The Villain's Counterattack

Taihu Lake, one of China's five largest freshwater lakes and the largest in Jiangsu Province, was formerly known as Zhenze and also as Lize. It straddles Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, bordering Wuxi to the north, Huzhou to the south, Yixing to the west, and Suzhou to the east, making it a rare aquatic haven in eastern China. However, at this time, Taihu Lake was not owned by the imperial court but instead occupied by Taihu pirates. While not a separatist force, their influence was nonetheless quite tenacious.

Yang Kang played with the sachet in his hand, watching Mu Nianci go away without feeling sad or happy. He was devoted to this world yet detached from it. The experiences in the first two worlds made him feel novel, but he felt tired in the third world. Whether it was to revitalize the Han people or to expel the Tartars and restore China, he was very motivated. He stayed in the martial arts world only for the mission.

But this world has made him accept the enemy as his father and join the Hu people, who are on the verge of decline. Although he tried hard, he could not find like-minded allies. He could only watch the Hu people's iron hooves march south. This feeling of powerlessness made him exhausted.

His time is limited. If he could stay here forever, Yang Kang would definitely take another approach, but time is really limited. He can only use a heavy hand to wake up those short-sighted people along the wheel of history, and then use the power he has accumulated in the past few years to stab the Hu people in the back, so as to win a glimmer of hope and breathing space for the Han people.

Leave the rest to fate.

Fate, what a heavy word. Yang Kang stuffed the sachet into his arms and ordered the soldiers to set sail. Mongolia's strength was accumulated step by step. Khwarezm and Western Xia provided them with strong support, and then there was the powerful capital of the Jin Dynasty. Only by integrating these could they travel across the Eurasian continent and establish the huge Mongol Empire. At the same time, it was precisely because the territory was too powerful that their power was dispersed, and they were finally starved to death.

Everything has two sides. In his previous life, he was just an ordinary teenager. Although he had stronger qualifications and relied on his passionate and unparalleled talent, combined with the abilities of his two sweethearts to destroy the world in one fell swoop, he was a complete loser, a poor guy who was framed to death before he could even get out of the ivory tower.

I'm not a true wise man. My only advantage is my familiarity with history, and this so-called history is nothing but a fictional history in the world of fiction. What should I do? Do whatever I want?

No! He had a clear goal: to save Reimu and Reizuki. To that end, he willingly played pawn, carrying heavy burdens, struggling to survive in each world. His character was exceptionally gifted and handsome, but the outcome was always tragic, the hidden foreshadowing already laid. His only task was to play the clown, play the buffoon, and appease the "evildoers" who perished because of him, thereby attenuating his own sins and using the power of the Book of Dreams to resurrect Reimu and Reizuki.

I just had a little fantasy in my heart, and didn't even know what the final outcome would be. I tried hard to catch that ray of sunshine, but when I moved forward with my head down, I ignored many beautiful scenes. I didn't even know that the person I had been looking for might be right next to me, until the portrait I drew was taken out by that person and those words were said.

It turns out that you have always been by my side, but I have never found you. This time, I will do my best to grasp the happiness around me and also work hard to find you!

If Mu Nianci is Ling Meng, then who is Ling Yue? The clever and cunning Huang Rong is unlikely. The silly and cute Ling Yue isn't so petty. Li Mochou is also unlikely. Her heart is so kind and pure that she can't tolerate the filth of the world. She is like a ray of moonlight.

There is a possibility that Xiaolongnu could be the cause, but that girl is too young. She may not even grow up when she reaches the end of her life, so she can be ignored. But who else is there besides these people?

Yang Kang shook his head and put aside the messy thoughts in his mind. He couldn't find them, but they would try their best to get close to him without affecting the plot and character. This was Yang Kang's guess and inference, but for some reason, he had full confidence in this guess.

After nine years of hard work, he thought it would be nice to act according to the plot. He just treated it all as a game. Yang Kang lazily leaned on the armchair on the big ship. The soldiers around him were sent by King Zhao to protect him. In Yang Kang's eyes, they were not elite, but they were much stronger than the Song soldiers.

At nightfall, shouts of killing could be heard in the distance. The Song Dynasty soldiers who were leading the way were killed and defeated. Yang Kang pretended not to know and continued to move forward. After more than half an hour, large ships and speedboats surrounded his flagship, and then a large number of bandits came to kill him.

Yang Kang yawned, flicked his finger to deflect the oncoming sharp knife, and then pointed a finger at the man's chest, and the big man collapsed to the ground.

"Golden Dog, don't hurt my brother!" A big man fell down, and the two big men next to him rushed out, and quickly attacked Yang Kang with harpoons and big knives. Yang Kang lay there lazily, using his fingers as swords, fighting with them with "ding ding dang dang" sounds. The two big men saw that he was lying on the chair and only moving one hand, and they were a little confused. The man with the knife stepped back half a step, and no longer attacked Yang Kang head-on, but slashed at his feet with a knife.

Yang Kang sat down on the armchair and turned around suddenly, just avoiding the big man's knife. He picked up a broken table leg and stabbed forward. The movement was not fast but it hit the big man's knife hand. The knife fell to the ground with a "clang". The big man holding the harpoon stabbed Yang Kang directly, but he used the table leg to deflect the attack one by one.

"Jin Gou is powerful, let's fight together!" The man with the big knife asked his younger brother for a knife, and called out to the bandits who had already dealt with the Jin soldiers. More than a dozen people surrounded Yang Kang and started to hack and kill him. Yang Kang was still lying on the armchair, stabbing quickly with the table leg with one hand, and he couldn't help but cover his mouth with his left hand and yawned loudly. He looked listless and sleepy, which made many water bandits furious. This was too much of a contempt for people.

"The ship is sinking, let's drown this golden dog!" Seeing that he seemed to have no intention of leaving the armchair, everyone quickly retreated back to the surrounding large ships and speedboats. However, the large ship was gradually sinking, and Yang Kang's armchair was floating on the water, half floating, and was tied up by many pirates in the water, including the man and the chair.

On the transom of the ship, Guo Jing and Huang Rong saw Yang Kang, tied up with a chair and yawning sleepily, and looked at each other in confusion. Could he have been drugged? But it didn't look like that at all, and he even glanced at them with half-closed eyes.

"Should I save him?" Guo Jing was a little embarrassed. Yang Kang was very kind to him. He taught him martial arts and prepared tonics for him to improve his skills. However, he was quite disgusted with his current identity as an envoy of the Jin Dynasty.

"Do you think anyone here can stand up to him? Don't look at him, he looks sleepy and listless. If he wants to leave, no one can stop him. This guy has a lot of evil ideas. I think he wants to infiltrate these bandits. Let's ignore him. It won't kill anyone anyway." Huang Rong thought of Mu Nianci. If Yang Kang died, would she come back and fight with her for Brother Jing? This bad guy can't die yet, but seeing that he doesn't care and is even snoring, he must be sure of it.

Cleaning up the battlefield and taking prisoners, although they were just a group of pirates, they were quite experienced. Later, Lu Guanying issued an order: "All the leaders of the villages will go to Guiyun Manor to hold a banquet to celebrate the victory. All the leaders will lead their troops back to the village to wait for the rewards for their merits."

The pirates cheered loudly, and their boats, big and small, scattered in all directions and gradually disappeared into the smoke.

"Guiyun Villa, Lu Chengfeng, should I beat him up? What a short-sighted guy who pretends to be cultured. My cultivation has reached a critical juncture now, so I'd better save some energy if I can. Sleep, sleep!" Yang Kang muttered to himself, turned his head and started snoring loudly, but his body was trembling slightly, as if countless little mice were running around in his body.