Chapter 259 Sudden Promotion of Sun Jian (1/2)
Chapter 259 – Sudden Promotion of Sun Jian
A messenger walked into the military camp of Sun Jian in the county. He dressed in an official green robe, but he was treated as if he was a royal eunuch.
”Sun Jian of Xiapi, accept the royal mandate of Heaven!”
Without confirming the identity of Sun Jian, the green robe messenger bellowed.
Sun Fang, Li Jing, and Huang Gai frowned upon seeing the man, wondering what this new empress was planning for them.
Huang Gai pretended to be Sun Jian. He knelt down and cupped his fist, ”I'm Sun Jian of Xiapi! May the Empress live a long and prosper life!”
The messenger nodded, ”Good! Sun Jian of Xiapi, you've contributed greatly for eliminating the bandit lord Zhang Yan. We have heard about your bravery and your leadership, and we judged that you are wasting your talent as a commander under a noble family!”
”Right now, several bandits claimed to be a part of the Yellow Turbans, which they appeared everywhere in our country. Currently, the Jing Province lacks a talented man to lead the troops against the rebelling bandits. You will be assigned as the Governor of Changsha in Jing Province. We want you to lead them and get rid of all the threats in the southern regions!”
”As a compensation, your family status will be raised as an official aristocrat family. Your surname [Sun] will be listed in our Imperial ranks!”
”Accept your edict!”
The green robe man passed the edict scroll and a seal to Huang Gai, who received them with cringed expression.
…
The messenger left without staying over for a night. It was as if he was running away from them or was rushed because of something.
Meanwhile, Huang Gai, Li Jing, and Sun Fang reread the scroll in disbelieved.
Huang Gai laughed as he thought that all the past works had borne fruits. On the contrary, Li Jing and Sun Fang narrowed their eyes and looked at each other.
”Someone is trying to interfere with our fight?” Li Jing muttered.
”It's more like the Empress is trying to correct the historical events and send my father south as in history,” Whispered Sun Fang.
Huang Gai heard the mumbling voice from the two, ”What are you two whispering about?”
Sun Fang panicked, but Li Jing answered it in his stead, ”We think this empress is kind of fishy. It's as if she didn't want us to fight the Yellow Turban main forces.”
”Our spies from the west said Dong Zhuo has already taken over Luo Yang. I think this is a fake edict,” Sun Fang supported.
Huang Gai scratched his head, ”Leave the politic matters to the adults. I'll tell everything to our Lord with the chat.”
Huang Gai input everything that happened to Cheng Pu and Sun Jian in the chat. He received a reply from his lord in a few seconds.
Sun Jian: Go back to Ganling first. We don't need to fight them for now.
Wu Guotai: Are you alright, dear?
Sun Jian: I'm fine. They're treating me well.
Sun Jian: None of you should be worrying about me.
Cheng Pu: I'll return in a few days. Please take care, my lord.
At this moment, Li Jing, who had been absentminded, recalled something important. She rechecked her system logs as she wanted to confirm the information that she had remembered.
”Everyone, there's something important. I'll input everything in the clan chat,” Spoke Li Jing.
Afterward, she typed everything in the system logs into the chat. They were the details about Xiao Wu's weaknesses that she had detected by using her deleted skill [Weakness Detection].
All details about Friday's secret were listed and shocked everyone in the clan chat.
”She's Dong Bai!? How? I thought she was only a little girl!” Baffled Huang Gai.
Sun Fang, on the other hand, had a pale face when he found out that Friday was an ex-demoness from Hell.
”She's … not just a reincarnator? She was a demon?”
”Fang, I want you to focus on the later part. It's about the demonic contract and the Lust Soul.”
”This … I don't understand at all.”
Nobody could understand the demonic contract or the Lust Soul parts in the details.
'System, or Lilim if you are free, can you explain or tell us about this?' Li Jing asked Lilim in her mind, hoping to get an answer from the goddess herself.
[For this sensitive information, I want 1,000,000 Lifespans donation to the central pool.]
[Nothing is free from me, Hahahaha!]
”…”
Li Jing's face was black as she glanced at Sun Fang. It seemed that they still had a long way before they could match with the Yellow Turban forces.
…
March 1st.
Cheng Pu returned to Guanzong after he demolished five bandit gangs of 1,000 men each in the area. He glared at Sun Fang and Li Jing in anger as he was still unsatisfied with the result of the battle against Xiao Wu.
Cheng Pu calmed down a minute later as he knew that it was not their fault.
”What do you think about the empress decree?” Huang Gai asked Cheng Pu.
”I don't even know that there's a successor of the throne. But since she is willing to give a title for our Lord, why should we refuse it?”
”Hahaha! Indeed. A title is better than an empty ideal. It's a pity that we can't win against the real Yellow Turban forces. We will take it on the imposters after we move there.”
”Did we lose that bad? I thought they were outnumbered and only had two reliable officers in their army.”
Huang Gai bit his lower lips, ”Yellow Turbans and their immortals are not simple.”
Huang Gai told Cheng Pu about Xiao Wu's power, the female ghost, and the repeating crossbows that destroyed their 5,000-men task force.