The bull-headed soldier held the blue-lighting token and looked at Li Guanqi displeasedly, "Do you have to wait until I tell you to take it? Take it out proactively next time! It's a waste of time!"
Li Guanqi said nothing, but took out a space necklace from his collar, took off the chain and handed it to the bull-headed soldier.
"Buzz——"
The bull-headed soldier took the space necklace, then took the token that returned to green light and scanned Li Guanqi's body again. In the end, it did not turn blue again.
"Second-order human, a space storage device."
The Tauren soldier turned around and threw the space necklace behind him.
"There are no items that need to pay customs duties. Let them be released."
Another dark green bull-headed soldier took the space necklace, inspected it, and threw it back to Li Guanqi.
Li Guanqi put on the space necklace and walked slowly towards the dragon halberd.
"I don't understand."
The voice of the dragon halberd rang in his mind, "These tauren want to check the space storage device. Why don't you just disguise it all? Why hide the real one and make a fake one and put it outside? It's unnecessary?"
"Nowadays, who comes to the city without a space storage device?"
Li Guanqi passed her by without stopping, "It's nothing. It only arouses suspicion. Let's go."
"Um?"
Long Ji followed him with some confusion, "I remember that three thousand years ago, even seventh-level humans did not necessarily have space storage devices. Is this suspicious?"
"Times have changed, Ms. Longji."
Li Guanqi walked straight towards the streets of the city, "Before 1800, the emergence of a new technology greatly reduced the quality requirements for space stones in making space storage devices. Nowadays, space storage devices are very common."
"Okay, I'm behind the times."
Dragon Halberd shrugged, then looked around, and began to look at the streets and the various orcs coming and going.
While admiring the scenery of Xuanye King City, she asked Li Guanqi in his mind: "We are just here to determine the coordinates of a space in the city. Now that we are in, aren't we done? What else is there to do next? Determine the tauren.
Is the king here?"
"He's here."
Li Guanqi walked leisurely, frowning slightly, "The moment I entered the city, I felt the powerful aura of the Nine Palace Level Great Perfection. It did not hide it at all, covering the entire royal city almost all the time, but only the ninth level
Only the soul can feel...well, intimidation?"
"Eh? The snacks sold by the birdman seem interesting. Let's go and have a look."
Long Ji walked towards a street market with a curious expression on his face.
Li Guanqi did not stop him, but quietly followed behind him.
The personality of this artifact is indeed somewhat changeable. Compared with the cold and cool character when we first met him, he is actually a bit more lively now.
Well, maybe it’s not that changeable?
Li Guanqi thought about it carefully, and it seemed that Long Ji only had a cold face when facing Ares. The rest of the time, it was normal.
Poor Ares...
In the next ten minutes, Li Guanqi and Long Ji walked around Xuanye King City, ate some special snacks, bought some traditional tauren costumes, and visited tourist attractions in the city.
We also went to have a look near the Minoan Palace in the center of the city.
There, the powerful aura of the Minotaur King became clearer to Li Guanqi.
In general, Xuanye King City is a city full of civilization and tauren culture.
This clean and tidy city is completely different from most of the tauren tribes on the grassland. It is completely like civilizations from two eras.
"Big sister!"
Suddenly, as Li Guanqi and Long Ji were walking on the street, a young girl's voice sounded from behind.
Long Ji turned around and looked down.
I saw a little minotaur wearing a floral skirt. He was looking up at her with his moist blue eyes and said in a girl's voice, "Sister, you are so beautiful. I'm so beautiful."
I have never seen a sister as beautiful as you."
"You are cute too."
Longji smiled with crooked eyes, squatted down, and gently rubbed her furry yellow head.
This little girl with a bull head has long hair and a pair of humanized, moist eyes. To be honest, she is really cute.
"Sister, this is for you."
The little girl with a bull head opened the small pocket on her waist, took out two small wrinkled flowers, and handed one of the red flowers to Long Ji, "I just picked this in the garden."
"Yeah! Thank you!"
The dragon halberd was surprised to receive it, holding the flower in his hand and smiling like a flower.
"Big brother, this one is for you."
Then, the little girl with a bull head also walked up to Li Guanqi and handed him a small yellow flower.
"……Thanks."
Li Guanqi couldn't react as exaggeratedly as the dragon halberd, so he just took it with a smile.
"Bye-Bye!"
After sending the flowers, the little girl with a bull head waved her hands to them, then turned and left with a bounce. Soon she got together with a few bull friends and walked towards other streets, laughing and talking.
"Well, it feels a little sudden?"
Long Ji looked at the little red flower in his hand and looked at Li Guanqi with a smile.
"It's just custom."
Li Guanqi looked calm, looking at the backs of the group of calves, and said softly: "Yellow hair, blue eyes, with flowers on her body... That girl should be a tauren from the Yatya clan.
For the tauren of this clan, giving flowers to beautiful people is a kind of common blessing for others and themselves. They hope that the other person will become more and more beautiful, and they also hope that they can become more and more beautiful like the other person.
There is nothing to worry about. The Yatya Minotaurs can give out dozens of flowers a day when they go shopping in such a big city.
Let's go, Longji, it's time for us to leave."
After speaking, Li Guanqi turned and left.
"Ever since you started queuing outside the city, your expression has been wrong."
Long Ji followed his footsteps and said softly.
"..."
Li Guanqi was silent.
"Hey, are you thinking...the cost of war?"
Long Ji walked beside him without speaking, but his voice sounded directly in Li Guanqi's mind:
"In this tauren Xuanye King City, there are many damn guys, such as the group of powerful disciples riding centaurs that we saw outside the city at the beginning.
However, you also saw a lot of innocent guys, such as the snack seller, the salesperson in the clothing store, the sanitation cleaner on the street, and the little calf who just gave us flowers...etc., etc., they
They are also tauren, but they are all innocent civilians.
However, two days later, when you came here with the dragon army and started a battle with the Tauren King, how many innocent people in the city would be spared?
The aftermath of the Nine Palace Level Dzogchen battle, it should be easy to raze a city to the ground.
Those who deserve to die or those who don't deserve to die will basically die.
Li Guanqi!"
As he said that, the dragon halberd took a step across, blocking Li Guanqi's steps, and stared into his eyes seriously, "You are soft-hearted, right? You are afraid of hurting these innocent orc people."
"Anyway, I won't be lenient."
Li Guanqi bypassed the dragon halberd and continued walking forward.
"But I will try to save it."
After walking a few steps, Li Guanqi suddenly lowered his head and said: "If the King of the Tauren is really a true king as Alto said, then he should agree to go with me to fight in a no-man's land.
To avoid affecting innocent civilians."
"What if he ignores you at all and starts fighting?"
Longji followed up and looked at him meaningfully, "Are you afraid of the innocent people in the city?"
"Won't."
Li Guanqi raised his head with firm eyes, "I have my goal to accomplish, so I won't be soft-hearted, even if it results in a river of blood."
"We should go back, Dragon Halberd."
After that, Li Guanqi continued to move forward and walked towards the exit of the North City Gate.
…
…
At night, the moonlight is bright and clear, and the stars are not visible.
The Ancestral Nest of the Dragon Clan, Lake of Light.
Li Guanqi stood alone by the fluorescent lake, his eyes flickering, wondering what he was thinking.
"king."
Suddenly, there was a trembling movement in the surrounding giant tree forest, and an old white ape with a height of 100 meters came slowly with its arms hanging to the ground.
"Simon?"
Li Guanqi looked at him, "What's the matter? Is something wrong?"
"I'm fine, old man."
The old white ape looked down at Li Guanqi and said calmly: "It should be you who is in trouble."
"..."
Li Guanqi said nothing.
The old white ape took out a golden pill from somewhere and swallowed it into his mouth. Then its huge body began to shrink rapidly, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a 2-meter-tall white ape, with Li Guanqi's body.
The shape is flat.
The shrunken old white ape came to Li Guanqi, looked at the fluorescent lake of light, and said with a smile: "You are worried about the changes that this war will bring, the good changes, and the bad ones.
Change, or rather, worry about...the cost of war."
"That word again."
Li Guanqi's expression was complicated, "This is the second time I heard this word today."
"Did you hear it from Lord Longji?"
The old white ape raised his head and looked at the floating island suspended above the sea of clouds on the horizon. "This is not surprising. I also heard this word from Lord Longji back then. She hated war, so I was actually very curious.
Lord Longji knew that you were going to lead the Dragon Clan to participate in the war, so how could he follow you?"
"Who knows."
Li Guanqi rubbed his brows tiredly.
"You also hate war, right?"
The old white ape looked at him and said slowly, "I can see that you hate war, but for some reason, you have to participate in it."
"..."
Li Guanqi was silent for a moment.
After a long while, he looked at the Lake of Light in front of him and said with complex eyes: "Three years ago, I met a mercenary team in Southern Xinjiang. They were all victims of the war. The friction war between Southern Xinjiang and Daluo
Among them, he lost his parents and became an orphan.
There is a girl in the team named Bulma.
She told me that she didn’t understand. She didn’t understand why those powerful people, who were so rich and had everything they needed, still launched wars, plundered Daluo’s borders, and why they wanted to anger Daluo and send troops to attack them.
She didn't understand why the fight between the powerful and the powerful cost the lives of ordinary people and led to the destruction of their families and innocent people like them.
She said that the war took away many things.
She said she hated war.
I said at that time, me too.
Ha... me too...
But what do I do now?
To become the initiator of war, oh, to do the thing I hated most before, how ironic is this? Isn’t it?”
At the end of the speech, Li Guanqi scratched the white hair on his head with some irritability.
"Then why do you want to start a war?"
The old white ape asked softly, "For power? For status? Or to satisfy one's own ambition?"
"No."
Li Guanqi shook his head gently, "I'm not doing it for this. I'm doing it to protect the people who come from the same hometown as me, and to be able to return to my hometown."
He looked at the fluorescent lake in front of him, gritted his teeth, and said in a deep voice: "Now, right now, Simon, do you know that while I am chatting with you, within the Great Wall of the East, Southern Xinjiang, and the Shogunate,
The Oriental Islands, the Tulip Empire in the West, the battlefields of various countries, and even wilderness areas...
There are many people from the same hometown as me who are becoming slaves in every corner of the world at this moment, suffering and unable to control their own life or death.
And as time goes by, more and more people will come here.
Among them, those who come to the grassland are the worst!
So I must build a country, and build a country on the grassland!
I must build a powerful enough dynasty to force powerful empires like the Tulip Empire to treat my hometown people well and send them over intact.
Only in this way can I provide everyone with a safe haven.
Only if the dynasty I established is strong enough, will those empires be afraid, and when they discover the people in my hometown, they will not choose to enslave them, but choose to treat them carefully and kindly, and send them to me obediently, for fear of offending me.
.
I have to achieve this situation.
It's not that I can't wait.
Of course I can wait!
I can wait until I slowly become stronger. If the Bagua level is not enough, I will reach the Nine Palace level. If the Nine Palaces level is not enough, I will reach the Nine Palace level. By then, I will be invincible and I can conquer the world easily without any risk!
But how long will this take?
God knows!
Can I wait, can those people wait?
I just arrived in the grassland a while ago, and I saw many people from my hometown who were enslaved and humiliated by the Tauren clan. Under the hands of the Tauren, they could not even be called a 'human being'!
At this moment, where I can't see, there are more, more people being humiliated and even dying!
They can't wait.
I must establish a country as soon as possible, and establish a dynasty powerful enough as quickly as possible to accept all the people from my hometown who have come to this foreign world, so that they can continue to have the right to live.
must.
I have to do this!"
At the end of the sentence, Li Guanqi clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth.
"Perhaps you can be more selfish and live your life more freely?"
The old white ape looked at him and said meaningfully: "Wang, have you ever thought about not caring about the life and death of those people in your hometown? In this way, you can take your time and be more relaxed, right?"
"I can't do it."
Li Guanqi shook his head slightly, "You are right, but I can't do it after all."
"Can't you even be selfish?"
When the old white ape heard this, he narrowed his eyes slightly at first, then looked at Li Guanqi and smiled softly, "There are always 'stupid' people like you in the world, who can't even be selfish and always want to protect them.
Weak, even if you are not strong enough.
However, I admire people like you very much. This world needs more "stupid" people like you to become a better place."
"..."
Li Guanqi looked at the old ape and was slightly startled.
"King, war always has a price, it is inevitable."
The old white ape patted his shoulder and said softly: "Don't resist it, but face it calmly. What is more important than the cost is the meaning of war.
And you have already found the meaning of this war to you, haven't you?"
After that, the old ape withdrew his hand, turned around, and slowly left until he disappeared into the night in the forest.
"..."
Li Guanqi looked at the direction it left with a thoughtful look on his face.
"yes."
Finally, Li Guanqi raised his head and looked at the bright moon in the night sky, his eyes completely firm.
"This war is meaningful and profound, but war always has a price and is inevitable!"
…
…
Time flies by in the blink of an eye.
Two days later!
The day of departure has arrived!
However, it was still dark outside and the dragon army had not yet officially assembled.
Li Guanqi, on the other hand, opened the simulator and entered it.
【Heart of Time and Space】
[Current number of simulations remaining: 5]
[Duration of each simulation in the strange world: 10 days]
"Start the simulation."
In the world shrouded in black mist, Li Guanqi walked slowly and said towards the light screen panel.
[I thought you decided not to waste this opportunity. After all, you have an army of dragons in your hands, and there are two Nine Palace Level Great Perfection Yinglongs to help you, plus yourself, to attack a tauren king. This is almost like crushing.
With its combat power, I really can’t think of any surprises that will happen.】
"You have to be safer."
Li Guanqi smiled.
【oh?】
【Real or fake?】
[Why do I feel that in this simulation, besides the sure victory, what you actually want to know more about is the safety of the innocent people in Xuanye King City? 】
"I just want to make sure nothing happens."
Li Guanqi said calmly.
【As you wish.】
【Simulation starts.】
[On the first day, after dawn, the dragon clan gathered together. According to the original plan, you went to Xuanye King City and led the dragon clan to launch a surprise attack on the tauren clan. 】
[In the end, the tauren king died in battle. 】
[Under the follow-up attack of tens of thousands of giant dragons, the tauren clan was forced to surrender to you, and you took over nearly one-third of the grassland. 】
[The next day, you went to the Centaur King’s City, conquered the Centaur clan, and found the Centaur Royal Clan’s intelligence officer and asked him to start searching for information about the survivors of the Ying family. 】
[Immediately afterwards, you go to the royal city of Beimang Royal Court.]
"Hey, did you do this on purpose?"
Li Guanqi looked at the light screen panel helplessly.
This guy obviously deliberately omitted the battle process in Xuanye King City.
[(What you said, you just want to make sure there are no accidents. I have already shown the results of the battle. There are no accidents.)]
[(Of course, you are the master, if you insist on seeing it, I will show it now?)]
"..."
"No."
Li Guanqi was silent for a moment, then shook his head gently and said calmly: "Let me face it myself when the time comes."
【(This is right)】
【(Simulation continues)】
[After you arrived at Beimang King City, you met an old friend there—Mu Ya, a prairie woman who you had a brief relationship with at the Southern Xinjiang Headquarters of the Conjuring Academy.]
[After a while of greetings, you met Mu Ya’s father, a high-ranking dignitary of the Beimang Royal Court.]
[With his introduction, you successfully met the contemporary Khan of the Beimang Royal Court and had a peaceful meeting.]
[You learned at the meeting that for the abdication of royal power, the contemporary owner of the royal power must be willing to perform the abdication ceremony without external interference, otherwise this special abdication ceremony will not be successful. ]
[The Khan said that he has no right to make the decision. You have to enter the holy land of Beimang Royal Court and let the remaining will of the royal court ancestors decide whether to surrender the kingship of the grassland to you. 】
【You agreed.】
[Khan said that the ceremony to awaken the will of the ancestors will take several days, otherwise the will of the ancestors in the holy land will not respond to your arrival. ]
【On the seventh day, everything is ready.】
【You have entered the Holy Land of the Royal Court.】
[Inside, you suddenly felt the remnants of the will of the Khans of the past. Knowing that you couldn't miss the opportunity, you quickly activated the "Synesthesia" star skill, and fell into the realization of will. 】
[Time passes, three days pass in the blink of an eye, and the tenth day of the simulation ends. 】
[The simulation duration has reached the upper limit.]
【Simulation ends.】
[Current number of simulations remaining: 4]
"Okay."
Seeing this result, Li Guanqi turned around and left, waving his hand with his back to the light curtain panel, "See you next time, brother time and space."