29. Late-night visitors
Although Li Shushi hoped that Su Xiaololi could use her wide chest (in every sense) to let herself sleep well, it was a pity that it backfired, and he still suffered from insomnia.
The night was a little hazy, the moon outside the window did not shine much, but it was almost the only light in the dark night, with wide eyes and looking at the unfamiliar ceiling, surrounded by a faint but sweet breath, and a pair of eyes full of concern.
Of course, the reason for insomnia can't be because of how impactful today's picture is, making him unforgettable, so that distracting thoughts finally evolved into a terrible nightmare and being chased by evil ghosts or something, in fact, the current Li Shushi is not the innocent boy who can scare him half to death by some unnatural phenomena, he has fought inhuman monsters, crossed the valley that roasted tens of thousands of living people, and experienced more than 100,000 battlefields, which of those battles was not a mountain of corpses, a sea of blood, and a sea of red rivers blocking the river.
Such a huge battlefield cannot be cleaned up at all, and it will definitely be a new "dead land" in a few years.
So many winds and waves have come over, and now this blood pool will only make him feel nauseous and uncomfortable at most, and it is extremely difficult to completely destroy his three views, so the reason for his insomnia is definitely not because of himself.
He was thinking—although it seemed a little ridiculous to say it, Li Shucheng was indeed thinking with his brain, which was really not smart, even if his IQ was at best qualified and his EQ was holding back.
Don't abandon, don't give up. Even if it makes my body hot and I have a headache, I still think about it.
The enemies he has to face are getting stronger and more weird, and even beyond the level of human beings, and now they have not exceeded the range that the state army can bear, but God knows if this game of life OL belongs to the kind of game with infinite adjustment of difficulty, from easy to difficult to hell and nightmares, and finally the ultimate difficulty is waiting for him.
This is just the difficulty of small soldiers, at most, there are only a few small leaders below the Demon Throne, the Five Tiger Generals under the Four Heavenly Kings, etc., if they are not prepared, they can also make the people of the state army scramble, and may even endanger their lives.
This feeling was not obvious when facing those ghosts before, after all, although the enemy came in waves, there was always a way to deal with it. The most important thing is that the enemy will kill fewer and fewer people. Instead of looking like it is now, it seems that the more and more kills are in those otherworldly novels, it is completely relying on the necromancers who dominate the world with war, although the crowd tactics and fatigue tactics are simple and crude, but as long as they can reach an order of magnitude. Then it's true that can't be cracked. Royal tactics. Unless someone can come up with a nuclear missile to wash the ground.
Li Shushi does not have a nuclear missile. But there are holy beasts in this world, and there are also holy beasts such as Baoyu, and the effect doesn't seem to be much worse than that of a nuclear missile. And in addition to leaving a mess afterwards, there is no need to worry about radioactive contamination, which will still cause all kinds of bad effects even after a hundred years.
It's just that Li Shushi also clearly remembers that because of the willfulness of some people outside Chang'an City, although a war between the two sides became a joke, it also paid the price of a certain Lori getting out of force and falling into danger. If a person's power wants to push this terrifying and huge power, it is obviously difficult for even a non-human Su Xiaololi to bear, let alone an ordinary human, and to take a way that ordinary humans can bear, such as laying a magic circle to build an altar, if the value of the target is not big enough or not enough, it becomes a great waste.
In other words, this power can only be used as a hole card to hide in the hand, not only at critical moments, but also must not be used lightly.
And this is probably the terrible thing about this enemy, not only can it be scattered at will, but it may even evolve into a more troublesome being.
How do you deal with this kind of headache enemy?
The easiest and most direct way is to attack the enemy's soul.
The enemy is indeed powerful, but this strength comes from the power provided by the energy that makes up their body, especially those Xianbei infantry who are like puppets, and the meaning of the soul to that body is nothing more than that it can drive the body composed of energy and some other things (such as the blood pool, but even Su Xiaololi didn't fully understand the full operation principle of that thing, after all, because the altar was destroyed in the first place, the blood pool that did not have the ability to operate independently naturally could not reveal more information), Instead of being like those ghosts around Li Shushi, the strength of the soul is the foundation that determines the power of a ghost.
The enemy's body is indeed extremely powerful, with power that cannot be matched by humans, but the enemy's soul is very fragile, in fact, if the outer layer of physical protection is removed, the soul that has been repeatedly used many times has already been broken.
This should be a good direction to think about, at least it sounds very reliable, but according to the codex handed down by those immortals, whether it is a weapon or a strategic spell that can have such an ability, it should be a very tall thing, at least it is absolutely lacking in popularity, although it is powerful, but how many enemies can a person be the opponent of?
Don't look at Li Shushi's fight in Pingcheng that night, but don't forget that he took advantage of the city wall, and the construction of the city wall is not something that can be completed by one person, not to mention that those cannonballs are also the crystallization of Su Xiaololi and many researchers.
Therefore, even if it seems to be a victory of 100 against 10,000, there are hundreds or even the power of a country behind it.
Maybe individual heroism in other things has a wide range of positive significance, but only in this matter, what is needed is unity and popularity, and a strong person like Xiaoqiang is reserved for those bosses who will become more and more powerful - anyway, this is also the opponent they want, although they won't mind if they have been abusing vegetables or something, but sure enough, it is still the kind of battle of life and death that can stimulate their enthusiasm more, just like the qiē that happened before, if it can be repeated, Old Man Tong will still go north, Zilongchan, Wen Qiao, and Gongming will still fight desperately. This can be regarded as the romance of a warrior.
Li Shushi, who was constantly thinking crankily in his mind, knew that when the sun was about to come out, he finally closed his eyes because of poor spirits, of course he wouldn't notice, knowing that he was snoring softly, Su Xiaoluoli gently combed the somewhat messy hair on his forehead, and seemed to have encountered something very happy, and closed his eyes with a sweet smile.
Anyway, after being "tortured" by Li Shushi for so many years, even if he didn't appear as the lord, it wouldn't be unaware of what they should do for others, so when they learned from Nero-chan that someone would not be able to get out of bed until at least three o'clock in the morning, they just smiled with a bad look and went to work.
Although the handling of that huge blood pool was mainly in charge of Su Xiaololi, there were many miscellaneous things that they still needed to deal with. And Su Xiaololi is only responsible for the last very technical steps.
"Leave the complicated and non-technical things to the soldiers. And I can devote more energy to more valuable things, even if it is to accompany my husband to see the scenery. ”
Because Su Xiaololi said it so reasonably, Li Shushi felt that he was speechless.
After a pause at Wubao for about five days, Li Shushi and Zhang Xiu, who had rushed over to meet him, and his Yanmen soldiers continued north along the route of the enemy's invasion - they should have chosen to retreat to Pingcheng after suffering a lot of battle damage. Wait for the arrival of the main forces of the enemy. Then, relying on the city walls, which can act as a great hindrance to the enemy regardless of quality, make the war much easier. But to everyone's surprise. Taking advantage of the "leisure" of the past few days, through the detective cavalry investigations spread by Li Shushi, no trace of a new enemy appeared within a radius of several hundred miles.
It was the choice of a new offensive direction. Or is there something wrong inside the grassland, or is there something else?
Because there are too many uncertainties, Li Shushi, Jia Xu, Fa Zheng and others decided to venture north after studying for a long time.
The first is to continue to make temptations, and the other is to see if we can find more clues about this matter on the way.
By the way, when dealing with the blood pool, a certain royal sister and a certain girl also quietly appeared in the corner, and they will also follow Li Shushi north with White Tiger Meow, but the purpose of the two of them seems to be different from Li Shushi.
They seem to care more about the whereabouts of a treasure than they do about the mysteries of the "mysterious people".
It's a pity that they are not willing to reveal too much information to Li Shushi, and secondly, according to them, they themselves don't know where the treasure is, although Li Shushi doesn't believe in the second reason, but in the face of a certain royal sister's fist that looks delicate but is more terrifying than Su Xiaololi, Li Shushi still wisely gave up his boring conjecture.
However, even if these two plus a meow only followed temporarily, it also gave Li Shushi more confidence in this trip to the north.
In this way, Li Shushi led his men and horses across the Great Wall, which is the most important dividing line between the Han people and the Hu people of the grassland.
Well, in fact, he didn't cross the Great Wall once or twice, and it was even more common for many border soldiers, so this kind of thing alone is really not worth writing about. What really made Li Shushi feel that he had crossed the Great Wall had a little special significance was what happened that night after crossing the Great Wall.
Because of the outbreak of war between Bingzhou and Xianbei again, the Xianbei tribe, which was used to going to the south before winter in recent years in order to exchange various materials from the Han people that could help them better survive the cold winter, either joined the Xianbei army that went south, and the tribes that were worried that they might be retaliated by the Bingzhou army afterwards had to turn around and leave, so after crossing the Great Wall, it was still difficult to find traces of human activities within a radius of 100 miles. In the vast space, only the troops of the state army could camp in the places they liked, and let the horses enjoy the last "feast" that the grassland had to offer before winter.
"There is still no fruitful discussion, and sure enough, for this kind of supernatural existence, there will really be an end of manpower."
ended another fruitless discussion, although he knew that such a mood would have no meaning to solve the matter, Li Shushi still couldn't help but look disappointed. Even if he hadn't expected much from such a discussion.
"If the matter is really so easy to solve, how can the elder sisters be willing to follow the actions of the army of the husband, although they are all high-ranking figures, but under normal circumstances, they will not interfere in human affairs at will."
Hearing Li Shushi's complaint, Su Xiaololi, who was holding a bowl of steaming mutton porridge in one hand, came over, and behind her, there were three holy (meng) beasts with smooth and shiny mouths, and it seemed that they had already eaten today's "supper" in advance.
"According to me, the reason why Zhidi Xin lost his authority, in addition to the mistakes in his own policies, another important reason is that you holy beasts who say 'do not interfere in human affairs' have sent people to make a lot of trouble."
"Hmph~ I did the right thing. But that's also for a reason. That kind of villain deserves to be killed! ”
What was somewhat unexpected by Li Shushi was that the Xuanwu Imperial Sister had no desire to refute Li Shushi's "accusation" at all, but accepted it very happily, and it seemed quite reasonable. Even the Yellow Dragon girl next to Sister Xuanwu. This girl with a relatively indifferent expression. At this time, there was also a "I am relieved" expression on his face.
"Is it for ...... Get you back? Suddenly I thought of some of the wind I had heard in the fruit illusion. Li Shushi asked tentatively.
"That's right, it's for revenge! We are all admirers of Lord Nuwa, the very fanatical kind~ So you have to remember the little one. If you offend us, there is still a possibility of survival, but if you speak disrespectfully to Lord Nuwa, hum~"
In other words, if I really offend you, I don't necessarily have a chance of surviving!
"Tut-tut~ Aren't you offending the 'holy beast' in your mouth by the two of us now?"
So sure enough, the white tiger meow is so pitiful, has it been completely robbed of the storage zài by the two of you strong storage zài?
Because the topic was diverted by Li Shushi, Li Shushi finally escaped, but because of this casual chat, Li Shushi had a further understanding of some of the original things.
Of course, what made him even more wary was that he should not be like Di Xin's stupid fool in the future, who could easily mix up the sacrificial activities, but he didn't know how to fall into the evil and flirted with the real body statue that was said to be Nuwa Niangniang, so he was sent by the Xuanwu Imperial Sister to her subordinates, whether it was in the real history of this plane or in the fruit illusion that Li Shushi experienced, no matter what method was used, anyway, the final result was to make the person with a temporary head cramp jump into the fire pit.
"It can't be completely said that he fell into evil, probably because he planned to use guò to elevate the so-called Twelve Ancestral Witches who came out of nowhere to compete with Lord Nuwa for faith at that time, so as to suppress Lord Nuwa's status in the minds of everyone."
"Well, I don't seem to have heard of such a thing as a god in this world, and isn't the sacrifice or something exclusive to the four of you holy beasts, even if Sister Huanglong is not famous, she will occasionally be mentioned."
"That kind of thing, it's very complicated to say, and even if you say it, you probably won't understand it."
Although he said so, Li Shushi could clearly feel that what Xuanwu Imperial Sister really meant: If you ask again, you will die!
Of course, it may not really be dead, but in the face of this kind of existence, death is sometimes the simplest punishment.
"Huh? It looks like there's an interesting guest coming, little one, who should be looking for you. ”
"Guests? What's the matter, I didn't invite guests...... No, could it be that someone sneaked up on it! ”
Li Shushi didn't doubt that Sister Xuanwu would deceive him in this kind of thing, after all, it didn't seem to be necessary at all, but he was touched at the door of the house without knowing it, and those soldiers on duty were too careless!
Hey? It doesn't feel right.
Li Shushi looked at the surrounding scenery very suspiciously, why did he run so many steps and still didn't move forward even a penny?
When I looked back, it was the Xuanwu Imperial Sister who covered her mouth with one hand and chuckled lightly, and carried her collar with the other hand.
Okay, Tianli Zhaozhao, the cycle of heaven, this is really tried and tested, a few days ago, Li Shushi carried a certain meow's collar and galloped to share the sunrise and sunset of the grassland, but now it is replaced by the royal sister, and the original position has been completely reversed.
In this way, can you be friends in the future?
There are only Li Shushi, Su Xiaololi and three cute beasts in the big tent now, Li Shushi doesn't need to worry about the embarrassment that he was probably found by a certain royal sister just now and is known by others, even if he didn't have much majesty at all.
"Don't be so anxious, this is an old friend, well, probably an old friend, so you don't have to be so alarmed."
Well, if it's just one person, there really wouldn't be so alarmed, although it's not much fun to be touched by a person to the edge of the camp, but it's better than being touched by an army.
"Do you need me to go and greet your 'old friend'?"
"No, according to his ability, if it weren't for us, it wouldn't be difficult to sneak in quietly. Of course, you don't have to worry about your own safety, the one in your family will protect you carefully...... Isn't it~"
Sister Xuanwu glanced at Su Xiaololi, who was a little more shy on her face with her eyes full of meaning, although Li Shushi felt that Sister Xuanwu's words seemed to have something to say, but with his various quotients, he probably couldn't figure it out even if he wanted to break his head.
In fact, a certain royal sister seemed to quickly react to such a fact, so her face also showed a rare expression as if she had been defeated, and the yellow dragon girl on the side even laughed lightly without covering her face at all.
Well, although the shy Su Xiaololi is very red-faced, the yellow dragon girl who covers her mouth and laughs is also the most beautiful scenery in the world.
"So it's only me who is the evil mother-in-law, it's only scary, infinitely terrifying, and there is no charm at all, isn't it!"
Grunt...... Stared at a certain part of the Xuanwu Imperial Sister, nodded a thumbs up in her heart, and then had time to sigh Sure enough, as long as she is a girl, she will be extremely sensitive to her appearance, even if other aspects are also very important to women.
Of course, women are not to blame, it is entirely because of men's preferences that determine such results. It's like in the animal world that the male always seems stronger or more beautiful or something else that stands out, because only then can the male have the opportunity to win the favor of the female and have the ability to pass on their genes.
Human beings are inherently animals, so it's only natural to have the same basic instincts as animals.
Of course, it's just that Li Shushi didn't expect that a certain royal sister who was a divine beast would care so much.
"Don't think about it anymore, or be careful I'll beat you!" Of course, this time a certain royal sister just waved her fist casually, which was not so much a threat as a coquettish to Li Shushi - although no one would think so.
It's just that before a certain royal sister put away the little fist that still looks beautiful and cute on the surface, there was a loud sound outside the military tent, and then Dian Wei's voice came in:
"Lord, there seems to be something wrong outside, General Zilong has rushed over, this vicinity has been blocked by us, and General Fengxian is also leading his troops to rush here. However, please be careful, if you can infiltrate the barracks, it will not be easy for the enemy to be afraid. ”
Li Shushi almost endured it so that he didn't let his head rotate in the direction where the Xuanwu Imperial Sister was, he was very unsure if the small fist that had not been completely put down would be printed on his face if he did this, and by the way, it would have some negative effects that could not be dispelled by self-healing.
It is inevitable that a person will always have willfulness, but no one can stop the willfulness of some people.
However, because of this, the big tent fell into an extremely embarrassing atmosphere for a while.
Until, the chaos outside seemed to subside, and the silence that was supposed to belong to the night returned.
After waiting patiently for a while, the curtain of the big tent was lifted, and the first to come in was Lu Bu with a boring expression and Zhao Yun with a solemn expression, and behind them were Tong Yuan and a very familiar face of Li Shushi who walked in front of Tong Yuan. (To be continued......)