After Lord Wang finished venting his grief, Lord Fang sighed self-deprecatingly and said, "I was wrong, I was wrong. I also refused Zhou Cheng's entry into the manor that day. I never thought things would turn out this way."
"But it's no use regretting it now, so we might as well think about what to do next."
"What if, I mean what if... Zhou Chengruo used those weapons to hold off the encirclement in Lituo County and joined up with Zhou Zhenguang? Would the situation in Yan Kingdom change?"
Lord Wang helplessly covered his head.
It took a while before I was forced to accept the truth.
Hearing his friend's words, Lord Wang smiled bitterly and said in despair, "You wouldn't be trying to salvage your relationship with the Zhou family, would you?"
"Zhou Cheng has brought out so many terrifying treasures, whether they are weapons of mass destruction or medicines for the plague. The appearance of each one will be a threat to His Majesty. Are you afraid that Zhou Cheng can really turn the tide?"
"Will they come back to settle scores with us then?"
Lord Fang nodded solemnly.
If those weapons were truly as terrifying as the warden described, the 8,000 elite soldiers of Lituo County might not have been able to stop Zhou Cheng.
If they can't stop him, Zhou Cheng will return to the border.
The border army will possess weapons capable of taking on a hundred enemies with a single soldier. With these weapons, even without food or winter supplies, they will have the ability to plunder. Perhaps with a bit of favorable winds, they can rise to power.
After being forced to accept the truth, Lord Wang could only transfer some of his hatred for his son's death onto Zhou Cheng in order to make himself feel a little better.
Zhou Cheng was not without responsibility, as he was the mastermind behind his son's death.
If Zhou Cheng had mentioned having a life-saving drug for the epidemic earlier, why would I have turned him away? Ultimately, it's because Zhou Cheng wasn't sincere enough!
Lord Wang stared dejectedly out the window, then shook his head with a cold laugh: "Don't even think about it."
“Zhou Cheng will not be able to return to the border. Eight thousand elite soldiers are fighting against twenty-odd people. They can wear him down by exhausting his strength.”
"So what if he has weapons? He still needs someone to use them. His glory days are numbered. He doesn't have the ability to survive to the border."
However——
These words had barely left his lips.
The butler's voice rang out from outside the door!
"My lord, news has come from the palace."
"Eight thousand elite soldiers from Lituo County surrounded and killed Zhou Cheng, but Zhou Cheng devised a plan to kill them. He burned all 400,000 shi of grain, trapped the eight thousand elite soldiers near the granary, buried weapons around them, and poured fuel oil on them."
"Every hundred meters forward, the weapon exploded, and no one survived."
"After several tests, the general was blown up to death, leaving no trace of his body. The generals dared not act rashly again."
"Finally, Zhou Cheng and his group swaggered out of the city in front of thousands of people, and more than twenty of them were unharmed."
Mr. Wang, whose pupils were about to break, said: "..."
The speechless Lord Fang: "......."
Their faces stung.
This shocking outcome only made Lord Wang's earlier words seem even more ridiculous.
Two pairs of horrified eyes met, each seeing disbelief in the other's pupils. They could even imagine how furious the Yan Emperor must be sitting in the Golden Phoenix Palace at this very moment.
Emperor Yan was absolutely furious!
He was so angry that he felt cold all over and his breathing became rapid: "Useless! Useless!"
"You are all useless!"
"Eight thousand elite soldiers couldn't stop Zhou Cheng, and he even swaggered out of the city right in front of you!!"
The deputy general of Lituo County knelt tremblingly in the hall, his head buried in his neck: "Your Majesty... it is not that we are incompetent, but that the weapon in Zhou Cheng's hand is truly terrifying."
"The soldiers had no idea what was happening; they only heard a loud explosion and were all killed instantly."
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