"With his status, he is just sitting here in a balloon, and he is not afraid of being accidentally smashed into pieces..." Meng Hongchen whispered.
"No, it really isn't. They will definitely be protected by the strong ones, so we don't have to worry about it."
Judging from the performance of Xu Tianran, who fought all the way to the title Douluo a few years later, and whose own martial spirit is a top martial spirit like Zihuang Tianslayer Dragon, he is probably already a Contra now, no matter how bad he is, he is still a high-level one. Soul Saint.
The idea of being thrown to death after a balloon burst is still ridiculous no matter how you look at it.
And under the eyes of everyone who were looking forward to it, especially from the soldiers who wanted Xu Tianran to come down quickly and let them go back to rest after the torment, the huge observation balloon with the emblem of the Sun and Moon Royal Family finally appeared not far from the audience. Land slowly on the landing field.
The officer who had just fired off a firework pressed a button, and two gaps appeared on both sides of the half-body wall that originally protected the crew area. Under the traction of the hydraulic rod, it was slowly placed on the ground, forming a slope. Very small flat passage.
Hmm...looks like a handicap accessible pass that the bus puts down when it stops.
Xu Tianran changed to a wheelchair with higher technology today. He gently touched the sensor on the left armrest, and the wheelchair automatically turned and drove, allowing him to operate the wheelchair alone and appear in front of the audience.
As a prince with many eyeing competitors, Xu Tianran might not care about someone pushing his wheelchair around in normal times, but today, in front of countless important people, he still wanted to show off as much as possible. Show your strong side to appease people.
In front of everyone, letting the people behind push you around seems too cowardly, and it makes people unavoidably worried...
He also had to try his best to appease people's hearts and let everyone see that he, the prince, was in good health and had a long life in the future. He was worthy of being entrusted with the future.
The officers who came in the balloon with Xu Tianran and other entourage followed him at a certain distance, so as not to steal Xu Tianran's limelight, but also to ensure that they could be killed in time when someone attempted to assassinate someone with a weapon such as a "Tianran cut". react to.
There are an unknown number of various light and dark sentries arranged throughout the training ground, and there are several titled Douluo present. Even so, it is impossible to guarantee that everything will be foolproof; if the hostile forces get a level 9 fixed soul-guided artillery shell and detonate it here, the sun and the moon will be destroyed. The empire's soul guidance device research team will be stagnant for at least fifty years.
Fortunately, as Xu Tianran smiled and maneuvered his wheelchair to pass in front of the audience one by one, waving constantly, and occasionally chatting with carefully selected audience members representing all walks of life, there was no trouble.
When passing by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy where Huo Yuhao and the others were, Xu Tianran raised his arms high and said loudly and emotionally: "Thank you for your hard work! On behalf of the soldiers and civilians of the empire, thank you all!"
The audience responded neatly according to the content of the previous rehearsal: "Hello, Prince!"
After singing and performing, Xu Tianran also had a cordial chat with Ma Rulong, who was selected as the representative, and the four students whose ancestors came from Douluo Three Kingdoms and Shrek who played as reserve players in the last competition, and used complimentary words that were free of charge. He praised me very much.
The Shrek exchange students in the audience had different expressions when they saw this. The group of unscrupulous teachers at the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy actually wanted to arrange for them to go up and have a meeting with Xu Tianran to express their gratitude to His Highness the Crown Prince for his concern. Fortunately, Teacher Fanyu pushed him back.
If anyone dares to go up there, they probably won’t have to go back to the academy in their lifetime, and they will be waiting to contribute to the construction of the Sun and Moon Empire all their lives like the four young students now.
As Xu Tianran, who looked very good today, passed by the auditoriums, Huo Yuhao also used mental detection to constantly observe the conditions of the audience present today.
East, west, south, north, center, party, government, military, civilians, and science; the Sun and Moon Empire does not have the first one, but at least there are a bunch of representatives of the other four groups present.
Military and police officers representing the country's armed forces were also deployed everywhere to maintain stability.
As for the people who attended on behalf of Douluo Three Kingdoms and Shrek... their expressions were basically not very good-looking. At most, they showed a perfunctory smile when Xu Tianran passed by.
However, when Huo Yuhao's mental detection scanned a group of special people, he couldn't help but stop temporarily.
The clothes of that group of people indicate that their status and wealth are quite extraordinary - of course, there are no ordinary people who can appear here today, and even if they are dressed plainly, they are basically just pretending.
But the paradox is that these people all wear various masks on their faces to hide their identities - according to the mask law of Douluo Continent, as long as they wear a mask, other people will ignore their hair color, body shape and other characteristics, unless the plot requires it. Absolutely no way of identifying him.
Such a secretive and secretive approach naturally attracted a lot of attention on this occasion. The best explanation is that even if it attracts some unnecessary attention, it is always better than having someone directly discover your identity.
Huo Yuhao, who knew the inside story, immediately thought of the "public opinion representatives" in the Western Territory of the Tianhun Empire - even though they seemed a little reluctant, they still had to applaud, especially when Xu Tianran passed by and almost stopped. The palms looked red, which was really embarrassing for them.
"I don't know how many princes, generals and ministers there are here. They are so full that they want to be independent? Go ahead and lie to the devil."
While Huo Yuhao stared at the group of people from Western Xinjiang who had been pulled over, he also decided to ask Ye Guyi if her evil spirit master detection radar had responded after the show ended today.
After all, as the royal black gloves and toilets of Xu Tianran and even the Sun and Moon royal family, the Holy Spirit Sect is simply like the Emperor Xiaokawa. If any vicious incident occurs, it is inevitable that people will blame them immediately.
After having a cordial conversation with the audience, Xu Tianran's next step was to review the army on behalf of the emperor. Although the soul mentors seemed to be well-equipped, and in fact their combat effectiveness was significantly different from that of the ordinary army, their momentum was far from the same. Compared to a standing army with accumulated numbers.
Xu Tianran, who was in the wheelchair, had a bit of a proud expression on his face, and at this time he had indeed reached a new high point of power in his life - although the elite warrior in front of him under various banners was not yet loyal. For himself, Xu Tianran has begun to regard the army as something he must work hard to win over.
This is also inevitable. If you want to secure the throne without the support of the army, just dream.
It's just that although the banners raised by the troops were quite inspiring in the eyes of the Sun Moon Empire's audience, judging from the meaning in the eyes of the attendees of Douluo Three Kingdoms and Shrek Academy, it seemed that they did not care about it. Why do you care? It even seems to be contemptuous.
A group of defeated generals, the more flags they raise, the more guilty they appear. If the combat effectiveness of these troops is really as good as they boast, how did they lose the last war?
"It seems that some people are not very convinced. I don't know what they should be proud of because they haven't taken any advantage over the years."
Meng Hongchen sensed various meanings in the eyes of foreigners through Huo Yuhao's mental detection sharing, and couldn't help but feel a little sour.
While Huo Yuhao was paying attention to the performance of Xu Tianran, who was wielding Shang Fang's sword to increase his presence, he explained nonchalantly:
"The experience of victory in the last war may not be a valuable legacy. Sometimes it becomes more of a drag."
"On the contrary, former losers are more motivated to sum up the experience of failure and find innovative ways to break the situation. This change is combined with the dilemma of winners who continue to cling to past experience and try to continue to strengthen their original advantages..."
"One possible result is that the victors of the previous war will fall into an avalanche in the new war because they cannot adapt to the new form of combat."
The Maginot Line of Defense was a product of this, and the Mingdou Mountains Defense Line that the Star Luo Empire painstakingly managed... was not much better.
Especially in the original work, the five hundred soul saints and above senior soul masters from the Star Luo Empire who were shocked for a long time were gathered to attack the Mingdou Mountains, but were harvested by Ye Xishui who was waiting for help.
In the back row of the audience, among the Shrek Academy exchange students mixed with other Sun and Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, Ning Tian was holding a pair of binoculars and observing the equipment of the Sun and Moon Empire army.
No matter how elite the armor and weapons of those ordinary soldiers were, Ning Tian didn't care. Ten thousand years ago when they were resisting the Spirit Hall, the Tiandou Empire could easily mobilize millions of troops. No matter how elite the cold weapons were, they would eventually become obsolete.
She only cares about what new gadgets those soul mentor groups have introduced.
Ning Tian couldn't help but frown when he saw the soul cannons on the ground and various types of individual equipment that were relatively small in size.
There were many things that she had seen for the first time, and the usual teaching content in the college did not include these things at all.
As far as she knew, Mingdetang was unwilling to export some of the things that the sect really wanted to obtain, relying on the fact that there were no other suppliers outside, and put forward unbelievable conditions.
The Jiubao Glazed Sect has always been suspicious of the new equipment that Mingdetang keeps boasting and promoting that is not even available in the Douluo Three Kingdoms auction houses. This time, it is also her mission to take the opportunity to inspect the equipment of the Soul Engineer Group of the Sun and Moon Empire. one.
After all, as long as Mingdetang did not carry out false propaganda, the Jiubao Glazed Sect spent a high price to obtain it and found that the effects described in the words were not suitable for them, and they could only suffer the loss.
Seeing the disabled prince inspecting the army like a dog, Ning Tian couldn't help but shook his head.
She really didn't like this lame man very much. She had met countless people in Jiubao Glazed Sect before, and her first impression of this lame man was not very good.
It didn't matter that there were too many feminine elements in his face. His eyes, which were well disguised but couldn't get rid of the gloomy and cruel undertones, made Ning Tian feel that he couldn't be a good person.
This is true, Xu Tianran is still in a normal struggle to win the position if he is ruthless against possible competitors, but the long-term physical disability actually makes him inevitably suffer from some... psychological abnormalities.
For example, Xu Tianran’s reaction when he saw Wang Dong in the original work and learned from Juzi that he was his daughter’s death:
""woman? She would be very beautiful if she put on women's clothes. "Xu Tianran murmured. But as he spoke, his eyes suddenly became violent."
There is also the incompetent rage of "if, if I had not lost the ability to be a man, then how many such beauties would I have".
So much so that Huo Yuhao has even read a fantasy fanfic written by Xu Tianran, who unified the continent and became a great emperor. He used soul guidance technology to cure dysfunction and then brought the world's beauties into the harem to hold wine pools, meat forests, and feasts on the sea and sky.
But Ning Tian was destined to be disappointed on this first day, because after Xu Tianran reviewed the army and gave a long and stinky speech, the soul master group only fired a few symbolic salutes, and the rest of the day It was all left to the ordinary reserve troops to perform various complex formations and pig charge performances.
Well, at least the formation changes of the Sun-Moon Empire's standing army seem to be quite flexible. There is no need to rely on the eunuchs of the supervisory army to convey the formation diagram issued by the emperor on the battlefield for the generals below to strictly implement it.
They looked majestic, but Ning Tian knew that the only value of these troops in the field was to consume a few more shells from the Soul Engineer Regiment through loose formations and the accumulation of numbers.
The reaction of the military attache from the Star Luo Empire who was invited to watch the ceremony was not much different from Ning Tian. His main job was also to record the equipment status and actual tactical performance of the soul mentor group. This is the project that His Majesty the Emperor is focusing on right now. Well, maybe when I return to China, I can improve my position.
But when he saw the individual equipment of the soul masters who were wearing only light military uniforms, the protection methods were quite casual compared to the armors worn by ordinary soldiers, he couldn't help but feel a headache.
It is impossible for the Sun and Moon Empire to openly announce how many rounds of cannonballs and milk bottles each soul mentor group is equipped with. The Star Luo Empire can only rely on guesswork in imitating the establishment of the soul mentor group. Those who can directly imitate are those who show off It's just equipment on the surface.
But the launcher of the custom-made soul-guided cannonball is worthless at all! On the contrary, those weird personal equipment of soul masters but obviously made of various rare metals are even more elusive. They can't even be learned without knowing their uses. No one in the country knows how to make them.
Moreover, the Sun and Moon Empire is so willing to invest in the small parts of individual soldiers' equipment. Logistics supplies will probably cost more. Star Luo Military Attaché's intuition told him that His Majesty the Emperor wants to fully imitate the Soul Engineer Group of the Sun and Moon Empire in response. Maybe there is something wrong.
Although he didn't know the saying "Whoever learns from me will live, and whoever imitates me will die", financial resources and the number of soul guides were the Sun Moon Empire's strongest advantages. He would compete with the opponent in exactly the same way as the opponent in the opponent's biggest advantage area. It would be really weird if he could defeat the opponent.
The military attaché could see that the Sun-Moon Empire's idea of building the soul master corps was obviously based on offense, but if the Star Luo Empire didn't directly imitate it, would it build a defensive soul master corps? How could there be so many defensive soul-guiding devices, let alone a soul-guiding ray gun that can fire infinitely as long as it takes a short rest and recharges its energy. It is impossible to rely solely on repeated protection by shields...
When the first day's schedule was over and the guests in the auditorium dispersed and went to the surrounding residences to rest, they found an opportunity to get from Ye Guyi, "The evil soul master's detection radar is responding, but there are too many people to locate it specifically. I'm scared to death." Huo Yuhao replied, turning around and looking directly at Jing Hongchen.
"Yuhao, are you here?"
Jing Hongchen, who had been assigned a nice small building in the military guest house and brought his family to stay temporarily, seemed to be in a good mood, and was in the mood to make tea in front of the birdcage by the window.
"Master, I have something I need to answer from you."
Huo Yuhao stood opposite Jing Hongchen, his hands behind his back and his expression serious.
Jing Hongchen raised his head and looked at Huo Yuhao, who had a tense expression, and waved his hand with a smile: "Don't be so serious. You can't discover the Haotian Sect again, right? Sit down and drink tea first."
Although Huo Yuhao sat on the sofa and accepted the tea cup from Jing Hongchen, his expression showed no signs of relaxing at all.
"Hall Master, I..."
"You're just in time. This is the second stage of Mingdetang's collection and the list of soul beasts that can be used later. How about you come and see the experiments used to make souls for you?"
Huo Yuhao temporarily swallowed what he was about to say and took the handwritten list handed over by Jing Hongchen.
There are some common hundred-thousand-year-old spirit beasts that make sense, but the problem is that some of the things above are just too unbelievable...
The Devouring Dragon has a ferocious personality and is known as the Mini Tyrannosaurus Rex. It has the talent of devouring the world and has five thousand years of cultivation.
Evil eye, four hundred years of cultivation.
Evil eye, two thousand years, six thousand years of cultivation.
The evil-eyed tyrant has eighteen thousand years of cultivation.
Huo Yuhao:......
No matter how you think about these things, it’s already a big problem!
"Hall Master, at the thousand-year level, the soul beast itself must be willing to achieve an acceptable success rate. Please confirm this..."
Jing Hongchen had a confident expression on his face and said with a smile, "Just be rest assured and I guarantee there will be no problem."
"...Are they all about to die?"
"Not really, but if they don't volunteer, they're really going to die."
Huo Yuhao looked at the list again with mixed emotions, and asked with some uncertainty: "Xieyan, this is... Hall Master, have you communicated with that existence?"
Jing Hongchen put down his tea cup and said slowly: "Don't think blindly, Evil Eye... This is a special soul beast of our Sun and Moon Continent. After the collision of the continents thousands of years ago, the evil eye tyrant master you know once relied on In order to challenge the Emperor Tian in the Star Forest to become famous, this species has also been integrated into all aspects of the Sun and Moon Empire, including the Evil Lord Soul Mentor Group that you are more familiar with."
"But when exactly this kind of soul beast came into being in the Sun and Moon Continent, it's too old. There are many theories, some of which are quite bold."
"Yu Hao, I have to remind you that although the evil eye tyrant master does not regard all evil eyes as forbidden animals and prohibits other humans and soul beasts from hunting them, his character is very protective of his shortcomings, and he keeps spreading his ideas. His direct descendants are numerous.”
"If you need the evil eye as a soul ring in the future... this kind of soul beast is indeed compatible with you. It's best to prepare us in advance and don't hunt it by yourself, otherwise you may not know what the result will be."
Huo Yuhao nodded lightly. After all, there was a lesson learned from the past that Huo Gua almost had his body taken away from him.
"Hall Master, you can explain to me in detail about that master's attitude and communication later. Now I have more urgent things to know."
After saying that, Huo Yuhao looked at Jing Hongchen seriously.
"Lord, what's going on with those bullshit public opinion representatives who came from the Tianhun Empire? These local nobles who have already made so much money are so full that so many people want to go further? Forgive me. Do not believe."
"Among the people I know well, you are the most well-informed, the highest level and the most trustworthy. Please forgive me for asking so directly. After all, it will not take long for them to take action after listening to their ideas, and then it will be completely out of control... What is it? Isn't it the work of those shady people? This is tens of millions of lives, and the stakes are too high. I can't help but wonder, will we be dragged into the water? "
Jing Hongchen lowered his head and remained silent for a moment in front of Huo Yuhao's sharp and menacing gaze.
Luring evil soul masters to make up for the lack of top-end combat power is a potential national policy inherited by many generations of the Sun and Moon Empire. Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen are not only aware of their existence, but there are indeed various cooperations.
Although Jing Hongchen didn't take the initiative to explain the situation of those people to Huo Yuhao... but with the current situation of the underground world in Mingdu, it was not surprising that Huo Yuhao knew something based on his thirst for knowledge and personality.
After thinking for a while, Jing Hongchen first asked: "Yuhao, do you think that if it is indeed as reported by the prince before, they want to instigate resistance in Western Xinjiang, with Mingdetang's role, there is no way they will be dragged into the trap. is it possible?"
Huo Yuhao kept answering: "There is a difference between flooding the soles of the feet and covering the chest. It is completely different between purely serving the national interests and satisfying some people's unspeakable desires!"
"Hall Master, since I have enjoyed the devotion and training of so many resources, naturally I cannot be content with simple cultivation like others. Some things that minors should not watch or listen to do not apply to me!"
"Anyway, at least you should be aware of this kind of military and national event and be prepared, right? Mingdetang, even the entire college, countless institutions, tens of thousands of people's jobs and even personal safety are all counting on you to be at the helm. If you are negligent for a moment, Make one wrong move, and countless people will suffer for it. You don’t want to be scolded, why does my grandpa have to beg for food whenever your grandpa makes a mistake?"
Jing Hongchen took a deep breath. This kid really grew up too fast and had many thoughts. When he saw Xu Tianran doing things, he started to worry about whether Mingdetang would ascend to heaven on the spot.
At this time, Jing Hongchen would acquiesce if he didn't answer directly.
"Master, what do they want by doing this?"
"There are so many possibilities. A war-torn place with no human life to support their development, or someone to go to an empty place to plunder wealth for them to make a new home... What do you think? Don't say it's me, Prince Does His Highness himself know this? Does he just go along with it because he thinks it suits his own wishes?"
Jing Hongchen chuckled softly: "How can he have the ability to control everything... At most, they are just cooperation, not the relationship between a dog and its owner. It's a good thing that he won't be bitten by the snake he raised."
"Hall Master, I hope to know more detailed information about them... The evil-eyed tyrant master cannot be offended, so will they be at ease?"
"At least the former are still in the Demonic Forest, and they are right under Mingdu's nose!"
Jing Hongchen's expression changed slightly: "It's such a mess, where did you hear all this? What rumors did you hear?"
(End of chapter)
