Soldiers from the Qing army stood on both sides of the road, handing out compressed biscuits and bottled water to the soldiers and refugees: "You've worked hard. There are only compressed biscuits here, but you can get a hot meal 80 kilometers ahead."
"That's an outpost. The conditions are a bit basic, but we won't let anyone go hungry."
"From now on, the Southwest will be everyone's home, and we will fight side by side."
The Li and Qing families finally joined forces, preparing for the final battle.
Li Yunmu stood by the bridge, and Qingyu said softly, "Please accept my condolences."
After this battle, the Li clan was decimated, with only 328 remaining out of 31,922 members. The Li clan sacrificed their entire clan to buy more than a month of time for the Eastern Continent Federation.
Li Yunmu suddenly said, "I'm not very sad, because I know this is the ending that my elder brother chose himself."
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West Continent, 78 Victor Avenue.
Qingchen sat silently on the sofa, waiting for news.
At that moment, a shadowy door opened in the living room, and Qing Ji walked out looking exhausted.
Qing Chen looked up at him: "Is it over?"
Qing Ji nodded: "It's over."
Before Qing Chen returned to the Western Continent, he learned of Li Yunshou's fate.
He recalled that when he was at Longhu Manor in Banshan, Li Yunshou seemed to have only said one truth: "If the Li family abandons its foundation and retreats to the southwest with the parents' association, will they be ostracized?"
Li Yunshou said it was just a joke.
But often the truest words are hidden in jokes.
At that time, Li Yunshou was not worried about himself, but rather about whether the Li family soldiers would be ostracized after they went to the southwest.
After Qing Chen left, Li Yunmu also arrived at the Half-Mountain Manor and called out "Big Brother" to Li Yunshou from behind.
At that time, Li Yunshou said, "Let's begin. We don't have time to hesitate."
Everything is written in destiny, and a few people carefully maintain this 'train of destiny' as it travels toward its predetermined destination.
Qing Chen suddenly looked at Qing Ji and said, "We will definitely win, right?"
Qing Ji did not answer.
Qing Chen said, "A destiny that Li Yunshou would risk his life for must lead to victory, otherwise he wouldn't be able to face death so readily. But, even now, I still don't know how to win."
As he spoke, he coughed violently, coughing up blood from his palm.
Qing Ji calmly said, "Actually, it's already bad enough that you guessed the purpose of the Heaven and Earth Chessboard in the old man's hands, so there's no need to guess blindly. Just do what you want to do. City 18 has been destroyed, and the Western Continent must choose another place to build an advance base. However, we still don't have much time left."
"Understood," Qing Chen nodded. "The appointed time has arrived. Open the Shadow Gate."
He hadn't met Li Yunshou many times, but whenever he thought of that gentle and refined gentleman who had made his vows in the most explosive way, he felt somewhat saddened.
Someone has to pay the price for all of this.
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At this very moment, the mistress is sitting in the shadows of an alley in City 23.
The transport ships of the Western Continent have successfully transported two land army groups to the north. They have blockaded the city, swept through all the buildings, and tattooed anyone they see on the face.
Xiao San didn't want to get a tattoo, so she had to leave the building where she was hiding and use her B-level superhuman abilities to keep hiding.
He glanced at the time on his arm; he had 45 minutes left before returning, and it was already time for their appointment.
He was late.
There was no way around it; the road to the agreed-upon Shadow Gate was fraught with obstacles, slowing his progress.
As Xiao San moved through the darkness, a B-class airship from the Storm Fleet suddenly flew overhead.
The airship detected his vital signs and immediately opened the hatch at the bottom of the airship, releasing two war robots, while drones also chased after Xiao San through the dark alleys.
Two war robots, spanning dozens of meters, landed heavily on the ground.
The roads were riddled with spiderweb-like cracks from their fall.
The next moment, the war robot strode into the alleyway, keeping its sights firmly locked on the mistress.
In their eyes, the infrared radiation emitted by the mistress is like the sun in the night sky, and they can easily track her even through walls.
The airships in the sky also realized that this was a big fish, at least a B-level, and possibly a key member of the parents' association in the north!
The chase continued, with the mistress cursing and swearing as she circled around, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't shake off her pursuers.
Moreover, other airships were also notified and came to surround him, completely blocking his way to the agreed location!
Within just three minutes of discovering him, the Storm City soldiers had already spun a tight net, several times more efficient than those of Kamishiro and Kashima.
"This is fucking over!" Xiao San cursed. "The soldiers from the Western Continent are pretty awesome."
He pulled out the red queen ant statue from his pocket, preparing to summon Little Gold for a desperate fight, but as he passed an alleyway, Qing Ji suddenly appeared and pulled him into the Shadow Gate.
The war robots on the street came to an abrupt halt, and the airships in the sky lost their target.
Someone escaped right under their noses.
Chapter 964, Seven Golden Coffins
"Welcome to 78 Victor Avenue."
The mistress, still shaken, looked around 78 Victor Avenue. Sunlight streamed through the window onto the carpet, and in an instant, he felt as if he had traveled from midnight to daylight.
If he had been ten seconds later, the war robots' firepower might have overwhelmed him in the dark alley.
Xiao San exclaimed in surprise, "Boss, I thought I'd never see you again. To be honest, the Storm City Army is much more powerful than Kamishiro or Kashima. Back then, Kashima's garrison wanted to surround me, but unless they sent a whole regiment and spent half an hour, they simply couldn't do it. This time, Storm City only took 3 minutes, and I had nowhere to go."
Xiao San smiled at Qing Ji and said, "It's a good thing I have Uncle Qing Ji, otherwise I might have been stranded there."
Qing Chen asked, "Are the northern cities now under strict lockdown?"
Hearing this question, Xiao San looked somewhat saddened: "The residents of the Federation are in a terrible state right now. Everyone is being forced to get tattoos. They have special tattoo machines that put the machine on a person's head and it's done in just over ten seconds. The entire city has the word 'slave' tattooed on everyone's forehead, not even the children are spared."
The mistress said, "This afternoon I saw them break into an elementary school and tattoo all the students and teachers inside."
Qing Chen asked, "This is a huge workload. Has the Storm City Land Army sent so many people?"
“It wasn’t Storm City Army Group that did it. They did it in the name of Kashima and Kamishiro, by conscripting veterans from Kamishiro and Kashima back into the army,” Xiao San explained. “After those veterans from Kamishiro and Kashima returned to the army, they became even more ruthless than the people of West Continent. I killed many of them with Xiao Jin in City 23, but it always felt like we could never kill them all.”
Qing Chen nodded: "Sooner or later, they will be held accountable."
"Boss, are we in a city in the Western Continent now? What are we going to do this time?" Xiao San asked excitedly, rubbing his hands together.
"Blood debts must be repaid in blood."
If Qingchen were to rank the places he has been to and his favorite, then Prison No. 18 would be number one.
The second place should be Forbidden Land No. 002, where there is a group of old guys who genuinely care for it.
The third place should be Longhu outside Baopulou.
He could sit on the broken bridge in the sunlight and chat with that old man about the Federation and life. The old man hadn't seen the future, but he genuinely treated him like one of his own.
Now that the old man is gone, they have failed to protect the Li family, and even Baopulou and Longhu have become history.
Arriving in the Otherworld brings much joy and many rewards, but amidst the dramatic changes of the times, there is also much regret.
The war continues.
The area beneath the fireplace at 78 Victor Avenue had been brutally cut up and dug open by Qing Chen with his black knife, all the way down to the ground.
Below this is a main underground pipeline.
Xiao San peeked out with a flashlight and said excitedly, "Perfect! Uncle Qing Ji, help me open the Shadow Gate and go to the villa at No. 12 Mingguang Street in City 23. You've been there before."
Qing Ji nodded and opened the Shadow Gate.
Qing Chen glanced inside and saw that the villa was the same as 78 Victor Avenue, with the drainage pipes already connected.
The mistress stepped into the Shadow Gate and whistled. A giant golden cockroach peeked out from the sewer and affectionately rubbed against her leg!
The mistress chuckled: "It's only been a day! Don't pretend you miss me so much. Call your children out, get ready to get to work!"
Xiao Jin tilted its body again to examine Qing Chen, and Xiao San patted it on the head: "Don't stare at the boss like that."
Little Jin shrank back a little.
The mistress instructed, "First, explore the underground of the central royal city thoroughly, don't miss any corner! The boss is here, don't embarrass me!"
Xiao Jin turned around and made a squeaking sound towards the sewer.
The next moment, swarms of cockroaches emerged from the burrows in City 23, forming an orderly line as they passed through the Shadow Gate and, like a human marching in formation, crawled into the sewers beneath the fireplace.
These cockroaches, under Xiao Jin's deliberate cultivation, have bred into different types of soldiers.
Some were enormous, resembling calves, and possessed incredibly sharp mouthparts.
Some are as small as ants, with no offensive capabilities, yet they can penetrate anywhere.
When Black Spider saw this, his scalp tingled!
Swarms of cockroaches once appeared in the northern cities, and when they did, the core members of the Age of Gods were wiped out. Now, these terrifying cockroaches have returned to the Western Continent through the Shadow Gate!
In fact, compared to the giants who are currently training, cockroaches are more suited for urban warfare.
Qing Chen had kept them all this time, intending to send them to the Central Royal City as a grand gift to the Roosevelt royal family.
He watched the cockroaches march by expressionlessly, waiting for them to disperse to every corner of the city.
The cockroach army marched for several kilometers, and just as they were about to cut through to the city center, they discovered that there were steel meshes blocking their way in the sewers.
A large cockroach tried to bite through the web in front of it with its mouthparts, but found it very difficult, taking about two to three hours to break through a single web.
Xiao San stood inside Victor 78 and looked at Qing Chen, saying, "Boss, it seems that the Western Continent has already taken precautions against the cockroach swarms. Many intersections of the sewers have been equipped with intercepting alloy mesh, so the large cockroaches can't get through and can't directly infiltrate the core area of the city from underground."
Qing Chen was not surprised. Cockroach swarms had already appeared in the Age of Gods, and the Roosevelt royal family would have taken precautions unless they were fools.
The black spider beside him explained, "There have been many instances of biological contamination in the Western Continent. These metal nets are not specifically designed to protect us. They have always been there to prevent the rapid spread of underground biological contamination caused by the death of some superhuman."