Steel Chang'an

Chapter 83

"You've lived a leisurely life in Donglin these days," said the wolf lord.

"Who said, I've been busy preparing for spring hunting for the past month to enter the Yin Ruins, but I haven't been idle at all." Li Jing leaned against the thigh of the battle armor behind him, and found a bag of melon seeds from nowhere, while He kowtowed and said, "Tell me, how did the investigation go?"

"It's rare to contact me once, and you don't ask me how Chang'an City is." The wolf lord was very dissatisfied with Li Jing's attitude, "Are you not worried at all?"

"Now you are the great general protecting the city, right?" Li Jing said with a smile, "With you guarding Chang'an, I have nothing to worry about. Naturally, I feel relieved. What else is there to worry about?"

"Are you not worried at all, I took Chang'an City while you were away?" Wolf Lord asked.

"Hehe, even if I'm not here, she's still there." Li Jing said, "If you want to win the city, you have to beat her."

"You mean that female apprentice of yours in the Daming Palace?" The wolf master rubbed his chin, "Although the female doll is young, she is very cunning. That bastard Zhuo Renyue deliberately drove you out of Chang'an City. I can hold the Chang'an Knights in my own hands, but I didn't expect to make a wedding dress for others. Now that the Chang'an Knights are firmly in the hands of the girl, although Zhuo Renyue has fulfilled her wish to become the chief knight But it was completely emptied. The girl deliberately let him mobilize Fengqi out of the city to hunt you down, but later she used this as an excuse to reprimand him and took back the command of Fengqi to herself. This kind of wrist, I'm afraid you didn't teach it, did you?"

"Hehe, I don't dare to claim to be that master," Li Jing said with a rare humility, "I also taught her riding and armour. I can't teach her such things as power. Is it necessary to bow down and bow to the apprentice? That master, I am afraid that only the person in the Military Machine Pavilion can afford it."

"Speaking of which, Old Wolf, I have been appointed as the Great General to protect the city, and I have been stationed in Chang'an for quite a while, and I have been to the Military Machine Pavilion no less than seventeen or eight times, but that person has never shown up. Could it be that that person is still wandering around, and his whereabouts are unknown? Is what you said true?" The wolf master looked at Li Jing playfully, "Or...the wandering outside is just something you use to fool my old wolf, and that person is actually long gone?"

Seeing Li Jing narrowing his eyes, smiling without saying a word, the wolf master quickly waved his hand and said, "Forget it, old wolf, I am also confused, actually asking one fox for another fox's whereabouts..."

Mu Yun held his breath and hid behind the row of battle armor.He could now clearly see that the wolf lord standing in front of Li Jing was just a holographic image from the communicator.Just as he had guessed before, the gold watch that Li Jing had been hanging around his neck that was extremely inappropriate for him turned out to be a special communicator. He even guessed half-jokingly with Su Sheng that it was probably Li Jing's special watch. It was used to communicate with a secret lover he stayed in Chang'an City.It never occurred to him that Li Jing was always wearing this disguised secret communicator, which was used to communicate with the wolf master of the Northwest Wolf.

There must be some misunderstanding.The wolf lord and Li Jing may have fought each other, but they are definitely not friends.Mu Yun thought to himself.Perhaps the wolf master intercepted Li Jing's communication signal and forcibly entered the channel. This does not mean that Li Jing has colluded with the Northwest Wolf.But as he heard more and more, his heart gradually sank.He realized that Li Jing had colluded with the wolf lord long before he entered Chang'an City.The battle between him and Li Jing at the Tongque Terrace was planned long ago. Li Jing and the wolf lord joined forces to create the illusion that he was forced to leave Chang'an because of the calculations of the Northwest Wolf. The lady in the Daming Palace was also an insider. .He didn't know who the man in the military cabinet they were talking about was, but that didn't matter.

He was the only one kept in the dark.

why?
The anger of the broken White Horse City was still burning in his heart. It was a smoldering dark fire underground. Under his silent and calm surface, the flame of revenge was licking his heart all the time.He never talked about his hatred for the wolf lord, he still remembered what the wolf lord said to him, "I spare your life, I will give you a chance, wait until the day you are qualified to stand in front of me, and then take revenge Come on," said the wolf lord, "it's too boring for you to kill now, you don't even have the interest to let me do it."

This was the last time he saw the wolf lord. After the wolf lord finished speaking, he was taken out of the wolf lord's tent and thrown into the northwest army camp.He was allowed to train with the novice knights in the army—or, to be more precise, was forced to, because by order of the Wolf Lord, if he did not get the best results in any day of training, he would be sent to the Executed at the end of the day.The people in the Northwest Army Camp regarded this as an interesting game, and tried every means to trip him up, expecting him to be executed.But he survived in the end.About a year later, the wolf lord sent someone to give back the armor Xifeng that Mu Chuan had left behind, and promised that if he won the Chang'an Knights Competition, the armor would be his.He originally thought that this was a chance given to him by the wolf lord, a chance for revenge, but he didn't realize until now that his hatred might be worthless in the eyes of the wolf lord.He was played by the wolf lord, he was just a chess piece that made the best use of everything, a self-righteous prop puppet, used to match Li Jing's gorgeous performance at Tongque Terrace.

"Go on like this and become a real knight."

On the day Baima City was broken, Mu Chuan told him.

He said yes, and the poor white knight closed his eyes in his arms covered in blood, and smiled serenely.

This is the agreement between him and Mu Chuan.

Go on like this and become a real knight.

Because of this agreement, he tried his best to survive in the northwest military camp. No matter how much humiliation he endured, no matter what kind of reputation he bears, no matter how tired he feels in his heart, he is moving forward step by step. Walked to Chang'an City, and from Chang'an City to Donglin.How far must I go to become a true knight?He didn't know, he just knew that all he could do was go on like this.

But he didn't realize until today that every step he thought he took according to his own will in the past was actually a step drawn by invisible silk threads.There is an invisible road under his feet, a route drawn for him by others. Since the day the White Horse City was broken, he has been at the mercy of invisible hands, like a chess piece being moved by others. On this road, and he has no idea where the end is.

just why?
Li Jing, the wolf lord, Daming Palace, Junji Pavilion... These people joined forces to put on a play in Chang'an City, a big show for the world to see.From the conversation between Li Jing and the wolf lord, he vaguely guessed that this scene was related to the power struggle in Chang'an City.He recalled the conversation between King Teng and Li Jing at that time. This scene is also very likely to be related to the power struggle in the entire continent...

But what does all this have to do with him?
He didn't understand the power games of those noble lords at all, and he didn't want to participate in it at all.Although he considers himself a knight, he has neither title nor title, he is not even a nobleman.And as a knight, his strength is quite limited. Just like what Li Jing said, there are knights who are stronger and more experienced than him on this continent.Before meeting Li Jing, he hadn't even studied "Knight's Travel Record", and the training he had received was only the most superficial common sense in mecha operation.

Why did Li Jing invite him to go on the road with him outside Chang'an City?
Why did Li Jing pester himself to worship him as his teacher along the way?

Why spend energy on him, build a armor for him, and conduct special training for him?

Why care about him and encourage him to be a true knight?

Why do you want him to think that he is no longer alone on the road, why do you want him to think that he has a master he can trust, someone who will make him worry, someone who will fight with him? Who can deliver the back—

Only to find out that all this is just a long-planned scam?

Is it because he is a country boy from the desert, a fool who is easy to deceive?

Mu Yun lowered her head, watching her involuntarily clenched hands trembling slightly.

His heart was beating fast, anger was boiling in his blood, and his eye sockets were also covered with a layer of red.

He really wanted to rush forward to question Li Jing right now, what is the reason for all this?
Why did the majestic No. [-] knight in the world collude with the notorious Northwest Wolf Lord?
Why, as his master, would he be so familiar with the man he hated the most?
But he controlled himself.

He had to control himself, his breathing, his heartbeat, his anger...

He couldn't expose himself now.

Otherwise he would never have the chance to know the truth.

He controlled the muscles in his throat and muzzle to slow his breathing, and he counted his heartbeats until his breathing became as noiseless as the wind blowing through the ventilation duct.

Li Jing seemed completely unaware that there was another person in the hangar.

It's a little ridiculous that Mu Yun suddenly thought that this method of controlling emotions was taught to him by Li Jing.

(End of this chapter)