Chapter Ninety-Seven: Survival Challenge
Jian Weng said: "If those people are not your opponents, unless you have to, you can spare your life, and take their identification cards, although this kind of game is inevitable casualties, all forces can bear it, but we can't afford it, you can't afford it!"
"I know what to do!" Nie Lin nodded.
Jian Weng reminded: "This is a domestic event, it's nothing to be relaxed, but when the time comes to multi-country competitions, it will be a real killer, you can't show mercy to any opponent, I think you can tell the difference!"
"I'm awake!" Nie Lin said, "But the restrictions are not limited to the use of swords?"
"This is different from the regular game, there are no restrictions!"
Lu Zhaonan said, thought of something again, and said: "The emperor summoned you today, but what happened?"
Nie Lin said: "It's not that the emperor summoned me, it's just that the imperial concubine wants to see me, I got the emperor's holy decree to enter the harem, and I won't be talked about, but that woman said a few words that were not salty or light, and sent me out, and she didn't mean to win me over for the Ye family!"
"Nothing is good, you handle it properly!"
Seeing Nie Lin's expression, Lu Zhaonan and Jian Weng didn't say anything more, just said: "You go and rest, the time is in Ming, and now the various forces are estimated to know, so it is estimated that all parties should maintain a tacit understanding at that time, just remember this, go!"
After Nie Lin bowed, he left the secret room.
Lu Zhaonan and Jian Weng did not leave, Lu Zhaonan said: "Lin Zi can't have anything to do in this challenge, if those forces maintain a tacit understanding, if they want to do it, Lin Zi is not an opponent, you have to secretly help this child, this child's identity is extremely special, and it is also the key to whether we can succeed in the future, so we must be cautious!"
Jian Weng nodded and said, "I have my own arrangements, but the old man believes that with this child's intelligence and wit, he knows what to do and what not to do, so we will wait for the results of tomorrow's challenge!"
Lu Zhaonan nodded and said: "This change is a temporary decision of the old emperor, and the arrangement is made, it is estimated that all parties know that even if they want to do something, it will be too late, and tomorrow Linzi will be able to have a good environment, and then those old guys should be afraid of us!"
...... The next morning, the frost spit beads, and the weather was still cold.
Winter has passed, and spring is about to begin, but the cold wind blows like a knife, making the chill of this morning a little deeper than usual.
Nie Lin was still the same as usual, he would get up before dawn, no matter how cold or hot it was, he would insist on practicing the body quenching technique of ascending the dragon in the courtyard for a while, and with the magical effect of the spirit shock, the strength of the body continued to increase steadily.
After practicing for half an hour, when the servants of the Lu Mansion came to inform him to have breakfast and prepare to leave, Nie Lin finished his work, went back to the house to wash up, and put the Absolute Dust Sword behind his back, and put a layer of cyan cloak on the outside to block the sharp edge of some swords.
Although there is no scabbard, Nie Lin knows that this sword with a soul will definitely not hurt himself, he has gone through countless experiments to cut his arm, and so far he has not succeeded once, this sword will release sword qi to protect him, but to others, the sharp edge of this sword, no one dares to take its edge.
Especially this Absolute Dust Sword has been around Nie Lin for a while, through this sword, the connection between Nie Lin and the sword mother in the ring on his hand is even closer, as long as his mind moves, the sword mother can immediately have a synchronous induction connection with his mind, although he is not one with the sword mother Wanchengren sword, but between the sword mother and him, there is no obstacle.
When he came to the front yard with the sword on his back, Lu Zhaonan and Jian Weng were already seated, Lu Zecheng was accompanying him, and after Nie Lin came, after giving up, he sat down directly and began to eat.
After Nie Lin was full, Jian Weng didn't say anything, so he got up and walked outside first.
After Nie Lin got up, Lu Zhaonan said: "Today, the old man will not go to the hunting ground in the eastern suburbs, Zecheng and Jianweng will accompany you, and after you arrive, someone will explain the specific rules to you in detail, so you can go!"
Nie Lin bowed his hand and walked out of the courtyard, and saw Lu Xueyan standing outside the door, his eyes sparkling, and said, "I won't go to watch your game today, but you have to come on!"
"Hmm!" Nie Lin nodded, and without saying anything more, he sat in the same carriage as Jian Weng, and after Lu Zecheng got into another carriage, he drove out of the city.
...... Although the weather is a little cold, it has already entered spring, such as Bazhou in the north, at this time I am afraid that it is still snowing heavily, but in this area of the capital, we have seen the weeds sprouting.
The speed of the carriage was neither fast nor slow, because there was a special road, so on the road you could also see other horses walking this road to the royal hunting ground ten miles away.
After all, people have heard about today's competition, heard that there will be casualties, and it is more able to reflect the real strength, and it is more cruel, so those people are also passionate and enthusiastic, vying to watch this different and previous challenge.
However, these people can only watch the situation of the contestants when they come out from outside the hunting ground, and the details of the specific situation in the woods are not visible to anyone except for some inspectors who are specific there.
It took more than half an hour, and the carriage soon came to the royal hunting ground in the eastern suburbs, and after Nie Lin and Jian Weng got off the carriage, a large number of people immediately began to scratch, and they all looked at him with fiery eyes, and shouted: "Nie Lin, you must win today's competition, we are optimistic about you......"
Nie Lin only nodded slightly, and after passing the guards' inspection, he walked into the entire hunting ground surrounded by heavy troops.
There were also people from various forces who arrived early in the hunting ground, and these people all looked at him with vigilant eyes after seeing Nie Lin's arrival, because they didn't know Nie Lin's true details at all, so they were a little afraid.
After all, Nie Lin won the top spot in the Sword Boy Contest without a sword, so that countless people didn't know what his sword skills were and what level of his true strength had reached, so the more unknown this was, the easier it was to make people have a kind of suspicious suspicion.
Nie Lin didn't pay attention to the guarded looks of those people, he walked to a tent, where there was a table at the door, and there were several generals who looked very strong, he knew that it was the registration office, so he signed up.
After registering, Nie Lin was assigned to a small tent, and before the royal family and the important ministers of the empire arrived, Nie Lin and Jian Weng went into the tent first, and immediately a waiter sent tea very thoughtfully, as well as some supplies and snacks, which was very thoughtful.
Nie Lin is Lu Fu is full of food, naturally he has no intention of eating, he is still contemplating, and Jian Weng did not touch the tea on the table, but sat quietly and closed his eyes to recuperate.
It's not that they don't trust the waiters, after all, in this environment, it is still necessary to be cautious.
After about a stick of incense, there was a noise outside, followed by a burst of ritual music, and Nie Lin and Jian Weng opened their eyes and came out of the tent, ready to welcome the emperor and the important ministers of the empire.
This time the characters from the imperial forces are a little different from the previous sword boy competition, this time it seems that because of the old emperor's exit, the woman did not come here again, so that His Majesty the emperor seems to have some confidence, now he looks radiant, majestic, the wind of the emperor reappears, and everyone can't help but nod secretly, this is like a real emperor of heaven.
With the arrival of the emperor, there are several martial kings who have not shown up much, some are the emperor's brothers, some are the emperor's uncles and the like, a total of three of them came, and their strength is not weak, and all of them look more like an emperor than the original emperor, with the majesty of the emperor, which makes people dare not underestimate it.
Maybe it's because today's emperor has these martial kings to set off, so he has a little bit of imperial style, and some people can't help but secretly slander themselves like this.
After the emperor arrived, it was the latest, and basically the people of the major forces also came before him, so after saluting, the emperor excused himself from the courtesy, walked to the high platform of the hunting ground, and said a few words in high spirits, and encouraged the young contestants, so that they could relax and not be stressed.
After speaking, the emperor let the ceremonial music sound again, and there was a burst of drums, this is the jujiang drum, at this time all the contestants under the reminder of the little school, immediately walked to the stage, the drum stopped.
Nie Lin paid attention, these contestants this time were about sixteen or seventeen years old, and none of them would be more than eighteen years old, and even he saw that Luo Changning was also among them, and his eyes were a little strange when he looked at him.
After glancing at Luo Changning, Nie Lin didn't pay attention to him anymore, but paid special attention to the children of the Liu family and the Yang family, although he had never seen the children of these two families who appeared today, but when he saw the clothes they were wearing, Nie Lin recognized them at a glance, and just nodded to the two imperceptibly, but the two obviously felt it, and also glanced at Nie Lin, when they came this morning, the patriarch had specially confessed, so they naturally paid attention to Nie Lin.
After waiting for a while, after a general was named and summarized, the drum beat again for a while, and after seeing a representative of the Martial King also come to the stage and say a few words, the emperor officially announced the start of the Survival Challenge.
At this time, a general came to the stage with the guards, and after admonishing everyone, he asked the guard to walk in front of everyone with a plate, and asked everyone to take out a identification card.
Nie Lin took one and saw that this thing was a bit similar to the identity card, and there was a strange energy surge in it, but this was a technical secret held by the Heavenly Imperial Family, and he didn't know how this thing was made, so he didn't pay attention to it.
However, he noticed that after other people got the identification card, their eyes would involuntarily aim at the identification card in the other person's hand, and the eyes were like hungry wolves, full of green light.
The Survival Challenge has officially begun!
(To be continued)