Chapter 222: Happening Today!

You’re right!

Although to the Players, the Alchemist was a rare and mysterious profession. To these Western Regions NPC, however, they had very little status. The reason was very simple, caused by one word:

Poverty!

Compared to these wealthy Western Regions Nobles, the Alchemist Creyce was just a poor loser who couldn’t make it in Greece.

“A true man cannot go a day without money.”

At that moment, Luyu suddenly sighed, then coughed softly to change the subject: “Bro, I really don’t know how to admire you. You know so much. You found so many clues with just a single Gold Coin. If taming Creyce is a quest, you are just one step away from the end now, right?”

“Pretty much. I am quite willing to do this deed of helping others achieve their goals.” Mo Xiaobai nodded with a smile, showing no hesitation about his plan to take Creyce back to Daming Town.

As for Fatty’s admiration, Mo Xiaobai could only say it was forced by his past life experiences.

Having lost his Territory and possessing no special skills, Mo Xiaobai didn’t even know how many failures he had endured before summarizing some methods to find details while communicating with NPCs.

Plus, during those years of wandering as a solo adventurer, he had visited many places and dealt with Alchemists more than once or twice. Therefore, discovering Creyce’s secrets now naturally wasn’t surprising.

However, these skills that Mo Xiaobai himself didn’t find unusual were considered incredibly overpowered in Fatty and A-Dai’s eyes.

Having such a keen eye was nothing short of amazing!

Just as Fatty was sighing in his heart, the door to the small house in the backyard opened with a soft click from the inside.

A forehead with curly hair poked out. There was no one else but Creyce.

It seemed that because they met too often, Creyce was familiar with the route. After looking around casually, he quickly stood up and slowly walked toward the small gate in the backyard.

In the next second, a Noblewoman of Yarkand with a flushed face appeared by the door. The two looked into each other’s eyes for a moment. Only then did Creyce push the door and leave.

The main event was over, so the show was naturally ending.

Mo Xiaobai and the other two patted their bottoms and jumped off the side wall. Fatty couldn’t help but start teasing: “Hehe~ This Greek guy isn’t good enough. He only stayed in for half an hour.”

“Do you think you can do better?”

“Whoa, she’s old enough to be my aunt. Even if Grandpa Fatty was starving, I wouldn’t go for that, okay?”

“Then why waste words? Let’s just go back to sleep.”

…

Just as Mo Xiaobai had just finished watching this big play, in a Restaurant in Wang City of Qiuci far away, another big play was unfolding.

Inside and outside the Restaurant, hundreds of Han Army soldiers were gathered.

Everyone had fierce expressions. When facing the blades of foreigners, they simply did not have the concept of “fear.”

These were soldiers that even Ban Chao found hard to strictly control, so they were usually kept by his side as his personal guards.

They were Great Han Punishment Soldiers!

These men were all serving sentences. They all knew they might never return to Great Han.

Living one more day was a bonus, and living one day less was no loss.

Whoever dared to fight them, they were truly willing to risk their lives to fight back.

Ban Chao initially opened up the Western Regions with just over a thousand men. These eight hundred Punishment Soldiers made an unforgettable contribution. Even more miraculously, up to this moment, not a single Punishment Soldier had died. When dealing with the Western Regions people, they were always victorious.

However, on this night, the Punishment Soldiers finally met a hard bone to chew.

The Kushan Great General Susa and his twenty Personal Guards.

For the first time, a Punishment Soldier fell to the ground and couldn’t get up again.

Also for the first time, the ferocity of the Punishment Soldiers was completely triggered by the Kushan soldiers.

“Kill!”

“Kill them all!”

“Leave no one alive!”

When the ferocity in these vicious thugs was stirred up, even if they didn’t have much Armor on their bodies, and even if the opponents were wearing shells like turtles.

Neither Susa nor his surrounding Personal Guards could stop the Punishment Soldiers’ two rounds of death charges.

Sharp blades forged by Western Regions blacksmiths were stabbed hard into the throats of the Kushan Cavalry. With a twist and a pull, blood almost sprayed out from the tip of the blade.

The Personal Guards fell one by one, and soon it was Susa’s turn.

These Punishment Soldiers didn’t give Susa a chance to speak at all. Six or seven Heavy Sabers fell on him at the same time.

Iron armor protection?

At this moment, it had become a burden hindering Susa’s escape. Being pressed down by the Punishment Soldiers, he couldn’t even turn over, let alone get up and run away.

When the pain in his chest went straight to his brain nerves, Susa’s last thought was regretting his expedition to the Western Regions and regretting starting a great war with Great Han.

This ancient kingdom had too many things that the Kushan could not compare to.

But now, regretting was too late, and the Punishment Soldiers would not let Susa live.

Killed by a chaotic barrage of blades!

When there was not a single Kushan person left standing in the entire Restaurant hall, the Punishment Soldiers covered in blood slowly stood up one by one.

Among them, the leader carried the newly severed head of Susa in his hand. Turning around, he walked toward the wooden door. “Leave half of the brothers here to collect our dead comrades. The rest follow me out of the city to see the General. We have secured the head he wanted.”

When the Punishment Soldiers took steps out of the Restaurant, the Qiuci soldiers who were originally responsible for guarding the perimeter, looking at these prisoners half-covered in blood, could not help but feel scared in their hearts.

The Han People were not all easy to deal with.

Once they became fierce, even the most capable opponents would feel fear.

A Qiuci general walked forward with a bit of restraint, suppressing his inner discomfort and said: “The horses you need have been ready.”

“Mm, thank you!”

The leading Punishment Soldier nodded neatly, walked forward two steps, mounted his horse, and directly tied Susa’s head onto the horse’s back.

“Move out!”

Four hundred Punishment Soldiers rode their horses out of the city in silence.

The Punishment Soldiers headed west all the way. In this short few days, the situation on the western front had also changed.

Killing horses might have filled them up for a moment.

But after slaughtering all the horses that could be killed, if they wanted to kill more, even Diliya personally appearing, no Kushan Cavalry would give up their war horses.

Everyone knew this battle was about to be lost.

If they wanted to retreat after a defeat, having horses was absolutely necessary.

The horses of fallen soldiers could be slaughtered, but the war horses of the surviving soldiers, even if Diliya wanted to kill them, he couldn’t.

Killing anyone’s horse could directly cause a mutiny.

The food for Diliya’s Vanguard forward camp was gone, and the situation at Vice-King Xie’s main camp was even worse.

Not only did the soldiers lack food, but even Vice-King himself had not eaten for a day, only drinking some water to barely fill his stomach.

Without food, the soldiers were too weak to fight, and the war horses were becoming increasingly feeble.

The Siege War had been called off a day ago.

At this moment, Vice-King Xie could only hope for reinforcements to arrive quickly, although this hope was becoming more and more faint.

At the same time, almost at the same location.

Vice-King Xie was so hungry he didn’t even have the strength to curse, while Ban Chao, nearly sixty years old, was still full of energy on the City Wall giving orders to the defense forces.

“General, a messenger has come from the Wensu direction,”

A messenger soldier hurriedly climbed the City Wall, came to Ban Chao, and bowed his fist: “Four hundred of the eight hundred soldiers left in Qiuci have returned west. They brought many heads of Da Yuezhi people and will arrive at the Wang City at noon.”

“Good, good, good! The Punishment Soldiers have made a great merit this time. It must be that Heaven protects Great Han!” Upon hearing this, Ban Chao turned around quickly, then laughed loudly and ordered:

“Light the beacon fires to send a message to the Yarkand direction!”

“The day of defeating the enemy is happening today!”