Sun and Moon Empire, Sun and Moon City.

As the only core of the entire empire, Sun Moon City is located in the center of the entire Sun Moon Continent, with a population of more than 10 million, even if those cities in the Douluo Continent are added, it is also the world's largest city.

The city is brightly lit and full of high-rise buildings, and it doesn't look like this world can achieve it at all, which can be seen in the unique style of the architecture.

However, this bustling city is deserted at this time, and there are few pedestrians on the roads, except for heavily armed guards in black armor that cover their bodies, holding firearms that even modern people cannot see.

On the road they walked, there were a large number of corpses lying on the ground, but the equipment on these people looked quite retro, and no matter how you looked at it, it didn't fit in with the surrounding environment.

If you just look at the comparison of the weapons and equipment of the two sides, it looks like some interstellar civilization has invaded some ancient fantasy magic-style planet, but judging from the well-developed buildings of the entire Sun Moon City, this is more like a group of supernatural beings have invaded this future city.

As night falls, the city is lit up with lights, but more and more people lurk in the shadows.

Xu Muan walked on the street, looking at the scrutinizing gaze of the patrol team in the distance, there was no wave in her heart, holding a rolled up map, walking forward like a walking corpse.

"Mu An, I really have something important to do when I recruit you back this time."

“... Uncle, please speak. ”

"You are far away from the imperial capital, I am afraid that I will be very surprised to come back this time, you look at this prosperous city, complete material supplies, and excellent life, don't say that it is for you, even for me, it is like a paradise."

“... Isn't that great? ”

"Yes, if this is not exchanged for the flesh and blood of our old nobles, it is indeed very good, but now, that slut was pushed to the throne by us, and now he wants our lives in turn, and the three-thousand-year-old national glory of the Sun and Moon Empire may also be destroyed by her."

“... What can I do? ”

"You're the slut's childhood friend, it just so happens that I have a map here that she needs to browse, I'll submit a request for this, and she'll probably appoint you to send it to her, I've got the equipment ready for you, and when I get close to her, I'll kill that congenitally disabled waste."

“......”

"What, don't want to go? Have you forgotten your mother's last wishes? ”

“... I understand. ”

"Of course, there are always accidents, and in case you don't slip, I'll install a small device inside you, so that nothing goes wrong."

“... Good. ”

A week ago, she was a messenger in a fringe town, and although the nascent Imperial Soul Master had lost her former privileges, it was easy to get a better life with the special abilities given by the Martial Spirit.

Xu Mu'an has been away from Sun Moon City for many years, her mother was an unfavored concubine of the old empire, and after the death of the first emperor, she was asked by the queen mother to be buried together, and then there was civil strife in the palace, or now this uncle killed the queen mother, in addition to avenging her mother, it can be regarded as saving her from the cage.

Otherwise, I'm afraid... I'm going to have the same ending as my sister.

After that, she spent a few years away from Heaven Dou City, and now, all this has become a dream bubble, and her life is finally inevitably coming to an end of her own.

Xu Mu'an sighed, this bustling city is so incompatible with her, she is just a poor person who can't even control her own fate.

Refusal? Mother's last wish, in fact, is just to ask her to take care of her brothers and sisters, these things have been done by that uncle all these years, therefore, those words are just to use these personal lives to blackmail her, Xu Muan knows this very well, and it is true... Unable to resist.

Just as she was walking towards the palace, suddenly, there was a sudden shout from the dark alley beside the road.

"Brothers! Come on! ”

More than a dozen soul masters with five or six soul rings on their bodies rushed out, and their target was only a black-armored guard who seemed to be alone from the patrol.

Unlike the other Black-Armored Guards, this lone Black-Armored Guard does not have a standard spear in his hand, so he looks particularly easy to bully.

Even though the distance was only more than ten meters, the black-armored guard reacted extremely quickly, and reluctantly pulled out the large-caliber pistol on his waist and shot a grenade, with a flash of lightning, the soul ring on the group of soul masters instantly dissipated, and the whole person also stood in place as if he was frozen.

The black-armored guard had no intention of leaving him alive, and after controlling these people, he turned the gun in his hand, and then walked up to those people, and directly shot them one by one, killing them all.

The whole process can't even be called a battle, it should be called a massacre, more than a dozen soul kings who could be called middle and upper levels in the past were slaughtered by a mediocre black-armored guard.

Xu Muan is only more than ten meters away from this conflict... Although her talent is very good, and she has seen too much darkness when she was a child, it is still a little uncomfortable to see this bloody scene so intuitively.

She herself is just a soul venerable, a group of soul kings and soul emperors are like mustard, what about herself... The guards on the side of the road are still so powerful, and in the palace, I am afraid it is even more unimaginable.

The black-armored guard on the side sorted out his equipment, and when he turned around, he saw the little girl standing not far away, so he stepped forward:

"Little girl, are you alright?"

The voice sounded through the thick black armor, and it sounded a very thick mechanical sound, but Xu Mu'an could still hear that this black armor guard should be a kind uncle.

“... I'm fine. ”

The black armor guard lowered his body, looked at the girl whose body was already trembling slightly, and couldn't help sighing: "You must be frightened, harm, blame these damn beasts, you look at how clean and tidy this street is, but now it is polluted by these people to look like this... Obviously, these people's lives are much better than mine, why do they just refuse to be satisfied and have to come out to make trouble? ”

"But... Uncle, why did you have to kill them? Isn't that a little too cruel, and wouldn't it be better to catch it? Xu Muan hesitated for a while, but still asked.

"Cruel?" Hearing this, although the voice had been processed, the words of the black-armored guard were also obviously excited: "Ha, little girl, you are a soul master, right?" ”

Seeing that Hei Jiawei's mood was a little unstable, Xu Mu'an took two steps back, for fear that he would suddenly attack.

Seeing that this little girl was so guarded, the black armor guard also realized that he was a little out of shape, so he pointed to the sign on his shoulder that was stacked by two short swords, and continued: "Let's put it this way, little girl, you see, I am an old guard who follows His Majesty the Emperor, and the soul masters I have killed like this just now are not one thousand but eight hundred. ”

"But do you know what I did before I decided to swear allegiance to Your Majesty?"

"Speak, please." Xu Muan shook her head, she actually wanted to know what happened to this murderous, cold-blooded and ruthless veteran.

The town where she lived before was very remote, far away from strife, and it was also a rare peaceful place on the Sun and Moon Continent, if it wasn't for the emperor's uncle who summoned her back, I am afraid that she would have died there in this life.

The Old Guard, who didn't seem to care that his listener was just a child, tapped his breastplate, and a small drawer popped out, from which he took out a cigarette, lit it with a twist of his fingers, and then opened his visor and took a hard puff.

And Xu Mu'an also saw the appearance of this old guard, it was a weather-beaten face, covered with countless scars, some with obvious marks, and some seemed to have become very turbulent with the passage of time.

"I used to be a peasant, I was surprised that I wasn't it, you see, the scars on my face, no matter how you look at it, were left by the war, but unfortunately it's not, I've been with the empress for so many years, and I have basically not been injured."

"It seems to me that every battle is as easy as it was just now, and even the original scars have been erased a lot by advanced medical equipment, so that I can't even see my face clearly, but there is still so much left."

"This is all thanks to you soul masters, ha, at the beginning, I was just unwilling to pay more taxes on the two silver coins that the little guy temporarily increased, so I was beaten and almost disfigured, if you see the scars on my body, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep."

"But this is really normal in the Sun and Moon Empire, everyone like me has experienced such a tragedy to a greater or lesser extent, but if you think that the evil of these beasts is nothing more than that, it is a big mistake."

Speaking of this, the old guard took a puff of cigarette fiercely, and his eyes also showed an unconcealable killing intent, but it was not aimed at Xu Mu'an, but at the dead people beside the road.

Hearing these experiences of the old guards, Xu Muan couldn't help but think of his miserable childhood, and became more curious about what happened next.

"To tell you the truth, God is not kind to me, even though I was beaten like this, it still sent me a beautiful wife, and then I had a lovely daughter and a smart son."

"In this world, to have such a complete family, even if it is still exploited and hungry, but I am afraid that it is much happier than the vast majority of people, during that time, even the tax collectors who are exploiting us every year are also pleasing to the eye... At least I have a complete home. ”

"But soon, I knew that I was thinking too much, when our family was working in the fields, a rich young man passed by the road in the field, and saw my wife at a glance, and when he ordered his subordinates to tie up our family, and offered to buy my wife and daughter for ten gold soul coins."

"Ten Golden Soul Coins, for us, is actually an astronomical amount, in that era when human trafficking was commonplace, it was even that magnanimity, but my family is all I have, of course I don't want to."

"At that time, I was also obedient to the people for too long, and I also studied some laws to deal with those who bullied us civilians who actually had little power, so that at this time I even ridiculously hoped that these laws could also deal with those privileged classes."

Sure enough, after I moved out of the ordinance prohibiting human trafficking, the gang laughed out loud and then wrote a deed of sale in front of me... It said that I could not afford to support my family, so I voluntarily transferred my wife and daughter to the rich man for free. ”

"Then, they pressed me and forcibly signed and drew a pledge, I resisted desperately, but the rich young man was carrying a soul master, and any person could easily kill me, and at that time, I wanted to die immediately."

"But the rich man apparently did not want to kill me, and seemed to be taking pleasure in my suffering, so he brought two copper coins from his servant and threw them before me as a merciful reward, and then took my wife and daughter and went away."

Speaking of this, the old guard threw the cigarette butt on the ground, twisted it fiercely, and then said viciously: "I want revenge, but no one cares about me as a humble commoner, and later, the empire was divided, and a civil war began that spread to the entire continent, and the empress's army swept the whole world. ”

"She saved us lowly civilians, helped me heal my wounds, and gave my son a bright future, and I naturally did not hesitate to participate in the Imperial army, participating in the siege of the great city to which our place belongs."

"There is no suspense in this battle, with the last hope in my heart, I was the first to rush into the city gate, at that time our equipment was not so advanced, although the weapon was powerful enough, but it was also dangerous to be hit by those soul masters, but it was precisely in this way that I could become a member of the guards directly under His Majesty with my courageous and fearless style."

"After learning of my deeds, my chief did not persuade me to put aside my hatred, but transferred me two hundred people to take charge of this matter, and I lived up to my expectations and found the rich young man in the city lord's mansion."

"Haha, speaking of which, I didn't know how to abuse people at that time, so I took out all the things in their city lord's prison and gave him a round, looking at his screaming appearance, I also know why these beasts like to see people suffer, but after some torture, I felt bored, so I shot his life, tsk, now that I think about it, I really regret it."

"What about your wife and daughter?"

After listening carefully to the story of this old guard, Xu Muan couldn't help but have some hope.

What a cool story this is, compared to my miserable life, I am afraid that I can only imagine it in a dream - being bullied for 20 years, and finally being able to get revenge, watching the enemy die in pain... If the wife and daughter can survive, it will be a great thing.

"They're dead." The old guard lowered his eyes: "You can see that you can understand my pain, but ah, child, you are a soul master after all, and you can be called a human being, and we civilians were agricultural tools, slaves, and cattle at that time, but not people." ”

So, as a human being, do you pay attention to the demands and desires of an animal, a tool? For 'people', it's just an ornament, and when you die, you just throw it into a mass grave. ”

"Haha, but it doesn't matter, don't I also treat those beasts as people, if these beasts obediently act as pets and obey the grace of Her Majesty, if they don't obey, this is their only fate."

Speaking of this, the old guard put on his face armor again, and glanced at Xu Nianwei meaningfully: "So, child, before you are ready to do something, you better think about whether all this is worth it." ”

The old guard gently patted Xu Mu'an's shoulder, then stood up, and behind him, a patrol came over.

"Captain, Lord Reynolds have ordered us to clear the mansion of an old prince, and there is clear information that they are plotting to blow up the Tower of Babel." A black-armored guard walked over, gave a military salute, and handed over a panel.

The old guard briefly inspected it, then put it away, moved his muscles and bones, and then said to the people behind him:

"Alright, boys, it's time to go!"