Recap
Shen Chaomu withdrew, and seeing that Long Shiyu was still biting his tail in a daze, he said, “I’ll wait for you…”
Long Shiyu bounced off the bed.
Shen Chaomu was shocked: “What are you doing?”
Long Shiyu jumped up and down in the tent like a ball, rushing around, his long tail flicked randomly, and things fell to the ground with a crackling sound.
Can’t stop at all.
It’s like going crazy after drinking, but the ears are as red as they can be.
Five days later.
“Remember to reinforce the southern defense line,” Bai Yiyi instructed the hunters, who scurried to obey. The sky was overcast, a low rumble of thunder adding to the oppressive atmosphere. Ever since the dragon’s arrival, the arid Western Hemisphere had been plagued by unseasonal rain.
Back in her tent, Bai Yiyi received a communication from Qiu Ruowen. After a brief discussion of the current situation, Bai Yiyi asked, “How are things on your end?”
“Cerberus is dead,” Qiu Ruowen reported. “Just some cleanup left.”
“Good work.”
“It was my duty. But there’s something else I wanted to discuss.”
Bai Yiyi felt a knot of anxiety tighten in her stomach, but she kept her expression neutral. “Go on.”
“I’ve reviewed your defense line deployments,” Qiu Ruowen said, her voice sharp. “They’re well-organized, but a few decisions puzzle me. Why did you divide the vanguard on the first day? And on the third day, why didn’t you join the front lines? Shen Chaomu was unavailable. Your presence could have reduced casualties significantly. You were there; you understand the situation better than I do. Such errors seem…careless.”
Bai Yiyi had been avoiding the intermittent thunderstorms, mostly successfully, but Qiu Ruowen had pinpointed her most blatant failures. The old fox was perceptive.
The association was sending reinforcements, but it would take time. They couldn’t retreat; the frenzy would overrun the orc territories in the East. Bai Yiyi wouldn’t have remained here otherwise.
“I wasn’t thorough enough,” she admitted, forcing a smile. “I’ll be more careful.”
“I wouldn’t be so critical of others,” Qiu Ruowen said, her tone laced with disapproval, “but he has a reputation for cowardice. It’s understandable. I felt the same when I first became chief. But someone has to lead.”
The implication was clear: Bai Yiyi had failed to do so, allowing others to face the dangers of the storm while she remained safe.
“I understand,” Bai Yiyi said, her voice tight.
“He’s been hiding, biding his time. He must have weaknesses. With you and Shen Chaomu there, I’m not overly concerned.”
Bai Yiyi didn’t mention her encounter with Royasno, her escape thanks to the Black Knight. Everyone assumed her injuries were from a valiant fight, a testament to her strength and courage.
“You should rest,” she said, eager to end the conversation.
“No time for rest. Another monster has emerged. Witnesses say that anyone who sees its face turns to stone. My starship leaves in twenty minutes. Bai Yiyi, remember your responsibilities.”
The communication was cut off.
Bai Yiyi’s face suddenly changed.
A figure flashed outside the tent.
“Who?” she shouted.
“It’s me, it’s me.” A familiar voice came.
It’s the black knight.
He was standing in the rain with Potato. The warhorse’s eyes were not healed and were bandaged. And the left arm that was cut off before has mostly recovered, but the heavy armor can’t be found back. He replaced it with a wooden armor found somewhere, which looks quite funny.
Bai Yiyi’s tent is in the outermost area, and he sneaked over here.
Bai Yiyi frowned tightly: “Didn’t I tell you not to show up again?”
“Madam, I’m really worried about leaving you so close to the thunderstorm.” But the black knight said, “Please allow me to guard you by your side.” He took a small brown bag from beside the saddle, “I also brought you a gift.”
Bai Yiyi clicked her tongue and didn’t answer.
The black knight put the small bag beside the tent, and said: “Although it is very rude to ask, please don’t drive me away, at least let us survive the thunderstorm together. That crazy beast is too unreasonable.”
It’s good to keep him, a cold thought crossed Bai Yiyi’s mind.
If she goes to the front line, and Royasno and the man in the suit come again, the black knight can stop them.
This is what she needs most right now.
Just in time to prove himself again in front of the chief. Qiu Ruowen seemed a little dissatisfied.
Bai Yiyi’s expression changed slightly: “I may go to a more front-line place these days.” She curled a strand of hair from her ear, “Can you come with me?”
“Of course, girl.” The black knight immediately burst into laughter, “Just like before.”
“Do you know how old I am, and you still call me girl? I was still a lady just now.”
“Compared to my age, you will always be a girl.” The black knight patted the war horse, “Potato, isn’t it?”
The warhorse snorted.
Bai Yiyi bent her eyes, smiled falsely, and picked up the small bag that the black knight gave her.
There were neatly packed hair ties woven from vines and leaves.
The leaves of Tabu are colorful, and the reddish color is more in late autumn. The leaves used for decoration are obviously carefully selected, with distinct veins, neither light nor dark in color, and have the lightness of butterfly wings.
——In the legend, the black knight often brings woven leaves to the two white deer children. Cosimo likes bookmarks made of dark leaves, while Doris likes brighter ones.
Tourists who come to Tabu will also take away a few beautiful leaves.
Bai Yiyi smiled and said, “I thought you would bring something valuable.”
“There is nothing valuable.” The black knight sighed, “I can’t sell the armor on my body. You looked unhappy just now, I hope this gift will make you happier.”
“…Someone is coming here soon, you go quickly.” Bai Yiyi changed the subject, “Don’t let them see you.”
“Then next time you go to the front line…”
“I’ll find a way to tell you.”
The black knight took Potato and left.
Bai Yiyi almost burst out laughing in the tent.
Just now, she was really annoyed by Qiu Ruowen’s words. But now, perhaps because of the black knight at the bottom, or some other reason, she relaxed her brows.
Ten minutes later, several hunters came here, together with the commander in the video conference, they discussed the strategy together.
As usual, Bai Yiyi was careful and cautious in arranging tactics. At her suggestion, many adjustments were made to the defense line, and the light hunters’ personal throwing objects were also changed from three explosive bombs to three condensation bombs——now where the flying snakes flew by, tall sand dunes have gathered, Condensation bombs combined with grenades can quickly clear obstacles.
It was already quite late when the meeting ended.
Bai Yiyi turned off the video, took a sip of water, and her eyes fell on the corner of the tent again.
She just casually threw the bag containing the hair tie there.
Anyway, that kind of thing is to make little girls happy, it’s not worth a penny, besides, has she seen less valuable things?
But she still picked up the bag again and took out a hair tie.
The two leaves are water red, and the green vines have a fresh smell.
Bai Yiyi hesitated for a moment.
The water-red leaves swayed slightly, making her palms itch a little.
She glanced around. The hunters were occupied.
She sat in front of the mirror, gently bit the hair tie, her white hands wrapped around her hair, straightened it out, then tied her hair with one hand holding the ponytail and the other with the hair tie.
So there was a flying butterfly on the silver-white hair.
…
The light in the tent was dim, and Long Shiyu was lying on the bed playing Landlords.
Shen Chaomu said: “It’s time for you to sleep.”
“One more game.”
Shen Chaomu stuffed him into the quilt, rolled him into a ball, and gave him a goodnight kiss by the way.
The complaint about the game being interrupted stopped abruptly, Long Shiyu was satisfied, and fell asleep with a groan.
Fall asleep in seconds as always.
Shen Chaomu didn’t fall asleep so quickly.
He dimmed the light in front of the desk, and sorted out everything.
At present, there are two existences with different positions around the throne and alien beasts.
One is Shen Di and the mercenaries.
Long Shiyu killed Lilith many years ago, but the Blood Worship Cult is still operating stably. The mercenaries they have come into contact with these days, including Augusta, use very high-level alien beast blood. The purification technology is likely to be in the hands of Shen Di.
Hiring those desperadoes and contacting major underground industrial chains requires a lot of money, and it can be explained that there is financial support from the church behind it.
Shen Di constantly awakens the alien beasts and collects their corpses, so as to possess the abilities of the alien beasts.
But until now, his position is still unclear. The elders didn’t even know that Shen Di was still alive.
The second is the supporters of the High Wind plan headed by the elders of the family.
Shen Chaomu once thought that he knew the whole picture of the High Wind plan.
The elders in the family kept telling him since he was a child: You must find the throne, and even if necessary, you must become the new king.
But neither the elders, Qiu Ruowen nor Bai Yiyi told him the truth.
The most important thing is about the nameless king.
Long Shiyu smacked his lips twice on the bed, and began to talk in his sleep: “…Princess…”
Shen Chaomu: “…Stop barking, stop barking.”
“Princess, princess…”
Shen Chaomu: “…” He got on the bed and leaned against the head of the bed, and replied, “I’m here.”
Then Long Shiyu began to talk about “Happy Beans” in his dream.
Shen Chaomu rubbed his brow bone, his thoughts continued to wander.
In Cassandra, following the clues provided by the smuggler “Killer Whale”, they found a core member of the church on Flower Street.
Song Qianqian and Fang Qing got the man’s passport, the syringe he carried with him, and a transaction list.
But Bai Yiyi suddenly arrived with the hunters from the Disciplinary Department, snatched the syringe and the list, and took the man away, but failed to take the passport.
According to the clues on the passport, they found that the man had stayed in Bei En for a long time and many times. Not long after arriving in Bei En, there was a frenzy of sirens and skeletal mermaids – the facts proved that these incidents had been planned for a long time, and Shen Di and the mercenaries were still behind them.
At first, Shen Chaomu suspected that Bai Yiyi, even Qiu Ruowen, had something to do with the church.
But none of these supporters knew of Shen Di’s existence.
Calling the hunters of the Disciplinary Department must have been approved by the highest level. It is a fantasy to say that the entire association and the alliance have been eroded by the church.
So what are they trying to hide?
Shen Chaomu frowned.
He felt something was wrong with his thinking.
Opening the scanned copy of the passport again, the man on it looked ordinary, and his name was Zou An.
Shen Chaomu opened the terminal and searched for the name.
As the top hunter in the association, he has a lot of authority, and can directly search for many past tasks and participants.
He tried to check before, but found nothing.
This time he checked again, and the tasks related to Zou An popped up again.
One of them was a mission more than ten years ago, a very routine investigation, and there was no news after that.
A team of elite hunters went to the Kahala galaxy to search for the body of the ghost whale.
The situation in Kahala was a bit complicated, so the association found several local guides who had been leading teams through the galaxy for many years and were very familiar with the area.
Zou An is one of the guides.
It wasn’t until years later that he began to come into contact with the church.
Shen Chaomu paused.
Before he could react, he suddenly realized that what the supporters really wanted to hide was not the church.
It was this Zou An, who might know something about ghost whales.
…is it related to the nameless king?
All doubts, after going round and round, returned to the same topic.
He had a faint intuition – knowing about the ghost whale and the nameless king meant knowing the whole picture of the High Wind plan.
Shen Chaomu remembered something, and gently shook Long Shiyu: “Wake up, wake up.”
“Hmm, what’s wrong?” Long Shiyu yawned.
“How was the ghost whale killed?”
“I don’t know,” Long Shiyu was still very sleepy, “I didn’t know where to play at that time.”
“Who is the nameless king?”
“I don’t know either. I didn’t know where to eat at that time.”
His tail didn’t curl up this time.
Telling the truth.
Shen Chaomu was thoughtful. Long Shiyu moved his head closer again, hugged the princess’s waist and said, “Come to sleep, and look at those things tomorrow. You see, you haven’t figured it out after so long.”
Shen Chaomu: “…”
With the dragon in his arms, he surrendered instantly.
At noon the next day, they went to the defense line again.
Before getting into the car, Yang Zhiming helped them debug the on-board weapons.
“Okay.” He wiped his sweat, “It’s definitely fine.”
Perhaps in Tabu, he couldn’t help coughing a few times because he hadn’t injected the blood of a strange beast for a long time.
The cough was very strange, like a roar from the deepest part of his chest, from the diseased organ.
Shen Chaomu leaned against the car and said, “The Shen family knows a lot of top doctors…”
“Oh, don’t mention it.” Yang Zhiming waved his hand, “It really can’t be cured, I’ve already figured it out. Now I just hope that the frenzy will end, and I will study Xijia carefully.”
He raised his fist, wanting to punch Shen Chaomu’s shoulder, but then remembered that his hands were covered in oil, so he retracted it.
The combat vehicle set off.
The wheels rolled out marks on the sand, and Long Shiyu concentrated on eating the apples fed to him by the princess.
Shen Chaomu said: “You said you don’t know how the ghost whale died, then do you know what he did with the power of the throne?”
“Probably know. Although I’m not sure, I just heard from other dragons.”
“What did he do? Did he gain unique power from the throne?” Shen Chaomu slammed on the accelerator, recalling the alliance’s various analyzes and speculations about the ghost whale, “Is it the ability to roam the nebula, easily devour starships and The power of giant beasts, or a more eternal and immortal lifespan?”
“No, those are things he already had.” Long Shiyu said, “Before he ascended the throne, he always sang in the void of the universe, but no one could hear him. So, he said he wanted an existence that can understand his singing.”
Shen Chaomu felt a little unbelievable: “That’s it?”
“Well, that’s it.” Long Shiyu said with a smile, “But I think it’s a good wish.”
The combat vehicle continued on. The weather today was unexpectedly good, the sky was blue and there were no clouds. The heat wave outside scorched the air and distorted it, but the inside of the car was still cool.
Shen Chaomu said again; “It’s a bit like the day of the Elf Princess’ wedding.”
“…Hmm.” Long Shiyu replied.
Shen Chaomu was a little surprised: “You admitted it very readily this time.”
“I can’t hide it anyway,” Long Shiyu said sullenly, “I’m not good at keeping secrets.”
This is the truth.
Not only is he not good at it, he simply can’t.
Shen Chaomu said: “How can I remember those things? I mean all of them.”
“Go and take a shower of light rain,” Long Shiyu said, “and you will remember everything.”
“Where can I find the light rain?”
“I don’t know, but we will meet one day, just like I always believe that I will meet you one day.”
The car ran over the yellow sand and rushed towards the monster frenzy in the distance.
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