Chapter 1648 – Evening Breeze Invites Murder
Inside Chang’an City.
”Leave these guys to me, you go deal with the other toppers.”
Chloe’s gaze swept over the ruins of a mess, densely packed soldiers were still frantically surging towards the various streets, the firelight illuminating the dark night sky as if it was daytime.
”These more than 30,000 people are scattered throughout the streets of Chang’an, can you do it alone?” Lin Qiye asked with a frown.
Chloe glanced at him, her long fiery red hair flicking in the wind, and laughed lightly:
”It’s only 30,000 people……. Don’t underestimate the Holy Lord’s messenger.”
Seeing this, Lin Qiye did not say any more, and with a shake of his body, he rushed in the direction of the palace.
Chloe gently leaped and floated to land on a cracked roof of the ruins, her eyes swept around, tens of thousands of toppled soldiers rolled through Chang’an like a tidal wave, and noisy screams and hisses rang out from all directions.
Chloe took a deep breath, a shimmering light flashed in her eyes, and her fingertips slowly lifted under the night sky:
”Evening Wind, please kill.”
As the words fell, the air at her fingertips suddenly twisted up, and a wind blade no more than a millimeter thick shot out under the night sky, emitting an ear-piercing shrill whistle!
This wind blade swept through the street, instantly split into two, two into four, four into eight …… They split under the night sky at an astonishing speed, thin and transparent, even if it has been split into thousands of channels, with the naked eye still can not detect the slightest trace at all!
These wind blades looked like they had eyes, scattering in all directions in mid-air, and their ear-piercing shrill whistles instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the city.
”What is it?”
A soldier, holding a torch in his hand, suddenly looked up into the sky, and there was nothing else but a blanket of night color.
”There are a few small monsters running that way! Stop them!” Hundreds of meters away, another soldier suddenly shouted as he slashed the man who was fighting to the death.
As the man was dragging the soldier down, several young children rushed out of the burning house in terror, crying and howling as they fled to the other side of the street.
The eyes of the soldier holding the torch narrowed as he casually threw the torch into the house on his side, drew his sword in his hand, gazed at the young children who were fleeing towards this place crying in pain, and darted forward!
Ode-!
A sharp whistle exploded from behind him, and in an instant it shifted from behind to in front of him, gradually moving away …… The soldier stopped his body in dismay, and was about to turn his head to look back, but his field of vision could not be controlled to move downward, and finally even plopped down on the ground.
His consciousness gradually stopped, one eye was blocked by the earth, and in the other eye, a headless body held a knife and stood frozen in place.
Is that …… me?
The moment this thought appeared in his mind, his pupils were completely lax, and the headless body was fixed in place for a moment, and fell stiffly to the ground.
The young children who are frantically fleeing see this scene, directly stupid in place, that sharp whistle swept through their ears, the next moment, the soldier behind them head also thrown up high, a grunt fell down.
All of this happened too fast, in less than two seconds, a wind blade swept through miles of streets, and the heads of hundreds of soldiers drifted up one after the other, like a bloody dandelion.
Like a bloody dandelion, they were swept up into the sky by the gentle evening breeze.
And such a scene, in every street of Chang’an staged ……
The 30,000-strong army was annihilated in an instant!
At this moment, before the highest palace of the imperial palace, a figure clad in imperial robes looked at the blood-colored dandelions flying all over the city, and his eyes slightly contracted.
Emperor Wu of Han stood in front of the palace, silent for a long time, his expression somewhat complicated:
”Li Ying.”
”Old slave is here.” Eunuch Li immediately walked forward, respectfully bowing his head.
”You say …… that in this world, is there really someone who can possess such miraculous power?”
Eunuch Li was stunned for a long time, slowly opened his mouth and said, “Whether someone can have the power of miracles, the old slave is not clear …… The old slave only knows that if you want to restrain a group of ferocious wolves, only to let them, among them, to give birth to a wolf king.”
Emperor Han Wu looked at Chang’an City, which was shrouded in blood and fire in front of him, and his brows furrowed tightly.
Lin Qiye flew through the streets as the vermillion palace walls gradually approached before his eyes.
Just then, a familiar voice came out from the side:
”Brother Seven Nights!”
Lin Qiye quickly stopped and looked back, only to see Wu Quan hurriedly running from the other side of the street.
When Lin Qiye saw Wu Quan, his first reaction was to take half a step back and frown as he asked:
”Why are you here?”
”We were drinking tea in the dance workshop waiting for you, and seeing that the curfew was about to be imposed, we just found a random place to land first, but I didn’t realize that it was suddenly chaotic outside.” Wu Quan spoke with a grave expression on his face.
”I flew into the air and happened to see Brother Seven Nights you coming towards the palace gate here, so I rushed over to join you.”
”Where’s Yan Zhong?”
”After he saw the armor of those murderous soldiers, his face suddenly changed and he rushed out, not knowing where he went.”
Looking at the calmly stated Wu Quan in front of him, Lin Qiye not only didn’t let his guard down, but instead began to carefully size him up.
From what he grasped right now, even a fake that had been replaced by smoke would think and act like a real person with almost no flaws, and that Red Star seemed to be able to manipulate the fakes by modifying their perceptions.
This was the case with the 30,000 troops outside, during the daytime everything was as normal, while at night after the Red Star’s light flashed, they thought ordinary people were monsters and killed their way into the city. Now their authenticity could be easily judged by their behavior, but the Wuquan in front of them was different.
Wu Quan had also been shrouded in phantom smoke, and although he was not currently displaying paranoid behavior, that alone did not rule him out.
In other words, unless he gave Wuquan a stab to the heart right now and turned him into a corpse, it would be difficult to tell if the teenager in front of him was Wuquan or the grammatical creature that had taken his place.
”Brother Seven Nights?” Seeing Lin Qiye’s somewhat strange expression, Wu Quan spoke in confusion, “What’s wrong with you?”
”In your eyes, what am I?”
Hearing this question, Wu Quan’s eyes were filled with bewilderment, he stayed for a long time and spoke uncertainly, “Are you …… well …… the Lin Division? Elder? Brother?”
”I mean, do you think I’m a human, or a grammatical creature?”
”Brother Seven Nights, what are you talking about? How can you be a grammatical creature? Isn’t your fake already dead?”
Lin Qiye’s expression relaxed a bit, but he didn’t completely remove his guard, he didn’t know if Red Star could manipulate the fake’s cognition at will, what if Wuquan’s answer was a disguise now, or if the fake Wuquan’s cognition would only be modified after some time?
”…… It’s nothing.”
Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, “I’m going to go inside the palace, so follow me.”
”Good.” Without the slightest hesitation, Wu Quan directly answered.
Lin Qiye of course couldn’t directly step in and kill Wu Quan, if he killed the fake it would be fine, but if he killed the real Wu Quan …… In short, Lin Qiye couldn’t gamble with Wu Quan’s life.
Right now, the best method was to directly bring Wu Quan with him, if he was really a fake, as long as he revealed some cracks from time to time, he would sooner or later be unable to resist making a move against himself.