Chapter 46: Heaven's Cycle, Retribution Never Misses

"It's burning!"

The Qianghu soldiers on the city tower cheered and leaped with joy.

Under the night sky, a bright flame rose in the distant Qianghu main camp, so dazzling.

The fire tongue soaring to the heavens engulfed a cloud ladder in an extremely short time.

"Ah~~~"

That unlucky Qianghu also burst into flames on his body.

He desperately patted at it, rolling back and forth on the ground, grabbing dirt to smear on his legs.

Yet he could never extinguish the flames on his body.

If at the start, he had simply and cleanly taken off his clothes and thrown them away.

If his skin and flesh were stained, directly cutting it away with a knife, he could still have saved his life.

But he kept patting, kept rolling back and forth, the result being the flames rapidly burned his whole body.

A comrade brought a water bucket and poured it over his head.

The result was the fire instantly grew fiercer, directly engulfing the man.

The Qianghu were dumbfounded, this fire actually can't be put out?

"Save me~~~"

The Qianghu consumed by fierce flames let out heart-rending howls, lunging at a nearby comrade.

The unprepared comrade was embraced, the flames spreading to his body.

The Qianghu were scared crazy, punching and kicking in desperate struggle, trying to push the burning man away.

However, like a drowning person who desperately clutches at a life-saving straw.

The Qianghu with his whole body ablaze clung tightly to his comrade, refusing to let go, as if wanting to transfer his pain away, seeking that faint glimmer of survival.

In the time it takes to drink a cup of hot tea.

The two Qianghu tightly embracing each other, their screams gradually ceased, turning into blazing torches.

The surrounding Qianghu, some were already scared out of their wits.

The scene before their eyes was truly too horrifying.

The drone flew back to the city tower; Qin Lang and the others, beaming with joy, quickly stepped forward to attach large glass jars again.

In a siege battle, the greatest threat to the defending army is those large siege engines.

For each siege engine, the defending army needs to pay at least hundreds of lives to destroy it.

Yet at this moment, before the Lord's mechanical beasts, they were so easily burned and destroyed.

Qin Lang and the others had only one thought in their hearts.

"The most beautiful thing in the world is that our Lord is our Lord~~~"

If the Lord were the enemy on the opposite side.

Even just thinking about this kind of thing would make one's hair stand on end with cold dread.

Three large siege engines caught fire in succession; the Divine Archers guarding the various granaries only then came galloping hastily.

They followed the drone's trajectory in the sky, rushing out of the camp.

Holding strong bows and sharp arrows, with eyes as sharp as night falcons, they locked onto the drone and fired.

The civilian drone's shell is mainly carbon fiber.

Unable to withstand the successive sharp arrows, its internal electronic components were pierced and damaged; it tumbled and fell to the ground, splashing up large fireballs.

The Qianghu cheered and leaped with joy, finally shooting down the strange birds in the sky.

As long as they can shoot them down, those strange birds aren't scary at all!

The morale that had fallen due to the heaven-sent divine fire also rose along with it.

Qin Lang and the others on the city tower watched as Fei Luan was shot down before it even entered the Qianghu camp.

One by one they beat their chests and stamped their feet, eyes tearing up and sobbing, as if they had lost the world's supreme treasure.

To them, the Fei Luan that could fly to the heavens was truly a supreme treasure.

Lin Dao caught his breath, signaling Liu Hu standing nearby to go drag over another drone box placed not far away.

He had several dozen such boxes.

"Eagle Shooter?"

Installed the battery, started debugging, attached the payload.

The new drone rose into the sky again. "Shooting it down is quite accurate."

"This time I'll fly at two hundred meters height, let's see you hit one!"

Height increases, hit rate inevitably drops.

The drone flying at two hundred meters height, though no longer hit, its several successive rounds of thrown burning jars all failed to hit the target.

Seeing the Qianghu below already frantically pushing the siege engines, planning to disperse them.

Lin Dao's side quickly came up with a countermeasure.

Took a high-intensity flashlight, narrowed the beam, and hung it vertically downward on the drone, fixed in place.

This thing naturally cannot be spoken of as having any precision.

But compared to the previous blind throwing, the accuracy is greatly improved.

After all, siege engines are all huge and heavy; one only needs to cover them with the vertical light beam, then directly release the hook.

The drone made trip after trip: takeoff, throw, land, swap battery, attach payload.

Cycling like this, the over a hundred siege engines the Later Zhao army had painstakingly built all turned into clusters of torches under the night sky.

The Qianghu also once resisted frantically.

The arrow rain soaring into the sky was the best proof.

But facing technological crushing that spanned a thousand years, their resistance seemed utterly useless.

Later on, the Qianghu simply abandoned resistance completely.

No longer shooting arrows, no longer pouring water to try to put out the fire, and no longer pushing siege engines to move.

Many Qianghu watched from afar, silently looking at the strange birds in the sky constantly dropping fire eggs, swallowing the siege engines they had built into the sea of fire.

"About enough."

Recalling the drone, Lin Dao stood up, "Staying up late is a bit tiring, I'm going back to rest. You all keep a good watch over there."

Qin Lang and the others, filled with admiration beyond compare, shouted salutes in unison.

"Seeing off the Lord~~~"

Returning to the dormitory in the Modern World, Lin Dao fell asleep the moment his head hit the pillow.

'Not a scumbag, don't like thunder~~~'

I don't know how long passed; Lin Dao, in a daze, was woken up by the phone ringtone.

The number on the screen looked somewhat familiar.

Lin Dao, lying prone on the bed, narrowed his eyes and slid his finger, "Who is this?"

The phone was silent for a moment, after which crying sounds came through.

'Wuu wuu wuu~~~'

"Lin Dao~ it's me~~"

This voice was familiar; it was none other than that ex-girlfriend who had thrown herself into the arms of a domineering CEO.

Lin Dao instantly perked up, sitting up straight, "Mm, go on."

The ex-girlfriend cried and sobbed, her voice choked with tears as she began to tell her story.

'~He opened a company for me~'

'~The company had trouble and needs to pay compensation~'

'~He won't help me, and even told me to accompany clients~'

'~I refused, so he hit me and made me pay compensation~'

'~I'm pregnant~'

'~Lin Dao, please help me~~~'

Lin Dao gritted his teeth, holding back his laughter.

He stuffed the phone under the pillow, pounding the mattress hard, laughing until he rolled off.

"Karma, retribution is never off the mark~~~"

"Those who come back from overseas study are all players."

"They've used all sizes."

"You have no connections, and are not well-matched; you only have a face, yet you dream of marrying into a wealthy family."

"Being played until tired and then used and discarded—this is what you deserve~~~"

The fatigue from last night was swept clean in an instant.

Lin Dao, in high spirits, controlled his emotions, took out his phone, and held it to his ear.

"That's truly excessive!"

Lin Dao's words were full of anger, "Truly scum, trash!"

"How could he treat you like that when you love him so deeply!"

"Actually, he's quite good to me." The ex-girlfriend quietly defended the domineering CEO, "He took me to eat at a Michelin Restaurant and bought me many gifts."

Lin Dao raised his eyebrows; it was just spending money, after all—this kind of thing required no skill whatsoever.

Who wouldn't do that if they had money?

"So what do you think now?"

Lin Dao asked again, "What do you plan to do in the future?"

"Lin Dao." The ex-girlfriend asked cautiously, "Can you borrow me some money?"

"Let me pay back the money I owe first."

"Hehe~~~" Lin Dao narrowed his eyes, "You know my situation; where would I get money to lend you?"

"If I had money, I'd give you however much you wanted!"

The ex-girlfriend was obviously moved, sobbing again, "You're so good; I regret leaving you."

"Hah~~~"

Lin Dao raised his head and spat toward the ceiling.

You regret your ass~~~

He didn't get the money, but the ex-girlfriend had other tricks.

"Lin Dao, I'm pregnant now."

"I want to give birth to the child."

"That's good news~~~" Lin Dao said with a smile, "Maybe that domineering CEO, for the sake of the child, will chase you back in a chase-wife crematorium."

"Right, right." The ex-girlfriend laughed out loud, "I thought so too."

"Um~~" She changed the subject, "Giving birth in my current condition isn't good."

The ex-girlfriend's voice grew lower and lower, "Can you help me?"

With her sticking out her butt like that, Lin Dao knew what she wanted to say.

He sneered in his heart, but said gently with his mouth, "If there's anything, just say it straight; I'll definitely help if I can!"

"I want to get back together with you."

The ex-girlfriend hurriedly explained, "The fake kind, and the child will be said to be yours, so no one will gossip about me."

"Do you think it works?"

"Heh~~~"

Lin Dao snapped his fingers, "Sure, I can definitely help."

"When you give birth, be sure to tell me; I'll go to the Hospital to send Baby Formula then."

Hanging up the phone, Lin Dao casually tossed it aside.

"Taking me for a Scapegoat? Treating me as a Licking Dog?"

"Have the child, give birth properly."

"You're an Unemployed Vagrant, see how you Raise Child!"

"Best to have a son; when you want to find an Honest Man to Take Over, no one will want you!"

Spirited up, Lin Dao didn't sleep anymore, Humming as he got up, put on Clothes, and went to the Restaurant to eat.

Today a Happy Event is at the door; must go to the Restaurant for a big meal to properly Celebrate.

End of Chapter