Chapter 530: Chaos (2)
If the failure of the Far North garrison to besiege Yungen was just a harbinger of the chaos of the Empire, then the beginning of the great turmoil of the Imperial Star Energy was the first battle between An Xiaoyu and Ma Shengshi.
At the former site of Xiaohe Dam, An Xiaoyu and Ma Shengshi's men started a battle for some reason, and everyone could hear the roar of their battle, and more and more cultivators and media people noticed the battle.
At ten o'clock in the evening of the day Yungen fled again, the first gunshot rang out from the location of Xiaoheba, and some people keenly felt that the chaos in the entire imperial capital would start from this place, sweeping the territory of the entire empire, and ushering in an era.
The Sea Clan and the outer cultivators of the An family encountered the team sent out by Ma Shengshi to carry out the mission on the river beach at the former site of the Xiaohe Dam, and the two sides started a fierce fight, and the five Sea Clans under An Xiaoyu were almost killed and injured in the chaotic battle.
There were no masters above the master realm left when Ma Sheng, the normal battle was tragic and abnormal, and the viewing effect was excellent, and the whole process of the battle was recorded by a reporter who "happened to pass by" and heard the gunshots and rushed to hear the news.
In the end, they left a large number of corpses, the two sea tribes retreated with the remnants of the An family, and the people of Ma Shengshi also left in disarray, and the people of the military commission and the garrison took over the small river dam, dispersed the reporters who rushed to hear the news around them, and dealt with the scene overnight.
That night, the reporter who happened to pass by posted the whole process of the battle on the Internet.
In the video, both the sea clan and the human cultivators are engaged in a desperate struggle, and in the end, both of them are defeated and retreated. There's also a nice transcript at the bottom of the video, introducing An Xiaoyu and Ma Shengshi's men, and telling about the ongoing struggle between the two.
As soon as this video and manuscript were released, it set off a crazy craze on the empire's website, although the empire quickly deleted the original link, but there were still many people who saved screenshots of the manuscript and video download files, so this matter began to ferment completely in the imperial capital.
An Xiaoyu and Ma Shengshi did not come forward to express any force field, but someone immediately began to analyze on the Internet that the conflict between An Xiaoyu and Ma Shengshi was not a simple conflict of interests, but what was represented behind it was the conflict between the reformist faction of the Military Commission and the conservative faction of the court.
The struggle between them means that at the dawn of the new millennium of the Great Age of Spiritual Practice, the fierce collision between the new and the old is destined to occur, and it is the official beginning of a change, and if you can control the main position at this time, you can keep more benefits.
Such theories were rampant, and many people believed in this inference and participated in the change, which began to propel the empire towards a new era.
All forces, all those who want to fish in troubled waters, have begun to calculate the entire imperial capital behind their backs, calculating their own interests and the interests of others, calculating how to rise to prominence in the future, and how to compose an epic that can be sung and cried in the troubled times.
At the same time, due to the reappearance of the second-level marauder Yungen and the defeat of the Far North garrison, the officers of the Periphery faction were also greatly hit, and all forces began to condemn the corpses of the Periphery faction, and the mood of the Awakened instantly swelled.
In just one night, the Awakened unrest in the empire increased to eight, spread across various provinces across the country, causing varying degrees of damage.
These turbulent awakened people, without exception, all waved the same banner, demanding that the court and the military commission give up the supervision and suppression of the awakened, so that the awakened can be free, gain the right to have new species to fight each other for survival, and demand a new life.
The empire turned a blind eye to this absurd request, and mobilized the forces of the Military Commission, requiring all localities to start a strict investigation, and once the awakened person was found, he could be directly killed on the spot under the premise that the other party did not cooperate.
But such an order still did not make the Awakened cowardly.
One night later, in the morning, there were once again twelve revolts of the Awoken, including one Tier 1 Marauder.
But because of the previous experience of An Xiaoyu directly controlling the marauder and handing it over to the Military Commission, this marauder seemed to be very cowardly, and just appeared in the trouble, showing his unparalleled strength, and disappeared into the crowd before the cultivator and the Military Commission arrived.
And in the face of the frequent occurrence of the awakened, unexpectedly, the major forces are indifferent, and they don't seem to be as enthusiastic about the awakened as before, but they don't move, waiting to see the excitement, watching the whole situation.
So in such an ambiguous and turbulent situation, the imperial capital first launched the first formal battle. The two sides of the battle were the Imperial Cabinet and the Military Commission, and when it came to discussing how to deal with the awakened and the predators, the Imperial Court members preferred to resolve the matter through a peaceful system, while the Military Commission said that Star Energy had too much influence on people's thinking and that strong measures should be used.
After such a struggle began, through media reports, various forces rose up and began to stand in support, and then a wave of intrigue was set off throughout the empire.
Relying on such a struggle on the surface, more and more people began to trade with various forces behind their backs, all kinds of dark sides began to emerge in the eyes of people, retaliation and dirty transactions began to become blatant, and the strict investigation of the empire was completely on the awakened, and there was no time to estimate these people.
Xu Hewei looked at An Xiaoyu, who was sitting firmly in the classroom and flipping through the news, and couldn't help asking, "Did you arrange last night's incident?" ”
An Xiaoyu wondered: "Of course I arranged it, I asked them to go to see what kind of little calculations Ma Sheng was having, but they told me that Ma Sheng was doing the Awakened trade behind his back, and then they fought, in fact, from the city to Xiaoheba." ”
Xu Hewei looked suspicious, he found that An Xiaoyu's current acting skills were simply flawless, and it was impossible to tell whether what she said was true or false, of course, Xu Hewei was more willing to believe that An Xiaoyu was false.
"And then so many of you two died?"
An Xiaoyu spread out her hands and said, "It's not my people, it's the people of the An family, and there are also the Sea Clan." In fact, I have long felt that the Sea Clan is a hidden danger in the imperial capital, but the agreement between the empire and the Sea Clan before, as well as my previous favor, so I have not touched them, and now it is just right. ”
"And what are you going to do in the future?" Xu Hewei knew that he couldn't ask the truth, and An Xiaoyu's mouth full of nonsense made his brain hurt.
"What else can I do in the future? Now that the An family has died so many people, the An family will definitely not send me any more troops, and there are only two left in the Sea Clan, and I ...... it myself" She reached out and knocked on the repair instrument on her left shoulder: "It's inconvenient to be seriously injured again, so hide first." ”
Xu Hewei pursed his lips, and finally asked, "Then aren't you worried that Ma Shengshi or others will take advantage of this opportunity to attack you?" ”
"Hah! That's three thousand colleges! An Xiaoyu said with a smile, as if she was safe if she stayed in this classroom, and no one could rush in and hurt her.
Xu is slanderous, it is strange to believe you.
Just this morning, he also seemed to have seen the energy breath of the Sea Clan near the teaching building of the mecha department, and then there was some faint fishy smell hidden in the corner, and it was strange that An Xiaoyu could rest assured.
It's just that this matter is really weird, why does the fight between An Xiaoyu and Ma Shengshi appear on the bright side? And the fight was so fierce, An Xiaoyu didn't seem to care at all, it looked like ...... It's like......
It seems that something restricts An Xiaoyu's way of thinking? Hell yes!
What can limit An Xiaoyu's way of thinking? Xu Hewei thought about it while walking towards his class, and then he was stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought that An Xiaoyu seemed to be wearing gloves to class today?
Xu He is thoughtful.
On the second night of the fermentation of the incident, Tong Laoda, one of the two giants of the underground forces in the Northwest City, was suddenly assassinated, and he was seriously injured and fell into a coma and never woke up again.
That night, the whole northwestern city was in complete chaos, and the residents who lived here did not dare to go out at night, for fear that those who were wandering outside would take them away and beat them up as enemies. All they could hear was the noise of the streets outside, and it didn't stop for a night.
In the end, Tong Boss and Jin Boss's people launched more than a dozen large-scale arms fights in different neighborhoods, because Tong Boss's forces were leaderless, and his own boss was unconscious and couldn't raise his ambition at all, so the battle ended with the defeat of Tong Boss's forces.
The next morning people came out of their homes and saw the whole clean street, as if nothing had happened. But there are still sensitive people who perceive a slight smell of gunsmoke and blood in the air, and if you look closely, you can see that there is still a slight trace of blood left on the corners of the street.
Ma Shengshi's car quietly left his mansion that morning, and with a few of the strongest cultivators and a large number of bodyguards, he came to the northwest city and lived in an inconspicuous villa in the northwest city.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Ma Shengshi has been operating in the northwest city for a long time, and his interests have been deeply rooted in this area.
Correspondingly, most of the interests of Ma when he was born will also fall into the hands of Member Li.
Everyone knew that Ma was in a hurry and needed to sit in person. And because of the previous battle with An Xiaoyu, the people in his hands were killed and wounded, and only these people who were now with him were left, obviously he didn't want to make any more extraneous things at all, these people would eventually stay by his side and protect him through the entire turbulent period.
With the change of the northwest city, the whitewashing of the gray rope began to be obstructed.
Some people in the imperial court believed that whether the gray rope was whitewashed or continued to do some other actions at this time, it would bring damage to the imperial capital that was difficult to ignore. They point out a series of effects caused by the ash rope during the last major purge.
Because the military commissar said that it could not be said to the court, it began to give up its support for the gray rope whitewashing.
Due to the silence of the Military Commission and the resistance of the court, the Ministry of Supervision was silent, and other forces began to wait and see, and the previous support for the gray rope whitewashing also began to decrease. Subsequently, other peripheral forces began to take advantage of this opportunity to come to the southeast city to fight the autumn wind.
The small forces of all parties proposed to the gray rope at this time, using their non-interference in the whitewashing process of the gray rope in exchange for certain underground interests, or directly asking for money, and the gray rope was tired of coping for a while.
At this time, as an ally of Gray Rope, An Xiaoyu came directly to the southeast city and killed several leaders of small forces who came to blackmail Gray Rope, intending to kill chickens and monkeys.
But a discerning person can see at a glance that An Xiaoyu's old wound on her left shoulder has not yet healed, and when she kills these people, even if she is a person in the master realm, she will not be able to catch it a little, if someone from the grandmaster realm will deal with her at this time......
Of course, these small forces are just thinking about it, not to mention that they don't have grandmasters in their hands, even if they do, the most powerful force in this troubled world should still be hidden in order to ensure their own lives, not to make a bird.
But they knew that An Xiaoyu would encounter sniping one day, especially in this increasingly chaotic imperial capital. When the chaos is in full swing, who cares if you are a young sect or not? After all, it's not a wounded man who can't move his left arm and has less than half of his strength left?
As a result, all the small forces that came to fight the autumn wind began to hide in the darkness, intending to watch the excitement.
They all know that they are just cannon fodder in the midst of wealth and danger, and the more powerful forces, those who are looking forward to more benefits, are waiting behind them, waiting until they test the attitude of the gray rope, and then they can continue.
But the appearance of An Xiaoyu completely disrupted their plans......
Sure enough, on the night of the third day after Yungen appeared, the turmoil in the imperial capital broke out completely, and the southeast city launched an encirclement and suppression operation against An Xiaoyu that was guided by someone and who participated.
Three Grandmasters, more than 20 Master Realms, and countless cultivators below the Master level participated in this huge encirclement and suppression operation. Starting from An Xiaoyu's temporary foothold, the battle continued to unfold in the streets and alleys of the southeast city.
An Xiaoyu took two sea clans in black robes to flee in embarrassment in this urban area, and in the midst of the encirclement and interception, An Xiaoyu's back was attacked by two grandmasters from a distance, the clothes on his body were in tatters, his long hair was scattered, his head was bleeding, and finally fled into the sewers in the southeast city.
According to their estimates, An Xiaoyu is now seriously injured, even more serious than the previous injury from the piercing of her left shoulder. And in the process of encircling An Xiaoyu, whether it was the Wei family, the Lei family, the An family, or the Jade Shou Lingzun, they did not come forward to stop it.
The disappearance of An Xiaoyu completely opened up the pattern of chaos in the imperial capital, and the southeast and northwest urban areas were connected, and the remaining two underground forces had to take advantage of the situation and loot.
When the sun rose on the morning of the fourth day, everyone in the imperial capital realized that the moment had come for everyone to be in danger, and they began to regulate their behavior, without pleasure, without hanging out, watching all kinds of news and inferences on the terminal, and living a life of three points and one line.
At this time, An Xiaoyu was changing clothes in an antique room.
Rose said anxiously next to her, "Hurry up and leave after changing your clothes!" ”
An Xiaoyu smiled: "So ruthless? When I was hurt, I was the first to come to you. ”
Rose said hatefully, "You were the first thing you thought of when you were injured? You've clearly planned it! Now that you have fused star energy, your left arm is not injured at all, and it has been strengthened and has the ability to recover, how can you not be able to defeat those three grandmasters? ”
"What's more, you use the secret premise that you have fused star energy to formalize the sudden conflict between you and Ma Sheng, and you won't be suspected by the people behind the scenes, do you think I can't see it? You and Ma took the initiative to set off the turmoil in the empire when you were born, and it was clearly your first move! ”
An Xiaoyu buttoned it up and said, "You really know me, but I'm wearing a little bit of your clothes." ”
Rose helplessly looked at An Xiaoyu's clothes with some loose shoulders on her body, and said, "Where is it small?" ”
An Xiaoyu straightened her chest, her buttons were almost broken, and she said innocently, "It's a lot smaller here." ”
Rose's heart became even more resentful, and she didn't want to leave An Xiaoyu for a moment, and said: "Anyway, you better hurry up, in case they find me here, listening to thunder will be completely finished!" ”
An Xiaoyu smiled: "Do you think Tinglei can escape this catastrophe?" If they can find this, it means that my inference is correct, if my inference is correct, then Tinglei has already been in their calculations, and you still want to protect yourself? ”
Rose was stunned for a moment: "What inference?" ”
An Xiaoyu rolled her eyes: "What inference are you not very clear in your heart?" You know I'm using star energy to fool the people behind the scenes. ”
Hearing An Xiaoyu's words, Rose's face instantly turned ugly. An Xiaoyu looked at her appearance, smiled happily, patted her shoulder and said, "Don't worry, Auntie, I will return the clothes to you in the future, as for making you frightened today, it is a big deal to save your life and pay it back?" ”
Rose was so angry that she smoked: "Do you do anything like this?" Also, whose aunt are you called? ”
An Xiaoyu was just about to laugh, but a voice came into their ears from outside the courtyard.
"His Royal Highness Shaozong is worthy of being His Royal Highness Shaozong, it is really a good calculation, but does His Highness Shaozong know that your abacus has failed?"
An Xiaoyu laughed: "Gu Lao! Sure enough, it's you! Say, how did Zhang Shujie get blackmailed by you? ”
Gu Lao's figure appeared at the door, and said with a smile: "It's so ugly, why don't we go to the organization together, and you ask her in person?" ”
An Xiaoyu spread out her hands: "Then I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, I still have something to do, I don't want to accompany you!" ”
As soon as the words fell, a hand stretched out from the void, and before Gu Lao could react, he grabbed An Xiaoyu, and An Xiaoyu grabbed Rose again, and the two of them completely disappeared into the void.
With a gloomy face, Gurao pulled out the terminal.