a voice suddenly came from his mind. He then covered his left ear and listened quietly.
"I lost, completely lost... I'm sure you can defeat him with this stupidity."
It was the alien's voice in the imperial city. For some reason, it could be transmitted to the man in red, or directly into his mind.
The man in red shook his head and said, "Well, it seems that you are just like this. But it's okay, you still have 3,000 replacements. Goodbye, Devil No. 2,368."
"Report!" A guard hurried to the top of the hill and knelt on one knee, "Your Highness, someone wants to see you."
"Oh? Who is this outsider who dares to see me at this moment?" The man in red had something else in his words. His tone seemed to belittle the visitor, but the corners of his mouth could not help but rise, and he could hardly suppress his inner ecstasy.
"Oh? Your Highness is saying that I am an outsider?"
"Your Excellency has finally arrived. Now all conditions are met."
……
puff!
The alien's entire body was like a bloated balloon at first. After expanding several times, it suddenly leaked air. The entire body began to shrink and gradually flattened into a pile of skin.
When Lingyi saw the alien suddenly do this, he panicked for a moment, and the wound that he had tried so hard to suppress was instantly torn.
puff!
Blood instantly spurted out of Lingyi's ears and nose, dyeing his body red. A line of blood also slowly flowed from the corners of his eyes, hanging on both sides of his nose.
"Zero One! What's wrong with you, Zero One, Zero One!" Leo was closest to Zero One and reacted immediately. He ran to Zero One, grabbed Zero One's shoulders and roared.
But Lingyi stared at the alien with blank eyes, looking at the dark skin, unable to forget it for a long time, his eyes widened in surprise as if they were about to jump out of their sockets.
Faintly, the dark skin was still slowly telling Lingyi something: "Zero...One..."
"You, what are you doing..." Lingyi was completely confused by the alien's current situation. The only thought in his mind was that the mastermind behind the scenes had abandoned the alien as a chess piece.
The pitch-black skin slowly emitted purple light particles that drifted into the sky, like sand and gravel being blown away by the breeze: "You should be the only one who can save me and my people's hope..."
"Tribesmen? Hope? What are you talking about..." Lingyi repeated the alien's words in a daze. He watched his skin disappearing but he didn't even have the strength to stretch out his hand.
"His unique ability is very dangerous, you have to be careful, it is..." Before the alien could finish his words, his skin had completely dissipated, turning into dust in the wind and drifting away.
Zero One was supported by Leo. He wanted to catch the dust that was flying away, but he couldn't raise his hands. He wanted to stretch his neck and catch some of it with his mouth: "Hey, finish... what you are saying." Before Zero One could finish his words, he could no longer bear the exhaustion of extreme magic power and fell to the ground with a thud.
"Xiaoyi!"
……
One month later, in the early morning, in a small courtyard in the palace.
An old man in white clothes, carrying a cloth bag on his back, slowly walked into the yard. He looked up at the door with worry in his eyes. After shaking his head helplessly, he slowly walked to the door and knocked gently.
"Who is it?" Xiaojiu's voice came from inside the room.
The old man was about to respond when Xuela's anxious voice came from the room: "Who else could it be? The imperial physician sent by the emperor." As Xuela spoke, she opened the door and saw that it was the old man. She said confidently, "Look, who else would dare to come except the imperial physician."
"Xue La, stop making noise. Xiao Yi is still resting." In the room, Xiao Jiu, who was making tea, just put down the teapot and glared at Xue La.
Xuela stuck out her tongue but didn't say anything more. She went back to the room and sat opposite Xiaojiu obediently.
The old man walked into the room slowly. The furnishings in the room were similar to those of Lingyi and others. It was a small Chinese-style room. From the door, you can see a round table with some plates on it and some noodles on the plates. Doudou was cleaning the table, Xiaojiu was making tea, and Xuela was lying on the table idly, mumbling as if she had something on her mind.
After entering the door and passing the dining table, turn left and you can see a screen. Behind the screen is a Chinese-style wooden bed, and two little guys are lying beside the bed. Bao Bao and Pegasus squatted quietly at the head of the bed, holding the bed board with their fingers, like two pets, with two pairs of eyes shining, staring at the patient on the bed, hoping that he will wake up again.
And that patient was Zero-One, the man who destroyed the Andressa Imperial City and restored it.
At this time, there seemed to be nothing seriously wrong with Zero One's face. After a month of recuperation, the magic power in Zero One's body had already shown signs of recovery. Coupled with the regenerative power of the Saint's Mark on Zero One's forehead, Zero One's life was finally out of danger. However, within this month, Zero One had been lying in bed motionless like a vegetable.
The old man put down the cloth bag after entering the house. Xiaojiu brought the tea bowl to the old man and bowed slightly: "Thank you for taking care of Xiaoyi all the time. Xiaoyi survived the crisis and turned the danger into safety."
The old man smiled slightly, his smile was less wild and unruly than usual, and more relieved. After taking the tea bowl from Xiaojiu, he took a few sips and said, "In comparison, I should thank the great hero Zero. It is because of the great hero Zero that our imperial city was saved from danger. The continued prosperity of the imperial city is a testimony to this." As the old man spoke, he handed the tea bowl in his hand to Xiaojiu again.
Xiao Jiu bowed and took the tea bowl, then smiled and said, "No, please don't flatter our Xiao Yi so much. He just did his job. If he wakes up and hears the master calling him a "hero", he will probably find it difficult to adapt."
"Oh? That's right, hahaha. Then I won't be polite with you all, how about we all call him "Xiao Yi"? " the old man said with a smile.
"No, you are the elder, this is what I should do. Please don't mind." Xiao Jiu smiled, stood beside the old man, stretched out his hand towards the wooden bed, and led the old man slowly into the inner room.
The old man also nodded, but the reason he nodded was not because he was satisfied with Xiaojiu's conversation, but because he was satisfied with other aspects. He nodded with satisfaction. He didn't say much and followed Xiaojiu into the inner room.
When the old man entered the inner room, Xuela immediately stood up and followed him. Doudou, who was cleaning the table, also put down his work and hurriedly caught up with the old man with Xuela.
Xiaojiu brought the old man to Lingyi's bed, looked at Baobao and Pegasus squatting beside Lingyi's bed, and smiled helplessly.
He patted Baobao and Pegasus' head gently and said, "Okay, Xiaoyi will wake up soon. You two should make room for the gentleman."
"Huh?" Pegasus and Bao Bao looked curiously behind Xiaojiu, and seeing that he was still the same old man as always, they didn't take it seriously. They obediently moved to the end of Lingyi's bed and lay on it.
It's just that Pegasus trusts the old man very much, and he has seen the old man helping Zero One with his treatment. On the other hand, Bao Bao stared at the old man fiercely, like a beast staring at its prey, warning the old man not to play tricks.
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