Chapter 227: Judgment, Destroying the Country, Swallowing the Whale (asking for monthly ticket)
The huge palace was now dead silent with few people around. A flickering torch on the high walls on both sides of the red carpet illuminated César's face.
He lowered his eyes and looked at Cosimo, Lorenzo and Carolina who were kneeling on the ground with empty eyes.
The three men were in a particularly miserable state at this moment. They had a rag stuffed in their mouths, chains tied around their bodies, and were restrained in front of the throne they had long dreamed of. They did not look like graceful and reserved nobles, but rather like a group of livestock waiting to be slaughtered.
Qi Yuanyuan stood at the entrance of the palace with his hands behind his back, silently looking at Xizel's back, and after a moment he broke the silence.
He said slowly, "Then according to the agreement, we will accept the treasure of the Whale King's Court."
"No problem."
Cesar said this without turning his head, his face still expressionless.
Qi Yuanli did not stop and retreated to the shadow, then his body turned into a piece of crow feathers and scattered.
César held the White King's Scepter in his left hand and the sword in his right hand, then he moved forward and stopped in front of Kaliliana.
"As agreed...Mom, I'm here to kill your whole family."
After the white-haired boy finished speaking, he raised his sword and slashed at Cosimo's neck.
The second prince's head rolled to the ground with a clear sound, and then slowly slid in front of Carilena and Lorenzo, blood gushing out.
“The first one.”
Xizel raised his head and spoke softly with an expressionless face, his cheeks splattered with hideous blood.
Lorenzo was startled.
After a while, he finally realized what was happening and turned his head, staring motionlessly at the second prince lying on the ground.
Kaliliana's eyes widened, and a line of tears oozed out from her eyes and streaked across her pale cheeks.
"I was ignorant in the past, but now I understand. My second brother was just stupid, so he let you guys manipulate him. So I gave him a quick death. There's no need to pursue it further." Xizel turned his head and looked at Lorenzo. "But brother, you are different."
Lorenzo shuddered.
"If you don't want to die, please kill your mother yourself."
Xizel spoke softly, as if he was talking about something very ordinary, and then raised his hand and handed the sword in his hand to the servant who was walking towards him.
After the servant took the sword, he walked over tremblingly to untie Lorenzo, took the rag out of his mouth, and then handed the sword to Lorenzo.
"Why? Do we really have to do this? Aren't we a family, César? Do you remember when I took you riding horses when we were little?" Lorenzo's hand holding the sword trembled, and he looked up at César with an almost pleading look.
"It's too late, brother... If I were you, I would keep my mouth shut and try not to anger someone who has just experienced betrayal. Do you understand?"
Cesar stared into his eyes and spoke calmly.
Lorenzo hesitated for a long time, lowered his head and thought, and finally made up his mind, grasped the sword, stood up, and slowly stepped over Cosimo's body.
"Mother, I will try my best to free you as soon as possible..." he said in a hoarse voice.
Kaliliana shook her head vigorously and moaned through the cloth in her mouth, but no one could hear her.
Lorenzo took one last look at his mother's face, then closed his eyes, raised the tip of his sword and stabbed it down, piercing through Carilena's head in an instant.
"This is the pain of being betrayed by your loved ones, Mom..."
Xizel lowered his eyes and silently looked at Kaliliana, whose eyes were wide open and whose breath was gradually fading.
"I have done what you said. You will let me go, right...Cesare." Lorenzo said hoarsely, threw down the sword in his hand, walked towards Cesare tremblingly, and forced a smile at him.
Xizel looked up at him, was silent for a moment, and then said calmly: "Brother, I will give you a chance to challenge me. If you win... then I will let you go."
He lowered his voice, "Haven't you always wanted to be king? You even killed Li Qingping. Now that the opportunity is right in front of you, you can't just give up now, right?"
He paused and said, "Don't make me say it again. Pick up your weapon."
As he said this, César kicked the sword off the ground and it returned to Lorenzo's feet.
Lorenzo was stunned for a long time, then slowly knelt on the ground and picked up the sword again.
He climbed up and looked up to meet Xizel's gaze. "Where's your sword?"
"Me? I still remember my brother said when I was a kid that I was not suitable for holding a sword, and that he would protect me. Although it was just a joke, I took it seriously... So I won't hold a sword, but will fight you in another way."
As soon as he finished speaking, a phoenix bathed in flames rose from behind Xizel, and his white hair fluttered in the wind.
Lorenzo's pupils contracted to the extreme, his whole body trembling as he held the sword, his face twisted as he squeezed out a few words from between his lips and teeth: "This is too much! You bastard, you colluded with a group of bandits, do you really think you are a big deal?"
Cesar remained silent.
The next moment, Lorenzo lowered his head, drew his sword and rushed towards César with a roar.
Amidst the deafening roar, the phoenix descended from the sky, and Lorenzo's head flew to the right. Blood spurted out from the neck of the headless corpse like a fountain.
The giant ochre-red bird flapped its wings, blowing down a blaze of ochre-red fire that burned the throne and the bodies of the three people beneath it to ashes.
Xizel kept his head up, silently looking at the burning throne, his eyes never reaching the three corpses on the ground.
Three minutes later.
Xizel raised his hand, took off the crown on his head, threw it on the ground, then held the White King's scepter, walked out of the palace expressionlessly, and stood on the high stairs.
The boy lowered his eyes and looked down at the island on the sea. At this time, a palm-sized Norwegian shark appeared on his shoulder.
"I have asked all the surviving members of the Royal Court Army to return to the island." Little Shark said, "When they saw you holding the White King's Scepter, their attitude really changed 360 degrees."
"This country is so ridiculous that a scepter decides who is the king." Cesare said softly.
Yagubaru thought about it, then asked, "Is this really a good idea?"
"I've said it before, Yagubaru. Now that Li Qingping is dead and my father is dead, I have no reason to stay in this place."
"Then in the eyes of those people, you will immediately become a sinner for all eternity, right?"
"It doesn't matter what they think...I will do what I promised you."
After a long silence, Xizel suddenly raised the White King's Scepter high up, and a black and red light suddenly accumulated at the end of the scepter, just like the alternating night and dusk in the box world.
This was originally a power designed by the ancestors to avoid enemy invasion. Once this light rushed to the sky, the islands on the sea would be sent away from the Whale Garden and go to the human world. But at this moment, this power was used by him to completely destroy the Box Garden Kingdom, which was completely contrary to the original intention of the design.
"Can they survive in the outside world?"
Xizel silently watched the changing light on the scepter and suddenly asked.
Yagubaru shook his tail and said seriously:
"Don't worry, there is a 'Translation Medal' in the popular-level oddity fragments. Once you wear it, you can communicate with humans outside... And in order to study the history of the small garden, the countries in the human world will help them adapt to the outside world. They are a very valuable group of people, no less than a group of primitive people who suddenly broke into modern society. They will not be abandoned easily!"
It paused and said, "And the most important thing is: you are no longer a prince... Xizel, the fate of these people has nothing to do with you, there is nothing to feel guilty about."
"It has nothing to do with me? That sounds really selfish."
"You humans just like to be sentimental, but sharks are different. What's wrong with being selfish? Whether you are a human or a shark, you only live once. Why should you carry something you don't like on your body?"
Xizel pondered for a moment and nodded slightly.
"Are you still feeling guilty?"
"My father values this country very much. He must be angry in the underworld if he knows that I made this choice in the end. Also... once the residents of the island leave the small garden..."
Before he finished speaking, Yagubaru suddenly jumped from his shoulder into the air. The rest of its body remained unchanged, except for its small fangs and mouth, which suddenly expanded countless times. It then shouted deafeningly at the island on the sea:
"You bunch of small primitive people and small red dragons, listen to me, Shark, you must live well in the world over there!
"Otherwise, even if Shark becomes a ghost, he will not let you go. You just wait to be in Shark's stomach! There is no shark box in Shark's stomach for you primitive people to survive!"
After Yagubaru's roar, the entire whale box seemed to be dead silent for a moment. The next moment, amid the lights of thousands of homes, people poked their heads out of their homes to look at the imperial city in the sky.
After roaring a long paragraph, the little shark's mouth had returned to its original shape, and its whole body was covered with black tide, and it returned to César's shoulder.
It turned its head and showed him a row of sharp little fangs:
"Do you feel better now? You see, everyone's morale is high after being comforted by Shark." As it spoke, it stretched out its fin and pointed to the island.
People gathered in the street, looking up at the sky and talking, their faces full of fear.
Xizel was stunned for a while, and whispered softly: "Yagubaru, are you an idiot?"
He suddenly laughed silently, then raised his head high and released the last power of the White King's Scepter towards the sky.
At the end of the scepter, a beam of color that gradually changed between dusk and night shot up into the sky and landed on the whale skin. It then turned into thousands of meteor-like rays of light and scattered down, landing accurately on every island in the whale's box garden.
Soon, the brightly lit islands on the sea gradually disappeared and turned into beams of light rising up, passing through the transparent whale's belly unhindered and quietly going to the outside world.
The island was moved and the inhabitants were naturally taken away as well.
At the same time, in the real world, above the sea near Bergen.
On the islands from the box garden, the streets were empty and people looked up blankly as the bonfires flickered. What they saw was no longer a layer of unchanging transparent whale skin, but a clear night sky.
The bright moon hangs high in the sky, and under the dark sky lies a streak of alternating blue and green aurora.
Looking into the distance, the brightly lit city of Bergen sits on the fjord, and the legendary whale "Chicanao" is parked at the Bryggen Pier.
This was probably the first time in their lives that some of them had seen the true appearance of the legendary whale, and it was also the first time they understood how small the whale's belly was where they had lived in the past.
The sky that they had once been unable to reach was nothing more than the belly of a two-hundred-meter-long whale.
In the whale box, César silently looked at the empty sea, then turned around and walked into the palace. After walking for a while, he slowly stopped in front of the king's bedroom.
He walked to the bedside, lowered his head and remained silent for a long time. Then he slowly raised his eyes from under his forehead and glanced at the old king who was sleeping peacefully on the bed.
"Goodbye, father."
As soon as he finished speaking, the phoenix silently dropped a feather of fire, and the luxurious bed caught fire.
Ten minutes later, in the real world, it was raining heavily, endless strong winds were beating the sea, and the moonlight was obscured by dark cumulonimbus clouds.
A two-meter-long Yagubaru flew out from the open mouth of the whale. At this moment, it was flying across the stormy ocean, carrying a white-haired and blue-eyed boy on its back.
"Can you really eat it?!" César said loudly, his voice penetrating the heavy rain curtain and falling into the shark's ears.
"Who are you looking down on? Shark Shark is much bigger than it now." Yagubaru muttered, "If Shark Shark can't eat an old whale that has no natural enemy for a thousand years and lives a life of luxury and doesn't know how to be prepared for danger, then it will be a disgrace to the old whale. Oh no, it will be a disgrace to the big shark!"
"I'm really surprised today. I never thought that you, Yagubaru, are so powerful."
"It's not a surprise, it's a surprise!"
Yagubaru spoke loudly and with a roar, his body gradually expanded in the storm. In the blink of an eye, he had transformed into a giant monster with a total length of 300 meters. The raging wind and rain seemed to have stopped at this moment because of its arrival.
It created a bottomless ravine on the sea, carrying with it a tsunami-like black wave, and finally crashed head-on into the butt of the legendary whale in the port!
Yagubaru opened its bloody mouth, and at this moment its mouth expanded, swallowing the body of the legendary whale, head and tail. The whale was like a struggling beast, swinging its tail to slap the giant shark's throat, but its body could not stop sliding into the shark's body.
Finally, only a long whale cry was heard in the shark's belly, and the sound seemed so far away that it was difficult for people to hear clearly.
At the same time, an oversized prompt box appeared in its pupils.
[It has swallowed the last natural enemy, the legendary whale "Chicanao" into its stomach. 】
[It is estimated that it will take a total of one month to digest the legendary whale, Chicanao. ]
Yagubaru thought: "It's really unrealistic to digest a whale that's over 200 meters long in a short period of time. I'll just let it struggle in my stomach."
"The last main mission of Unit 03 is 'Devouring the Legendary Whale'. It can be completed in just one month, which should be enough for the final battle at the Saviour's base."
"With Xizel's help... we have one more world-class fighter at hand. With Xizel's talent, it will be no problem for him to reach the disaster level after training outside for a month."
Thinking of this, it called up the panel and took a look. The main mission of the No. 3 unit had basically been completed.
Now all that's left is to wait for the legendary whale in the body to be digested, and the body will reach its complete form.
The rain was pouring down.
The white-haired boy stood on top of the 300-meter giant shark, watching the scene silently, his mouth opened in slight surprise, as if he was afraid, but also excited. Just now, he saw with his own eyes that his country was swallowed by a shark.
After a long time, he suddenly raised the corners of his mouth and laughed in the wind, laughing openly. His thin body swayed, and the wind and rain wet his hair.
"Yagubaru, didn't you tell me before that you had a very good friend who was locked up in a laboratory?" César suddenly asked loudly.
"Of course, he's still waiting for Shark to rescue him."
As Yagubaru spoke, he shrank his body countless times, and in an instant he turned into a three-meter-long ordinary shark, carrying the black tide and shuttling through the storm, with thunder rumbling.
"Okay, then I'll accompany you to save him, just like you saved me." Xizel said without hesitation.
As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at the distant sea behind him. The islands from the whale's box garden were now scattered on the North Sea, and the lights on the islands were still bright.
"No... now is not the right time. Not to mention that I don't know where the experiment is. Even if I know, rushing over there with our current strength is just like a moth flying into a flame."
Yagubaru flew across the sea and sky, looking at the fjord city in the distance, "I'm waiting for an opportunity."
"Is the opponent strong?" César asked curiously.
"Very strong, probably one of the most powerful people in the world," Yagubaru paused, "Are you scared?"
"I'm not afraid... I said, I will stand by your side no matter what."
"Okay, let's go find someone first."
"who?"
"Gu Wenyu. Li Qingping asked me to give him a small item."
"Li Qingping's friend..." Xizel murmured, "Then let's go to China to find him first. But I haven't been to that place yet, although I have heard Li Qingping talk about it many times before."
"Then let's go to China. Sharks are faster than airplanes. It won't take long for us to get there!" Yagubaru said proudly. "It's a great place. You'll soon understand why Li Qingping likes China so much."
"Okay, but how do you know where Gu Wenyu is in China?"
"Li Qingping told me his home address. With Shark's super strong sense of smell, I can find his location in one second even if we are thousands of miles away."
Xizel raised his eyes and then lowered them, and suddenly raised the corners of his mouth, "Let's go, let's go to China."
(End of this chapter)
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