Chapter 17: The First Smoke of War
Beichen had a dream.
In her dream, she struggled mightily to get off Xiang Ying and Ya Ye's bed, but not long after she ran, she was caught by Xi Feng and Atlas and asked to have a threesome. She was terrified and coaxed them away, but before she could even catch her breath, she turned around and found Gu Yin Yue and Ya Gad standing behind her, approaching her step by step.
Then, for some unknown reason, the clouds in the sky above Elytheon formed several large characters:
The Queen of the Wasteland is a P Demon★
Clap! Clang! Clang, quack, quack—and so Beichen's nickname went from Queen Yaxiu to Queen of 3P. From then on, everyone who came to see her came in pairs. Even the sandwiches and fried eggs for breakfast were doubled, and the bathroom was remodeled into a strange layout with two toilets—
"Walalamiupuhaa ...
Beichen let out a strange cry and rolled to the ground with a thud, immediately waking up the two men who were still napping in bed.
"Master! Are you okay?"
Xiang Ying hurriedly pulled Beichen, who was rolling on the ground and twitching with her hands covering her waist, back to the bed. She kept reaching out to rub her waist which seemed to be hurt from the fall - but as she did so, something went wrong.
"Master—"
Xiang Ying looked at Beichen with a hoarse voice and a slightly pleading tone. Her expression was like that of a big dog wagging its tail desperately.
"Don't mess around so early in the morning!"
Beichen slapped away Xiangying's dirty hand that was touching his chest. Recalling the magical scene in his dream, his face turned a little green. He quickly spoke to divert the other party's attention:
"Get up, get dressed, and pack up. It's time for us to go back. We can just find a random country along the way to drop off that amnesiac princess, and that'll be considered the end of our mission, right? The problem with Elytheon should be almost solved by now. If it's still not solved after all this time... then I really need to go back and solve it myself, right?"
Beichen revealed a somewhat solemn expression as she spoke - ever since she took the throne of queen, no matter where she went or was suggested to go on vacation, she could not help but think about her country in her heart. It seemed that she could no longer completely concentrate on spending a few days leisurely.
Yaye glanced at the somewhat depressed Xiang Ying and shook his head silently. He didn't know whether being overly responsible was a good thing or a bad thing, but...
"Stupid Ying," the now-well-fed Fallen Dark One spoke in a languid, elegant, sexy voice, leaning back against the mattress. "You were quite impressive last night, no, this morning, for a virgin. I understand the temptation, but if you're too intemperate, you'll annoy Matcha."
“Huh?!”
Xiang Ying immediately withdrew the hand that was extended to Beichen and apologized with a sad face:
"I'm sorry, Master, I really went too far!! How can I let desire control my reason?! Please rest assured, this kind of situation will not happen again in the future. If Master doesn't like it..."
"Wait wait wait wait!"
Seeing that Xiang Ying was thinking about reforming himself again, Beichen hurriedly grabbed his hand.
"Compared to that, what I need more now is rehabilitation (?) exercise! Someone give me a massage! Even if I'm a level six Wu Si Huang, I can't stand this kind of torture! Yaye is not a father at all, but an old monster!"
"...Huh, so 'Dad' is a species like youkai?"
"...Stupid Ying, don't take everything that damn Matcha says as the truth."
Yaye glanced at Xiang Ying and reached out to press Beichen's lower back lightly.
"How does it feel?"
"Mm, so comfortable—" Beichen lay on the bed, squinting his eyes in enjoyment, and pursing his lips from time to time like a cat basking in the sun, "As expected of Yaye, your grip is really good."
Xiang Ying on the side swallowed his saliva.
"Want to try it too?"
"You?" Yaye raised his eyebrows. "Are you sure you won't end up massaging somewhere else? A guy who's just started having sex?"
“…”
So, enjoying Yaye's massage and Xiangying's considerate feeding of bacon and orange rolls for breakfast, Beichen, who had suffered all night, finally had a quiet, warm and somewhat ambiguous morning.
When the outside started to get busy (it seemed that many shops were busy opening), Beichen, Xiangying and Yaye also finished packing, took out the spirit crystal "rebellion" and prepared to take the princess away - but when they opened the door, they found that the boss was standing at the entrance of the corridor, looking at them shyly with his finger pointed at him.
"Huh? Boss?"
Beichen tilted his head in confusion.
"I remember our room wasn't due until noon."
"Yes, yes."
The innkeeper's expression was extremely strange and subtle.
"I...my family asked me to check the room."
Yaye raised his eyebrows in displeasure:
"We didn't take anything or do anything bad."
"...Of course, of course!" The boss shook his hands, sweating profusely. "That's not what I meant. I just wanted to see if... the bed was broken."
Beichen, who was already unsteady on his feet, almost stumbled and fell to the ground, but Xiang Ying, who didn't understand the situation, smiled with satisfaction and patted the boss's shoulder:
"Don't worry, the bed is fine. Speaking of which, this bed is really good quality. It can carry us continuously, wow!"
Before Xiang Ying could finish her words, Yaye, who was covering his forehead, stepped on her.
"Then, boss, please take your time to check!"
Beichen, with a green face, dragged Xiangying and Yaye towards the stairs. However, after taking a few steps, he heard the boss's voice from behind:
"Want...want a special breakfast? It's over 500 Swiss francs a set, good for kidney health!"
!!
Beichen missed a step, and Xiangying was so scared that his face turned black and he quickly pounced on him to serve as a cushion. Yaye reached out to pull him but only grabbed Xiangying's collar, and then the three of them rolled into a ball and fell down the stairs. Seeing this scene, the passengers in the small restaurant on the first floor couldn't help but stop what they were doing and looked at the three people with twitching lips.
It turned out to be the guest in the room that made the most noise last night - it looked like he must have indulged himself to the point of having weak legs. Young people nowadays really don't know how to restrain themselves!
Many people looked at the three people with a look of sudden enlightenment and a subtle smile, and a familiar voice chuckled:
"You don't have to be so excited knowing I'm here, right?"
Hearing this voice, the three people who were about to complain to each other turned pale at the same time, and quickly got up from the ground in an instant. Then Xiang Ying and Yaye immediately stood in front of Beichen with a vigilant look on their faces.
Beichen had already entered the queen state. With a cold face, she pulled down Xiang Ying's hand and took a step forward, standing in front of Xiang Ying and Yaye, as if she was protecting them.
"Master Su...you are indeed very powerful."
Lord Su—of course, I’m referring to Su Mo.
The man wearing a ghost mask stood in a corner of the hall and smiled at them kindly, while behind him stood Yizhi with an annoyed look on his face.
Yizhi was with Su Mo? Was Gu Yinyue's guess wrong? Or had Su Mo already arranged other means in Elysium? Regardless, Beichen wouldn't believe Su Mo hadn't been making any moves in Elysium.
But now is not the time to think about these things.
Since Su Mo was here, the possibility that he was Red Moon was almost 90%. Beichen believed that their whereabouts had been very low-key. Every time they arrived at a place, Yaye confirmed that there were no followers nearby. But Su Mo still knew their exact location so quickly - it seemed that only the theory that there was some connection between the witch and the will of Red Moon could explain it.
"Since you've all come all the way to Saiyan, I, Su, must certainly play the role of hospitality. How about you all come with me to the Lord's Mansion and spend some time there? This small inn can't accommodate a figure like the Queen of Elysion."
As soon as these words were spoken, Xiang Ying and Yaye immediately exuded endless murderous aura. In a flash of white shadows, Xiang Ying had summoned all his secondary swords and blocked the exit of the hotel, while Yaye summoned his sickle, and his whole body exuded thick black energy, which howled like a ghost, blocking all the doors and windows!
Beichen, who stood still, had cold eyes and looked at Su Mo with an angry smile.
This cunning old fox!
You Yu was about to make a big move, and everyone had already noticed it. Yet, he had chosen this crucial moment to publicly reveal her identity. Was he trying to tell everyone that the Queen of the Wasteland and You Yu's Dark Emperor were quite close friends, and that even if Elysien jumped into the Yellow River, he wouldn't be able to clear his name?!
The atmosphere in the hotel suddenly fell to freezing point. The innocent passengers who had just looked on with anticipation for the show were now unable to even cry. They huddled together in groups, looking at the two groups confronting each other with fear - Xiang Ying and Ya Ye, who were obviously equipped with advanced combat weapons, had blocked all the exits and were clearly planning to kill them all!
Beichen took out a few gray spirit crystals from Xiangying's storage space with an expressionless face, and Yizhi, seeing what was in Beichen's hand, also took out a transparent white spirit crystal.
Several spirit crystals were crushed at the same time, and thick gray smoke suddenly filled all the spaces in the hotel - even the second floor was no exception. Because of the transparent spirit crystals, an invisible protective shield appeared around Su Mo and Yizhi, preventing the gray smoke from spreading.
Beichen curled his lips - it doesn't matter, this spirit crystal was not originally meant for you two.
She whispered, "Except Xiang Ying and Ya Ye, forget everything you saw in the past two days."
After these words were spoken, everyone in the hotel, except Beichen, Xiangying, Yaye, Sumo and Yizi, began to look dazed. Then, there were muffled sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground one after another, and one after another they fainted on the ground.
──It was the "rebellion" of several high-level spirit crystals that took effect.
Seeing that his plan was immediately disrupted by Beichen, Su Mo did not get angry, but just laughed.
"Looks like my miko hates being reunited with me? Well, since you don't want the whole world to know that you're a P-lover, then there's no danger now, right? Let's go, I've prepared your favorite pudding."
"Who cares about that! Only someone with a mental disorder would follow you!"
Beichen roared guiltily. Okay, actually, she did care about being called the 3P queen by the world. And pudding was already a psychological barrier for her. What did you, Su Mo, mean by specifically mentioning pudding?
"But, in order to lure you here, I specifically conquered Saiyan. I'm so sincere, so please give me some face."
Su Mo smiled, even using a coquettish tone, which made Beichen feel nauseous. At the same time, Yaye's face turned ugly:
"...You're willing to conquer a country just to lure us away from Elysion?!"
"Yeah. Any questions?"
Su Mo's expression was too matter-of-fact, as if it was Yaye who asked the question that was unreasonable - this made Yaye look gloomy and he didn't know how to respond.
In this person's eyes, such a small country can probably be conquered at any time, the only difference is when it will be most beneficial to him to conquer it.
"But, I'm the only one related to the Saiyan royal family. How can you be sure that Beichen will come with me?"
"It doesn't matter if you don't come. If you come alone, I'm 90% sure I can catch you and detain you. With Beichen's temper, she will definitely travel thousands of miles to save her lover personally."
"You—"
"Ya Ye."
Beichen gently grabbed the furious Yaye's hand. Yaye was feeling very guilty now, but Beichen didn't seem to care at all. Instead, he used the warmth of his palm to calm him down.
Then she nodded to Xiang Ying who was blocking the door:
"Xiang Ying, go and bring that woman with you. Let's go with Lord Su."
"Owner……"
"It's fine."
Beichen pursed his lips, then gave Su Mo a slightly provocative smile.
"Since someone is so kind to treat us, we can't be too cold."
"Hahaha."
Su Mo chuckled, and the curve of his lips seemed to tell him that he was in a good mood.
"Well, don't worry, my two handsome warhorses. I promise that after this conversation, no matter what the outcome, I'll see you all return safely to Elysion. How about that?"
Beichen rolled his eyes and curled his lips: But you didn’t promise not to do anything to us and bring it back to China.
Seeing that Beichen had made up his mind, Xiang Ying walked towards the second floor with a sullen face, but was stopped by Yizhi before he had taken a few steps.
"If you want to take that stupid princess with you, don't bother. She's already been taken away by our people."
Yaye glared at Su Mo suddenly.
"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous. We just captured Saiyan, and the situation is a bit unstable. Having a royal princess as a cover will certainly help us better control the situation."
Su Mo shrugged and shook his hands.
"I can guarantee that she's alive and well, and I won't let anyone torture her. You've made her into a fool, so it's better for us to take good care of her."
Beichen was stunned: "Idiot?! But that's just a medicine to erase memories?"
"Yes, of course it's a memory-erasing drug."
Su Mo nodded with amusement.
"If I'm not mistaken, this medicine comes from the moon... Your possessed Moon Envoy gave it to you, right?"
“…”
"Do you know what this medicine was called ten thousand years ago? It was called transmutation."
“…Reincarnation…?”
"Yes, if all memories are erased, what's the difference between that and reincarnation? Memory isn't just about what happened in the past. 'Knowledge'... is also a type of memory. So now, that princess, not only doesn't she remember who she is or what happened to her, but also her language, life experience, common sense, instincts, even how she walked and talked, all wiped out. She's like a newborn baby."
“…”
Beichen lowered his head with some guilt.
Although she had no good feelings towards this woman, if she had known that it was a drug of this level, she might have considered using another method (such as using the spirit crystal "Anti-Bone" for hypnosis) to solve the problem. After all, doing so was basically no different from killing her - although her ancestors had hurt Yaye, if they were to be held responsible, the time gap was too great. Rationally speaking, the princess was still somewhat innocent.
"Tsk tsk tsk, my miko, are you blaming yourself? Or are you just too kind?"
Su Mo shook his head.
"But if you knew what she had done, maybe you wouldn't feel so guilty."
"Probably." Beichen raised his eyes calmly and confronted Su Mo. "But it has already happened, and I won't regret it. Otherwise, if she spreads the information that Yaye and I are here, what consequences will be caused... I can't foresee. For the sake of my people, this level of selfishness and cruelty is necessary."
“…”
Su Mo was silent for a while, then suddenly sighed.
"If we keep talking, they'll wake up, okay? Do we really have to talk here?"
Beichen nodded silently and made a gesture of "please lead the way", and then the three of them followed Su Mo and Yizhi and left the hotel filled with thick gray smoke.
Ten minutes later, Beichen and the other two sat in the comfortable lord's reception room. On the sofa opposite, Su Mo sat leisurely, while Yizhi stood behind him with an expressionless face.
"Then you must already know my identity?"
"You keep calling me 'my miko'. Even if you didn't know it before, you know it now."
Beichen rolled his eyes helplessly.
"I have probably guessed why you came to see me so anxiously."
"Oh? Then let me hear your analysis?"
Beichen showed the unique smile of the Queen of the Wasteland, picked up the teacup and took a sip of milk tea, as if she was not afraid at all that Su Mo had poisoned it - but Xiang Ying and Yaye were a little anxious seeing this.
Su Mo looked at Beichen's equally calm expression, and somehow she smiled with some relief.
"Then I'll tell you." Beichen put down his teacup. "Although you were planning the strategy of luring us here by taking Saiyan before my birthday, this was actually just your backup plan, right?"
“…”
"Your first plan is to hope that my projection can completely dominate my body and fulfill the mission of the miko. And your backup plan is to lure me here and have a meeting with me after the first plan fails, hoping to form a united front with me... Am I correct?"
"Yes." Su Mo smiled and nodded. "Since you don't want your projection to bear the sin of slaughtering hundreds of millions of people, then you have to bear it yourself."
Beichen raised his eyebrows coldly:
"What if I absolutely refuse to fulfill some mission that brings disaster?"
"Then I'll have to do it for you, a disobedient little brat. Of course, the superficial responsibility will still be attributed to the title of Miko."
"...You want to start a race war, right, Su Mo?"
Su Mo was stunned for a moment, then he smiled with a somewhat charming arc at the corner of his mouth.
"You are more capable than I thought, my dear miko."
"Don't call me that, it's so corny."
"Really? I really like calling you that." Seeing Beichen's face getting colder and colder, Su Mo interrupted the teasing just in time: "How did you notice it?"
"Without your instigation, Ling Shuang wouldn't have been the first to take the lead in the Protoss Revolution two years ago, right? I wasn't so obsessed with him as a cannon fodder that I forgot your ultimate goal. It's just that you felt the time wasn't ripe yet, so you simply went along with me and let a witch like me gain a foothold in front of the people of the world and expand my popularity, right?"
"Then?"
"Do you think I haven't noticed that Youyu is collecting a large number of Star Spirit Cores? In fact, I was curious about this when I was still a young member of the Spiritual Martial Division. Every Spiritual Martial Division union was buying up Star Spirit Cores, but no one could explain what these Star Spirit Cores were used for. ...So what's the point of buying them? No one would buy a lot of useless things, right? Although these Star Spirit Cores ostensibly flowed into the hands of different chambers of commerce, their final destination is most likely Youyu, right?"
Seeing that Su Mo agreed silently, Beichen continued to speak.
"In other words, you've been preparing for the Protoss Revolution for years. And you've long known about the method by which humanity could escape from its war machines and fight the possessed Moon Emissaries. You've been holding off on publicizing it, waiting for the conflict between humanity and the war machines to intensify, right? By now, you must have hoarded tens of thousands of the ninth-level Protoss cores needed to escape from the war machines. Not only would they bring you tons of money, but they could also subtly suppress humanity's arrogance."
...You're aiming for the War Machines' euphoria of rising to power, and the resistance fueled by humanity's fearless cores, right? When the War Machines discover humanity's momentum is weakening due to a shortage of Level 9 Protoss Cores, you'll step forward with awe and distribute Protoss Cores, ideally with an impassioned speech. I bet quite a few will be brainwashed into engaging in a heated confrontation with the War Machines.
Pah pah pah…
Su Mo smiled and clapped.
"Although there are some discrepancies in the details, the general direction is correct. That's really reassuring. If possible, I really don't want to go against you."
"...Are you determined to do this?"
"Of course. Now the question is whether you are willing to use the name of the miko to intensify this war. Of course, if you agree, I will do everything in my power to protect you."
"…Do you think it's possible?"
"If you agree, I can tell you everything that happened ten thousand years ago."
"Even so, it's not okay. Only my projection personality would allow a world-class racial war to break out."
"Ahhhh."
Su Mo gave a helpless bitter smile as if he was looking at a disobedient child.
"Then you will be responsible for the final task of 'selecting' the people of the Ark. I have already prepared countless plans to realize my ideas, and you can't stop me."
Su Mo said it with certainty.
"All you can do is select one million creatures suitable for survival to board the ark. Time is running out, so you'd better start thinking about how to 'select' them now."
Beichen's face suddenly turned extremely pale.
One million. ... He said that only one million lives could be on the Ark!
This number seems huge, but the entire planet of Senagard, including humans and weapons, has a total of approximately 6.9 billion lives! Compared to this base number... this number is too cruel!
"Su Mo...why on earth are you so mad?! Is it because of a prophecy made ten thousand years ago?!"
"...Little thing, you don't understand."
Facing Beichen's ferocious accusations, Su Mo leaned back on the sofa somewhat tiredly.
"I do this because I love Senagard and I'm protecting it. ... One million is the bottom line I can bear."
"…What does that even mean?"
"Shh, shh."
Su Mo helplessly placed his fingers on his lips.
"Since you're not going to cooperate with me, then try your best to oppose me. Don't show any suspicion of my intentions, or it would be disastrous if you were discovered. My strength is not enough to compete with them."
"Su Mo..."
"Alright." Su Mo stood up with a faint smile. "I've said what I need to say, and it's time for you to leave. Although you do consider me an enemy, I still like you very much. If anything strange happens, escape to Youyu, and I will protect you."
“…”
Beichen stood up from the sofa with a complicated expression:
"...Su Mo, why haven't you considered replacing this unqualified chess piece like me even though I'm uncooperative to this extent?"
“I have thought about it.”
Su Mo tilted his head, his face beneath the iron mask looking somewhat cunning, yet also with a hint of sadness.
"But no matter how things change, you are still special. No matter if you are my miko or not... no matter how many hundreds of millions of lives have died in this world, I will ensure that you are the one who survives."
“…Su Mo…!”
Beichen stared in surprise at these words - she and Su Mo didn't seem to have a deep friendship, and she had always been very wary and disgusted with him, but why would he say that? She didn't dare to romantically imagine that Su Mo was secretly in love with her - his expression was much deeper than that of someone with a romantic relationship.
"Don't ask, be good, let's go, it will be bad if we are discovered."
"...Then... goodbye."
Worrying in his heart that something might have made Su Mo so cautious, Beichen left the local lord's mansion with Xiang Ying and Yaye in a depressed mood. However, after walking a few steps out of the door, Xiang Ying suddenly stopped moving.
"To Ying?"
"Master." Xiang Ying's face looked a little ugly, and he took a breath slowly.
"Two things happened in Elysion, and Atlas just contacted me through the bracelet."
"The first thing is that the Soul-Slaying Blade was stolen. The second thing is that Feibai... severely injured Xifeng and left Elysion with a huge amount of Yagad's research data."
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