Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 353: Blade (I)

A golden line in the sky gradually penetrated the mist, covering the earth with a layer of light golden veil.

In Luozhou, only when dawn approaches and night is about to end, the gray clouds will be briefly dispersed, revealing a small section of clear sky.

Luo Bingzhong walked out of the house early, looking at the golden clouds in the sky, and fell into some memories.

After a long time, he moved his shoulders and turned to head for the training ground.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of "clang clang clang" of gongs awakened the sleeping Beiming Army.

Several new recruits, with excited smiles on their faces, trotted around the city and rang gongs.

They liked this job. Although they had to get up earlier than the other soldiers, it was so refreshing to wake others up by ringing the gong and then see their confused faces.

In Yu Changqing's team, several people who were in charge of night watch hung their heads tiredly and were also awakened by the sound of gongs.

They wanted to be angry, but when they saw the strong Bei Ming soldiers walking out of the house one by one, all their anger finally turned into helpless sighs.

Who told you to be on someone else's territory?

But I heard that these people seem to be leaving today.

When they looked, they saw the mysterious masked general they had seen yesterday appear. Not long after he stepped onto the reviewing stand, ox carts carrying supplies covered with black cloth gathered at the city gate.

What is most concerning is that these oxen pulling the carts are not living creatures, but are made entirely of stone.

It seemed like someone had roughly molded it into the shape of a cow, and then it started doing the work of a cow.

"This... this is a cow, I guess I'm not mistaken!"

One of the people on night watch rubbed his eyes and was stunned for a long time before looking at his companion next to him with a trace of disbelief.

"It should be a cow, right?" another person said with a stiff expression.

"There are so many strange things in this world. Even stones can be used as labor."

"Who says it isn't?"

The two of them chirped for a long time. They were a little sleepy at first, but now they are completely awake.

No man could resist a moving stone bull.

"Look, they are leaving the city!" Someone pointed to the gate of Bicheng.

At this time, the ox carts were already waiting quietly outside the city. The Bei Ming soldiers were lined up in neat rows, wearing the standard armor sent by Hu Xian from Sheshan yesterday, making them look more powerful and majestic than ordinary people.

They had long swords on their waists, and the steel-colored scabbards flashed a cold light in the gradually emerging morning light.

The rising sun was nearby, casting golden rays of light, as if seeing them off, or as if recording this moment.

Lin Beixuan was dressed in a black and red robe, standing out from the crowd. His semi-long hair swayed gently in the wind, making him look mysterious and aloof.

His armor Hu Yan is not ready yet.

As the main general in the fight against the starving ghosts, how could he wear the same armor as ordinary soldiers? It must be exclusive armor that can symbolize his identity.

Hu Yan said that he would use the highest quality materials in Sheshan and put in all his strength to build the armor before the decisive battle.

Lin Beixuan wanted to just say it as a casual gesture, but when he saw Hu Yan's serious look, he didn't say anything more.

Until now, walking under the golden light of the morning sun, Lin Beixuan looked back at the Beiming Army behind him, each of them was in neat armor and as powerful as a tiger. Even Shen Tingmiao was also wearing armor. Suddenly, he felt that he also seemed to have to look like a general.

The Bei Ming army had all left the city, and the city of Bi suddenly became empty. A gust of wind blew past, making it look particularly desolate.

At this time, Yu Changqing and others returned to the secular world, left the house and walked onto the street, where they saw this desolate and unfamiliar scene.

"They're all gone?"

The two members of the night watch yawned and nodded, "They left early in the morning and took everything away. Brother Yu, what should we do now?"

"Follow me."

"???"

"We still have to look for clues to the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pagoda. I see they are heading outwards. Maybe they are planning to leave Luozhou."

Yu Changqing frowned and said, "It shouldn't be. It's been almost three years since the Luozhou starving ghost incident broke out. If such a large team wanted to leave, they would have left long ago. Why would they wait until now?

Moreover, the entire Luozhou is covered with a formation by the starving ghosts. Without any special methods, people can only enter but not leave. Their purpose is definitely not to leave Luozhou."

"But what does that have to do with us?" The members of the Night Watch were already very tired. They had just escaped from the incense temple of Lord Tiangang, and now they had to get involved with the army.

It was obvious at first glance that the mysterious general was not someone to be trifled with. The strength of their team leaders was only at the Kaifu level, and they didn't even need him to take action. Just a team of infantry rushing over could wipe them all out.

In fact, Yu Changqing knew all this, but now they had no way to get clues about the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Tower again.

The army in front of us is a variable that suddenly appeared in Luozhou. There might be some opportunities if we follow them.

Moreover, the leader of the intelligence team specifically instructed him to pay attention to the situation of this army and report any actions of the other party when he returned to the secular world.

The obvious meaning is to transfer the search for the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pagoda to this army.

Doing so not only improves their safety, but at least they no longer have to worry about sudden attacks from starving ghosts.

"Just listen to me. This is also an order from the headquarters."

Yu Changqing was too lazy to give a detailed explanation and directly quoted Jiang Yiyu's meaning.

After hearing this, no one objected anymore.

However, at this moment, Su Hongying hesitated for a moment and stepped forward: "I want to apply to go to the incense temple in the center of the hinterland again."

"No, we spent a huge amount of money to escape from there. You are a newcomer who has just entered the secular world. If you go there, you will only die."

"But he is my only family member."

Yu Changqing knew what Su Hongying was referring to.

"That won't work either. Your brother has become a subordinate of the Xuanhuang Hungry Ghost, and you tried that day but couldn't wake him up at all."

Su Hongying fell silent after hearing this.

At that time, she tried every possible way but failed to wake Su Baifeng up.

But no matter what, rescuing her brother has become her obsession and she doesn't want to give up.

Looking at Su Hongying's determined eyes, Yu Changqing sighed helplessly.

“Although we have special items that can block the hungry ghosts’ sense of smell and perception, you know, once the distance is too close, they can still find us.

The deeper we go, the stronger the starving ghosts we see. With your strength, if you are discovered, you won’t even survive for a second.”

Yu Changqing thought for a moment and said, "How about this, let's catch up with that team first, and when the time is right, I'll go with you to the Tiangang Venerable's incense temple to take a look."

After repeated persuasion from several people, Su Hongying finally gave up the idea of going alone.

She knew that everyone relied on a lot of luck to escape from the temple last time, and they might not be able to get out alive if they went again. So she didn't want her companions to accompany her on the adventure, so she planned to go alone.

But Yu Changqing was determined not to let her leave, so she had no choice. Because the special props they used to avoid the starving ghosts had always been distributed and managed by Yu Changqing. Without that item, she was afraid that she would be eaten by the starving ghosts soon after leaving Bicheng, and fall into a cycle of death and resurrection.

Yu Changqing led his men to follow the traces left by the Beiming Army. As they followed the trail, they began to find the corpses of some starving people on the roadside.

Most of these corpses belonged to the followers of starving ghosts, while some were from higher-level branches of starving ghosts, such as Taochen and Xiechen.

Gradually, they saw more and more corpses of starving people, and it was a tragic scene wherever they looked.

"Are they killing the starving ghosts?"

Yu Changqing squatted on the ground, looking at the body of a starving ghost lying on the ground. Its neck was cut open by a sharp long knife.

Then, looking at the broken end, his eyes fixed again.

As an investigator's habit, whenever he came across a place where a battle had broken out, he would stop and check the bodies of the starving people.

Thus he discovered a strange apparition.

When we first encountered the corpses of these starving ghosts, some of the starving ghosts whose necks were severed had obvious stiff cuts. The cuts were not smooth and were even a bit rough.

However, as he followed the Beiming Army in the past few days, he found that the broken ends on the necks of the starving ghost corpses he encountered were becoming smoother and more precise.

This discovery shocked Yu Changqing.

"They are not just trying to kill the starving ghosts, but more importantly, they want to accumulate experience in battle!"

Yu Changqing stood up and looked at the endless corpses of starving ghosts in the distance.

“Such a horrifying number!”

He was wondering why the Beiming Army went out of the central plain and made a big circle.

Now these doubts have completely disappeared, leaving only one answer.

"Troop training."

Using a large number of starving ghosts to train soldiers, because starving ghosts are not human beings, so even if you kill a lot of them, you will not feel any guilt, and there will be no aftereffects of war.

Judging from the corpses whose sword skills were becoming more and more sophisticated, this army was growing at an extremely terrifying speed.

They are like another kind of starving ghosts, greedily and thirstily sucking the nutrients for their own growth.

Yu Changqing was certain that the final target of this army was the source of the starving ghosts, the Xuanhuang hungry ghost.

But what happens after solving the problem of Xuanhuang hungry ghost?

This army will become starving ghosts in another sense, and its target will no longer be the land of Luozhou, but the entire dynasty.

They might be scarier than starving ghosts!
"If the army that emerged from this hell of Luozhou were to be released outside, I'm afraid no army in history would be able to resist it." Yu Changqing took a breath, his tone full of heaviness.

He looked into the distance and the shadows of the Beiming Army seemed to still be preserved on the distant horizon.

Those shadows are gradually transforming from humans into man-eating beasts.

The other people in Yu Changqing's team also came to their senses after hearing what he said. They were all shocked and their hearts were pounding.

Of course, they only subconsciously thought of the worst outcome. Maybe the army would be wiped out in the fight against the starving ghosts?

Or maybe the other party, in the face of the overwhelming trend, would kill the starving ghosts with their own bodies, and then go home to farm.

These are all possible.

"Should we still follow them?" someone asked after a brief hesitation.

With their speed, they could have caught up with the Bei Ming Army long ago, but they were just far behind. The starving ghosts around them had all been wiped out, so they would not be in any danger.

However, when Yu Changqing said that, some people began to hesitate.

Following such an army seemed more terrifying than encountering starving ghosts.

"with!"

Yu Changqing gritted his teeth and said, "We have been following him for so long, with the general's strength, he can't be unaware of us behind him.

He didn't send anyone to drive us away, which means he has tacitly accepted our presence."

The others looked at each other and felt a little relieved.

"I agree with the captain's point of view. Following this army, I always feel like I am witnessing history." He Sui stood up and echoed with a smile.

She and Yu Changqing both came from the Shangjing headquarters, so naturally they would speak for people who were closer to them.

"Witness history?" someone asked puzzledly.

"That's right." He Sui held a thin sword in her hand. She raised her hand, facing the gradually clearing sky of Luozhou, and pointed in the direction where the Beiming Army left.

"Don't you think so?"

“If this army clears Luozhou, then marches out of Luozhou, goes north to deal with Zigu God, goes south to kill Xieling Zhenjun, and finally takes down Lichao.

My God, it's like a secular version of the founding history of a nation!"

He Sui's words were filled with irrepressible excitement and longing: "We can witness the turning point of secular history as secular children. This is such an incredible thing!!"

There was a gleam of excitement in her eyes, just like the female college students who stay up late to watch TV series in the real world.

Yu Changqing's face turned dark, and he walked up to He Sui and slapped her on the back of the head.

"Take back your saliva. What you said is not a trivial matter, and it is not good for our officials."

"Tsk, I was just talking!" He Sui said unconvinced.

The topic was forced to end due to Yu Changqing's intervention, but He Sui's words took root in everyone's hearts.

No matter what, the secular son is not from this world after all, and will not care too much about the serious consequences of the war.

In their hearts, they are exploring the world as a player to some extent.

If you could witness with your own eyes tremendous changes in the world that are worthy of being recorded in history, the pride and sense of accomplishment that comes from being a part of such history would be irreplaceable by anything in this world.

Although we don't say it, everyone in our hearts more or less longs to experience an extremely epic transformation in person.

I long to be a witness or even a participant of history, and to carve my own name in the long river of time in this secular world.

However, as official investigators, they basically still have to make their position clear.

Because if this army appears and breaks the balance among all parties, it will be difficult for the government to continue to seek and explore its interests in this great chaos.

Moreover, the gap between the two worlds, the present world and the secular world, is getting smaller and smaller. Maybe one day the secular world will completely merge with the present world. At that time, the authorities will have to face another rising powerful force.

"Well, let's take it one step at a time!" Yu Changqing shook his head and sighed.

　Thanks to Shang Lao for the reward

　　
　
(End of this chapter)