Qingchen frowned slightly, but gritted his teeth and controlled the silhouette to break through the barrage. It covered its forehead with its hand and quickly approached the metal storm. Then, extremely fiercely, it disassembled the magazine with one hand!
One, two, three... one after another, Metal Storm machines were destroyed by Silhouette in the simplest and most brutal way!
War robots have taken to the skies, firing at the silhouette relentlessly, but the silhouette remains indestructible.
The sky was filled with dazzling pulse cannons, while on the ground were shadows clutching their foreheads.
The commander at the military base looked at the extremely fierce figure on the monitor, his expression gradually turning cold.
He ordered, "Hold them in check and proceed according to plan."
The next moment, the war robot's back opened, launching large nets woven from alloy.
With a few loud thuds, a dense metal net descended, trapping the shadow firmly within it.
Time ticked by, and the war robot forcibly pinned down the shadow, pried open its hand covering its forehead, and fired a shot into its head.
With a loud bang, the shadow vanished.
As fate had written, it's over.
The commander looked at the young virtuoso dressed in black robes beside him: "Are there any more attacks coming?"
The Virtuoso glanced at his watch, then nodded. "Yes, the Joker is here. My father foresaw that I would be injured... but we will eventually catch each other."
This interconnected cycle of fate left the enemy with nowhere to strike.
The Fate Master has already foreseen the ending of fate.
Chapter 874, A Person Who Betrays Ideals
Downstream of the river.
"Ugh!" Bolton lay on the bank and vomited a mouthful of river water as he was slapped by Twenty-Nine.
A fish covered in teeth was still hanging from his leg, biting his calf until it was a bloody mess.
Twenty-nine glanced at it, then easily picked the fish off his cheek with a pinch.
"Didn't you say the fish in the river don't bite people on rainy days?!" Bolton accused in anguish.
Twenty-nine said, "If I didn't say that, you wouldn't dare to jump."
"You were the one who pushed me into the river! And could your Black Knights be any more of a swindler? The master is a swindler, and the apprentice is even more of a swindler," Marquis Bolton roared in anger.
“You’re lucky. The eleventh prince didn’t kill you directly, but he was afraid that the fifth princess was still alive. Otherwise, you would have been a corpse long ago,” the twenty-ninth prince said nonchalantly. “Let me touch you.”
After saying that, he reached out and pressed on Bolton's chest a few times: "Two ribs are broken, but it's nothing serious."
Bolton was shocked: "You call breaking two ribs nothing serious?"
“It doesn’t matter if you’re alright, check your phone first,” Twenty-Nine said. “Bear the pain and call the Fifth Princess immediately. The first thing you need to tell her is that the royal family is planning to get rid of her, so she should be prepared; the second thing you need to tell her is that if she doesn’t find a way to get the Joker out of this conspiracy, she will lose her biggest ally. Now, she has no choice.”
Bolton quickly made a phone call.
At the same time, the phone rang on the Fifth Princess's airship. A servant glanced at the caller ID and immediately went deeper into the airship.
He opened the door to the Fifth Princess's bedroom, only to find that instead of a bed, there was a pure gold coffin, guarded by four war robots.
The next moment, the attendant said to the war robot, "The Marquis of Bolton is on the phone."
Four war robots sprang into action, working together to lift the heavy golden coffin lid, revealing the Fifth Princess Vera, who was meditating with her eyes closed inside.
Vera sat up and took the phone: "Honey?"
The slender Fifth Princess sitting in a coffin, making a phone call and calling out "darling," seems somewhat incongruous.
But on the other end of the phone, Bolton wailed, "Wife, be careful! Your father and the Storm Duke are teaming up to kill you. Your father has probably already given the Storm Duke your real name and date of birth. He'll use dark magic on you. That old bastard, the Storm Duke, is no good. You'd better watch out."
Vera said calmly, "Yes, I'm prepared."
In fact, the fifth princess was smarter than many people thought. As soon as the king signed the document proving that the Duke of Storms was a legitimate member of the royal family, she immediately boarded an airship and left the central capital with her fleet.
Moreover, she also used the golden coffin that she had made long ago.
Without the slightest hesitation.
The second prince still clung to the hope that his father wouldn't kill him, while the fifth princess never placed her hopes on mere luck.
She knew very well what kind of people the kings of all time were.
The golden coffin served a wide range of purposes. When the magicians deciphered the mysterious Egyptian pyramid culture, they discovered that the Egyptian pharaohs used gold masks precisely because gold could conceal many 'spells'.
For example, the Arbiter's black magic!
At this moment, Vera asked in confusion, "Why are you gagging? Where are you?"
Marquis Bolton quickly said, "I was originally on the eleventh airship, but it seems that the Black Knights have plotted something to target the Joker!"
Vera was even more confused: "What does the Joker have to do with you? Even though you're a fan of his, there's no need to be in such a hurry. Also, where did you get this information? I didn't know about it."
“My butler is the Joker!” Bolton shouted.
Vera fell silent. She had guessed Qing Chen's identity before, but she had never dared to be so bold.
The Joker that everyone's been searching for for so long has been hiding right next to her husband all along—how incredibly dangerous!
So here's the question: Qing Chen and He Jinqiu know each other, and Bai Zhou and Jiuzhou have a friendly cooperative relationship.
She was quite pleased when she had previously instigated the two to confront each other and report on each other.
Now that I think about it, it turns out these two were actually acting as themselves!
They acted quite convincingly!
Vera asked, "What happened to him?"
Twenty-Nine said from the side, "They want to take this opportunity to capture the Joker alive because the Joker has the secret they want, the secret of the knight's legacy."
The Black Knights' path to succession is incomplete, a fact well known to every Black Knight throughout history.
They don't have proper breathing techniques, so they can only use magic potions to stimulate their bodies to produce large amounts of endorphins to help them survive life-or-death situations.
However, after passing through the life-or-death crisis, their lifespan actually decreased instead of increased.
Without the ability to breathe, the Black Knights had to find another way, but they ended up taking a crooked path.
Therefore, when the Black Knights learned through intelligence from the Kingdom Organization that there was actually a complete knightly lineage in the Eastern Continent, and that there were demigods who could live to be over two hundred years old, they could not help but be tempted.
This is something they are determined to have: Knight's Breathing Technique.
But the question is, how did the Black Knights know Qing Chen's identity? Someone leaked it.
Upon hearing Twenty-Nine's voice, Vera retorted, "And who are you?"
Bolton said, "He's the eleventh brother's apprentice!"
After thinking for a moment, Twenty-Nine said, "I am Zhang Jian, an old friend of the Joker."
Qingchen met this captain on a crab fishing boat, helped him save the boat, and together they retrieved the gold coins from the sunken ship, thus starting a new life.
But after witnessing Qingchen and Yangyang's amazing feats firsthand, Zhang Jian no longer longed for the life of crab fishing.
Zhang Jian once told Qing Chen that he also wanted to travel around the world and find a way to become a time traveler.
So he actually put down his crab boat and traveled all over North America, finally becoming a Time Traveler, a member of the Black Knights, in New York, at the age of twenty-nine.
Twenty-Nine didn't know Qing Chen's identity at first on the airship, until just now when Eleventh Brother confronted Bolton.
Despite the long separation, Twenty-Nine was not particularly excited, because he was well aware that Qing Chen was in danger.
He knew that Qing Chen must have already recognized him.
But Qingchen did not acknowledge him; instead, he silently pretended not to know him.
Just before he left, the other party slipped him a note: "Find the Fifth Princess."
After listening to Twenty-Nine's explanation, Vera immediately grasped the key point: "Since the Joker sent you a note to find me, he actually knew he was in danger, right?"
“That should be true,” Twenty-Nine replied. “Eleventh Brother made it too obvious. He knew the Joker was going to the Empire’s TOP military base, so he used hunting as an excuse to leave the airship near the base. I think with the Joker’s intelligence, he must have noticed something was wrong.”
What Twenty-Nine didn't mention was that he had lived with the Joker for a period of time and knew very well what kind of person the Joker was.
How could someone so skilled not notice such a flaw?
"Wait, how did Old Eleven know that Joker was going to the Imperial TOP military base? Who told him?!" Vera's voice became serious.
He Jinqiu.
Logically speaking, only He Jinqiu should know about Qingchen's plan.
Only He Jinqiu could tell the Black Knights about this.
There is no other answer!
The research lab was looted, and He Jinqiu betrayed Qing Chen. This series of causes and effects are connected: Bolton's phone call was overheard by the Eleventh Brother, who knew very well about He Jinqiu's value, so he took matters into his own hands and stole the potion.
In order to obtain the potion in an equivalent exchange, He Jinqiu betrayed Qing Chen's identity and gave the Black Knights a chance to capture Qing Chen alive, thus ushering in a new era for the Western Continent Knights!
An era of knights aided by breathing techniques!
The quick-witted Fifth Princess has already guessed a certain truth, and this truth may push Qing Chen into the abyss.
But there's another problem... When the airship landed near the military base, Qing Chen should have thought of this clue, but he still chose to go.
Why?
Are we going to our deaths?
Vera couldn't understand it.
She told her attendant, "Go to a location 120 kilometers north of the military base."
The attendant hesitated for a moment: "Aren't we going directly to the military base?"
Do as instructed.
After saying that, Vera lay back down in the golden coffin, and the war robot closed the lid again.
On the other side, Bolton suddenly put on virtual reality glasses.
Twenty-Nine asked curiously, "Entering the superconducting world at this time? You still have the mood to play?"
Bolton said, "I'm not going there to play, I'm going there to call for backup."