Chapter 180 Battle of Liyang - Part 10 (1/2)
Chapter 180 – Battle of Liyang - Part 10
Tong realized Zuo Ci healed him after seeing his peaceful approach. His stress and tension disappeared, and he could breathe in the fresh air once more.
”Administrator?” Asked Tong.
”Correct. I'm in charge of monitoring anomaly beings such as yours.”
”Then, why did that girl attack me? Why did you interfere with my war?”
The calm face of Zuo Ci turned into a hostile glare and said.
”You have killed too many innocents of this world, child. Though I understand that you have your reasons, killing the helpless innocents after they surrendered to you is too violent! Both of us are here to remind you for the first time and for the last time. It's fine if you are fighting in a war and the innocents get caught into it by accident. But genocide is forbidden! If we catch you killing unarmed peasants again, we will show you no mercy!”
”Again, this is the last warning. Any incident similar to the slaughtering at Liyang City will not be tolerated!”
After finished with his warning, Zuo Ci's body faded into thin air and disappeared.
Tong had a chill running down his spine. That was the first time that he fought a life-and-death battle against an 8-winged-immortal, and she could easily kill him in one move. Furthermore, it seemed she still went easy on him. The disparity between the current him and her was too vast!
Now, there was this Zuo Ci with ten wings! How could he sleep after he realized that he could be killed by these two at any moment?
'I feel like saying [Yes] to the system goddess now.'
'I wonder what happened to her. She's been silent for a while.'
Tong slowly swam back to his camp. He could not ambush or raid Huangfu Song's men anymore. More soldiers from the Imperial side were climbing ropes to cross the river. By the time that Tong stepped his foot on the shore, more than 10,000 Imperial soldiers had crossed the river.
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'This is troublesome.'
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Zuo Ci reappeared in the sky above Nanpi City. He had not finished his job yet as Tong was not the only sinister sinner who massacred innocents.
One more sinner had to be taught a lesson.
'What's his name again? Right, Jiang Man. The one with the illusion skill and so-called [Ninja] skills.'
'Before the system goddess returns, I have to use this rare chance to discipline these otherworlders.'
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October 14th, 6 AM.
All former Huangfu Song's soldiers, Zhu Jun, and his men crossed the river safely.
At first, Zhu Jun wanted to remain on the other side to coax Dong Zhuo into sieging the barricade wall. However, the news about Huangfu Song's death forced him to move to the other side to calm the remaining soldiers and integrate them into his army.
The death of Huangfu Song was mysterious and creepy last night. The witnessed soldiers thought that a vengeful spirit killed him because he offended them by cutting the woods beside the river at night.
They saw the killer disappeared from their tight enclosed formation with their own eyes. Besides, there was a mysterious, creepy scream from a woman in the darkness, which scared them enough to wet their pants. After the wail, cubic stones rained down from the sky and dropped onto the ground and the river. Each stone block had a smooth surface and sharp edge as if the master artisan made them.
Zhu Jun also heard the cry of Liu Yang. Combining with all the pieces of evidence and eyewitnesses, he had to believe in such supernatural phenomena. None of them had even thought that Tong actually ambushed them.
”This river is sacred. Do not offend the spirits!”
Zhu Jun ordered his soldiers to gather incense sticks to hold a prayer ceremony. Afterward, they resumed their march along the river bank.
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Dong Zhuo and Li Ru watched the departing army of 129,000 men from the other side of the Yellow River.
They also stayed up for the entire night after the commotion broke out. Both of them even heard the cry of Liu Yang.
”Wenyou, do you believe in spirit?” Asked Dong Zhuo.
”Not a chance. That was just a cry of a commoner woman somewhere. There is no such thing as spirit or god in this world.”
”Hah! Me too! Look at those frantic soldiers. They wet their pants because of a woman scream during the night. If they bed a woman at night, won't they piss on their partner because of her scream? HAHAHA!”
Li Ru ignored Dong Zhuo's dirty joke and stared at the wall from a distance away.
”My lord, it's time we send our reply letter to Zhang Tong. We should prepare to leave this place as well.”
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7 AM.
Tong and his men packed up and were ready to leave. Since Zhu Jun and the rest of his army started moving, they had to return to Liyang City.
They left the ”Zhang” flags on the wall and placed scarecrows in soldier's armors as decoys, so they could delay Dong Zhuo a bit longer before he realized it.
Before Tong could leave, a soldier rushed to him and gave him an arrow.
”This is?”
Tong examined the arrow. There was a letter tied on it.
”This arrow was shot by the opposing army, sir! It seemed to be a message from them.”