Chapter 1688

"Prime Minister Gao, then Anna..." he asked tentatively.

"Naturally, it was my instruction."

"Anna is just a top card at the Chunhe Building; she has only walked the Sudan Desert once in her life, and that was the time she was trafficked!"

"An Aza has followed caravans and walked the Sudan Desert several times, but he is not familiar with it either."

"In this world, where does so much heavenly help come from? It was just my deliberate arrangement," Gao Yang said faintly.

Boom!

Gao Yang's words were like a heavy hammer, smashing heavily into Li Chengye's mind, buzzing.

He looked shocked, full of disbelief.

"So Prime Minister Gao's biggest purpose was to perform a play for these Xiongnu?"

At this moment, Li Chengye felt that everything was clear.

Gao Yang's eyes were deep, and he said with a smile, "Correct."

"In the final analysis, the Sudan Desert is also the Xiongnu's territory; using barbarians to control barbarians has always been the best choice in my heart."

"Having Xiongnu lead the way and having them find water sources for the army is the optimal choice!"

"But the Xiongnu are fickle; if you want to use them, you must first completely dispel those inappropriate thoughts of theirs."

Li Chengye clenched his fists unconsciously upon hearing this.

With things said to this point, Li Chengye understood everything.

Today was not only for Gao Yang to give the generals a reassurance, but also a heart-punishing game aimed at the Xiongnu captive guides!

Camels, desert ants, and desert poplars are like this!

Anna is also like this.

Checking the angle with the Big Dipper every night and beheading if deviating by ten degrees is even more so.

Everything was to dispel the inappropriate thoughts of the Xiongnu.

Finally, lure them with profit!

This completed a silent heart-punishing game!

Li Chengye took a deep breath, and the hand holding the teacup was shaking.

Let alone those Xiongnu, even he, Li Chengye, was kept in the dark.

"Commandant Li, drink tea! If you don't drink it, the tea will get cold," Gao Yang spread his hands and said with a smile.

Li Chengye suddenly came back to his senses upon hearing Gao Yang's voice.

When he saw Gao Yang raise his teacup to him and smile slightly, he hurriedly picked up his teacup and toasted Gao Yang.

"Prime Minister Gao, then was the Marquis of Long Drive also a game deliberately set by you? Was it also a play?"

"No, that is what he deserves."

Outside the house.

Pu Duo happened to walk by, and when he heard these words, his tiger body shook violently.

"My Prime Minister Gao..."

At the same time.

In a small room.

Huyan Gudu's withered palms clenched inch by inch, his face full of struggle.

"That Living Yama is so cautious, so knowledgeable, and has made so many preparations."

"Where should I go?"

Huyan Gudu's expression was gloomy, his fingertips piercing deep into his palms.

He began to struggle, began to waver.

Everything today was vivid in his mind, and the Living Yama's remarks constantly impacted his heart.

Were those remarks fake?

Were they deliberately to scare them?

If this were anyone else in the world, Huyan Gudu would not believe it.

But it just so happened that this person was Gao Yang, the number one poison scholar of Great Qian.

According to those Great Qian generals, this Living Yama even predicted the white-haired gale on Canglan Mountain in advance; how could these be fake?

Gradually, Huyan Gudu's heart no longer struggled, nor did it waver.

He slowly closed his eyes.

He didn't know if this was the Living Yama's scheme, and how much of those words were fake.

But the path before him only had two options.

Either secretly cause trouble, die for the Eternal Heaven, and die generously!

Or obediently be a dog for Great Qian, tell everything, strive to establish great merit, and eat and drink well in Great Qian.

Apart from this, there is no other path to choose.

But even if he lied, Gao Yang could verify it through other means; what is the point of betrayal?

He wants integrity, but what about those people?

Wouldn't they betray the Eternal Heaven?

Huyan Gudu curled up on the straw mat, and Pu Duo's laughter echoed in his mind—that was the unique laughter of their Xiongnu, with a rough, sandy texture, but now it was inexplicably mixed with Great Qian's boldness.

Huyan Gudu subconsciously touched the Eternal Heaven amulet at his waist, but touched a wooden thorn—he then remembered that when he was captured, Great Qian took away his bronze knife but left this broken amulet.

He stared at the amulet before him, and memories surged like a sandstorm.

Five years ago, it was a very cold autumn, and the Langya King, in order to pray to the Eternal Heaven, sent twenty children from his tribe to be sacrificed alive.

It was a very special birth hour, which included his youngest son.

But that winter, the grassland was still extremely cold, freezing many, many people to death...

Huyan Gudu couldn't help but think that even if he lied, there were still Anna, An Aza, and those camels that could sniff water and ants that could drill sand.

If he died, it would just be another corpse in the Sudan Desert, adding a delicious meal to the vultures for nothing, but if he lived, there could be a tombstone in front of his mother's grave, and his son who died young could have a tablet in the ancestral hall...

His fingers slid across the edge of the amulet, cutting a bloodstain, bringing a stinging pain, and Huyan Gudu suddenly laughed, his laughter like a leaking leather bag.

"Oh Eternal Heaven, who among those who tell the truth have you ever protected?" ===== CHAPTER 1690 =====