Back Off, Let Me Come

Facts have proved that even a two-hundred-year-old skeleton will become angry if someone steps on it. Shen Tang's words hit Weicheng's scars hard. He turned his head sharply, and the flames in his eyes burst out in a straight line, filling him with anger.

Shen Tang smiled awkwardly: "Did I guess wrong?"

Wei Cheng: "..."

He didn't speak, but the two clusters of flames in his eyes were full of brightness.

Just when Shen Tang was secretly on guard, preparing for Wei Cheng's sudden killing move, he said in a solemn tone: "You guessed it right."

Shen Tang: "...6."

If you guessed it right, you guessed it right. Why are you doing this?

Wei Cheng didn't know the meaning of "6", but he expected that Shen Youli couldn't spit out ivory, so he was probably mocking himself: "Don't think that I am showing goodwill to you by not taking action. I have turned against my uncle and wants to pursue you. There is no conflict between lives. This place is quite deep from the ground. If it collapses accidentally, no matter how talented you are, you will not be able to escape. Do you understand?"

Wei Cheng is a skeleton and does not need to breathe. Shen Tang and Gong Xiqiu are living people. The need for air among brave warriors is much greater than that of ordinary people. If you were really trapped in such a deep underground, you would be suffocated to death.

Shen Tang pointed to his nose.

He said: "To be honest, I am a practitioner of both civil and martial arts."

With such a thickness, a brave warrior cannot penetrate it before the oxygen is exhausted, but she is also a literary scholar, so she can definitely use the spirit of words similar to [Transfer Flowers and Trees] before she burps. Before she and Gong Xiqiu came down, they had already made a mark.

Wei Cheng's palms closed and opened again.

Finally, he suppressed his anger and said: "Humph!"

Shen Tang was shocked.

Her behavior just now also had a testing purpose.

Wei Cheng is tolerant in every possible way, but things may not be simple.

Gong Xiqiu secretly touched Shen Tang's fish scale wrist guard with his fingers, not to persuade Shen Tang to be patient, but to give her a coded signal. If you really want to take action, do it together. You can't suffer any loss.

Shen Tang gave him a calm look.

This temporarily dug secret passage was really dark. Shen Tang had good night vision, but it was still incomparable to someone like Gong Xiqiu, who took advantage of the martial arts totem and ignored the darkness. Simply, the two caves in Weicheng had their own fire, which provided Shen Tang with great convenience.

Wei Cheng led the way, and the three of them went further and further down.

Shen Tang felt something was wrong, so he approached Gong Xiqiu and said, "Gong Xiqiu, don't you think there is a problem in this place? Neither of us feels the discomfort of insufficient air supply here."

This question was quickly answered.

There is an underground city built by the Gods Association underground.

There are only a pile of ruins left in the magnificent city, and only the ventilation system built by the precise word spirit is still functioning. Shen Tang jumped out of the hole behind Wei Cheng and Gong Xiqiu, and his vision suddenly became clearer. Not far away, Jimo Qiu, who looked slightly embarrassed, had been waiting for a long time.

Gong Xiqiu hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. When he saw that he had not changed much before he left, he felt relieved. He wanted to give his eldest brother a hug for the rest of his life, but to his surprise, the eldest brother walked right past him and stepped forward to salute Mama. Gong Xiqiu was discouraged and put down his hand.

He said angrily: "It's a loss but a gain."

Fortunately, he had ridiculed Xun Ding that he was just adding someone to his family, but he didn't expect that the biggest person he wanted to add to his family was not Xun Yong'an, but his own brother. The eldest brother couldn't see himself when he saw Mama, which really chilled the snake.

Gong Xiqiu was angry, but he still moved his legs forward honestly.

Wei Cheng was thoughtful on one side.

The Gongxi clan is not as united as he thought.

"High Priest of Jimo, you've had a hard time on this trip."

"It's not hard work, but luckily you have fulfilled your destiny." The face similar to Gong Xiqiu's smiled, and the corners of his eyes were curved, greatly neutralizing the cold and unruly temperament inherent in his facial features, making him look very well-behaved and friendly. Jimo Qiu knew who Shen Tang wanted to see most at the moment, so he didn't exchange much greetings. He gently explained the twists and turns he had experienced not long ago, "Wei Lou has been trapped. Your Highness, go to see him now?"

"Wei Lou?"

This is an unfamiliar name.

Shen Tang was stunned for a moment before realizing that Wei Lou should be the secular name of the Grand Master of the Eternal Life Sect: "Of course I want to meet him."

If he hadn't been unsure to what extent Wei Cheng would turn against him, he would have preferred to let Wei Lou go see King Yama instead of meeting him. As an enemy, there is really nothing to talk about with Wei Lou.

The ruins of the city, on one side of the dead tree.

When I came here, I didn't see Wei Lou himself. I only saw a collapsed tree that even three or five big men couldn't hug.

Countless broken tree roots are exposed.

Apparently the tree had been dead for a while.

"Where are the people?"

"above."

Shen Tang followed what Jimo Qiu pointed and raised his head.

Above this dead tree, hundreds of tree roots intertwined into a huge ball, which at first glance seemed to be the crown of the tree. Previously, due to the angle of view, Shen Tang did not see it immediately. Jimo Qiu said from one side: "Wei Lou has some tricks that are really difficult to catch, so he boldly used this incarnation to trap him here. He can't break free."

Shen Tang didn't pay attention to the details in Jimo Qiu's words. He focused all his attention on the ball of roots. There was indeed a breath of life inside. Wei Lou obviously heard their conversation.

Jimo Qiu raised his wooden stick and waved it towards the prison cage.

The tree roots pulled apart to both sides in response.

Revealing the white-haired scribe sitting inside.

Except for his slightly disheveled appearance, Wei Lou had no visible injuries, and he didn't have any overreaction when he saw Shen Tang. He just glanced away lightly. Shen Tang felt a little regretful. If Wei Lou was seriously injured and died later, how much trouble would it have saved her.

At this time, Wei Cheng, who had always been quiet, suddenly spoke.

"Uncle, you have also seen the person, can you tell me?" As a skeleton, Wei Cheng will not be tired, but his tone at this moment is full of fatigue, "I just thought about it for a long time, a hundred years ago, or even earlier, I have thought about it one by one. I really can’t imagine, uncle, when did you change? Why did you betray the Lord? You clearly know that we are just one step away!"

If you have never seen it, you will not regret it.

It just so happened that he had been in such close contact with the top!

The more this happens, the more unwilling and angry he becomes.

For more than a hundred years after the fall of Wu Kingdom, whenever he had free time, he would think about who betrayed his lord and betrayed Wu Kingdom, causing them to fall short of their achievements and regretfully stop before they could unify the world! He had doubted many people, even himself, but not his uncle!

The shock brought by this truth was greater and more intense than when he was seriously injured and begged his uncle for death, when he woke up and saw his body cooking in a pot, or even when his city was destroyed and his family was destroyed! He wanted to crush the opponent's neck, throw it into a stone mortar, smash it into minced meat and feed it to the dogs!

In the end, reason prevailed over emotion.

Wei Cheng only wants the truth.

Shen Tang was surprised when she heard this. She didn't expect that Wei Lou wanted to see her. Just when she was about to speak, Wei Lou sneered and asked quietly: "Only one step away? Do you really think that's the only step away?"

Shen Tang took back his stepped foot.

It is rare for uncles and nephews who are over two hundred years old to quarrel.

Wei Cheng was very sure, clenching his palms tightly to restrain his boiling anger: "It's just one step away! Wei Lou, that's just one step away from unifying the world! My lord, you and I, together with people like Yunda, are living as neither humans nor ghosts. Who is not here for this?" Lose everything in one step?"

Doesn’t the master who refines the Gu know its drawbacks?

Do soldiers who take Gu insect know its disadvantages?

The civil and military colleagues who are under the pressure of running out of food, and because the food is at the enemy's disposal, have to feed on the corpses of the enemy and even their own fallen soldiers, don't they know these disadvantages? No one is a brainless idiot! Just to stop fighting with fighting and killing with killing!

If this move can end the most disgusting sufferings of troubled times, unify the world, and prevent future generations from repeating the same mistakes, it will be worth it!

result--

On the last step before climbing to the top, the cornerstone was taken away by one of his own people. He took a missed step and fell to pieces. The Wu Kingdom was destroyed overnight.

How could he accept this?

If Wei Cheng were still flesh and blood, his blood would definitely rush to his brain.

Faced with Wei Cheng's accusations and accusations, Wei Lou's reaction was to chuckle. He glanced at Shen Tang and said, "Does Lord Shen think so too? Back then, the Wu Kingdom was just one step away from unifying the world?"

The city gate caught fire, affecting the fish in the pond.

I didn't expect that the conflict between the uncle and nephew could involve me.

Shen Tang looked at Wei Cheng's uncle and nephew's scorching eyes and said quietly: "I am not from that era, and I don't know what you have gone through. Based on my personal opinion and several years of experience as a country leader, I think it is still far away. Wu Guo's evil is caused by Overdrafting the population in exchange for strong combat power can certainly defeat powerful enemies in a short period of time, but what happens after victory? The most important thing is that the country is stable, the people have food and clothing, and live and work in peace and contentment."

She felt that Wu Guo had taken too big a step.

Just promote it and not engage in domestic construction.

"... Assuming that Wu State really unified the world, how many people would there be in Wu State? Thirty million? Or fifty million? With so many people, the amount of food consumed in one day is an astronomical figure. It would take several months to grow the food. Before the turmoil subsides and before the new seedlings are harvested, can you and your country masters have any countermeasures? Do the grain depots have several months of grain storage to hedge risks? "

Shen Tang's voice was so calm that no emotion could be heard.

She has no dislike or dislike for the Wu Kingdom, which has been destroyed for more than a hundred years.

However, this country has been destroyed for hundreds of years and there are still a group of old antiques thinking about it. Thinking about it, it did have an impressive charm back then.

Shen Tang can only use his own experience to evaluate objectively.

"With such a large border, how long does it take to communicate from east to west, north to south? Can the royal court's decrees be issued to all places in time? How well does the royal court control local forces? By conquering the entire territory by force, the Wu Kingdom will nominally dominate the world, but if it cannot control the local areas, In fact, it is no different from being divided and warlords are in charge of their own affairs. The powerful local gentry can still do whatever they want, and the lives of the common people are still in dire straits. As long as ordinary people do not have enough clothes to wear, enough to eat, and no land to farm, they will eventually be forced to go to a dead end. Nothing has changed…”

From Shen Tang's point of view, it was still early for the Wu Kingdom to be unified.

Territory reunification is only the first step in a long journey of thousands of miles.

He made a long speech, which made Shen Tang feel thirsty.

Uncle and nephew Weicheng never interrupted.

After a while, Wei Cheng calmed down, and the fire in his eyes finally stopped being so fierce: "Is this also your reason?"

His voice became much calmer.

If Wei Lou did something wrong in a moment of confusion after seeing these shortcomings, Wei Cheng can be considered as having a reason for it. These issues raised by Shen Tang were indeed ignored by them, and that's not to say they were ignored. It was just that they were too enthusiastic at the time to think about them seriously.

As long as the unification can be completed, the rest will be solved slowly.

Wei Lou's response was a few breaths away.

He said: "No."

Wei Cheng was stunned: "Why is that?"

"because of her."

"She? Who?"

After asking, Wei Cheng noticed that his uncle's eyes were on Shen Tang. Shen Tang, who had become the focus of attention inexplicably, was also confused and said funnyly: "I didn't exist more than a hundred years ago, so how can it be related to me?"

If he woke up more than a hundred years ago, it would be a wonderful life.

It's like now, every step of the way there is a pit.

There are still a bunch of debuffs hanging on both legs.

Wei Lou burst into laughter.

"Besides, when did I betray the First Lord?"

When Shen Tang and the other three heard this, their hearts trembled.

They were close to each other without leaving any trace, so that they could join forces to cope with the changes. They were not afraid of anything else, but they were afraid that this farce of uncle and nephew turning against each other was the result of the two colluding early on, just to trick Shen Tang into taking the bait.

Fortunately, their fears did not come true.

Wei Lou changed the subject with his next sentence.

"A wise minister chooses his master to serve, and a good bird chooses a tree to roost in. Loyalty between king and minister is mutual. I did not betray the former master, but the former master betrayed me. He also betrayed you and all of us!"

The reason why Wei Lou chose to backstab had nothing to do with what Shen Tang said. The entire Wu Kingdom was a group of fanatics. They only had the word "unification" in their minds and didn't bother to think about anything else.

Wei Cheng was completely confused.

He said angrily: "When did the Lord betray us?"

Wei Lou smiled scornfully at Shen Tang again: "How to betray? This is the time to ask Lord Shen - I and a group of people fight for their own morality and for the common ambition of the monarch and his ministers. They are willing to go through life and death. After hard work, the results will be given to others. Make a wedding dress.”

Shen Tang: "...???"

What happened? The blame was thrown on her again?

Can her body carry such a big burden?

Shen Tang took a step back and said, "No, if you have something to say, say it properly. Don't just blame it. What do you mean by working so hard to make my wedding dress?"

Most of the losses suffered so far were caused by the old troops of Wu State.

Wedding dress?

What an alarmist!

Wei Cheng also said: "Don't talk nonsense!"

Jimo Qiu and Gong Xiqiu who were present heard some of the truth. Jimo Qiu reminded Shen Tang in a low voice: "The leader of the Wu Kingdom was once a candidate for high priest, and his education was mainly based on His Highness, and he was proud to serve His Highness... Maybe it’s because of this?”

Shen Tang: "..."

Wei Lou sneered: "Yes, how ridiculous!"

The original intention of conquering the world was for morality and ideals. After it was accomplished, it was natural for them to enjoy the fruits of victory together. He is loyal to the lord of the country and is as loyal as anyone. He also hopes that this "fruit" can be passed down from generation to generation in the hands of the lord's heirs.

The results of it?

As a result, the country mainly surrendered to others.

Give it to the so-called evil god.

What does this make the mortals who are fighting around him think? Mortals think they are loyal to Mingjun, but it turns out that Mingjun is someone else's dog? Is a bullshit evil god also qualified to share the fruits of their harvest? Are you qualified to get involved in their interests? Bullshit!

"What I need is a king."

"Not someone's vassal believer."

"Wu Guo is not his sacrifice to the evil god."

"Is his original intention to conquer the world really for this world? Is it really because he shares the same goals with us? I doubt it. He is a traitor! He is a liar who talks lies! He is a sanctimonious traitor! Only he is not the wise master who makes me surrender to him!"

Wei Lou roared ferociously, hoarse and venting his anger at the top of his lungs.

"He's a liar!"

"He and I have never been of the same mind!"

_(:3　∠)_

The character Wei Lou was originally designed as the "incarnation" of Yuan Liang and others (but I feel that the shaping is still a bit lacking), and he was gathered together because of his ideals. When ideals are shattered, it is madness.

Speaking of which, Tangmei’s accounts are all of the same style (_`)