Laughing at Chang'an

The atmosphere in the hall is delicate.

It didn’t take long for Li Shen and Geng Yan to turn against each other. The collapsed Geng Army Building is still being rebuilt, and then Geng Yan announced that Li Shen was dead, and he died to pieces, leaving no scum behind... Could this be an evil ghost crawling out of hell?

So someone really straightened his neck to look at Li Shen's shadow on the ground, wanting to confirm whether he was a human or a ghost.Amidst the astonishment of the audience, only Li Mubai at the front and Bu Shi, the bloody massacre, showed no shock.Li Mubai lowered his head slightly, sitting upright with eyes, nose, nose and heart, Bu Shi smiled and looked at Li Shen at the door with everyone, looking normal and couldn't be more normal.

Standing at the door, Li Shen scanned all the people in the hall from front to back, then walked in without saying a word, until he reached the top empty seat, stretched out his hand to open the chair, and just sat down.

Wang Ziyun's eyelids twitched, and he forced himself to look away, so as not to reveal the surprise in his eyes.I saw Li Shen sat down and leaned back on the chair, with his arms folded in front of his chest, and then there was nothing else.

Everyone was silent, looking at him with radiance, and he was also silent, looking at everyone with radiance.

After a while, Li Shen said slowly, "Didn't you guys have a lively chat just now? Why are you all looking at me? Continue."

Everyone saw him wearing a Geng Army uniform, swaggeringly sitting on the top seat, with the expression of taking it for granted that you continue to wait for me to watch the show, it felt like a long thorn was stuck in his throat, and he was choked very uncomfortable.It is impossible for anyone to continue the topic just now in front of Li Shen, unless it is really boring, if the excited guy goes crazy, this meeting hall may have to become a Shura field.

However, there was still a warrior who stood up and spoke. It was none other than Feng Liancheng, the arms alliance who was the first to mislead the topic just now.

"Hey, I said Li Shen, it's a good thing you're still alive...but did you sit in the wrong seat?"

Feng Liancheng said this very kindly, there was no trace of gunpowder in his tone, but it seemed like a friendly reminder.Hearing this, Li Shen looked at him, his expression was not friendly, but he was not angry, and asked calmly: "Only this chair is empty, otherwise, where do you want me to sit? Or do you sit at me?" Here, do you have an opinion?"

After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for Feng Liancheng to answer, turned his head to look at Li Mubai who was sitting first on his right, and asked him, "What do you think?"

Li Mubai was finally willing to raise his eyes from the nothing on the desktop, he looked at Li Shen calmly, shook his head and said, "I have no objection."

"Of course I have no objection." Xue Tubushi who was sitting opposite Li Mubai took the initiative to interface, and nodded at Li Shen with a smile, "Master Shen, long time no see."

"Well, I remember you." Li Shen frowned, "I heard that you are now the leader of Xuetu, have all the people of Xuetu returned?"

Bu Shi shook his head and said, "No, it's just part of it. But Her Majesty is in the Nancheng Guild Hall now, and she hopes to have a face-to-face talk with you."

"Well, I'm going to see her too."

The two started talking as if no one else was there, and the information revealed from the conversation, as well as the attitude of the two parties, Hui Guang and Xue Tu, towards Li Shen, caused many mercenary captains present to have an ominous premonition in their hearts— —As early as when Li Tieyi died and Li Mubai took over Hui Guang, there were rumors that he was actually a puppet supported by Li Shen.Then, when Lin Guo was executed as a traitor, Li Shen and Geng Yan turned against each other, these internal changes occurred in the Geng Army, and after that, Xuetu announced its disbandment, handed over all the property to the Geng Army, and withdrew from Central Earth. A series of things are not unrelated, but intertwined... Everyone looked at Li Shen's eye-catching Geng Army uniform, and finally realized what they had done wrong.

This is not a war jointly launched by Hui Guang and Xue Tu against the Geng Army, but Li Shen, supported by Hui Guang and Xue Tu, launched a battle against Geng Yan for power.

Li Shen was sitting on the seat that once belonged to Geng Yan. Someone remembered that this year should happen to be his 20th birthday. Compared with the handsome face he inherited from his mother when he was [-] years old, he was more charming than a mature man.He is no longer the domineering and fierce Li Mad Dog in everyone's memory, who drew his sword when he disagreed with each other, but when Geng Yan was there, people unconsciously ignored this point. Until this moment, looking at Li Shen who was sitting there , they suddenly realized that Li Shen without Geng Yan is the truly terrifying Li Shen.

Regardless of what everyone thought, after finishing the conversation with Bu Shi, Li Shen turned his attention to Donggong Shen Murong again.Seeing this scene, many people looked forward to Shen Murong's touching emotional intelligence in their hearts, and hoped that this old man who had never known fun would continue to carry forward his demeanor and speak for them what he dared not say.

However, to their disappointment, Shen Murong raised his eyelids to look at Li Shen, and said dully, "I have no objection."

So, as the number one scholar in Chang'an City and even the whole Fanglu, how could Shen Murong be a fool.Compared with normal people, he is only analyzing the situation in an absolutely rational way. In his mind, there is no hypocrisy, obscenity or politeness. He only has the most straightforward analysis results, that is, feasible or not feasible , requires or does not require such a judgment.

Shen Murong judged whether Li Shen was qualified to sit in that seat, yes.

So Li Shen finally caught sight of Huang Sha who was sitting opposite Shen Murong. Huang Sha, who had been extremely silent since the beginning of the meeting, also raised his head and looked at Li Shen.

Huang Sha's gaze was very complicated. Li Shen met his complicated gaze, grinned, and called Master Huang, saying that he hadn't seen him for a long time.

"It's good that you're still alive, Xiao Feng is very worried about you." Huang Sha took out a cigarette case from his pocket, threw one to Li Shen, and said calmly, "It's almost enough, let this farce end."

Li Shen took the cigarette, didn't refute the vague meaning in his words, nodded and said: "It's time to end, but before that, I have to kill someone... Oh, Master Huang, excuse me. "

Huang Sha, who was lowering his head to light a cigarette, paused for a moment, then raised his head, and threw the lighter in his hand to Li Shen.

"Kill who?" Huang Sha asked while biting his cigarette.

Li Shen lit a cigarette, pointed to Feng Liancheng, the head of the Arms Alliance sitting on the fifth seat on his right, with the long strip lighter in his hand, and said, "He."

When the word "he" landed, Feng Liancheng, who was being pointed at, suddenly changed expression. He drew his knife without hesitation, and the chair that was knocked away flew backwards and slammed into the wall behind, with stone chips flying and wood residue everywhere.

Li Shen retracted the saber and sheathed it.

The dark and narrow blade was covered with dark golden lines, like a piece of exquisite artwork, it was firmly retracted into the scabbard with a soft clang.Li Shen took the cigarette out of his mouth, looked at Xue Tu Bu Shi who was sitting next to him, and then stood up. The latter showed a clear expression, nodded and stood up.

Li Shen was in front and Bu Shi was in the back. The two left the table one after the other and walked along the aisle towards the door.When the figures of Li Shen and Bu Shi disappeared outside the palace gate, Feng Liancheng, who was still standing beside the long table with his sword drawn, suddenly moved.

From shoulders to elbows, neck to head, fine particles of golden light rustled down, the expression on Feng Liancheng's face was frozen at the moment of extreme pain, and his whole body suddenly exploded from it, no flesh and blood flew across, countless tiny golden particles Particles of light scattered and danced in the hall, like a dream.

This strangely beautiful scene makes people shudder.Wang Ziyun stretched out his hand to catch a particle of light, and watched it disappear from his palm, leaving a speechless silence in his heart.

………………

Outside the Weiyang Palace, the adjutant saw Li Shen walking out of the bridge and waited here, so he rushed to greet Li Shen with the hot gold bag in his arms.

"Why did you come out so soon?" the adjutant asked, looking at Bu Shi who was following Li Shen in surprise, "Who is this?"

"Next, go to the Xuetu Guild Hall." Li Shen ordered, took the steamed stuffed bun bag from the adjutant's arms, and casually asked Bu Shi who was following him, "Do you want to eat?"

Bu Shi smiled and shook his head, "No, I had breakfast before I came."

Li Shen bit his bun and said vaguely: "I just arrived in Chang'an, when I heard that you were going to wipe out the Geng Army, I hurried to save the place, and I didn't even have time to drink... Li Xifeng is your man ?”

The turning point was so abrupt that Bu Shiyi was also taken aback for a moment, before he realized it and said in a low voice, "He belongs to Master Hei."

Li Shen snorted and didn't speak any more. They went to the parking lot beside the square, and the two got into their cars separately. A small off-road vehicle followed a black commercial vehicle and drove towards Nancheng.In the car, the adjutant said to Li Shen while driving the car: "Master, according to your wishes, Li Xifeng has already been sent out of the city. It is not easy to arrange an empty boat under the current situation, so I will send someone to escort him by land, at the latest In ten days, you should be able to reach Beppu."

"Just arrange it." Li Shen said, turning his head to watch the scene outside the car window, a little distracted.

Just at this time yesterday, he set off from Dongji Cliff and returned to Chang'an.Before leaving, the cliff guard said he would give him a ride, so after a familiar sense of dizziness, Li Shen opened his eyes and found himself hanging upside down on a tree branch, with an endless sea of ​​white clouds underneath.

When Li Shen, who was full of confusion, figured out the situation, he realized that he was thrown from Dongji Cliff in the blink of an eye and was thrown near the border between Middle Earth and Eastern Desolation.Although there was something wrong with the landing site, the cliff or something was at least better than falling on Big Mom's lap.There are refugees fleeing everywhere near the border. Among the five regions of Fanglu, Middle-earth has always been the most affluent. Perhaps they have enjoyed a peaceful life for too long. It doesn't look like fleeing, but like traveling.

As Li Shen was on his way, he learned a lot of news from these refugees.The westernmost line bordering the Guangming Empire has completely fallen, and has been fully stationed by the Empire's regular guards. Those dominions who surrendered did not receive any preferential treatment, but at least they saved their own lives.The extremely rare dominions that chose to resist tenaciously were eventually razed to the ground by the fierce artillery fire of the imperial warships, leaving no bones left.However, the support they were counting on from Chang'an City seemed slow and weak. The well-known Chang'an mercenaries seemed a bit misnamed in front of the imperial army.

Later, he learned that the Emperor of the Empire had been assassinated.Li Shen just wanted to laugh when he heard this kind of blatantly nonsense news. He really didn't know any way in this world to kill an altar in an instant.But since such news has been widely circulated, it is naturally not groundless. Li Shen knew that there must have been a change in Chang'an, so he accelerated his speed and traveled all day long. Finally, before the sun rose this morning, he stepped in with one foot. the city of Chang'an.

Then he found the adjutant lying soundly asleep on the bed in Li's Mansion on Cooper Road.

"Master, the Blood Slaughter Guild Hall is here." The adjutant stopped the car and opened his mouth to wake Li Shen from his contemplation. He got out of the car and walked around to the other side to open the door for Li Shen. , you remember to call me, I will go back first."

Li Shen didn't understand, and frowned, "What did you say?"

The adjutant glanced at Bu Shi who got off from another car, his eyes flicked suspiciously, and he said vaguely, "It's nothing, just pretend I didn't say anything."

Bu Shi walked up to Li Shen with a smile, and stretched out his hand to invite him in. Li Shen had been to this guild hall many times, so he was far from unfamiliar.But whenever he recalled this guild hall, the missing piece in his memory would emerge to show his sense of existence, and all of this was related to the blood queen who was waiting for him inside.

"I still remember the last time, I was the one who led you the way." Bu Shi suddenly said, with some sadness hidden in his voice, "Master Hei always said that everything has a beginning and an end, everyone is like this, and so is this city... But he likes Chang'an the most after all, so much that he can't bear to see it disappear."

Li Shen has already learned the news of Hades' death from the adjutant. During these years in Chang'an, he has changed from a reckless and ignorant mountain boy to the current Li Shen. Among them, the three people who have the most influence on him are the first The first is naturally Geng Yan, the second is Yang Huxing, and the last one is Hades.Whether well-intentioned or malicious, the wise old man taught him many things.

"It's a blessing to be able to fight and die for something you want to protect," Li Shen said.

Bu Shi nodded and smiled, stopped talking, and led Li Shen to a side hall located in the north corner of the guild hall, stopped outside the entrance, and invited Li Shen to go in by himself.There was a transparent gauze hanging inside the hall door. Li Shen lifted the gauze, and he smelled a sweet fragrance. He walked along the passage in the hall, and the fragrance became stronger and stronger. Turning the corner in front of him, he raised his head and saw the blood queen leaning on the wide soft couch.

Peerless enchanting is not enough to describe, such a stunner is unique in the world.

Even with Li Shen's determination, he lost his mind for a moment.The queen on the couch propped up her upper body, looked lazily at Li Shen who walked in, and the corners of her lips curled up in an imperceptible arc.

"You came."

"Ah."

Li Shen stopped a few meters away before the collapse, and the sweet scent lingering on the opponent made him a little uncomfortable, and he instinctively didn't want to get too close.It's not that he has any repulsion towards women's fragrance of powder and makeup, it's just that the smell is familiar to him but he can't remember where he saw it, it's a physiological discomfort.

"I heard from Bu Shi that your body is already healed?" The queen turned her face halfway, her scarlet pupils looked clean and innocent, "Has the problem of the alien energy been completely solved? Are you sure you won't see it again?" Are there side effects?"

Her familiar and natural attitude made Li Shen feel very unfriendly. After all, apart from the only side they had last time, they were complete strangers.Perhaps sensing Li Shen's uneasiness, the empress' eyes flashed with displeasure, she turned over and sat up on the couch, stepping on the floor barefoot to Li Shen.

She reached out to touch Li Shen's face, and seeing that Li Shen didn't dodge, she showed a satisfied smile.

"I know why you came here." She smiled, gently stroking Li Shen's cheek with her fingertips, "I can hand him over to you, but I have a request."

"You said."

"I want you to marry me."

Li Shen nodded and said calmly, "Okay, I promise you."

………………

The circular pool was filled with a disgusting black-red semi-thick liquid, a mixture of old blood and fresh blood.As soon as he walked into this dungeon, the smell of fishy and stench came over his face. Li Shen frowned and looked at the pool of blood. He had heard some rumors about the vampires who would soak the captured humans into the pool of blood. , Transformed into a blood slave, the blood slave is still a human being physically, but it has some characteristics of the blood race, such as fear of the sun, and absolute obedience to the superior blood race.

An iron stake was nailed beside the blood pool, and the other end of the thick chain extending from the stake sank into the blood pool. The masked attendant who led Li Shen here walked to the blood pool, bent down and pulled the chain from the blood pool. out.

A figure wrapped in blood plasma was dragged out of the pool of blood and fell to the ground beside the pool. He lay motionless on the ground, seemingly without breathing. What was exposed from the blood plasma was not the skin, but the same bright red flesh and blood.

"His transformation has not been completed, and he is very fragile now." The masked attendant said to Li Shen, "He will feel severe pain when he is exposed to the sun. Before the new skin grows, please make sure not to let him directly touch the sun. Otherwise he might die from too much pain."

Li Shen stood on the spot silently, watching Geng Yan lying on the ground.Maybe it was a few seconds, maybe a few minutes, anyway, for a short while, he didn't know what he was thinking.

After a while, Li Shen took off his uniform coat, walked over, wrapped the man on the ground in the coat, and hugged him into his arms.Possibly hurt by the sudden friction, Geng Yan struggled in Li Shen's arms.

"It's me." Li Shen said, stood up with Geng Yan in his arms, took out a shading cloth from the hands of the attendant at the side, and covered the person in his arms from head to toe firmly.During this process, Geng Yan didn't react at all, until Li Shen hugged him and walked out of the dungeon, and the moment he came into contact with the sunlight outside, he suddenly trembled.

Li Shen didn't expect Geng Yan to be so sensitive to sunlight. With the other party's temperament, if it wasn't so painful that he couldn't control his body, he would never have acted like this.

"If you want to die, I can help you uncover the cloth." He walked out with Geng Yan in his arms, and whispered, "I know what it feels like to be a useless person, and then you will lose your identity , status, power, reputation...you will have nothing."

"Even so, if you still want to live, I will protect you... But if you want to die, I will not stop you."

In Li Shen's calm and even indifferent words, Geng Yan, who was wrapped in the cloth, opened his eyes wearily. He moved his stiff neck, closed his eyes, and rested his head on Li Shen's shoulder.

The sun was falling quietly, Li Shen hugged Geng Yan, and walked forward silently.