497 Li Feihongs Intimidation (1/2)
”Are you slacking again, Zhongda!? How many times I have to tell you not to procrastinate? It ruins your work. It ruins your habits, and it ruins your future! Finish whatever your assignment whenever you can!”
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”Playtime is over the moment you are 12, Zhongda. You're an adult now. Had you been a farmer's son, you would have been thrown outside to plow the fields!”
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”Stop crying! Men don't cry! Whatever troubled you, you defeat them in your fantasy. Then, you solve them in your mind. Then, you overcome all of that and make your fantasy reality!”
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”All stratagems and schemes have one most important aspect, execution process. It's true that without the right person, the right time, and the right place, you can't execute your plans. But if you don't execute it at all, everything on papers is just fantasy.”
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”Anger is the greatest enemy of mankind, Zhongda. Whatever happens to you or anyone in the future, never get angry. Anger is a disease, not emotion. Once you're angry, you will desire to vent or harm the others, one way or another. People around you will be infected if you lash it out, and they will also get angry. All your knowledge and experience will become useless the moment your emotion takes over your body. It takes decades to memorize every word of Buddha's scriptures, but you will forget all of it within a minute when you're losing control of your mind.”
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”Zhongda... never mind. Take care of yourself in that army, okay? Don't embarrass our ancestors when you're commanding your subordinates.”
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”Stop flirting with the first princess for once, you idiot! Do you want to anger the emperor!?”
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The memory of Sima Fang's scolding came back as Sima Yi reread the clan notification for the 100th time.
As Sima Fang had taught him over and over again regarding his anger management, Sima Yi paced his breath, keeping his temper in check.
He might have not lost control of his emotion, but the death of Sima Fang influenced Sima Yi's life goal.
'Sun Clan, Sun Ce, Sun Quan… I took it easy against you in the last life since I didn't want to stand out. Don't you expect that I'll go easy on you this time!'
No one knew what Sima Yi planned to do with Sun Ce and his clansmen. However, his expression revealed a hint of cruelty.
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= Julu Government House =
Sun Ce checked the current survivors after the brief contact against Li Feihong, Zhang Min, and Lu Bu. Out of the initial 13, nine survived.
Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Ling Cao, and Pan Zheng, who had so much potential in their martial arts and leadership, lost their lives in vain.
When Huang Zu arrived with a box of gold nuggets, Zhou Yu's face grimaced.
”We won't take this with us. It's time to retreat.”
”Li Feihong is coming after Huang Zu, and he can ambush us at any place, any time. We have to leave, or we will all die!”
As he had collected all information about otherworlders from Lilim, Zhou Yu was wary of Li Feihong. The alternate pocket dimension world, private inventory, self-resurrection, teleportation portals, and Li Feihong's monitors posted a greater threat than Lu Bu, who was only good at combat.
Fighting Li Feihong was impossible for them at the moment. Still, Zhou Yu had a way to deal with this otherworlder.
”Until Lilim sends us a reinforcement, we will focus on hunting Lu Bu. For now, we will separate our ways to avoid Li Feihong's pursue!”
Behind Zhou Yu, two young men, who wore a similar leather armor as Zhou Tai, frowned in dissatisfaction.
One of them was a 17-year-old teenager with a beautiful face, Lu Xun. Combining his silky long black hair, thin eyebrows, delicate nose, and white skin, he would look like a pretty maiden had he worn a woman's makeups.
On the other hand, Lu Meng was 22 this year, but his rough tanned skin, thick eyebrows, circle beard, and hardened face often made him look like he was a scary middle-aged man. Light scars and blisters on his hands revealed that he was a hard worker.
The two did not like Zhou Yu from the start as they were unwilling to sacrifice their lives to kill Lu Bu.
Most importantly, their loyalty was with Sun Quan, not Zhou Yu, Sun Ce, or Sun Fang! The only reason they tagged along up until now was because of their naivety before their soul awakening.
Now that they had the other life's memory, they were looking for a chance to break free from this group, hoping to reunite with their former master, Sun Quan, once more.
”After we separated, what's next?” Lu Xun probed Zhou Yu.
”Our purpose won't change. We will bait Lu Bu, so we can ambush him. For now, Lu Xun and Lu Meng, I want both of you to leave this city and head southeast. You will raid Hongnong and Luoyang while Li Feihong is busy chasing us!”
Lu Xun's eyes glittered. He glanced at Lu Meng and nodded, ”We understand.”
Zhou Yu looked at the general with a treasure box, ”Huang Zu.”
”Yes, sir?”
”You will return to Liu Biao's side. Try to coax both his sons to antagonist Zhang Tong. Make up a story that Zhang Tong is an immoral tyrant emperor. I don't want to see Liu Cong and Liu Qi joining Zhang Tong after their father died.”
Huang Zu recalled the other timeline. As Liu Biao's sons were too naïve in politics, they were easily swayed by the pressure from Liu Bei, Liu Biao's subordinates, and Cao Cao.