Chapter 544: 542: Breaking the Taboo (Happy Dragon Boat Festival!)
Luo Yi's voice echoed in the huge command center, but the generals of the Royal Guards looked at each other, and no one was willing to speak first.
Luo Yi locked onto one person and said, "Alfonso, you speak first!"
Alfonso Zeke was originally sent by Loy to the Verdun battlefield to monitor and command the use of rented magic tanks and be responsible for battlefield maintenance.
However, in the subsequent wars, the rented tanks were damaged one after another, and the Empire also developed the "Tiger", so he returned with his team.
The original plan was that he would take over Luo Yi's position in Flower Territory to maintain stability in the territory.
However, when the powerful natural disasters were in short supply, he was transferred by Luo Yi to join the battle, and then he ran between the two sides.
This time, it was a coincidence that I also attended the combat meeting.
After being called out by Luo Yi, Alfonso took a step forward. He looked at the sand table, organized his words, and then said, "My opinion is that if we can avoid fighting, we should not fight!"
"Tell me the reason?"
Alfonso pointed at the sand table and moved along the straight asphalt road. When he reached a certain place, he turned to the right and pointed to a bright red city.
"The Scarlet City gets its name from the red rocks it's built entirely of. From afar, it looks crimson, as if it were made of blood.
The most elite vampires of the Toredo tribe live here. They are also noble among the vampires. Only they can become the rulers and managers here.
All humans here will be collared and become slaves!
Their lives, eating, working and reproduction are all controlled by the vampires. After a long period of slave education, they have even forgotten writing, inheritance and the spirit of resistance.
They have no warrior profession or magical heritage, and their average lifespan does not exceed 30 years old, because after this age, their meat is no longer tasty.
They are also taught to think they are food themselves and take pride in being food for their masters.”
“Of course, blindly suppressing things will also lead to turmoil.
Therefore, the vampires have opened up a path for them to ascend. After serving and pleasing their masters, they have the opportunity to obtain the First Embrace."
"According to preliminary statistics from the past few days, there are approximately 300,000 Terran residents in Scarlet City. As for the Dark Race, the number is unknown."
After a pause, he said, “My opposition to capturing this city is mainly based on two considerations.
First, the city itself is a large maze, and we are not familiar with the terrain. It is not difficult to break through the city walls, but we will inevitably have to fight street battles.
Even with the firepower advantage, casualties are inevitable.
I'm not just talking about the unnecessary casualties among the Royal Guards, but also those humans who will die in the war.
Secondly, these 300,000 Terrans themselves are a huge threat. I remember that the First Embrace can be bestowed upon vampires on a large scale, and they can even transform into vampire zombies."
"You mean the blood plague?"
"Yes! If three hundred thousand people were infected with the blood plague, it would be a lot of fun!"
He even made a judgment: "I have reason to suspect that this Scarlet City is a huge trap.
Grand Duke Toledo intends to use him to lure us in, limit the effectiveness of our soldiers and magical weapons, and then defeat us in one fell swoop."
“So, my opinion is to follow the established plan and go directly to Blood Moon Castle. As long as we remain unmoved, those dark races will be anxious.
As long as we eliminate Grand Duke Toledo and occupy this half plane, Scarlet City will naturally fall without a fight."
It has to be said that his words are mature and prudent, and they are also the best advice given from a military perspective.
But before the voice fell, a hoarse voice rang out: "I don't agree!"
Then, the female Tyrannosaurus Tanya stood up, her body stronger than a man's, pressing forward, her eyes even tinged with red: "Alfonso, I used to respect you, no need to say anything.
But this time, you have disappointed me greatly."
“You’ve considered everything, but have you considered the human heart?”
"Raising humans and animals! That's raising humans and animals! They raise us humans like animals. How dare they do that?"
"The Toledo clan has violated a great taboo of our human race. It would be fine if we didn't know about it, but now that we know, we must fight them to the death!"
She took a deep breath, tried to suppress her emotions, and said, "You can go out and ask what the guards outside think?
If we leave like this, I'm afraid we will look down on ourselves in the future!"
"Some things, since they have done them, they must pay the price; and since we have seen them, we cannot turn a blind eye."
As she said this, she even turned around, knelt on one knee facing Luo Yi, and with a 'bang' her knee smashed the ground.
She shouted, "I am willing to be the king's vanguard, the first to rush into this city and break the necks of those vampires.
I just hope the Earl will give me this opportunity."
The female Tyrannosaurus Tanya was very excited. In fact, at a glance, almost all the generals seemed very excited.
They knew that what Alfonso said made sense, but some things were really intolerable!
There are objective reasons for their anger and excitement, even this quarrel.
Looking back at the history of Helka, it is not difficult to find that the human race has never been inherently strong, nor has it been the protagonist of this continent.
Not to mention compared with dragons, giants, behemoths and the like, even some herbivorous orcs and weak goblins cannot compare.
For a long time, humans were not accepted by other races, and were not recognized as intelligent life, but rather as livestock like chickens and ducks.
The human race at that time had another name, called two-legged sheep.
It was not until later, with the protection of the first dragon knight, that he learned meditation from the elves, spells from the beasts, physical training from the orcs, and forging from the dwarves, that he became stronger step by step.
It can be said that the process of human race becoming stronger is a vast history of war against hundreds of races.
At that time, our ancestors were far from invincible. There were too many races stronger than them, so they could only use more sacrifices, more ruthless means, and more resolute attitudes to win a piece of land for reproduction and development.
Blood for blood, tooth for tooth, is the simplest law and the code of conduct for human beings.
Later in evolution, in order to compete for equal status with other intelligent races, human heroes drew an insurmountable red line.
That is, foreigners are not allowed to keep humans and animals!
In order to achieve this, the human race paid a huge price.
Whatever is discovered, whether it is a tribe, a city, or even a country, must be destroyed.
I can't do it, so I will die here in battle, and the next generation will continue to fight, and countless lives will be sacrificed until death.
You have to admit that this approach is extremely crazy, not cost-effective, and has no value for money. However, the ancestors of the human race relied on this crazy approach to make all other races recognize the status of the human race.
Human beings are human beings. They are never anyone’s food, let alone chickens or ducks!
Until now, this has turned into an instinct, a trait, engraved deep into the genes and blood of the human race in the Helka plane.
Alien races are not allowed to keep humans and livestock. This is not just empty talk, but a taboo that can provoke the entire human race into anger and rampage.
If Roy were to describe it, this is even more extreme political correctness.
It doesn't matter whether it is right or wrong, true or false, good or bad, or beneficial, but whenever you bring something up, you must take the right stand and express your attitude.
Luo Yi even believed that if he was defeated, he would not have to do anything extra, just report the matter to the Church of the Sun God and put the evidence on the desk of His Majesty.
Then the entire Church of the Sun God will go crazy!
Even if there are no blood moon fragments and we can’t find the entrance or exit, it doesn’t matter.
At worst, we can search the entire plane to find the location where the Blood Moon Forest demiplane and the main material plane are connected, and then lock the coordinates.
At that time, His Holiness the Pope will lead twelve cardinals to break through the plane barrier and descend here.
By then, let alone the fact that the vampires only had some connections in a certain level of the abyss, even if the Lord of the Abyss descended, they would not be able to save Grand Duke Toredo.
The reason it wasn't chopped into seventeen or eighteen pieces was that the Pope's methods were not sharp enough.
However, by that time, this demiplane would most likely be destroyed, and his plan would fail.
So, should we fight or not?
The command center was very quiet, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Everyone stared at Luo Yi, watching his fingers tap the chair again and again, making a "dong dong" sound, and waiting for his decision.
Even the collaborators in this war, Grand Duke Karen and his wife, just stood there with grim expressions, not daring to say a word.
To be honest, they didn't expect that the Grand Duke of Toledo would dare to play such a big game?!
Besides, just play if you want to. Seeing the army of flowers approaching, you didn’t even try to hide it?
I really don't know how to write the word "death"!
Now that racial confrontation has been provoked, I'm afraid that life will be difficult for these "vegetarians" in the future.
Finally, Luo Yi looked up, a green light blooming in his eyes, and he looked in the distance in the direction of the Crimson City.
He seemed to be seeing the city filled with the blood and corpses of human beings from a great distance, and saw the numbness and deathly silence of countless human beings.
His body was trembling and his blood was boiling, as if it was about to turn into a raging fire and burn the city to ashes.
However, it was suppressed by his reason!
Not to mention others, even he himself found it difficult to control the anger surging in his blood.
Sometimes, we can’t just care about gains and losses, we also need to have greater justice!
Finally, Luo Yi lowered his head, his expression neither happy nor sad, but his words were sonorous and powerful: "Crimson City must be destroyed!"
As he spoke, he lowered his head slightly and looked at the female Tyrannosaurus Tanya, saying, "Have you thought it through? Do you want to be a pioneer?"
Tanya stood up, took out a heavy machine gun directly from the dimensional bag, loaded it with a click, raised her head again, and looked directly into Luo Yi's eyes.
"In this battle, there is no retreat, there is no defeat, there is death, there is no life!"
"Okay, okay! Is there anyone else willing?"
"Me!" Alfonso straightened up.
"And me!" Vincent Ackerman also stood up.
"Three division commanders, you actually want to be the vanguard? Then I will satisfy you."
"Everyone, prepare for battle! I will personally command this battle."
PS: This chapter was so difficult to write!
(End of this chapter)
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