Steel Chang'an

Chapter 88

Madden stood on the high slope, watching the huge sun rise slowly from under his wheat field.

The early morning sun dyed the still green wheat into gold, which was the scene of a bumper harvest in Madden's imagination.The wheat field is still two months away from harvest, but it has taken him ten years to get the land to grow wheat.The soil of Pangea is rich in metal elements, but lacks the nutrients necessary for the growth of food crops.The aristocratic lords established food factories in their own territories, and they had a large number of machines to improve the soil, synthesize fertilizers, and cultivate crops.But Madden can only rely on his own hands.It took him ten years to transform the land, and every inch of soil went through dozens of procedures.Sometimes he even worries that the soil has too much sweat in it and the salinity is out of balance, but it turns out he was overthinking.The land thrives on seeds that Gran has stolen from the nobles' food factories.They have grown lettuce, wheat and potatoes.When this batch of wheat matures, they no longer need to extract nutrients from the filter of the noble's garbage treatment plant to synthesize food.No matter how much Madden spiced those bricks, the kids always complained that they tasted like soap.

There are still two months until the harvest period... Madden looked at the wheat field in front of him, and clenched the barrel of the gun in his hand.

He had received the news a day ago that more than one sea bitch had come ashore.Several strongholds near the sea have been destroyed.Gran passed through his field of wheat before heading off to find reinforcements in the nobleman's land, reminding him that the sea bitch was likely to pass by here.People in two other strongholds farther from the sea than his had been evacuated.His family and children were also evacuated.But he stayed.He must stay here.There are still two months until the harvest.If the sea bitch passes through this wheat field it's all over.Their corrosive fluids will render the land barren again.Madden doesn't know if he has another decade left to improve the soil here.Perhaps because of the synthetic foods made from the filtered waste, sea folk don't usually live past the age of 50.He is almost 50 years old.He must leave something for his children.

He has been here for a whole day and night.Nothing happened.There are two more days.He twisted his sore neck, changed his posture and carried the gun on his shoulder.He had disassembled the gun from scrap mech parts, and he was lucky to still have six rounds in it.Although Grann said that his gun was useless at all, and only armor could deal with the sea bitch, but this gun was the only thing he could count on.Madden thought.Maybe the sound of the gun will scare the sea bitch away.Maybe he was lucky enough that the sea bitch wouldn't pass by here.

But just as he was thinking this, he saw a black silhouette appear on the horizon where the red rising sun met the golden wheat fields.At first, it was small, so small that he took a chance that it was just a speck of dust that fell into the back of his eye, and then he felt a tremor under his feet.The earth is shaking.The backlit silhouette grew larger, clear enough for him to see the forked fan-shaped horns, like a lady's hairpin coiled around the thing's head.sea ​​bitch.He cursed in his heart.It was moving in the direction of his wheat field.

He pulls the trigger.The crisp sound of gunfire broke the silence of dawn.The ears of wheat covered with sunlight swayed in the wind.The monster was still moving forward at an unhurried pace, neither changing direction nor glancing at him.Your gun is useless against it.He remembered Gran's words.Sea bitches are not afraid of gunshots.It most likely has no ears at all.According to Gran, the bullet couldn't penetrate the monster's exoskeleton.But he still had to give it a try.

He rushed downhill, across the whole wheat field, and ran towards the monster.The heavy ears of wheat swayed in the wind on both sides of the field ridge, rubbing against his shoulders.He heard his own heavy heartbeat.Gatekeeper, Madden muttered in a low voice.Only at this distance did he realize how big this monster was. Its shadow was just above his head, and the gray-brown body dripping with mud completely blocked the huge bright red sun. He couldn't see the monster clearly. head.It was too high, and he could only see the pair of complicated and huge fan-shaped horns. Between the forks of the horns, there were silt plants and incomplete carrion on the bottom of the sea, and a strong stench hit his face.He lowered his head and saw white smoke rising from the monster's feet.is sour.Madden suddenly understood that what flowed from the monster was not mud at the bottom of the sea at all, but the thick acid secreted from its body.

The monster moved forward at an unhurried pace, seemingly completely oblivious to Marden standing in front of it, or the gun in his hand.Boiling thick white smoke rose from the ground beneath its feet, and with every step it took, a large amount of bodily fluid shook off its body.That seems to have something to do with lighting.Madden realized.So the bitch wanted to go through the wheat field, she wanted to hide in the shadow behind the high slope.

Madden was standing in the clearing in front of the wheat field.He was the only thing standing between the monster and the wheat field.Madden thought.He probably looked like a chicken standing in front of a bulldozer.You don't want to pass here, bitch.He put the butt of the gun back on his shoulder and took aim calmly.As long as I have breath, you will never even think about stepping into this wheat field.He still has five rounds.At such a close distance, facing such a huge monster, it is impossible for him to miss the target. "Stop, bitch!" he yelled and pulled the trigger, the sound of gunshots buzzing in his ears.Four bullets hit the monster's chest, abdomen and forelimbs in succession.

As Gran said, bullets couldn't penetrate the monster's exoskeleton at all.But at least he managed to get the monster's attention.He saw the monster lower its head, searching the ground for his position. "You have bad eyesight, bitch!" he yelled, running to the monster's right.He also left the last bullet, which was used to aim at the monster's head, not to kill the monster, but to guide the monster.He could now clearly see that ugly and huge head.He squeezed the trigger, and the monster finally locked onto his position and turned to face him.He dropped the empty gun and started running.Come on bitch, come after me!he said in his heart.He could feel the monster's head just behind his back, and the acid dripped onto his shoulders, piercing through his clothes, burning his flesh, and the pungent stench almost knocked him down to the ground .He didn't look back.The last thing he wanted to do now was to take a few extra steps before death caught up with him, to get the monster as far away from the wheat field as possible.

He fell to the ground.The acid burned through the soles of his feet.So this is the end.He underestimated the speed of this monster too much.Running as hard as he could, he only drew the monster slightly sideways in front of the wheat field.Thick acid fell on the ground around him, billowing white smoke.The monster took a step back and turned around again.The bitch is going to step over me, across the wheat field.He thought almost calmly.So it's all over.He turned his head sideways, and the rising sun was shining on the wheat field behind him.This was the first and last wheat to grow on this land.he thought.The harvest is only two months away.

The monster's cumbersome right foot landed in front of his head, the ground trembled under his body, the burning soil billowed white smoke, and it raised the other cumbersome sole——

I am going to die.Madden thought.There will be no more harvest day.I still failed to hold the wheat field in the end.

At this moment, he heard a rustling sound in the wheat field.Like a gust of strong wind passing through the wheat field, the golden grains were separated to the two sides, Madden's eyes widened in amazement.He saw something that would never have appeared in this land: a battle frame.

This is hallucination.Madden thought.He watched the silver-gray battle armor pass by the wheat field, it jumped high in the air, jumped over his head, and drew a black giant sword from behind.Madden had never seen such a sword.It looked like a huge piece of iron, and the blade was extremely dark and covered with mottled rust.The battle armor raised the giant sword in mid-air, and the sunlight reflected on the tip of the sword. In just a split second, the sword suddenly became extremely dazzling, and the sword body emitted a golden light, as if all the surrounding light had converged on this sword. On the sword, even the huge rising sun suddenly became eclipsed.

The monster man stood up and let out a low and terrifying roar.The knights in the armor were also roaring.The giant sword in his hand drew a glorious arc in the air, and slashed at the monster's huge and ugly head.

Madden felt everything around him tremble. "Go!" Two arms were pulling him hard, trying to drag him up from the ground.He turned his head and saw the faces of Gran and Blackfang.So it's not an illusion.Enduring the sharp pain in his feet, Madden struggled to stand up, and backed away with their support.So Gran finally found support.Madden thought.He had already given up hope.He looked at the figure rushing towards the giant beast.He had thought it impossible that any knight would fight for the Sea People.

But someone still came, and when he was most desperate, someone stepped forward.It was just like the legends in his own childhood memory.Madden thought.He never told his children about those legends, because he no longer believed in them, because the knights in those legends never showed up, at least not when he needed them.He didn't want his children to have unrealistic fantasies about knights, or even have the stupid dream of becoming a knight.

But he might be wrong.His eyes were fixed on the armor that fought the giant beast.Those legendary knights may have really existed.He watched the knight avoid the fan-shaped horns of the monster in mid-air in an incredible posture, and swung the sword in his hand to attack the giant monster whose tonnage was almost twice that of the armor.He had only heard of such a sword in legends.In the knight's hand, the giant sword exudes an incomparably dazzling light like a star, reflecting the heroic posture of the knight charging.

Like the legendary Knight of Light.

Their feet dug into the edge of the wheat field.Almost at the same time, the huge body of the monster hit the ground where they were standing before, the legendary indestructible exoskeleton was split, the huge and ugly head became two halves, and the corrosive body fluid spewed out Puffs of thick smoke were set off on the ground, rushing towards them.Madden instinctively closed his eyes and shielded his face with his hands, but the sting of the burn he expected didn't happen.He opened his eyes and found a petite girl with red eyes standing in front of them.The freezing air from her hands formed a line of ice, blocking the monster's bodily fluids that were streaming down their feet.

The battle armor fell back to the ground, the knight panted with the sword pillar, and the undulating back of the battle armor truly reflected the knight's state at the moment.Madden noticed that the light on the greatsword had disappeared, just as he had seen the sword for the first time, looking like a bland block of iron.If it wasn't for the huge corpse of the monster that fell in front of him, he would think that the brilliance that even eclipsed the rising sun just now was just his own illusion.

"So that's the true power of the Bright Sword?" said a voice.Madden turned his head, and he saw two other battle armors appearing in the wilderness.

Bright Sword...

"Sect Master..." Madden whispered involuntarily.He believed neither in coincidence nor in miracles, he was no longer a disciple, he had long since ceased to believe in the legends which, just a few minutes ago, he had believed to be fictions.But at the moment all he felt was a strong shudder running through him.His knees were weak, and his legs trembled as he fell to his knees in the dirt.

Mu Yun felt soreness emerging from his muscles.He sat down close to the campfire, the armor of the knight's armor weighing heavily on his shoulders, and he didn't bother to raise his hand to remove it.He felt cold and hungry, and he was as stiff as a rock.Zheng Quan and Lao Zhang sat across from him, separated by the firelight, their knight armor was covered with a layer of mist, which was the sweat that evaporated from their bodies.Mu Yun knew that he was not getting any better, and the bottom shirt of his knight armor was completely soaked with sweat. If he didn't dry it in time, the fibers all over the neuron connection elements would soon be stiffly stretched on his body. body.

In total they killed four sea bitches.The one he killed with his first sword was only the smallest of the cubs.The other three heads were almost twice its size, and even the Bright Sword couldn't cut through the giant beast's head with a single blow, and the three of them joined hands to barely bring down one head.Fortunately, these behemoths that originally lived on the seabed are not as flexible as the dragon beasts on land, and their attack methods are also very simple.Apart from relying on their huge bodies for crushing and impacting, the only weapon they have on their bodies is the hard fan-shaped horns.They were originally scavengers, living on the bottom of the sea by swallowing the carcasses of other sea animals and slowly digesting them in their acid-filled stomach sacs.When Mu Yun chopped off the head of the last Mrs. Hai, he almost felt sorry: these giant beasts did not intend to attack humans actively, they were just forced ashore by the tide, and instinctively looked for a place that could shade the sun. Enter the gathering place of the free folk.But they're still dangerous when someone gets in their way.What's more, the existence of the sea bitch is dangerous in itself. The sea people are disposing of those huge mountains of corpses overnight. If they are allowed to rot slowly in the sun, they will pollute more land.

This is not more difficult than training... But Mu Yun felt exhausted.Maybe it's because they rushed here overnight to fight against the sea bitch.It was the next night when the last sea bitch fell.A huge bright moon slowly rises from the sea.The silvery moonlight glistened on the wet sand, and the undulating sound of white spray and blue waves seemed gentle and distant.This peaceful picture is completely different from the violent sea that Mu Yun saw in his mind, it can even be called beautiful.But Glenn looked worried: "It doesn't look good." The young seaman said with experience, "The low tide line is too far away, which means there will be a tsunami in the night, and maybe there will be more sea whores." son ashore."

"We will wait until dawn before leaving." Mu Yun assured him.But in his heart he hoped that Gran was just worrying too much.Those four sea bitches consumed not only their physical strength, but also their energy.The remaining energy of the armor Zephyr can last for 24 hours, but that refers to the normal state.If it is in a battle, this energy can only last for five to six hours at most.King Xiao Teng carried out the same modification and upgrade of the battle armor Xifeng as Li Jing's Wuming battle armor. This oldest zero-type mecha now uses blood crystals as energy to power the system, which greatly improves Xifeng's mobility and on-the-spot explosive power. The energy has been greatly improved, but the corresponding energy consumption rate is also much faster than before.If he had to deal with the four-headed sea bitch again, Mu Yun worried whether Xifeng still had enough energy to bring him back to Yongjiang City.

But the Bright Sword consumed even more Amethyst.He used up one amethyst in one day.Mu Yun touched the remaining piece of amethyst in his belt, trying not to let himself think about the value of this thing.But now he understood a little bit why Li Jing emphasized the importance of special training so much: Bright Sword's power is great, but its combat endurance is very problematic.If it was in a one-on-one duel like Haruki's offensive and defensive battle, he might still be able to achieve a quick victory, but on the real battlefield, when he needs to face a steady stream of enemies, this will be a big trouble .Once the amethyst's energy is exhausted, the bright sword is no different from a piece of scrap iron.Amethyst is dragon crystal, and it is the more advanced type of dragon crystal.It is impossible to get it everywhere like white crystals or blood crystals. Even if he is as rich as King Xiao Teng, the number of amethysts he owns is limited.Even on the entire continent, the number of amethysts is not too much.If he had to consume an amethyst every fight, he would soon be unable to use the Bright Saber.

This is why Li Jing asked him to master the Seven Sword Styles in the special training at the beginning.Mu Yun thought to himself.After this actual combat, he somewhat understood Li Jing's good intentions in arranging those special trainings: if he can master the seven moves of the sword, master the rhythm of the output in battle, and ensure that every sword of the Bright Sword can be harvested The biggest effect can effectively reduce the consumption of amethyst and increase the combat endurance.In Li Jing's words, it is to make each sword of the Bright Sword have a value that matches the amethyst it consumes.

As for the current self, Li Jing's use of the Bright Sword should seem like a waste, consuming a piece of priceless amethyst to save the lives of these sea people who are worthless in the eyes of noble knights...

Mu Yun shook his head, and put the thought aside.

"My father has gone out to sea after the first tsunami to find out why the sea bitch came ashore. If there will be a second tsunami, he will definitely send someone to warn us as soon as possible. The recent sea is abnormal, maybe the tide The lines have changed, too," he heard Gran say.Those gathered around him nodded and dispersed to do their own things.Mu Yun found that this dark-skinned young man seemed to have a lot of prestige among the Haimin.From time to time, people came to ask him various questions, ranging from someone needing a shovel to bury his dead wife to how to distribute people who were evacuated from the flooded camp to other gathering places.Grandu gave wise answers one by one.Mu Yun also wanted to ask Gran and the others when they could have dinner. They hadn't eaten anything all day.But he never found a chance.There is an endless stream of sea people who come to see Gran.Mu Yun noticed that the sea people who came to find Gran were standing far away from them. When Mu Yun looked at them, they lowered their heads deliberately to avoid his sight.The night was bitterly cold, but there were no seafolk to sit and warm by the fire before them.

Fortunately, their dinner finally came.Two sea folk dressed like Blackfang set a saucepan over a bonfire in front of them.Like the others, they left shortly after putting down the saucepan.Gran came over. "I appreciate you coming to help us, but I'm afraid we have only such a humble dinner to entertain you," he said.

Potatoes and crab simmered in a stew, chopped vegetable tubers swirling in the steaming soup.Hunger prompted Mu Yun to scoop up a large spoonful. To his surprise, the stew tasted bad. The potatoes were small and stiff, with an earthy smell when chewed. He used a lot of strength to bite the crab open. The shell, the crab meat is pitiful, as if it has been salted, it is salty and bitter.He raised his head, just in time to see Lao Zhang winking at him. "Don't spit it out, it's the best they can get. Those kids eat worse than us." He pointed behind him with a spoon.Several ragged children hid in the shadows near the campfire, stretching their necks to sniff the smell from the stew pot while chewing some kind of brown dry food.Mu Yun stood up and asked one of the children for a small piece of dry food.He was surprised to find that it tasted like soap, with a faint odour.He originally thought it was a children's prank.But no one laughed.The children retreated further from him into the darkness, watching him timidly.When he beckoned them to come and enjoy the stew, they shook their heads furiously and moved further away.It wasn't until Mu Yun turned around and sat down in front of the bonfire that they reappeared from the darkness one by one, approaching the bonfire quietly, chewing on the stew in their hands with the smell of the pot of stew. dry food.

"Do you want to try it?" Mu Yun broke open the small piece of dry food to share with Zheng Quan and Lao Zhang, but they all rejected his offer. "These sea people are really weird," Mu Yun said thoughtfully, "Have you not noticed at all? Everyone hides away from us, even children don't want to come near us. We are here Protecting them, but they don't seem very welcoming to us."

"If you are a free citizen, you will also know to hide away from the knight master." Old Zhang said disapprovingly.The status of freedmen is lower than that of commoners.A knight will be punished for killing civilians. He needs to be forgiven by the lord and pay a fine. If he kills too many and cannot give a suitable reason, then he needs to pay a large fine to be forgiven.But a knight who kills a freeman needs no reason and will not be punished.Freemen have no household registration, and to those lords, they do not exist at all.You can't punish a knight for killing someone who didn't exist.

Lao Zhang spoke very calmly, but Mu Yun could feel the hidden anger from under his tense muscles.A few disreputable noble knights raced to kill free folk for fun when they were bored.He told Mu Yun.But more nobles regarded them as ownerless cattle and free slaves.Especially those declining knights and poor nobles, they have a limited number of servants. When their original servants are aging and damaged, and they cannot afford to buy more servants, they will focus on these servants. on the free people.In Donglin, knights often attack the gathering places of free people in the name of suppressing bandits. They set fire to drive out the free people hiding in the ruins, drive them together like hunting animals, and select young and strong people from among them. The men and women of the land were brought back to their lands to serve as slave labor.The servants still need to replace the white crystals frequently to supplement their energy. To keep these people alive and finish their work, they only need a mouthful of food and water. The resources they consume are very limited, and the nobles don't need them to live a long life.In order to avoid their actions being discovered, these nobles often kill and bury all these people after a project is completed, and then send knights to hunt a new group of free people when they have new projects that require manpower.For those little lords and knights who are not eligible to participate in the spring hunting held by Teng Wengong, this is their real "spring hunting".

"It makes sense that these sea people would rather live in a place where the birds don't shit on the East China Sea, and they don't want to be close to the territory of the nobles. If they are not forced to, they will not ask the nobles for help and expose their settlements. In In their eyes, us knight lords are like wolves walking into a flock of sheep. Wolves occasionally protect the flock of sheep, but in the end the wolves still eat the sheep.” Lao Zhang said, spitting out the chewed crab shells in his mouth, "It's the same everywhere in this continent. These days, more and more civilians are forced to leave the nobles' territories because they can't pay taxes, become free citizens, and then become slaves of the nobles. Even in the northwest desert, I'm afraid it's inevitable. This kind of thing?"

Mu Yun frowned.He hardly remembered anything before he met Mu Chuan, the young master of Baima City, but he clearly remembered that he was a scavenger when he was rescued by Mu Chuan.In the turbulent desert, it is not uncommon for people to lose their homes in the war, become homeless in the desert, and be forcibly conscripted as scavengers.Mu Yun guessed that she became an orphan in the same way.But he thought it was because of the war. He originally thought that as long as there was no war and no Northwestern wolf, all this would not happen.

He was wrong.Mu Yun thought to himself.There is no war in Donglin Continent, and such things will still happen.According to Lao Zhang, such things are happening everywhere on this continent.He looked down at the unpalatable bowl of stew in his hand, but what he thought of was the exquisite dim sum that Butler Ji usually served.He thought of Yongjiang City, where countless neon signs would always shine day and night, the reflection of painted boats as tall as buildings in Yongjiang, the towering Tengwang Pavilion, the dazzling prosperity... At that time, he never imagined There is still such a barren place on this East Forest Continent, and there is such a group of people, their lives are no different from the poorest vagrants in the northwest desert...

"It's ironic to say that when the seven knights of Pangu sacrificed themselves and propped up this continent with their giant bodies, they thought they could build a perfect paradise." Zheng Quan said suddenly, "The knights drive away the evil dragons and protect the land. In the mainland, the servants are responsible for labor, the sharp people are responsible for order, the intelligent people record civilization, and human beings live and work in peace and contentment, and everyone gets what they want."

They are wrong.Mu Yun thought to himself.It was from the blood of the knights handed down from the Seven Knights of Pangu that the nobles and commoners were born, which led to everything today.He originally thought that in the banquet hall of Tengwang Pavilion, the behavior of those knights who would not save them was despicable enough, but now he knew that compared with those knights who hunted free people for fun or treated them as free slaves, those knights who did not participate A knight of the Seven Families who has done this kind of behavior is already considered noble.

An old seaman came forward with a jug and filled the rough earthen jar in front of them with fresh water.When Mu Yun thanked him in a low voice, he looked at him in panic, then quickly left with his head down. "You're going to scare him." Zheng Quan said with a smile, "Master Knight won't thank the pariah."

"I'm not a master." Mu Yun retorted.But he knew that these words were not convincing: even the knights of the Seven Great Masters of Donglin might not be able to use amethyst as an energy weapon.He lives more luxuriously than most knight lords now.He suddenly felt a little frustrated: "You are right, they are really afraid of us, they no longer believe that knights can protect them."

"No, they are not afraid of you." In the darkness, Mu Yun heard someone say to him.He turned his head and saw the seaman named Marden standing by the campfire, leaning on a cane in one hand.The firelight embedded in every wrinkle on his face, outlining an old and resolute face.Mu Yun remembered him because he was very brave.He's trying to single-handedly take on a sea bitch with just a broken gun.

"They hate the fallen knights, but they don't fear them. They don't fear you either. They know you're here to protect them," Madden said, sitting down by the campfire, putting his cane by his side, and Speaking of his feet burned by the sea bitch's acid, "It's you they're afraid of."

"Me?" Mu Yun pointed at herself with a finger, and saw Madden nodded.He scratched his head in bewilderment, looked at Lao Zhang who had taken off his pink knight armor, revealing two muscular arms as thick as the thighs of ordinary people, and was chewing crab shells, and looked again. Holding an earthen pot in one hand, although he was smiling, Zheng Quan, who kept the other hand on the knight's sword at his waist, thought that he couldn't be more dangerous and terrifying than these two guys, right?

"You," Madden said, "they think you are the incarnation of the Knight of Light."

"Me? The incarnation of the Knight of Light?" Mu Yun repeated with some amusement.He wondered if it was because Haimin's special accent made him hear it wrong.You must know that the Knight of Light is quite special among the Seven Knights of Pangu.Not only because he founded the Knights of Light and summoned six other legendary knights to cut through the darkness and lift up the continent from the storm of destruction, but also because he personally defined what chivalry is. The opening chapter of "Knight's Walk" is the eight sentences of the knight's creed left by him, and now it has become an oath that every knight on this continent must swear to abide by.

But, not only that.Although as a figure in the era of legends, each of the seven knights of Pangu was deified to varying degrees by the later generations and became saints or saints of various religions, but they are different from several other knights such as the Faceless Knight and the Scarlet Knight. For various reasons, the Pangu Knight whose real name was not left behind at all, and whose true identity is even confusing is completely different. The true identity of the Bright Knight is recorded in quite detailed records in "Knight's Travel Record".The most common portrait representing his image is a handsome young man with dark hair, wearing a straight white uniform, with blue eyes staring firmly ahead.His name is Hadama, which means dawn according to the language on the mainland today, and Knight of Light is his posthumous title.He was originally just a low-ranking officer on the "Chang'an". At that time, the continent had not yet risen, the surface of the planet was covered with ice and fire, and there were giant dragons entrenched in the sea and sky, but the fleet departing from the human home planet had already exhausted his life. After running out of fuel, the world-exterminating storm blocked their retreat, and human beings had to choose this place as their final home.Hadama's team was sent to explore the way. They were attacked by a giant dragon and fell into the deep seabed under the broken ice sheet, losing contact with the fleet.Everyone thought it was impossible for them to survive, but Khatama miraculously brought the whole team back.This incident brought him attention, and people began to notice all kinds of excellence in him.In some exaggerated unofficial historical records, he is like a superman who can walk in the air without any tools, defeat a hundred soldiers stronger than him alone, and cut down the rebel ships with his bare hands.In any case, his bravery and resourcefulness made him quickly promoted and eventually became the leader of the human army. It was also under his hard work that the human fleet finally gathered all resources and built seven ships with the ability to open up the world. giant mecha.After various tests, Hadama found the remaining six knights who could control the seven giant mechas like him, and persuaded them to form the Knights of Light to hold up the continent from the destructive storm of the falling starship and save the human race. Fate, and created the history of this continent.

The legend about the Knight of Light, especially his ordinary background at the beginning and his brilliant achievements in the end, has inspired generations of young people to become knights.But Hadama is not only a knight, he is also a great man, a leader, and many religions unanimously call him the savior of mankind, and Mu Yun feels that he has no similarities with him.

But the Sea Folk named Marden looked at him gravely. "I have heard that your sword is called the Sword of Light," he said, "and I have seen the light that emanates from that sword. Never in my life have I seen such a thing, such a light, Brighter than the sun, as if it were light itself... Only the sword of the legendary Knight of Light can shine like this."

Bright Sword... Mu Yun scratched his head.He vaguely remembered that Steward Ji mentioned that this sword might come from the era of legends. In the legend about the Knight of Light, it was indeed mentioned that when the Knight of Light appeared on the battlefield, his armor and sword shone brightly. It was as if light itself had descended upon the world.It seems that every legend of the Pangu knights mentioned a light that enveloped them as if they were gods.But Mu Yun knew that the reason why the Bright Sword glowed was only because of the optical refraction in the air caused by the force field formed by the energy released by the tiny mechanical creatures that make up the sword body, and had nothing to do with his own power.He turned his head and looked at the battle armor Zephyr carrying the Bright Sword on his back, seeing the people of the sea stretch out their hands in awe to touch the black tip of the sword, and then touched his forehead and chest twice in a row.That is the puja of the disciples.These sea people believe in the door master.Mu Yun thought to himself.He remembered that Steward Ji once half-jokingly said that disciples would worship this sword as a sacred object.But when the scene actually happened, he didn't think the joke was funny at all.

"That's just a coincidence." He sighed, trying to explain to Madden that the sword probably has nothing to do with the Knight of Light, even the name Bright Sword was casually mentioned by him.But Madden shook his head. "Here you are," he said. "You saved us with this sword. It's no longer a coincidence."

"Hey, hey," Mu Yun heard Lao Zhang protest dissatisfiedly before he had time to speak, "That kid is not the only one who saved you." He patted Zheng Quan on the shoulder, almost giving away his glasses. Zhen Wai, "It's fine if you didn't see this little guy, but you can ignore my big guy like Lao Zhang. I'm afraid your old man's eyes are not very good, right?"

"We thank all of you, you are the only knights who stood up for the sea people." Madden said, grinning, showing uneven teeth, "but you do not conform to the disciple's prophecy." He pointed at Mu Yun , "Only he fits."

"What prophecy?" Mu Yun suddenly asked nervously.He thought of the conversation between Li Jing and the wolf lord that he overheard in the hangar, and they also mentioned a certain prophecy.

"The knights of light will come again in the call, the long sword of light will cut through the darkness, and the knights of light will gather again to protect the earth from evil." Madden recited smoothly.After all these years, he thought, he thought he didn't believe it anymore, he thought he had forgotten all about it, but when he opened his mouth, the sentences came out of him almost automatically .

It sounds like the prayers of other religions.Mu Yun thought to himself.Sounds more like a good wish.Just like the legends and songs he often heard in the White Horse Barracks in the past, heroes will always stand up to save all living beings in times of crisis.The long sword of light cutting through the darkness also sounds like a metaphor. It cannot refer to the sword of light, because the sword of light itself is just a name he casually picked up. "Are there any apostles mentioned in that prophecy?" he asked.He remembered that Li Jing mentioned in the conversation with the wolf lord that the prophecy they believed said that the apostles would bring war, and only the army brought by the king's seal could stop them.

Madden froze for a moment.He squinted his eyes as if he was trying to remember, and finally shook his head, "No," he said, "but there are many versions of the prophecy of the disciples, and maybe the apostles are mentioned in other versions. Another name for the disciples, those older disciples like to use the saints to refer to the Seven Knights of Pangu."

Mu Yun frowned.Could it be that the apostles Li Jing mentioned were actually the Seven Knights of Pangu?Or the group of people with the most powerful knight blood and the most primitive power like the Seven Knights of Pangu?He couldn't help but think of the life of the Knight of Light recorded in "Knight's Travel Record".According to the records, he attracted attention because he rescued the team that fell into the deep sea pit under the broken ice sheet by himself, and it was discovered that he possessed various supernatural powers, but is there another possibility? Did he acquire all kinds of supernatural powers after falling into the deep seabed under the broken ice sheet?Could the deep sea pit under the broken ice sheet be the sea mound that Li Jing and the wolf lord mentioned?The man named Hadama, who later became the Knight of Light, did his power also come from the fire?

But in the prophecy mentioned by Li Jing and the Wolf Lord, it is believed that the apostles will bring war and disaster, so what is going on?

Zheng Quan pushed up his glasses, "Although Zheng is barely a disciple, the prophecies circulated among disciples are not the same. I don't know what your prophecies say. If the person sitting next to me He is really the incarnation of the Bright Knight, and it is worthwhile for Zheng to fight side by side with him.” He glanced at Mu Yun and said with a smile, “I just have a question—since you think he is the incarnation of the Bright Knight , and why are you afraid of him? According to your prophecy, the incarnation of the Knight of Light is definitely a very good man, right?"

"Because what I said just now is not a complete prophecy, there is another paragraph before those few prophecies." Madden said, he closed his eyes, thought about it for a while, and then used the strange and high-spirited accent of the sea people Recite it.

He opened his eyes and stared at Mu Yun, the crackling bonfire flickered uncomfortably in those old and cloudy eyes, "They are afraid of you because your appearance means that the world-ending storm is coming. "

As if to fulfill his words, there was a sudden rumble of thunder from the distant sky.Mu Yun raised his head, the sky above his head was cloudless, and the huge bright moon was still hanging high above his head.But he saw Gran running from the beach, holding an old-fashioned communicator tightly in his hand.He ran across the camp, waving his arms, and shouted, "Retreat! Everyone retreat now! The red tide is coming!"

(End of this chapter)