Free Web Novel“Just as you said, we’ll create a diversion, and they’ll attack from the west!”
Li Tieniu and Zhu Sanming, who were gazing at Yumen Pass shrouded in war, were stunned when Lu Yibei said this, and looked at her with surprise.
This sounded like a good suggestion. If someone could draw the attention of the Shaman King’s army from the front, they would indeed have a way to sneak into the city...
They had grown up in this land since childhood and had served as scouts in the Long Xiang Army for nearly three years. They were more familiar with Yumen Pass and the surrounding terrain for several miles than they were with their own side rooms and backyards.
They knew which paths were passable and which were dead ends, where secret passages were, and even how many dog holes there were in the four city walls that people could squeeze through.
But this suggestion only sounded good.
How could she alone attract the attention of tens of thousands of enemy troops?
Even if she could, how could she escape unscathed?
Or... had they already prepared for death?
At this thought, the two suddenly felt their chests contract as if something soft and sharp had grazed them, and their eyes trembled slightly.
“Miss Shen, you...”
“Oh!” Lu Yibei waved her hand, interrupting, “That old man Dragon Xiang sending you two to escort these tokens back to Yumen Pass means you two should be very familiar with the terrain around Yumen Pass. Just head towards Yumen Pass later, as for us... ”
“Didn’t I tell you already? Since we promised to escort you back to Yumen Pass, we will never go back on our word.”
At this point, Lu Yibei paused, nudged Shen Baiwei beside her with her shoulder, and winked at her, saying, “Right, little darling?”
However... didn’t we also agree that if things became impossible, we’d abandon these two and save ourselves first? Shen Baiwei grumbled inwardly, turning her face away impatiently and rolling her eyes.
Li Tieniu and Zhu Sanming stood up straight, looking intently at Shen Baiwei and Lu Yibei, wanting to speak but hesitating.
After hearing Lu Yibei’s latter words, they became even more convinced that the two Miss Shen were probably going to fight to the death to buy them time to sneak into the pass.
Absolutely no mistake!
In their nearly three years in the Long Xiang Army, they had experienced many partings of life and death. Their predecessors, whose bones now lay buried in the yellow sand, had bid their final farewells in the same feigned casual manner and tone as the two Miss Shen now, before heading to the battlefield.
At this thought, the accumulated resentment the two had harbored throughout the journey due to “Big Shen’s” eccentric and tricky behavior instantly vanished, replaced by profound respect.
“Go, go!” Seeing that the two were still not moving, Lu Yibei waved her hand again, urging, “Why are you still standing here? Go do what you need to do!”
As she spoke, she looked into the distance, not once at Li Tieniu and Zhu Sanming. The breeze stirred the long hair at her temples, sweeping across her profile.
Her delicate face was cold and unruffled, as if she had already come to terms with life and death.
Seeing this, their hesitant gazes gradually firmed. They cupped their fists towards Lu Yibei, bowed deeply, then picked up two iron boxes, put on the black cloaks Dragon Xiang had prepared for them, turned around, and hurried towards Yumen Pass.
Li Tieniu, “...” I really misunderstood the two Miss Shen just now, they are truly heroines!
Zhu Sanming, “...” Don't worry, Miss Shen! I, Zhu Sanming, will not forget you. Not only will I not forget, but I will also set up memorial tablets for you, so that my descendants will remember you and come to offer sacrifices!
They vaguely remembered that when they first joined the Long Xiang Army, their Captain had once told them, “What is a hero? One who knows they will not return, yet for righteousness, fears not death, is a hero!”
And the moment they turned and rushed towards Yumen Pass, they felt that the two Miss Shen were the kind of heroes their Captain spoke of...
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Watching Li Tieniu and Zhu Sanming disappear behind a small hill a hundred meters away, Lu Yibei stood up, stretched, then turned to Shen Baiwei and said, “Alright, little darling, it’s time for us to get moving too!”
Shen Baiwei looked up at Lu Yibei, frowned and hesitated for a moment, then said, “No! If you want to die, go by yourself, don’t drag me into it. Your act of seeking death is completely meaningless!”
That’s right, even if it’s to attract attention, there are better ways. Just give me a few minutes to prepare... Shen Baiwei thought secretly, her thoughts suddenly interrupted by Lu Yibei’s actions.
Lu Yibei tilted her head, observing Shen Baiwei for a few seconds, then leaned down, cupped her chin with one hand, and brought her face a palm’s distance from Shen Baiwei’s nose, her gaze seemingly melting her glasses as she stared directly into her eyes, a brief silence.
In the silence, she pursed her lips, making her two red lips glisten with a touch of moisture.
Meeting those golden eyes, which concealed a hint of crimson, Shen Baiwei felt a blush rise to her cheeks at first, but a fraction of a second later, she snapped back to reality, tightly closed her eyes, and pushed Lu Yibei away.
“Get lost! You actually want to charm me into dying? Disaster, you have no heart!”
She growled, her hands flailing like windmills to prevent Lu Yibei from coming closer again.
“I think you might have misunderstood...” Lu Yibei straightened up, expressionless, “How could I bear to let my little darling die? Not only do I not plan for you to die, I don’t plan to die myself either.”
What a joke!
Although I seem a bit crazy due to the core rampage of the Demoness Seed, I’m not stupid, so how could I go to my death?
Even if everyone else in the world were to go to their deaths, I, Lu Yibei, would definitely find a scapegoat, okay? Lu Yibei thought.
“Then what were you doing just now?!” Shen Baiwei demanded, still not opening her eyes as she spoke.
“Just now?” Lu Yibei answered without hesitation, “I just suddenly thought you were very beautiful and simply wanted to observe you up close for a while.”
She knew saying such things was strange; she only wanted to soothe Shen Baiwei’s emotions, but it sounded like she wanted to get Shen Baiwei into bed and try eighteen different poses, but she couldn’t control it.
It was as if hundreds of Shui Ge, who were attracted to both genders, were crawling on her, and every word she spoke was strange.
Perhaps, this is the instinct of a Demoness!
Shen Baiwei, “???”
What the hell? You’re not right! Didn’t you just say that looking at me was not as good as looking in a mirror?
And just as Shen Baiwei was momentarily stunned, the roar of an engine sounded in her ear. Immediately after, before she could even process what was happening, a second engine roar echoed.
Then, a third, a fourth, a fifth...
Until countless roaring engines of large trucks converged into a deafening roar, Shen Baiwei began to realize that something was wrong, and finally couldn't help but open her eyes, risking being charmed.
Opening her eyes, she raised a hand to adjust her glasses. When she clearly saw the scene before her, her eyes widened, and the corners of her mouth twitched uncontrollably.
Lu Yibei, at some unknown point, had changed into a magnificent cyan long dress, her arms crossed over her chest, her chin slightly raised, gazing at Yumen Pass in the distance, letting the strong wind ruffle her silvery-white long hair.
Behind her, on a relatively flat hill, nearly thirty large trucks were lined up in a row, their engines roaring like restless beasts, as if ready to rush down the long gentle slope at any moment, taking advantage of the slightly higher terrain here compared to the battlefield ahead.
The scene was, honestly, spectacular, yet very subtle...
It was as if it were the casting site for some grand summoning ritual of heroes from another world.
“Little darling, don’t you think it would be interesting if these cars all rushed towards the Shaman King’s army?”
She had deliberately parked the cars here. From the moment she heard the sounds of battle from the direction of Yumen Pass, she had already begun to scout for advantageous terrain.
This place had excellent terrain!
Shen Baiwei stared blankly at the large trucks Lu Yibei had summoned, and after a long while, she came back to her senses and asked, “Do you really intend to just ram them with these trucks?”
“I know, I know!” Lu Yibei waved her hand at Shen Baiwei, “It’s indeed a bit few, but there’s no other way! Summoning twenty-seven large trucks is already my current limit.”
This should have been Paper Cicada Immortal’s job.
But in this timeline, Lu Yibei couldn't produce enough Paper Cicada Immortal in a short time, so she could only borrow Zhang Yu’s authority to summon these large trucks, randomly stuff a dog into one of them, and barely make do.
It was only due to her insufficient proficiency with Zhang Yu’s authority and lack of vehicle driving experience that limited her performance; otherwise, what the Shaman King’s army would face wouldn't be just a small scene of twenty-seven large trucks charging together.
Shen Baiwei’s mouth twitched, and she cursed indignantly, “Bastard! Am I asking you why there are so few trucks?”
“What I mean is, do you know how much impact using modern industrial products like trucks to attack the Shaman King’s army will have on the past?”
Is she trying to run over the Shaman King’s army with cars?
No, she’s trying to run over her, Shen Baiwei!
Although these trucks hadn't started speeding yet, just hearing the deafening roar of the engines, she was already experiencing a phantom pain of her body being repeatedly run over by more than twenty speeding large trucks, and...
Shen Baiwei’s gaze shifted slightly, passing over Lu Yibei’s figure from the side.
There should have only been a desolate hill covered in rolling sand under the night sky, but in her eyes, a twisted and ferocious great snake coiled there.
The countless “Shen Baiwei” making up the snake’s body stared at her with murky, hollow eyes, unblinking, their mouths, either pale, decaying, or merely bone, opening and closing, slowly and mechanically beckoning to her.
They made no sound, but Shen Baiwei understood their intention.
They were calling to her, calling her back to that claustrophobic little room deep within the Tethys Laboratory, to lie down quietly with them, to become one of them, to fall into slumber, lose herself, and rot away.
As Lu Yibei and Shen Baiwei’s every action continuously affected the past, tiny changes accumulated, and The Serpent of the Years, eager to feed, was already growing impatient.
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So it ended its long Wandering, approaching Shen Baiwei's side, waiting only for Shen Baiwei to be unable to bear the increasingly intense punishment of the Years before swallowing her whole.
“Little darling, are you looking at that Strange Serpent? Don't be afraid, I'm here.” Lu Yibei didn't look at Shen Baiwei, merely saying this expressionlessly.
Her tone of voice was calm, yet it exuded a resolute strength, as if what lingered there was not a Strange Serpent controlling the power of the Years, but a wild dog that could be kicked away with a single blow.
As Lu Yibei's words fell, the Strange Serpent seemed to be enraged, lifting its massive head and opening its gaping maw. The fangs made of ribs in its mouth rubbed back and forth, emitting a strange buzzing sound that only Shen Baiwei and Lu Yibei could hear.
A terrifying scene entered her view, and Lu Yibei instantly regretted saying that sentence.
Damn! What kind of Shui Ge-style scumbag remark is this again?
Just saying “I'm here” without mentioning being able to protect others, if there's real danger, she might even get swallowed along with them. Isn't that harming people?
Lu Yibei thought nervously, but her face remained calm, as if she didn't care at all. She took Shen Baiwei's hand, casually pulled her behind her, and then walked straight towards a large truck in front.
The more it was like this, the more she had to hold on. If she showed fear, that Strange Serpent would likely take an inch and ask for a mile.
At the same time, Shen Baiwei, completely unaware of Lu Yibei's mental activity, stared at her back, momentarily lost in thought.
It had been a long time since she had felt this sense of security, of being protected by someone.
The last time she could recall feeling this way was many years ago, when her father would wait at the entrance of the unlit alley in front of their house every night after her evening self-study, to pick her up and take her home.
At that time, she hadn't yet contracted the black night disease...
But as she was forced to activate her time-reversal ability again and again, and the great Serpent of the Years swallowed her repeatedly, those memories also seemed to be affected, leaving only blurry outlines in her mind.
Wait, no!
Images of the past flashed through her mind, and Shen Baiwei suddenly seemed to realize something terrifying. She turned to look at Lu Yibei, her eyes wide.
She, Disaster, could actually see The Serpent of the Years?
How is this possible?!
Earlier, Lu Yibei told her that when they experienced time reversal together, she had seen some terrifying sights and understood why she had made such a wish...
Initially, she thought that even if Disaster truly glimpsed some scenes, it couldn't have seen them clearly, and saying those words to her was just to gain her trust. She only believed it by two-tenths at most.
How can there be so much empathy in the world? Unless... one has experienced it firsthand.
And Disaster's words and actions were enough to prove that Disaster truly could see The Serpent of the Years, and could slightly understand the feeling of being threatened by The Serpent of the Years every moment.
But...
Can she really, truly protect me? Shen Baiwei thought blankly.
Just as she was in a daze, Lu Yibei lifted the hood of the large truck in front of her, stuffed the pure Little White Dog she had somehow gotten into the hood of a large truck beside her, and then closed it with a 'thump'.
Thus, a simple nuclear-powered truck was completed!
Lu Yibei patted the truck hood where the Little White Dog was hidden, and nodded with satisfaction, “That should do it. So... the Flower City Torment King's 0.001551% successful transmigration limited bonus, first chapter, officially begins!”
As her words fell, with a shift of her thoughts, the headlights of twenty-seven large trucks simultaneously lit up. Fifty-four beams of light converged, tearing through the chaotic ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) night, and the dazzling glare enveloped the front half of the battlefield.
Like broad daylight!
That was the opposite direction from where Zhu Sanming and Li Tieniu had departed.
“Woo—!”
Then, the horns of twenty-seven trucks blared simultaneously, their extremely penetrating, high-pitched wails echoing throughout.
Originally, these trucks were concealed by the night, and the roar of their engines was drowned out by the pervasive sounds of battle.
In an instant, both the Shaman King's army and the Long Xiang Army on the city wall felt panic and bewilderment creep into their hearts.
Where did those terrifying monsters come from? Were they friend or foe? Such questions arose in everyone's minds, and they also saw the silver-haired girl driving those steel behemoths.
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Although Zhu Sanming and Li Tieniu were exceptionally familiar with the terrain around Yumen Pass and could avoid the enemies surrounding Yumen Pass to the greatest extent, the sheer number of enemies was too great. Less than five minutes after separating from Lu Yibei and Shen Baiwei, they encountered a ten-person squad from a certain tribe blocking their way.
They possessed some Spiritual Energy potential. In the nearly three years since joining the Long Xiang Army, they had not only mastered martial arts but also accumulated some Spiritual Energy. The combined blessings endowed them with combat power beyond ordinary people, so they weren't afraid of that ten-person squad.
This was likely one of the reasons Dragon Xiang kept these two young men until the end, to serve as messengers. ƒreewebɳovel.com
“Pfft—!”
Accompanied by a muffled sound of blood splattering, the last enemy fell before the panting Li Tieniu. He adjusted his breathing, stepped forward, pulled his saber from the enemy's corpse, and slowly exhaled a turbid breath.
After a fierce battle, although he and Zhu Sanming both sustained some minor injuries, it didn't affect their continued progress at all.
With the long saber sheathed, and receiving a resolute look from his companion, the two were about to move forward when a high-pitched, piercing wail suddenly poured into their ears.
They were very familiar with that sound. When they were here, they had heard Big Shen's mount emit similar roars, but...
Why was it so chaotic and high-pitched? It was as if many of those terrifying monsters were roaring at the same time.
With doubts, the two hurriedly climbed a towering wind-eroded mound not far away, quickly prostrated themselves on the ground, using the boulders on the mound to conceal their figures. Looking towards the direction from which the sound came, they then saw a terrifying scene.
They saw approximately thirty steel behemoths, spewing thick smoke and dazzling white light, emitting piercing roars as they charged wildly towards the Shaman King's army formation, stirring up rolling dust, and the earth itself trembled.
Five hundred meters, three hundred meters, one hundred meters...
Seeing the menacing approach of those behemoths, the tribal warriors, in a panic, raised their weapons and formed a simple formation. However, as soon as they made contact with the behemoths, their defense line was instantly torn apart, shattered into pieces.
Accompanied by suddenly rising screams, countless weapons and the arms holding them twisted and deformed.
Figures were sent flying by the behemoths' massive bodies, and even more unfortunate ones were caught under the behemoths' 'iron hooves', their flesh torn, bodies ruptured, and hot blood splattering.
In just two or three breaths, those behemoths carved out more than ten vivid, heavy-inked trails within the Shaman King's army. Along those trails, twisted and deformed limbs, stark white bones, pulsating organs, and crushed masses of flesh were scattered everywhere.
“Gulp—!”
Looking at such a scene, Li Tieniu swallowed hard.
In the nearly three years he had been in the army, he had not been without seeing bloody scenes; he had even witnessed more gruesome and terrifying scenes in villages plundered and massacred by those nomadic barbarians. However... the ability to create such a scene within a few breaths was, for him, simply unheard of.
Can General do it? Certainly, but he has never seen it with his own eyes...
It seems the worry for the two Miss Shens just now was a bit excessive. Li Tieniu thought.
But beside him, his companion Zhu Sanming had a different idea.
Great! With such strength, the two Miss Shens are definitely out of mortal danger!
However...
Do I still need to set up memorial tablets for them? Hmm, it's better to set up longevity tablets instead! Zhu Sanming thought.
After observing briefly, seeing that Lu Yibei and Shen Baiwei had successfully attracted the enemy's attention and were not in mortal danger, Li Tieniu and Zhu Sanming no longer lingered. They left the wind-eroded mound and resumed their journey.
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On the south city wall of Yumen Pass.
Thanks to the expansive view provided by the towering city wall, Dragon Tang had noticed the monster appearing on the first line of hills early on. But he never expected that less than a quarter of an hour after their appearance, those monsters would gather a large group of their kind, as if to launch a hunt.
And when those monsters' eyes burst forth with strong light, roaring as they charged towards Yumen Pass, his heart, which had already been suspended in mid-air, instantly leaped to his throat.
These defenders were already in a difficult situation. If Dragon Xiang returned to Yumen Pass any later, there was even a risk of the city being breached by the enemy. At this moment, a group of terrifying, hard-to-distinguish monsters, whose status as friend or foe was unknown, suddenly appeared...
Could they truly still hold on?
Dragon Tang was thinking worriedly when continuous screams and wails, mixed with the muffled sounds of flesh tearing and the grating noise of metal twisting, all poured into his ears.
And the source of the screams and wails was precisely the Shaman King's army below the city wall...
Those monsters attacked the Shaman King's army!
Could it be reinforcements?
Dragon Tang hurriedly rushed to the edge of the city wall and looked out. Upon seeing the scarlet trails below the city wall, as if painted with a brush, and the two belated maidens riding behemoths in the distance, trailing behind the swarm of behemoths, excitement appeared in his eyes, and he couldn't help but shout out.
“It's... it's Miss Shen! Miss Shen is back! Everyone hold on, our reinforcements have arrived!”
Hearing his call, faint glimmers were rekindled in pairs of lifeless eyes...
