Chapter 12: The Goddess Deceived You

Professor Ye shook his head in disapproval, "It is merely a coincidence. You have studied wormholes and parallel universes for so many years without any progress. This is a pseudo-proposition; you had better not waste your energy."

Zhou Yuchuan gave a faint smile, "It doesn't matter, I will study it whenever I have time. The Zhenbei King Tomb only appeared suddenly after the mountain collapsed; perhaps it is also something from outside our world. It is a pity that all the excavated data weathered away, and everything has become a mystery."

……

Outside Xuancheng.

Zhenbei King Xiao Moting stood at the entrance of the commander's tent, looking up and scanning the dense mass of troops standing before him.

Yesterday, after he saw the handwriting on the Wardrobe, he immediately gave the order to have the wounded soldiers detained and arranged for specific people to guard them.

The Goddess knew his intent.

When he saw his personal guards commit suicide on the spot so as not to drag him down, Xiao Moting was heartbroken, yet powerless to do anything.

They were all soldiers he had personally trained, having spent years together day and night like family; no one was in more pain than he was.

But……

Xiao Moting looked up at the dark, heavy sky.

Since last night, the snow had only grown heavier, with goose-feather-like flakes swirling across the sky, and the weather had become even more bitterly cold.

"Prince!" Li Junshi stepped forward and bowed, his heart filled with grief, "The snow is getting heavier. Last night, over a hundred more soldiers froze to death, and there are only three hundred warhorses left. The food has run out; if we remain trapped here, I fear we will not survive tonight."

"I understand," Xiao Moting said in a deep voice, "Wait a little longer."

Thirty thousand ragged soldiers also stood in the snow, enduring the wind and hunger, waiting quietly.

The Prince had personally promised that before noon today, he would certainly find a way.

The north wind howled, and the heavy snow fell in torrents.

A frozen soldier collapsed into the snow……

A second one fell as well……

Then a third……

And a fourth……

The frozen soldiers were quickly dragged away; the entire army remained silent and disciplined, with no one voicing any dissent.

Because even if they were to freeze or starve to death, they would never consume the flesh and blood of their brothers to save their own lives!

"Report!"

Qin Zhan galloped back through the wind and snow, dismounted, and knelt before Xiao Moting.

"Reporting to the Prince, the Barbarians' army of one hundred thousand has set out, expected to arrive at Xuancheng in three days!"

Xiao Moting's expression turned stern, and his brows locked together instantly.

"These Barbarians are truly cunning, actually wanting to take advantage of the blizzard to wipe us out in one fell swoop!"

They had been besieged for days, and the Barbarians had held their ground, intending to use the harsh weather to exhaust them before launching a surprise attack!

"Prince, it is past noon," Li Junshi reminded him softly, filled with worry, "The life-saving supplies... I fear they will not be sent. That Goddess you spoke of, 'Bai Wei', has likely deceived you……"

"Military Advisor, watch your tongue!" Xiao Moting interrupted in a deep voice, "If not for the Goddess Bai Wei, this Prince would already be dead."

Qin Zhan, covered in blood, pulled a broken arrow from his arm and spoke in a deep voice.

"Prince, the camp has run out of food, and in three days, everyone will have no strength left to go to the battlefield! Why don't we break out now and fight the Barbarians to the death!"

"Even if we die, it would be better to die with our bodies wrapped in horse hides!"

Xiao Dabao also knelt down, "Prince, let's forget about the Goddess or whoever; we're going to die anyway, so let's just go out and fight the Barbarians."

"You all……" Xiao Moting had just begun to speak when he suddenly heard a sound behind him.

Before he could even turn around, he saw all the soldiers in front of him look up, staring in shock at what was behind him.

Many had flushed faces and mouths agape, as if they had witnessed a miracle.

Suddenly, Li Junshi trembled, pointed behind him, and shouted.

"A miracle... it is a miracle!"

Xiao Moting suppressed his emotions, slowly turned around, and his pupils suddenly constricted.

In his tent, countless amounts of food had appeared out of nowhere.

Fresh pumpkins, Chinese cabbage, radishes…… and even more vegetables and fruits he had never seen before!

All of them were fresh and glistening with dew, emitting a fragrant scent.

Cardboard boxes piled as high as a small hill were still continuously rolling out.

One box fell and broke open, revealing a pair of strangely styled grass-green shoes.

Another box split in two, spilling out a large pile of meat sausages.

"It's Ham Sausage!" Xiao Dabao shouted happily, recognizing this delicious meat sausage!

Besides these, there were clothes, cups…… and all sorts of strange things!

Xiao Moting was stunned, and his eyes immediately turned red!

No matter what others said, he firmly believed in her!

She really had not deceived him!

"Quick, we are saved!" Li Junshi shouted with tears in his eyes, "Everyone, hurry and move the supplies! Only when we are full will we have the strength to go to the battlefield and fight the Barbarians!"

"Everyone, move!" Xiao Dabao took the lead and immediately organized a group of soldiers to rush forward and salvage the goods.

His eyes filled with hot tears; there had never been a moment more moving than this.

The dense mass of soldiers suddenly knelt down one after another, prostrating themselves on the snowy ground and weeping bitterly.

"Thank you, Shennü Niangniang!"

"The Goddess has not abandoned us!"

The Military Doctor held a box of medicine and shouted excitedly, "It is divine medicine!"

On the medicine box, a large piece of white paper was pasted.

On the paper was written a line of crooked calligraphy—"Medicine for treating frostbite, cannot be eaten, only to be applied to the frostbitten area."

Below it, the method of use was also written in detail.

Xiao Moting rushed into the military tent and was shocked to see all kinds of things pouring out of the wardrobe, already piled up into a small mountain.

On the door panel of the wardrobe, a line of handwriting was written.

"Xiao Moting, do not call me Guishhen. I am an ordinary person just like you, and I will always help you all. However, I also need items from your side; do not use spirit money."

Xiao Moting clenched his fists tightly, his emotions surging.

She is not Guishhen.

Yet she is the supreme Goddess Daren in his heart.

It is just that... those were not spirit money, but Heavenly Lord gold paper used for them to sacrifice to the highest deity.

Outside the military tent, Qin Zhan was already impatiently organizing men to distribute the items, and bursts of cheers from the soldiers drifted across the camp.

"My frostbite doesn't hurt anymore, the divine medicine bestowed by the Goddess is truly effective!"

"Such light, warm clothes! They are much warmer than the padded Cotton Clothes my mother sewed for me by hand before I went on the expedition!"

"The shoes are so warm, my feet aren't cold anymore!" came the happy voice of Xiao Liujin.

Suddenly!

The items pouring out of the wardrobe stopped.

Xiao Moting was startled.

The soldiers who were moving the goods also became nervous and all went quiet, fearing that the things were gone.

Had the deity finished manifesting?

But although these things were many, they were not enough to support the thirty-thousand-strong army for three days, and would not last until the barbarians attacked.

But the next moment, things began to pour out of the wardrobe again without stopping.

The soldiers waiting nervously immediately erupted into cheers again.

However, this time, the items pouring out were not as smooth as before; they were intermittent, sometimes pausing for a moment, and sometimes staying quiet for a long time, until after the time it takes to brew half a cup of tea, things continued to emerge.

Xiao Moting's sword-like brows were tightly furrowed, his heart clenching.

He could see the other party's difficulty; had Goddess Daren... encountered some obstacle?

Outside the military tent, the fanatical shouts of the soldiers rang out, and countless people knelt on the ground kowtowing.

"Thank you, Shennü Niangniang!"

The shouting shook the heavens, piercing through the wind and snow, reaching straight to the sky!

However, Bai Wei could not see any of this.

She lay on the concrete floor beside the wardrobe, exhausted and fast asleep.

Dahuang squatted beside Bai Wei, guarding her quietly, licking her face from time to time with his tongue.

Just now, when she strongly wanted to Teleport the items over, the wardrobe suddenly sucked the items in.

However, using the wardrobe for Teleportation consumes a massive amount of Mental Power.

Such a massive quantity of supplies had already exceeded Bai Wei's physical limit and overdrawn her to the extreme.