Three days later, HuoZhong's external spokesperson, the beautiful Yu Meihong, released the news through some neutral media: Guo Jiu, a great class fighter, revolutionary, staunch successor and communicator of HuoZhong ideology, and the outstanding leader of the HuoZhong Northern School, recently
He died heroically in a battle at the age of 86.
In the video, Yu Meihong's eyes were red and swollen, her voice was choked, but her expression was determined. She introduced Guo Jiu's life and relayed the comments of Juzi, the top leader of Tinder.
Ju Zi highly praised the fighting spirit of Guo Jiu and his action team who would rather die than surrender, and strongly condemned the despicable plot carried out by large transnational capital in this asymmetric battle. Ju Zi admitted that the current form of struggle is complex, fierce and cruel, and gave instructions
: All members of Tinder mourn Guo Jiu and refrain from any entertainment activities for three days. Before the truth about Guo Jiu's death is found out, they must stop all excessive acts of revenge and preserve their strength.
After Guo Jiu's death, his role as fire master will be temporarily taken over by the fire igniter codenamed "Sparrow Tail". The formal appointment will be carried out at a later date.
——The "sparrow tail" in the press release is actually Lu Hongsheng.
One of the conditions for Lu Hongsheng to join Tinder at that time was that his identity would not be disclosed. He joined Tinder with the ID of "Sparrow Tail Mantis Shrimp".
However, the name "Sparrow Tail Mantis Shrimp" is too long and too personal, and can easily be associated with Lu Hongsheng's legendary "Pippi Shrimp". So Wu Wenying later helped Lu Hongsheng cut off the second half, leaving only the
The word "bird's tail".
Quewei was named for the position, and many people inside showed incomprehension and dissatisfaction. Especially the Northern sect disciples under Guo Jiu.
Although Juzi's prestige within Huozhong is unparalleled, Juzi's strong endorsement can overwhelm all opposition voices within Huozhong.
"Below the fire master, there are many excellent fire igniters, why do you have to choose Sparrow Tail? Mr. Sparrow Tail has only been a member of the Fire Flame for a short time, not many people know him, and he lacks the prestige to lead others. More importantly, he
He calls himself the Southern Sect, and after Guo Jiu's death, a member of the Northern Sect should take over his position. If Master Juzi insists on promoting Quewei, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the public." A very senior local fire holder wrote a proposal.
Juzi's answer was also very simple and clear: "The person holding the fire is the supreme leader of the fire and is responsible for all the fires. There should be no distinction between north and south. And Quewei will only take over temporarily. I have decided to hold a formal ignition in half a year."
At that time, all the trancers within the fire can challenge Sparrow Tail."
In this way, the controversy was finally settled. Everyone was very satisfied.
Because of the rules of Fire: the fire master must be a trance person. Currently, within the Fire Group, among those who are not fire masters but have reached the trance level, apart from Yao Jinniang, there is only Wu Weiwu, the igniter who assists Guo Jiu in managing the forces outside Guan.
Wu Weiwu is different from Yao Jinniang. He has been in the trance level for more than ten years, his realm has long been stable, and he is a pure combat professional. It is generally believed within the fire industry that he can definitely beat Yao Jinniang.
As for Quewei's strength, very few people know about it. However, Wu Xian, who is the fire master of the Northern Sect, knows Lu Hongsheng's true identity.
Because he could not leak the information about Quewei, Wu Xian could only tell the people below in a circumstantial way: This Quewei is a new trance, and he is currently injured, and it is hard to say how much of his ability is retained. The half-year appointment proposed by Juzi,
He probably wanted to wait for Sparrowtail to recover from his injury before conducting the selection.
As a result, the Northern faction immediately felt that the chances of winning were greater.
How could a newly-minted Zhen Shen, who was recovering from an old injury, be able to defeat Wu Weiwu, who had been famous for decades and fought countless bloody battles?
So in their eyes, the chance of winning is still relatively good.
What's more, the Northern sect also has Yang Yijian and other sects who have reached the pinnacle of transformation and are just waiting for masters to be sensed by heaven and man. With these half a year, the Northern sect can also work hard, get some golden elixirs of trancers, and evolve one or two trances.
Or, that would be more stable.
Here, Lu Hongsheng also accepted the position with a smile, and then used his position to recruit Ye Wan, Xu Yan, Mingshan Qianyo, Zhao Yongchuan and Li Xianjing into Tinder and become the backbone of Minglan.
You know, the selection after half a year will not only select the fire masters, but also the seats for the twelve fire masters who happen to meet once every four years!
Ye Wan, Xu Yan, Mingshan Chiyo, and Yao Jinniang, who can't win the seat of the igniter?
When the time comes, he and Wu Wenying will be the ones holding the fire, and Ye Wan and the four of them will be the igniters, won't his power be consolidated?
As for prestige... Lu Hongsheng controls the trade routes from the Central Plains to Xingzhou Islands and Panzhou Islands. With the efforts of Xu Yan, Sun Yuming, and Liu Sisi, the trilateral economic and trade volume has become larger and larger, resulting in a large amount of
Profit, funds.
In addition, part of the GDP of Minglan itself is managed by Lu Hongsheng. He can use this money and resources to pave the way, on the one hand to stimulate the fire, and on the other hand to support the seal people.
By the way, the war between Atlas and the seal people of Panzhou Islands is inevitable.
As the battle begins, a large amount of war resources will be accumulated on this small island. Juzi has ordered to fully support the seal people of Panzhou Islands in resisting the invasion of Atras. And the link between Huozhong and Panzhou Islands,
It can only be done through "Sparrow Tail", and even Wu Wenying needs to cooperate with Sparrow Tail's instructions in this matter.
There is a lot of room for maneuver here!
With a large amount of resources and power in hand, will Lu Hongsheng be unable to establish his own power within Huozhong?
impossible.
Let's see who has the last laugh then.
And things developed exactly as Lu Hongsheng expected.
A week after he took over as the leader of the fire, the first batch of adventurer colonial troops armed by Etras entered the three large islands of the Hawaiian Islands.
However, waiting for these mercenaries were the seals, fishmen, conch people and other indigenous residents of the metaverse who had already anticipated the enemy's opportunity and were armed to the teeth by Lu Hongsheng, as well as a very small number of elites from the northern and southern factions of Fire.
In this battle, Lu Hongsheng and the human combat elites served as combat advisors, directing the indigenous residents against the human mercenaries throughout the entire battle - after all, it is humans who understand humans best.
With Liu Sisi, the hacker aj702, Huozhi's intelligence information source, and Xu Yan's extremely powerful manipulation spells, the actions on Atlas's side are almost one-way and transparent. The places they choose to travel through are all known to the seal people in advance.
And they were fully prepared, so the first colonial army of Atlas suffered a devastating blow shortly after entering the metaverse.
A trance leader died in battle.
As soon as the news came out, the whole world was in an uproar.
Atlas soon issued a statement that it would review the combat plan and join the plan to launch ships from the sea to attack the Panzhou Islands. He also stated that this battle between civilization and barbarism will continue, and civilization will eventually defeat barbarism!
Because there was not much detailed explanation of "civilization" and "barbarism", this statement caused a lot of controversy and doubts after it was issued. Previously, Lu Hongsheng released a series of black materials about Atlas through the dark network.
The video also took advantage of this "Dongfeng" to become popular again.
Public opinion among the people at the bottom overwhelmingly calls Atlas a "barbaric" party.
It was so ugly that two days later, Atlas’ public relations department had to issue another press release to clarify:
In the previous statement, "civilized" refers to humans, and "savage" refers to seal people. Anyone who interprets the press release indiscriminately should be careful with the lawyer's letter...
