Chapter 1220, Ren Xiaosu’s Decision

“Where is Black Fox?” Ren Xiaosu asked in a condensed voice.

The two words Tang Zhou were like a knife that had suddenly stabbed him in the heart.

Ren Xiaosu felt that he had only just returned to a peaceful life, and this sorcery training course of his had only just been set up, when another familiar friend had left this world.

Actually, strictly speaking, Ren Xiaosu didn’t know if he and Tang Zhou were friends.

The first time they met was after the Realm Mountain Earthquake, on the way to the 113th Barrier Break, when Tang Zhou, Luo Lan, Ren Xiaosu, and the others fled to Li’s territory together.

Later, Ren Xiaosu pretended to be a Li officer, then teamed up with Tang Zhou to act out a drama on the 313th position, pitting Li’s troops against each other in tears.

Then later, Ren Xiaosu seemed to seldom hear this name anymore, the other party’s rank got higher and higher, and then he was sent by Luo Lan to be the chief officer of a main Qing’s unit.

Ren Xiaosu’s relationship with Tang Zhou was more like a norm in this wasteland era, where people didn’t see each other often and each had their own lives.

Perhaps they had met once, but then they had quickly returned to their roles and to their own rivers and lakes.

The next time you hear from each other, it may be news of a death.

Everyone was talking about moving on, simply because there was so much unrequited and unpleasant time behind them.

“Officer Black Fox and their vehicles have just pulled into the barriers,” the soldier said, “They should be here soon.”

As he was speaking, brakes had sounded at the door.

Ren Xiaosu ran outside, and was just in time to see Black Fox jumping down from the military truck, while Tang Zhou was lying still inside the truck’s bucket, covered in blood.

Black Fox said in the most concise language, ”We found him 30 kilometers north of the River Valley area, he used a flare gun to attract our attention, and at that time, there was also a flock of sparrows besieging him. We recovered this metal tube from him, and I think he was coming to deliver a message. Tang Zhou died by suicide, before the sparrows attacked him.”

Ren Xiaosu took the metal tube and the note in the other’s hand, on which was written a message about Luo Lan.

At this time, there were already soldiers gently carrying Tang Zhou off the truck, Ren Xiaosu went up to check the wounds on the body, only to see that almost none of the skin on the other’s body was intact, he could imagine what kind of ordeal the other had suffered.

Black Fox pointed to a wound on Tang Zhou’s leg and said, “This metal tube was hidden next to the leg bone, he should have cut his own muscles to hide it in, but what’s a bit strange is that there was originally no stab wound on his leg, and I don’t know how it healed quickly.”

“Black Pill,” Ren Xiaosu replied calmly, “I had gifted Luo Lan with many Black Pills, I think Luo Lan must have passed them on to him.”

With the black pills, everything was explained, Tang Zhou had cut his leg muscles hard before setting off, and then hid the metal tube inside.

Ren Xiaosu looked at Black Fox, “Did you examine Sparrow’s corpse at that time?”

“No,” Black Fox shook his head, “When we approached the past, there was a silver-colored metallic liquid slowly oozing out of that sparrow’s corpse, and to be cautious, I didn’t let the soldiers approach. If the Major wants to find those sparrow corpses, I remember the location.”

“Well, you did the right thing,” Ren Xiaosu said, “These are sparrows controlled by AI Zero, you guys are right not to touch them.”

If Black Fox and the others had touched the sparrow corpse, then what Ren Xiaosu was going to do now would probably be to isolate Black Fox and the others first, and then electrocute them one by one.

At this point, the clues in Ren Xiaosu’s mind had almost been pieced together.

Black Fox uttered another doubt, “I’ve heard of this person Tang Zhou before, P5092 sir should have heard of him as well, the troops he and Luo Lan were in charge of have always been known for their bravery and fear of death, I don’t quite understand why he would commit suicide.”

“He didn’t commit suicide because he was afraid of death,” Ren Xiaosu sighed, “He was afraid that after he was controlled by the nanobots, he would unconsciously reveal the location where the metal tubes were hidden.”

After the nanobots forcibly connected to the neurons, Zero would be able to access a person’s complete memories, even memories that some humans themselves had forgotten in their subconscious.

At that time, Zero only needed to pinpoint the metal tube through Sparrow, then Ren Xiaosu and the others wouldn’t be able to know what exactly happened to Qing’s under the communication blockade.

Ren Xiaosu could also go to Qing’s specifically to ask what was going on, but it would be too late to say anything at that point.

Before that, Ren Xiaosu had seen the Wang Clan soldiers controlled by Zero at Zuo Yunshan, and according to what Zero had said, it only needed a very small number of nanobots to take control of the human mind through the technology of connecting neurons.

The nanobots lurked near the brain stem, they didn’t even need to consume much energy to stay dormant, the bioenergy produced by the human body when it moved was far more than what they consumed.

If Zero uses the nanobots as a control tool rather than a combat tool to improve the human body’s “power” and “muscle strength”, then the nanobots will stay in the human body, which is like a huge charging tank, providing a constant supply of renewable energy to the nanobots. Provide a constant supply of energy.

“I’m going to take a trip to the Central Plains,” Ren Xiaosu said.

Big Flip immediately picked up, “Major, we’ll go with you.”

As a result, P5092 shook his head and calmly said, “You can’t go, Major.”

“Why,” Ren Xiaosu looked at P5092 and asked.

“Wang’s troops are already cantoned at the northwestern border, war between the two sides may break out at any time,” P5092 analyzed, “Now Luo Lan going to the Central Plains will have two results, the first is to go to the peace talks, before you also said Wang Shengzhi wanted to find Commander Zhang to make peace, and in the end, the wall alliance was taken over by Commander Zhang. I think this should be the same case this time when Qing makes peace with Wang, after all, other than Commander Zhang, only Qing Zhuan is left with the ability to rule the entire Barrier Alliance.”

P5092 continued, “If they succeed in their peace talks this time, then the Northwest will next have to face a pincer attack from the Southwest and the Central Plains. Young Marshal, have you ever thought about what the consequences would be?”

Ren Xiaosu shook his head firmly, “This will not happen.”

P5092 analyzed, “Of course, Major Marshal, you judge from an emotional perspective, Qing would never do anything to turn his back on the Northwest, and I have nothing to say about it, I trust your judgment. Then let’s talk about the second possibility, if the Wang Clan and the Qing Clan clash, then the war of the entire Barrier Alliance is imminent, and at that time, if you are not in the Northwest, I’m afraid that it will affect the heart of the army. Moreover, you are risking your life, if your strength is damaged because of ‘outsiders’, then who should guard the Northwesterners? Personally, I believe that sacrificing Luo Lan is necessary.”

Zhang Xiaoman muttered from the side, “Why are you always sacrificing this and that, can’t fewer people die?”

P5092 calmly looked at Zhang Xiaoman and said, “Otherwise, what do you think war is?”

Zhang Xiaoman shrunk his head and stopped talking ……

Yes, war is about dying.

From the time the word war appeared in the history of human civilization, every war was cruel to the extreme.

Both sides of the war left their hometowns and families to run to the battlefield, and then raised their respective weapons to eliminate the enemy’s living forces to the greatest extent possible.

How can there be any sense of reason in such a thing?

Victory is only a moment of ultimate rejoicing, brief and glorious.

But before the victory, everyone is like walking in a long and humid and stuffy dark tunnel, no one knows where the end is, sacrifice and death in battle is the norm.

In P5092’s opinion, what war doesn’t kill people?

Since people would die, why couldn’t the one who died be Luo Lan?

At this time, P5092, as the military commander, naturally did not want Ren Xiaosu to leave the Northwest.

Everyone thought that Wang had gone crazy, how could he run to Wang at this time?

Only, Ren Xiaosu said to P5092, “In the past, when I was a straggler, every day I thought about how I could survive, I could eat tree barks, I could eat grass roots, and once I set a trap to catch a rabbit, and ended up being kicked by the rabbit. At that time, I thought it would be great to live, as long as I could bring Yan Liu Yuan to live, I could do whatever I wanted. But then it was a bit different, I slowly learned that there are things in this world that are more important than surviving.”

Saying that, Ren Xiaosu walked towards the outside: “You guys don’t follow me, if I need you to make a move, I’ll just open the key door.”

Yang Xiaoguan blocked Ren Xiaosu’s way, “At least let me go with you, have you forgotten your promise?”

Ren Xiaosu said seriously, “You really can’t go this time Xiao Geun, because it’s likely that you’ll face your aunt.”

“I can’t shoot her, but I can help you kill the others,” Yang Xiaoguan said calmly.

Ren Xiaosu laughed, “It’s not that simple, listen to me, you shouldn’t go this time.”

The two had just discussed that as long as the place Ren Xiaosu went to was dangerous, they must bring Yang Xiaoguan with them.

But this time was different, because the people Ren Xiaosu had to face were Wang Shengzhi and Yang Anjing.

No matter what Yang Anjing did, she was Yang Xiaoguan’s aunt, and all the warmth that belonged to the family came from this aunt when the duck-tongued girl lost both parents at a young age.

Yang Xiaoguan said that she was willing to make an enemy of Wang for Ren Xiaosu, but Ren Xiaosu didn’t want her to be caught in the middle and suffer.

“If there’s danger, I’ll open the key door,” Ren Xiaosu said, “I promise you, I’ll keep my word.”

In the end, Ren Xiaosu departed alone.

After he left, Yang Xiaoguan called Zhou Yingxue over from the black market at the first time, and instructed Zhou Yingxue to guard the living room 24 hours a day, so that if the Key Door was opened, then Zhou Yingxue would be able to be the first to go and help Ren Xiaosu.

The so-called 24 hour guard in the living room is to sleep on the living room sofa ……

At this time, Ren Xiaosu and the others still don’t know that a behemoth is running towards the north, seemingly to block Ren Xiaosu’s way.

……

On the outskirts of the Sacred Mountain, two silhouettes wearing turf camouflage were creeping on a certain mountainside quietly waiting.

The core area of this bizarre mountain range was perennially shrouded in a strange white mist, as if it was a natural barrier capable of blocking the prying eyes of outsiders.

It was precisely for this reason that almost no one in the outside world knew what was happening here in the Sacred Mountain.

One of them raised his wrist to look at his watch, only to see that the moment the hands jumped to 10 o’clock, those white mists wrapping the Holy Mountain actually diluted at a speed visible to the naked eye, until the air completely returned to a completely transparent state.

“Dean, look,” said Zhang Baogen, who was crouching on the hillside.

The nonsense beside him pulled out a pair of binoculars, wanting to take advantage of the white fog dispersing to take a closer look at what was actually in this holy mountain.

He was just a little disappointed that their location was still some distance away from the core area of the holy mountain, and all they could see was some raw materials being transported in, and then some secret boxes being escorted out by vehicles.

There were a lot of transportation vehicles, and the road looked quite busy between them.

Hu Hu frowned and asked, “Bao Gen, have you ever felt that these vehicles look like a kind of insect?”

“What insect?” Zhang Baogen was a bit puzzled.

“Ants,” Hu Hu said softly.

At this moment, they were lying on the mountainside, and the black medium-sized trucks on the highway at the foot of the mountain were just like worker ants, the outgoing and incoming teams orderly following the same route in and out of the mountain range, tirelessly busy.

This holy mountain was like a huge ant nest, constantly making something.

Only, when Hu Hu thought that this one car was filled with soldiers with loaded guns and transporting mysterious things, he felt that this ant nest was a bit scary.

Nonsense asked, “Has the news from the south come back?”

“It came back, one of their teams even crossed over the original Zhou’s range and went further south,” Zhang Baogen replied.

Hu was puzzled, “The north is the same, they even had a team that went to the grasslands silently, originally I thought it was the Wang Clan that wanted to ally with that new master of the grasslands, but that troop didn’t make contact with the herdsmen and disappeared into the grasslands.”

Hu Hu had only one doubt within his heart, what exactly is this Wang Clan trying to do?

“Dean, what next?” Zhang Baogen curiously said.

“You go and notify everyone to retreat to the northwest,” Hu Hu replied after some thought, “But after you notify them, make a trip to Barrier 73, I found out that a quarter of the vehicles that were heading to the south were going to Barrier 73, so investigate what exactly they were carrying in their vehicles. You be careful, if anything happens, you immediately go to Xiu Zhuzhou to look for the Divine Altar, I’ve already marked the location of where he is for you.”

“Aren’t we going to enter the sacred mountain to take a look?” Zhang Baogen asked.

“Can’t go in,” Nonsense shook his head, “Might not be able to get out.”

“But Dean, didn’t you say before that we shouldn’t bother Brother Sacred Altar,” Zhang Bao Gen said, “You said before, ah, that we should wait until he and Miss Ripple have given birth to their child before going to look for him.”

Nonsense heard this then angry: “Undisputed thing, obviously people ripples girl have already a hundred willing, the result he instead of pretentious up, and must say that there must be feelings before there can be further development. I should go to the Northwest right now, looking for Ren Xiaosu to order that laborious black medicine in his hand!”

“Drug?” Zhang Baogen was instantly shocked, “As for that? I think that as long as he continues to live in Xiujuzhou, it’s only a matter of time before he has a child, right ……”

Nonsense looked at the convoy that was heading out at the foot of the mountain, he suddenly sighed, “We may not have that much time left.”