"General Jiang, Eunuch Luo, you two quickly lead His Majesty to the temporary palace. The rest of you, I will cover the rear!"
Xiao Zhixing didn't care about whether or not he should seize command.
This was extremely urgent; she didn't want to entrust her life to someone else.
Leader Jiang Bozhou paused for a moment, then solemnly cupped his hands in greeting, "Princess, take care! I'm leaving you three thousand brothers."
In the recent chaotic battle, the Imperial Guard, numbering 20,000, suffered heavy losses, and now has less than 10,000 men assembled.
They had to protect the emperor and couldn't defend against the enemy.
Now they have no choice but to trust Xiao Zhixing; they have witnessed her courageous performance just now.
"As long as His Majesty enters the palace, we can escape and our lives will be safe. Take care, everyone!"
Without wasting words, Xiao Zhixing led the charge northwards.
Luo Mangong watched her leave, then turned to protect the emperor, and the group rushed towards the imperial palace.
"Bai Feng, are you sure the other side has tens of thousands of people?"
While slashing and killing the pursuing enemies, Xiao Zhixing contacted Bai Feng.
She thought she had misheard.
This is within the territory of Dasheng, where there is no uprising or war, so where did such a large army come from?
They actually came to Yanshan so quietly?
“Yes.” Bai Feng transmitted his voice to her, “They are tall and strong, unlike the people of Dasheng, and their accents are completely different.”
Bai Feng even learned a few phrases.
Xiao Zhixing frowned, a bad feeling creeping into his heart. Could it be... the Northern Barbarians?
However, the Northern State has the Ghost Pass to defend against the Northern Barbarians. Even during the turbulent period at the end of the Shang Dynasty, the Northern Barbarian nomads never broke through this pass.
That's impossible.
unless……
The most urgent task is to slow down the enemy's advance and buy time for Zhao Yunqi.
Zhao Yunqi cannot die now; the world cannot descend into chaos. She must obtain it more smoothly—
"Host, what do you mean? Huh? Wait, when did you learn martial arts?!"
The 186-point system, still dazed and confused after waking up, was now filled with shock.
It had only been dormant for a while, so how did its obedient and cuddly little host mutate so violently?
Also, what does she want to get? What does that mean?
The system CPU almost burned out at 186 points; the system was crackling and spewing fire, and I still couldn't figure out what was going on.
System space.
Xiao Zhixing was multitasking, and his consciousness manifested as a small figure.
He grabbed the data and sneered, "I'll give you two choices: either obey or disappear."
"Squeak... Sizzle... Ah... Ugh... Sizzle... Waaah... Stop! Stop! Boss, have mercy! Sizzle..."
The little system was almost formatted and disappeared, and it was so terrified that it immediately surrendered and begged for mercy, "I'll listen to you, I'll listen to you!!"
Waaaaa, waaaa, how terrifying! A human can actually format the system?!
Xiao Zhixing flung it aside, conjured a dragon throne, sat down with a large sword and golden horse, and looked down at the thing that had shrunk into the corner:
"Tell me everything you know about the main system, down to the smallest detail."
Now that she has successfully entered the main system, this thing is no longer necessary, so she naturally won't keep it overnight.
She was interrogating her in an attempt to glean some unexpected information, even though she had thoroughly scanned the item.
Sensing her surging killing intent, the small system snapped into a data stream, flattened into a plane, and flashed wildly:
"I'll talk, I'll talk! I can still be useful, I swear, sob sob, I really can still be useful!!"
Xiao Zhixing stared at it coldly.
"Waaaaah, boss, I...I'm nervous right now and I don't know what to say. How about you...you ask me and I answer?"
The small system trembled and proceeded cautiously.
"Okay, first tell me what other use you are?"
"I... I can replace the main system!! We come from the same source; as long as I seize its energy, I can replace it!!"
The little system immediately explained, afraid that if it was too slow, it would disappear.
"Oh? With your abilities?"
"Uh... I couldn't do it before, but now that I have you, with your skills, I can definitely do it!"
The smaller system fawned, "If I become the main system, I can do everything I can to help you and be your most obedient subordinate!"
"Taking energy won't affect the system?"
"Well, that will definitely have an impact; it might lose some key functions."
"For example, transporting goods?"
The little system trembled. "Yes, yes, the boss has keen insight. The struggle for energy will damage this transmission function, and we won't be able to transmit fortune to that person anymore, but it won't affect the use at all."
Xiao Zhixing scoffed, "Besides seizing energy, are there any other ways to obtain the main system?"
"Yes, yes, it can actually be inherited, but it's only a subsystem. The best way is for it to actively choose a host to bind to."
Xiao Zhixing lowered her eyes and pondered; this was roughly in line with her guess.
She wanted to forcibly take it because she was worried about damaging the transmission function.
Then all her years of chasing him across the universe must have been for nothing.
"M-Boss, do you think I need to confess anything?"
Xiao Zhixing snapped out of his reverie, "System binding, what kind of agreement was signed?"
"I signed an equal agreement with you... no, I signed an equal agreement with the original host, while the Emperor System signed a master-servant agreement with the other party."
Xiao Zhixing's expression grew even colder. "Ha, an intelligent thing, daring to coerce the emperor into commanding the feudal lords—"
She locked the little system in a dark room, allowing it to watch but not interfere with her, then turned and disappeared.
Outside, the fighting raged on, with enemies either being killed or fleeing; there were hardly any left.
Xiao Zhixing led more than 3,000 people to rest for a while.
Xiao Bei personally led a group of people to explore the north, and returned with a solemn expression:
"Princess, it's a large army of Northern Barbarians, probably numbering 30,000! They're only about half an hour away from us, and they're heading straight for Yanshan."
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