novelraw Chapter 974: Xiao San
Chapter 974: Xiao San
Where's Xiao San?
Everyone has evacuated through the Key Gate, but Xiao San is nowhere to be seen.
Qing Ji asked loudly, "Who is in control of the Key Gate responsible for Xiao San's evacuation? Destroy it immediately!"
Li Kerou quickly replied, "It's Gate 127!"
The Kunlun Members responsible for the Key Gate smashed the frame, but nothing came back, not even Xiao San's body!
Everyone was stunned.
Everyone evacuated safely, only Xiao San was left behind.
Fate Weaver is like a thief, they parasitize the river of fate, always inadvertently stealing the most inconspicuous things from travelers.
Often, travelers only discover the cause of their failure after drifting far away, realizing that it was decided long ago.
"Don't waste time, let's drain this Duke Phoenix dry!" Qing Family Old Master said solemnly, "Why does the Roosevelt Royal Family need the Ant Queen?" The Duke Phoenix mechanically replied, "Someone in God's perspective saw a plague of mantises everywhere, even a million-strong army would be helpless. The Roosevelt Royal Family has been preparing to seize this Ant Queen for a long time, since the Rat Tide appeared. They used the most expensive wolf-type Gene Medicine to cultivate a beastman army that can contend with the giant race, but the beastman army has lost its reason and combat wisdom, they need the Ant Queen to complete the transformation of this beastman army."
Improved Gene Medicine requires time and technological advancement, the Roosevelt Royal Family doesn't want to wait, so they plan to use the Forbidden Artifact to complete the control!
Old Master asked again, "Does the Roosevelt Royal Family still have something to restrain the Key Gate?"
Duke Phoenix shook his head: "I don't know."
Old Master asked again: "What is the Roosevelt Royal Family's battle plan?" Duke Phoenix shook his head: "I don't know."
Except for what has already happened, this Duke Phoenix didn't know anything.
Time's up, the soul floating in the air dissipated.
Qing Xun, with his hands behind his back, calmly said, "I have a feeling that this Duke Phoenix is also a pawn? The Roosevelt Royal Family wants to concentrate all power in their own hands, eliminating all hidden dangers before the expedition. Wait, something else is wrong."
"What's wrong?" Qing Ji asked.
Qing Xun pondered for a moment and said, "They should already know what Qing Chen is doing, could it be that letting Qing Chen become a god is less important than the Forbidden Artifact Ant Queen? Definitely not. So, I guess they want to use Xiao San's Mantis tide to find Qing Chen."
From the moment Qing Chen injected the medicine, the fate related to Qing Chen became invisible, even Qing Xun didn't know what Qing Chen would face.
"We'll return to West Continent to meet Qing Chen now," Li Shutong said calmly.
Qing Xun shook his head: "No need, Black Widow's intelligence network has not yet reported bad news, which is the best news. We can't find him, so West Continent shouldn't be able to find him either. If we go, it will backfire. This is his last mile, he has to walk it himself."
Qing Xun continued: "Moreover, each of us here must prepare for a fierce battle. Before Qing Chen returns, we still have a lot to do."
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In an underground parking garage in Royal Capital, Xiao San was gasping for breath, hiding in a corner.
According to the plan, the Guardians' Union should have already used the Key Gate to teleport him back to City 5, but the expected evacuation did not happen.
He was left behind.
A mantis tide spread throughout the city, Xiao San knew everything that happened in this city, he saw the garrison approaching him, including Fate Weavers in black robes.
With him as the center, in four directions, 3 kilometers away, Fate Weaver placed four 63-centimeter-tall gargoyle sculptures.
When the Mantis tide enters this area, it will mysteriously die.
There were also rioting slaves who accidentally entered here, and as long as they crossed a certain boundary, they would die strangely.
West Continent has several barrier-type Forbidden Artifacts. The spider web barrier only allows entry, not exit, while this gargoyle barrier only allows exit, not entry, blocking all the mantis tide outside.
The opponent's target is clear, as if the opponent knew where he was hiding from the beginning. Li Shutong evacuated.
Li Dongze evacuated.
Everyone evacuated, in this huge city, in the end, only Xiao San was left.
Xiao San knew very well that it was definitely not that someone forgot him, but this strange gargoyle barrier prevented him from passing through the Key Gate again.
The mantises in the sewers saw Black Widow carrying Qing Chen to the safe house, so Xiao San knew Qing Chen was safe for now.
That's good.
As he was thinking, Xiao Jin rubbed against his leg, meaning you still have me with you.
Xiao San scolded with a smile, "I'm not married yet, why are you rubbing against me, get out of here... I have to think about why I'm the only one left."
As a member of the Guardians' Union, he didn't know much about the core secrets. The organization has its own responsibilities. If the other party really wants the secrets of the Guardians' Union, they should go catch Little Seven and Luo Wanya.
His only unique feature is that he controls the Forbidden Artifact Ant Queen, and the terrifying Mantis tide.
Therefore, the other party is coming for what he has in his hands.
"No," Xiao San muttered to himself, "If they use West Continent's soul-seizing technology to plunder my memories, then they will know where Boss's safe house is, because I saw it through the mantises. I can't let them control you either, because you also know Boss's location..."
He seemed to have figured something out, the Mantis tide in the city no longer converged towards him, no longer impacting the gargoyle barrier, but began to attack even more unscrupulously, all facilities related to the nobles were within the range of the Mantis tide's attack.
Regardless of the consequences, regardless of the cost, even if the target has a terrifying Metal Storm, Xiao San directly used the mantis tide to fill it.
Xiao Jin felt a little distressed, but Xiao San didn't care.
He sat in the corner of the parking lot, controlling the mantis tide on one hand, and said with a smile, "I'm actually a very timid person, I'm also afraid of mice, spiders, dragonflies, terribly timid. When facing the Rat Tide in City 10, I thought I was going to die there, but I ended up surviving."
"During the Rat Tide, Leader asked us to act like villains, to drive away those residents," Xiao San said, "The little girl next door said I was a bad guy, she wouldn't even take candy from me. I was so sad at that time, thinking that the feeling of being misunderstood was really uncomfortable. But after the battle was over, Xiaoxia came back and gave me her candy, and I felt it was all worth it."
"We were all people without ideals, at that time my biggest wish was to get to the Diamond rank in League of Legends, as soon as I entered the Internet cafe, there would be a broadcast saying welcome to the Diamond God "in League of Legends's Ionia server', haha, it's so cool! Little Seven is also not very promising, when he first joined the Guardians' Union, he was busy doing missions to make money, and as soon as he had some money, he would buy a Porsche 911 to pick up girls."
But it was us, a bunch of good-for-nothings, who suddenly said we were going to change the world," Xiao San asked with a smile, "Don't you think life is strange?"
These Time Travelers are the most ordinary people in the Outer World, they have girls they have a crush on, they are afraid of death, and they are a little clever.
Their lives seem to have nothing to do with great causes.
At this time, the lights in the parking lot began to flicker.
Xiao San heard footsteps coming, many footsteps, fast and urgent.
The Forbidden Artifact Ant Queen couldn't be hidden, but he couldn't let people find Qing Chen through his memories.
Xiao San glanced at Xiao Jin, reached out to touch its head.
Xiao Jin looked at Xiao San innocently, it seemed to guess Xiao San's thoughts, but did not blame him.
Xiao San suddenly choked up, "I'm sorry!"
Then, he took out a pistol from his waist, hugged Xiao Jin's head, and pointed the gun at Xiao Jin's head, pulling the trigger.
With a bang, Xiao Jin died without struggling.
"Those who are alive, take a look at the new world for me," Xiao San took a deep breath, pointed the gun at his chin, pulled the trigger again, and fell down in this dim parking lot.
It's all over.
A minute later, four Fate Weavers and hundreds of garrison soldiers arrived in front of Xiao San. One of the Fate Weavers said coldly, "It's too late, after his death, we can only get the Forbidden Artifact, but we cannot know Joker's whereabouts. The fate related to Joker is constantly blurring, I have a bad feeling."
If Fate Weavers can't see fate, they will lose their greatest advantage.
"Go back and report to His Majesty the King, the last piece of the puzzle for the empire's expedition has been obtained," a Fate Weaver said.
Someone found the Forbidden Artifact Ant Queen from Xiao San's body, and the white fat insect under Xiao Jin's wings also retracted its tentacles and curled up.
The crowd left the parking lot, leaving Xiao San silently leaning against the wall. There were no bold words, no deathbed outburst, just like everyone in this era, ordinary yet stubborn.
After Xiao Jin's death, the mantis tide lost control and retreated underground. They didn't like attacking humans, they were only interested in oil and sugar mixtures.
However, a city hiding hundreds of thousands of Mantis tides is terrifying to think about.
A hour later, hundreds of Airships took off from Royal Capital Airport, the entire fleet completely abandoned this continent and went to the East Continent Federation, City 5.
Although Black Widow disappeared, her intelligence network was still continuously transmitting information.
When Qing Family Old Master learned that the mantis tide in Royal Capital had dissipated, he sighed, "Everyone, the final war is coming."
At this time, Li Kerou held up an LCD screen and said, "West Continent reorganized the remnants of Shendai and Koshima, and asked them to go south along the edge of the nuclear explosion in City 18, and now they have entered the southwest mountains, seemingly to hunt down the members of the Guardians' Union."
After the Roosevelt Kingdom's land army arrived, there were already 12 cities under their control.
They re-recruited the retired soldiers in the city, forming a death squad of more than 200,000 people, with a small half used for city management, responsible for tattooing the faces of civilians. After these soldiers were recruited, instead of helping the Federation civilians, they began to wreak havoc, and were called "puppet troops' by the people.
The remaining half modified civilian Airships, equipped with crude firepower systems, went to the southwest mountains to hunt down the hundreds of thousands of fleeing Guardians' Union members.
Li Kerou looked at Old Master: "Should we support the Guardians' Union members? Qing Kun's air force is only 600 kilometers away, and can arrive within three hours."
Old Master shook his head: "This is their destiny, this journey must be completed by themselves. Give Qing Kun an order, he must evacuate Sword Gate Pass within 24 hours, it can't be defended."
Li Kerou hesitated for a moment and said: "Ling said she wants to take over the military command, you no longer have the right to command the army, Qing Kun cannot abandon Sword Gate Pass, as long as people are still there, Sword Gate Pass cannot be lost. If you have any objections, you can dismiss her first."
Old Master pondered for a moment: "Tell her, from now on, she is the highest military commander of the Qing Family."