Chapter 458: A Sudden Change on the Battlefield

Are these a group of evil ghosts?

Pei Yanran was also startled, her face turning pale, and she covered her mouth with a gasp.

Liu Zheng's eyes shifted as well.

Shocking to the eyes!

Too difficult to look at!

He could tell that these people were all addicts, one by one. Some were already beyond saving... tens of thousands, tens of thousands of people, all addicts. This was a truly terrifying thing. Many of them, after coming out, rushed toward the nearby poppy cultivation base and began to scramble for the burning poppies...

A living Hell.

What Liu Zheng saw before his eyes was a true living Hell.

It was obvious.

These people were all tribesmen poisoned by opium by Shama Zhuoyi; they might have once been Warriors under Shama Zhuoyi, soldiers of the Zhongkujiao Tribe, and it was even very likely that among them were "heroes" who had won the Torch Festival in years past...

And when the opium had exhausted their physical strength and vitality, they were imprisoned in this farm, becoming free labor here that could never escape again...

These people.

Did not have many days left to live.

"This..."

Huobu Quli, upon seeing this scene, already had rage surging in his eyes. Are these the people living under the influence of that Bone-Eating Poison? Are these the Liangshan People under the rampant spread of opium that the Prefect Liu spoke of?

Shama Zhuoyi's tribesmen...

These were all tribesmen of the Zhongkujiao! Although not of the same tribe, they were all Liangshan People!

The shock caused in his heart by the appearance of these people was beyond measure.

He just watched helplessly.

Watching this group of people scramble and slaughter each other; in their eyes, there were no longer companions, in their eyes, there was nothing else, in their eyes, there was not even life anymore. They disregarded everything, having only a frantic pursuit of that opium; that seemed to be the source of their life.

The people stepping on the burning Quelehuoduo seemed to have no pain as long as they had opium.

After they snatched these unprocessed poppies, many of them began to smoke them right in the middle of the great fire.

For a moment.

Amidst the black smoke, there was an additional strange fragrance.

"Hahahaha!"

"Refreshing!"

"Like an immortal, an immortal!"

"Headman, Headman, I feel like I can do it again! I can still fight!"

Soon.

Many people snatched poppies, and soon, they began to puff away, soon, they seemed to have ascended to the Pure Land, and soon, they became even more insane and more frantic.

Everything before his eyes.

Was like performing a typical anti-drug short film for people.

At least.

That was what Liu Zheng thought.

He watched these people, many falling to the ground because their bodies were already poisoned to the core, and some, because of a lack of restraint, died on the spot from an opium overdose while in "bliss." More people, after puffing away, sat on the ground with expressions of enjoyment, letting the great fire burn their bodies; the next moment, what awaited them would no longer be bliss, but Hell.

Terrible.

Horrifying.

Ghastly.

They.

Were no longer human.

"This, this, this..."

Huobu Quli and Huobu Zhuoli were already stunned.

Their tribe was also in an uproar. Is this that opium? Is this the consequence that opium brings to people?

"Do you see it?"

Liu Zheng smiled lightly and turned to look at Jie Yu: "If I am not mistaken, there are still many people, or rather, even more people, who have long since been devoured by these poppies over the years. Many more than what we see now..."

Jie Yu's lips trembled, and she could not say a single word.

Because at this moment, her heart was equally shocked.

"You say your Academy has no responsibility?"

"You say that letting Chen Ran be was not you?"

Liu Zheng smiled lightly, and then, he slowly looked toward Huobu Quli over there.

He believed.

At this moment, there was no need for him to say anything more.

Huobu Quli should understand.

What Prince of Shu?

What Prince of the Nanzhao Kingdom...

What Shama Zhuoyi!

They were the group of people poisoning Liangshan and wanting to drag the entire Liangshan into the mire and Hell! At this moment, how to choose?

Huobu Quli's eyes were already bloodshot at this moment, and his whole body was trembling.

Admittedly.

He had to consider the status of the Prince of Shu.

But at the same time, he had to first consider the new order of Liangshan!

If this Prince of Shu began to control Liangshan, would they, the Liangshan People, once again fall into this state, becoming tools for him to amass wealth through opium? But what about Governor Liu? No, he was different; from the very beginning, he had shown his hatred for this opium!

"Headman..."

The person beside him still wanted to speak.

Huobu Quli had already let out an angry shout: "Kill!"

"Kill!"

The Small Trouser Leg Tribe behind him had actually been unable to hold back for a long time.

This cry of "Kill" was directed, without a doubt, at those one hundred thousand Shu Army soldiers! It was they who had ravaged the Liangshan People into the evil ghosts before their eyes! It was they who had not treated the Liangshan People as humans, but as pigs and dogs, as slaves!

"What?"

At this moment, Xie Zhen's expression changed drastically.

Originally, his one hundred thousand Shu Army soldiers were absolutely certain to win against the fifty thousand Liangzhou Army soldiers, and the battle situation had already begun to clarify. He did not ask for this Small Trouser Leg Tribe to help him; he just wanted them to stand by and watch.

He had not expected...

That such an accident would occur.

Those evil ghosts had become an existence that changed the stance of everything.

One hundred thousand Small Trouser Leg tribesmen raised the weapons in their hands and charged toward the Shu Army.

Upon seeing this, Qin Zhangfeng was immediately overjoyed: "Form up!"

"Form up!"

The thirty thousand Liangzhou Army soldiers changed once again from a defensive formation to an offensive formation!

"Quick, quick, quick, block them! Block them! This bunch of barbarians, this bunch of barbarians!"

Xie Zhen roared in anxiety.

Zhou Cheng's expression also changed, and he suddenly felt the pressure increase manifold.

The formation changed again!

However...

At this moment, the Liangzhou Army's heart for revenge, added to the monstrous hostility the Small Trouser Leg Tribe felt upon seeing this bunch of evil ghosts, seemed to carry the force of shaking the earth and mountains as they charged over...

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Having just fought a great battle with the Liangzhou Army, the Shu Army had also suffered a loss of twenty thousand, and at this time, only eighty thousand troops remained.

And the Liangzhou Army here, fifty thousand, plus the eighty thousand of the Small Trouser Leg, totaled a full one hundred and thirty thousand!

Eighty thousand!

One hundred and thirty thousand!

The scales had tilted once again.

Only, this time the tilt was in the direction of Liu Zheng.

No.

It should be said, it was in the direction of justice.

【Author's Note】

Two more chapters to go. Resting for a bit before continuing; I won't sleep today until I finish.