Chapter 16: The Beautiful Rebellion
After separating from King Sazam and Galina, Beichen walked back in silence.
Since they met in a public place, King Sazam did not say much. He just promised to pay a considerable price in exchange for the witch's "choice". He even said that if necessary, it would be okay to exchange it with territory.
This was undoubtedly a very tempting exchange condition, but Beichen didn't know what the witch's criteria for the "selected person" were, nor did she know what it meant to be selected, so for a moment, she neither agreed nor refused, but just agreed on a time to meet again - she had to go back and discuss it with Xiaoying.
"What are you going to do?"
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Xifeng spoke softly from the side.
"I didn't expect King Sazam to say such a thing... Can the seat of the 'Chosen One'... be purchased?"
"I don't know about that. Whether you're willing to sell it or not is your question."
"I don't know either." Beichen shook his head helplessly. "Whether the criteria for 'selection' were set by Chiyue or me, it's still unknown."
"Then don't dwell on these useless things. Let's go ask Xiao Peng for his opinion first. King Sazam is too violent. It's not clear if a deal is worth making."
"Um."
Beichen nodded and involuntarily quickened her pace towards the dormitory. However, not long after, her pace gradually slowed down.
A large crowd of people gathered on the street ahead, seemingly watching the excitement. Many Spiritual Warriors dressed as knights of the Latia Kingdom were running around. The crowd made low noises, pointing and talking, and there was an air of unease.
A bad feeling immediately washed over me—wasn't that the dormitory for the contestants?!
"Please make way. Sorry, please make way—"
Beichen pushed through the crowd and walked forward. When she saw clearly what the crowd was surrounding, her face suddenly turned pale.
"Art—wooooooo!"
She wanted to call Atlas' name, but Xifeng behind her quickly covered her mouth.
...In the middle of the crowd, a large group of knights were tying up a man, their body covered in a dozen iron shackles. Not far away, Xiaxue held a dazzlingly luxurious photon longsword. Blue-purple demonic blood dripped from the transparent blade.
Atlas—caught!
Amid the crowd's discussions, Xiaxue swung his sword, and the blade made a heavy photon buzzing sound, splashing blue blood on the ground. Four knights held the bloody Atlas hostage, and six more knights surrounded him. Atlas' eyes were still open, but seemed to have lost focus, and it seemed that he had fainted.
The crowd had obviously rarely seen a human-shaped possessed Moon Messenger up close, and they were whispering to each other with fresh and terrified evil thoughts. Some people even complained in low voices about why Xiaxue didn't execute him on the spot - Xiaxue obviously heard it, but he just smiled indifferently, ordered the knights to take Atlas away, then dismissed the crowd and left with the team. As he left, he glanced in the direction of Beichen with a half-smile.
Beichen was very anxious and immediately took a step to chase after him, but was stopped by Xifeng.
"Are you crazy? You want to fight with so many civilians and the royal army?!"
In the mental communication channel, Xifeng tried to comfort Beichen in a deep voice, but the latter was obviously not listening. It was obvious that he was a little confused because the matter happened too suddenly, and he tried desperately to break free from Xifeng.
As Xifeng pulled Beichen back, alarm bells blared in his head: What a coincidence! As soon as they left the house, Xiaxue and his men showed up? And wasn't Yagad there too—oh, Yagad?!
"Calm down, Xiang Beichen! The most important thing now is to find Yagad!"
Beichen was startled by Xifeng's roar, and came back to her senses a little, then started running towards the dormitory building - but after running a few steps, she stopped, covered her mouth, and screamed silently.
──Half of the dormitory building was bombed into ruins, and in the edge of this devastated area, Yagard was sitting covered in blood, leaning against a broken column. He held a badly damaged white long-handled axe tightly in his hand, with his head lowered. Blood from his forehead kept dripping onto the corner of his clothes. It was unclear whether he was unconscious or awake.
"Agard!?"
Beichen rushed over, squatted down beside him, and then with some difficulty moved his burly shoulders into his arms. He took out ten large recovery spirit crystals in a row and crushed them one by one.
"Are you okay?! Are you still awake?!"
"Miss Beichen..."
Yagad raised his eyes with difficulty, his face full of guilt.
"Sorry... the cooldown of the Red Moon Armor hasn't expired yet... I'm in normal mode, so I can't defeat Xia Xue... Atlas..."
He clenched his fists tightly and whispered in self-blame, blood oozing from his mouth with every word.
"Don't talk for now, you're badly injured!"
"...No, I must say." The knight looked at Beichen with a resolute expression. "Xiao Peng and Ling Shuang were also seriously injured. The Jafa Divine Group took them away during the chaos, and Gu Yinyue and the twins went after them. ...The Jafa Divine Group's appearance was too coincidental. I suspect they are secretly involved with the Latia royal family..."
"Black Disaster and Su Jie too?! Why didn't they call me through the telepathic communication channel?!"
"They took Xiao Yan and Ling Shuang hostage, so they didn't dare to act recklessly... And Xia Xue was there at the time. If you had rushed back, everything would have been..."
"I see."
Beichen gritted his teeth and helped Yagad up together with Xifeng:
"Can you walk?"
"Sure, Beichen."
"Okay, let's go to the Heyang Embassy to find Rui and Redis."
"I can go by myself. The recovery spirit crystal has begun to take effect. Miss Beichen, I can't stay near you now. I will become a burden to you. But you must contact the twins as soon as possible. They are seriously injured, and the Jafa Divine Group clearly wants to kill us. It will be too late if we are late."
"Then Yagad, you go to the Heyang Embassy to ask for help. Take this resonance spirit crystal. I will contact you at the appropriate time."
Xifeng said as he threw a red spirit crystal to Yagad.
"I understand. The elite vanguard battalion of the Night Cavalry will arrive within one tyr (hour). No matter what happens, I will recover from my injuries and return to you with reinforcements. Please hold on for one tyr!"
After receiving the spirit crystal, Yagad nodded vigorously, then used the long-handled axe to support himself on the ground, and strode away with some difficulty, heading towards the Heyang Embassy.
Beichen and Xifeng, who stayed behind, looked at each other and opened the mental communication channel.
"Black Disaster, Su Jie, did you hear that? Where are you now?!"
There was silence for a minute. Just when Beichen and Xifeng thought that the other party was out of contact range, Heihuo's hoarse and painful voice suddenly came.
"Beichen? ...Leave us alone, don't come over here!"
"Black Plague?! What happened? I summoned you!?"
"Don't summon them—they said that if we leave, Xiao Ping and Ling Shuang will die—!" Su Jie also spoke, panting. "Beichen, listen carefully, don't fall for their tricks! No matter who tries to lure you here, don't listen. Take Yagad away from here quickly and go find Rui—"
"How is that possible!?"
Here────
At this moment, a harsh noise suddenly came from the mind communication channel, as if something had interfered with their communication. The noise made people's heads swell, so Beichen had to turn off the mind communication channel palely.
"Beichen, there!!"
Suddenly, Xifeng pressed Beichen's shoulder and pointed ahead - there was a dim alley over there, and Lahan was standing in the shadow. He smiled provocatively at the two of them, then turned and ran away - obviously trying to lead them over.
"Chase? Maybe it's a trap."
"Even if it's a trap, we have to chase them. They have hostages. Let's try to buy time. If we can hold on for an hour, we might be able to turn the situation around!"
"Okay, then we'll act one after the other. You catch up and draw their attention. I'll arrive later and find a place to snipe them one by one. If their lives are in danger, summon me."
"Um!!"
After briefly arranging the tactics, Beichen rushed into the alley and just saw the corner of Lahan's clothes fluttering to the right at the other end of the alley.
“──”
She took a deep breath and chased after him.
Xifeng's guess was correct. Lahan was leading the way for them. He walked at a leisurely pace through the capital city, turning around and around, and finally turned to the suburbs. Then he actually walked into a cemetery, fiddled behind one of the tombstones for a while, and jumped into a secret passage entrance that appeared on the ground.
Beichen hesitated for a few seconds near the secret passage - if they were underground, Xifeng's sniping advantage would be completely gone.
But at this point, she had no way to retreat. She had no weapons with her. Even if she summoned the west wind, she might not be able to deal with the speed-type melee fighter Lahan, not to mention that she was already close to the enemy's base camp.
She took out five level ten spirit crystal fire dragons from Xifeng's storage space, held them in her hands, and jumped in.
"You're really brave. You dare to come in without any weapons. It seems that you really value them."
Lahan's ghost eyes looked particularly terrifying in this dark tunnel with a strange smell. He stood at the other end of the tunnel, looking at Beichen with a forced smile, and then waved to her.
"Since you're so cooperative, I won't do anything rash. My employer has instructed me to take good care of you."
As he spoke, he weighed the thing in his hand. Beichen was stunned, and then he almost bit his teeth in anger.
Although the light was dim, she could still see clearly what it was, because the shape was very familiar. It was Xiang Ying's sword form.
"Give Xiangying back to me!!"
Beichen took a step forward, and Lahan immediately took a step back alertly.
"Don't worry, don't worry. I didn't touch him. He's fine. If you just obey my orders, my employer will return him to you. I guess."
"Then stop talking nonsense and lead the way!!"
"Yes, yes, it's really scary. She's just like a little tigress."
Lahan shrugged frivolously, holding Xiangying's sword in his hand and walked towards the darkness at the end of the aisle.
After trudging in the darkness for about ten minutes, we finally saw light ahead - it turned out to be a large stone room. The texture of the stone was a bit strange and familiar. It looked like a church structure, but there were no rows of pews for worship. The ceiling was made of glass with stained glass on it, and the light from the ground passed through the glass and turned into light of various colors and shone down.
The air was filled with the strong smell of blood from weapons. As Beichen stepped into the hall, the first thing he noticed was blood all over the ground.
Heihuo and Sujie turned back into tattered claws and lay in a pool of golden blood. Next to them was a huge white crystal of the Disaster Emperor, which seemed to be greedily absorbing their star spiritual power. Xiao Ping was held by two men in black robes by his arms, his clothes were disheveled and his hair was disheveled. His beautiful face was now cut with countless hideous gashes, almost revealing the metallic bones underneath. His face was covered in all kinds of colors, and even his facial features were difficult to recognize. Ling Shuang was half-kneeling on the ground with her hair pulled by someone. Starting from the abdomen, her clothes were almost dyed gold, as if she had been stabbed hard by something.
The tragic scene before her was so tragic that Beichen felt as if something had hit her heart hard, and then she became surprisingly calm.
We must not lose our composure and stabilize the enemy, otherwise we will──!
She looked around silently.
Lahan was in front of her, holding Xiangying in his hand. In the middle of the room, Hott, who had an irreconcilable feud with her, was smiling sinisterly. Next to him were two weapons she had never seen before, one in black and the other in white. If I was not mistaken, they might be the two magic wands.
Then there's a golden-eyed Star Vein—and so on.
She seemed to have seen this Star Vein species somewhere before. Beichen's face remained expressionless, but her mind began to search rapidly—then she took a breath and took a step back.
It was at Su Mo's party!! The Star Vein that Su Mo had wanted to give her as a gift—the Demonic Armored Giant Sword, Yizhi!!
First Latia, then Sumo?! Why does the Jafa Divine Order have the power to merge with two such powerful forces?!
"Hahahahaha, what a nice expression, Miss Yaxiu... or should I call you... Miss Xiang Beichen?"
The old man, who looked like a rotten tree, showed a creepy smile.
"How does it feel to have fallen into my hands three times in a row? Haven't you always been clamoring to defeat the Jafa Clan?"
“──”
Beichen had no way to refute, but her eyes seemed to be spitting fire as she stared fiercely at the old man who walked up to her. Then, when the other party stretched out his hand to strangle her neck, she ducked down like lightning, leaned forward, bent her arms, tightly clamped the other party's neck, and went around behind him!
"Don't think you're the only one who can use the hostage tactic! And don't think I'm just a piece of shit without weapons!"
Beichen held Hott hostage, her voice cold and gloomy. In her other hand, she raised five spirit crystal fire dragons and aimed them at the other enemies in front.
Obviously, they didn't expect Beichen to counterattack so decisively, and the others were stunned.
"Let them go!" She stared fiercely at the black-robed man who was holding Xiao Ying and Ling Shuang hostage. "Hurry up!"
The men in black robes looked at each other for a few seconds, then looked at Hotte. Seeing the old man nodded nervously, they let go of their hands, and the seriously injured and unconscious Xiao Ping and Ling Shuang immediately fell to the ground.
"Get that white crystal away from the hook!"
Beichen continued to shout orders, and this time the giant sword Yizhi moved. He walked over and kicked the huge white spirit crystal away. The star spirit power of Heihuo and Sujie finally began to slowly recover.
"Bring Xiangying here and put him on the ground in front of me!"
Lahan was silent for a while, then sighed and shook his head, walked to Beichen, and put Xiangying down.
"Pour the Protoss mineral solution on the injured!"
Several men in black robes stepped forward hesitantly and poured the Star Spirit Ore solution on the twins, Xiao Ying, and Ling Shuang - but it was obvious that this amount was not enough to restore them to their best condition.
But at least their lives were saved and the situation didn't get any worse—
Beichen suppressed the tension in his heart and continued to shout:
"From now on, no one is allowed to move. If anyone moves, I will break this old man's neck!"
What we need to do next is to delay time. As long as we can hold on for an hour and wait for Yagard to arrive here, we can be rescued!
Beichen tensed up all his nerves and stared at all the enemies in the room fiercely, but his heart began to beat nervously.
Strange, why hasn't Xifeng started to move yet? Didn't Gu Yinyue also come after them with Longyun and Na Luojia? Where are they?!
As time passed, Holt's face became more and more ugly, as if she was short of oxygen due to being pinched by Beichen. The enemies on the opposite side also wanted to seize the opportunity to turn the situation around. Although they did not move, they were full of murderous intent. So Beichen did not dare to relax for even half a second. Only ten minutes had passed, and the high mental pressure almost made her whole body tremble slightly.
“…Wu…”
At this moment, Ling Shuang slowly climbed up from the ground. He was probably the one with the lighter injuries, and now he was holding his abdomen and looking around in confusion.
"Lingshuang!" Beichen shouted in delight, "I'm glad you're awake! Come to me quickly!!"
Hearing Beichen's voice, Ling Shuang seemed to sober up immediately, then her expression became serious, and she took labored steps, staring closely at the enemies around her, and moved towards Beichen.
"Sister, why are you here?!" He walked to Beichen and looked her over. "No one's hurt, luckily... Where's Xifeng?"
"Xifeng is lying in ambush somewhere else and should be here soon!"
She said this, but her heart was growing increasingly uneasy. She had just called out to Xifeng through the telepathic channel, but there had been no response. Saying this now was just bluffing in front of the enemy.
"That's good." Ling Shuang nodded, "What can I do?"
"Help me hold this guy hostage."
Beichen glanced at Hott, whose face was ashen.
"I'll go get Hei Huo Su Jie and Xiao Peng."
"good."
Ling Shuang stepped forward, continuing the holding motion in careful alternating movements, taking over Hott, while Beichen turned and walked towards where Hei Huo and Su Jie were lying.
The accident happened at that moment.
Beichen stopped - not because she didn't want to go, but because she couldn't move forward. She was being restrained from behind by something.
“Hey.”
She let out a cry of disbelief and lowered her head in confusion.
From her abdomen, an icy blue spear tip protruded from her back. Bright red blood dripped from the tip.
What was going on? Was she being attacked? From behind? But behind her was only—
What's with the tip of the spear? This isn't... This isn't...
Isn’t this the tip of Ling Shuang’s gun?
As if even the sense of pain had been pulled away, Beichen turned her head with a dull expression, and then she saw Ling Shuang stepping on Xiang Ying's sword, with Hott's twisted body lying at her feet, giving her a cold and charming smile.
In his right hand, he held a long ice-blue gun handle, and this ice-blue color extended into Beichen's body.
"Ling, Shuang..."
Her thinking became slow. She slowly widened her eyes and murmured the boy's name. With this call, the smile on the face of the boy with short ice-colored hair became colder. He pulled the gun out of Beichen's body fiercely. The huge pain almost made Beichen go into shock. Beichen screamed and staggered, but she did not fall down - as if unwilling to give up, she stared at Ling Shuang steadily, as if she wanted an answer.
"Ha, you still don't understand?"
Ling Shuang tilted her head, took a step forward, and gently stroked Beichen's cheek with her hand.
"The 'Jaffa Divine Group'... perished long ago. Hott, whom you've always considered an imaginary enemy, is long dead. The people who truly oppose you are my people. Don't you think we're weak? Did you ever think Su Mo was our ally? Did you ever think Xiaxue would take action? Do you think you're the only ones with capable people? What's the Red Moon Knight? He was beaten into a pulp!"
He laughed grimly, put his hand on Beichen's shoulder and gave him a gentle push. Beichen, who was already barely able to stand, immediately lost his balance and fell backwards to the ground, causing the wound on his abdomen to be affected. Another wave of overwhelming pain surged up, causing her eyes to go black for a few seconds, but from beginning to end, her eyes were fixed intently on Ling Shuang's direction.
"Okay, that lame show is over."
Ling Shuang gave orders to the remaining enemies in Guangjian in a relaxed tone.
"Please step back, everyone. There are still many toys waiting for you to play with, such as the one called Xifeng, Gu Yinyue, Longyun, and Naraka—"
Beichen's body shook violently when she heard those names. She tried hard to get up, but was kicked to the ground by Lingshuang again.
"Moye, Ranxiang, the task of defense and containment is now left to you."
The black-robed men retreated one by one, and the black- and white-robed warriors nodded and left through another exit of Guangjian.
"Yizhi, you go guard the entrance and monitor the situation outside."
"snort."
The Golden Eye's Star Vein Seed had also left. In the hall, besides the injured and collapsed Black Disaster, Su Jie, Xiao Ping, Bei Chen, and the unconscious Xiang Ying, only Ling Shuang and La Han were left standing.
"Is dinner finally about to begin?"
Lahan chuckled excitedly a few times, then walked to Beichen, squatted down, and pinched a huge recovery spirit crystal towards her abdomen.
"This is a super recovery spirit crystal, the market price is more than 500,000 rui each. See how generous we are. I think you should stop resisting. Maybe it will be much easier if you just obey."
The wound on Beichen's abdomen healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. The intestines that had flowed out were retracted, and the hole in the skin slowly closed. However, she did not even look at her wound, but just stared at Lingshuang expressionlessly.
"Why?"
"Why? ...How dare you ask why?"
Ling Shuang sounded as if she had heard some huge joke, her tone full of sarcasm.
"Looks like I don't need to explain this to you. Lahan, hold her down."
"oh oh!"
The Ghost Eyes mercenary excitedly grabbed Beichen's hands, pulled him onto his back, and pinned his hands to the sides of his head. Ling Shuang then slowly squatted down, pinned Beichen's legs with one leg, and began to unbutton his shirt.
Beichen's bloodless face turned even paler.
“Ling Shuang—you!!”
"It's a really good show, isn't it? All the expected audience members are here, your dear Gemini Crooked Claw, your important and beautiful counselor—well, I can't say beautiful now—and Xiang Ying. I even gave him a special seat."
He smiled calmly yet twistedly, and glanced at Xiang Ying who was lying on the stone bricks not far away.
"Ling Shuang, let me go! Do you know what you are doing?!"
She struggled hysterically. Even with the suppression of the Ghost Eye Mercenary, her body strengthened by Pandora's Box was not so weak. Lahan let out a click of his tongue as if he couldn't bear it anymore, while Ling Shuang confidently took out a beautiful bottle from her pocket, opened it, and placed it next to Beichen's nostrils.
A strong fragrance came over, and Beichen's strength was drained in an instant. At the same time, a creepy impulse surged in his body - a terrible impulse.
I want to smell it more, I want to smell it some more, don’t take the bottle away!!
Beichen was stunned by the roar of her body, and for a moment she didn't even notice that her clothes were leaving her body one by one.
"Do you know what this is?"
While Ling Shuang put the bottle with the cap back into the storage space, she tore off the last piece of clothing covering Beichen's upper body - her breast protector.
"This is called 'Blood Epiphyllum Dew', and it's the antidote to Gana's Tears."
“Ah—”
A hoarse single sound came out of Beichen's throat. Lingshuang's hands were already pressing on the peak of her white and soft breasts, kneading them gently.
"That's right, it's not an orthodox antidote, but an unorthodox antidote. Before Yagad gave you the real antidote, I had already given you 'Blood Epiphyllum Dew'. See, compared to Yagad, I'm more worried about you, right?"
"I...drank...it...?"
"Yes, that's right. Blood Epiphyllum Dew is a drug, a hallucinogenic drug. You'll be addicted after drinking it. Yagad said that, right? You really want to drink it now, don't you? You want to drink it, you want to drink it, you want to drink it, you want to drink it so badly, right?"
The boy's hands became rough, squeezing the soft breasts almost out of shape. The pain brought Beichen back to his senses, temporarily freeing him from the pain caused by the blood-blooming cereus dew.
She didn't want to admit it, but it had indeed been branded into her body unconsciously.
──Something called drug addiction.
His body was being ravaged, and his sensitive parts were gradually heating up due to the teasing, but Beichen's heart was falling straight down, falling into an icy cave.
Ling Shuang's hand had already moved to her lower body, and her slender fingers were fiddling with the most private part between her legs with malicious intent.
Beichen instinctively closed his legs, but the next second Ling Shuang used brute force to pull his legs apart.
She was horrified to see something bulging out from under the boy's shirt.
“Stop it!! Don’t come over here!! Let me go!! Someone come──who come──────!!!”
She wailed and struggled violently again, but for Ling Shuang, this struggle became an interlude to liven up the fun.
“Shout, scream!!”
He laughed heartily as he untied his belt and took off his pants, exposing the ugly object to the air in front of Beichen's almost distorted expression of fear.
"It would be best to wake up your Black Disaster, wake up your Su Jie, and wake up your beloved Xiang Ying, and let them see how embarrassed, lowly, and helpless you are right now!!"
The young man frantically spread Beichen's legs, aimed his lower body at her private parts, and thrust in with all his might without any foreplay:
“Scream! My dear sister!!”
Beichen jerked back in pain, and the back of her head hit the cold stone bricks behind her. With this decisive fact, she suddenly became quiet, while Lahan, who was holding her, saw a dead silence like the abyss in her black pupils.
The Ghost Eyes mercenary's hand relaxed for a second when he met this look, and he smacked his lips as if he couldn't bear it, but he immediately came to his senses and realized that he was working for his employer, and then he increased the strength of his hand again.
"Ling, Shuang."
Beichen called out the name of the young man lying on top of her word by word in a hollow voice.
"Ling Shuang, from now on, it's either me or you──"
She gasped for breath, her snow-white body gleaming beautifully under the light reflected from the stained glass, rising and falling with her breathing:
"You—but not me!"
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