Steel Chang'an

Chapter 9

Mu Yun raised his head. Under the blinding sunlight, he could only look at the knights of the Chang'an Knights on the city wall from a distance.The majestic and magnificent red and white cloaks on their bodies fluttered slowly in the gentle afternoon wind, which was a kind of brilliance and glory beyond his reach.

He couldn't hear the conversation between Li Jing and the knights.He only knew that the glory and glory of the knight had nothing to do with him.

I'm really not reconciled... Mu Yun thought to himself.

Just a few minutes ago, he thought he would win.Win the championship of the knight contest, redeem the armor Zephyr and become a real knight.

This beautiful dream was once so close to him, so close that he thought it would come true if he just took one step forward.But he lost, lost, nothing.

He no longer has the chance to redeem the armor Zephyr, nor has the opportunity to own his own armor, nor even the chance to participate in the knight competition again.

How can a person who doesn't even have a mecha and even be considered a knight participate in the knight competition?
Becoming a real knight...is always just a dream.

Mu Yun raised her head, looked at the knights standing on the city wall, watched their figures gradually blur in the dazzling sunlight, and finally turned into a hazy shadow.

Mu Yun wiped her eyes fiercely with the back of her hand a few times.

everything is over.he told himself.

But, I'm really not reconciled...

Mu Yun didn't know how she got out of Tongque Terrace.The core engine of the battle armor Xifeng was destroyed, and the system crashed due to the instant flameout, and most of the functions have failed.Now, relying on the power of two auxiliary engines, the mech captured Mu Yun's steps through the sensors of the neuron system, and moved forward step by step.

Every step is extremely difficult, and the armor Xifeng may fall down at any time.

I am afraid that the wolf owner of the Northwest Canglang won't care much about whether a mecha that has been damaged to such a degree can be redeemed...

But this is the last chance in his life to be able to pilot the mecha.That being the case, let the armor Xifeng walk a few more steps with him!

Just go on like this until you can't walk anymore!

The bustling street scene of Chang'an was reflected in Mu Yun's eyes through the shaking external monitor.

In the far northeast direction, the majestic buildings of Daming Palace radiate blue brilliance in the sunlight. It is the heart of Chang'an City, and it is also the most prosperous place in the entire Chang'an City.This city, which was rebuilt according to Chang'an, one of the greatest cities in human history, strictly followed the pattern of Chang'an in history, placing the center of power and wealth in the Daming Palace in the northeast corner of the city.The prosperity there is dozens or even hundreds of times that of the ordinary streets in Chang'an, and it has really reached the point of extravagance.Therefore, it is often said that if you have not entered the Daming Palace, you have not been to Chang'an City.

Before Mu Yun had time to enter the Daming Palace to have a look, he was about to leave.This is the first time he has come to Chang'an, and it may also be the last time.

He didn't know where he should go, he just walked forward mechanically along the straight Suzaku Avenue.This is the most important main road in Chang'an City, when he first entered this city, it gave him a deep shock with its extremely wide atmosphere.At that time, he thought it was a square, but it was just a street.In his hometown, the desolate West Desert, how can there be such a wide street?Even the square is probably less than half the width of Suzaku Avenue.

Yes, the desolate West Desert and the beautiful Baima City are his hometown.However, he can't go back...

"White Horse City, is it the White Horse City in the Northwest Desert?"

"Apart from the White Horse City in the northwest desert, is there a second White Horse City on this continent?"

"Is the lord of White Horse City surnamed Mu?"

"That's right. The lord of White Horse City is named Mu, and the young lord of White Horse City is also surnamed Mu."

"Mu Yun is also surnamed Mu."

"There are not many descendants of the Mu family on this continent."

"It's a pity that in that battle, the city lord and the young city lord of Baima City were defeated and died together."

"The city was destroyed and the people were killed. The Mu family's bloodline should have been cut off in that battle."

"So, who exactly is Mu Yun in Baima City?"

"Isn't it the wolf lord of the Northwest Blue Wolf who destroyed the White Horse City?"

"White Horse City Muyun is fighting for the Northwest Wolf, what's going on?"

When Mu Yun was looking at the Daming Palace, there was also a young girl sitting by the window in the Daming Palace, looking at Mu Yun from a distance.

It might be inaccurate to say that she saw, because the girl's eyes were closed tightly and her eyelashes drooped. Judging from the slender eyeliner, it should be a pair of beautiful eyes, but unfortunately she seemed unable to see.

But the direction in which the girl watched her off was exactly where Mu Yun had left.

The girl was petite and looked a few years younger than Mu Yun. Her long black hair covered most of her figure, and the intricately embroidered dress was spread out under her body.The girl folded her hands in the wide sleeves, and asked herself questions and answers in a graceful voice outside the window.That beautiful and lovely appearance is like a doll in the Doll's Festival, which is so cute that people can't help but want to get close.

But the group of people behind her only dared to kneel at a distance, not even daring to lift their heads.

The person in the lead is none other than Mr. Wen Xi, who is the sixth member of the Military Machine Pavilion.

The distance from Tongquetai Arena to Daming Palace is not too short. Even though Mr. Wen Xi was traveling by car, the journey was extremely busy, and the layers of official robes were already drenched with sweat.He still had a fan in his arms as usual, but in front of that girl, he could only close the fan neatly, letting the sweat drip down his forehead.

Because the girl sitting by the window is the most honorable person in the entire city of Chang'an.

According to legend, the female adult in Daming Palace.

The knight competition in Chang'an City was held to celebrate her birthday, but she didn't go to watch the competition.But she already knew the result of this duel, long before Mr. Wen Xi arrived.

Although she cannot see with binoculars, she has her own way of seeing the world.

It was as if she had been sitting in front of the window, watching the armor Xifeng from afar.She looked at it very seriously, as if she could see Mu Yun inside the armor through West Wind.

Now, she is also looking at Mr. Wen Xi seriously.

Mr. Wenxi didn't know what she could see, but he knew that it was best not to lie in front of this lady.Because this lady is not only the most honorable person in the entire city of Chang'an, but also a student of Da Junji.

The owner of the Military Machine Pavilion, Chang'an City Wisdom No. 1, is known as the Great Military Machine.

Mr. Wenxi, as the sixth member of the Military Aircraft Pavilion, naturally knows the power of the military aircraft, and also knows what kind of vision the students taught by the military aircraft will have, and what kind of judgment they will make on the current situation.

Therefore, he directly stated the result of this battle: "Li Jing won, we lost."

"Mu Yun is just a chess piece. The Northwest Wolf has set up a puzzle to make us focus on Mu Yun, making us mistakenly think that the wolf mainly uses Mu Yun to win the championship of the knight competition, forcing us to invite Li Jing played.

"But the real purpose of the Northwest Wolf is to let Li Jing fight, because he knows that Li Jing will win!
"From the beginning to the end, the wolf master is very aware of Mu Yun's strength. He also knows that Mu Yun is not Li Jing's opponent, and he has never expected Mu Yun to win the knight championship. fight!
"The purpose of forcing Li Jing to fight is to let him win, because if he wins, it will intensify the internal conflicts of the Chang'an Knights, and Li Jing has to leave the Chang'an Knights, and even has to leave Chang'an.

"Forcing Li Jing to leave Chang'an is the real goal of the Northwest Wolf."

Mr. Wen Xi said, kneeling deeply again, "The army machine is wandering outside, and the general machine pavilion is handed over to Wen Xi to preside over it. Wen Xi failed to detect the plan of the Northwest Wolf in advance, and let the wolf master succeed. Wen Xi lost this round. Wen Xi The rhinoceros is here, willing to accept the punishment."

The girl sitting by the window did not move, but gave a soft "hmm".

Mr. Wen Xi broke out in cold sweat on his back. He had been kneeling since he met the lady. He thought he could get up after saying this, but the lady didn't say anything.

In the end, this is just a formality, the courtier admits his mistake, the master shows magnanimity, and it is enough for each other to save face. If you keep making people kneel down like this, can you still have a pleasant chat?
In desperation, Mr. Wen Xi could only continue to kneel, resisting the numbness on his knees, and said in his usual gorgeous tone: "Wen Xi believes that forcing Li Jing out of Chang'an is just the first move of the wolf lord. He Since they are deliberately planning to force Li Jing away, there must be some follow-up actions. Therefore, the most urgent task is to find out the next move of the Northwest Wolf—”

"Find out the next move of the Northwest Wolf? That's not necessary." The girl sitting by the window finally spoke, but interrupted Mr. Wenxi's words, and said with a soft smile, "Dajun's plan is clever, as long as he was out wandering The situation has already been laid out before. The next move of the Northwest Wolf is under his control."

Mr. Wenxi was startled, and couldn't help but blurt out: "Could it be that the military plane has already expected the outcome of this battle?"

"Exactly." The girl raised her hand, covered her face with her sleeve and smiled lightly.Her demeanor is graceful and elegant, with a hint of girlish timidity, and her smile is like a spring breeze, but the words in her mouth are as chilling as Dong Xue, "If Li Jing hadn't been regarded as an abandoned son by the army, how could he agree with you?" Arrange for him to fight?"

"So that's how it is..." Facing the girl who covered her face and chuckled, thinking that Li Jing might have known that he was considered an outcast long before he agreed to fight, but still won the duel for Chang'an, Mr. Wenxi is used to it The intrigues in the officialdom can't help but feel a pang of sadness in my heart, "But... Li Jing, as the number one knight, has made countless military exploits for Chang'an, and now the evil wolves are entrenched outside Chang'an city, and the Chang'an Knights don't have the number one knight in charge anymore. ..."

"So what?" the girl said in a manly voice, "It's a pity that the Chang'an Knights lost their number one knight, but what use is a knight with a disorganized mind to Chang'an?"

Mr. Wenxi bowed his head and remained silent, thinking that it was no secret that the Changan Knights were dissatisfied with Li Jing. Since Daming Palace had this attitude, it would be a matter of time before Li Jing was expelled from the Changan Knights.This move by the wolf lord was nothing more than an opportunity for the Chang'an Knights to expel Li Jing.

And the big army machine took Li Jing as an abandoned son, and made this move...

The first is to make the wolf master think he has the upper hand and successfully force Chang'an City to break his sword, and then use this to induce the wolf master's follow-up actions...

This is to use the entire Chang'an city as a lure to invite the wolf master into the game.

But in this game, the entire Pangu Continent was used as the chessboard.

Mr. Wenxi calculated in his mind, and vaguely understood the layout intention of the large military aircraft.

At this moment, Mr. Wen Xi no longer cares about the expulsion of Li Jing. He just admires the courage of the military plane to use the entire Chang'an City as a bait, and it is inevitable that he will feel a little bit about this young female adult in front of him. tribute.

At such a young age, only relying on the layout left by the big military plane, he dared to sit alone in the Daming Palace and deal with the evil wolves outside Chang'an City. He was indeed a student taught by the big military plane.

Mr. Wen Xi was thinking like this, but he heard the female adult say: "The layout of the military aircraft is certainly comprehensive, but there is a pawn that is not in his deduction."

Baima City, Mu Yun.

Although he was defeated by Li Jing, this originally unknown country boy finally made the most prominent person in Chang'an City remember his name.

"What kind of person is he...?"

asked the girl in fancy dress.The smooth and beautiful face like porcelain was not as indifferent as before, but showed a bit of curiosity.

It was a girl's curiosity about a boy, just like all girls her age are curious about a boy who is a little mysterious, a little capable, and a little handsome.

Mr. Wenxi laughed, and he replied: "Mu Yun of Baima City is a very interesting person. To be precise, Mu Yun of Baima City is actually a traitor of Baima City."

"Traitor?" the lady asked in puzzlement.

"Yes." Mr. Wenxi said, "Junji Pavilion has found out that although Mu Yun's surname is Mu, he is not from aristocratic background, and he has no blood relationship with the Mu family of Baima City. This person was originally just an unnamed orphan in the northwest desert. He was given the surname Mu only because he happened to meet Mu Chuan, the young master of Baima City.

"It is said that the young master of Baima City treated Mu Yun well, not only gave him a surname, but also promoted him to be his personal attendant, personally taught mecha skills, and treated Mu Yun as a brother.

"But the young master of White Horse City did not expect that Mu Yun would repay his kindness and revenge. When the Northwest Wolf Army attacked White Horse City, he betrayed White Horse City and took refuge in the Wolf Lord. As a result, the father and son of White Horse City Lord and his son died in battle, and Baima City fell to the iron hooves of Northwest Wolf. under.

"The battle armor Xifeng used by Mu Yun this time was originally the car of the young master of Baima City. After the young master of Baima City died in battle, this mecha fell into the hands of the wolf master. The reason why Mu Yun traveled thousands of miles to Chang'an , to fight for the Northwest Wolf, because the wolf lord made an agreement with him that if he can win the Chang'an Knights Competition, the battle armor Xifeng will belong to him."

As Mr. Wenxi said, he thought of that silent and stubborn country boy. Before he got the information from Junji Pavilion, he had some appreciation for this boy from Baima City; but he did not expect that this seemingly honest boy , would be a traitor.

Repaying kindness with revenge, betraying his master for glory, these two notorieties alone are enough to prevent this young man from gaining a foothold in the Northwest Continent. Once the notoriety spreads throughout the continent, there will be no room for him in the Pangu Continent.

No knight order would take in a rebellious knight, let alone Mu Yun was not even a knight.

But he called himself Mu Yun of the White Horse City, and told everyone without hesitation that he was from the White Horse City, and he made a contract with the Wolf Lord to fight for the relics of the young master of the White Horse City.

Before Mr. Wen Xi knew that Mu Yun was a traitor in Baima City, he couldn't understand this chess piece. After he knew that Mu Yun was a traitor in Baima City, he couldn't understand this chess piece even more.

Therefore, he can only say that Mu Yun in Baima City is a very interesting person.

"Interesting." The lady nodded and said after listening, but the expression on her face has returned to the indifference when she was strategizing before, "No matter why Mu Yun betrayed Baima City, he did not join the Northwest Wolf .”

Mu Yun didn't join the Northwest Canglang, which meant that even the wolf master couldn't grasp this pawn.

"Since Mu Yun is not under the control of the wolf lord, it means that this chess piece is not in the deduction of the military plane." The female adult continued with a graceful voice.

The layout deduction of the large military aircraft is to use the entire continent as a chessboard to guide the wolf lord out of the situation he wants the wolf lord to get out of.But Mu Yun, a pawn, may not walk on the chessboard according to the will of the wolf lord.

This chess piece is small but important, and its existence may cause the entire chess game to collapse.

That's why the lady in Daming Palace pays special attention to this country boy.

That was not a young girl's attention to a boy, no matter whether the boy was brave and good at fighting, handsome and cute, or a despicable traitor, she never cared about it.

When she cast her eyes on Mu Yun, what she was looking at was a perfect precision calculation.Outside of this precise calculation, there is an uncalculated data, like an ugly and glaring stain.

Therefore, before Mr. Wen Xi spoke, she had already made a decision.

"The chess piece must be in the hands of the player. If a chess piece has free will, then it should not remain on the chessboard."

Mr. Wen Xi heard the lady say in her usual graceful voice.

This conclusion was originally expected by him, even if the lady didn't say it, he would still do it.But for some reason, when he saw that girl who was as beautiful and pure as a porcelain doll lightly opened her vermilion lips and uttered these words calmly, he felt very cold in his heart, even colder than when he heard Li Jing being regarded as It is even colder when the child is abandoned.

He thought to himself, Da Junji had taught his female student too well.

It's just that when Mr. Wenxi spoke, his voice was as calm as that lady's: "To make Mu Yun, a pawn, disappear from the chessboard, we don't necessarily need to do it." Mr. Wenxi said, "It is said that the remnants of Baima City are still chasing and killing Mu Yun. The Military Machine Pavilion has reported that two Thunder Mechas have sneaked into Chang'an City secretly, and the target is Mu Yun."

Mr. Wenxi said, laughing.

"Even if the two Thunder Mechas can't take down Mu Yun, I don't think the Wolf Lord will be willing to let a chess piece that is not under his control stay on the table. If this is the case, why should we dirty our own for a small chess piece?" hand?"

After Mr. Wenxi finished speaking, he watched the expression of the adult woman, and saw her nodded slightly.

He watched the graceful figure of the lady disappear behind the overlapping curtains surrounded by the ladies.Seeing her petite and immature back, he suddenly wanted to tell her that a girl should look like a girl, and that those cruel and heartless things should be left to adults like them.

But he knew that the female adult was not an ordinary girl.Since she was born, she was destined to guard this Daming Palace, this Chang'an City, and this continent.

Because her surname is Ji Wen, the oldest and most noble surname on this continent, with a history as long as that of Chang'an City.

The girl's name is Ji Wen'an Ge.The years are peaceful, and Ange is peaceful with singing and dancing.

Few people knew her name, and when people mentioned her, they just said "that lady in the Daming Palace".But Mr. Wen Xi thought it was an excellent name.

He rubbed his knees and walked out of Daming Palace waving his fan.A thought suddenly popped up in his mind, if he didn't peek at the girl's porcelain-like cheeks, and didn't secretly remember the girl's name in his heart, maybe one day, he would be able to sit in the big military plane.

But on second thought, what's the point of such a life?Like now, it seems good to be the sixth person in the military cabinet.

He got into the carriage, broke a flower at random, bought a jug of wine on the way, and was going to find Li Jing, and had another drink with the former number one knight before he was expelled from Chang'an City. Once a cow, sleep once a girl.

Because from now on, in the entire city of Chang'an, I am afraid that there will be no one like Li Jing who will come to drink with him, brag and sleep with girls.

After all, there are many knights on the mainland, but there is only one first knight.

Just like there are many people surnamed Li in Chang'an City, but there is only one Li mansion.

Everyone in Chang'an City knew that only the mansion where Li Jing lived was called Li Mansion.

But Li Jing was not in the Li mansion, and even the servants of the Li mansion didn't know where he went.

Mr. Wenxi knew that after the duel, Li Jing liked to take a bath and take a nap in the yard.Therefore, the servants of the Li mansion have already boiled the bath water and prepared the bed in the yard.

But now the bath water is still steaming cleanly, and the bed is neat and tidy, it doesn't look like someone has slept on it.

After Li Jing won the duel at Tongque Terrace, he didn't know where he went in a hurry.

Mr. Wen Xi was wondering. At this time, a young official wearing the uniform of the Military Machine Pavilion walked up to Mr. Wen Xi, opened a special booklet for the Military Machine Pavilion, and called out some encrypted images.

Mr. Wen Xi saw in those images, besides the two Thunder mechas from the remnants of the White Horse City that he mentioned to the lady, there were also six centaur and iron cavalry from the Northwest Blue Wolf, and two mechas belonging to the Chang'an Knights. The heavy mechs converged towards a certain point in Chang'an City from three directions.

Mr. Wen Xi knew that as early as the moment the dust of the duel in Tongque Terrace settled, the chess game laid by the military machine had quietly started.

He raised his head and looked at the sky, and found that the weather was fine, and the huge sun was still hanging over Chang'an City.But there is a changing situation, which is also slowly coming from outside Chang'an City.

Mr. Wen Xi never believed in fate, but at that moment, he vaguely sensed that the fate of the entire Chang'an City—no, the fate of the entire Pangu Continent began to rotate at that moment, like the axle of a chariot Woke up.

He lowered his head and his eyes fell on a small dot in those images.The red dot formed by heat induction represents a heavily damaged [-]-ton special mecha. It is moving slowly at this moment, and it just lands on the point where mechas from three directions converge. superior.

That is the battle armor Zephyr.

Baima City, Mu Yun.

Perhaps this young man is really a variable that can change the fate of the entire continent.Mr. Wen Xi thought to himself.

Then, ignoring the surprised gaze of the young official in the Military Aircraft Pavilion, he took off his boots, lay down on the bed originally prepared for Li Jing, and drank the pot of wine that he planned to drink with Li Jing.

Because he knew that it was impossible for Li Jing to come back.

(End of this chapter)