Chapter 601 - Under City (2) (1/2)

Chapter 601

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Inside the small city of Yun Hi, a group of guards and some of the city leaders are currently stop the walls watching the large army slowly appearing on the horizon. Although it is very far, the sheer number of the two armies could still be seen from their position.

Even the marching sound could be faintly heard by the people stop the walls.

”City Lord, what should we do? If the battle starts won't we be affected?” the commander of the guards asked while standing beside a man in his 30's with a scholarly appearance.

”I have read in the records and heard my father talk about this event. The last time the Li'ang colonies fought was many years ago. And this time we are witnessing history repeating itself.” The City Lord said while watching the horizon with his hands behind his back.

”I'm just afraid that the battle would reach the city and would affect us.”

”It will and we will not do anything about it. Just make sure that the city doors are locked and secured. If not then it would be the end of us all.”

After saying those words the city Lord retracted his gaze and walk down from the walls. He didn't want to think more about it. According to the records, the fighting would start and there would be some Li'angs that would escape their way. They just have to hold on and not interfere so that they would not anger any parties.

And so everyone in the city hid inside their homes and waited with bated breath while prying for the war to end soon.

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Meanwhile, Shin Jiao is already adjusting the crosshair of his rifle as he carefully judges the distance. With the quality of the bullets he has, it is not powerful enough to travel for 1 kilometer. Hence he needed at most 500 meters to be able to shot accurately.

However, the situation in front of him is truly vexing. With a large number of Li'ang soldiers marching below, he is sure that if he is discovered, then his body would be riddled with arrows. Plus, from the looks of it, these Li'ang enemy army is equipped with human crafted armor and weapons.

This truly baffled him a bit. How could they create something so similar? Even the sword on their h.i.p.s looks like the sword that was given to him at the camp in the frontlines.

Then a suspicion appears in his mind that he could not deny even though how absurd it was.

And so he just concentrated on his target as he carefully and took his time to scope his target. Not long later, from within his sights, he already saw a tall woman with dark skin sitting on a war chariot while being pulled by four large Groogs (hornless Bull-type creature).

The imposing aura of the dark-skinned woman which seems to be the queen of this army is truly fascinating. Then Shin Jiao was baffled that he could not read her mouth. It seems that she is talking in another language, maybe it is their local language. But since he could not understand anything he just shook his head and continues watching.

Suddenly, from his scope, he noticed a tall person wearing a full armor with two large sabers on his back. Upon seeing this, he was a bit surprised. But then his conjecture was further validated by the presence of that man.

”Hmm… alright, after her, it would be you next.” Shin Jiao muttered.

This time, he installed a silencer on his rifle, hoping that it would at least suppress the sound and not attract the soldiers marching below.

He looks at the time on the upper side corner of his sight, and then carefully assessed his target.

Right now, the large army of the enemy soldiers has already passed his location and many are still marching. Then when the distance of his target drew near, he carefully flicks a sharp needle from his hand into another around 50 meters away from his location.

With a smile on his face, he waited.

”800 meters…”

”700 meters…”

”600 meters…”

”…”

Suddenly…

Ka-boom!

A loud explosion from high up a tree rattled the soldiers and everyone turns their attention towards that location. From above a very tall tree everyone can see thick smoke rising up to the air and the tree began to burn.

The soldiers immediately turn to the sky thinking that the tree might have been hit by lightning. As creatures of the forest, they have seen these things happened so they thought of the possibility, but are still confused.