Albedo went out to collect some useful alchemical materials and hasn't returned yet.

Noelle was also knocked away by the Golden King Beast Windmill just now, and is currently fighting with five Beast Realm Hounds.

The Golden King Beast did not find the traveler Ying, so he looked down at Chisato Hiiragi and Kamajiro Kujo who were protected by the retainers behind them.

With a slight wave of the tail, these generals crashed into the wall like fallen leaves and fainted. Some were even cut in half.

The remaining two family heads turned pale instantly. No one was standing in front of them, and the fear of facing death filled their bodies, and their minds were spinning rapidly like a revolving lantern.

Kujo Kamajima looked around and ran quickly to the gap in the wall next to him, intending to climb over the wall and escape.

The Golden King Beast didn't have the awareness that villains die because of talking too much, so it simply raised its tail and slapped him.

BOOM! The tail rose up again, and a pancake-shaped Kujo Kamaji was submerged under the fence and rocks.

Hiiragi Chisato's face turned even paler, and he tremblingly took out a short knife and got ready.

The golden king beast also swung its tail without any hesitation. Hiiragi Chisato closed his eyes in despair.

"clang..."

A man with a fox mask appeared in an instant, blocking Chisato Hiiragi. The Liuyue needle in his hand that was blocking the tail of the golden beast had been twisted to the extreme and could break at any time. The stone slabs under his feet had already shattered, and a lot of blood flowed down his legs.

Hiiragi Chisato opened her eyes and looked at the familiar figure, tears welling up from the corners of her eyes.

Again... again...

"What are you still standing there for? Go and call the traveler out!!!"

"Snapped!"

The fox masked man could not bear the pressure and knelt on one knee. The tail of the golden king beast passed by Chisato Hiiragi's side. Chisato Hiiragi woke up instantly and ran to the guest room of the traveler Ying.

When the Golden King Beast saw that its prey was about to leave, it raised its tail again and swung it heavily at Hiiragi Chisato once again.

The fox masked man staggered and was about to fall. He poked the twisted Liuyue needle into the ground, straightened his body, and ran without caring about his already shattered foot.

With a flying pounce, he pushed Chisato Hiiragi out, causing her to fall to the ground and roll. The tail blade on the golden king beast's tail dropped, and the fox-masked man, who was still in the flying state, hit his face on the tail blade, and his hands were cut off at the arms by the tail blade.

After getting up, Chisato Hiiragi saw the situation behind her, stopped, and more tears welled up in her eyes.

"Hurry up! Don't waste time!" The man with the fox mask struggled to stand up.

The mask was crooked due to the collision, and Hiiragi Chisato saw the face in his memory, with a determined look in his eyes. Hiiragi Chisato turned around and ran again despite the pain.

Being disturbed twice in a row, the Golden King Beast was extremely angry. It slapped the fox-masked man until he turned into an unknown object, then looked back at Hiiragi Chisato's position.

Chisato Hiiragi rushed to Ying's guest room, but did not see Ying, but an exquisite teapot was placed on the table. Before, when his father was still a Kanjo Bugyo, he had seen Ying enter this teapot.

I thought about it quickly, and there was no other way! I knocked on the wall of the pot desperately!

"Ying! Ying! Come out quickly! The golden king beast is attacking the city!"

Then, Ying in pajamas appeared next to Chisato Hiiragi, with a drooling, yet-unawake version of Paimon hanging on her chest.

"What happened?" Ying had just come out of the Chen Ge pot and had no idea what had happened.

"Awoo!!!" The golden king beast became extremely jealous when he saw his enemies and swung his tail directly at them.

Ying's reaction was also extremely fast. He stuffed Paimon and Chisato Hiiragi into Makoto's pot. He directly took out a Dawn Sword and started fighting.

at the same time.

Liyue’s support has arrived at the Heguan stronghold.

The Seven-Day God Statue also continued to glow, and Kamisato Ayato, Kamisato Ayaka, Coral Palace Xinhai, as well as Albedo, Yae Kamiko and others also rushed over.

The Inazuma side began to regroup and resist these beast hounds.

As time went by, the Golden King Beast saw that it could not do anything to this enemy who was jumping around, and the surrounding beast hounds were also mostly wiped out.

With a cry of Lang Gao, the remaining hundreds of remnants gathered together, and they hid in the space cracks again and disappeared.

In the morning, the sun rises again.

The survivors looked at the Heguan stronghold which was almost in ruins. The celebration banquet a few hours ago became the biggest reason for the stronghold to be breached.

Some generals and soldiers burst into tears, and some soldiers who were on duty last night took out their daggers and committed suicide on the spot.

After all, this responsibility was too heavy. The house was stolen by strange beasts, causing nearly 60% of the houses in the Heguan stronghold to collapse, and the number of "deaths" alone exceeded .

This is a heavy responsibility that not everyone can shoulder. Once the news gets back to Inazuma...it will be a shocking event that will cause the world to shake and devastate.

Survey and determine the magistrate's office.

Chisato Hiiragi came to the front of the unknown object and burst into tears.

Ying and Paimon felt very uncomfortable seeing Chisato Hiiragi's appearance, so they accompanied Chisato Hiiragi to help collect the unknown objects.

A smell that shouldn't be here drifted into Paimon's unusually sensitive nose.

Sour and sweet smell? He stared at the unknown object, and golden pupils flashed in his eyes for a moment. He stretched out his finger, dipped it in some blood and tasted it.

"Paimon! What are you doing?" Ying said angrily, with her hands on her hips.

"It seems to be... ketchup?"

“???????” Ying and Hiiragi Chisato looked at each other.

"Damn it! We've been fooled by that big bad guy again! It must be that 'real choice' again!" Paimon stomped his feet in the air in anger.

"A real choice?" Hiiragi Chisato was also stunned.

Chapter 279 Calling a deer a horse

Inside the shogunate camp.

The smile from yesterday is gone. Kujo Sara's left hand is broken and he is currently wearing a gauze sling over his chest.

Liyue's medical team and Inazuma's logistics were all outside helping the injured. People were crushed by the collapsed house, scratched, broken bones... There wasn't much time to carefully treat any one person.

As each piece of disaster information came in, the faces of the four major executive officers became even gloomier.

Yae Shinko was trimming her nails carelessly beside her and didn't want to talk at all.

Paimon and Ying saw that the atmosphere was so depressing and did not say anything.

At dawn, the four magistrates united and forcefully confiscated all the game consoles and mobile phones currently owned by the people of Heguan, because they did not dare to let the situation in Heguan be reported back.

Fortunately, there aren't many businesses and people who own these Liyue items. But...the truth will come out sooner or later, and someone will definitely pass the news back.

When I thought about how General Raiden would hold me accountable for this serious mistake, I wanted to do what the soldiers on duty who were still alive last night did - commit suicide by disembowelment.

The death toll at the Tsurugan stronghold has approached the 12000 mark. Even the head of the Tenryo Bugyo family, Kujo Kamajima, has died. No one can bear this serious mistake.

"We don't have much time. I'm afraid that the people in Inazuma City have already known about the current situation in Heguan."

"Report good news instead of bad news. Think of a way to delay it for another month. During this time, we need to kill the golden king beast."

"But what about those newcomers to Heguan? And what about the transport fleets? The situation here will definitely spread out."

"We confiscated the mobile phones and gaming consoles of the newcomers, and detained the transport workers for a month."

"They will definitely resist if we do this! Many of those who come to Heguan are lawless ronin. By then, the internal friction alone will weaken our combat power."

"They dare? There are nearly half of the entire Inazuma's fighting force here!"

"But...what about our battle report? We have to lie...lie..."

"Shut up!!!" Kujo Sara said angrily! Listening to the discussion of the staff and generals below, it was getting more and more unpleasant. He had clearly committed a serious mistake, but he still wanted to deceive General Raiden.

Suddenly, the camp was silent again. They all knew that if they sent back a complete battle report, their careers would be ruined at the least. Not to mention that if they were held accountable, it would be a question of whether they could survive.

The experienced staff members knew that this serious mistake needed to be taken solely by one person, who not only had to hold a high position but also command the various armies.

The fourth family head, no, one of them is dead. Although the three family heads meet these conditions, none of them are suitable, and currently Inazuma has only one suitable candidate.

That is...

A middle-aged man in military uniform stood up. He was Kujo Masahito's friend and military advisor. He looked at Kujo Sara above and said "I'm sorry" with his eyes, and silently said: "I'm sorry".

Reorganize the plan in your mind:

Kujo Kamaju is dead, so Kujo Masahiro will become the head of the Kujo family. As the adopted son of the Kujo family, Kujo Sara has grown too powerful, and it is time to pluck some feathers and let him fall from grace.

Then let Kujo Masahiro rescue her and develop a closer relationship with her. With her support from behind, Brother Masahiro will be able to revitalize the Kujo family.

Although it would mean that I would no longer be able to assist Brother Zheng in the future, it would not be a big problem to use the savings I had accumulated over the years to immigrate to Mondstadt to live there.

Then he calmed down and said loudly:

"I beg General Kujo Sara to take all the blame for the fall of the Tsurugan stronghold!"

"!!!!!!"

Everyone in the tent gasped.

Everyone knew that Kujo Sara had done nothing wrong, and he had even opposed holding a celebration banquet yesterday.

Unfortunately, the head of the family, Kujo Kamajima, was more powerful, and he agreed. Kujo Sara had no way of opposing him, so he could only keep silent. Moreover, when the golden king beast appeared, Kujo Sara was the first person to go to it and fight.

But... none of this matters. Countless people's eyes lit up.

Immediately afterwards, more and more people stood up and said the words that made Kujo Sara despair.

Paimeng and Ying were both shocked. What was he doing? Framing a good person?

Paimon flew to Chisato Hiiragi,

"Chisato. Stop it!"

Hiiragi Chisato shook her head in embarrassment.

"The Hiiragi family is already a criminal, and they have to bear the responsibility for this crime. The Hiiragi family can no longer bear it."

Paimon flew to the side of Kamisato and his sister again.

"Ayaka..."

"Paimon, the Society cannot afford for tens of thousands of people to die in a surprise attack."

Kamisato Ayaka also looked embarrassed and shook her head.

Paimon flew to the heart of the Coral Palace again.

"Heart Sea..."

"It has been a short time since Umijima returned to Inazuma's arms. If I were to take on this responsibility, Inazuma's people would surely hate Umijima even more, saying that I have killed their relatives again.

If this happened a dozen years later, I could handle it. But now during this honeymoon period, it will only lead to unpredictable and serious consequences.”

Finally, Paimon turned his gaze to Yae Shinko who was still trimming his nails.

"Son of God, please say something. Kujo Sara...she is being wronged."

"Little guy, the four great envoys have their own concerns and will definitely not bear this responsibility. Then who should bear the serious consequences brought about by the sneak attack on the stronghold? And who should bear the blame?

This is not a game of house. If the four great officials are to share the responsibility, then who has committed more sins and who has committed less sins? This question alone is difficult to determine clearly, and it also involves hundreds of people from various forces.

But if only one person is responsible, many problems will be easily solved. This is shirking responsibility, which is what Liyue often calls "passing the buck."

"But you can't put all the blame on Sara!"

"Oh my, don't you understand? Because apart from these four, um, three family heads and her nine Saras, no one else can afford it.

This is the struggle between officials! If you are not careful, your family will be confiscated and your entire clan will be exterminated."

Kujo Sara's heart was devastated, and since the three major families did not object, it could be said that the matter had become a foregone conclusion and there was no way to argue.

Not to mention that as the general of the shogunate army, he led the entire army. He had an unavoidable responsibility for the capture of the Tsurugan stronghold.

He should have taken responsibility, so it's okay to take more responsibility, right? This was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Looking around, no one came to her defense. Her body was shaking from internal injuries, and she spat out a mouthful of blood due to the anger she couldn't vent.

"I beg General Kujo Sara to take all the blame for the fall of the Tsurukan stronghold!"

"General Sa Luo, we brothers have followed you through thick and thin. We have elderly parents and young children at home. You are alone, so please save us!"

"Yes, we are just small soldiers who cannot bear this responsibility. If we didn't have someone at home, we would have committed seppuku long ago. Please take all the responsibility. We will never forget your kindness."

All kinds of sensational words in the tent echoed in Kujo Sara's ears, and he looked at these people with a pale face.

Resist? That's futile. They have countless ways to prove their unfounded guilt, and calling a horse a zebra is their forte.

At this moment, a little guy exploded.

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