The next moment, not only did Aoyama Hayabusa fly away, but there was also a fiery red Vermilion Bird with its body radiating brilliant stars inside the tree canopy, which let out a cry to the sky.
In an instant, it took flight, and then hundreds of birds of unknown species rushed out of the canopy of the towering tree.
The Vermilion Bird flew at the forefront, followed by countless other birds. In the night, the brilliant starlight on the Vermilion Bird shone exceptionally brightly, its light illuminating the flock of birds behind it, resembling long galaxies.
A hundred birds pay homage to the phoenix!
No one knows how many creatures live under that towering tree.
No one expected that the creatures of this Forbidden Land No. 002 would help a human participate in a war!
The war in the direction of the Qingshan is not over yet, but this battlefield has ushered in a new turning point.
Inside the Qingshan, a soldier in charge of radar suddenly said, "Sir, hundreds of unidentified flying objects have suddenly appeared in the west! Three of them are moving at extremely high speed and are heading in our direction! Judging from their speed, they are very likely Chen's A011 fighter jets!"
Li Changqing's heart sank.
The balance of power on the battlefield was already tilting in Chen's favor, and now that the enemy has spared no expense in sending so many air forces, the Qingshan has no chance of turning the tide.
All commands and operations are ineffective.
Twenty-one: "Boss..."
Li Changqing: "Wait a little longer."
However, at that moment, the soldier in charge of the night vision system suddenly said, "Sir, what's flying in doesn't look like a Chen A011 fighter jet... it's a bird. Wait, isn't that Aoyama Hayabusa?"
The ship was named after the Aoyama Falcon, so how could the soldiers not know what the Aoyama Falcon looked like?
But that unidentified creature flying in from the sky was none other than Aoyama Hayabusa!
Furthermore, aren't the hundreds of unidentified creatures behind Aoyama Hayabusa the flock of birds led by Suzaku?
What's going on? Why have all these mysterious creatures hidden in Forbidden Land 002 flown over here, and headed straight for the battlefield?!
The next moment, Aoyama Hayabusa had already arrived on the battlefield!
Yet, it descended from the sky at a speed comparable to that of a fighter jet. Its flight power did not solely rely on the physical structure of its body; as its wings flapped, it seemed as if an unknown force was intertwined with the world.
Before the Chen family could react, three fighter jets had already been destroyed. The soldiers on the Qingshan hadn't even seen how the three Qingshan Falcons did it. They would have to take the video back and review it slowly to find out the secret.
Li Changqing watched silently in the holographic sand table. In fact, she didn't know who the reinforcements Li Yunshou was talking about would be, but she never expected that they would be a flock of birds.
Just then, new unidentified flying objects appeared on the radar, numbering in the hundreds.
This time, a new fleet has indeed arrived on the battlefield.
However, before the soldiers on the Qingshan could even feel any emotional fluctuation, the communication system had already received a connection request.
Communication is established.
The holographic projection revealed Qing Kun's image: "I have come to provide support on the orders of the Qing Clan's Shadow. Please open the navigation channel and mark our targets as part of the combat whitelist. Thank you for your cooperation."
After speaking, the communication channel was closed.
Inside the Qingshan, the soldiers' long-suppressed emotions finally subsided.
Survived a disaster.
Chapter 646, Shadow, a god for a quarter of an hour!
High in the northern sky, on a Class A airship, Qingyi's father, Qingkun, stood quietly on the bridge.
The commander said to Qingkun, "Boss, we don't have a relay base in the south, which will greatly reduce our endurance. If we rashly participate in the war, we may suffer huge losses."
Qingkun glanced at him: "Do you think I don't know what you're saying? We're already here, do you think we can just take a look around and run away? Give us a good beating!"
At this moment, the holographic projection was activated. On the other side of the Class A airship, Qingyu, the father, looked coldly at Qingkun: "We expect to arrive at the battlefield in 5 minutes. Don't try to cheat or waste my air power."
Qingkun responded with a string of curses: "Don't worry, I'm definitely braver than you in battle. We're all in the same boat now, all tied to the chariot by the shadows, there's no way out."
"That's good," Qingyu said with a cold smile.
Although these two are now bound to the chariot by the shadows, they can't stand each other.
Qingkun looked at Qingyu's holographic projection and said, "By the way, I'll remind you of something. If your mentally challenged son dares to use forbidden objects to bring misfortune to my son Qingyi again, I'll twist his head off!"
Qingyu ignored him and turned off the holographic projection.
On the bridge, the commander frowned and asked, "Boss, this operation plan is too hasty and too dangerous. It doesn't conform to our operational principles at all. You two are both battle-hardened generals of the army group. Why did you make such a decision? Moreover, why did you make such a decision together? Even if we were to start a war, you two wouldn't need to come in person, would you?"
"Do you think I want this? Shadow himself said that we have to gamble everything—our reputation, our lives, our very lives—for a ticket to the new era. Do you know what that means? He means that we have to come here and risk our lives, or we'll die!" Qingkun cursed and kicked the commander in the butt. "Go back to commanding, stop nagging me. I'm annoyed."
The commander staggered a couple of steps from the kick and almost fell to the ground.
To be honest, this boss is great in every way: considerate of his subordinates, open-minded, and not cold-blooded. The only downside is that he has a really terrible temper.
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...
The edge of Forbidden Land No. 002.
A field company is stationed here. They are not here to defend the forbidden area No. 002, but to provide rescue from the fire pit that has crossed here.
Just as Chen Yu said, he made thorough preparations for this battle.
Even though he knew that the elder at the fire pit would definitely not come, he was still on guard.
For the Chen soldiers, being able to guard the edge of Forbidden Land No. 002 and not participate in the battle was of course the best outcome. After all, hunting demigods was not as good as staying here and waiting for orders.
Half of the soldiers in this field company were spoiled sons of the Chen family. Their parents sent them to the military camp to train them and hopefully reform them.
But how could these spoiled brats be so obedient once they entered the army? In the end, Chen's army group could only gather them together and assign them the easiest tasks in every military operation.
The strangest thing about this field company is that everyone there is a company commander...
A field company with a strength of 180 men, including 134 captains, was considered a remarkable sight in Chen's army group.
Some soldiers were chatting idly: "I wonder how the fighting is going over there. Maybe we should cook something to eat first."
"Goodbye, this time Chen Yu, the demigod, is coming in person. Anyone who dares to act recklessly will surely die," an officer said. "My dad called me before I came. This is just to gild my reputation. If we win the second-class merit award for the whole army, as long as nothing goes wrong, I can be promoted to major in a few months."
However, at that moment, they suddenly heard a strange noise behind them.
When everyone turned around and looked, they were so frightened they wet themselves.
But then they saw a giant covered in wounds standing at the edge of the forest, holding a large tree branch as a stick, staring fiercely at all the soldiers.
The giant's scars were from battles with mysterious beasts in various forbidden lands; he had already reigned supreme in seven forbidden lands.
Few people know that in those forbidden lands unknown to the Federation, a giant is plotting his own empire.
The giant raised his wooden stick and swung it at the field company, roaring furiously.
The next moment, a group of wild boar kings rushed out of the forbidden area No. 002, knocking the field company responsible for guarding the forbidden area No. 002 off its feet!
Dingdong's younger brother, Gudong, was also called back by the old folks!
Gu Dong turned around and looked at Ding Dong behind him: "Gu Dong!"
(Brother, you need to go back right now, I'm going to kill someone.)
Dingdong called out anxiously, "Dingdong!"
(It's dangerous outside!)
Gu Dong grinned and said, "Gu Dong."
(What's there to be afraid of? Just do it!)
With that, Gudong took heavy steps and charged out with the herd of wild boars.
Dingdong hesitated for a long time, but then followed them out!
Deep within the forbidden land, someone shouted: "First came the knights, then came the heavens! A knight can easily defeat a god! Killing a knight at your own doorstep? Are you out of your mind?! Fight! Fight! Fight! Here, no one can kill Qing Chen, not even a god! I'm telling you!"
Someone sighed, "You've been dead for hundreds of years, can you please stop being so irritable? I always thought it was a mistake for Master to take you in as a knight. Look at how you've raised Gudu. We should never have let you take care of children in the first place!"
At this moment, Lee Byung-hee was already following the shadow's gaze toward Forbidden Land No. 002.
He stared in utter astonishment.
Before this, there had never been a precedent in the entire Federation of mysterious creatures from the Forbidden Lands participating in wars, and they rarely even left the Forbidden Lands!
But now, he had just watched as the flock of birds flew out of the treetops, and the Vermilion Bird flying at the very front. He saw that the Vermilion Bird's tail feathers trailed more than ten meters long, and it looked like a meteorite that had just entered the atmosphere and was burning up, its body covered in starlight.
Is this what Shadow was referring to... Qing Chen's trump card?
Xiao Mengqian stared blankly in the direction the Vermilion Bird had gone, while the shadow watched her with a smile.
This is the Knights' trump card.
That is the love and care that knights have shown to their juniors over the centuries, and the hope that the old folks have for the knightly tradition to be revived after the knights had gradually declined over the centuries.
Now, all that accumulated power has been bestowed upon Qing Chen by the old folks.
Thinking of this, Shadow suddenly felt relieved.
He turned to Qingchen and smiled, "Actually, I was always a little worried before, so I was reluctant to leave. I was worried that someone would bully you and no one would help you, I was worried that when you were sad, no one would be there to confide in you, and I was worried that no one would be waiting for you when you got home. I kept putting it off because I wanted to see if there was anyone in this world who would care about you like I did. Now, I think I don't have to worry anymore. Remember, you had such a brother."
Shadow waited for more than ten years for that one call of "brother".
There are no regrets in my life.
As they spoke, Qingchen realized what was about to happen.
Tears streamed down his face uncontrollably: "Brother, is there no other way?"
“That’s all,” the shadow suddenly burst into loud laughter. “Little Chen, don’t cry. I sent Chen Yu and Li Bingxi here, and I haven’t killed them yet, so that they can witness the arrival of an era that belongs to you, a new era, a new world!”
As he spoke, Lee Byung-hee involuntarily stepped back, feeling as if the shadow's aura was rising infinitely and gradually merging with the world.
The shadow's hair began to shatter into scattered stars, and its body gradually became ethereal.
"You've reached the tipping point where your spirit and will merge with the world!" Lee Byung-hee exclaimed in shock.
The shadow laughed, "You're ignorant. I reached that critical point a century ago."
The ordinary person's life is a journey of self-cultivation, pursuing the integration of their spiritual will with the world, using their mortal body to influence the rules of the world.
The shadow, having just awakened, stood at the finish line of all the tracks.
However, apart from the god Ren Xiaosu, everyone in this world who crosses that critical line will fall into a state of physical disintegration, forever merging with the will of the world and sinking into the sea of stars.