"Your Majesty, due to the haste in the preparation of the prisoners, the number of preparations is not large, and the soldiers of the forward battalion have collected the entire battlefield to gather nine hundred and ninety-nine soldiers with sound legs and feet, and their appearance is quite good. Li Guang stood in Wang Mang and whispered: "Originally, according to the previously agreed plan, there was no such thing as offering prisoners, but after His Majesty's reward arrived in the army, the voice of offering prisoners came from the army. ”

"What are you suspicious of?" Wang Mang saw Li Guang's solemn expression, knowing what Li Guang had discovered, among Wang Mang's so many courtiers, the person who was least worried about loyalty was definitely one of the people at the top, after all, it was sent by the system, and he was tied to the real life and death.

Li Guang said with a cold expression: "The minister has led the troops to fight for many years, and some feelings are always right, the voice of the prisoner came out strangely, the minister sent someone to investigate, but the source was not found at all, and it is precisely because of this that this matter is absolutely unusual." ”

"In that case, why do you still do this sacrifice of prisoners?" Wang Mang said.

"The minister said that this matter is already the will of many soldiers in the forward battalion, and although the minister is their leader, he cannot go against the will of all of them. Li Guangdao: "At the same time, the minister is also very curious, what are these people going to do?"

"Then why didn't you tell me about it before? Wang Mang said.

"This is just the minister's suspicion, the minister has no evidence, I just hope that the minister's feelings are wrong. After Li Guang finished speaking, he said goodbye to Wang Mang, as the commander of the forward battalion, he would be in charge of the prisoner sacrifice ceremony.

With the sound of a long war drum, a pair of Qin soldiers with high spirits on their faces pressed nine hundred and ninety-nine prisoners of the Yu Army and slowly walked into the school field that had just been cleared.

As soon as the prisoners of the Yu army entered the school field, they were pressed by the soldiers of the Qin army and knelt on the ground, Li Guang took Wang Jitang and other generals to kowtow to Wang Mang and said: "Minister Li Guang led the generals of the forward battalion to sacrifice prisoners to Your Majesty, God bless the Great Qin River and Mountains forever, long live Your Majesty, long live Long live Your Majesty!"

Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!

With Li Guang after him, nearly 200,000 soldiers of the forward battalion outside who had passed through the big battle shouted at the same time, Wang Mang sat on the high platform, and the ministers of civil and military affairs stood left and right behind him, looking at this majestic scene, he couldn't help but get up and said: "God bless Daqin, by all the generals, you Daqin will win a hundred battles!"

"The ceremony begins!" Li Lan roared.

Offering prisoners is not just a matter of bringing the captives to the emperor for a walk, there are a lot of particularities in this, but things happened suddenly, and the Qin army was not prepared, so it was simply Li Guang on behalf of the forward battalion to send Wang Mang an enthusiastic letter, this letter is gorgeous, and the meaning is one, Your Majesty is wise!

Then the eldest grandson Wuji accepted Li Guang's sacrifice on behalf of Wang Mang, and then also gave Li Guang an enthusiastic letter, which was also gorgeous, with just one meaning, the soldiers of the forward battalion achieved a brilliant victory under the leadership of the wise and martial emperor!

Then, led by Wang Dun, he took Ma Liang and other ninety-nine young scholars who had studied music and rhythm forward, temporarily representing the music hall of the Ministry of Rites, and sang praises to Daqin and Wang Mang for a while.

Wang Mang only felt quite bored with this process, but many of the soldiers present watched it with relish, Wang Jian said on the side: "Your Majesty, this sacrifice of prisoners helps to unite people's hearts, and it is an immortal magic weapon to promote the majesty of the Son of Heaven.

As soon as Wang Jian's words were finished, Wang Mang's expression moved, and the best emperor system, which had not moved for a long time, suddenly appeared a task.

"Hidden Mission: Sacrifice to Heaven and Earth, and be protected by Heaven and Earth. ”

A task of ten words in total, it looks clueless, Wang Mang looked at it, he didn't know what kind of task it was, Wang Mang raised his eyebrows, although this task is strange, but the reward for completing the task may be extraordinary, now we have seen the main quest, the side quest and the temporary quest three system tasks, but this hidden task has never been seen, and the moment he saw this task, Wang Mang felt that he seemed to be inextricably linked to this task.

What exactly is this task?

Wang Mang thought that all the previous tasks were triggered by a certain medium as a catalyst, but this time, ...... Wang Mang thought about it for a while, and then thought of the prisoner sacrifice ceremony that was going on now.

Is it a sacrifice of prisoners?

Wang Mang thought about it for a while, felt that it was very possible, and then thought about the task, so what is the sacrifice of heaven and earth?

After thinking about it, Wang Mang still didn't have a clue, and his face couldn't help showing some impatience, Wang Jian observed his words, and hurriedly said: "Why is Your Majesty so preoccupied?"

"I do have something on my mind. Wang Mang nodded, looked at Wang Jian, and suddenly asked, "Does the general know the connection between this sacrifice of prisoners and sacrifices?"

Wang Jian's expression changed, he looked at Wang Mang with a shocked expression, and said, "Why did Your Majesty ask so?"

"What's wrong?" Wang Mang didn't know why Wang Jian was so nervous after he asked.

Seeing that Wang Mang was a little confused, Wang Jian suddenly knew that the emperor just didn't know where he knew about such a thing, but he didn't know much about the details, so he said: "Your Majesty doesn't know, according to the ancient law, the ancestors are sacrificed, and the same ancient law says, the more intelligent and powerful the creatures of the sacrifice, the more protection they will get from the ancestors, of course, these are many years ago." ”

According to Wang Jian, as early as many years ago, whenever a war started on the mainland, countries would directly cut off the heads of the captives and sacrifice them to their ancestors, which I don't know what the rules are, but there has always been such a thing, it is said that this can get the protection of the ancestors, but I have never heard of anyone who really got shelter by sacrificing the captives to the ancestors.

But five hundred years ago, the Jin State and the Song State were at war, the Jin State of the Song State of one million soldiers and two million civilians, directly sacrificed to the ancestors of the Jin State, that is the most magnificent sacrificial activity in the past thousand years, it is said to have attracted the monarchs and strong men of the mainland countries to watch the ceremony, for a while, the Jin State of the life of the power to the extreme, almost have the momentum of annexing the world.

But soon after that sacrifice, the emperor of the Jin State who had the ambition to swallow the world at that time was bedridden because of the occasional cold, and soon died on the sickbed, and then the monarch of the Jin State continued to change, in just 20 years, the Jin State actually replaced five monarchs, the original powerful empire because of the internal consumption generated by the continuous replacement of the monarch, became a thousand holes, and finally the Jin State was weak, and the huge Jin State was actually controlled by the three major families of the Jin State, and finally the three major families completely replaced the Jin State, which is now the Three Kingdoms of Han, Zhao and Wei.

Since then, it has been rumored on the mainland that the reason why the Jin State declined and the reason why there were many disasters and disasters was because of the grand sacrifice of three million people, which not only did not allow the Jin Kingdom to get the protection of its ancestors and become more powerful, but on the contrary, because of too many killings, it caused the punishment of heaven and earth, and directly caused the most powerful empire to collapse.

Then, for some reason, the life sacrifices that have been passed down for countless years in the countries of the mainland slowly stopped, and there were occasional ones, and the scenes and scale were relatively small.

All the countries were frightened by the affairs of the Jin Kingdom, so when they heard that Wang Mang asked about the sacrifice and the sacrifice of prisoners, Wang Jian thought of the story of the Jin Kingdom at that time, for fear that the Great Qin, which had just improved a little, would be punished by heaven and earth because of Wang Mang's momentary thoughts, and would be ruined.

After Wang Mang knew this story, he had a number of hidden tasks that suddenly appeared in the system, and looked at Wang Jian and said: "I originally thought that it would be a waste of food to keep these captives, since I could sacrifice them, I directly killed and sacrificed my ancestors, and also saved some cattle, sheep and horses, but now it seems that I have to support them." ”

Wang Jian saw that Wang Mang had extinguished some thoughts that he shouldn't have, so he said: "Your Majesty, there is no need to keep them, just go back and sell them to slave traders." ”

"That's all there is to it!" Wang Mang nodded.

When Wang Mang and Wang Jian said this, the red tape of sacrificing prisoners over there finally ended, Li Lan wiped the shout on his forehead, and roared: "Now for the last moment of the prisoner sacrifice ceremony, the representative of the captive will offer loyalty to His Majesty!"

I don't know who came up with this set of prisoner sacrifice process, especially what captive at the end represents the loyalty of the prisoner, which is simply ridiculous.

Wang Mang looked at the front of the captive, and a young man with a delicate face stood up, let the two Qin soldiers press on the left and right, and walked towards the high platform where Wang Mang was.

The young man walked to the high platform, bowed his head and said, "Descend Guo De to offer loyalty to His Majesty the Great Qin Emperor!"

"I accept your loyalty, get up!" Wang Mang waved his hand, just wanting to end this boring ritual quickly, and at this moment, Wang Mang suddenly felt a deep cold chill falling from the sky.

Wang Mang raised his head suddenly, but saw a wisp of black gas coming from the sky, only rushing towards Wang Mang's high platform, Wang Jian stepped forward directly, blocked in front of Wang Mang, and shouted: "Master in the army, quickly escort!"

This black qi rushed in front of Wang Jian, swirled, and pierced headlong, directly submerging into the Baihui acupoint on the top of the head of the handsome young man Guo De.

Guo De trembled, and the black qi was divided into two, two, and four at the Baihui acupoint above Guo De's head, and in the blink of an eye, it spread all over Guo De's body.

"Thief, look for death!"

Li Guang has been secretly guarding against accidents at the prisoner sacrifice ceremony, and when he saw Guo Dezhi's abnormality at this moment, he stood up directly, drew out his long knife and slashed at Guo De.

When Li Guang's knife fell, a black gas from Guo De's body was separated, and it instantly resisted Li Guang's knife, and with a snap, the black gas shattered, and Li Guang's knife momentum was also heard.

"What's that?"

Li Hong was on the high platform, and before he could figure out the situation for a while, he was shocked by what happened in the captives and took a few steps back, and almost fell off the high platform.

Wang Mang and the others hurriedly looked at the captives, and directly at the Baihui acupoint above the heads of these captives, a black gas was born at the same time, and with the appearance of this black gas, the vitality of these captives quickly disappeared, and in a blink of an eye, they turned into a dried corpse, and it seemed that all the essence and spirit of the whole person had turned into the nourishment of this wisp of black gas.

Once these black gases are formed, they appear directly on the top of Guo De's head, and then submerge into Guo De's Baihui acupoint, fusing with a black gas in Guo De's body, with the continuous fusion of black gas, Guo De's momentum swells rapidly, and the whole person becomes hideous and terrifying.

"Evil Demon Outer Dao!" Qin Mengyao didn't know when she appeared beside Wang Mang, and looked at Guo De coldly, as if she was not looking at a person, but a demon.