Chapter 793: The Temptation That Looms Ready
“...... Shh Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "Zhu Henghong's face turned a little red when he was repeatedly poked in the most annoying part of his heart by that voice that was always so funny, "Okay, you won, I am indeed angry that His Majesty promoted that guy to be the captain of the Boghall Brigade reorganized by human mercenaries from the outside world, and I am even very jealous! How about it?!Are you satisfied?!! guy who hides in an unknown place and pretends to be a ghost?!!!
"It doesn't matter who I am, as I said at the beginning, you think you're asking yourself. Compared to Zhu Henghong's mood that began to become manic, the attitude of that voice still seemed unhurried, maintaining that extremely unpleasant and ridiculous tone, "From beginning to end, you have been mourning and complaining to yourself since you let your company captains leave, haven't you?"
"Hmph, so whatever the hell you are, my own whims, or whatever, what are you going to mean?" Zhu Henghong snorted coldly, he skillfully grasped the standard short sword in his left hand and the one-handed long sword in his right hand a few times, and then withdrew it into their respective scabbards: although he still didn't understand what this strange and slightly feminine mysterious voice was, he could already be sure that this voice had no substance, at least not now, and the standard short sword and one-handed long sword had no effect when pulled out, it was better to put the sword back into its sheath.
"Don't you think, from the first second you arrived in Gensokyo, until now, for nearly two years, you have been working hard and forging ahead, haven't you? Zhu Henghong?" It seemed that seeing Zhu Henghong put away his weapon and prepare to re-do the behavior on the long sofa, the tone of that voice sounded a little more harmonious, but the whispering murmur like BGM still did not subside for a long time," As a college student who has lived a decadent life with a good life, your performance in the past two years does not match your original image, does it?"
“...... It seems to be so, but what's wrong with this?" After being silent for a while, Zhu Henghong nodded slightly, acquiescing to what the whisper-like mysterious voice said, "I know very well what kind of person I am and what do you want to express?"
"When you were caught by the ibis and almost eaten, Feng Longde met you and rescued you with a crossbow and an axe-shaped halberd. As if he hadn't heard Zhu Henghong's question, the voice continued, as if stating some fact, "When Feng Longde asked you to decide for yourself whether to return to the outside world and continue to live a boring life of mediocrity and inaction, or stay here and start from scratch, you chose the latter after a long period of consideration...... After working as a migrant worker for a while, you were recruited by Feng Longde to become a Boghall pikeman, during which time you wanted to become a Boghall rifleman, but your shooting skills were miserable and you were unfortunately defeated...... After you officially joined the army, you were fortunate enough to be promoted to the company leader of the Boghall pikemen, and in the first battle you participated in, you fell under the Macquavit knives of a large group of Aztec warriors in order to save a Boghall pikeman whom you had only known for a short time, and finally was sacrificed to be reincarnated as an immortal corpse witch, right, Zhu Henghong?"
"That's right, that's the case, what's wrong?" Zhu Henghong sighed, what this mysterious voice said made him more and more unable to understand what it was, could it really be his subconscious?
"Although the difference between being reincarnated as a corpse witch is not particularly big and that you can still live forever, there is a very important point. At this point, the voice paused, "After being reincarnated as a corpse witch by the sacrifice of the deceased, your soul will change from its original mental state to the soul fire of the deceased, and it will automatically have a deep soul connection with the soul heart of Feng Longde's immortal king, which is the soul oath...... Zhu Henghong, what the soul oath is, you can't be clearer. ”
"Yes...... From the soul to the body, everything in oneself is the property of the immortal king......" Nodding with difficulty, Zhu Henghong admitted this fact, and his tone sounded a little tangled, "You can't betray, even if you have the slightest idea of betrayal, the binding force brought by the soul oath will forcibly erase this thought......"
"See, you have become a corpse witch, a dead through and through, with eternal life and power. The voice replied in the affirmative, and continued: "But your whole being, your whole soul, is completely controlled by that person, like a puppet, drawn by invisible threads...... Isn't it?"
Zhu Henghong did not speak.
"It can be said that you have exchanged everything you have, your life and soul, for such a strong body that surpasses ordinary humans, as well as more powerful strength, and even Feng Longde's trust. The voice said slowly, and the speed of his speech was so slow that Zhu Henghong, who was silent at the beginning and pressed his temples involuntarily with his hands, could hear it very clearly, "After a short period of time to completely adapt to your new racial identity and the abilities you bring, you actively joined the Teutonic army, and used your courage and strength to prove in battle that as a former Chinese of Chinese descent, you are worthy of the ancestral blood in your body, so that you were successfully promoted to the district captain of the Boghall district team as you wished." ”
"But deep down in your own soul, you always hold on to fear. The voice spoke slowly, as if explaining other people's experiences, but these contents were what Zhu Henghong had personally experienced, and he didn't dare to completely deny it, "You are afraid, because you are no longer an ordinary human being, you are already an undead creature like a walking corpse in the eyes of the world, and you have also lost your fertility and can no longer have your own offspring...... This is a rather serious problem for the Chinese people who attach great importance to the inheritance of the ancestry, right?"
There was no answer, but there was no objection. It seemed that seeing that Zhu Henghong still didn't make any answer, the voice maintained an almost mocking tone and said, even if what she said was not funny at all, "You admit it yourself, don't you?"
As long as a century had passed, Zhu Henghong nodded slowly but firmly.
"It's ironic that having gained the eternal life that almost all the people in the world crave, but also lost the ability to reproduce, it seems that in the dark, everything needs to be exchanged for equal value. That voice continued to state the fact that Zhu Henghong was never willing to think about in the depths of his heart, "Even my body and soul are no longer free, and they are completely controlled by my own majesty...... Even now, it seems that your Majesty the King is very generous, and even if you make fun of him or sarcastically mock him, he will only laugh or scold you in response, and will not punish you in any way...... But, can you be sure that he will always be like this?"
"As an ordinary young man who was once timid and cowardly, after experiencing real death, you have always done a great job. It seemed that it was too boring to say this fear all along, and the voice suddenly changed the subject, "In the past, it was very difficult for you to even be the leader of a group, and you also had the Chinese characteristics of the 'three good students' You have not been elected for a year, and you were completely an ordinary person who did nothing before you entered Gensokyo...... After being reincarnated as a corpse witch, you gradually burst out with enthusiasm and motivation that did not match your original personality, and continued to learn to make yourself more like a competent Teutonic soldier, familiar with your own weapons, your own armor, your own soul and your own abilities, cheekily asked those Guard Knights who were like Angels of Death how to use their combat skills, and humbly asked the lich mages for advice on how to use the magical magic and simple dark magic that maintain your current body, for what?
"I'm just to be worthy of His Majesty the King who saved my life and reborn my dead in battle......" Zhu Henghong said with difficulty, his tone solemn and a little bitter.
"It's not all, Zhu Henghong?" the voice seemed to smile.
"......" Zhu Henghong did not answer.
"You are ambitious, Zhu Henghong, you yourself have acquiesced. To put it mildly, Zhu Henghong didn't want to face this point in the depths of his soul, and the voice continued: "After realizing that you are no longer ordinary, your mentality of only wanting to live this life has changed-you want to become stronger, you want to make yourself more powerful, you want to say goodbye to your boring life, don't you? So you have been trying your best to make yourself more elite, or ......"
At this point, the voice paused slightly for a few seconds.
"It's more like a qualified Teuton, isn't it? Zhu Henghong? As a rare and even the only grassroots commander of all the Teutonic troops, you want to prove that you are better than the grassroots commanders from other nationalities, and you deserve a higher status, so you take the lead in the battle, work diligently in daily training and district team management, in order to be ambitious to go to the next level and become a Boghall captain who commands thousands of people...... In the outside world, this is equivalent to the commander of a reinforced regiment, and the district captain can only be equated with the commander of a reinforced battalion. ”
"You want to go further, however, it is not you who has become the captain of Boghall, but Todd, who is not fundamentally different from a nobody, a middle-aged squad leader who was quite ordinary before meeting Feng Longde. The voice said unhurriedly, and when Zhu Henghong heard this, his hands wearing plate armor gloves were already grabbing his hair fiercely, and he didn't even notice that the scalp on the part he was holding had begun to ooze blood," Although you didn't seem to care about it after learning the news, you also told your brothers and subordinates that you were very open-minded, because the vast majority of the integrated Boghall brigade were original human mercenaries from the outside world, and you and your subordinates had not had much contact with them before, and they had not fought side by side, so it would be a relatively bad decision to rashly become their commander...... But is that really what you think that way? Zhu Henghong?"
"No, you don't think that's exactly the case, because you think that whether it is command ability or personal qualifications, that rude middle-aged mercenary squad leader is not as good as you as a modern person who has received systematic quality education, right?
"Although the vast majority of your school career has been paddling, it is certain that your level of knowledge is far richer and higher than that of Gensokyo natives who have only received a simple education similar to an ancient private school in Terakoya, or the vast majority of humans from other worlds who may not even recognize a word, and half a bucket of water is always more weighty than an empty bucket, isn't it?"
"It's precisely because you're from the outside world like him that he's promoted you from an ordinary Boghall pikeman to a company captain, and now a district captain, isn't it?
"Unfortunately, however, it wasn't you who he promoted, but that Todd. ”
"And you yourself know very well that the newly integrated Boghall brigade has not reached full strength, and the number of new Teutonic soldiers reorganized by human mercenaries from outside can only reach about three district teams, so it is very likely that it will ...... No, for sure, your Boghall district team will be merged into the new Boghall team, which means that you will be a subordinate of the Todd captain, Zhu Henghong. ”
"As the most fierce Teutonic soldier under his command, you may not feel like you are as powerful as the Black Knights and Lich Mages around him, but your soul fire is the most vigorous and fierce of the common humans and the newly deceased. ”
"Are you really willing to watch the captain who should have belonged to you slip into Todd's hands on the day next spring comes?"
"And do you really think that he is still an immortal king worthy of respect and admiration in your mind?"
"Isn't it ...... Do you think that he is willing to joke with you and talk about topics that interest each other, and he doesn't care about your sometimes nonsense, is there an equal relationship between you and him?"
"What do you think...... Was he really a generous and heroic immortal king......? Is it really worthy of that glorious identity?"