The question now is...how many of the 30,000 troops who were shrouded in smoke were replaced?

Lin Qiye swept his eyes around, and everywhere he saw were expeditionary troops killing crazily. They stepped over the corpses of the Yulin Army and rushed into the city of Chang'an, creating a bloody wave in the city shrouded in darkness.

His heart sank.

Wherever he looked, all the expeditionary forces were burning and killing civilians on the streets of Chang'an. This meant that all the ordinary people who encountered the colorful smoke at that time had been replaced silently.

Moreover, although the concept of "being replaced by monsters" also exists in their cognition, the strange thing is that their cognition of the classification of "monsters" seems to have been artificially tampered with.

In the eyes of the "monsters", ordinary people are the monsters that have been replaced...but when they see each other turn into willow branches after death, they regard that as a symbol of normality.

It was as if there was an invisible giant hand that was manipulating their cognition at will. If Lin Qiye guessed correctly, the reason why they suddenly felt that all the people in the city were replaced by monsters and broke into the city was also because they were guided by the mysterious manipulator.

Lin Qiye looked up at the shining red star, his eyes narrowed slightly:

"It's you..."

…

"What's going on out there?"

Chloe heard a noise in the distance and looked out the window with a frown.

"I don't know...it seems like someone is rebelling?" A missionary asked uncertainly.

"It's probably another power struggle or something like that. The Han people love to play these kinds of political games, but it probably has nothing to do with us."

Just as they were talking, several figures came galloping on horseback from the end of the street. They held torches in one hand and bloody spears in the other, with ferocious looks in their eyes.

"Burn! Only when everything is burned out will the monsters come out!" The leader gave an order, and the people behind threw torches on both sides of the road. The flames gradually rose, and exclamations came from the house.

"Fire! Fire!" A woman hurriedly opened the door and was about to fetch water to put out the fire when a cold light flashed and a head rolled to the ground in an instant.

Blood spurted out, the headless body swayed, and fell to the ground. A man screamed and ran out of the house, but before he could say anything, another cold light flashed, and he died on the spot.

Seeing this scene, Chloe on the second floor frowned and looked a little ugly.

"Is this a struggle for power? This is clearly a disregard for human life!" Chloe clenched her fists as she watched this group of people raise their knives and kill several innocent people who escaped from the house.

“Mother! Mother!!”

Several young children walked out of the house in a daze. When they saw the pile of corpses on the ground and the soldiers covered in blood, they were so frightened that they stood there dumbfounded.

The soldier narrowed his eyes, snorted coldly, and was about to swing his spear when a ball of blazing flame suddenly burst out from the second floor and directly engulfed him!

A shrill wailing sound echoed in the street. A red-haired girl wearing a bamboo hat climbed out of the window and looked coldly at the group of soldiers in front of her. A murderous intent filled the air.

Chloe raised her hand and swung it in the air. A burning wind blade whizzed across the hundreds-meter-long street, instantly killing all the soldiers on the road. The burning bodies fell to the ground one by one, and turned into charred willow branches after a moment.

Seeing these willow branches, Chloe's eyes narrowed slightly...

"Lady Saint, he... they are not human? They are evil spirits?!" A missionary exclaimed as he picked up a piece of broken willow.

Another missionary sniffed the air and said, "It doesn't look like evil. This smell is much worse than evil."

"What else could it be?"

Chloe's eyes moved away from the willow branches. The ground beneath her feet suddenly rumbled and trembled, as if an ancient giant beast was madly trampling the earth. An invisible air wave exploded on the street in the distance, and hundreds of soldiers were blown into the sky.

"Is it him?" Chloe muttered.

She immediately took a step forward, and a hurricane lifted her body up into the sky. Her flaming red hair danced wildly in the night sky. She lowered her head and said to the other missionaries, "Something is wrong... You go back to the post station first, I'll go over and take a look."

As soon as Chloe finished her words, she stepped on the hurricane and flew towards the direction where the explosion came from.

…

Lin Qiye killed hundreds of soldiers with one punch, turning a corner of Chang'an into ruins. His figure slowly walked out in the flying dust.

"It's really troublesome without the Forbidden Ruins..." Lin Qiye looked at his fist and sighed helplessly.

With his current strength, if he were in a spacious open space, it would not be difficult to kill thousands of people with one punch, but now he was in Chang'an City... If he really used his full strength here, it would be a large-scale indiscriminate killing. With one punch, who knows how many Chang'an people would be displaced.

A strong body can certainly bring about a significant increase in combat power, but without the ability to coordinate, it will sometimes still end up being passive.

Lin Qiye looked up at the sky and saw a dark green progress bar flashing by:

"Lin Qiye's treatment progress: 48%"

Is there still 2% left?

Lin Qiye withdrew his gaze and was about to continue killing these monsters when a red-haired figure slowly fell from the sky.

"Are you going to tear down Chang'an City?" Chloe couldn't help but complain.

“I can’t do anything…” Lin Qiye shrugged, “My Forbidden Ruins haven’t awakened yet, so I can only rely on my physical strength to fight.”

"You haven't awakened yet?" Chloe pointed at the ridiculously large ruins in front of her. "You can inflict this much damage with your bare hands... Are you really human?"

Lin Qiye smiled helplessly and said nothing.

"What are these?"

"I don't know the details, but it should be the ability of a certain god of the K-type, and it is related to the meteor before." Lin Qiye briefly described his discovery, and Chloe frowned tightly...

"Anyway, are we going to kill all these fake expeditionary forces now?"

"yes."

"Okay, leave them to me." Chloe nodded. "Besides them, are there any other people in Chang'an who have been replaced?"

Lin Qiye opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment, and shook his head:

"I'm not sure."

After the meteor fell, the entire mountain stream was shrouded in colorful smoke. In addition to the expeditionary forces here, many generals have entered the palace...

Thinking of this, Lin Qiye turned around and looked towards the palace wall in the distance.

"Shit..." he muttered to himself.