After thinking for a moment, Shen Daiyunluo said, "The boss said we can just drive in."
"Huh?" Kong Yu was stunned for several seconds: "That can't be right. The three of us are wanted criminals, and the ghost troops behind us have already been wiped out. How are we going to get in?"
Yunxiu added from the side, "They'll be riddled with holes by the metal storm."
“I’m not entirely sure either,” Kamishiro Yunra hesitated, “but let’s give it a try.”
Kong Yu was stunned: "Give it a try? What if it doesn't work out? We'll die at the border gate. Even Bai Mu Gui can't withstand more than thirty Metal Storms."
At this moment, Muto Taka and Takahashi Ryosuke, who were at the back of the convoy, also turned on the vehicle's communication system and asked, "Wait, are we just going to charge in like this? I thought there would be a better plan!? Shouldn't we first crawl into the sewer and then sneak in quietly..."
Kamishiro Yunra thought for a moment and said, "That would be too much trouble."
"Hmm?" Muto Taka was deeply confused: "But we'll die if we go in like this."
As she spoke, Shindai Yunlu made a phone call: "Hey, boss, we're at the door."
Qingchen said over the phone, "Okay, go in."
The call ended.
Kong Yu stared in disbelief: "What do we do now?"
"We'll just do whatever the boss says."
However, just as they reluctantly drove into the gate, they found that the border control station was already in ruins, with the great demon Qing Ji standing by the roadside, quietly watching them drive past.
Screams could still be heard not far away. The Shadow Force had infiltrated the city at some point and had completely breached the city's defenses!
The city defense system above, which should have been able to identify the identity of the Divine Era Cloud Luo, remained motionless and fell into complete silence.
"Praise be to the boss!" Shindai Yunluo smiled and waved to Qingji: "Uncle Qingji, thank you! Let's forget about the embarrassing photos you took of me when I was drunk the other day!"
Qing Ji nodded, his face still stained with blood, looking exceptionally cold, a stark contrast to the great demon Qing Ji who loved collecting other people's dark histories.
Kong Yu gripped the steering wheel: "They just got in like that? This city's defense system is way too easy to break down."
Ryosuke Takahashi, in the car behind, muttered, "We just walked in like this? If I'm not mistaken, that was Keiji from the Kei clan! The Kei clan has come knocking on our door, and Kamishiro hasn't reacted at all?"
Kamishiro Unra laughed and said, "You've been staying in the mountains for too long, so I'm bringing you out to see the world. Everyone, times have changed!"
It's not that the Gods are too weak, but rather that they haven't fully adapted to the new way of fighting yet.
The Key Gate appeared in Qing Chen's hands, and the war was like a sudden transition from the 2G era to the 5G era.
In the 2G era, warfare still involved positional warfare, a steady advance of troops, consideration of supply lines and logistics. The so-called blitzkrieg of that era was nothing more than advancing about 300 kilometers a day.
For Qing Chen's troops today, they have redefined blitzkrieg.
A true blitzkrieg is when one hour you're eating hotpot and singing songs thousands of kilometers away, and the next second you're wiping your mouth and storming into your house.
This level of efficiency can already be described as a disruptive transformation.
However, throughout human history, people have always been slow to realize the arrival of such changes. Just like after the widespread use of firearms, the Qing Dynasty troops were still riding warhorses and trying to charge into gun positions. At that time, the Qing army was dumbfounded when they saw the iron ships in the harbor.
Now it's Qingchen and his team's turn to lead the era of change. Those outdated city defense systems haven't been designed to deal with situations where they directly storm the control center.
In the city, the garrison troops didn't even have time to react.
Jinshiro Yunluo sat leisurely in the car, smiling as he said to Muto Taka and the others, "Slowly savor the wonder of this battle; it will shatter your worldview... This is our new boss."
At that moment, armored vehicles of the garrison troops drove up from the end of the long street. Muto Taka shouted into the communication channel: "Boss, don't fight the garrison troops' mechanized forces head-on. We'll abandon the vehicles and escape from here now, and go straight to the shrine. As long as Kamishiro Chika dies, the battle will be over."
Kamishiro Unra laughed and said, "Don't worry, we're heading straight for the shrine, but we don't need to abandon the car."
Muto Taka and Takahashi Ryosuke, along with hundreds of other skilled fighters, were already gripping their katanas tightly in the carriage.
However, before they could even make a move, they saw that a huge floor-to-ceiling window on the 7th floor of the skyscraper that the garrison troops were passing by had been smashed.
The next moment, a giant landed heavily beside the armored vehicle, lifting it up and starting to rampage: "Hmph!"
Moreover, more and more giants jumped down from the windows, as if they had calculated that the garrison troops would pass through here to support the border gate, so they had ambushed them here early on.
The enormous giants pounded through the streets, some of them wielding huge, thin, yet incredibly tough alloy shields. They withstood the heavy machine gun fire from behind and charged to the armored vehicle, kicking it over with one foot.
This shield was specially forged by the Qing family for the giants, and each shield cost more than a million.
Kamishiro Unra watched with utter boredom. After Hyakume-ki gained destructive power comparable to a demigod, it didn't even have a chance to make a move...
Immediately afterwards, tens of thousands of giants poured out of the Key Gate. Under the command of more than 600 telepathic giants, they were divided into more than 600 combat squads and infiltrated the entire city.
Giants charged forward, shields in hand, some carrying handheld 155mm howitzers; it looked like over six hundred oversized special forces units…
That's too wild.
You know, those howitzers used to be towed by trucks!
Here, the garrison troops had just established a defensive line when several giants rushed over and blasted it away with a single cannon shot.
Most importantly, these giants are incredibly fast. After their training, they have reached a speed of 140 kilometers per hour on foot, a speed that most people wouldn't dare drive on a highway!
Faced with such speed, the Kamishiro garrison troops had no time to react and could not have imagined it at all!
"This is..." Muto Taka and Takahashi Ryosuke stared blankly at the giant: "How long have we been in the mountains? How come there are already such ferocious giants in this world?"
“They are the boss’s subjects, each one of them is a skilled warrior and fearless,” said Kamishiro Yunra with a smile. “I was drinking with them a few days ago, originally wanting to challenge the Titans’ drinking capacity, but I found out I was overestimating myself…”
Kong Yu curled his lip: "Your alcohol tolerance is not very good to begin with."
He's bad at games but loves to play.
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Inside Hakusan Shrine.
Kamishiro Chika was still kneeling in the main hall, listening to the shikigami's whispers, when the onmyoji who had just left returned: "Ancestor, something terrible has happened! City 22 has fallen! Please prepare to evacuate immediately!"
Chika Kamishiro was taken aback: "What do you mean?"
You just confirmed an hour ago that the city's sewage system was safe, and now you're telling me my house is going to be destroyed?!
The situation changed so quickly?
An Onmyoji crawled on his knees into the main hall and showed Kamishiro Chika a video of the giants wreaking havoc in the city on an LCD screen.
Kamishiro Chika's pupils suddenly contracted. He never expected that Qing Chen's trip to the Western Continent would allow him to incorporate the Giant Dynasty and transform it into such an elite force capable of fighting in urban warfare.
Not only that, the Shadow Forces also arrived. Under the cover of the Titans, they didn't need the main battle tanks to provide any protection and could freely advance through the city!
What is the Dynasty of Giants? This is the greatest threat to the Roosevelt Kingdom. When did the God Family ever become worthy of being an opponent of such an existence?
Kamishiro Chika glanced at the shikigami tablet in front of her, took a deep breath, and resolutely turned to leave: "Prepare the airship, evacuate now."
Seven airships were moored inside Hakusan Shrine and quickly took off into the sky.
Standing by the airship's porthole, Chika Kamishiro never imagined that he would suffer such a fatal blow so soon after he had gathered his old troops and his ambitions had just resurfaced.
Qing Chen had no intention of giving him a chance to breathe!
As the airships departed, passing through the city's steel jungle, they were suddenly greeted by giants taking a running start on the ground.
The next moment, the straight cannon barrel in the giant's hand flew out and shot into the air like a javelin!
With a loud bang, an airship was pierced through!
The airship was burning with flames as it crashed to the ground, while on the next street, a giant was pointing a 155mm howitzer at the sky, using it as an anti-aircraft gun.
As the airship crashed and the Onmyoji inside died, more than a dozen Shikigami flew back to Hakusan Shrine.
Kamishiro Chika watched with a gloomy expression, feeling as if the wheels of time were relentlessly crushing him.
"Ancestor, should we drop a bomb? I think it could kill hundreds of giants!" said an Onmyoji.
Kamishiro Chika shook her head: "Let them fight with the Roosevelt Kingdom. It's in our best interest for them to weaken each other."
Unfortunately, the giants had only been in contact with the cannons for a short time, and the four airships eventually escaped.
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...
Gradually, the convoy led by Shindai Unra sped towards the city, driving all the way to the entrance of Hakusan Shrine without encountering any real obstacles.
The garrison troops of City 22 have indeed tried their best... but it's no use.
Shen Daiyunluo also suddenly realized that after Qing Chen's trip to the Western Continent, the enemy had changed to the more powerful Roosevelt Kingdom, while the previous enemies had suddenly fallen behind.
Ryosuke Takahashi stared blankly ahead: "We got here just like that? What kind of fighting style is this?"
"It's a mindless fighting style," Kamishiro Yunluo summarized. "It means that as long as the boss brings his brain, we don't need to. It's a pity that Kamishiro Chika ran away, otherwise I would like to have a heart-to-heart talk with him."
He lightly jumped off the carriage, his hands tucked into the sleeves of his white hunting robe, and walked inside with a smile: "Oh, boss, you're here! The Shadow Gate is still much more useful!"
But then he saw Qingchen and Qingji standing under the torii gate, smiling as they said to him, "That old turtle, Kamishiro Chika, has a first-rate ability to save his life. Let's go in and take a look."
Kamishiro Unra led the way inside: "Hakusan Shrine used to be just a backup, a kind of temporary palace. It was only much later that Kamishiro Chika moved the shrine bridge here. Come on, I'll show you around."
"This is a shimenawa (sacred rope), which is tied to the roof beam to mark the boundary of the divine realm..."
"This is a temizuya, a place located at the entrance of a shrine for purifying one's hands and mouth. The walls of the basin are usually inscribed with the words 'washing the heart' or 'purifying the heart.' Unfortunately, even the temizuya cannot cleanse the heart of Kamishiro Chika."
A group of people walked through the deserted Hakusan Shrine, the most sacred place in the Kamishiro family's territory, but they seemed like tourists...
Qing Chen said with a smile, "It's a pity, I'll take it down sooner or later."
Muto Taka and Takahashi Ryosuke glared at him, but since Kamishiro Unra remained silent, they dared not say anything either.
Qing Chen arrived at the main hall and saw more than 500 shikigami spirit tablets inside. These stone spirit tablets were like ancestral tablets, except that some of them were empty, while others were engraved with various strange demons.
He reached out to pick up Hannya's memorial tablet, but Kamishiro Sora suddenly said anxiously, "Don't move it. No shikigami has permission to move the memorial tablet, or they will attack you in droves."
Qing Chen looked at Shen Dai Yunluo: "Do you mind if I take them with me?"
Ryosuke Takahashi and the others were shocked: "What right do you, an outsider, have to take away the legacy of the Onmyoji?!"
But then Kamishiro Yunra sneered, "This is nothing more than something the Kamishiro family stole from the Genji. The Genji treated it like a beloved demon, but we treat it like an ancestor. We don't need such a legacy."
Qingchen nodded, took out a small glass bottle, opened it, and smeared the blood inside onto his wrist.
The next second, he smashed all the memorial tablets in the Hakusan Shrine.
However, the scene of the shikigami attacking in groups did not appear. Instead, they turned into streaks of light and flew into the bloodstains on his wrist.
When the shikigami arrived at Qingchen's memory palace, they felt deceived and wanted to destroy his will completely. However, as the doors of the memory palace opened, an irresistible force pulled all the shikigami into the room.
With a bang, all forty-three doors slammed shut, and Qingchen's mind fell silent once more.