Chapter 652: Unnecessary Worry
The order in the city collapsed and riots continued to spread. Contrary to the hustle and bustle outside the government office, there was a deathly silence inside the military headquarters.
In the Junshu Hall, Xu Yuan sat on the main seat that belonged to Li Junwu. Huang Shiwei stood in front of the hall, and beside him knelt several strong men condensing their souls:
"Are these people the generals who just rebelled?"
Huang Shiwei bowed his head and saluted:
"Yes, Huang left a few alive for interrogation."
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His eyes swept over the unarmored generals. Their voices were muffled by Huang Shiwei's magic, but their eyes all revealed the horror of being wronged.
After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan waved his hand and said slightly tiredly:
"There is no need to interrogate them for the time being, just detain them."
Huang Shiwei showed a trace of hesitation.
Seeing this, Si Zijing, who was standing aside, let out a cold snort:
"Based on Third Young Master's experience, these people are not voluntary, but are controlled by people from the sect using some kind of magic."
"Control spells?" Huang Shiwei frowned: "How many people are there?"
Xu Yuan withdrew his gaze from those strong soul-condensing men: "It's just speculation, but I still need Mr. Huang to bring them back and send these samples back to Di'an. Maybe we can reversely deconstruct some information about that man's martial arts." clue.
"Okay, this matter is over for now. What is the current situation in the city?"
Seeing that the Third Young Master had already set the tone, Huang Shiwei said no more, carefully considered his words, and said in a low voice:
"It's terrible. After the saint left, when Huang passed by the headquarters of the large chambers of commerce at low altitude, he could see that these people were packing their bags and preparing to break camp, and there were already commotions in some areas of the city."
Si Zijing frowned slightly when he heard this:
"Breaking camp? Now that the city's protective sky has risen, where can those large-scale chamber of commerce knights go even if they break camp? Are the leaders of those large-scale chambers of commerce so ignorant?"
"Huang judged that they should have been incited."
"incite?"
"They were incited to gather a crowd to force the palace. After all, from their perspective, staying in the city would be a dead end."
"It's ridiculous."
A hint of teasing appeared on Si Zijing's lips: "Fortunately, these people are still the shopkeepers of a house. Don't they understand the principle of keeping intact eggs under the cover of a nest?"
Huang Shiwei glanced at him and said calmly:
"Mr. Si, you have been away from the bottom for so long that you cannot understand their motives."
"Huang Shiwei, what do you mean?" Si Zijing frowned.
"That's enough."
Xu Yuan interrupted Jiang Qi's argument directly.
Seeing the third young master speaking, the two of them shut up and bowed their heads in salute.
Looking over the heads of the two of them, Xu Yuan sighed slightly in his heart.
Is this a headwind situation?
Know the smallest details.
Even people like Si Zijing and Huang Shiwei have begun to have such meaningless disputes in their hearts, let alone the people below.
However, he could also understand the anxiety in the hearts of the two of them. If there was still a chance for the mortals below to survive when the city was destroyed, then there was a 10% chance that the two of them would become the targets of the saints.
"The attitude of those Chamber of Commerce heroes is not important. Today's Zhenxi Fucheng is a giant logistics city, with sixty-seven percent of the floating population inside. When disaster is coming, it is normal for these people to choose to flee."
Huang Shiwei took a step to the side, bowed his head and said admonition:
"Third Young Master, the canopy that protects the city still exists. Even if those low-level warriors riot, it will not affect the overall situation. The top priority is to prevent those rioters from spreading panic to the army. Then everything will stop."
Xu Yuan waved his hand and replied:
"The princess has just arranged for Commander Jin to handle this matter. He will gather all the ministries in the city to the government office."
Huang Shiwei thought for a moment and agreed:
"The morale of the military is inherently unstable. If we send troops to suppress those warriors, panic may spread to the army. What the young master said is indeed a way to isolate panic."
Speaking of this, he changed the subject:
"But in this case, there is no one on duty on the city wall. If the riot spreads, what will happen if the warriors destroy the formations on the city wall?"
Si Zijing shook his head and admonished:
"There may be riots in the city, and you and I can suppress them. The upcoming insect wave outside the city is the key."
Listening to the discussion between the two, Xu Yuan made a final statement on the matter:
"Although Bai Di's attack had a great visual impact, it did not damage the origin of the formation. There are still enough source crystals in the city, and the insect tide will not be able to break through the city for a while. The top priority now is to stabilize the morale of the army.
"As for possible riots in the city, Mr. Si can go alone. I will arrange for Zhou Chen to cooperate with you."
Huang Shiwei hesitated slightly and said:
"Third Young Master, what is Huang doing?"
Xu Yuan glanced at him, with a smile on his lips:
"It's easy for you to bump into Xu Mengxi if you go now. That woman seems to have an imperial envoy badge on her and is currently maintaining order in the city."
Upon hearing this, Huang Shiwei lowered his eyes and said solemnly:
"Thank you, Mr. Si, for your kindness. However, there are many people in the Chamber of Commerce Knights who have learned simple military formations. This matter is of great importance and cannot be lost. Mr. Si alone cannot take care of the whole city."
"Since you persist, you two will cooperate with each other overtly and covertly.
"And Si Zijing, besides this matter, don't forget to set up a talisman trap."
Seeing that the arrangements had been made, Xu Yuan stood up on his chair, turned around, and whispered:
"I'm going to check on the princess's injuries. You two can go down."
"yes."
As soon as he finished speaking, Si Zijing and Huang Shiwei disappeared into the military headquarters together with the several captive generals.
The front hall of the Junshu Hall is where the commander-in-chief of the second town, Zhan Xian'an, handles his official duties, while the back hall is a specially built meditation room for him, with all kinds of formations to assist in cultivation.
When Xu Yuan entered the inner hall, Li Junwu was sitting cross-legged, closing his eyes and regulating his breath.
Once inside, Xu Yuan's brows frowned unconsciously when he saw the pair of inner armor that had fallen off next to her.
He knew that Li Junwu was injured due to the backlash of the military force, but he did not expect that the injury would be so serious.
Walking to his side, Xu Yuan leaned over and picked up the inner armor and looked at it for a moment, then looked at its owner, his narrow eyes slightly narrowed.
The eyelashes of his tightly closed eyes were trembling, and his face was pale. There were no obvious wounds on Li Junwu's body, but blood stains that had not yet solidified were almost all over the surface of his inner armor.
"It's not a good habit to mess with a woman's intimate clothing."
Li Junwu's voice sounded in the empty and silent secret room, with a hint of ridicule: "But because of the urgent military situation, I will not argue with you for the time being."
Xu Yuan met the woman's opened eyes and said calmly:
"Looking at your appearance when you came back, I thought the injury was not too serious."
When Li Junwu heard this, he reached out and pulled the black shirt on his body without hesitation, and started to incite:
"This is the blood discharged by the secret healing method. The inner armor sticks to my body and feels uncomfortable, so I took it off first."
As she said that, she bent her eyes and changed the subject with a smile: "Changtian, do you know how to create water, and can you help me rinse this inner armor?"
Xu Yuan ignored her, but stared at the inner armor in his hand and said from ancient times:
"Destiny-defying blood therapy is a secret healing method that is often used to heal injuries caused by damage to the five internal organs and meridians, at the expense of overdrafting life. The essential principle is to accelerate the aging of the organs and meridians in order to achieve the effect of healing wounds."
Li Junwu's eyes were stunned for a moment, he looked away and said angrily:
"Tsk, how come you know everything?"
Xu Yuan stared at her without speaking.
The smoke in the secret room spreads, and the woman's fragrance reaches the tip of the nose
Li Junwu was silent for a few breaths and sighed, slowly pushed himself up from the ground, looked at him levelly, and said helplessly:
"Didn't we make an appointment before? But with my previous injury, it is difficult to even stand, and there is no way to stabilize the morale of the army."
"The more serious your injury is, the more it will stimulate the cohesion of the Zhenxi Army."
"That's if Zhenxi Mansion didn't do anything careful!"
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The sudden voice echoed, and Xu Yuan was speechless.
The princess was seriously injured while protecting the city. This propaganda could indeed make the soldiers of the Zhenxi Army change their view of their dandy princess, but at this juncture, it would become a sharp sword that stabbed them.
Li Junwu took a deep breath, stared into his eyes, and said in a firm voice:
"Without a backbone, the Zhenxi Army will collapse, so I have to stand up. Even if I can't command the army at all, I have to make the soldiers below believe that I can!"
The White Emperor's attack has shaken the morale of the army, and there are only two solutions.
First, Linlang went up to disturb Baidi, showing that there were saints in the city to help him. But unfortunately, Linlang was unwilling to fight Baidi, so Xu Yuan and Li Junwu had to choose the second way.
Make gods.
Even though there are many internal problems, it is undeniable that the Zhenxi Army is still the elite of Dayan.
The reason why the soldiers in the city were turbulent was because there was no general who could give them a sense of security and make them confident that they would win this battle.
But before this happened, Xu Yuan and Li Junwu had to kill the only two generals with such prestige due to the conspiracy of the Confucian scholar surnamed Wen.
Therefore, they have to recommend someone to stabilize the morale of the army.
Xu Yuan is an outsider and cannot take on this important task. The leader named Jin does not have enough prestige, and the skills he has learned cannot lead a town, so it can only be done by the heir Li Junwu.
Xu Yuan scratched his hair slightly irritably, threw away the blood-stained inner armor in his hand, and sat down on the ground:
"Okay, I understand, this is indeed what you should do."
The inner armor fell to the ground with a clang, echoing.
Xu Yuan looked up at her in a slim-fitting black shirt and said calmly:
"I have arranged all the things you were worried about before. I asked Huang Shiwei and others to deal with the unrest in the city. As for the various music departments in the second town, they can all gather at the government office within half an hour."
"Based on the situation just now, when Bai Di retreated, it should mean that there are internal differences on the other side, right?"
Xu Yuan looked back with a smile: "In this regard, you are quite smart."
Li Junwu raised his chin:
"This girl can still see such a simple thing."
"There are more than just differences among the Six Saints. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are infighting. Can you see this?"
"ah?"
"Looks like you're still not smart enough."
"Tsk." Li Junwu frowned and bumped him with his shoulder: "There must be something you haven't told me yet."
Xu Yuan rolled his eyes, squinted and smiled: "You are unjustly accusing me. I even told you about the hanging stone ring, how could I still hide it from you?"
As he spoke, Xu Yuan lowered his eyes slightly, inexplicably remembering the scene with that woman in Beifeng City, and said with a chuckle:
"But if a woman is too smart, it will be difficult to deal with her."
Li Junwu stared at his side face for a few breaths and coldly snorted:
"It seems that there is some disagreement between the prince-in-law and the princess."
Xu Yuan's eyes widened slightly, but he did not deny it. Instead, he joked with some surprise:
"You can actually tell who I'm talking about. You are indeed a woman, and your intuition is really accurate."
The corners of Li Junwu's eyes twitched and he said sullenly:
"It's not intuition. Who else can make you say this kind of comment in this tone, except Li Qingyan?"
After saying that, she waved her hand impatiently:
"It's already this time and you're still pretending? Say it quickly."
"It's too complicated to explain."
After Xu Yuan complained in a low voice, he sorted out the relationship between the six saints to the good-breasted brother in front of him.
After listening carefully, Li Junwu said as if whispering:
"The Insect Saint's family is cannon fodder brought by the sect, and the two saints on the sect's side have murderous intentions with the Lord of the Ancient Abyss. Is this what you mean?"
"uh-huh."
Xu Yuan smiled and nodded: "The concept of Jiantian Pavilion is a bit false, but their attitude towards foreign races has always been to kill them all. If there is an opportunity to kill the Lord of Ancient Abyss, they will never miss it. ”
"How is the concept of Jiantian Pavilion so false?"
A slightly dissatisfied voice suddenly sounded from behind the two of them. Looking back, they saw Tian Ye, who was wearing Tian Yan's face, standing quietly behind the two of them, with his hands folded across his chest and a smile in his eyes.
Seeing this enchantress again after a long time, Xu Yuan casually patted the seat on the other side of him and motioned for her to sit over.
Tianye didn't refuse when he saw it. After sitting down, he said slowly:
"For this concept, Jiantian Pavilion has killed generation after generation."
"I mean now, humanity has prospered now." Xu Yuan retorted: "Jiantian Pavilion was born now, isn't it just to fight for power and gain?"
Tianye tilted his head and thought about it, then smiled sweetly:
"You're right to say that."
"Right."
Xu Yuan exhaled softly and asked in a low voice: "You show up at this time, what do you want to do?"
Tianye replied casually without thinking:
"Come here to deliver some information to you. This is what I heard while wandering around the city earlier."
Xu Yuan felt a touch of surprise:
"You actually help me?"
"People will be sad if you say that." Tianye showed a pitiful and sad look, but then he chuckled: "The main thing is that you will know this information after a while, so I will tell you in advance and not It doesn’t violate my principles.”
"What's up?"
"About some rumors currently circulating among the Zhenxi Army."
Tianye held his chin, pretended to be thinking, and whispered:
"I don't know where it came from. Some people say that those saints came here just for you and your concubine, so as long as you are handed over, they will retreat."
Xu Yuan narrowed his eyes:
"Those soldiers would actually believe this rumor of "ceding territory to seek peace"?"
"Who made your Prime Minister's Mansion's reputation so bad?"
"hehe."
"The man opposite has a vicious plan that is full of links."
Tianye tilted his head and looked at him, tapping the side of his cheek with his slender index finger: "How are you going to deal with it? If this continues, the entire second town will reject you, the third son of the prime minister's house. After all, you are an outsider. ”
"No."
"Huh?" Tianye looked across Xu Yuan at Li Junwu on the other side.
Li Junwu did not look at her, but said softly:
"Since it is a rumor, then we will add some material to the rumor."
"Eh~"
Tian Ye raised his voice and squinted at the little girl: "Do you want to add you, the princess, to the list?"
"Um."
"But it's probably too late. This rumor spreads very quickly."
"So I have to leave this matter to you." Xu Yuan suddenly interrupted and looked at Tian Ye.
"Not going."
Tianye turned his face away directly.
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After a while, Tianye turned his head and said reluctantly:
"Okay, okay, don't make a fuss about body snatching, I'll just help him this time."
While talking,
Tianye stood up calmly and said with a sweet smile:
"Brother Xu Yuan, please remember to thank little sister Tianyan~"
As soon as the words fell, Tianye's slim and graceful figure gradually faded into reality, and finally disappeared into the secret room.
Seeing Tianye leaving, Li Junwu had no intention of chatting anymore. He stood up and said to Xu Yuan:
"Changtian, let's go prepare too."
Xu Yuan nodded with a smile and stood up together with him. He also picked up the blood-stained inner armor on the side and used his luck to peel off the blood stains from the armor surface:
"You forgot your inner armor."
Li Junwu stared at the slim-fitting inner armor for a moment, then suddenly bent his eyes and said with a bad smile:
"Well, this inner armor is given to you."
"ha?"
"What, you don't want my girl's underwear?"
"vomit"
Xu Yuan pretended to retching.
Li Junwu rolled his eyes and said:
"Would you like it? The formation patterns on it are not enough to support a whole town's army. I have to go to the treasury to get a better one."
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Xu Yuan held the inner armor and subconsciously stopped.
Li Junwu walked a few steps and found that the other party did not follow him. He looked back with some strangeness and asked angrily:
"Why are you standing there still?"
The air was silent, and only the formation patterns flickered in the huge secret room.
After a few breaths of silence, Xu Yuan suddenly smiled, casually put the inner armor into the Sumeru Ring, and quickly followed:
"Nothing, I suddenly remembered something."
Li Junwu did not doubt that he was there and complained:
“Mysterious”
Before he finished speaking, he found that his wrist was grabbed by him from behind. Li Junwu's beautiful eyes stopped for a moment, and then he heard Xu Yuan's voice coming from behind:
"Are you going to continue calling in military formations?"
"ah?"
"Isn't it because you changed your inner armor to adapt to the larger military formation?" Xu Yuan held her wrist slightly harder.
Li Junwu frowned and stared at him sideways, with an angry look in his eyes and a smile:
"I was told before that I wasn't smart. We have to do the whole thing when we act, right?"
"I cherish my life as much as you do. I only stayed in this Zhenxi Mansion for a few years when I was a child. I wouldn't die here because of it. I just want you to take me away."
While talking,
Li Junwu's eyes were calm, he raised his other hand to make a fist, lightly hit his chest, and said softly:
"Your worries are a bit unnecessary, Changtian."
(End of chapter)