Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
A city made of various sorts of metals and extraordinary materials stood in the middle of the mountains magnificently.
Underneath the city, machines powered by flowing water worked day and night. On the city wall, cannons of various calibers had been set up. Inside the city, mechanical beasts could be seen anywhere. In the sky, mechanical birds were transporting people and resources!
Mechanical City of the Mohist School.
It was a branch settlement that was set in a certain animation and also the reason why Dragon City could’ve summoned so many heroes from Qin, Han, and the Warring States Period.
Mechanical City was a lot busier and more crowded than before.
It was because the strategic division had decided to abandon a branch settlement nearby that was smaller and migrated its population here.
“Is this Mechanical City?”
“It looks so splendid. It’s a combination of technology and classics!”
The new residents observed the settlement, which was in a completely different style, with great curiosity. Mechanical Azure Dragon, Mechanical Vermilion Bird, Mechanical White Tiger, and Mechanical Black Tortoise, all of which were Transcendent Rank-6 and gave them a strong sense of safety.
“This Dragon Inn doesn’t look bad. Let’s stay here.”
A few natives walked to a street that was full of shops. They came into an inn on the street.
“Hello, would you like to have some food or check-in?”
The female manager, who wore a green dress that revealed her shoulders and her back and who had a face that looked like a ripe peach, greeted them promptly with a smile and looked at them with alluring eyes. She paid special attention to a slim young man.
“Both.”
The man in the lead said.
“However, give us ten kilograms of roast mutton first!”
Then, he pointed at a waiter inside the inn who was roasting a hot lamb with a red band on his head.
“At once!”
The waiter quickly put the roast mutton on the chopping block and then picked up a cleaver that was half a meter long!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The cleaver probably weighed dozens of kilograms, but it moved so agilely in his hand as if it were weightless, leaving a large number of blurry shadows behind. He cut the mutton a hundred times in the blink of an eye!
In the end, he smashed the cleaver on the table heavily.
Whoosh!
The previously complete lamb instantly fell.
The meat, which was completely separated from the bones, was placed on the largest plate neatly.
“…”
The slim young man’s pupils contracted, and he looked at the waiter and his saber carefully.
“Diao Buyu’s roast lamb is a specialty in our inn. I guarantee that you’ll want to eat it again tomorrow after having it today!”
The charming manager served the mutton with a smile and then glanced at the young man.
“Delicious! So freaking delicious!”
“This is so good! It’s even better than the food in the McDonald’s I had in Dragon City!”
The visitors feasted upon the mutton, with grease all over their lips.
“Why is my head dizzy? Can mutton get you drunk?”
However, after eating for a while, someone suddenly held his head.
“It must be because all your blood is supplied to your stomach to facilitate digestion!”
One of them remarked teasingly. Dragon City had been disseminating modern knowledge. Even the natives were aware of the medical common sense!
“Wait, why is my head dizzy too?”
But very soon, the other guests held their heads too and then lay down on the table, not moving anymore.
“Something is wrong with the mutton!”
The young man, however, had purple light flashing in his eyes. He rose abruptly and was about to break out of the inn.
But after only two steps, he trembled and then collapsed to the floor.
“Of course something is wrong. I’ve added the high-purity Drunk Deity that was created by the science department, in it. Even a dragon will fall asleep after eating it.”
The charming manager waved a fan and put on a smile of satisfaction.
“This is an… illegal inn!”
The young man grabbed the door of the inn and felt like the manager was swirling in his eyes.
“Nonsense. The Dragon Inn is one of the best inns, and I, Jin Xiangyu, am best known for my hospitality. How can this inn be illegal?”
Jin Xiangyu sat down on a chair next to him and crossed her legs. Her smile was as sunny as before, but her voice was cold.
“However, we only entertain human beings in this inn. We don’t entertain aliens!”
The young man already couldn’t hold any longer and fell on the ground. Purple light flashed from him, and he gradually turned into a dark humanoid creature.
They were the Deceivers, aliens who were capable of transformation or imitation. They intended to disperse and scout inside Dragon City.
“You think you can outsmart me?
“Do you know that nobody except the regular customers dares to come to this street? Even if they do, they all fix their eyes upon me as long as they’re men.
“Yet you keep staring at Diao Buyu the whole time. What can you be if not an alien?”
Jin Xiangyu kicked the Deceiver on the floor and waved her fan in mockery.
“Well… Boss, what if he simply doesn’t like women but prefers my kind?”
The waiter, who held a giant cleaver, looked at the Deceiver and grinned.
“Even if he likes men, there’s no way that he’ll like you. Kill him already. Your contribution should be enough after that.
“Remember to load his body in a tank. The Transcendent aliens are full of treasures. You can exchange their bodies for a lot of money in the logistics division!
“I’m going to check out at Manager Tong’s place. Two Deceivers just entered her shop. I think she might not be able to take care of them.”
Jin Xiangyu rolled her eyes at Diao Buyu and then walked out.
“Mountainous Punch, Sunflower Pinching, Confucius once said… Hey, you haven’t paid your bill yet!”
Very soon, noises were coming from the inn next to the Dragon Inn!
Not just the two inns, on the same street, battle noises were coming from a lot of shops. A wind happened to be rising, and all the signs of those shops were rustling.
The signs looked normal, but most locals tried to avoid those shops, only because the street was known as the “surrendering area”. As its name suggested, most people here had arrived on the Land of Inheritance as villains and then surrendered after being defeated by Dragon City.
Although not all of the shopkeepers were remarkable, they were certainly not ordinary to open their shops in a place of villains.
For example, while the Tongfu Yin that Jin Xiangyu was going to didn’t have any top experts, everybody there had a few ultimate tricks. There was a little girl who called herself Fire Fanatic. Even the guys from Yorozuya didn’t dare to mess with her.
In fact, under normal circumstances, the shops in the surrendering area did business legally and didn’t dare to rip anyone off.
After all, Dragon City had been managing the villains strictly. They were only on a rampage on this day because they had permission.
Under the surveillance of the SkyNet and coupled with the deduction abilities of the Four Saints of the Military School, the Deceivers who could pretend to be human beings had long been spotted and could be caught in the “illegal shops”!
The villains didn’t reject the missions of working as mercenaries. In fact, they loved it.
It was because even though their lives were saved after they surrendered, due to the restriction of the rules, they had to accumulate enough “Honor” to “answer for what they did” and transform into normal natives.
Therefore, many villains who had soldiers had already marched to the battlefield with their men.
For example, Zhang Jiao, Li Mi, Zhu Yuyan, Xiong Ba…
On the other hand, to hold back the aliens whose settlement was abandoned and delay them from reinforcing other battlefields, many strong villains had left the settlement and tried to seek opportunities of battle from the side.
…
A swarm of Minotaurs, which had the heads of bulls and green hair as well as long-horns, were marching to the Mechanical City of the Mohist School!
The Deceivers who were bold enough to sneak into the human settlement had their abilities.
Even though they were killed, they managed to deliver the message.
“Moo?”
Suddenly, the green-haired Minotaurs stopped and looked in a certain direction.
Ding, ding, ding…
It was because a piece of pleasant music was coming from the canyon.
The Minotaurs looked at each other.
Then, they split up. Some of them kept marching towards Mechanical City.
Some ran to the source of the music and soon found it.
It was a huge canyon. The soil, the rocks, and the trees that grew in it were all as black as coal.
Above the canyon, at the edge of the cliff which was vertical and as smooth as a mirror, a woman, who wore red clothes that carried golden threads and a high hat, was looking down at the Minotaurs coldly with a bottle of wine in her hands. She carried a special aura of aggressiveness despite her femininity!
Not far away behind her, there were two old men. One of them was playing a flute and the other was playing the guqin and singing.
Seeing the scene that was obviously unusual, the Minotaurs adopted a simple approach.
Moooo…
Three of the Minotaurs took a deep breath, and they quickly expanded.
They pressed their limbs down to the ground first. Then, they exerted their strength and gas surged out from the anuses, propelling them to the three people on the cliff like rockets!
On the top of the black cliff, the two old men were still playing music.
Whoosh!
The red-dressed woman, on the other hand, raised her head and poured the wine into her mouth while she snapped her fingers towards the three incoming Minotaurs!
Bam!
The three Minotaurs were dashing like missiles with steam behind their hindquarters, and the fastest one was almost reaching the woman when it seemed to hit something. Blood appeared on its skin, and it was sliced into a hundred pieces exactly like the roast lamb.
As the flesh was broken and the blood spilled out, threads were dyed red and turned visible in midair. They formed a dense layer of web between the three human beings and the Minotaurs.
“Moo! Moo!”
The other two Minotaurs were luckily slower.
Although they hit some of the red threads too, which cut their tensile skin into pieces, they were very sturdy as Transcendent Minotaurs.
They weren’t killed. Instead, they roared under the stimulation of the pain, and they spouted gas from their mouths and noses, deviating from the fatal web. They also kicked the smooth black rocks, attempting to bounce away from the woman in red.
Whoosh!
However, they clearly couldn’t possibly be faster than the woman’s fingers.
The woman laid down the empty bottle and then opened her hands, before she clenched them towards the two falling Transcendent Minotaurs!
Pew! Pew!
The sound of sharp weapons penetrating objects came. Blood threads erupted from their ears, eyes, and mouths, with tiny needles at the ends.
With a closer look, it could be found that the threads were condensed from the soundwaves of the performance of the two old men.
Because of the super-high frequency, the Minotaurs’ relatively simple brains were shattered, and their bodies were sliced exactly like the first Minotaur!
A waterfall of blood fell from the sky on the top of the Minotaurs that were still in the canyon.
Obviously, the woman in red boasted the ability to transform invisible soundwaves into sharp needles and threads that could be used as weapons.
The music was overwhelming and all-pervasive, which meant that the whole canyon was already filled up with the threads and needles.
This canyon had already been transformed into a fatal web!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Dozens of silver needles, pulling the red soundwaves, dashed towards the Minotaurs down below and tried to kill all of them.
However, all the Minotaurs were Transcendent.
There was no way that they would wait to get killed.
“Roar!”
All the Minotaurs suddenly opened their mouths.
Their hair became completely green, and they inhaled as much air as possible.
Splash!
In the canyon that was more than a hundred meters wide, the stones, trees, grasses, and even soil on the ground were all attracted to the Minotaurs’ stomachs.
Even the soundwaves, which should be invisible, were absorbed by the Minotaurs too. As a result, the woman in red couldn’t perform her attack anymore!
Ting! Ting! Ting!
Exactly at this moment, there was sound on the other side of the cliff.
Two middle-aged men, who wore plain gray cloaks and sunglasses, were sitting on a rock and playing a long brown guqin that almost looked like the lid of a coffin.
“It’s never easy to find a good friend!”
The soundwaves that they unleashed resonated and condensed into a tremendous amount of swords, spears, and axes that flew towards the Minotaur overwhelmingly!
The Minotaurs, unable to stop inhaling in time, absorbed the swords, spears, and axes into their stomachs too.
They instantly screamed in pain and vomited blood that was mixed with broken internal organs. It was truly a gory scene.
“Kill them all!”
As the two middle-aged men wearing sunglasses accelerated their rhythm, their soundwaves turned into troops that wore armor and held long spears. They looked like the Black Mountain Guards and charged at the Minotaurs!
“Moooo…”
Seeing that, the remaining Minotaurs’ eyes turned bloodshot, and they started exhaling instead of inhaling.
When they roared together, a tremendous amount of mud, leaves, and branches were thrown out of their stomachs, as if a tornado were raging in the canyon.
Pop! Crackle!
The armor and weapons of the soldiers made of soundwaves were all crumbled in the deafening roars, revealing their bodies. Then, their bodies were also destroyed, and they became skeletons. In the end, even the skeletons were reduced into powder…
“Moo, moo, moo…”
After this round of attacks, the dozen Minotaurs started their attacks. They all jumped to the top of the cliff while they roared.
The roars were so loud that even the rocks were cracking. The web of red threads made of soundwaves was destroyed too!
“This is getting tricky!”
The woman in red narrowed her eyes.
The roars of the Minotaurs completely eclipsed the music.
After all, the Minotaurs were larger in number, and the soundwaves from their mouths were more concentrated like those from a trumpet. Unless the humans were stronger than the Minotaurs, their music attack would be useless.
But obviously, the other four musicians except for herself were no stronger than the Minotaurs.
They only had advantages when they attacked remotely with music. In melee battles, they each could only fight one Minotaur at best!
As for the woman, she could probably fight a handful of Minotaurs.
The problem was that more than ten Minotaurs were charging at her!
“I underestimated them. I thought I could stay on the Land of Inheritance with the Honor I receive from killing those Minotaurs, but I only got myself caught in danger in the end. I wonder if Mr. Sun will be sad when he learns that I’m dead…”
At the critical moment, the woman in red was in a trance.
Zheng, zheng, zheng, zheng…
Exactly at this moment, a new musical instrument joined the performance and caused a translucent dragon-shaped soundwave that swept towards the woman in red.
More exactly, it swooped towards the Minotaurs that were attempting to surround her.
“Moo! Moo!”
One of the Minotaurs roared furiously as its nostrils spouted gas. It seemed to be trying to shatter the dragon-shaped soundwave in the same way.
“Roar!”
But obviously, the performer who launched the dragon-shaped soundwave was stronger than the other two groups of musicians. The dragon-shaped soundwave collapsed the Minotaur’s roar and dashed into its body.
Then, obviously, the Minotaur’s hair became darker and heavier.
A few seconds later, its body even turned purple.
Boom!
Then, its body exploded into countless pieces of meat.
On the opposite side of the cliff, a woman in white was strumming an ancient guqin, which had nine strings with a transparent dragon slithering in each of them, with her hands that had six fingers!
The soundwaves formed one dragon after another, which charged at the Minotaurs non-stop.
Having learned a lesson from the first Minotaur, the other Minotaurs didn’t dare to clash with it and tried to dodge.
Boom, boom, boom…
However, the dragon-shaped soundwave was obviously faster. One Minotaur after another exploded into pieces in the dragon roar.
Moooo…
A female Minotaur that had huge boobs, under the pressure of the dragon-shaped soundwave, had already retreated to the edge of the cliff. Seeing that there was nowhere to go, it closed its big eyes and waited to die.
But after a long time, it realized that it wasn’t dead.
It opened its eyes, only to see a tall male Minotaur standing in front, and its body was gradually turning from green to purple.
Moooo…
The tall male Minotaur looked back at the female Minotaur with affection and satisfaction in its eyes that were as big as light bulbs.
Then, its body exploded into pieces.
The female Minotaur was rather stunned when blood splashed all over its face.
“Moo?”
Nearby, another male Minotaur, which had particularly huge horns, was stunned too.
It was obviously trying to block the dragon-shaped soundwave for the female Minotaur too, but it was one step late.
However, it came back to itself very soon, and it hugged the female Minotaur that was shivering because of all the blood and broken flesh on its body.
Moooo…
The female Minotaur realized what was going on and embraced it too.
“S*it, what’s going on? Shouldn’t our perspective be focused on human beings? Why are they playing the love story of Minotaurs?”
“Although I don’t understand them, I feel like their story is enough to make a forty-episode drama!”
“It’s very touching. Getting to the bottom of it, the Minotaurs are really poor creatures!”
On the live stream on Earth, this battlefield wasn’t too popular.
However, because of the huge population, the number of viewers wasn’t small. Many people’s impression of the Minotaurs changed after seeing the scene.
They thought that even though the aliens were invading human settlements, it was all because they were trying to survive under the pressure of the Great Darkness. As intelligent creatures, human beings should sympathize with them.
“Sympathize?”
“Which idiot invented that word?”
“Are you fools? They’re aliens who have killed a lot of human beings and destroyed many civilizations in the Land of Inheritance. Our own settlement was destroyed by the Minotaurs. Many heroes died in their hands too. Why do you think we should sympathize with the Minotaurs?”
But obviously, most people didn’t have any feelings for the aliens, and they were not sympathetic at all even when they watched the picture of love.
“Damn it, I wish there was someone who hated lovers in Dragon City. They can just burn these two Minotaurs.
“Unemotional is better than emotional. The night is long and the frost is cold. I hope that no couples will ever end up together…”
A chilling song came from the end of the canyon.
Zheng, zheng, zheng, zheng…
It was accompanied by the sound of a new guqin.
The performer of the guqin was also a woman in red. Even her hair was crimson too.
The guqin in front of her looked similar to Dragon City’s guqin ship in the past. There was a phoenix craning its head on it!
The intense soundwaves from the strings turned into visible red tides that wreathed the Minotaurs on the battlefield. The two Minotaurs that were publicly demonstrating their love, upon hitting the red soundwaves, turned from green to red, and then from red to black.
After that, red-and-black flames arose from inside their bodies and burned their souls into ashes too!
Bam! Bam! Bam!
On the battlefield, flames rose here and there, and the dragon-shaped soundwaves were on a rampage too!
It was also a sign that this battle had ended with the victory of human beings.
“Thank you for your assistance at the Blackwood Cliff. May I know your name?”
When the battle was over, the woman wearing the tall hat closed her fingers and snapped at them, launching a needle that dragged a red thread across the canyon that was a hundred meters wide.
After that, she stepped on the thread and reached the other side of the cliff like a red bird. She then met the other two girls, one in red and the other in white.
“Huang Xuemei.”
“Shetian Qinqi!”
“You have beautiful names, sisters. My name is Dongfang Bu1… Yu!”
The woman wearing a tall hat introduced herself.
“Dongfang Buyu1?”
“No, just Dongfang Yu!”
“Dongfang Yu means a woman from the east who’s as warm as jade. Little sister, your name is more beautiful!”
“Little sister?”
The woman wearing a tall hat put on a vague smile, as if she were very satisfied that they called her “little sister”.
“Your performance was wonderful. What’s the name of the song?”
“The Call of Death!” the second woman in red replied.
“Excellent song. It’s true that when Death calls you, you can’t survive!”
“Shouldn’t it be that those who publicly display their love can’t survive?”
The audience all joked.
The woman in white played the song named Eight Sounds of Heavenly Dragon.
“It’s unbelievably majestic… Sister, have you seen such a majestic True Dragon?”
The woman wearing a tall hat complimented her too.
“Indeed. I’ve personally seen the City Master’s as the Heavenly Dragon, which is how I can make my rendition of Eight Sounds of Heavenly Dragon flawless!”
“Wow, sisters, you’re so good! I want to learn guqin from you!”
The bodies and blood of the Minotaurs over the ground were quite brutal, but the three women were talking and laughing.
Even if they were females, they didn’t seem uncomfortable with the gores at all. It seemed that they were already used to it.
“Is she really your chief? Wasn’t she a ‘he’ in the past by the name of Dongfang Bubai?”
On the other side, the old man who played the flute asked weirdly after seeing the scene.
“Hush. The chief doesn’t like anyone mentioning her old name,” the old man who played the guqin replied.
“How did it happen?”
“The miraculous medicine that the City Master offered completely transformed the chief into a woman, so she changed her name into Dongfang Yu. Just between you and me, she has also got herself a boyfriend via the SkyNet. They’re about to get married soon…”
“Right, we haven’t properly thanked you yet. May we know your names?”
While they were talking, they had come to the two middle-aged men who wore sunglasses and played guqin as a team.
“Our names aren’t worth mentioning. Technically speaking, we’re just singers for money!”
The two men rose and packed up their guqin, which was even longer than an adult. Then, they carried the guqin together and held each other’s shoulders before they moved in the same direction.
“It’s never easy to find a good friend… Ouch!”
While they moved quickly, they sang again with the sorrow of not having many good friends. After moving for a while, both of them disappeared.
“Hey, careful! There’s a cliff in front of you!” the old man who played guqin thought of something and shouted to remind them.
“Ouch! Ouch!”
But the warning was too late. The noise of something rolling and tumbling already came from the bottom of the cliff.
“You know that there are a lot of cliffs at the Blackwood Cliff… Also, the floor and the rocks are purely black. Their sunglasses affect their view too. They probably didn’t notice the cliff at all!”
The two old men looked at each other in bewilderment, and the guqin player explained awkwardly.
But fortunately, it shouldn’t be a big problem. Both the middle-aged men were Transcendent experts. They wouldn’t get killed even if they had fallen from an altitude of a thousand meters.
However, they had been singing poems and playing guqin like real experts since their entrance. According to the news on the SkyNet, more than ten million people were watching their battle.
Therefore, they were probably embarrassed to death after the fall.
“Shoot…”
“LOL. Are these two men destined to humiliate themselves whenever they’re trying to show off?”
“Speaking of which, if these two blind guys are already in Dragon City, what about Stephen Chow? Is he here?”
Of course, the two guys didn’t know that for most of the audience, they were clowns to begin with. Their failed show-off actually brought joy to the cruel and intense battle.
