Chapter 772, Face Armor and New Life

The falling walls looked like a collapsed dome, and the sunrise above the light of the sky looked like a blazing flame.

There were no more living defenders on the wall of the wall, Hassan, Servant Lanqi and the others stood on the wall and fought for a long time, while waiting quietly for the master of the grassland to enter the city and reign over the wall.

Before entering the city, Yan Liuyuan rode his horse through the displaced people’s market town outside the wall, on both sides of the road, the displaced people have hidden inside their shacks.

The barricade has been broken, but surprisingly, the falling wall did not affect the town, a war down, but none of the stragglers died.

Yan Liyuan saw a small child hiding in the shack, his father will firmly protect him behind, but the child can not help but probe secretly measured Yan Liyuan.

Yan Liu Yuan smiled and looked for Qi Qi Ge beside him to ask for beef jerky and threw it to the child, but he didn’t say anything more and moved on.

The little kid who received the jerky looked at Yan Liu Yuan curiously, he suddenly felt that the other party seemed to be the best looking person he had ever seen since he was born.

Eyes like stars, eyebrows like swords, when one gazed at the other person, it was like looking at a flawless god.

But what the little child didn’t know was that when Yan Liuyuan looked at him, it was as if he was seeing himself from years ago, when there was also a man like a father who would always protect him behind him.

As he passed by a brick and stone courtyard, Yan Liu Yuan saw many school children hiding inside, he opened his mouth and asked, “Is this the schoolhouse in the market town?”

A young man said warily, “Please spare these children, the oldest of them is 14 years old and the youngest is only 8. Even if 176 Barrier has offended you, these children are innocent.”

This schoolteacher was very afraid, the iron horsemen entering the market town could not be seen at a glance, and the majestic horses required him to tilt his head to see the teenagers on the horses.

But he was no more afraid than he was, and he did not take another slight step backward.

The sturdy horse snorted, and the white air coming out of its nostrils was like an arrow, with an amazing momentum.

This young school master stepped back in fear, but he still protected his students behind him in death.

Yan Liu Yuan sized up this young man, then smiled at the children, “You have a good teacher, remember to study hard, someone told me that books are the best way to understand this world, and after you walk out of the schoolhouse if you want to go back to understanding the world again, you will all have to pay the price of blood, this is your last refuge.”

Not knowing what came to mind, Yan Liuyuan was a little lost in thought as he spoke.

That young school teacher was a bit at a loss for words, this teenager on the opposite side of the horse should clearly be very ferocious, but that didn’t seem to be the case.

“Ughur Bone Yan, distribute some dried meat to them,” Yan Liu Yuan finished speaking and continued riding forward, no longer looking back at those children.

Uighur Bone Yan looked at the group of children in surprise, but in the end, he still let his clan members carry a bag of jerky and said in a sardonic voice on the ground, “My master rewarded you for this.”

By this time Hassan had run down to the city and knelt to respectfully greet the new king.

“Get up,” said Yan Liuyuan.

Beside her, Qiqiqi suddenly realized that when Yan Liuyuan entered the ledge, his expression began to grow cold, a far cry from when he was in the market town before.

Da, da, da, da, da.

Crisp hoofbeats resounded on the long street of Barrier 176, and the entire barrier was silenced by Yan Liuyuan’s and their arrival.

The rough hans and costumes of the grasslands and the majestic iron horsemen were a stark contrast to the civilization of the Central Plains.

On one side were neat masonry buildings, on the other were animal skins and blood dripping long swords, Yan Liu Yuan calmly sat on his horse and looked around at the scene around him, before he had never thought that he would ever set foot on the barriers again in such a capacity, on the place he hated the most.

And now, for the first time in over two hundred years after the Calamity, the Grasslanders had entered the Barrier.

The warriors around him watched the city move stupidly, while the city’s inhabitants all cowered in their homes, not daring to utter a single breath.

Hassan whispered beside Yan Liuyuan, “Master, shall we begin?”

Yan Liu Yuan glanced at him, “Start what?”

“Slaughter the city!” Hassan said, “The tribal heads in the back are all very exuberant, they want to slaughter the city to honor your glory, this is everyone’s wish.”

“Slaughter the city?” Yan Liu Yuan froze for a moment, he looked at the tribal heads behind him, and sure enough, each and every one of them couldn’t wait, especially the two heads of the Servant Orchid Clan and the Uighur Bone Clan, who had lost too many of their clansmen in this war, and at this time it was the right time to use the blood of the walled people, to honor their clansmen.

Moreover, they had both inquired with Hassan, and their master had said that they would take the blood of the 176 ledge to make sacrifices.

Though everyone had lost a great deal in the storm, and though there would be a great deal of material loss from marching and fighting, they would have a great deal of wealth once a slaughter was over.

But then, Hassan realized that his master was silent.

Once the massacre began, then cries would ring out beside their ears, black smoke would vaporize from all the huge barriers, and countless people would die.

Yan Liu Yuan looked at this originally supposed to be very prosperous ledge, and the crumbling ledge walls behind him, if Sister Xiaoyu was here, she would definitely not want to see a massacre occurring here, right?

He suddenly said, “Pass the order down, no massacre, first give me all the administrators in this walled fortress, tell those residents that they can live as long as they report these officials, talk about their crimes that would be even better, but before getting my order, whoever kills indiscriminately will be killed by me.”

Hassan was a bit embarrassed, “If you go and kill your own people because of the death of the walled people, I am afraid ……”

Yan Liuyuan said calmly, “Then it seems they don’t understand who is the master of the grasslands.”

“Understood,” Hassan led the order to go down, of course he obeyed Yan Liuyuan’s order unconditionally, if someone disobeyed, then he should pull that person out and drag them to death alive with his horse.

The warriors at the back moved quickly, in just a few minutes they had asked where several officials lived and then dragged those wall officials out of their homes.

Yan Liuyuan sat calmly on his horse from start to finish, Kikiqi riding alongside, and the large group traveled towards the center of the wall, where one of the wall officials said was the official residence of the Shin family.

When he was about to arrive at the official residence, Hassan saw that the manor was heavily guarded, so he immediately led the clansmen of the Gojins, carrying heavy machine guns and rushed over.

Yan Liuyuan waited on his horse, and in less than half an hour, Hassan opened the gate of the residence for him.

There was already blood in the residence, and all the living people were kneeling on the ground. Yan Liuyuan pivoted his horse forward, and he looked at all the people in the residence and said: ”I heard that the person who is in charge of this barrier is called Shen Yin, which one of you is it, stand up and speak. Uighur Bone Yan, you lead the men to raid the granary and armory, we will take all that we can.”

After saying that, Yan Liuyuan dismounted his horse and walked towards the villa inside the manor, and it was only when he sat on the leather sofa in the villa’s living room that he looked towards the middle-aged man that Hassan was holding down, “You are Shen Yin?”

Shen Yin looked at Yan Liu Yuan coldly, “Even the barbarians from the grasslands dare to come to the Central Plains to cause chaos, aren’t you afraid of the retaliation from the entire Central Plains?”

Yan Liuyuan smiled, “The Fire Seed? The Kong Clan? The Wang Clan? Who do you think will avenge your Shen family.”

With these words, Shen Yin immediately realized that the teenager in front of him should know the Central Plains very well, and that the other party had come prepared to break through Barrier 176 this time.

“I’m curious,” Yan Liuyuan’s slender fingers tapped on the armrest of the leather sofa as he asked, “Barrier 176 was clearly on par with Fortress 178 in earlier years, so why is it so degraded now.”

Shen Yin stared at Yan Liuyuan dead in the face, but did not know how to answer this question.

At this time, a whole bunch of wall officials were brought to the residence by Servant Lan Qi, holding a thick pile of paper in their hands.

Those officials were pressed into kneeling in a row, and Servant Lanzi handed the paper in his hand to Yan Liuyuan: “Master, these are all the incriminating evidence written down by the inhabitants of the wall.”

“Looks like you guys are really unpopular,” Yan Liuyuan took the paper, “Why don’t we play a game, you guys report and expose each other, let me see if you have any meritorious performance.”

As soon as the words fell, there was immediately a middle-aged man kneeling on the ground, using his knees to step over the crowd, “I’ll report, their Shen family has been in power in the city for decades, squeezing the people into untold misery, and this Shen Yin is even more sinful, even robbing his subordinates of their wives!”

“Continue,” Yan Liuyuan said with his arm resting on the sofa, his palm propped on his chin with interest.

“Also, Shen Yin, this person is really not a thing, earlier on, he also killed innocents indiscriminately, and when he captures grasslanders, he likes to torture them slowly!”

Someone started this, the accusations of others were like an open faucet that could no longer be stopped.

The villa became noisy, and someone said in a loud voice, “This Shen Yin also likes men!”

“He even used to pick women and children from the stray market towns outside the year before last!”

Yan Liu Yuan seemed to be a bit impatient listening to the clutter of voices, “Alright.”

The villa immediately fell silent again.

Yan Liuyuan looked at Shen Yin, “See, this is you walled people, living in a pampered way, but losing your backbone and happiness.”

But he heard Shen Yin kneeling on the ground and sneering, “The stragglers are nothing more than a bunch of swine, what dignity and joy do they have to speak of.”

“No, they are happier than you,” Yan Liuyuan shook his head.

Shen Yin let out a loud laugh, “Those stragglers can only run around for their livelihood, some sell their daughters to others, some can only steal chickens and dogs, no one cares about these people even if they die under the mines, their families never mention revenge when they go there, they only ask how much the compensation is, some people send their own children to the academy to go to school only to find out a few years later that the things they learned are useless, the ones who should go to digging sand If they should go digging sand, they should go down the mine, and they live day by day, like animals, with today but no tomorrow. I ask you, what kind of happiness can such a person have.”

Yan Liu Yuan looked at the morning light outside the villa gate, in his impression the market town was not like this, nor were the stragglers.

Back then, when his brother came back from hunting, it was clear that his family was already poor, but the other would still often go to Wang Fugui’s store to buy him two hard candies, the sweet, cloying kind.

His brother would hide one and then give him only one, saying that he should save it.

But Yan Liuyuan always couldn’t help himself, and every time he ate it all at once, then looked blearily at Ren Xiaosu, at which point Ren Xiaosu would pull the other one out of his pocket, so that he would get two surprises.

Every New Year’s Eve, his brother would go to Wang Fugui’s place to buy him new clothes, and even though they were poor, he had new clothes to wear every year.

On cold winter days, the adults in the market town would go to the slaughterhouse to cut some fat meat and come back to make dumplings, and on New Year’s Eve, the smell of meat would come from the humble shacks, and the greedy little children would watch with bated breath.

Wang Fugui will stand inside the township to give the children firecrackers, that is from five thousand firecrackers removed from the top of the small firecrackers, a small child issued five, let them take to play.

The children ran around the town like crazy, occasionally knocking over other people’s shacks, and then the adults in the family would rush to apologize, apologizing while opening the culprit’s buttocks to flowers.

There was laughter and crying.

Everyone experienced poverty and suffering during that time, but Yan Liuyuan felt that the time he remembered was all about happiness.

Yan Liuyuan could even recall his brother’s rare smile at that time.

But at a certain moment, Yan Liyuan suddenly resisted recalling all this.

However, he did not intend to tell this to Shen Yin, and the other party did not deserve to hear this.

“Servant Lan Qi,” Yan Liu Yuan said.

Servant Lan Qi knelt on one knee in front of Yan Liu Yuan, “Master.”

“There’s no point anymore, kill all these people and hang them at the door,” Yan Liu Yuan’s gaze never rested on Shen Yin and the others, “I didn’t give you permission to massacre the city before, now I’ll allow you to raid these people’s homes, one tribe to raid one family, I believe that is enough to make up for the losses you suffered during the war, Go on, don’t let them hiss like pigs.”

After saying that, Servant Lanqi and Uighur Bonyan stood up excitedly, and they directly pounded the hilt of their knives into the mouths of Shen Yin and the others, cracking their teeth one after another, and then stirring them up so that they couldn’t speak.

Those once prominent officials in the walled city, at this time, one by one could only open their eyes wide in terror and let out wails from their throats.

Shen Yin, who had just been somewhat hardened, was now incontinent.

Servant Lanzi and the others rushed with their clansmen to each official’s residence, doing whatever they wanted, where gold bars, jewelry, and firearms were hidden, and Hassan also emptied the arsenal and granary.

It was late in the evening when the plundering finally came to an end.

The hans on the grassland tied up a huge wooden fence in front of the villa, and then hung up the corpses of the officials one by one, which looked like a row of horrible wind chimes from afar.

Whether Yan Liuyuan liked or disliked these ‘wind chimes’, nowadays the grassland people needed to stir up their bloodlust before they could face the tougher wars ahead.

Yan Liuyuan must let them enjoy the victories and killings over and over again, and then turn into his most loyal followers.

At this point, liking it or not liking it didn’t matter much, the master of the grasslands only had to consider whether his followers needed this or not.

If the steppe people needed it, then he would let the corpses of his enemies, become his flags.

But he repeatedly emphasized not to massacre the city, but there was still an accident, the head of the Qudun tribe was escorted by Ughur Bonyan, Yan Liuyuan frowned and asked, “What’s going on?”

Uighur Bonyan replied, “Master, the Qudun clan took advantage of the raid on the official’s family property to bring his clan to kill unarmed civilians without authorization, the clansmen of the other clans couldn’t control it when they saw it, luckily Hassan reminded me and Servant Lanqi, and this didn’t make things more serious.”

This Qudun clan had been beaten up badly in the grasslands, so when he came to the barriers, he hoped most that Yan Liuyuan could order a massacre, so that his previous losses would be nothing at all.

But what he didn’t expect was that the newly joined Servant Orchid Clan and Uighur Bone Clan, after being saved by Yan Liuyuan, were in turn the most loyal to him, and even meticulously carried out Yan Liuyuan’s orders before capturing all of the Qudun Clan’s clansmen.

Yan Liu Yuan asked, “What have they done?”

“Killed thousands of civilians, lit a huge fire in the barriers, and bullied the women,” Ughur Bone Yan replied.

Yan Liuyuan waved his hand expressionlessly, “The Qudun Clan does not need to continue to exist, kill them all and hang their heads together.”

The head man of the Qudun Clan cried and begged for mercy, but he didn’t even wait for him to say two words before Ughur Bone Yan cut off his head.

Yan Liu Yuan took a deep breath, he didn’t expect this kind of thing to still happen under him, perhaps others could just say plainly that it would be fine to strictly discipline their subordinates in the future, but Yan Liu Yuan didn’t want to let go of this matter so lightly.

Killing people may be acceptable to him, but bullying women is not.

Everyone left, and only Yan Liuyuan and Qiqige were left in the villa.

Suddenly, Yan Liuyuan saw the newspaper on the coffee table in front of him, and the header of that newspaper read, Hope Media.

……

Yan Liuyuan did not go to pick up the newspaper after seeing it, but remained leaning on the sofa with his eyes closed. The things that should be known, Qing’s messenger had already brought them, so he was not particularly interested in the newspaper.

Qiqig always stayed next to him, and at this moment she sensed Yan Liuyuan’s inner conflict, as if he was struggling with it himself.

The little girl pulled out a comb from her own sleeve and stood behind Yan Liu Yuan obediently to comb his hair, as she did so she said, “You are now the hope of Abba and the others.”

“Hope?” Yan Liuyuan repeated, seemingly weighing the meaning of these two words.

The little girl added, “Yes, I have never seen Abba so brave, in the past when the big tribes came to ask him to contribute cattle and sheep, he only dared to offer them coyly, and the other people in the tribe dared to be angry, but it’s different now, the other day I saw him talking to the Qudun tribe chief, and he wasn’t even submissive anymore.”

“That’s because the power he holds in his hands has gotten stronger,” Yan Liuyuan said with a smile, “while the Qudun tribe is declining. Originally, I wanted to see if they were prim and proper in this war, but the result disappointed me, the Qudun Clan always hid behind, they have been knocked out of their guts. How could your Abba not be primed to face such people.”

“It’s not that,” Kikiga said softly, “Abba says that it’s the gods that have given him strength. Every morning now, he brings Amma along to kneel towards you, and he says that you can lead the grassland people to a better life, never having to fear anyone again. Now the tribe says that you are the sun in heaven, and I think so; only the sun in heaven looks so good when it comes to earth.”

“Well,” Yan Liuyuan smiled, “go find your Abba and tell him that I’m ready to leave this place.”

Ghostly, Yan Liuyuan picked up the newspaper on that coffee table, he glanced at the date, the newspaper looked like it was from yesterday.

He had heard of Hope Media, or was it because Wang Fugui liked to read the newspaper every day.

At that time, he would still ask Wang Fugui why the other party liked to read the newspaper, Wang Fugui laughed and said that he was killing time, and then told Yan Liuyuan to follow Mr. Zhang and learn from him, and when he was able to read a whole newspaper, he would give him a candy to eat.

At first Yan Liuyuan studied hard every day with the longing for the candy, but soon began to be playful and lazy again, begging his brother every day to take him hunting, because outside the market town, there was a bigger world.

Now, he could read the entire newspaper, but the person who had promised to give him candy was nowhere to be seen.

Yan Liuyuan looked towards the first page of the newspaper, which talked about the war between the Fire Seed and the Kong Clan, as well as the movements of the Wang Clan.

At this time, the Wang Clan was not in a hurry to join the battlefield, but rather, they were cantoned at the border, quietly waiting for something.

According to Yan Liu Yuan’s speculation, this Wang Clan was also just waiting for the opportunity to be able to kill the Kong Clan with a single blow.

In fact, there is nothing special about the consortium, everyone is like a wild beast in the wilderness, as long as they find the opportunity to go all out, before the hunt begins, everyone tends to remain silent.

Yan Liu Yuan flipped to the second version, this version is about the follow-up of the holy mountain thing, for example, how many people in total into the mountain, how many people out of the mountain, how heavy the loss, and this version also tells in detail, the holy mountain trip is nothing but the Anjing Temple and the fire of the trickery, I do not know who this is leaked to the hope of the media.

Things start to get boring in the third edition, which is all about what Editor-in-Chief Jiang Xu saw and heard at Wang’s, as well as his record on artificial intelligence, which has mixed reviews.

Inside the newspaper, it was told that Jiang Xu was still in Barrier 61 today, and that he would continue to observe things regarding artificial intelligence.

By the fourth page, the newspaper began to talk about the changes in the L.A. Green Harvest Group, and how the Knights Organization had all left L.A. without a trace, except for Xu Ke.

Yan Liuyuan just slowly flipped through the pages, waiting for his subjects to gather.

But the moment he flipped to the fifth page, this teenage male lord froze.

Only to see that half of the fifth edition was filled with only two lines.

Don’t let the sorrows of the times, become your sorrows.

61.

……

Yan Liuyuan was too familiar with this passage and knew from whom it came, that all the good memories about the displaced people s market town were related to each other.

That day, he saw the red spear piercing through the other party’s abdomen before being swept away by the flood.

That flood was like irreversible time, taking away almost every good vision he had of this world.

No more candy, no more need for new clothes every year.

Then he was the other’s brother, now he was the new king of the meadow.

At that moment KikiGe rushed into the villa, “Abba and the others are back!”

But just after the words were said, she actually found that the teenager was sitting alone on the sofa, and the twilight was heavy in the distance, shrouding the teenager all in a black shadow, extraordinarily lonely.

Yes, it is the loneliness of the king.

The loneliness of being wrapped in snow and thorns.

Yan Liuyuan raised his head to look outside the villa, wanting to go to Barrier 61 to find Ren Xiaosu.

But between those raised heads, he saw the body hanging on the wooden fence shaking non-stop, and the purple-black blood was falling to the ground drop by drop.

That was the person he had ordered to be killed, and it was also his sorrow.

And there were flames burning in the ledge, the sins that had been laid early by the Chudun clan that had followed him, and in the flames were the bones of thousands of civilians, and women who had been bullied and abused.

I don’t know when he seemed to have become a part of these sad times.

Perhaps it is difficult for many people to face the person they once were when they grow up.

No longer naive, no longer kind, no longer saying that they were a good person.

Yan Liu Yuan heart fervor gradually extinguished, as if slipping into the abyss, that originally pulled back by Sister Xiaoyu’s human nature, and then lost to the divine some.

Even Little Sister Jade didn’t know that nowadays, there was no longer a cost for him to cast a curse.

Or rather, that cost was just invisible to others.

After every curse, after every heavenly collapse, Yan Liuyuan would feel like he had taken a step towards a higher level.

That might be the higher level of humanity, but Yan Liuyuan didn’t know whether it was the vault of heaven or the abyss for him.

Just like what Li Shentan said, perhaps when mankind was really able to open the absolute spiritual will, then man’s spiritual will would become the will of this heaven and earth.

But would man still be human then? No one could be certain.

At this moment, Yan Liuyuan’s gaze pierced through the long sky, as if there was a past and himself that he could not face, he did not want Ren Xiaosu to see himself become like this.

At the same time, that wooden fence next to the body, there Hassan and tens of thousands of iron horsemen have been assembled, ten thousand people into a sea, the rough iron horsemen in the long street constantly arranged out, even a glance can not be seen at the end.

Suddenly, all these people dismounted and knelt down on one knee, calling out for the birth of the new king, and the barriers began to tremble.

Yan Liuyuan could see the expectant eyes of Hassan and the others from a long distance away, devout and hot.

He remembered what Qiqige had said about hope.

At this moment, Yan Liuyuan got up and silently lit the newspaper on fire, and then it was still burning in the villa.

The luxury and decadence in the villa burned together and began to spread.

Yan Liu Yuan stood in the flames, looking at the flames around him as if he was looking at this decaying era.

“Brother, I can’t go back.”

“Brother, I’m not going back.”

Yan Liu Yuan was in this flame, taking out that black green-faced fang face armor from his bosom and wearing it on his face, concealing everything about his past.

He felt that that past identity, along with this age, no longer had a need to exist.

Hassan knelt in front of his horse to act as a stool for him, and Yan Liuyuan stepped on Hassan’s spine to straddle the horse, “Home, Triumph!”

The warriors cheered, some of them swept the sky with the automatic rifles they had just gotten, the men who had come out to fight had finally returned to their homeland after the new king.

The hometown was in the north.