Chapter 1648
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Chapter 1648 Evening Breeze, Please Kill
Chang’an City.
“Leave these guys to me, you go deal with the other imposters.”
Chloe’s gaze swept across the devastated ruins. Countless soldiers continued to frantically pour into various streets, the flames illuminating the pitch-black night sky as bright as day.
“These thirty thousand men are scattered throughout Chang’an’s streets. Can you handle it alone?” Lin Qiye frowned and asked.
Chloe glanced at him, her fiery red hair gently swaying in the wind, and smiled lightly:
“Just thirty thousand people… don’t underestimate the messenger of the Holy Lord.”
Seeing this, Lin Qiye said no more and darted rapidly toward the imperial palace.
Chloe leaped lightly, floating down onto a broken eave among the ruins. Her gaze swept across the surroundings, where tens of thousands of imposter soldiers were rolling through Chang’an like a tidal wave. Chaotic screams and howls rose from all directions.
Chloe took a deep breath, a glimmer flashing in her eyes as her fingertips slowly rose under the night sky:
“Evening breeze, please kill.”
As her words fell, the air at her fingertips suddenly distorted. A wind blade, no more than a millimeter thick, shot through the night sky with a piercing screech!
This wind blade swept across the street, instantly splitting into two, then four, then eight… They divided at an astonishing speed under the night sky, thin and transparent. Even after splitting into thousands upon thousands, they remained completely invisible to the naked eye!
These wind blades seemed to have eyes, scattering in all directions in mid-air. The piercing screech immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the city.
“What is that?”
A soldier holding a torch suddenly looked up at the sky, but saw nothing except the vast darkness of night.
“There are some little monsters running that way! Stop them!” Hundreds of meters away, another soldier struck down a man desperately resisting, then suddenly shouted.
While the man held back the soldier, several children terrified rushed out of the burning house, crying and fleeing toward the other side of the street.
The soldier with the torch narrowed his eyes. He casually threw the torch into the house beside him, drew his sword, and stared at the sobbing children fleeing toward him, charging forward quickly!
Whoosh——!!
A shrill sound exploded from behind him, instantly moving from his back to his front, gradually fading away… The soldier stopped in confusion, about to turn his head to look back, but his vision uncontrollably shifted downward, until he finally fell to the ground with a thud.
As his consciousness gradually halted, one eye blocked by the ground, the other saw a headless body holding a sword, standing motionless.
Is that… me?
The moment this thought appeared in his mind, his pupils completely dilated. The headless corpse stood frozen for a moment before stiffly collapsing to the ground.
The children frantically fleeing witnessed this scene and froze in place. The shrill sound swept past their ears, and the next moment, the head of the soldier behind them also flew high, rolling down with a thud.
Everything happened too quickly. In less than two seconds, a single wind blade swept through miles of streets, and the heads of hundreds of soldiers rose one after another,
Like crimson dandelions, carried up to the sky by the gentle evening breeze.
And this scene played out on every street in Chang’an…
Thirty thousand troops, annihilated in an instant!
At that moment, in front of the highest palace in the imperial complex, a figure draped in imperial robes watched the crimson dandelions flying throughout the city, his eyes slightly contracting.
Emperor Wu of Han stood before the hall, silent for a long time, his expression somewhat complex:
“Li Yin.”
“This old servant is here.” Li Gongong immediately stepped forward, bowing respectfully.
“Tell me… in this world, can someone truly possess such miraculous power?”
Li Gongong was stunned for a moment, then slowly spoke: “Whether someone can possess miraculous power, this old servant does not know… This old servant only knows that to restrain a pack of fierce wolves, one must let a wolf king emerge among them.”
Emperor Wu of Han looked at Chang’an city shrouded in blood and fire before him, his brows tightly furrowed.
…
Lin Qiye swiftly passed through the streets, the vermilion palace walls gradually approaching before his eyes.
Just then, a familiar voice came from the side:
“Brother Qiye!”
Lin Qiye quickly stopped and looked back to see Wu Quan hurriedly running from the other side of the street.
Upon seeing Wu Quan, Lin Qiye’s first reaction was to step back half a pace and ask with furrowed brows:
“Why are you here?”
“We were waiting for you at the dance pavilion, having tea. Seeing curfew approaching, we found a place to stay, but suddenly chaos erupted outside.” Wu Quan spoke with a grave expression,
“I flew up to get a better view and happened to see Brother Qiye heading toward the palace gate, so I rushed over to meet you.”
“Where’s Yan Zhong?”
“After seeing the armor of those murderous soldiers, his expression suddenly changed, and he rushed out in a hurry. I don’t know where he went.”
Looking at the calmly narrating Wu Quan before him, Lin Qiye not only didn’t relax his vigilance but began to examine him carefully.
From what he understood, even the imposters replaced by the smoke would think and act like real people, with almost no flaws. Moreover, it seemed the Red Star could control their actions by modifying the imposters’ perceptions.
The thirty thousand troops outside were exactly like this. During the day, everything seemed normal, but when the Red Star’s light shone at night, they began to see ordinary people as monsters and slaughtered their way into the city. Now their true nature could be easily judged by their behavior, but the Wu Quan before him was different.
Wu Quan had also been enveloped by the phantom smoke. Although he hadn’t shown any extreme behavior yet, this alone wasn’t enough to eliminate suspicion.
In other words, unless he stabbed Wu Quan in the heart right now, turning him into a corpse, it would be difficult to determine whether the young man before him was Wu Quan or a creature that had replaced him.
“Brother Qiye?” Wu Quan noticed Lin Qiye’s strange expression and asked puzzledly, “What’s wrong?”
“In your eyes, what am I?”
Hearing this question, Wu Quan’s eyes filled with confusion. He hesitated for a moment before uncertainly replying, “You are… um… Director Lin? Senior? Brother?”
“I mean, do you see me as a human or a K-system creature?”
“Brother Qiye, what are you talking about? How could you be a K-system creature? Didn’t your imposter already die?”
Lin Qiye’s expression relaxed somewhat, though he didn’t completely drop his guard. He didn’t know if the Red Star could arbitrarily control the imposters’ perceptions. What if Wu Quan’s current response was a disguise, or what if the imposter Wu Quan’s perception would only be modified after some time?
“…Nothing.”
Lin Qiye pondered for a moment. “I need to go inside the imperial palace. Come with me.”
“Alright.” Wu Quan agreed without any hesitation.
Lin Qiye certainly couldn’t just kill Wu Quan. If he killed an imposter, that would be fine, but if he killed the real Wu Quan… In short, Lin Qiye couldn’t gamble with Wu Quan’s life.
The best approach now was to keep Wu Quan by his side. If he truly was an imposter, as long as Lin Qiye occasionally revealed some vulnerabilities, he would eventually be unable to resist attacking.
