Qingxun and Li Xiurui are like two extremes: one is a taciturn chess player, and the other is a carefree old man.
Ten minutes later, Li Yunshou walked out of the wooden house with a stunned expression. Li Xiurui said, "Tell your father what you saw?"
Li Yunshou gave him a complicated look: "I can't say."
"Are you my son or his son?" Li Xiurui stared wide-eyed. "You've recognized a fake father?"
Qingxun, who was inside the house, said, "Why are you making things difficult for the child? Come in and have a drink."
Li Xiurui walked in cursing, and Qing Zhun closed the wooden door.
After drinking for a while, they heard Li Xiurui complaining: "You were so arrogant when you were in college, but a bunch of girls in your class still liked you. They just don't have the eyes to see the good in me."
Qingxun: "You still possess things like truth, goodness, and beauty?"
It was only then that Li Yunshou and Qing Zhun learned that Qing Xun and Li Xiurui had been classmates for four years in college and had disliked each other since then.
At that time, neither of them was the head of the family, and neither of them knew that they would one day hold the fate of tens of millions of people in their hands.
At this moment, Li Xiurui asked drunkenly, "You suddenly called me here for drinks because I'm about to die, right?"
Qingxun did not answer.
Li Xiurui chuckled and said, "You've always been too tense your whole life. What's there to hide?"
As he was speaking, a loud slap came from inside, as if Li Xiurui had slapped Qingxun on the shoulder.
Qing Xun angrily said, "Don't you dare touch me like that! What kind of behavior is this?!"
Outside the door, Li Yunshou stood there blankly, seemingly lost in thought.
Kyung-jun leaned against the wall and chuckled, "Did you see something unbelievable?"
Li Yunshou thought for a moment and then asked in return, "Have you seen it?"
"No, the old man won't let me see it."
Li Yunshou fell silent again.
The next moment, Li Xiurui pulled open the wooden door, swayed as he walked out, and said to Qing Zhun, "Alright, take us back."
Qingxun stood in the darkness of the wooden house, silently watching them.
Li Yunshou, supporting his drunken father, suddenly turned around and asked, "Is this really necessary?"
Qingxun calmly said, "You make the choice."
The tipsy Li Xiurui seemed to sense something: "Could it be him?"
“You can have another child take over as head of the family,” Qingxun said.
Li Xiurui was taken aback for a moment, and Li Yunshou suddenly laughed and said, "I'll do it. My younger brothers and sisters are still too young."
Because of those words, Kyung Joon glanced at Lee Yun-soo again.
He opened the Shadow Gate and sent the Li father and son back to City 18.
Li Yunshou helped his father back to Baopu Tower. Li Xiurui said, "You can treat what he said tonight as nonsense. When your grandfather made me the head of the family, he said that the responsibility of the head of the family was heavy and that no one but me could do it. Later, I always thought, what bullshit about no one but me, he was just playing with me... Yunshou, although I don't know what you saw or what he wanted you to do, you can actually choose your own path."
Li Yunshou smiled and said, "No need to trouble yourself, Father. I am very satisfied with my ending."
Chapter 963, Snowball Fight
The power of a tyrant is beyond human imagination, like a meteorite hitting the earth and leaving an indelible scar on the earth's surface.
The massive shockwave sent plumes of dust thousands of meters high billowing outwards, reducing everything in City 18 to dust.
Buildings collapsed and crumbled one after another, and the city walls also collapsed instantly.
Residents of City 10, 600 kilometers away, could see the sudden flash in the night, which illuminated an area of 1,800 kilometers!
Immediately afterwards, the blast wave shattered the windows of all the buildings on the edge of the city. Some people went to the window to watch, but were suddenly thrown into their homes by the blast wave.
This is the ultimate terrifying weapon. If Qing Chen and his team hadn't destroyed the Empire's TOP military base, perhaps such a weapon would have fallen on the Eastern Continent one day.
One of the once most prosperous federal twin stars vanished overnight.
As a result, the Blackwater air fortress was completely destroyed after the nuclear explosion and crashed into the center of the blast, where it was completely melted by the extreme heat.
The Blackwater Fleet, as the vanguard of the Roosevelt Kingdom, disappeared along with the city itself.
The Roosevelt Kingdom had little contact with the Eastern Continent. They encountered the Kamishiro and Kashima, who surrendered upon first meeting, as well as the Chen family, whose home had been usurped by a puppeteer.
Later, even the Li family surrendered, just like Kamishiro and Kashima.
The Roosevelt Kingdom did not think conquering the Eastern Continent would be difficult; they were just wary of giving Qingchen no more time to grow. However, they did not expect the Li family to be so ruthless, which made them realize the Eastern Continent's determination to resist the invaders.
City No. 5.
The Li family officers and Hengshe members who had been evacuated from Prison No. 18 were all silent at this moment.
They knew that the place where they once lived was now in ruins, and that their war had only just begun.
Li Dongze was lost in thought, seemingly pondering something. Zhang Tianzhen looked at Qingye, who had come to greet them, and asked, "What are the arrangements for Hengshe?"
Qingye said, "The boss said to merge it into the parent-teacher association, since half of Hengshe's members are family anyway."
Suddenly, Li Dongze looked at Zhang Tianzhen: "Jiang Xiaotang was someone you arranged to join the suicide squad, wasn't she?"
Zhang Tianzhen fell silent: "Her condition is that she joins us, otherwise the airships won't be given to us. You don't need to worry about this, I'll handle it."
Li Dongze remained silent for a long time before saying, "She didn't say anything."
"She asked me to apologize to you after I'm safe. She was scared and cowardly back then, but not this time."
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Right now.
Lee's troops are still making the most of their time to advance southward.
Within the military, they also protected women and children.
Just a few tens of minutes ago, Li was still driving away these residents of City 18 with a fierce expression, but a few tens of minutes later, an order was delivered.
The soldiers slung their weapons over their backs and walked up to the woman carrying the child: "Let me carry her, so you can walk faster."
The people being forced to retreat were bewildered and confused. One man stood up and angrily shouted, "Why are you taking the children away? Don't you even spare the children?"
The soldiers of the Li clan looked sorrowful: "The commander has already passed down the military order. The Li clan was just pretending before, and they had no other choice. Now, Commander Li Yunshou has used a nuclear bomb in City 18 to perish together with the Blackwater City fleet and died for his country."
The people looked at each other, half believing and half doubting.
As the soldiers of the Li family looked at the people in front of them, they knew that taking these people away was the last thing Li Yunshou could do for City 18.
At this moment, not only were Li's soldiers explaining, but the parents' association members who were lurking in the crowd also received the message.
The people gradually came to believe it, and sobs could be heard from the crowd.
Lee's soldiers began assisting the people in continuing their evacuation to the southwest, traversing mountains and rivers.
When some people were too tired to walk, the soldiers carried them on their backs and continued on.
Suddenly someone asked, "But the bridges leading to the southwest have all been destroyed. How are we going to get across?"
"It wasn't completely destroyed."
All 19 bridges in the southwest were destroyed by the Qing family. However, there was actually one abandoned bridge that had been forgotten and did not appear on the map.
The Li army, carrying a large number of residents of City 18, traversed mountains and valleys, and finally, at 11 p.m., the vanguard could see the outline of the bridge from the mountain.
Everyone was exhausted, even the Li family's officers were covered in dust and dirt.
Commander Li Yunmu stood on the mountain road, looking back at the bright, daylight-like sky hundreds of kilometers away, lost in thought.
The adjutant beside him, unaware of the situation, looked at him and said, "Sir, after two days of intense marching, the troops are a bit tired. Should we stop and rest?"
Li Yunmu stared blankly into the distance, lit a cigarette, and seemed to be suddenly lost in some past memories: "Xiao Zhou, do you have any older brothers or sisters?"
The adjutant, Xiao Zhou, was taken aback: "Sir, I am an only child."
Fifty-one-year-old Li Yunmu smiled and said, "That's a real pity."
"Sir, why do you say that?" Xiao Zhou asked, puzzled.
Li Yunmu said with a smile, "I have an older brother. When we were little, my father would take us to Longhu Lake to have a snowball fight. He would just stand there like an idiot. Everyone would throw snowballs at him, but he would just smile and not fight back. He would never get angry even when we hit him in the face with snowballs."
“Our seventh brother is a sly devil. He secretly became a superhuman and then came back to have snowball fights with us,” Li Yunmu took a deep drag on his cigarette, exhaling the thin, bluish-white smoke into the moonlight. “We got beaten up pretty badly back then. The snowballs he made were really solid; if one hit your eye, you’d get a black eye. Our eldest brother would hug him from behind and yell at us to run, like he was about to sacrifice himself… It was amazing.”
Li Yunmu continued, "My eldest brother has always been a gentleman, and everyone respects him. Many people's gentlemanly demeanor is just an act, but my eldest brother is not. He has never competed with anyone for benefits, and he has never lost his temper with anyone. When outsiders said that the Li family was going to have internal strife, I just laughed. If even one of my brothers or sisters said to him, 'Brother, I want to be the head of the family,' he would probably give up his position."
“Four months ago, he suddenly told his brothers and sisters that he wanted to be the head of the family and that they should not fight over it. At the time, I was wondering when my eldest brother had suddenly become so enlightened. Now that I think about it, he was already prepared back then.”
But then Li Yunmu stubbed out his cigarette and took one last deep look at the light behind him that was gradually dying out: "Cross the bridge!"
This time, Li Yunmu did not send out scouts. As the frontline commander of the Li clan, he personally led the way and crossed the abandoned bridge.
While crossing the bridge, Xiao Zhou suddenly noticed that the bridge had been artificially aged. Although the steel frame was very sturdy, the surface looked as if it had been acid-washed, as if it could collapse at any moment.
Xiao Zhou said from behind, "Commander, what if the Qing family is lying in ambush ahead? Why don't you step back a little and let us send scouts across the bridge to take a look?"
Li Yunmu shook his head: "No need."
Xiao Zhou was dumbfounded: "This doesn't comply with operational regulations. Who doesn't send scouts when crossing a bridge?"
However, as they were talking, they had already crossed the short bridge.
Li Yunmu stopped at the bridgehead and suddenly shouted to the black mountains in front of him, "Li Yunmu, the front-line commander of the Li Group Army, is here! Where are the supporting troops?!"
The next moment, lights came on in the mountains.
A vast number of Qing soldiers stood up on the mountain, but no one fired a shot.
Li's soldiers tensed up and pulled the bolts of their guns, preparing for battle.
But Li Yunmu wasn't nervous at all.
While waiting, Qing Yu, the commander of the Qing clan's front line, walked down from the foot of the mountain. He came to the bridge and shook hands with Li Yunmu: "I've been waiting for you for a long time. You must be tired. Let's cross the bridge."
Li Yunmu said to Xiao Zhou, "Pass on the order: Li Changqing will immediately take over as head of the Li family. The Li family army has allied with the Qing family. We will fight the invaders... to the last man."
The troops set off again, with Li's forces surging across the short bridge and continuing their advance southwest.