Chapter 331 Oh no, the table is overturned
"Your injury hasn't healed yet," Jiu reached out and carefully touched his bandaged shoulder, complaining softly.
"And you promised me that you would buy me all the candied haws in the capital, and you haven't bought them yet. You are not allowed to leave."
Xiao Yu was silent for a long time before he finally found his voice.
"Ajiu, wait for me to come back, and I'll buy it for you, okay?"
"No," Ajiu shook his head and looked at him stubbornly, "I want you to buy it now. I'll wait for you here. After you buy the candied haws, we can go home together."
She didn't want him to leave.
Xiao Yu's heart felt like it was being tightly grasped by a hand, making it feel sore and painful.
He took a deep breath and reached out to cup her face in his hands.
"Ajiu, be obedient." He looked into her eyes and said seriously, "There are many bad guys who want to come to our house to make trouble. I'm going to drive them all away, otherwise, they will bully you, steal your candied haws, and make everyone in the capital unhappy."
"Your mission is to stay here and help the adults and Gong Shuming build a very large protective shield to protect our home."
"Let's divide the work and work together to protect our home. Once we've driven all the bad guys away, I'll come back and take you to eat the most delicious candied haws. I promise."
Ajiu listened quietly, a crystal tear hanging on her long eyelashes.
She nodded, not quite understanding.
"Then... pinky promise." She held out her little finger.
Xiao Yu also stretched out his little finger and hooked it with hers.
"Hook."
"For a hundred years, no changes are allowed."
…
After that day, Xiao Yu embarked on a journey north.
There was no farewell ceremony, no grand ceremony. He took only his personal guards and quietly left the capital, heading for the bitter cold land at the northernmost tip of the continent.
Two months and twenty-seven days passed.
The Great Wall in the North, the Demon-Suppressing Pass.
The biting cold wind blew across the mottled city walls like a knife, making a howling sound like ghosts crying.
On the city wall, every three steps there is a soldier in helmet and armor. Holding spears, they brave the wind and snow, and like statues, they silently gaze at the gray sky and earth outside the pass.
At the end of their sight, the sky and the earth seemed to be torn apart by a black lightning.
That is the Netherworld Rift.
Xiao Yu stood on the highest beacon tower and stared at the crack silently. He was wearing a dark heavy armor, and the old injury on his shoulder blade still hurt slightly due to the cold climate of the north.
"Your Highness, another night has passed." Veteran General Wang De, draped in heavy armor, walked up to the beacon tower and came to Xiao Yu's side. He followed his gaze and said, "There's still no movement from the other side."
"This is the calm before the storm," Xiao Yu's voice was a little hoarse from the cold wind. "The longer they accumulate their power, the more violent it will be when it explodes."
"The morale of the soldiers is quite high," Wang De said solemnly. "The best troops from all over the country have gathered here, and with the new city defense equipment sent by the Ministry of Works, everyone feels confident. I just don't know what the situation is like in the capital."
"I just received a secret letter from Chu Xuanyi two hours ago," Xiao Yu pulled a letter from his arms. "The core of the 'Great World Protection Formation,' the transformation of Shenji City, has been completed and successfully connected to the capital's earth veins. However, 30% of the outer defense nodes have yet to be deployed."
The formation has not yet been fully completed.
A trace of worry flashed in Wang De's eyes when he heard this. "It's only 30% short. I hope those ghosts can give us a little more time."
However, fate always seems to like to play the cruelest jokes.
Just as Wang De finished speaking.
“Crack.”
A sound as slight as a mirror breaking suddenly rang out between heaven and earth.
"What's that sound?" A young soldier looked up at the sky in confusion.
"Heaven...heaven..." He pointed at the sky, unable to utter a complete sentence because of excessive fear.
Wang De and Xiao Yu also raised their heads suddenly.
Just above the Netherworld Rift, the gray sky was actually like a piece of fragile glass, with black cracks visible to the naked eye.
“Crack…Crack…”
The cracking sounds became more frequent and louder.
Those black cracks spread madly in all directions at a speed visible to the naked eye, covering the entire sky in just a few breaths.
"Hold steady," Xiao Yu's voice instantly spread throughout the entire pass, "All troops on alert."
"roar."
Hundreds of thousands of troops shouted in unison, using their high fighting spirit to fight against the fear growing in their hearts.
But the next moment, everyone's shouting stopped abruptly.
Because the sky is really broken.
The cracked sky was like a mirror that had been smashed to pieces. Countless fragments of space fell silently and then dissipated.
What was revealed behind the fragments was not the familiar void, but a space passage leading to a dark red world.
Inside was a blood-red sky, rolling dark clouds, dry earth, and countless strange mountains made of piles of bones and rotten flesh.
A strong wind filled with sulfur and stench rushed out from the passage, blowing all the flags on the Demon-Suppressing Pass wildly back.
"Oh my God..." General Wang De, a veteran of many battles, couldn't help but mutter to himself in a daze.
At the moment the sky gate opened, a strange demonic sound came from the dark red world.
Not a roar, not a roar.
It is a mixture of the desperate wails of countless creatures before death, which penetrates directly into the depths of the human soul.
“Uh…”
On the city wall, some soldiers who were not strong enough in their determination hugged their heads and wailed in pain.
Their eyes quickly became bloodshot and turned red, with crazy and distorted expressions on their faces, as if they had seen some extremely terrifying illusions.
"Concentrate and calm down, keep your mind focused." Xiao Yu's roar rang out again.
His voice contained a trace of dragon energy, which forcibly awakened many soldiers from the pollution of the devilish sound.
Endless evil demons rushed out from the space channel like a black flood that broke through the dam.
They have various shapes and are very strange.
There are flying demons with rotten bat wings, shaped like giant locusts.
There are giant skeletons that are hundreds of feet tall and made up of countless bones.
There was a swarm of pitch-black insects with countless limbs surging on the ground like a tide.
There are also some humanoid monsters that retain the outline of a human, but their bodies have been completely distorted, with eyeballs and tentacles growing all over their bodies.
In a moment, they covered the dark red sky and turned into a shadow that pounced towards the ground.
"General..." A messenger crawled to Wang De's side, his voice trembling, "Enemy attack...Enemy attack..."
Wang De picked him up.
"Why are you panicking?" he roared. "We'll hold up the sky if it falls."
He turned his head to look at Xiao Yu, "Your Highness," he swallowed hard, "They... they didn't even send out cannon fodder to test it."
Xiao Yu slowly pulled out the magic weapon that could break the law from his waist.
The golden dragon vein energy soared into the sky, turning into a huge golden dragon shadow hovering above his head, making an earth-shaking roar.
The sound of the dragon's roar instantly drowned out the demonic sound from another world.
All the soldiers enveloped by the golden light felt their minds become clear, and the chill and fear that had penetrated into their bones were dispelled a lot.
Xiao Yu stood on the edge of the beacon tower holding a magic weapon. Behind him was an endless tide of demons, and in front of him were hundreds of thousands of terrified soldiers.
"Soldiers."
"Lift your heads and look behind you."
The soldiers subconsciously looked back and saw endless mountains, winding rivers, and the land where they had lived for generations.
"On that land are your parents, wives, children, and your hometown."
"Today, we have nowhere to retreat."
"Because behind us is the whole world."
Xiao Yu slowly raised the long sword in his hand, and the tip of the sword pointed directly at the endless demonic tide above the sky.
"This king will live and die with you."
"All troops, listen to my orders."
His voice suddenly became high-pitched and sharp.
"Archers, ready."
"put."
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