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The eyes beneath the guard's mask were empty; he realized his resistance was futile.
Under immense pressure, even the most resilient guards had moments when they couldn't help but think that rather than fighting with all their might only to be played for by the enemy and lose all honor, it would be better to abandon defense and die a heroic death.
"Fine!" At that moment, his companion's deep, emotionless voice suddenly rang out, his tone carrying a faint sense of despair.
During a brief moment when the guards were dodging the green mist, they glanced at him out of the corner of their eyes and found that he was still standing there, clearly not yet free.
The guards felt a chill run down their spines. This wasn't over yet? How long were they going to keep this *Ursus profanity* under control?!
On the other side, Yun Yi's eyes showed a hint of joy upon seeing this, and he immediately agreed, "I agree."
As soon as he finished speaking, a notification popped up on the system panel that the offspring collector talent bonus had been enhanced.
Yun Yi couldn't help but raise his hand to his chin and smugly say, "Two draws for one, and I got it on my first try! I remember Lappland's first time was the same. My luck isn't bad at all~"
PS:
Oh no! Although I'm happy that Oni-nee is out of the pool, this PV looks like it might backfire!
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I hope the new plot doesn't clash with the outline T^T
Today, a reader left a book review about the female lead, Xiao Te. I will try to bring Xiao Te's appearance forward (this won't affect the outline too much), but there is a problem.
Do you, the readers, prefer to fully revive it, both the major and minor versions of it, or simply treat the minor version as the original version and help it expel its negative status?
Both are reasonable.
The author feels there's something subtle about the resurrection of the Pardoner. It's as if the person was resurrected but influenced by past Demon Kings, or perhaps only a portion of their traits were resurrected, essentially a new life with memories veiled in mystery. (The game seems to explicitly state the former, but the portrayal isn't entirely consistent.)
Since the author didn't quite understand which one it was, they simply assumed both were correct, and this article uses one of them (the author is the author, after all :D).
Before Little Trump appears, the author chooses the one with the most support or the one with the most decisive evidence when Little Trump appears.
Volume Two: Fireworks at Longmen: Chapter 208 (Main Story Micro-Tip) Swire: I'm a little curious about the result of the fourth attempt.
"Idiot, getting cocky with a 50% chance? Even if you include the last one, it's still 25%, a one-in-a-quarter probability—have you never guessed right on a multiple-choice question with four options? Is it really that big of a deal?" Swire narrowed her eyes dangerously, her right arm, crossed, poised to strike. "Don't forget there's one more thing. If you give your acceptance speech now, do you want to get knocked out ten more times?"
“Of course not,” Yun Yi shook his head instantly, his gaze towards Swire carrying a hint of apologetic smile and confusion. “I’ll go right now, but why are you asking for ten times already? Wasn’t it only three times just now?”
Although she was asking a question, Yun Yi didn't really want to get a beating. After asking, she immediately repeated to the other guard, "Come be my son!"
Swire nodded in satisfaction, and the tip of the tiger's tail flicked slightly behind him.
In a good mood, she raised her index finger and shook it, replying with a smile, "The punishment for repeating the same mistake will be tripled, and the extra one will be a gift from me as a favor. How about that? Touched?"
"I dare not move—" Yun Yi had barely finished speaking when he saw Shi Huaiya hum "Hmm?" and curl up her pale index finger that had just almost flicked smoke from her forehead.
She swallowed hard, looked away, and immediately changed her words, speaking incredibly fast, "What I meant was moved, extremely moved, especially moved. You are truly the best person I've ever met to me!"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Swire immediately lost her composure, and her swaying tiger tail instantly snapped into a stick. She quickly realized that her reaction was somewhat excessive and an attempt to cover up her mistake, and her face couldn't help but turn slightly red.
Swire coughed to steady her slightly erratic voice, then turned and glared at Yun Yi. "Don't try to sweet-talk me, or I'll give you a beating next time—"
Yun Yi dismissed Shi Huaiya's threat.
She felt that it was uncertain whether the tiger could remain rational while praising her, let alone actually have the heart to hit her.
Swire realized that Yun Yi hadn't taken her words to heart, and her embarrassed and annoyed expression immediately turned into indifference.
She chuckled and continued in a low voice, "Then I'll knock on you a hundred times."
Yun Yi's nonchalant expression froze instantly. "Are you kidding me?"
"Hehe," Swire chuckled softly, a subtle, elegant smile playing on her lips, her tiger ears trembling gently in her ginger-yellow hair. "Guess~"
"...I guess it's a joke. Cough, well, I have to get down to business. We'll talk later." Yun Yi coughed stiffly, trying to change the subject, his gaze quickly shifting to the icosahedron as if being chased by a tiger.
"What's there to be afraid of?" Swire chuckled and didn't pursue the matter. She twirled a strand of hair with her fingertips, her tiger ears standing up, and her expression turned serious as she looked at them together.
On the field, the center-backs who had previously dodged and those who had stood still are now in the opposite positions.
At the edge of the disc, Chen Huijie unleashed a series of cunning sword strikes, attempting to deliver a fatal blow with moderate force that could be deflected by the guards' blades.
She tried to improve her skills by playing against the inner guards in this most unpretentious way.
Hoshiguma kept her eyes lowered, constantly watching over Chen Huijie and the two people behind her, only diverting a little attention to cooperate with Chen Huijie.
Her palm, holding the handle of the Prajna, glowed with a faint, eerie green light. Wisps of mist of the same color spewed from the hideous demon face in front of the Prajna, clearly targeting the mobile inner guards in the arena.
The wisps of energy mist have little effect on the inner guards, but when they attempt to launch an attack against the outside world, they can instantly condense into energy chains, ghost heads, and shields that can lock or interfere with the opponent.
After attacking the inner guards in such silence and tacit agreement for a moment, the two of them had also heard the commotion from Yun Yi's side.
Even though Chen Huijie was obsessed with practicing sword flashes, she couldn't help but complain, "Swire doesn't know what's important either."
"Hmm?" Hoshiguma raised an eyebrow in surprise, a teasing glint in her eyes. "Wasn't Commander Chen focused on practicing his sword?"
She pretended to wipe away tears, "Oh my, I never expected the commander to care so much about the young lady, even at the cost of sacrificing his focus on kendo. It's truly touching."
"Hiss." Goosebumps rose on Chen Huijie's arms, and the dragon tail behind her couldn't help but shiver before curling up as if it had been hit by a cold wind.
With a serious face, she spoke with great energy, "You have such a twisted sense of humor, what—can you cut it down? How could I? Who would waste their precious time paying attention to that guy? I just happened to hear it because I have good hearing!"
"You weren't thinking of saying 'when did you get so full?' just now, were you?" Hoshiguma glanced at Chen Huijie, who remained expressionless, with a half-smile on her face. "It seems that our Commander Chen has been 'eavesdropping' from beginning to end."
"You know perfectly well what I'm asking. How can having good hearing be considered eavesdropping? Besides, I'm listening to you openly and honestly," Chen Huijie retorted immediately, though the dragon's tail swayed uneasily.
This certainly doesn't count as eavesdropping, right? After all, both Swire and Hoshiguma were aware of it; both the listener and the speaker were fully aware—but what if Yunyi didn't realize it…
As Chen Huijie hesitated, another guard beside her, who was being chased all over the place by her relentless sword light, shouted in unison with his companion, "Alright!" He was then forced to continue standing as punishment.
Seeing this, Hoshiguma and Chen Huijie tacitly ended their conversation and focused their attention on the two people behind them.
"I agree." Yun Yi's voice sounded somewhat casual, as if he didn't take the Imperial Guards seriously.
Standing in the driver's seat, the person glanced at their talent, which had been successfully refurbished once again, and a smile immediately appeared on their lips.
She beamed triumphantly at Swire beside her, "Success on the first try! This is the third time I've succeeded on the first try. Even if the odds are 50%, it's still quite rare, right? I'm really lucky."
Swire touched her raised eyebrows, and Tiger Tail raised his head in surprise. "12.5% is also acceptable... This level of luck is indeed quite good."
Yun Yi's lips curled up into a beautiful smile. "That's right, I'm pretty lucky."
"Alright, you idiot, get ready." Swire suddenly changed the subject.
Her gaze never left the green eyes that gleamed, reflecting the guards entangled in red and green energy. "There's no need to keep these two. Bring in the next batch."
"Huh? You figured it out already?" Yun Yi was caught off guard. How long had it been? Three minutes? Five minutes? No matter how many minutes, it was far too fast, and...
She frowned, looking puzzled. "Besides being one of Ursus's top combat forces, the Inner Guard should also have the identity of doing dirty, hard, and secretive work to stabilize the situation in Ursus... How could a knife used for such a mission involving state secrets not have any secrets worth keeping?"
Given the strength of the Imperial Guard, the emperor usually assigned them to missions alone, otherwise it would have been a waste.
Given this premise, shouldn't every bodyguard possess certain high-value secrets?
Yue~Yi Emu Linger Er Yi Shan Qiu Ba Di Lu Volume 2 Dragon Gate Fireworks: Chapter 209 (Main Story) Yun Yi: Aren't we supposed to establish an organization that breaks through barriers? How come…
“As you said, once the inner guards have carried out a mission, they will basically know more or less secrets,” Swire’s tiger tail swayed slowly with the rhythm of her chest rising and falling as she spoke, “but, for you, Yunyi, and our still-forming organization, not all secrets are useful, such as most of the secrets of the Ursus nobles and the royal family.”
Upon hearing "nobles" and "royalty," Yun Yi's expression shifted to one of sudden realization. "You mean these two possess the secrets of the dead, so they're useless?" After stating her guess, she scratched her face, still deeply shocked. "No, how did they even figure that out?"
The guards did nothing but block the dragon demon's attacks the whole time.
Swire glanced at Yun Yi, but instead of answering her question, she pointed out that her understanding was wrong. "No, the secrets of the dead are not necessarily useless. Only when a person is irreplaceable in a secret during their lifetime will the secret they participated in completely lose its value with their death."
If someone with extensive experience in this field were standing here, they would immediately understand what Swire meant.
Unfortunately, in both his past and present lives, Yun Yi had only ever seen three dead people, including the three inner guards he had met before. He had no experience with this and had never thought about it in depth.
Indeed, although a lot of people died every day in the previous society, from illness, old age, homicide, suicide, accidental death, etc. No matter how stable a society is, most lives are both resilient and fragile. They can survive under unparalleled pressure, but they may also fall into eternal sleep for various reasons in the blink of an eye. Yun Yi himself is the most vivid example.
However, Yunyi had never actually seen or encountered any deaths of people she knew other than those who died of old age and returned to their hometowns in accordance with nature.
This is also the fundamental reason why Yunyi was able to retain a certain degree of naivety after losing all protection when she came of age—she was really lucky.
Fate (the mysterious hand) never allowed her to truly confront any of the deeper darkness; what she knew was merely theoretical.
Therefore, at this moment, facing Shi Huaiya's normally spoken words, Yun Yi still couldn't help but show some confusion, "I think I understand what you mean, but my thoughts aren't very clear. Irreplaceable? What do you mean by irreplaceable—"
Before he could finish speaking, Yun Yi swallowed his doubts, because the guards in the field had already been killed by Chen Huijie and Xingxiong, who had gone all out after hearing Shi Huaiya's judgment.
Crimson blood with an unusual hue splattered onto the icosahedral ground. Blood gushed from more than a dozen large and small cuts on the tall bodies of the two guards. Then, the joints where their heads and bodies were joined were wiped out by two successive sword flashes.
As two heads covered in broken masks rolled to the ground, their bear-like, robust bodies, wrapped in clothing, also collapsed with a crash.
Yun Yi raised his hand and swept it across the air in front of him, and a square glass jar appeared out of thin air in the arena.
She glanced at the two corpses that appeared normal for the time being, but the corpses were immediately compressed and twisted by an invisible force, and a terrifying "creaking" sound that made one's teeth ache echoed throughout the area.
In no time, the flesh and equipment, weighing at least two hundred kilograms, and perhaps close to three hundred kilograms, were molded into a basketball-sized clump of viscous mud by a strange force. Two crystals were expelled by the wriggling mud and floated to the side.
At this moment, Yun Yi made a downward pressing motion with his hand, and the mottled mud clump immediately floated into the jar along with a splash of blood that flew up from the ground. Then, the sharp-edged jar cap was immediately put on and screwed on tightly.
Yun Yi waved his hand, and the jar flew out of the arena, landing in the hand of Chen Huijie, who looked on with curiosity. The two demonic fragments disappeared.
Chen Huijie caught the glass jar steadily and glanced at the slightly horrifying mass of human flesh inside.
Her expression remained calm, but a hint of physical discomfort flashed in her eyes.
Chen Huijie turned to look at Yun Yi, and the luster on the two dragon horns on the sides of his head moved and changed, becoming more cold and making the dragon horns look quite hard.
Chen Huijie raised the jar in her hand to Yun Yi from a distance, a hint of doubt appearing in her eyes, "What's this?"
Hoshiguma bent down to take a closer look, but unfortunately, the flesh, equipment, and clothing fragments inside the jar were tightly mixed together. Apart from the layer of blood at the bottom of the jar, which clearly showed something was wrong, she didn't get any new information.
Hoshiguma straightened up, her fingertips tracing the handle of the Hannya, and guessed with a serious expression, "If we want to develop in Ursus, in addition to facing an unknown number of inner guards, we may also have to face demons directly. Miss Yunyi may want to keep some materials to study the power of demons later, so as to obtain means to prevent or target demons."
Chen Huijie glanced at her sideways, and Longwei swayed thoughtfully. "The border is indeed more suitable for establishing an independent regime, but the power created by the fragments of evil is so strange and strong—do we really have to face such troublesome opponents in the early stages of construction?"
“If it’s Miss Yunyi…” Hoshiguma glanced down at Chen Huijie, then looked up at Yunyi, who was standing in the driver’s seat listening attentively. “Perhaps the demons aren’t so troublesome. Eliminating the demons and establishing a new independent regime on the border would be the best option for us, who have the technology, some strength, but lack manpower and are unwilling to start a major conflict.”
Yun Yi, who could clearly hear the conversation through the projection she had casually created, nodded in agreement. "That makes sense—" After nodding, she suddenly realized, "Wait, no, when did we start talking about establishing an independent government? Wasn't it just about setting up an organization on a piece of land?"
Yun Yi's loud, shocked question immediately caused the other three people present to freeze in shock. "Huh?" ×3
"Didn't you tell her?" Chen Huijie was the first to snap out of her daze, immediately turning to look at Swire, her dragon tail slightly tense. "You didn't tell her the most crucial thing?"
"Calm down, Chen. There must be some misunderstanding here," Hoshiguma immediately advised, while her golden eyes turned to Swire and gave her a look, signaling her to explain quickly.
“I should have said it—” Swire’s face still showed confusion after receiving the urging look.
She glanced at Yun Yi, whose eyes were filled with confusion, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration. "Yun Yi, what kind of organization do you think exists that's a company with its own mobile weaponry, top-notch independent research capabilities, and whose goal is to overturn internationally accepted rules, not to strictly abide by any national order, and to establish its own order?"
"Terrorist organization? Pshaw!" Yun Yi quickly corrected himself after his slip of the tongue, "I meant a salvation organization, no, that's not right."
She scratched her head, somewhat puzzled. "It should be some kind of shadow conglomerate or multinational conglomerate? But something still doesn't feel right..."
Volume 2: Fireworks at Longmen: Chapter 210 Swire (trying to comfort his future wife): You're so dense, get moving!
Yun Yi thought that Shi Huaiya was testing her on the future direction of the organization. Under the gaze of the three, she lowered her head and pondered for a moment, then suddenly her eyes lit up and she looked up happily, "I know, it's that 'technological sovereign entity that transcends the nation' - our organization should belong to a sovereign entity."
Shi Huaiya frowned slightly. The definition Yun Yi used was somewhat unfamiliar and seemed different from what she knew, but fortunately, the meaning was the same.
It's just unexpected that even though Yun Yi has thought this far, he still hasn't realized the problem it contains.
“Sovereign entity,” Swire relaxed his brow, repeating Yun Yi’s conclusion with a helpless smile on his lips.
Seeing Yun Yi's questioning gaze, Swire had no choice but to ask again, "Yun Yi, what kind of being do you think can possess sovereignty?"
Yunyi, who had studied for the civil service exam but hadn't taken it for various reasons, immediately answered, "The country."
She then thought for a moment and added, "And then there are all sorts of other political entities..."
As he spoke, Yun Yi's voice gradually weakened, and a fascinating expression appeared on his face. "No way?"
She glanced at Swire in front of her, then at Chen Huijie and Xingxiong not far away in the projection.
None of the three refuted her answer, which means that the theory is correct even in Terra.
Sovereignty still symbolizes "recognized independent governance rights," and the organizations that possess it can no longer be considered simple organizations; it also has another name—political entities.
Political entities and regimes are like plates and the main dish on those plates; they may not be owned, but they certainly exist.
Because the core of a regime is called "actual ruling power," even if a political entity loses power, the regime still exists.
At the same time, one of their forms is the "state".
Yun Yi pondered these distant theories, feeling completely bewildered. "So, we've been talking about creating a new political entity, regime, or even a nation all along?"
No, is this right? Yun, an ordinary citizen, glanced at the white, futuristic space he found himself in, and quickly calmed down.