Chapter 323: My Name Is Yun Gu!

Just relying on a little divine power, could he conjure an entire flesh-and-blood fortress out of thin air? He Lingchuan felt that General Red's definition of "pitifully little" was different from his. But thinking that she was actually the god Lady Mitian, this didn't seem strange.

Holding the abuser brain core, He Lingchuan felt that the suffering of these few hours was not in vain. However, thinking of the price paid for this brain core, he couldn't laugh.

"By the way, if you use the abuser brain core, you will likely alarm the Jin Du mother, after all, they are of the same lineage, provided this Jin Du mother still exists."

He Lingchuan asked cautiously: "What will be the consequences?"

"As long as you don't prostrate yourself before it, don't beg for its divine descent, usually there won't be any immediate consequences." General Red said leisurely, "But it will remember you."

What would happen if a god hated you? He Lingchuan understood the subtext here: don't use it unless necessary.

He had another question.

"This mission..." Why was it assigned to patrol guards? He Lingchuan hesitated, "No, nothing."

"We just discovered that there are abusers among the Jin Du hatchlings that descended to the human world this time." General Red seemed to be able to hear what he was thinking, "However, even without the abuser, this mission shouldn't have been assigned to you."

She said it shouldn't, which meant that after returning to the city, someone would have to bear the responsibility and someone would have to pay the price.

Before the moon climbed the treetops, the group finally returned to Chifeng Town.

Returning from the uninhabited wilderness, a dragon-head mask automatically generated on General Red's face, hiding her appearance with the ferocity of a black dragon.

He Lingchuan occasionally looked at it, and there seemed to be a piece of darkness behind the dragon-head mask.

Yes, normal people wearing masks would at least reveal a pair of eyes. Then the eye shape, eye pattern, and interpupillary distance couldn't be hidden from acquaintances.

But General Red's mask was very strange; the dragon eyes were filled with a void darkness, and even if she walked into a bright room, it seemed that the light couldn't shine in at all.

General Red was in dark red and black armor, precise and mighty, with a dark gold dragon head on her chest, and now paired with this kind of mask, a cold and ferocious aura came rushing toward them.

The townspeople of Chifeng Town came out to watch, and a four or five-year-old child cried loudly the first time he saw General Red.

Turning around, He Lingchuan actually saw an old acquaintance, Hu Min, here. The latter smiled at him, reported to General Red in a low voice, and then came over to greet He Lingchuan.

The team entered the room, and the seriously injured were sent to be settled. General Red walked to the unconscious woman and gently brushed her face with her hand.

The woman woke up with a cry.

Her face was panicked, wanting to sit up but powerless.

This face was very strange to He Lingchuan; it turned out that the human mother found by the Jin Du mother for the ghost fetus was not the person he thought.

Guessed wrong, huh?

General Red's voice was as flat as water: "Your internal organs are damaged, beyond saving; you aren't rolling on the ground in pain now because the poison injected into your body by the abuser has an anesthetic effect, so I won't remove it."

Although processed, the stretcher under her was still stained red.

The blood couldn't be stopped at all. General Red was waking her up now; otherwise, she would sleep until she died.

"Abuser?" The woman asked tremblingly, "Are you talking about my child? How is it?"

"Dead." General Red said, "It used your body to build a fortress and digest food; counting it up, you two worked together to eat over two hundred people. Do you have anything to say?"

"I, I didn't eat people." The woman shook her head hard, "I only prayed to the gods to let me escape the sea of bitterness."

General Red said coldly: "There are countless people who pray to the gods, but few will be responded to by the Jin Du mother." Otherwise, wouldn't ghost hatchlings be running wild all over the world?

The woman cried: "My life is too bitter, I..." She thought she had moved the gods with her sincerity.

"Which god do you pray to?"

"Yao, Yao Ji." The woman whispered, "The god responded to me, saying I would have a cute child and would never be bullied by others again."

Calculating with fingers, these two promises seemed to have been fulfilled.

General Red asked again: "Why did you come to Chifeng Town?"

"The god originally wanted me to stay in Panlongcheng, but I, but I accidentally gave birth prematurely." The woman was increasingly weak, "Panlongcheng wanted to hunt down my child, so I had to move out, but it was freezing outside, and I found a post station wanting to steal some food, but... but the children ate people again, so I went north."

She cried: "The god was very unhappy and wanted me to go to a place with many people. But I gave birth to the youngest one halfway, and the things that followed... I don't remember."

Hu Min interjected: "You gave birth to the ghost hatchling near the mine tunnel?"

"Seems... right?" The woman thought for a long time, "Before I fainted, I saw a row of low houses."

Hu Min muttered: "In this way, it was all an accident?"

"There are few people near the Chifeng mine tunnel; it is definitely not a good location to build a flesh-and-blood fortress." General Red said to the crowd, "The Jin Du mother will use salvation as a name to deceive women who have suffered a lot to give birth to ghost fetuses. However, this time, it seems it chose the wrong person."

He Lingchuan couldn't help but ask: "Why doesn't it choose someone else?"

"Perhaps because it didn't find a suitable candidate." General Red answered, "The residents within the Panlong territory already have faith."

The subjects within the sphere of influence of Panlongcheng naturally mostly believed in Lady Mitian.

For its own basic board, the god held it very tightly.

General Red seemed to have asked for the information she wanted and turned to leave.

Liu Tiao saw the woman's face getting paler and took a bowl of water to feed her, saying: "Don't cry anymore, save your strength."

"I can't live through those days." The woman held her hand, tears flowing faster, "What did I do wrong? To suffer such bitterness. I just didn't want to be alone and helpless anymore."

He Lingchuan watched from the side and suddenly asked her: "What is your name?"

Finally someone asked her name, and the woman looked at him: "Yun Gu, my name is Yun Gu! I am from Luan City! My family used to, used to..."

She muttered a few more words later, her voice getting lighter and lighter, until it was inaudible.

Liu Tiao checked her neck pulse and shook her head: "Gone."

She sighed lightly and instructed the Chifeng townspeople to handle Yun Gu's funeral.

He Lingchuan vaguely remembered that Luan City had also been on the geographical map of the Panlong Wasteland, about twelve or thirteen years ago, erased by the Xianyou Kingdom.

Along with it, many ordinary people's lives were erased.

Such a lonely and helpless woman had stirred up a storm in the city in the last month of her life, until now she was crushed into dust and returned to loneliness.

It was a bit stuffy in the room, so He Lingchuan grabbed Hu Min and walked outside, handing him a piece of chewing tobacco.

Hu Min put it in his mouth and chewed a few times, exhaling comfortably: "You suffered a great deal this time; someone is going to be in big trouble."

"How so?"

"This kind of mission should at least be executed by the Great Wind Army." Hu Min patted his shoulder, "Brother, no offense meant."

"I know, General Red said so too." He Lingchuan asked him, "By the way, why did General Red come personally?"

"The higher-ups found out that Village Chief Hu of Chifeng Town concealed the true death toll of the mine tunnel, reporting less than half; and he deliberately delayed for two days, first notifying others, saying there were monsters in the tunnel. The other party sent a team to suppress the monsters, about forty or fifty people, and the whole army was wiped out."

"Notify others first?" He Lingchuan was startled, remembering the skinny man's discovery, "Yes, the Chifeng mine tunnel produces gold; Village Chief Hu must know this news, but others don't."

"They were stealing gold in the tunnel without reporting it to Panlongcheng!" Hu Min also pried open Village Chief Hu's mouth and learned some inside information, "When an accident happened here, he first reported it to his superior, who wanted to suppress the monsters first and settle the matter, but didn't expect the point in the tunnel to be thorny."

"This nest of monsters went north and ate a whole village." Hu Min sighed, "Only three left, yet they could eat so much; General Red judged that an abuser appeared among them. Then it wasn't something ordinary troops could deal with."

"Otherwise, why would I tell you that someone is going to be in big trouble?" He chuckled, "Almost letting the abuser take root in the Chifeng Plateau; what a huge responsibility!"

He Lingchuan looked around to make sure no one was there, hooked his neck, and whispered: "Ask you one more thing, has General Red always been like this?"

"Like what?"

"Wearing a mask even when there's nothing!"

"Uh." Hu Min shrugged, "That's why I told you earlier that I was at a loss for words and couldn't describe it."

"General Red—" He looked at the large house, his voice subconsciously lowered, "On the battlefield, in public, usually wears a mask, only revealing her true face in private. I heard this is the combat habit of ancient gods. Let me tell you something from a long time ago."

"A few years ago, when General Red first appeared, everyone was curious, but she lived in seclusion, and others had no chance to meet her. It happened that once she was supporting the outer city, it was a long-distance raid, and everyone bet on how many days her true face would be seen."

"And then?"

"Then everyone lost." Hu Min sighed, "At any time, General Red never took off that mask."

"She eats alone?" In battle, where were there such luxurious conditions? "The power is here." Hu Min lowered his voice, "According to her personal guards, General Red doesn't eat, doesn't drink, and doesn't even need to go to the toilet!"

"Doesn't eat or drink, of course doesn't need to go to the toilet; nothing in, nothing out. Hmm..." The focus seemed wrong.

"General Red is always full of spirit and doesn't need sleep." Hu Min gave a bitter smile, "Two years ago, Baling and Xianyou joined forces to attack Xitan, General Red commanded for seven days and seven nights, without a moment's rest, her energy inexhaustible."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 324 =====