Free Web NovelChapter 800: Chapter 709: Flower Moon Pavilion
Li Mingqing thought of something, his pupils suddenly contracted, and his breath involuntarily came to a halt.
"Why are you telling me this only now?" Li Mingqing cursed under his breath.
"Fear that telling you too early would make you lose the courage to cooperate, Forgotten One."
"Relax." Agares waved his hand, "The Scepter has no self-awareness; it acts on instinct, merely an empty shell."
"Then why didn’t Solomon do it?" Li Mingqing coldly glanced at Agares.
"Do what? Fight in mutual destruction? What good would that do him?" Agares shrugged.
"The Red Weaving Workshop, she’s returned here. Kill her, the Scepter is yours, the remnants are ours."
After pondering for a moment, Li Mingqing took a deep breath and looked up. For a moment, he felt the sunlight was as sharp as needles, piercing deep into his pupils.
"The Forgotten Ones will swarm out, and you and Vashak..."
"Of course, we will all be present." Agares smiled.
"This is crucial for selecting a body for the new emperor, of utmost importance to us."
"As for the Dark Gold Rose group, someone will handle it for us."
"Someone is eagerly anticipating meeting her."
As he spoke, Agares’ body was gradually covered in blue-black mechanical armor, and two pairs of mechanical arms appeared on his back.
It was, Divine Gift!
Li Mingqing’s heart trembled.
A high-level Insect Race, revealing their Divine Gift in front of him. This was unheard of!
The Insect Race has evolved again...
No, the opponent’s Divine Gift is still incomplete, with some distorted features.
Li Mingqing made a judgment in his heart.
"We will evolve into the most perfect form, what a desirable future!"
Agares slowly spread his hands, as the desert trembled violently, dust flew, and the earth cracked!
As the dust settled, a massive mechanical sandworm appeared behind him, dust shaking off, its gigantic mouthparts like a meat grinder, with sawtooth edges curling inward, covering a body nearly a kilometer long with steel armor!
"Vashak, it’s time for us to perform."
Agares stepped onto Vashak’s head; the colossal body of the mechanical sandworm coiled and twisted into the ground, causing the entire desert to tremble.
"Don’t forget your duties, Forgotten One."
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Several hours later, Octopus Tower City, Red Weaving Workshop.
The offensive on the front battlefield was set to begin in three hours, and a special action team was currently arrayed under the shadows of neon lights, advancing in a tactical stance.
"This is..."
The members of the special action team were stunned by the scene before them; an area that should have been in ruins was now bustling with shadows, flying eaves overlapping under other flying eaves; the streets in ancient architectural style were dyed crimson by lanterns adorned with colorful knots, while tall bamboo woven courtesans floated overhead.
Figures in platform shoes, heavily painted in white, walked through the streets, alluring women drew in tourists, wealthy merchants from around the world, in strange and bizarre attire, spent lavishly within archways, cries of selling, cheers, and coquettish voices rose with long, low silk and bamboo orchestral sounds; a scene from a hundred years ago had reappeared.
"It’s an illusion."
Xu Xiaoyou held back a nearby soldier who was lost in thought.
The soldier was slightly startled. A charming woman walked by, lifting his chin, and her laugh dissipated like a sweet silver bell.
Compared to the front battlefield, tonight something more important needed her attention.
Recover the Life Staff.
Her return caused a shift in the world line, Li Mingqing for some reason defected from Life Daylight earlier.
Previously, Li Mingqing defected shortly after the battle at High Heaven Narrow.
The leader of Life Daylight also changed from Li Yazi to Li Liujin.
Now, Light Chasing Garden’s scouts were spread worldwide, closely monitoring the actions of the Forgotten Ones.
Li Mingqing defected from Life Daylight, and subsequently established a massive army, named ’Forgotten Ones’. During this time, they closely liaised with high-level Insect Race, aiming to seize the Life Staff.
During this period, they had clashed several times already, the Forgotten Ones’ equipment far superior to the army’s, continually launching terror attacks across all military districts in Chichu Heaven’s territory, their surprise guerrilla tactics once left the main family helpless.
And tonight, they have bet everything to seize the Life Staff.
The Forgotten Ones swarmed out, including hundreds of reserve models of Titans. To counter this force, Life Daylight dispatched an army of similar size. Though not as imposing as the front battlefield, it will likely be more challenging.
This will be a fierce battle.
Red Weaving Workshop. Xu Xiaoyou glanced around, finding over a hundred thousand troops distributed within the city immersed in debauchery and dreams.
Once the gunshots rang out, this facade of prosperity would be torn apart.
"Hundred wits, hundred lamentations~ competitions roam~"
A long note came from both sides of the street, interrupting Xu Xiaoyou’s thoughts, an auburn-haired girl walked to her side, appearing troubled.
"You." Chichu Chun seemed to want to say something but ended up lowering her face in silence.
"Promise me, protect yourself."
"No matter what happens tonight, protect... yourself."
"Isn’t that your job?" Xu Xiaoyou laughed lightly.
Chichu Chun glared at her angrily.
"I’m serious."
"I have a very uneasy premonition."
Chichu Chun’s eyes flickered. She fiddled with the angry spider face mask in her hand.
"Is there anything you can’t tell me?"
"Promise me first..."
At this moment, a running newsboy cheerfully shouted as he dashed between them, Xu Xiaoyou casually twisted the newsboy’s neck.
The newsboy fell responding, his eyes swelling and melting, countless blue-purple tentacles streamed out from his eye sockets; it was a thousand-faced insect hiding in the illusion.
"Relax, I have more hidden energy in my backbone than you can imagine." Xu Xiaoyou assured the girl.
"Even if ’Gloomy Blue Tide’ comes, it can’t do anything to me, although she’s already dead."
"To kill me, you’d have to deplete all my ammunition. Or..." Xu Xiaoyou abruptly changed his tone, playfully gesturing towards her chest, "You suddenly draw near and stab me."
"I trust you the most Xiaochun, if it’s you, maybe I won’t be on guard."
Chichu Chun rolled her eyes almost to the sky.
"Stop making those jests."
With that, Chichu Chun put on the angry spider face mask and jumped onto the flying eaves.
"If there’s any trace of the Life Staff, I’ll contact you."
Watching her vanish into the night, Xu Xiaoyou raised her eyebrows thoughtfully, picked up the newspaper the newsboy dropped, and opened it.
——"Shocking! Flower Moon Tower’s number one courtesan appears, it’s actually her!"
A hundred years ago, did the Chichu Celestial People also use such a promotional method?
Xu Xiaoyou thought inwardly.
But just as she opened the newspapers and saw the moment when the courtesan on the Flower Moon Tower turned her head, a hard-to-describe shock surged into her nerves.
The courtesan’s appearance was almost identical to Chichu Chun.
