Myriad Paths

In a war zone outside the domain, this is a war zone dominated by the fifth rank, similar to the Vanguard War. Here, two fifth rank warriors dominate. Zhong Minglou, the commander of the war zone, and Fan Lu, another fifth rank witch, the leader of the killing team. "Fortune teller, this is all the information now." Fan Lu transmitted the large amount of information she sorted out to Zhong Minglou through the "alliance". Fan Lu is a Wu Yu, with a delicate and elegant appearance, tall and slender figure, no matter from which aspect, she is a beauty, and from the other party's capable and agile posture, she handles these things easily, and does not look like a person with the responsibility of "killing". However, her clothes are still the long skirts that Wu Yu often wears, slit to the thigh, which makes her delicate and charming. However, all this is useless because Zhong Minglou is blind. Zhong Minglou, who was blindfolded, could not see anything, but he had reached the fifth rank, so he could pretend that he could see. He nodded slightly to Fanlu: "Thank you for your hard work... Obviously, the chief killer does not need to do so much, but I still tired you out. I feel guilty." "It doesn't matter. It's all for the sake of resisting humanity. It's better to say that it's my honor to follow the fortune teller." Fanlu smiled and didn't care. She really thought so from the bottom of her heart, because it was too easy to do things with Zhong Minglou. Although he needed to be the chief killer at the same time and take over some of the clerical and data sorting work that the commander should have, after taking over these tasks, Zhong Minglou could play a huge role. He almost predicted the future in this war, anticipated every detail of the war, made arrangements in advance, and achieved "complete victory". That's right, in this war zone controlled by Zhong Minglou, Wudao's record was a complete victory, and the opponent's humane general lost miserably, and finally had to withdraw in disgrace, replaced by a veteran general like a tortoise shell. Although it is a bit disrespectful to call it a tortoise shell, it is indeed very appropriate. In the current confrontation situation, the other party is defending tightly, so that Zhong Minglou can't figure out the flaws at all.

Zhong Minglou can't find any flaws, which means that at the fifth-grade stage, the other party has indeed achieved flawless and perfect defense.

Therefore, this war zone can be said to be very peaceful, so peaceful that mortals almost forget that they are fighting. In addition to daily border defense, normal production has almost resumed.

In fact, this is already very good. It can be maintained like this and delay a large number of humanitarian troops to defend here.

Moreover, Fan Lu also knows that for Zhong Minglou, this situation seems to be exactly what he wants.

"By the way, there is another not-so-good news this time. The fortune teller should have known it, right? With your ability, you may know it earlier than me." Fan Lu said.

"Yes, I already know it. It's a small matter. To be honest, you don't need to mention it specifically." Zhong Minglou smiled, as gentle as ever. Although I can't see his eyes, I can still imagine his eyes.

"Is it a trivial matter? If it is really a trivial matter, why did the fortune teller know it in advance?" Fan Lu asked back.

This made Zhong Minglou speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say.

However, he just shook his head: "Don't worry, this matter will not interfere with the war."

"I believe this, but... that's all. The fortune teller knows his limits. I won't say much. Goodbye." Fan Lu shook her head and left.

After all, she is the captain of the killing team, and there are still many things to do outside. Although the workload has been greatly reduced because of Zhong Minglou, it is still there.

As for what she just said to Zhong Minglou, this is already public news. Many people know about it, so she will specifically mention it to Zhong Minglou.

Speaking of it, it's just a trivial matter. Many years ago, Zhong Minglou had a lover, but... the other party was a humane civilian.

That was a long time ago. At that time, Zhong Minglou was still a student. He had gone to Chang'an to study abroad. In the Imperial College, a young man named Li Qi hired a civilian from the human world, named "Lan Yanlong", to be a nurse for Zhong Minglou in order to take care of him.

This nurse worked for a long time, and later, the two of them even got together.

However, after the outbreak of the Human-Witch War, Zhong Minglou explicitly asked for her opinion, wanting to ask if she was willing to leave the human world and be with Zhong Minglou.

The answer he got was a refusal.

So Zhong Minglou left the Imperial College on his own and returned to the Wushen Mountain. There was no contact after that, but thousands of years later, perhaps by coincidence, Zhong Minglou met her again on this battlefield.

The other party appeared on the battlefield as a logistics nurse, responsible for taking care of the wounded.

Of course, this encounter was in the form of a corpse. In a command operation, Zhong Minglou gave a clear and capable command, and attacked quickly and effectively, quickly destroying the fortress of the human world.

Zhong Minglou is the son of Wushen Mountain. He is now a fifth-rank commander and a war zone commander. He has dozens of world groups under his command. He led billions of worlds to face off against the generals of humanity and won a complete victory.

Such a record is so dazzling and so proud that even the attempt of humanity to evacuate completely failed and was eventually wiped out.

When cleaning up the battlefield and sorting out the corpses, Lan Yanlong was found.

Zhong Minglu watched his Palm Killing Captain leave. To be honest, he was very grateful to him. If the other party hadn't taken the initiative to take on a lot of paperwork that was difficult for him to handle and gave him a headache just looking at it, he wouldn't have been able to achieve the same results as he does now. .

only……

Zhong Minglou knew that there must be a large number of casualties behind the scenes. Now it was just an acquaintance who was injured or killed, an acquaintance from many years ago.

However, this made him sigh.

He seemed to understand something from it.

He looked at the world in the distance. In fact, Lan Yanlong was really not that important to him. What happened when he was young, not to mention that they had already separated due to different opinions.

But after Lan Yanlong's body was examined, a strange emotion still arose in his heart.

He clearly knew that for everyone involved in the war, facing death was inevitable. Fortunately for those in high positions, although there were no fifth-grade casualties, the casualty rate was actually not high.

But for ordinary people who participate in the war, war is an unbearable pain no matter what, and it is a terrifying monster that cannot be understood and controlled.

This monster will continue to devour life and spit out death, eventually destroying everything before it ends.

However, he is now part of this monster and he cannot escape.

Zhong Minglou suddenly realized that... he was too immature for dangerous divination.

Sometimes the real danger is never the cliffs that are clear at a glance, nor the bottomless abyss, but what looks beautiful from a distance, and there is an as if there is no path under your feet, winding and twisting to that place. The peak of beauty that seems like a mirage.

The prospect of victory in the war is that ‘mirage’.

The process of the war is that seemingly harmless winding road.

Only when you actually step on it will you realize the danger.

When watching the victory of witchcraft, war is a refreshing article. The blood and tears belong to the enemy, and the happiness belongs to oneself. The so-called war is just when I read the newspaper, I read one good news after another, and even read it. If you are bored, just skip it.

But when you fight, you will find that there is actually no difference between the two sides. Regardless of victory or defeat, the feelings of both sides are actually the same, and no one will feel pain.

Zhong Minglu sighed. He actually didn't have much memory of Lan Yanlong. After all, those decades of memory were nothing compared to his thousands of years of life.

But this sudden killing of an acquaintance with his own hands still made him feel what the grassroots soldiers felt.

In fact, he had never felt anything before. Zhong Minglou has always been a very slow person. He has a natural ability to predict, so he was selected by the great divination to become a disciple. This also caused a gap between him and ordinary people since he was a child. He was born with His unique personality and blindness make him incompatible with ordinary people.

Lan Yanlong was the first to break this barrier, but later they separated due to Taoist disputes.

Now this feeling came over him, causing him to make recent changes.

Yes, the current humane turtle shell was actually arranged by him.

He built himself up as an 'invincible' character so that humanity would not start a war without permission, at least in his own war zone, without so much intensity.

All of these are actually the same as playing cards. The cards that really lose money are never completely bad cards. Many times they are good cards that "look" pretty good.

As long as you let the other party retreat when faced with difficulties, you can naturally avoid many fearless sacrifices.

This is the goal that Zhong Minglou is striving for at this stage.

It would be bad if it was like the 'Vanguard Battle' that was promoted as a victory in the early stage.

The Vanguard Battle was fought by his friend Li Qi. The intensity of the battle report of that battle made Zhong Minglou frown. If he had come, he would never have started the blood sacrifice like Li Qi and forcibly opened it.

While thinking about this, Zhong Minglou suddenly received a request from the ‘Alliance’.

Someone is coming to visit.

Or an old friend he just thought of.

Li Qi.

It's really what you say.

He agreed to the request.

Then the next moment, Li Qi appeared in front of him.

"Hey, Minglou." Li Qi smiled and sat next to Zhong Minglou.

"Li Qi, you seem to have won another battle recently, right? You're awesome, you've already been in charge of two war zones." Zhong Minglou didn't mean to be unfamiliar, but treated Li Qi like an old friend as always.

They are indeed old friends. After all, they have maintained communication and friendship since they were young and have maintained it to this day.

"What's so great about it? It's a total loss." Li Qi shook his head.

"...Well, listening to what you said, you also feel the futility of this war, right?" Zhong Minglou was keenly aware of the meaning of Li Qi's words.

Li Qi shook his head, took out a few plates of snacks, and put them on the table: "War is essentially just an extension of the Taoist struggle. The war will not end until the Taoist struggle ends. You also know that the existence of a first-class person has a great influence on the strength of both sides. What a change in balance, if the witchcraft is achieved, the endless expansion of humanity outside the territory will probably stop. "

Zhong Minglou naturally picked up a piece of dessert and took a bite first: "That's true, but it doesn't stop me from thinking that this war shouldn't be fought, and you came here for this reason, this war is not good for anyone, you have commanded two wars, one of which was a battle for the Holy Emperor's ruins, the intensity of which should be much higher than that of ordinary extraterritorial war zones. If you say that you haven't had any heartache, I don't believe it." Li Qi smiled bitterly: "As expected of Minglou, you are still so sharp, then guess what happened to me?" Zhong Minglou counted with his fingers: "If I guess, it should be that my relatives and friends are because of this. Something happened, right? And it's not just ordinary relatives and friends, but close relatives. Your parents are not here, only your wife, daughter and master are here. Zhu Da Wu has great magical powers, so it's impossible for anything to happen. The problem must be with your wife and daughter. Let me guess... Your wife and daughter have come to an end that you don't want to see?"

"But... Interesting, I can't even deduce what the situation is, and I can't see the cause and effect line on you. You shouldn't deliberately cover me up, so, is it the situation that has appeared in the Taoist traditions of the nine lands in the world?"

"It's the devil, my daughter, Li Shiwei, has been possessed by the devil." Li Qi saw that the other party's guess was almost right, so he didn't keep it a secret and told the story directly.

It's rare for a witch to not keep a secret.

Hearing this, Zhong Minglou was stunned. He froze for a moment, and even the snacks he was chewing didn't move.

After a long time, Zhong Minglou sighed to the sky: "Alas, this is war, why bother, Li Qi, you used to stand firmly on the side of the war and pushed the war process with all your strength, did you expect it to be like this today?"

Zhong Minglou sighed, he seemed to be able to clearly understand Li Qi's feelings, Li Qi also let his daughter get into trouble in the war.

"For the past, I can only say that if I had it to do again, I would still do it." Li Qi said.

"That's right, with your firm heart of Taoism, you will never regret the choice you made at the time. By the way, your pastry is actually from Chang'an, have you been to Chang'an?" Zhong Minglou asked curiously.

At this time, Li Qi took out a piece of traditional pastry from Chang'an, which was amazing.

"When I confronted the human way before, I went to Chang'an to sit for a while. You know, I always love to eat, so I bought some to take with me." Li Qi said.

Zhong Minglou seemed to be thinking: "So that's why you came to see me this time? You are a fourth-rank official now, you can't just come to me to reminisce about the past, right?"

"It's also because of my daughter's matter. I want you to introduce me to your master... the great fortune teller, I want him to help me deduce Shi Wei's matter."

"Minglou, this is all I ask." (End of this chapter)