23. The overall situation is initially determined
After Yan Ling finished speaking, Xian Yunzhu was silent, she wouldn't be stupid to ask if there was any other way, because even if she did, she wouldn't have time to wait.
When Sang Lan was young, she often followed behind her, and her cousin's cry was as cute as a doll. Xianyun Zhu told himself since he was a child that he would protect this lovely cousin when he grew up, but as a result, the fate of the two was so absurdly entangled, and finally it came to an either/or situation.
At this moment, the iron-blooded and envious Zhu will inevitably hesitate. Is it to give up his healthy body, or to cut off Sang Lan's future life?
"Heh, you're going to give me a problem. Xianyun Zhu looked at Yan Ling and smiled bitterly, "Why don't you just give me an answer and then let me wake up." ”
Yan Ling pursed his lips, "Do you think I look like a fool? I'll choose for you, tsk, your heart is no longer burdened, don't I create evil consequences? ”
Xianyun Zhu chuckled and barely straightened up. Sang Lan lay beside her with tears on her face. Xian Yunzhu looked at the headache more and more, and he was really in a dilemma.
Of course, Yan Ling knows Xian Yunzhu's predicament, but life is sometimes like this, many things can't be both, and there are bound to be trade-offs. "It's not me urging you, your situation is not optimistic, you must deal with it as soon as possible, owe yourself or owe her, you think it out yourself. ”
Xian Yunzhu closed his eyes, his hands clenched and released, and after hesitating for a long time, he sighed lightly and said, "Take her life Gu." ”
Xianyun Zhu sighed secretly, Sang Lan, I suffered a lot in the first half of my life to fulfill you, and in the second half of my life, I will replace you to fulfill me!
Yan Ling was not surprised by Xian Yunzhu's choice, she looked sideways slightly at the door, and two long shadows were quietly spread on the cold blue brick floor of the palace.
After thinking about it, Yan Ling said to Xian Yunzhu with a smile: "In terms of my opinion and position, your choice is very correct, but others may not be considerate of your state of mind at this moment. Envy Yunzhu, get ready to accept your much-criticized future life!"
After finishing speaking, Yan Ling's hand that exuded a faint blue light shook in front of Xian Yunzhu, and Xian Yunzhu immediately fell into a deep sleep.
For the rest of the day, a terrible scream rang out in the quiet chamber for a full hour. One life struggles with dying anger and helplessness, and another lives endure the test of being reborn, with a heavy and painful roar until it is reborn. Two different voices, but the same painful voices were forever left in Tan Min's heart.
Tan Min didn't know when he followed Lu Jun out of the hall that made people breathless, and the whole person looked a little out of a trance.
"You can't accept Xian Yunzhu's choice?" Lu Jun asked Tan Min thoughtfully.
Tan Min turned his head to look at Lu Jun, and said confusedly for a long time: "I don't know." ”
Tan Min was very repulsed by Xian Yunzhu's choice, feeling that Sang Lan was extremely innocent, and it was too ruthless for Xian Yunzhu to deprive her of her future like this. However, if he was in a situation like Envy Yunzhu, would he definitely make a different choice from her?
Lu Jun smiled lightly, and he said, "Tan Min, I know that you should prefer Sang Lan to Xian Yunzhu." Sang Lan is gentle and delicate, looks very understanding, and does meet the mate selection standards of most men, it is understandable that your first sense is more inclined to her, but there are some things that you can't see which one is more suitable for you if you don't try it yourself. For Xian Yunzhu, you can only try to get along with each other by yourself, and don't reject her from the beginning. Her choice today is no problem according to the law of survival, as for human ethics, hehe, it depends on what you think. I just want to remind you not to lose trust in her because of this, and to try to trust her first no matter what happens in the future. ”
Tan Min looked at Lu Jun in a daze, all kinds of thoughts came and went in his heart, and he didn't know how to reply to Lu Jun for a while.
"Let's go, let's go see how it looks outside. Lu Jun sighed, patted Tan Min on the shoulder, left everything in the hall behind, and threw himself into the defense of the royal city outside.
Tan Min patted his head and chased after him with his weapon.
Mu Yuanji has been operating in the Xuanqi Palace for many years, and the Praetorian Guard has been completely controlled by him, and the leader of the Praetorian Guard has been manipulated by him.
Here, Mu Yuanji self-destructed his life Gu and wanted to die with Xianyun Zhu, and the death of the mother Gu alarmed the leader of the Praetorian Guard, Ariel. She knew that after the palace change in the council hall, she directly cut off all connections between the royal city and the outside world, and personally led the Praetorian Guards to surround the east courtyard where the council hall was located.
Xian Yunzhu was already prepared for this time, although he didn't bring many people, it was indeed an elite unit in the army, and after the Praetorian Guard besieged the city, the supreme leader Craig issued a defensive order.
When Lu Jun and Tan Min arrived, Ariel was not recruited by Craig, and the two sides exchanged fire head-on, but fortunately, because of the special location of the battle, long-range weapons could not be used, otherwise there would be no need to fight this battle at all, Lu Jun directly supported Yan Ling to escape first.
Lu Jun and Tan Min cooperated, swept all the way over, and watched the originally solemn royal city soaked in gunsmoke. None of them spoke, and in the background of bullets shuttling, the vigorous posture took away many lives wherever they walked, and under the fires of war, even the most gentle people had to become ruthless, and put their opponents to death for their right to live.
"If we continue to fight like this, Xuanyi's Praetorian Guard will attack the city sooner or later, and we will have to find a way to call in reinforcements. Tan Min said to Lu Jun after killing an opponent.
Lu Jun looked at the offensive and defensive situation and said: "Xianyun Zhu must have left a back hand outside the city, now it is estimated that it is almost here, let's guard the entrances first." ”
"Good. Tan Min nodded, and the two of them quickly crossed over, sweeping up the intruders in the winding lanes of Miyagi.
An hour later, Xian Yunzhu finally survived the threshold of the fate Gu fusion, and he was breathing with sweat.
"I'd love to give you a break, but it's a mess outside, so you might as well deal with it first. Yan Ling was also tired enough, and sat on the ground and said tiredly.
Xianyun Zhu struggled to stand up after recovering slightly, the military uniform on her body was already wrinkled, she simply took it off directly, pulled her hair and said, "I'll go back as soon as I go, and the people here will trouble you to take care of it." ”
Yan Ling waved weakly to show that he understood.
Xianyun Zhu took a deep breath, suppressed the exhaustion of his body, and walked towards the door with firm steps.
Yan Ling looked at her figure that was fading away against the light, and suddenly shouted, "Call Lu Jun back for me." ”
Xianyun Zhu didn't reply, and waved his slender arm casually.
Treat the foolish and loyal people, Xianyun Zhu is not much pity, the iron and blood in her bones made her give up a long time of recruitment, an order was issued, and all the troops who stayed in the affiliated cities of the royal city poured into Qili, the smoke of gunpowder was dense, the gunshots were bursting, the ancient city was baptized by blood, and the tense atmosphere instantly infected the people of Qili, and everyone hid at home in fear, watching a team of soldiers running on the wide street with loaded guns.
Lu Jun was recalled by Yan Ling, and Tan Min was left to take care of Xianyun Zhu.
Although Tan Min is in Yan Ling's sunflower, he rarely participates in bloody killings, and in this day, he has seen Xianyun Zhu arrogant and ruthless, and at this time he has seen her so murderous side. The sense of rejection in Tan Min's heart was unprecedentedly high, and he wanted to leave the woman he hated and turn away.
"You hate me so much?" all the officers exited the command room, and Xian Yunzhu sat on a chair and asked Tan Min.
No matter what, Tan Min's ability to observe words and emotions and hide emotions is still very good. Hearing Xianyun Zhu's question, Tan Min said lightly: "You are too worried." ”
Xian Yunzhu folded his hands in front of him, looked at Tan Min, and said for a long time: "I'm thirsty, can I pour a glass of water?"
Tan Min nodded, and neatly found a cup and poured her a glass of water, the water temperature was just right.
Xian Yunzhu took the cup, pulled the person into his arms the moment Tan Min turned around, and lowered his head to kiss him on the appropriate shade of the lips.
Tan Min's body instinctively tightened, and it took a lot of effort to resist the desire to attack.
Envy Yunzhu's kiss is not as arrogant and domineering as her person, but is gentle and cherished. After a shallow kiss, Xianyun Zhu said softly: "Try to look at me seriously, okay?"
Tan Min frowned slightly, and said in a low voice, "Let go of me first." ”
Xianyun Zhu smiled, and sure enough, he let go of Tan Min, stood up and said, "Come with me to the council hall, everything has to be decided." ”
Tan Min pursed her lips and followed silently.
Xian Yunzhu walked a few steps and stopped, took Tan Min's hand in Tan Min's questioning gaze, and said with a smile: "Don't follow me, stand beside me." ”
"......" Tan Min was silent, and a ripple crossed his heart.
The two walked side by side, not hurrying, and strangely in sync.
"I don't blame you for liking Sang Lan, she really deserves to be liked by a man like you, but it's come to this, I just hope you can live this life with me seriously, from the bottom of your heart, not just because of your mission. Envy Zhu said lightly.
Tan Min found that Xian Yunzhu was always unusually gentle with him in private, and his temper was also like two people. He didn't know if this was Xianyun Zhu's strategy or if he really treated himself differently. Therefore, he rarely reacted to Xian Yun Zhu's words, and let Xian Yun Zhu speak to himself. Xian Yunzhu didn't care at all, and always looked very patient.
When the two men arrived at the council chamber, all of them sat in their seats with ugly faces. Yan Ling looked tired and leaned on Lu Jun's arms.
Seeing Xian Yunzhu walking into the main hall, Shang Yufeng stood up and said with a blue face: "Xian Yunzhu, you actually rebelled!"
Xianyun Zhu let go of Tan Min's hand and whispered, "You go to Yan Ling's side." ”
Tan Min really didn't want to stand with her and accept the trial of many Xuanqi royal clans, so he nodded and stood on Yan Ling's side.
After Xianyun Zhu settled Tan Min, he looked at his mother squarely, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "I am for Xuanyi's century-old foundation." Mother, you know in your heart that Aunt Zexiya is no longer suitable to be a queen. ”
Shang Yu Feng was angry, "You rebel girl, whether the queen is suitable or not, don't you have a red mouth and white teeth!"
Xian Yunzhu obviously didn't want to talk to Shang Yufeng about the ethics of the monarch and ministers, so he casually took out a pile of letters and information from his pocket, called a celebrant over, and said loudly: "Send these to all the clan relatives to see, and see if these are enough to make Queen Zexiya abdicate!"
The celebrant took the letter and presented it to the adults present under the oppressive gaze of Envy Yunzhu.
Amid the sound of flipping through the papers, the officials were full of discussion and righteous indignation.
Ze Xiya sat on the throne with a blank expression, looked at the letter presented by the ceremonial officer, and smiled faintly. She looked at Xian Yunzhu condescendingly, "Xian Yunzhu, you have been smart since you were a child, and you are proficient in everything Wen Taowu, I have always liked you very much." Even if Yuanji is jealous of you later, I will hand over Xuanji's military power to you against his wishes. I have always thought that you are a responsible and bloody person! Today, you have questioned me in public with the trust I have given you, I don't blame you, I admit what you said even if Yuan Ji did it, and I can even abdicate, but before that, I want to ask you, Sang Lan, where can she not stand up to you, you can actually watch her become a fool and a waste! Has your conscience been eaten by dogs? Are you worthy of Sang Lan's cousin?"
Ze Xiya's voice carried a stern accusation and moral condemnation, her eyes were red, showing the painful despair of a mother, and every word was stabbed at Xianyun Zhu like a knife, so that Tan Min, who knew what was going on, couldn't help but look at the person standing proudly in the center of the hall with sweaty palms.
Xianyun Zhu looked at Ze Xiya expressionlessly accusing her, and said with a slight smile: "Your Majesty, I always thought that you would be dumbfounded and incompetent because you were controlled by Mu Yuanji, but I didn't expect you to be willingly controlled by him." You know that Mu Yuanji is jealous of me, and you actually let my father take me into the palace every day. You ask why you can't bear to deprive Sang Lan of the right to live in health, hehe, then tell me first, in front of your lover Mu Yuanji, my life is not important? I'm only ten years old, what kind of mood do you have to watch me being tortured every day, and what kind of mood do you have to watch Sang Lan steal my vitality and grow up healthily!"
"Ah Yun ,......" Envy Yunzhu's father watched his child change from a sunny child to a self-enclosed mysterious major general. Geros couldn't help but redden, and ran over to hug Xianyun Zhu, as if this would give his child a strong backing. "Good boy, Daddy is sorry for you. Daddy will never let anyone bully you again. My Ayun. ”
For Xianyun Zhu, Xuanyi's people only know that she is amazing and powerful, but it is impossible to say how well they know her. Since being planted with a nightmare Gu technique at the age of ten, Xianyun Zhu has almost disappeared from the public eye after long-term self-suppression in order to maintain his sanity. At this time, when they heard the secret of the royal family, they were all a little dumbfounded.
Xianyun Zhu calmed down, stretched out his hands with difficulty, and slowly hugged his father. "Dad, it's not your fault. In fact, for a long time, Xianyun Zhu resented her parents, even if she forgave her father after learning what happened, she couldn't get close to her parents like she did when she was a child.
Ze Xiya's face was ugly, "I'm helping you, otherwise do you think you'll have the opportunity to stand here and question me?"
Xian Yunzhu doesn't want to spend more time on this kind of unclear grievance, and the world can listen to her whatever they want to say. So she ignored Ze Xiya, pushed Geros away slightly, looked around at all the clansmen present, and announced coldly: "Queen Xuanqi Ze Xiya indulged Yuanji Wangfu to betray the interests of the kingdom, and her virtue is lost. Her Majesty Queen Zexia has decided to hold an enthronement ceremony tomorrow in the Prince of Belen, and all the clan members will rest in the palace today and attend the ceremony on time tomorrow. ”
As soon as the words fell, there was a lot of noise in the hall, and Xianyun Zhu clapped his hands, and two rows of soldiers quickly poured in, "Give the edict of the Zen position to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and ask your lords to go down and rest." ”
"Envy Yun Zhu!" Shang Yufeng was put on the grill, his face red and his ears red.
Xian Yunzhu looked at his annoyed mother, and said coldly: "Xian Yunzhu is too murderous, not a good heir to the throne, if my mother doesn't want to make a noise, don't shirk it." Someone came to send the prince of Belen and the prince back to their homes. ”
"You!" Shang Yufeng was speechless, and could only watch as the soldier stepped forward to ask her and her husband to leave.
At this point, Xuanyi's palace change has come to an end, if there is no accident, the situation of Yan Ling's northward advance is about to open, and it is the time when the overall situation is initially decided.
"It's finally over. Yan Ling pouted and rubbed in Lu Jun's arms, she had a huge loss in order to envy Yun Zhu, and now she can finally go back to sleep.
Xianyun Zhu walked up to Yan Ling and said with a smile: "Thank you this time, let's go to my general's mansion in the evening, and talk about the next cooperation by the way." ”
Yan Ling stretched his waist and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'm tired of staying in the hotel." I see that you can't rest for a while, this bottle of medicine should be emergency first, I won't accompany you, I have to go back to Mengzhou Gong. ”
Xianyun Zhu took it and said with a smile: "I'll ask my adjutant to send you over." ”
Yan Ling nodded, turned around and patted Lu Jun's shoulder, and said pitifully: "Senior brother, can you carry me, my body is hollowed out, and my lower limbs are weak!"
Lu Jun's black line, what kind of words are used in this!" "Let's go, little aunt and grandmother." ”
Yan Ling happily jumped onto Lu Jun's back, not seeing where he was powerless.
Lu Jun held Yan Ling's legs and smiled dotingly.
"Tan Min stay. Yan Ling fixed Tan Min in place with a word, "The other nine people will be taken to the General's Mansion together when the time comes." ”
"Yes. Tan Min replied obediently.
Yan Ling fell asleep in the dark when he arrived at Xianyun Zhu's mansion. Lu Jun called several times at dinner but didn't wake her up, almost thinking that something was wrong, and finally alarmed Chun Ci.
Chun Ci ran over to take a look, saying that his mind was too exhausted, and he would naturally wake up after sleeping enough, so Lu Jun put his mind at ease.
It was already midnight when Xian Yunzhu came back, and the body of the "first recovery from a serious illness" was really unbearable, if it wasn't for Tan Min's support all the way, it is estimated that he would not be able to walk back.
In the dead of night, Yan Ling's communication came into a text message, Lu Jun thought about it and took it to read, it was indeed an ambush on the way north of the crimson, and the situation was a little bad.
Lu Jun saw that Yan Ling was sleeping deeply, where was he willing to call her, sent a text message to Tan Min, borrowed a plane from Xianyun Zhu, and a group of eleven people went to the northeastern border of Xuanqi together.
Fortunately, the firefight was not too far away, and when Lu Jun arrived, the fierce battle was in full swing, and the night was filled with the smell of **, and the silenced sound of weapons pierced the air and shot into the distance, and the figures looked blurry in the night. A streamer of light passed, illuminating a piece of land, and many figures quickly rolled to dodge, and a dull sound of gunfire swept by, and some people fell heavily.
Lu Jun's figure ghostly shuttled between the undulating mountains and jungles, the guns in his hands inserted into the enemy's offensive defense line as if they had eyes, and quickly harvested the enemy's lives one after another.
The other party obviously found that there was help coming from here, and reacted quickly, and a team of people was sent out to hunt down Lu Jun.
"The testing equipment is dispersed on the spot, and the small high and low converge in the direction of five o'clock. Lu Jun quickly gave an order. Tan Min and the other ten people quickly sorted out the ammunition and equipment, and dispersed in a moment.
Lu Jun looked at the enemy chasing in front of him, climbed up the big tree not far away a few times, and quietly killed a few lone people under the cover of the branches, and when the people approached the attack range, he suddenly jumped down from the tree, and the dagger flashing with cold light drew a strange arc, and the blood splashed in the water, and several people died before they could make a sound.
Without the cooperation of the team, it would not affect Lu Jun's actions, he seemed to be a natural killing machine, running and jumping in the silent mountain forest. He is both light and fast, and he is elusive, and often his enemies are stabbed into the vital point by his single move before they even know it.
Different from the fierce gunfight just now, the battle here was silent, and one by one the figures fell in this mountain forest, which made the hearts of those who came to pursue shiver, and the slightest wind and grass pulled the trigger. But even in this way, they did not find the figure of their opponents, only the companions kept decreasing.
"Boss, this TM is too evil, the brothers have lost too much, let's withdraw. A man swallowed and foamed.
The guy who was called the boss took a sip, "Damn, which way is this fairy, beckoning the brothers to withdraw." ”
Then a group of people tensed their nerves and slowly retreated, and after a while of retreating, they lost several people, so that these guys lost the last will to fight, and they fled in a hurry without caring about others.
Lu Jun hid in the shadows and watched the so-called boss running out sweating, sneered, looked at the path, quietly followed, caught the boss in front of an extremely deep ditch, twisted his neck in his frightened eyes, and threw him into the deep ditch.
"Master Lu?" Peony noticed the weakening of the attack, knew that reinforcements were coming, and brought a few people to check here, and happened to see Lu Jun kill this little leader.
Lu Jun turned around and saw the scarlet leader of the girl and man under Yan Ling, and nodded slightly, "Yan Ling has something to do, I'll help her deal with it." Less nonsense, quick fix. ”
"Yes. Peony reported the distribution of the detected enemies to Lu Jun.
It doesn't seem that the people who came this time were not a wave, Lu Jun carefully looked at the defense map drawn by Peony, and said casually: "Go here first, take this wave of people, and then arrange some firepower here, send two groups of people to here and here respectively, and lead people over to concentrate on annihilation, as for these people, I will let Tan Min solve them." ”
Peony looked at it carefully, felt that it was feasible, and quickly gave an order.
As the gunfire gradually decreased, the battle on this side also came to an end. Lu Jun looked at the people who had converged, turned to Peony and said, "You guys move quickly according to the original plan, and then Yan Ling will have specific tasks, so I'll go first." ”
Peony nodded, "Thank you Lu Ye for helping." ”
Lu Jun waved his hand and took Tan Min and ten others to rush back to Qili on the plane. Soon after the plane landed, the morning sun slowly rose from the east.