Chapter 1059: The Pulled Fate

"Okay." Zhao Linyang agreed, suddenly pointing straight ahead, "Bug demon!" He He Lingchuan turned his head in the direction he pointed.

Zhao Linyang straightened his back, opened his mouth, and something shot out, stabbing at He He Lingchuan's neck! This thing was like an octopus tentacle and also like a large worm, with razor-like rotating fine teeth at the tip, shooting out as fast as an arrow leaving the string.

The two were no more than two feet apart, and He He Lingchuan was unprepared, looking like he couldn't escape.

Who knew a cold light was faster than this tongue, from bottom to top, silently cutting it off! Green plasma splashed.

That half-tongue fell to the ground, still twisting and turning, like a super-sized earthworm.

But He He Lingchuan felt the texture of that cut was very rough, as if sawing on an ox bone.

Zhao Linyang didn't even have time to scream and ran away as soon as he turned.

Once the sneak attack failed, he greased his feet and ran, not entangling with He He Lingchuan.

But how could He He Lingchuan let him go? He snatched a long spear from a guard, reversed the handle, and threw it directly at his back.

He specially used Yuan power, and the long spear glowed red all over.

Zhao Linyang was hit before running two steps, his body lunging forward.

Even without using the spear tip, how could an ordinary person withstand He He Lingchuan's strength?

As soon as Zhao Linyang fell to the ground, he vomited, and something black shot out of his mouth—

A small, strangely shaped bug.

It clearly had wings but looked like a scorpion, its long tail not curling up but sticking to the ground, with no tail hook, but several antenna-like soft thorns on the tail tip.

As soon as it left the human body, it rapidly became smaller and rounder.

He He Lingchuan took out a flying knife and gave it a few slashes.

Who knew this ghost thing could really run; for a while it did an S-shape, for a while it did an emergency brake, and the thrown knife tip was always a hair's breadth away from it.

As a small bug, this positioning and prediction were truly remarkable.

Suddenly, with a whoosh, a group of black beetles flew out from the wall base nearby.

This was the thing that had controlled ordinary people to attack the city gate earlier; He He Lingchuan didn't expect it to be here too, and his heart sank.

The black beetles were here to meet the strange bug; as soon as the two sides merged, it was like a drop of water into the vast sea, and it was impossible to tell where that strange bug was.

He He Lingchuan slashed out a wave-slashing style, seven blade auras twisting toward the bug swarm.

The bug swarm seemed to know the danger, buzzing and exploding, fleeing in all directions.

But hundreds were still slashed down by the blade auras.

The crowd's faces didn't look relaxed, because hundreds more black beetles immediately flew out nearby, making up the numbers.

Could this ghost thing be endless?

Even Zhu Yao Erniang's offspring couldn't withstand this kind of attrition.

The bug swarm seemed to know He He Lingchuan was powerful, only flying in mid-air, more than ten zhang above the ground.

He He Lingchuan and his men wanted to attack, whether by flying knives, arrows, or a few divine abilities, none could cause large-scale fatal damage to the bug swarm.

Whenever they held back a big move, the bug swarm would immediately disperse, not giving a chance for concentrated annihilation.

This thing was truly hard to deal with.

He He Lingchuan simply ignored it and lowered his head to check Zhao Linyang on the ground.

City Guardian Zhao had been dead for a while, with a round hole the thickness of a finger behind his skull, but it was covered by hair and a hat, so others couldn't see clearly.

The shape of this round hole matched the bug tongue that had fallen to the ground.

That thing dried into a withered skin bag less than a few breaths after landing.

He He Lingchuan guessed blindly that this was probably... the bug's mouthpart?

Just a moment ago, that strange insect ambushed Zhao Linyang and burrowed into his head, controlling his body's movements; it could walk and talk, and except for being expressionless, there were almost no flaws.

Adults wouldn't make random expressions anyway. In the chaos of war, who would specifically notice his demeanor? But once running long distances, it wasn't so handy; He He Lingchuan speculated that the corpse began to stiffen, making its control inconvenient.

This monster's initial target was Wen Daolun, and after being intercepted by He He Lingchuan, it had to attack He He Lingchuan.

It even knew to find the head figures of Yuheng City.

Now that Zhao Linyang was dead, as long as Wen Daolun or He He Lingchuan died, the situation in Yuheng City would easily get out of control.

Don't forget, the battle in the Nancheng was the key.

Where did Fu Fu Shanlie find this insidious guy? The bug swarm in mid-air suddenly made a sound: "How did you see through my flaw?"

Bugs didn't have vocal cords, but they could actually simulate human voices through strange wing flapping and resonance.

He He Lingchuan stood up: "Which living person's pupils would dilate so much?"

Although this monster could control Zhao Linyang's every move, it was powerless against the human body's own subtle reactions. Zhao Linyang was attacked in a dark alley, and his pupils dilated when he died, but in these few streets, the fluorescent spore illumination was extremely high, so human pupils should have shrunk accordingly.

This was just a small flaw, but He He Lingchuan was accustomed to looking at people's eyes first, and discovered something wrong with a glance.

The strange bug asked again: "Why did you turn back halfway?"

If He He Lingchuan hadn't returned, Wen Daolun would have been pierced through the skull long ago!

Then East City would have fallen into chaos again.

As long as Yuheng City was messed up, He He Lingchuan, just one person, couldn't govern the entire city area where the Emperor's Flowing Plasma and war disaster arrived together, so Jin Tao and Fu Fu Shanlie would still have a chance.

He He Lingchuan didn't answer this question, stood up, and rushed north, followed closely by the elites.

Matters are divided into priority and urgency.

This strange bug still wanted to delay his time after the sneak attack failed; how could He He Lingchuan let it have its way?

The most important thing now was the battle in the Nancheng! Fu Fu Shanlie didn't show up in the East City, so he must have gone to sneak-attack the Nancheng.

As for the strange bug's question, He He Lingchuan actually didn't know it would appear; he just instinctively felt that Wen Daolun's fatal disaster hadn't passed yet.

This was a whim, a spiritual sense at work, impossible to describe in words.

So even if time was tight, he stayed behind and watched a few more times in the dark.

This look revealed the problem.

If he hadn't taken action at the critical moment, Wen Daolun would have almost been sneak-attacked.

He had previously tried to find a way to transfer Wen Daolun away, but at this strange node, at this specific moment, Wen Daolun almost lost his life again!

It was as if there was a force dragging him toward his own fate.

He He Lingchuan felt heavy.

Previously, he had been thinking about reversing Wen Daolun's ending.

As a result, the one who died in the line of duty was Zhao Linyang, the newly appointed City Guardian of Yuheng City.

The old water lizard's confession was still vivid, "Yuheng City Guardian died suddenly"! After going around in a big circle, the wheel of history had crushed back? Had the Panlong world also begun to show the power of fate? This was really not good news for He He Lingchuan; he had originally hoped to rewrite the tragic ending of Panlongcheng through his own efforts.

Could this wish still be achieved?

If not...

He pressed his lips tightly.

Hong Ming broke the Thousand-Thousand Grass Knot, and Fu Fu Shanlie led seven hundred people to wait in the darkness for a signal to act.

He had green grass in his mouth, feeling anxious in his heart.

His own troops had no foothold in Longchuan, and tonight's action was the last stand.

If he could blood-wash Yuheng City, the Spirit Void City might be satisfied with the answer sheet he handed in, and he could continue to stay in Xiji.

Once failed...

So, had he wasted time staying in the water bandit den of Longchuan for a whole year, as the Spirit Void Royal Court said?

That kid surnamed He was really hard to chew.

Originally, his plan was unobtrusive and could slowly drag down Yuheng City, but he didn't know where that kid surnamed He popped out from, playing dirty tricks on him every day.

However, the combat power of the Longchuan water bandits was indeed not high; although he had over two thousand six hundred subordinates in Longchuan, he could only bring seven hundred people in total, the main body being the elites he brought from Between Beijia himself, as well as the Xiji remnants resisting Panlongcheng, while there were few water bandits.

The rest were supplemented by Jin Tao's troops.

The one currently besieging the Yuheng East City Gate was the Jin Tao army.

After all, a regular army is a regular army; in terms of combat will against the Emperor's Flowing Plasma, it wasn't something that a mob like water bandits could compare to.

Before a few thoughts were finished, the Yuheng East City Gate exploded with red smoke and the alarm bell rang.

It's here!

Fu Fu Shanlie raised his spirit and shouted with his arms:

"Charge!"

The Emperor's Flowing Plasma made people restless, and these nine hundred soldiers had long been waiting impatiently, wanting only to swing their blades and kill. At Fu Fu Shanlie's order, they shot arrows, then charged forward amidst the shaking shouts.

The elites Fu Fu Shanlie sent to sneak into Yuheng City were all elites who had followed him to dominate the battlefield in Between Beijia; he usually couldn't bear to send them out even for looting, but this time he had to endure the pain and send them to be death squads.

The thirty people attacking the Yuheng East City Gate would fight to the death and probably wouldn't come out. But their persistence and sacrifice would attract the city guards to gather in the east, winning time for the second sneak team to break through the South Gate!

Yes, the death squads inside the Dongmen and the army outside the Dongmen were both feints; the Nanchengmen, which the second sneak team was attacking, was Fu Fu Shanlie's true target! Tonight, He He Lingchuan had taken away the main force of the Yuheng army. As long as Fu Fu Shanlie's plan was appropriate, attacking from inside and outside, the city would be broken!

The second sneak team had more people, stronger martial power, and carried more protective talismans, props, and explosives, and also had the help of black beetles, ensuring they could catch the city defense army off guard.

Once the Emperor's Flowing Plasma arrived, most of the city couldn't ride horses, and the Yuheng people's ability to mobilize troops was limited, unable to reinforce the Nanchengmen in time.

In a blink of an eye, the crowd rushed to the moat.

In the early spring, the snow water hadn't melted, the moat water flowed slowly, and the Xiji puppet army threw out pre-prepared ice seeds, quickly freezing the surface of the river.

The Xiji puppet army walked across the ice, reached the city wall, and threw flying hooks toward the city wall.

The hooks were connected to rope ladders, allowing people to climb.

The guards on the city wall hurriedly went to pull and cut them.

On and under the city wall, arrow rain was like weaving.

Fu Fu Shanlie ordered the siege urgently, also to share the pressure of the sneak team inside the city.

He wouldn't place all his hope of opening the city gate on the sneak team; after a few whistles, three giant rhinos rushed out from the dark forest.

These big guys directly crossed the national border, rushing all the way from Jin Tao. The forage they liked grew on the black iron ore vein, and after eating it, the giant rhinos not only wouldn't suffer metal poisoning, but their outer skin would become as hard as iron, and ordinary arrows shot onto them wouldn't leave a single mark.

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