Within the belly of the Wollongong Mountains in all directions.

The cold stone room was unusually quiet, only the desks full of various documents and books, and the sound of the 'rustle' of pen work kept sounding.

After Mai Ji left, Wang Yao cleaned up the conference room alone, returned to the stone room that he used for his office, and began to calculate the relevant data such as the armaments and materials that would be consumed in the future.

Wang Yao had served as the commander of the Shu Army, had done a similar armament budget, and also knew the necessary conditions for commanding an army, namely; Food, clothing, shelter and transportation are indispensable. He must be fully responsible for all of this now, otherwise, no matter how lofty your ideals are, who will fight for you if you don't have enough food and clothing?

There are still many things I want to do, and there are still a lot of things that have not been done, and now Wang Yao basically has no time to spare......

"2 up."

I don't know how long it took, Wang Yao suddenly stopped his pen.

"What's wrong?" Leaning in the shadows of the corner, Sima Yi raised his face.

"I thought about it, and I thought that you still have to help me with this favor." Wang Yao raised his face and said.

Sima Yi was silent for a while, and asked tentatively: "Do you want me to help you prepare supplies?" ”

"Hmm." Wang Yao nodded, the advantage of being with smart people is that you never need to speak too plainly.

"As you can see during the meeting, although the allies have agreed on their goals, they still want to take advantage of the fisherman's profits. Therefore, at that time, in addition to asking them to provide 3,000 elite soldiers, I did not say anything about the conditions that should have asked them to provide the first batch of armaments and materials, after all, it is not easy to get their support at present, and if I ask for materials again, it will inevitably be a bit suspicious of kicking my nose and face. ”

"As it should be." Sima Yi nodded noncommittally: "Fusang is far away, the materials are scarce, and there are no decent materials, and although the financial resources of the Wei State are the most abundant, but the Lord of Wei still has concerns, as for the Wu State, although Zhou Yu has a deep friendship with you, he is not the Lord of the Wu State in the real sense after all, and it is not impossible to want these people to help prepare a huge amount of materials, but I am afraid it will cause a series of related problems." ”

After a pause, Sima Yi asked again: "But why do you think I can do this?" ”

"As one of the 22 Arka of the world's nobles, the Sima family should have a considerable degree of financial strength." After a pause, Wang Yao added: "I also believe that you will have a way to help me solve this problem." ”

In this world, between heroes and creeps, there are 22 Arka families, in layman's terms, they are somewhat similar to the historical warrior class, but in fact, they are the foundation of the world's largest consortium.

"I don't know where you got this information, but you're nakedly exploiting our warriors." Sima Yi couldn't help but shake his head.

"When everything is stable, the Federation will not treat your family badly." Wang Yao said: "The coalition forces need armor and weapons to fight, and we urgently need to have our own equipment to distinguish ourselves from other forces on the mainland, after all, strictly speaking, we are now an independent force." ”

Sima Yi pondered for a moment and asked bluntly, "Then how many pairs do you want?" ”

"200,000." Wang Yao handed the document he had just written to Sima Yi: "The required heavy grain and grass are all remarked in it." ”

Although he was mentally prepared, when he heard the specific amount, Sima Yi's face changed slightly, which was indeed a big problem.

That being said.

"I'll leave for Wei immediately." Sima Yi finally took the document from Wang Yao's hand, and got up and walked to the exit of the stone room, and now he will do his best to help Wang Yao.

At the end, I didn't forget to turn around and ask: "By the way, what do you want for the coloring part of the armor?" ”

"Gild."

"Understood."

......

......

And so it went for another half a day, until dusk fell—

Feeling that the hand holding the pen was becoming more and more weak, Wang Yao finally stopped, got up and walked out of Wollongong.

'Outside' is snowing heavily, the sky is covered with snowflakes all over the earth, the heaven and the earth reflect the sunset into a line, blurring the border, blurring the world, only the string of long footprints towards Jingzhou, like fine flowers, embellished in a corner of the ground, has become a lonely note.

Jingzhou City.

Because it is winter, the streets that used to be extremely prosperous are no longer bustling, and only a few civilians are still running around for life.

On the side of the road, in a shop selling steamed buns, the boss surnamed Chen was wrapped in a thick cotton jacket and curled up beside the stove to roast the fire.

"It's... It's fucking cold! Boss Chen muttered while trembling, thinking that it was better to close the stall early today and go home and hug the girls to take the hot kang head, after all, such a bad genius, the ghost will come to buy what steamed buns!

After making up his mind, Boss Chen immediately got up and prepared to close the stall and go home, but as soon as he turned around, he suddenly saw a black shadow with two bloody lights, and he didn't know when he started, standing at the stall outside the door and staring at him silently.

"Oh my god??!" Boss Chen, who was caught off guard, was suddenly taken aback and almost didn't fall to the ground.

Whose child is this, who do you want to scare to death in broad daylight?!

This situation is indeed a little too scary; I saw Nasi outside the stall, just standing there straight, not even squeaking, with an extremely hideous grimace mask on his face, anyone who saw it at first glance would be startled.

Fortunately, Boss Chen is over 40 years old, and he can be regarded as a person who has seen the world, so he quickly stabilized his mind, of course, because he didn't dare to get angry out of fear, but stepped forward and asked cautiously: "Well, this, this guest officer, you... Do you want to buy steamed buns? ”

Faced with the shopkeeper's inquiry, Wang Yaowu pointed to the steamer next to him that was steaming in the cold wind.

Seeing this, Boss Chen didn't feel a little chill rising from his back spine, and after a closer look, the person in front of him clearly didn't even have any breath on his body, just like the living dead who had been rumored to cheat the corpse! didn't dare to slack off at the moment, so he hurriedly took out a piece of oiled paper, wrapped it in five and handed it to Wang Yao, and said tremblingly: "Thank you... Thank you, officer, that.... A total of 5 copper coins. ”

Wang Yao still didn't speak, but took the steamed bun wrapped in oiled paper in one hand, and pulled it to his waist with one hand, and at this time, his movements suddenly froze.

“......”

“？？”

After a pause of three seconds, Wang Yao silently withdrew his hand, gently handed back the oiled paper wrapped in steamed buns to the shopkeeper, and then turned around and left without saying a word.

Only Boss Chen with a confused face was left, what is the situation? ?

"Aren't you, Lord of the Imperial Alliance, to be so miserable?" A crisp voice suddenly sounded from the other direction without warning.

Wang Yao was stunned, and when he turned around, he saw a girl in a green dress with bright eyes and bright teeth, smiling at him from a distance.

"Hey, that shopkeeper, packed all the steamed buns here for Miss Ben." With a flick of Sun Shangxiang's snow-white thumb, a gold coin that was unusually bright in the air was thrown into the hand of the shopkeeper with unmistakable accuracy.

"Well... Howler! A gold coin is more than his monthly turnover, and Boss Chen, who suddenly felt that pies fell from the sky, immediately ran aside with a smile and began to pack.

Sun Shangxiang walked to Wang Yao's side, she could naturally see that Wang Yao was penniless, but she didn't pick it out, but said with a smile: "What's the matter?" We've known each other for so long, so you can tell me if you have any difficulties! ”

In this regard, Wang Yao did not give a corresponding enthusiastic response, but just said lightly: "There is no difficulty." ”

"Uh......" Sun Shangxiang subconsciously scratched her head, as if she felt that Wang Yao might be embarrassed to admit her predicament, after all, she often came like this: "Then, then you can eat something with me?" I'm in for a treat. ”

This was the only way she could think of to keep Wang Yao from being so embarrassed.

Wang Yao finally glanced at Sun Shangxiang, but still didn't say anything: "Thank you, no." ”

After saying that, he walked away.

"Eh, wait... Wait, I'm not done yet! ”

Behind him, Sun Shangxiang's obviously unhappy shouts came from afar, but Wang Yao never looked back.

And almost at the same time—

From directly in front of Wang Yao, a person unexpectedly came at the end of the street.

It was an old man with a sturdy body but a head full of gray hair that looked disheveled, and at this time, the snow was falling in the sky, but he was like a lifeless stone that defied the cold, and wandered through the streets shirtless like a lonely ghost.

"Huh?" Sun Shangxiang, who was about to catch up, suddenly stopped, she remembered, this bad old man seemed to be - Soul Burning Heavy Cannon - Huang Zhong?

Hiss, hiss......

The boots sank into the snow, and the old and the young, who unexpectedly bumped into each other, walked closer and closer, until they passed by without stopping, like strangers.

Strange, they should know each other, right?

Just when Sun Shangxiang felt a little inexplicable, in the next second, I saw that Huang Zhong suddenly turned around, grabbed Wang Yao's collar from behind, and then threw Wang Yao to the ground with a 180° volley on the spot.

Bang!!

A violent wave of qi suddenly shook towards the two of them in all directions, blowing away the snowflakes floating in the sky.

“！！！” Sun Shangxiang subconsciously covered her mouth, she didn't even react to what was going on, and even the shopkeeper on the side was dumbfounded.

And in the field-

"Huh? Who should I be, why is the breath so familiar, isn't this the famous Yao Overseer in our Shu army? Holding Wang Yao's neck tightly, Huang Zhong pressed his knee against Wang Yao's abdomen, and looked coldly at the young man wearing a grimace mask under him.

His eyes, bloodshot and frighteningly red.

"......" Wang Yao didn't respond, but he didn't resist either, because he was wearing a pain mask and couldn't see his expression clearly at this time, just like he was dead, letting Huang Zhong crush him to the snow.

And Huang Zhong didn't speak again, just grabbed Wang Yao suddenly, and then-

Boom!

A punch slammed into Wang Yao's face.

The huge impact force made Wang Yao stagger back several steps, but before he could stand firmly, Huang Zhong had already stepped forward, and a knee quickly hit Wang Yao's abdomen, followed by an elbow strike, a punch, and an uppercut......

Boom! Boom! Boom!

This punch hit the flesh, mercilessly, and tried his best to make the latter stagger back one after another, but in the face of Huang Zhong's stormy punches and kicks, Wang Yao always only endured it unilaterally, just like a tumbler, that is, he did not fall and did not make a sound.

The red blood began to splash frequently on the surrounding snow with Huang Zhong's punch and kick, and it was so shocking against the backdrop of the snow-white earth.

This is an unexpected encounter, and it is also an incomprehensible one-sided crush.

Until Huang Zhong stomped Wang Yao to the ground with a head-on step, and stomped the latter into the ground for three points with one kick.

Click!

A ballista was aimed directly at Huang Zhong.

"Stop, stop! You're going to kill him! Sun Shangxiang bit her lip and glared at Huang Zhong viciously, like an enemy of life and death.

Because of these words, Huang Zhong finally stopped, he turned his head coldly, and stared at the girl with a hideous face: "When will it be your turn to be an outsider to take care of the affairs between me and him?!" ”

Sun Shangxiang was stunned for a moment, as if she felt that this was really none of her business, but looking at Wang Yao, who was beaten to death, she only felt a wave of anger and couldn't help but rush up: "It's none of my business, but you just can't beat him!" Miss Ben said! ”

"Huh." Hearing Sun Shangxiang's arrogant words, Huang Zhong lowered his face and laughed angrily, he dropped Wang Yao, turned around coldly, and then suddenly punched him!

Before the fist arrived, the wind pressure had already forced away the naturally falling snowflakes, and this punch was even more violent than before!

Although Sun Shangxiang saw Huang Zhong's fist getting closer and closer to her, she did not dodge it, but subconsciously closed her eyes.

Boom!!

The iron fist slammed into Wang Yao's abdomen, but it was Wang Yao who blocked Sun Shangxiang's body in time.

"Ahem!" Wang Yao coughed up a mouthful of blood, and under the mask, a large amount of blood had oozed from the corners of his mouth. He staggered back a few steps, and at the same time opened Sun Shangxiang's hand that was about to support him.

"You go." A hoarse voice came coldly from under the grimace mask.

"But ......," Sun Shangxiang was about to say something.

"Get out!" Wang Yao had already interrupted her with a low shout.

Sun Shangxiang was completely stunned, she looked at Wang Yao, who was still bleeding, in astonishment, and in the next second, full of grievances and inexplicable strong sourness surged in her heart at the same time, making her eyes slightly red.

"Okay! Miss Ben is nosy! She dropped this sentence angrily, as if the person who had made up his mind never looked back and left.

Between this snow-white heaven and earth, there were suddenly only two people, Wang Yao and Huang Zhong.

"I'm sorry...... I didn't protect her. An incomparably deep voice came from under the cold mask of pain, the softest place he didn't want to show anymore.

In front of this old man, he couldn't be strong, and he didn't want to pretend anymore, because now he was the only person he felt the most guilty about.

It's just that, if I'm sorry to be useful, why is there so much love and hatred in the world?

Hiss –

Huang Zhong twisted Wang Yao's collar again, stabbed the latter with a pair of red eyes, and roared hysterically like a beast: "Do you think a word of sorry is enough?!" ”

Boom!

The fist slammed into Wang Yao's face again.

"You were there, right in front of the kid! But what have you done?! ”

Boom!

Huang Zhong grabbed Wang Yao's collar with his left hand, and his right fist slammed into Wang Yao's face with every question.

"Why didn't you push her away! She can not even want her life for you, but can't!! ”

Boom!

"How did you promise me! At the beginning, old man, I believed in evil before I believed that you would hand over that child to you!! ”

Boom!

"You speak! Why don't you speak! Haven't you always been the most eloquent? Speak!! ”

"You damn it, you shouldn't live in this world!! Why wasn't you the one who died! Why ......"

The voice of questioning gradually weakened, his fists gradually weakened, and finally, the old man shed two lines of old tears in great pain.

Why......

Huang Zhong, who was grief-stricken, weakly dragged the corner of Wang Yao's clothes, and slowly knelt on the ground, tears in his eyes.

The man didn't flick when he had tears, but at this moment, the old hero couldn't control his emotions anymore and broke down and cried.

Why...... How could God punish them in such a cruel way?

yes, why......

Wang Yao, who had already become a bloody man, looked up at the snowy sky silently. A heart, as if it was constantly cut by countless sharp knives, ripped him bloody, and dug him worse than dead......

He may be strong enough, but only the girl is the only weakness in his softest heart; When he watched the girl desperately block the devastating blow for him, and he was so close that he couldn't do anything, the sadness and despair in his heart even exceeded the anger.

Angry for a red face? Is this really the case, maybe he has never been the kind of person with blood and bestiality, so the moment the girl who exceeds his full meaning is annihilated in front of him, anger is no longer his emotion at that time, despair above the range of spiritual tolerance is.

What else could a person who had utterly despaired do at that time?

Huang Zhong was right, in fact, how good would it be if he was the one who died at that time? If you die, you won't be implicated in that girl, and if you die, you won't have so much pain......

"I'm sorry...... I failed to protect her. The hoarse voice sounded again.

Maybe it can only be like this, now, even a thousand words can no longer heal the hollowness in Huang Zhong's heart, and he will continue to live with this heavy sense of guilt until the arrival of 'that moment'......

......

......

In the evening of the same day, the Soul Burning Heavy Cannon left Shu alone and has been missing since......

As the sun set, Wang Yao also stood alone between the snow-covered heaven and earth, for a long, long time without a sound.