Sun and Moon Empire, Sun and Moon City.
As the only core of the entire empire, Sun Moon City is located in the center of the entire Sun Moon Continent, with a population of more than 10 million. Even if the cities in Douluo Continent are included, it is undoubtedly the largest city in the world.
The city is brightly lit and lined with high-rise buildings. It doesn't look like something that can be achieved in this world at all. This can be seen from the unique style of the buildings.
However, this bustling city seemed very deserted at this time. There were few pedestrians on the road. There were only fully armed guards wearing black armor covering their entire bodies. They were holding firearms whose principles even modern people could not understand. , patrolling the streets.
On the road they walked, there were a lot of corpses lying in various directions. However, the equipment on these people looked quite retro, and they were incompatible with the surrounding environment.
If you just look at the comparison of the weapons and equipment of both sides, it looks like some interstellar civilization has invaded some medieval fantasy magic planet. But judging from the developed buildings in Sun Moon City, this looks more like a group of supernatural beings. The invaders invaded this future city.
As night falls, large lights are lit up in the city, but more and more people are lurking in the shadows, ready to move.
Xu Mu'an walked on the street, looking at the distant patrol looking at her with scrutinizing eyes. She felt no wave in her heart. She held a rolled up map and walked forward like a zombie.
"Mu An, I am recruiting you back this time because there is really something important that you need to do."
"...Uncle, please tell me."
"You are far away from the imperial capital. I'm afraid you will be very surprised when you come back this time. Look at this prosperous city, complete material supplies, and comfortable life. Not only for you, but also for me, it is like heaven. The same existence.”
"...It is not good?"
"Yes, if this is not exchanged for the flesh and blood of us old nobles, then it is indeed very good, but now, that bitch has been pushed to the position by us, and now he is trying to kill us. The three thousand years of the Sun and Moon Empire Guo Zuo will probably be destroyed by her in one fell swoop."
"...what can I do?"
"You are that bitch's childhood friend. It just so happens that I have a map here that she needs to browse. I will submit an application for this. She will probably designate you to send it to her. I have prepared the equipment for you. Once you get close to her, just kill the congenitally disabled trash."
"..."
"What, you don't want to go? Have you forgotten your mother's last wish?"
"...I see."
"Of course, there are always accidents in everything. In order to prevent you from making a mistake, I will install a small device inside your body to ensure that nothing goes wrong."
"...good."
A week ago, she was a messenger in a fringe town. Although the soul masters in this new empire have lost their previous privileges, it is still easy to get a better life with the special abilities given by martial souls.
It has been many years since Xu Muan left Sun Moon City. Her mother was an unpopular concubine in the old empire. After the death of the late emperor, she was asked by the Queen Mother to be buried together. Later, civil strife broke out in the palace, and she is still the current one. The uncle killed the queen mother, and in addition to avenging her mother, he also rescued her from the prison.
Otherwise, I'm afraid... I will have the same ending as my sister.
After that, she lived a peaceful life away from Tiandou City for several years. But now, all of this has become a dream, and her life is finally inevitably coming to its own end.
Xu Mu'an sighed. This bustling city was so out of tune with her. She was just a poor person who couldn't even control her own destiny.
Refuse? Her mother's last wish was actually nothing more than asking her to take care of her brothers and sisters. The uncle had been doing these things all these years. Therefore, those words were just using the lives of these relatives to threaten her, Xu Mu'an It's clear to all, and indeed...powerless to resist.
Just as she was walking towards the palace, suddenly, a shout came from the dark alley beside the road.
"Brothers! Charge!"
More than a dozen soul masters with five or six soul rings on their bodies rushed out, but their target was just a black-armored guard who seemed to have left the patrol team alone.
Unlike other black-armored guards, this lone black-armored guard does not hold a standard spear in his hand, so he looks particularly easy to bully.
Even though the distance was only more than ten meters, the black-armored guard reacted extremely quickly. He suddenly pulled out the large-caliber pistol on his waist and fired a grenade. As a burst of lightning flashed, the soul rings on the soul masters instantly dissipated. The whole person seemed to be frozen in place.
The black-armored guard had no intention of leaving anyone alive. After controlling these people, he turned the gun in his hand, then walked up to those people and shot them all one by one.
The whole process couldn't even be called a battle, it should be called a massacre. More than a dozen soul kings and soul emperors who could be considered upper-middle class in the past were slaughtered to death by a mediocre black-armored guard.
Xu Muan was only more than ten meters away from this conflict... Although she was very talented and had seen too much darkness in her childhood, it was still a little uncomfortable to see this bloody scene so intuitively.
She herself is just a soul master, and a group of soul kings and soul emperors are like grass and grass. As for herself...the guards on the roadside are so powerful, and the ones in the palace are probably even more unimaginable to her.
The black-armored guard on the side organized his equipment, turned around and saw the little girl standing not far away, and walked forward:
"Little girl, are you okay?"
The voice had a strong mechanical sound through the thick black armor, but Xu Muan could still tell that the black-armored guard was a kind uncle.
"...I'm fine."
The black-armored guard lowered his body and looked at the girl who was clearly trembling slightly. He couldn't help but sigh: "You must be frightened. It's all because of these damn beasts. Look at how clean and tidy this street is, but now it's being These people have become polluted like this... Obviously these people's lives are much better than mine now, so why are they unwilling to be content and insist on making trouble?"
"But...Uncle, why do you have to kill them? Isn't this a bit too cruel? Wouldn't it be better to arrest them?" Xu Muan hesitated for a while, then asked.
"Cruel?" After hearing such words, although the voice of the black-armored guard had been processed, the words of the black-armored guard were obviously excited: "Ha, little girl, you are a soul master, right?"
Seeing that the Heijiawei was a little unstable, Xu Muan took two steps back, fearing that he would suddenly attack.
Seeing the little girl being so defensive, the black-armored guard also realized that he had lost his temper, so he pointed to the symbol on his shoulder that consisted of two daggers stacked together, and continued: "Let's put it this way, little girl, look , I am an old guard who follows His Majesty the Emperor, and I have killed as many as eight hundred soul masters like I just did."
"But do you know what I did before I decided to swear allegiance to His Majesty?"
"Please tell me." Xu Mu'an shook her head. She actually wanted to know what happened to this veteran who was ruthless and ruthless but also very passionate.
The town she lived in before was very remote, far away from disputes, and was one of the few peaceful places on the Sun and Moon Continent. If the emperor's uncle hadn't called her back, she might have died there in her lifetime.
The Old Guard didn't seem to care that the listener was just a child. He clicked on his breastplate, and then a small drawer popped out. He took out a cigarette from it, lit it with a twist of his fingers, and then He opened his visor and took a deep breath.
And Xu Muan also saw the appearance of the old Guardsman. It was a weather-beaten face, covered with countless scars, some with obvious marks, and some seemed to have become very dull with the passage of time. .
"I used to be a farmer. I'm surprised, aren't you? Look, the scars on my face look like they were left during the war, but unfortunately they weren't. I've been with the Queen for so many years and I've basically never been injured. "
"In my opinion, every battle is as easy and enjoyable as just now. Even the original scars have been erased a lot by advanced medical equipment, so that I can't even see my face clearly, but there are still so many left."
"This is all thanks to you soul masters. Ha, at the beginning, I was just unwilling to pay the extra two silver coins that the boy temporarily increased in taxes, so I was beaten to a point where my face was almost disfigured. If you see The scars on my body will probably prevent me from sleeping."
"But this is really normal in the Sun and Moon Empire. Everyone at the bottom of the peasantry like me has experienced such tragedies more or less. But if you think that the sins of these beasts are nothing more than this, then it is a big mistake. wrong."
Speaking of this, the old guard took a deep puff of his cigarette, and his eyes showed unconcealed murderous intent, but it was not directed at Xu Mu'an, but at the dead people beside the road.
Hearing these experiences of the Old Guards, Xu Muan couldn't help but think of his miserable childhood, and became even more curious about what would happen next.
"To be honest, God has been kind to me. Even though I was beaten like this, it still sent me a beautiful wife, and later I had a lovely daughter and a smart son."
"In this world, being able to have such a complete family, even if we are still exploited and starved of food, is probably much happier than most people. During that time, even our harvest was exploited every year. The tax collector actually liked it... at least I still have a complete family."
"But soon, I realized that I was overthinking it. When our family was working in the fields, a rich young man passed by on the field road and saw my wife at a glance. He immediately ordered his servants to kidnap our family. , and offered to buy my wife and daughter with ten gold soul coins."
"Ten gold soul coins are actually an astronomical number for us. In that era when human trafficking was commonplace, this could even be considered a generous amount for the young man. But my family is everything to me, so of course I don't want to."
"At that time, I had been a submissive citizen for too long, and I had also studied some laws to deal with those bullies who bullied us civilians and actually had little rights. So at this time, I even placed ridiculous hope on these laws. Being able to deal with those privileged people.”
"Sure enough, after I moved out the relevant regulations prohibiting human trafficking, the group laughed out loud, and then wrote a deed of sale in front of me... It said that I was unable to support my family and voluntarily gave up my wife and daughter for free. Transfer it to the rich young man."
"Then, they forced me to sign and put a deposit. I resisted desperately, but the rich young man brought with him all soul masters. Anyone could kill me easily. At that time, I wanted to die just like that. .”
"But the rich young man obviously didn't want to kill me. He seemed to take pleasure in my pain. He asked for two copper coins from a servant and threw them in front of me as a reward for showing mercy. Then he took my wife and daughter with him. Walk away."
Having said this, the Old Guard threw the cigarette butt on the ground, twisted it fiercely, and then said viciously: "I want revenge, but no one cares about me, a humble civilian. Later, the empire split and a war spread. By the time the civil war began across the entire continent, Her Majesty’s army swept across the entire world.”
"She saved us lowly civilians, helped me heal my injuries, and gave my son a bright future. Naturally, I joined the imperial army without hesitation and participated in the battle to siege the big city where our place belongs. .”
"There was no suspense in this battle. With the last hope in my heart, I was the first to rush into the city gate. At that time, our equipment was not so advanced. Although the weapons were powerful enough, it was still difficult to be hit by those soul masters. It is dangerous, but it is precisely because of this that I can become a member of His Majesty's Guards with my brave and fearless style."
"After learning about my deeds, my superior did not persuade me to put down my hatred. Instead, he assigned two hundred people to take charge of this matter. And I lived up to expectations and found the rich young man in the city lord's palace."
"Haha, speaking of it, I didn't know how to torture people at that time, so I took out all the things in the city lord's prison and gave him a round. Looking at his screams, I knew it. Why do these beasts like to see people in pain, but after the torture, I felt it was boring, so I shot him to death, tsk tsk, now that I think about it, I really regret it."
"What about your wife and daughter?"
After listening carefully to the story of this old guard, Xu Muan couldn't help but feel some hope.
What a wonderful story this is. Compared to my own miserable life, I can only imagine it in my dreams - being bullied for twenty years, and finally being able to take revenge, watching my enemy die in pain... If his wife and daughter can still survive, that would be the best thing.
"They are dead." The old guard lowered his eyes: "I can see that you can understand the pain I once felt, but, child, you are a soul master after all, and you are a human being, and we At that time, civilians were farm tools, slaves, and livestock, but not human beings."
"So, as a human being, would you pay attention to the demands and desires of an animal or a tool? To a 'human', it is just a decoration. If it dies, it will be thrown into a mass grave."
"Haha, but it doesn't matter. I don't regard those beasts as human beings. If these beasts are obedient pets and obey the grace of Her Majesty the Queen, that's it. If they don't obey, this will be their only fate."
Having said this, the old guard put on his face armor again and glanced at Xu Nianwei thoughtfully: "So, child, before you prepare to do anything, you'd better think about whether all this is worth it. "
The Old Guards patted Xu Muan's shoulder gently, and then stood up. Behind him, a patrol came over.
"Captain, Master Renault ordered us to clear out the residence of an old prince. There is clear information that they are plotting to blow up the Tower of Babel." A black-armored guard came over, gave a military salute, and handed over a panel.
The old guard briefly checked it, put it away, stretched his muscles, and then said to the people behind him:
"Okay, kids, it's time to go!"
