On the way back to Xinri City from Xixi River, Zhanke slowly woke up. As soon as he woke up, he came to me furiously and asked me why I knocked him out!
I said, "If I don't knock you out, you will be killed by Jiujue!"
Zhan Ke said angrily: "I would rather die!"
Zhan Ke still doesn't believe that he was betrayed by the leader of Tianwu Kingdom, but the leader of Tianwu Kingdom did not appear on the final battlefield. I always feel that he is also making his own plans in his heart. He seems to have some other conspiracy to sell Zhan Ke.
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And that conspiracy is very likely to make Zhan Ke and I break away from the Utopia together.
If these are all the calculations of Tian Wu, then what is his purpose?
I can't figure it out, but these are just my guesses without any evidence.
I looked at Zhan Ke and said, "You would rather die. Have you ever asked me, a brother, if you want to annex my city of Innocence? If you die, what will you annex?"
Zhan Ke sneered and said: "I want to annex your Wuwangsin City to expand the strength of the Lord of Tianwu Kingdom. Now that I have become an outcast, what else should I annex? I can't wait to devour myself!"
I sighed and said, "The matter is now over. It's useless for you to be angry anymore. Yuan Zihong has already told you, right?"
Zhanke asked: "What did you say?"
Yuan Zihong came over and said to me: "I haven't said anything yet. I just told him that he won the battle. I haven't said anything about merging into the human race yet?"
Zhan Ke was stunned for a while and said: "What does it mean to merge into the human race?"
I told Zhan Ke everything that had happened before, and then asked Zhou Yin to unlock Zhan Ke's seal.
I said to Zhan Ke: "Of course, if you don't want to, Xincheng can still return to the Utopia on that day. I, Chen Yu, will never force you to do anything, but my Innocence City will never return to the Utopia."
Well, that Utopia is not the place I want to stay."
Zhan Ke was silent for a while and said: "The victory of this battle depends entirely on you, Chen Yu. You are the savior of our Rixin City. Without you, I am afraid that the tens of thousands of soldiers I brought to the Xixi River would have died."
There’s no going back.”
"Since the Lord of the Kingdom of Tianwu regards me as an abandoned son, let me die with him. If it were me before, I would have died. But now I still have so many subordinates and soldiers, I can't
If they die, I must be responsible for their lives."
Zhan Ke is not a deadbeat, which makes me feel relieved.
Soon Zhanke said again: "I agree with your plan to merge with the human race!"
After that, Zhan Ke turned around and flew back to his team.
Watching Zhan Ke leave, Yuan Zihong said to me: "Thank you, City Lord Chen!"
When Zhanke turned around, I saw sparkling tears in his eyes. He said he thought he was dead with the Lord of Tianwu Kingdom, but he still couldn't let go and couldn't help but feel sad.
He just said those words to his soldiers, because those people need a strong backer, and I can give them that backer!
So Zhanke announced once again that he agreed to my plan to merge with the human race, which also gave his soldiers a reassurance.
On the way back to Rixin City, I found Bei Liu, the monk from Nandong Hall who was the first to come to support, and I asked him how many people from Nandong Hall were in the Utopia.
Then Beili said: "There are hundreds of people. Only about one-tenth of them have arrived now. There are still some who should be on the way. They will definitely gather at the hall master's side within two days."
I asked again: "How long has the Emperor been planning to seize the Utopia?"
Beili smiled and said: "I don't know about this. If the hall master is interested in this matter, he can directly ask His Majesty the Human Emperor. We are only responsible for handling affairs. We will not ask more questions about many things."
I nodded and didn't ask any more questions. I knew that if I asked any more questions, I would be embarrassed.
When we returned to Xinri City, many people in the city came out to welcome us, singing and shouting long live for our triumphant return.
Moreover, the people in the city also know about our plan to merge into the human race. Most ordinary people welcome this plan, because the human race has clear laws and regulations, and there are far fewer random killings and plunders. It is a paradise for many ordinary people to live.
Some powerful people who were unwilling to merge with the human race chose to flee Rixin City, and some simply organized protest groups in the city.
As soon as we returned to Rixin City, the opposition groups in the city started conflicts with ordinary people, and some people died in the conflicts.
After learning about this, Zhan Ke only gave one death order: Anyone who opposed the plan to merge into the human race would be killed regardless of their status.
With this order, several of Zhanke's regiment commanders led their soldiers throughout the city to hunt down those who opposed the forces.
The people of Rixin City even voluntarily joined the team that provided intelligence. The opposition forces had nowhere to hide for a while. It only took about three days for the opposition forces in the city to be basically eliminated!
As for our Wuwangsui City, I also passed on the news to people. The people in Wuwangsui City are all centered on me, and there is basically no objection. Everyone said that they will side with whichever side I choose to stand.
, I will always be their city lord.
The people in Wuwangsin City believe in me so much, only because of my prestige in the city.
I have acted as the savior of Innocence City several times.
So they will stand on the side of the savior without hesitation.
On the fourth day, news came from the city of Wuwangsui via telegraph that thirty human legions had entered the territory of Wuwangsui City. Moreover, those legions were of extremely high quality and did not harass anyone along the way.
Innocent residents!
According to the marching speed of those legions, they will reach our Wuwangsin City in ten days and Rixin City in twenty days.
The total of those thirty legions is probably 4 to 50,000 people. With so many legions coming to help us guard Rixin City and Wuwang Sin, I finally feel relieved. It seems that the Human Emperor has not deceived me.
He is much more reliable than the heads of state in the Utopia.
I told Zhanke the news, but he was not excited at all. Instead, he said indifferently: "We are saved."
It seems that Zhan Ke still hasn't recovered from the pain of being betrayed by the leader of Tianwu Kingdom.
Just when I was about to say something more to Zhanke, a loud and clear sound of chirping suddenly came from the sky.
When we walked out of the city lord's courtyard together, we saw a giant eagle flying in the sky. It was the messenger of Marquis Xia Wen.
And that monk had been stopped by several monks from the Lord's Mansion of Zhanke City, giving him no chance to fall.
When I saw this, I said: "Let him fall."
After hearing what I said, the monks stopped blocking me.
After the giant eagle fell, I discovered what kind of messenger was on the back of the giant eagle. It was clearly Xia Wenhou himself.
His aura was so strange that I didn't notice it for a while.
After seeing that it was Marquis Xia Wen, I frowned and said in surprise: "Master Xia, I didn't expect you to dare to come in person!"
Xia Wenhou smiled at me and Zhan Ke and said, "Why don't you dare? Anyway, you and Zhan Ke won't do anything to me, so I didn't even bring my bodyguard with me this time."
I really won't take anything against Xia Wenhou, because this person's strength is still a mystery. My intuition tells me that if we take Xia Wenhou's idea, we will only be the unlucky ones.
Although Qiu Yan, the Immortal Emperor, temporarily lives in Zhan Ke's city lord's mansion, I am not sure who is more powerful between Qiu Yan and Xia Wenhou.
When Xia Wenhou appeared, Qiu Yan also walked over slowly. He bowed his hands to Xia Wenhou, and Xia Wenhou returned the bow.
After returning the gift, Xia Wenhou continued: "I'm just wondering why Lord Chen is so stubborn and dares to announce his departure from the Utopia in front of the prisoners. It turns out that he has the support of a powerful Immortal Emperor!"
I looked at Xia Wenhou and asked, "What are you doing here? Are you trying to persuade me to return to the Utopia?"
At this time, my companions and the main generals under Zhanke all appeared in the courtyard of the city lord's palace.
Xia Wenhou smiled at me and said: "I am also one of the four principals of the Utopia. Even if I am an envoy, with my status, I can enter the main hall and have a sip of tea, right?"
I looked at Zhanke, and Zhanke said, "Come with me!"
With Zhan Ke taking the lead, all of us entered a hall, and Zhan Ke's men quickly brought over a pot of good spiritual tea.
Only four cups of this tea were poured and placed in front of Qiu Yan, Zhan Ke, me, and Xia Wenhou.
The four of us each took a sip of tea, and Xia Wenhou said: "The purpose of my coming here is naturally not to let you return to the Utopia. Your rebellion and defection from the Utopia has become a foregone conclusion, and we, the four principals, are unable to change it.
Unless we are determined to fight the human race, this is not the time for us to fight the human race."
"Furthermore, the Human Emperor's actions are very fast. His thirty legions, totaling nearly half a million, have already marched to Wuwangsin. They will arrive at Rixin City in the near future. Moreover, among those thirty legions, there are many elite legions of the human race. We
Even if the Utopia has the strength to fight a war, it will not be far from being destroyed after a war."
"So we, the four leaders, have decided to negotiate peace with the human race. The area south of the Xixi River under the jurisdiction of Rixin City will belong to the human race, and the north of the Xixi River will belong to our Utopia. All areas of Wuwangsui City will belong to the human race. This is equivalent to the decision made by our Utopia.
Concession acquiesces that it is legal for you to leave the Utopia! We will not hold you accountable for your crimes because you are already citizens of the human race!"
Hearing Xia Wenhou say this, I couldn't help but wonder: "Are you here to make peace?"
Xia Wenhou said: "Yes, I am here to make peace, and I am also here to cede territory and negotiate peace."
I asked Xia Wenhou why.
Xia Wenhou said: "In order to ensure the safety of the Utopia, both Rixin City and Wuwangsuin City are the two weakest cities in the Utopia. They are dispensable to us, so we have to abandon these two cities.
The city ensures the security of the entire Utopia, and we have nothing to be reluctant to part with."
At this time, Zhou Yin said to me from the side: "Master, our human army has arrived in the Utopia. You should use the jade pendant of the Hall Master to consult His Majesty the Human Emperor before making a decision."
Indeed, I don’t know yet whether the Human Emperor wants to make peace. (To be continued)