Chapter 27 If you don't become an ant, you will become a dragon!
Facing the sharp gaze that pointed directly at people's hearts, Zhang Tie looked at the elder of Huaiyuantang without any timidity, "I don't think there is anything special about me, I just did what I should do?"
"What should you do?" A cold smile appeared on the face of the elder of Huaiyuantang, "Do you know that what Huaiyuantang practices here is military law? What you think you should do, if it has to be dealt with according to military law, there are
It may make you lose your head, but Huaiyuantang has been able to stand from scratch to this day, whether inside or outside the family, because of the four words of family regulations and orders and prohibitions left by Huaiyuan Gong. Huaiyuantang is full of iron rules and regulations.
Come on, even the heir of Earl Changfeng who violated the family rules can be deposed by the family and imprisoned for life. Do you think that because you can make full-effect potions, the family rules are useless to you, and Huaiyuantang will not dare to kill you?"
"I am just a little person. I have never felt that I am great. If I violate the rules and want my life, Huaiyuantang will naturally dare to kill me!" Zhang Tie raised his head, "It's just that some people are alive in this world.
Is it something that must be done?”
"Oh, are you still reasonable?" The elder of Huaiyuantang laughed angrily, "Is your reason more important than the family rules? Please tell me what your reason is. Those people are worthy of you doing this for them.
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"One of those people once saved my life. I have to repay this kindness. This is one of them!"
"What about the second one?"
Zhang Tie was silent for a moment, and his voice suddenly lowered, but his tone became as hard as iron, "The information that more than one million ordinary people in Tianhan City have paid for with their lives does not belong to any one person, nor does it belong to Jin."
No one among the six major families of the Yun Kingdom and the powerful princes and nobles has the qualifications and the power to take this information stained with the blood of more than a million innocent people in Tianhan City as their own, and to block the news of the jihad.
Get up and let more ordinary people become cannon fodder without any preparation!"
"Is this what you think?" Elder Huaiyuantang's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Yes!" Zhang Tie said louder and louder, and his whole chest puffed up. "These days, many forces and many people have gotten the news they want from Tianhan City. Why are there only those big figures from the Central Power Alliance on the mainland?
The big families are qualified to know that the Holy War and the Demonic Disaster will come in full force as early as next year or even six months later, so why can’t other people know this information that is closely related to the fate of each of them? "
The elder of Huaiyuantang carefully examined every expression on Zhang Tie's face. His sharp gaze seemed to penetrate Zhang Tie's eyes and shine straight into his heart. "Why do you want to ask? Because every time during the holy war,
Those who can persevere to the end, inflict the most damage to the demons and preserve the most vitality of the human race are these people and families. Their accumulated strength and organizational skills make them qualified to know more information in advance than ordinary people!"
"So ordinary people are destined to be sacrificed?"
The elder of Huaiyuantang had a serious look on his face, "Have you ever seen how ants cross the river when the flood comes? Ants can't swim, so they can only hold together tens of thousands of ants when they cross the river.
Roll over, during this process, many of the ants on the outermost edge will be washed away by the river, and only the ants in the middle of the ant group can survive. This holy war, for the human race, is a test for ants to cross the river when the flood comes.
In the end, some ants will be washed away by the flood, while some ants can cross the river in front of them. Sacrifice is inevitable. Since there is no guarantee that every ant will pass, only those ants with strong ability to hold together will
, is the hope for the future of the entire ant community!"
Zhang Tie knew that what the elders of Huaiyuantang said was right. When the holy war comes, the vast majority of ordinary people and ordinary people who do not have strong forces to rely on and unite with them will simply not be able to organize an effective counterattack against the demons. They will only
Run away, run away, run away...
At this time, the perspective of the big shots is different from your own. The big shots are concerned about the fate of the ant colonies that stick together and how many ants will survive in the end. However, I want to make those ordinary ants unable to survive.
Many ants who are destined to be washed away by the flood should make some preparations in advance before the flood comes. They may not be able to roll across the river in a ball like other ants, but at least they can find a leaf for themselves.
opportunity.
Is anyone wrong? No one is wrong. Everyone has their own position. Although their ideas are so beautiful that they are almost arrogant, in fact, the number of "ants" they can help will be very limited. A Thor with tens of thousands of people
What does the mercenary group mean in the face of such a general trend? It means nothing. I can only do my best when encountering it, but I just want to have a clear conscience.
Because, before coming to Huaiyuantang, their family was the part of the ants destined to be washed away by the flood in the eyes of the big shots.
Zhang Tie laughed at himself. It was only at this moment that he realized that even if he was rich now, his status was higher than before, and he could embrace the big tree of Huaiyuantang, he would never become like Lan Yunxi.
Or people like other family elites, because he simply cannot think about problems like them. The experience of living at the bottom of Black Flame City since childhood has been imprinted on his soul. In his bones, he is a little person, a poor boy.
, a human punchbag in the Iron Thorn Arena who can't help but want to do something when he sees people like him being treated unfairly or destined to become cannon fodder.
Zhang Tie once heard Tang De say something. Tang De said that according to the findings of human psychologists before the Catastrophe, everyone is actually only doing one thing in this life - to complete the personality formed in childhood.
They do not realize the "good intentions" of the big shots and only care about making themselves feel better and making the people around them feel better. They are somewhat resigned but full of rebellious spirit, and then they expect the world to become a world where "everyone is equal"
Heaven - is this what my "complete philistine personality" expects?
"You didn't have to come to this raid on Tianhan City. No one could force you to come, but you took the initiative to come, responded to the family's call, and fought bravely on the battlefield, taking the lead. I appreciate this very much!"
Seeing that Zhang Tie was silent, the elder of the Huaiyuantang family spoke after taking a sip of tea, "This is your first offender. Your crime of letting people enter the city privately this time will be punished as the crime of favoritism in the Huaiyuantang army. This time
All the family contribution points awarded to you by the Action Family will be cancelled, and I will give you another 100 lashes. You will be convinced!"
"There are family rules and state laws, and I am responsible for everyone's actions. Since I have violated the rules of Huaiyuantang, I am willing to be punished!" Zhang Tie said in a deep voice.
"Okay, I've called you here this time. In addition to this matter, I also want to tell you that someone from the Zhen family once served in the Alchemist Union of Jinyun Country. The last time you ordered the medicine bottle,
Because the number was too large, it attracted that person's attention, and that's what happened next. The people who chased you last time on Qianlong Island were also members of the Zhen family. The Zhen family is one of the three groups where demons have developed among the human race.
As a member of the Eye Club, after knowing that you can produce large quantities of fully effective potions, other hidden families and members of the Three Eye Club have most likely already known the same information, so your current situation is very dangerous.
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"People from the Three Eyes Society want to kill me?" This news really shook Zhang Tie's heart. Originally, he thought that it would be enough to destroy the Zhen family, but he didn't expect that the Zhen family would do anything wrong to him.
This is just the beginning. Behind the Zhen family, there is an even more mysterious Three-Eyed Society that serves the demons and may be eyeing him at this moment.
"With the behavior of the Three Eyes Society, when the holy war comes, anyone who can enhance the overall strength of the human race and help the human race defeat the demons will find a way to get rid of him. Recently, many alchemists in the Weiyi subcontinent have been assassinated and
Last year, the family of the elders of the Carlo Federation’s Alchemist Union was wiped out. Based on the information we have now, it seems that it was all done by the Three Eyes Guild. Your value is much greater than that of an ordinary high-level Alchemist. Therefore, in
After knowing your abilities, the people with the Three Eyes will definitely find a way to get rid of you!"
"Thank you elder for reminding me, I will pay attention to it!"
"With the exposure of the Zhen family, the Three Eyes Association is now on the cusp of the storm. Those people may lurk for a while and dare not jump out immediately, so you should be safe in the short term, but as time goes by
It’s hard to say, but if you are willing, the family can send experts to be your bodyguards to ensure your safety!"
"I think the best way to protect me is to disappear so that no one can find me, or simply let the Three Eyes Club think that killing me will only cost more than the gain, so I will handle this matter myself!" Zhang Tie
After thinking about it for a moment, I rejected the family elder's suggestion.
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A minute later, Zhang Tie, with a serious face, left the family elder's room...
To be fair, the family's treatment of him bringing people into Tianhan City this time was neither light nor heavy. It can only be said to be appropriate. Zhang Tie did not feel lucky or unfair, nor did he feel any gratitude or resentment. This was the price he should pay.
Just through this incident, he suddenly felt the invisible gap between himself and those big shots. The same gap also existed between him and Huaiyuantang.
This gap is not a conflict of interests, but is purely caused by different values and world views. The natural indifference shown by the big shots towards the little people and ordinary people in the Tianhan City incident made Zhang Tie very...
uncomfortable.
If this time the Mainland Central Nations Alliance or Huaiyuantang can finally issue a detailed announcement and frankly tell the facts about jihad and demonic disasters, so that more ordinary people can be prepared, perhaps hundreds of millions of lives can be saved.
, but Zhang Tie knew that his idea was just a dream.
When leaving the family elder's room, what flashed in Zhang Tie's mind were the faces of his friends in Black Flame City and Brape - Barry, Owen, Doug, Siesta, Baghdad, Wright, Alice,
Beverly, Hannah, the girls from the Rose Club, and...Teacher Dinah.
——These people, Zhang Tie knows, are the "ants" that the family elders just mentioned will be washed away by the flood. In the long holy war, their life and death are irrelevant. They are lucky to be alive, and they are lucky to die.
Of course. Even if the Holy War and the Demonic Disaster are right in front of us, no one feels the need to inform them.
This feeling not only made Zhang Tie uncomfortable, but also a little angry.
Then, Zhang Tie saw Lan Yunxi in the airship. A few days ago, Zhang Tie heard that Lan Yunxi forcibly activated her ancestral bloodline during the raid on Tianhan City and killed three Zhens above level ten in one fell swoop.
A master of the clan, she herself was severely injured and needed to rest for a period of time. Then Lan Yunxi disappeared from the battlefield.
Zhang Tie made many inquiries and found that no one knew where Lan Yunxi had gone. Zhang Tie thought that Lan Yunxi had gone back to Huaiyuantang to recuperate. When he saw Lan Yunxi, Zhang Tie felt a little surprised.
Lan Yunxi was followed by a man. The man was in his twenties, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, a face like a crown of jade, a tall figure, wearing a blue warrior brocade robe, and a long sword on his waist.
He looked like a handsome man standing in the wind. Walking together with a woman like Lan Yunxi, the man's aura was not completely overwhelmed by Lan Yunxi, but he could still talk and laugh freely.
Zhang Tie walked past the two people expressionlessly, without even looking at them.
The moment she passed by Zhang Tie, Lan Yunxi glanced at Zhang Tie, bit her lip slightly, and said nothing. As for the man, she simply regarded Zhang Tie as nothing but a passerby.
The three people passed each other in the airship...
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"Ximei, this is the chalcedony nourishing ointment from the Tantai family that I just asked the airship to go to Qinghua Mountain to pick up. It was specially sent to Ximei to recuperate her body..."
After walking a few steps past the two of them, Zhang Tie heard the man's voice in his ear. Zhang Tie secretly clenched his fists, feeling a little sore in his heart for no reason.
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Five minutes later, Zhang Tie was publicly tortured in the Qianlongtang camp, attracting many people to watch.
"Zhang Tie, a student of Qianlong Hall, committed the crime of favoritism and secretly led people into Tianhan City. All the family contribution points he obtained in this raid on Tianhan City will be cancelled, and he will be sentenced to 100 canings as a warning.
Follow your example!" After seeing a large number of people watching the excitement around, a picket officer in the Huaiyuantang army announced Zhang Tie's "crime" loudly, and then asked the soldiers next to him to prepare for Zhang Tie's execution.
The people around him looked at each other in shock after hearing such words. Zhang Tie had been outstanding in Tianhan City in the past few days and his reputation was gradually rising. Unexpectedly, there would be such a turn of events suddenly. Everyone watched in silence.
In front of Zhang Tie, there was a wooden stake that was as tall as a person. There were chains cuffing both hands on the wooden stake to prevent the person being tortured from moving during the whipping.
The execution soldiers came over and handcuffed Zhang Tie's hands to the wooden stakes.
"I'll stand here and don't move, you can just slap me!" Zhang Tie took off his clothes, revealing his naked and strong back.
"The flogging in the military is no joke. It is a horned dragon whip made of mutated killer whale tendons mixed with steel wire. Ordinary people will be whipped to faint after three lashes. It's better to handcuff them. Wait.
During the execution later, if you can't bear it and jump around or get knocked unconscious and then handcuff you and beat you, it won't look good. I also think that you behave like a man in Tianhan City these days, so I'm reminding you!
"The picket officer came over and whispered to Zhang Tie.
"Thank you, no need. I was just trying to see if Huaiyuantang's whip can make me sober up!" After Zhang Tie finished speaking, he smiled at Ma Aiyun and the other girls who were looking at him with worried eyes in the distance.
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The picket officer glanced at Zhang Tie, backed away, and then nodded to a shirtless man with tangled muscles a few meters away who was holding a whip and preparing for execution. The man first opened a mahogany box next to him and put everything in the box.
He took out a black whip as thick as a child's arm and raised it so that the people around him could see it clearly. Then he soaked the whip in the bucket next to him, picked it up, then raised his hand and whipped it towards Zhang Tie.
Smoked it...
"Whew..." The whip made a sharp sound and scream, and hit Zhang Tie's back, making a solid crisp sound - "Pa..."
Everyone around who heard the echoing sound suddenly felt the hairs on their skins rising.
There was a blood mark on Zhang Tie's back, but his body remained motionless, like an iron pillar, and he only frowned slightly.
After the strong man who whipped Zhang Tie saw that Zhang Tie had no reaction, he took a look at the whip in confusion to see if there was something wrong with the whip. After finding that there was nothing wrong with the whip,
Another whip was drawn out.
"Pa..."
"Pa..."
"Pa..."
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In the blink of an eye, the big man had already whipped out more than twenty lashes. Not only the faces of the onlookers changed, but also the faces of the executioners. With that lash, even if it hits a stubborn stone, it can also damage the stone.
There were a few marks left on his body, let alone a person, but Zhang Tie's body always seemed to be made of iron, motionless. Not to mention Zhang Tie jumping up, from behind, even the muscles on Zhang Tie's back were gone.
Twitch.
At the beginning, Zhang Tie would frown slightly every time he was whipped. After ten lashes, his brows no longer even wrinkled, but his face was calm.
People around him have never even heard of a person who can withstand more than twenty horned dragon whips, not to mention seeing him.
There are more and more people watching around, not only the people from Qianlong Hall, but also many soldiers from the Hurricane Corps and the Sun-breaking Corps in Huaiyuan Hall. Anyone who has been whipped will see Zhang Tie's performance at this moment.
, no one is speechless.
After using all his strength to give him more than ten lashes, the executioner was already breathing slightly.
"Your strength is running low. Haven't you eaten? It's not enough. Try someone else!" Zhang Tie yelled.
As soon as this sound came out, some soldiers from the surrounding crowd immediately shouted, "What a man!"
The cold-faced picket officer walked over personally and took the whip over. Then, a sharper sound broke through the air and the sound of being slapped on Zhang Tie's back was heard.
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Then, I don’t know when, every time the whip was whipped, all the people watching began to loudly report the number for Zhang Tie.
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"58..."
"59..."
"60..."
The sound of counting became louder and louder, even alarming people in the distance.
Hearing the growing noise coming from outside the airship, the elder of Huaiyuantang, who had been quietly sipping tea in the room, frowned, then walked to the window and looked out, because the airship's hull was very
Gao, the elder immediately saw Zhang Tie, who was standing motionless like an iron pillar and being tortured.
In the room at this moment, besides the elder of Huaiyuantang, there was another person. That person also walked to the window and looked at the scene in the distance.
"What a pity..." The man looked at Zhang Tie and shook his head slightly, "This young man is too kind to a woman. Ever since he was assassinated on Qianlong Island, I feel that he seems to have a lot of feelings for Huaiyuantang.
I am deeply afraid and seem to be deliberately keeping a certain distance from Huaiyuantang!"
"This is normal. After all, he just arrived at Huaiyuantang and had no foundation. He was betrayed and assassinated by the bodyguard assigned to him by his family. For a young man who has just mastered the method of making full-effect potions, he can still negotiate with Changfeng.
The group maintains the original cooperative relationship and still stays on Qianlong Island, which is quite courageous!" The elder of Huaiyuan Hall who had just scolded Zhang Tie's tone now expressed appreciation for Zhang Tie.
"I think Huaiyuantang should take the method of making full-effect potion into its own hands. Once something unexpected happens to this young man, judging from the current situation, it is very difficult for another person to make the same thing again.
! For the sake of the family, it is not a good thing for a young man to have something as important as a full-effect potion in the hands of a young man. It is not a good thing for him or Huaiyuantang! This is the same as a child holding a treasure to get through the busy city! "
The elder of Huaiyuantang smiled proudly, "Huaiyuantang can still stand today because of a small bottle of potion? No matter what, the method of making full-effect potion is in the hands of the blood and descendants of Duke Huaiyuan.
Go on, this is enough. If Huaiyuantang uses clever methods to make him hand over the full potion today, which will break the hearts of the family, do you think that with Huaiyuantang’s current foundation and scale, there are still those who secretly spy on Huaiyuantang.
With human capabilities, can Huaiyuantang survive this holy war?"
"But this is really a pity..." The man sighed and looked at Zhang Tie in the distance, "If this boy is more obedient, in a few years, there will definitely be another strong general in Huaiyuan Hall.
Now, I feel that this kid’s thoughts are not completely in line with Huaiyuantang. This time he dares to take people to Tianhan City privately and violates the rules of Huaiyuantang. I don’t know what he will do in the future.
Something even more outrageous. And if these 100 whips continue, no one in Huaiyuan Hall will be able to ask him to do anything in the future!"
"No matter who he is, he will be punished if he breaks the rules! In the future, as long as he does not take the initiative to betray Huaiyuantang, deceive his master and destroy his ancestors, or do things that are detrimental to the interests of Huaiyuantang, even if he is a little deviant, such a big Huaiyuantang will
There will be no room for a freak, let him be fine, everything depends on his own destiny! By the way, how is the investigation of that matter going? "
"It's been determined. We can eliminate this kid's suspicion. One is that his abilities are still somewhat lacking, especially when he raided the Zhen's Guild Hall conference room. There were so many people in the conference room. With his ability, he couldn't do it.
Kill all those people in a short period of time, especially when some people had no time to move at all. Secondly, that night he drank with others until late at night in Jinwubao. Everything was normal the next day and he was still there.
Qianlong Island, unless he could fly, it would be impossible for him to travel thousands of miles back and forth across the sea overnight. If he did such a thing, there would be no records of the departure of airships or ships from Qianlong Island that night, nor would there be any records the next morning.
The record of the airship entering the waters of Qianlong Island, third, and most importantly, how did he know the layout of the Zhen family in Huaiyuantang? When the Zhen family planned Huaiyuantang, he was still in Black Flame City, so now we are the only one
What is certain is that a master of the Iron-Blooded Fist must have been involved in the massacre of the Zhen Family Guild Hall."
"Who could that be?" The family elder of Huaiyuantang also frowned.
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In another room of the airship, Lan Yunxi looked at Zhang Tie in the distance, her face turning slightly pale.
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"97..."
"98..."
"99..."
"100..."
With the last sound of the whip hitting the flesh, the loud and loud sounds around them stopped after a hundred, and the surrounding area was quiet. Everyone looked at Zhang Tie, including Ma Aiyun, who had a close relationship with Zhang Tie, and others.
Several girls ran over with tears in their eyes.
Yuan Ziyi took out the trauma medicine without hesitation and wiped it on Zhang Tie's back. Gu Caidi quickly picked up Zhang Tie's clothes and put them on Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tieze looked at the clouds on the horizon in the distance. The clouds looked like ants for a while, and like dragons for a while. The 100 lashes just now really woke him up. Just now, in the terrifying pain, his brain was...
It was unprecedentedly clear. Looking at the clouds on the horizon, he suddenly wanted to understand many things.
"Zhang Tie, are you okay?" Seeing that Zhang Tie seemed to be in a daze and didn't come back to his senses for a long time, Ma Aiyun touched Zhang Tie's forehead and asked worriedly, fearing that Zhang Tie would be directly troubled.
"Senior Sister Ma, I'm fine!" Zhang Tie grinned. Only when he saw Zhang Tie's smile did Ma Aiyun let go of his worry.
When he was spanked just now, he didn't feel anything. At this moment, Zhang Tie wanted to move his hand and took out something from his bag. When he moved his hand, he felt as if his whole body had been cut into many pieces. Zhang Tie felt that
His face was slightly distorted.
"Whatever you want to get, I'll help you!" Ma Aiyun pressed Zhang Tie's hand, "Is it a full potion?"
"No, it's a wallet!" Zhang Tie said to Ma Aiyun while puffing on the air conditioner, "Senior Sister Ma, please take out my wallet. There is money in it. Senior Sister Ma, please help me go to the logistics office to buy food and wine for 150 people.
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"Are you still thinking about eating and drinking at this time?" Ma Aiyun's eyes suddenly widened.
"I promised to invite some of the cavalry brothers from the Taishi family to have a drink tonight. I can't break my promise. You guys can come too. I'll call them over when Liu Xu and the others come back. Do you think you're honoring me?"
"What, you want to leave?"
Hearing this, Yuan Ziyi's hand, which had been helping Zhang Tie apply the medicine, suddenly trembled, making Zhang Tie's brows jump again.
Zhang Tie nodded, "I feel it's a bit inappropriate to continue to stay here now!" After Zhang Tie finished speaking, he saw the faces of several girls dim for an instant, and a sunny smile appeared on Zhang Tie's face.
, lowered his voice all of a sudden, and said with a sly look, "Do the senior sisters want to see me sleeping with my butt stuck out every day? I don't even know if my posture is sexy or not. If the senior sisters want to see it, I can come quietly in the future.
Come to Jinwu Fort and I will let you visit it for free, you can wear pants or not..."
Yuan Ziyi, who just wanted to cry inexplicably just now, burst into tears and smiled. He accidentally exerted force on his hand, and Zhang Tie suddenly let out an earth-shattering scream, and almost jumped up, "Ah, my God, be gentle..."
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The people around looked at Zhang Tie with admiration and wanted to surround him. When they heard Zhang Tie's murderous voice, they suddenly stopped and looked at each other. Where was the tough guy just now? Why did he whip his whip?
The tough guy disappeared after the fight. Could it be that he was just pretending? I've already finished smoking this time. It would be great if I could pretend for a while longer. Why did I still have diarrhea in the end...
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That night, Zhang Tie, Taishi Ci, Liu Xu, Yang Yuankang, Ma Aiyun, etc., as well as a group of Taishi family's cavalry were drinking and getting drunk around a bonfire in the field...
In the evening, Zhang Tie, who was half drunk, returned to his tent. In the middle of the night, a figure got into Zhang Tie's tent.
"Master Horse..."
Zhang Tie, who suddenly woke up, had just shouted two words when he was blocked by a burning face...
*Dream Wuhen...
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