Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

Chapter 529 Gaining People’s Trust
"Faster, faster! I want you to go faster!"

On a dark blue shuttle, a black armored warrior covered in blood, with tears in his tiger eyes, kept sobbing, and stretched out his hands to knock on the shuttle armor beside him. Every punch made the whole shuttle tremble slightly, and the shield outside the shuttle flickered.

The yellow-armored warrior driving the shuttle was hit by the backlash, and felt a sharp pain in his head, as if he was repeatedly cursed by the evil monks... He couldn't help but utter thousands of curses. However, when these words came to her lips, she choked them back.

Because right next to the black-armored warrior, lay another burly warrior - half of him, to be precise, because he no longer existed from the waist down, and his internal organs slowly collapsed from his abdominal cavity, like rotten stew, rotten and foul-smelling.

If someone hadn't continuously fed him precious elixirs and performed superior magic to prolong his life at the same time as overdrawing his essence and blood, this injury would have been fatal long ago... But now it seems that death is only a matter of time. If he is not sent back to the camp as soon as possible and immersed in the reincarnation pool, no amount of first aid can save his life.

Therefore, as a comrade-in-arms of Zhu Wangdinghuang who was also from the Seventh Army, the driver Huang Jia really understood the feelings of the captain of the Dao Hai Battalion next to him.

If one of her comrades was ambushed by a wild beast in the wilderness and was seriously injured and in danger of death, and the rescue shuttle was blocked by the storm and could not return to the camp immediately...then she would only urge him even more fiercely and cruelly.

Unfortunately, no matter how anxious Captain Black Armor on the shuttle is, or how the Yellow Armor pilot understands empathy, reality is always cold and ruthless.

The pitch-black storm that stretched from sky to earth blocked the way ahead, whistling and sweeping like the mournful howls of dying creatures... Even with the shuttle shield filtering out the viciousness, it was still creepy.

Even the new combat shuttle that Zhu Wang's several major military academies jointly developed and rushed to produce was no different from an ant in the face of such a strange phenomenon in heaven and earth.

In fact, just half a day ago, the sky and the earth were still clear and peaceful, but the storm only took a moment to come, and this moment was enough to determine the life and death of many pioneer warriors.

The natural disasters in the desert of Mozhou are really, really...

The yellow-armored warrior stood at the shuttle's driving position. For a moment, he was frightened by the might of heaven, and his legs couldn't help but tremble slightly.

The captain of the Daohai Camp was furious when he saw this: "If you are afraid, let me do it!"

As he said this, he took a step forward to grab the shuttle's driving position. In a hurry, he attacked without restraint, and a sharp light flashed, as if he regarded Huang Jia's comrade as an enemy.

Fortunately, two strong arms hugged him from behind, and then more arms reached out from all directions and pinned him to death.

However, it was the other soldiers from the Dao Hai Camp on the shuttle who took action in time to stop it.

"Captain, don't be impulsive! Even if you snatch the shuttle, how can you avoid the storm without knowing the navigation map? If you charge head-on, you will disregard the lives of outsiders. Don't we in the Daohai Camp despise such behavior the most? "

The captain regained some composure and said through gritted teeth, "I understand... let me go! Damn, you have to crush me to death before you'll give up! My internal injuries haven't healed yet!"

The team members then let go of their hands nervously, fearing that this fiery captain would do something impulsive again.

But at this moment, the two yellow-armored drivers, who were still trembling, said in a trembling voice: "Outsider? We are both from the Seventh Army. We have been through life and death together these days, so I am still an outsider? Ha, ha, don't you just want to die? Fine, I'll accompany you. Hold on tight, I'm going to speed up..."

"Ah? Wait, don't be impulsive? We don't mean to blame you..."

The yellow-armored warrior gritted his teeth and said, "We can't charge forward. It looks like there's nowhere to go. If any of you are good at sensing the weather, you should be able to sense that the 'pursuers' behind us have arrived."

The next moment, someone exclaimed, "Those monsters are really chasing us!"

The captain straightened up immediately, his eyes bleeding: "Great, you're just in time! The last sneak attack caught people off guard. Since you're chasing us head-on this time, let's fight to the death!"

"Zheng Liming, shut up you idiot!"

The yellow-armored warrior could no longer hold back and turned around and shouted angrily, "Look carefully, what are those monsters following behind? They are obviously good at hiding and ambushing, why do they expose themselves so obviously? Aren't the people in the Daohai Camp the best at 'watching the sea and listening to the waves' and known for their sharp spiritual sense? Can't you even see the storm behind them?!"

Zheng Liming finally came back to his senses from a trance, and then used his spiritual sense to further expand his perception range.

Then, it was clearly seen that behind the group of invisible beasts, several new storms were rapidly forming!
Everyone has witnessed the efficiency of the weather change in Mozhou during this period of time. A dark storm with a diameter of several thousand meters that penetrates the sky and the earth takes only half an hour from its inception to its formation! And the storm behind him has already begun to take shape!

"So, we have no way to retreat. We have to rush forward to know whether we live or die..." The yellow-armored warrior lowered his voice and explained to the soldiers in the shuttle, "After that, we have to hope that the protection performance of this shuttle is really as good as the people in Youcheng Military Academy boasted... If you still have any elixirs or magic weapons that can enhance protection, use them all, so as not to regret it when you are on the road to the underworld."

After she finished speaking, she didn't give anyone else much time to react. She activated her spiritual sense and directly caused the two rear furnaces of the shuttle to burst out sparks, causing a rich light to flow in the Chongxia Formation, which helped the shuttle to fly like a meteor and rush straight into the storm!

Rumble, rumble...

Even though there was only a slight friction with the outer storm, the shuttle's shield instantly lit up with a red light, a warning sign. The inside of the shuttle was shaking violently, and many small parts began to fall out of place.

Obviously, in the face of the might of heaven and earth, the boasting of the Military Academy experts is really powerless.

Bang... Boom! The next moment, one of the shuttle's furnaces seemed to have inhaled some harmful impurities, and the internal reaction came to an abrupt halt. The sparks suddenly went out, and the light of the Chongxia Array that provided the thrust suddenly dimmed. The momentum that had originally split the storm like a dagger also slowed down.

As it slowed down, the shuttle suddenly went from sailing through the wind and waves to drifting with the current. It was swept away by the dark storm and completely lost control.

"Fuck..." The yellow-armored warrior was bleeding from all seven orifices. In order to grasp the one-in-a-billion chance of survival, she burned everything in her body from the beginning, making her consciousness operate unprecedentedly sharp, almost integrated with the shuttle. Therefore, if the shuttle malfunctioned in the storm, it would also directly implicate her.

Severely injured, no matter how unwilling she was, she could only watch the shuttle being completely sucked into the storm, with no chance of independence. The shield was also worn away at an alarming speed, and once it was completely broken, the iron used to cast the shuttle alone would not be able to hold up for even a moment.

"Oh, if I had known this..."

At the last moment, although the yellow-armored soldier was still firmly in the driver's seat, his mind was wandering and he thought of irrelevant things. And during this moment of relaxation, a light like dawn suddenly appeared in the dark storm before his eyes.

"Ah, this is what a person's hallucination looks like before they die?"

In a trance, the yellow-armored warrior saw the light in the illusion becoming more and more dazzling, and where the light was, all the dark evil spirits retreated... In just a blink of an eye, the black column that stretched through the sky and the earth was cut off by the light. And along the cross section, the light spread and burned like wildfire, as if it was going to swallow up the storm.

In the middle of the light, there was a woman in white. Her starry eyes were half closed, and her red lips moved slightly, as if she was singing softly. At such a distance, and with the remaining howling of the storm, her voice should not be heard clearly. But surprisingly, the yellow-armored warrior only felt that the song seemed to echo in his ears.

It’s a passionate ballad, the accent is so thick that it’s hard to make out the lyrics at first, but the emotion flowing through the voice is palpable.

It should be a song celebrating the harvest. Just by listening to the lively tune, the yellow-armored warrior seemed to have a beautiful scene of wind blowing wheat waves in his mind.

In this beauty, not even a trace of darkness and decay is allowed, just like people at the time of harvest cannot tolerate rats and pests. And this is not the will of a single person, but the will of millions of people... In the wheat waves, countless people holding sickles and torches, singing and dancing, flowing from their mouths, is the same tune.

The wills of hundreds of millions of people united as one, creating a force that seemed like God's will, so the dark storm had to retreat temporarily and dissipated in reluctance.

Whether it was the storm in front of the shuttle or the storm gradually approaching from the back, they all quickly dissipated and melted in the light... Soon, the sky cleared up.

It was as if nothing had ever happened.

Then, the woman who was singing in a low voice stopped singing, raised her head, and revealed a pair of beautiful eyes with a smile.

That gentle gaze seemed to have the effect of making people let go of all their guard and soothe their minds. The soldiers in the shuttle had just escaped death, but they felt a sense of peace in an instant, so they listened more attentively to her next words.

"Heh, the weather outside Tongming Road has been getting more and more rapid and violent recently. Fortunately, I arrived in time. Are you all right? The road ahead is clear now. Go back quickly. The people in the fortress have been waiting for you for a long time."

After saying that, before the others could thank her for saving her life, the woman in white sang another note softly. Then a strong wind appeared out of thin air and attached to the shuttle's Chongxia formation, allowing it to temporarily regain power and fly towards the Tongming Dinghuang Fortress not far away.

After dealing with the shuttle, she stretched her body, tilted her head back slightly, and said, "Forget the praise. I'm not that happy to use this power. And from the perspective of you Immortal Alliance people, it shouldn't be advocated to pursue overly powerful individual strength, right?"

"But, that is still an awe-inspiring power of the immortal way... and I must thank Duke Feng for saving my life."

Behind the woman, Chang Feiran, the captain of the Moving Mountain Camp, spoke sincerely.

Nan Yingying, who had previously called herself a casual person but had not officially resigned from the position of Duke, smiled and said, "Okay, okay, I know you Immortal Alliance people are particular about etiquette, but if I really want to thank someone, I should thank your special envoy. If he hadn't forced the four southern counties to launch a campaign to learn from Duke Feng, my sentient beings' wish wouldn't have recovered so quickly. After Yang Shijun performed a blood sacrifice at my home, I thought the magical power transformed by this wish would never recover."

After that, Nan Yingying added seriously, "However, even with my protection, the environment around Tongming Road is too dangerous recently. Ask your soldiers to be more restrained and not leave the existing passage."

Chang Feiran pondered for a moment and smiled bitterly, "I will report to the Marshal... However, the recent difficulties in Mozhou have exceeded expectations. Since we guided the second Dinghuang Fortress to land, the threats from the surrounding natural changes and the sudden agitation of local wild beasts have begun to increase exponentially. The original relatively safe plan of pioneering and opening up the road is no longer applicable. If our Seventh Army soldiers cannot completely clear the surrounding area before guiding the fortress, then if something happens, the consequences will be disastrous... Whether it is the Rainbow Bridge or the empty city fortress, they are actually quite fragile."

Nan Yingying said, "So that's why you risked your lives and left the safe and open road? Your courage is really admirable... In our Xinheng, although there has never been a lack of fearless soldiers, and the border defense troops often fight against wild beasts and natural disasters, but that is limited to the national border. Once you leave the national border and leave the protection of the fairy light above your head, even the bravest soldiers will become a little weak out of thin air. And going deep into the wilderness is something that most people have never thought about. Although this is mostly a constraint engraved by the fairy officials in the heavenly court when we were born, not due to free will. But in any case, for the people of Xinheng, watching you, as fellow humans, go deep into the wilderness and fight to the death is really an indescribable shock."

Chang Feiran was not surprised by the other party's sincere words.

After the two sides met at Jinhu Fortress a few days ago, Chang Feiran followed Guan Dingnan's order to receive the distinguished guest. The distinguished guest was not in a hurry to continue to the Immortal Alliance, but followed the Dinghuang Army who were paving the Tongming Road. Sometimes he curiously observed the fighting methods of the Immortal Alliance and asked about the actual situation of Tianzhiyou; sometimes he personally went into battle and used the magical powers of the Great Master to save the Immortal Alliance soldiers in distress.

In just a few days, this pretty, cheerful woman from Xinheng, whose strength was comparable to that of a god, had won the collective respect of the soldiers of the Dinghuang Army.

Of course, in her own words, this is a kind of cooperation that benefits both sides. Although she has been authorized by Wang Luo to go to the Immortal Alliance, the Immortal Alliance must be extremely vigilant about the visit of a strange Mahayana True Lord from the enemy territory... By then, it would be good for her to enjoy the treatment of a prisoner of war. But that is obviously not what she wants.

Therefore, it would be better to establish enough outstanding merits on the Tongming Road, so that these warriors who enjoy a very high reputation among the people can spread her achievements. Then, she can go to the Immortal Alliance, which will be much more comfortable.

Similarly, Nan Yingying never minded the huge difference in strength and status between the two sides, and only talked to Zhu Wang, the soldier king who always followed her, and never concealed her thoughts and feelings. This was of course also to win people's trust, and this was of course enough to win people's trust.

(End of this chapter)