Nomenclature of Night

  Chapter 947 parted ways

  Return countdown at 16:00:00.

   Qing Chen's airship arrived outside city 18.

  The shipboard staff of the shadow force said: "Boss, if Mrs. Li does everything right, you may be in danger on the airship."

   "No," Qing Chen shook his head calmly: "Communicate with Mrs. Li and ask them to let us in. What I'm worried about now is that Li Yunshou won't see me, and I'm not worried that they will do something at this time."

  At this time, the access electronic beacon in the floating airship turned on the green light, and before they communicated with Mrs. Li, the city defense system of city 18 opened the passage for them.

  Qing Chen was a little surprised. After all, the two sides were confronting each other on the Mianchi Bridge on the Chunlei River. He thought Li Yunshou would not want to see him.

  However, the floating airship went unimpeded all the way, and the control tower of the airport even guided them directly into the Banshan Manor.

   You must know that this is the headquarters of the Li family. The head of the family, Li Yunshou, is here, and the Li family's privy office is also here.

  If this airship carries biochemical weapons, it only takes 3 minutes to kill the core members of the Li family in the entire Mid-Level Manor.

  Even if he didn't carry a weapon, with Qingchen's current demigod strength, it would be easy for anyone who wanted to kill the entire manor... The Qingshan was not nearby.

  But there is only such a place, which is open to Qingchen without any defense.

The airship landed slowly on the tarmac, and a servant led Qing Chen to Baopu Building, and said with a smile on the way: "You haven't been back for a while, the Autumn Leaf House is always cleaned, absolutely Spotless."

  The friendly and enthusiastic appearance of the servant was the same as before, as if Qing Chen had never left.

  The servant brought Qing Chen to Long Lake where the old man used to fish.

  He looked up and saw Li Yunshou sitting on the broken bridge fishing.

  At a certain moment, in a trance, he even seemed to see the old man who used to sit here every day.

   It seems like a lifetime away.

  At that time, he was still the instructor here, fighting wits and courage with other instructors in the martial arts hall. Now the instructor Zhou Xingwen has retired, and a new teacher has arrived.

At that time, he was still teaching Li Ke, Li Shu, Qing Yi and others to practice in the Qiuye Bieyuan. The espionage department is in charge alone, and Li Shu and others have become the mainstay in the army.

  At that time, Mr. Li was still there, and Qing Chen cheated the dragon fish from the other party, so he didn't have to worry about conflicts of interest between himself and Mrs. Li, and he didn't have to make so many difficult choices.

   Now, even this deeply affectionate Li Shi is standing at a fork in the road with him, and may part ways at any time.

  But life is like this, each has choices for each other.

  In just half a year, Li Yunshou's hair has turned gray.

  The servant retired, Qing Chen naturally sat next to Li Yunshou, and asked with a smile, "Aren't you afraid that I'm here to kill you?"

   "The Wuxin copper bell upstairs in Baopu didn't ring, and you have no killing intent. The knight demigod really wanted to assassinate me, an ordinary person, but he couldn't prevent it," Li Yunshou smiled.

  Qing Chen said with emotion: "You have experienced a lot of vicissitudes...why do you have the leisure to come here to fish?"

Li Yunshou looked at Longhu in a daze and said: "Sometimes when faced with a choice, I would sit here and think about how my father would choose if he was still alive. Now that I think about it, he can manage this huge Li family. So good, it’s not easy.”

Li Yunshou said in a daze: "In the past years, no matter how busy my father was, when the first snow fell outside this Baopu Building every year, he would take us brothers and sisters to have a snowball fight on the edge of Longhu Lake. Since the old Qicheng After becoming a knight, he changed the snowball fight into a snowman. Looking back now, the brothers and sisters were so exhausted that they sat by the lake and watched the heavy snow fall into the lake. It was so beautiful."

  Li Yunshou looked at Qing Chen and said with a smile: "But I don't think the snow scene of Longhu Lake in the future will be as beautiful as before."

   There are only dragon fishes in Longhu Lake. After Qing Chen and Li Ke finished eating the dragon fish, there will be no more fish in Longhu Lake.

   Li Yunshouku sat here, just missing his father a little bit.

   "How will he choose this time?" Qing Chen asked.

"Qingchen, if he is still alive, he will do the same," Li Yunshou turned to look at the young man beside him: "This is not a choice made by me or him, but a choice made by the Li family and the consortium." .”

   "Well, I understand," Qing Chen nodded.

  Although the Parents' Association is stopped in front of the Mianchi Bridge, Qing Chen doesn't think Li's actions are so 'bad'.

  This is no longer the definition of 'good' and 'bad'.

   Instead, everyone faced the torrent of the times and made their own choices.

  Is Mrs. Li wrong?

No.

   It's just that they have different positions. Qing Chen has something he wants to protect, and Li Yunshou also has it.

  Parents will be evacuated in order to shrink back to the southwest.

  Using the geographical environment of the Southwest Shu Road to establish a defense line is the best choice. In this way, it is difficult for the ground mechanized troops of the Western Continent to pass through, and they can only rely on air troops...

  Although Qing Chen still doesn't know how to stop those air troops, war is the art of precise calculation, which can weaken the enemy's strength by a point.

  However, the parent association was able to leave because the Qing family's foundation was not in the Central Plains.

   Mrs. Li cannot leave.

  Is the Li family capable of facing the Chen family and the Roosevelt kingdom alone? No.

  At this time, even though the decision to stop the members of the Parents' Association may tear the alliance between Li and Qing, Li Yunshou must tie the Parents' Association and Qing to them.

  If the Parents Council is released, Li Yunshou, the Patriarch, will be incompetent.

  Li Yunshou suddenly smiled: "I thought you would come here in a two-hour airship, and you would yell at me when you arrived, but you are calmer than I imagined."

   "Well, there is nothing to scold," Qing Chen responded.

   Li Yunshou asked: "Is the Western Continent really that strong? It made you choose to retreat immediately instead of fighting."

  He knows what kind of person Qing Chen is. If he were someone else, he would think that he must be a coward who fears war, but Qing Chen is different.

  Qing Chen's reputation is all earned.

  So, Li Yunshou immediately understood that the Western Continent was so strong that Qing Chen didn't know how to win.

  Li Yunshou said: "You are someone who has been to the Western Continent. Tell me about the strength there."

"Well," Qing Chen said: "First of all, the number of fortresses in the air. There are four in the West Continent, the Blackwater, the Phoenix, the Storm, and the God. We only have the Qingshan and the Scepter. The technological strength of the fortress, the opponent has the ability to attack the air fortress from a long distance, but we only have the main fire electromagnetic gun... The technology is backward."

"The second is the number of floating airships that can participate in the battle. The opponent is more than four times that of Li Shi and Qing Shi. They are faster than us, have a longer cruise time than us, and carry more weapons and drones than us. The military of the Eastern Continent The strength itself is weaker than that of the Western Continent, and we ended up consuming so much in the civil war."

"The land mechanized troops again. Although we are two armies, the other party's exoskeleton armor is more complete. Although we also have exoskeleton armor, ours is more of an auxiliary role, and we do not carry 40 caliber howitzers. "

"The last is the number of extraordinary people. For demigods, there are two knights in the Eastern Continent. Li Shentan and Yan Liuyuan don't know if they can make a move. For the Western Continent, there are four. The Duke of Storm, the Duke of Blackwater, Duke Phoenix, King Roosevelt."

   "Gene warriors, they have A-level, but we don't have it yet."

   "Their B-level transcendents are also several times ours."

   At this time, Qing Chen still doesn't know that the royal family has got the poisoned wine cup. If you count the seven old monsters in the golden coffin, in fact, the demigods of the Western Continent are also crushing the Eastern Continent.

Li Yunshou sighed and said: "The arrival of Kashima and the Age of Gods really laid too many hidden dangers for the federation. If the federation is a solid piece of iron, I think it can be fought. But now that you say it like this, I don't think there is any chance of winning. …Actually, I also understand your decision to evacuate. If it were me, I would not waste the Parents’ Association on an away game where there is no danger. Going back to the Southwest is the wisest choice.”

"Um."

  Both sides are silent, each understands that the other has done nothing wrong, but here lies the problem.

  Li Yunshou suddenly asked: "Those members of the Parents' Association who have gone away because of the black magic curse, can they come back?"

  Qing Chen shook his head: "I'm not sure, the current method of restraining black magic is a bit restrictive."

   "Understood, you don't have a good solution," Li Yunshou sighed.

   Qing Chen turned his head and stared straight at Li Yunshou: "No one from the Li family has been to the Western Continent, how do you know that my parents left because of black magic?"

   At this time, there are no spies in city 10, and all of them have been wiped out by the giant's spiritual perception.

  City No. 10 is also in a state of communication silence, and only the internal LAN can be used.

  So, how did Li Yunshou know?

Li Yunshou looked at the sparkling lake: "You don't need to look at me with such eyes. People from the Western Continent have already been here, and let me understand the role of black magic. Moreover, the names, birthdays, and birthdays of the main members of the Li family, It's all in their hands."

   That is to say, not only the core members of the parent association are firmly controlled by the other party, but so is Li.

  The parent association can temporarily hide in the black leaf plain, but what about Mrs. Li? Can you make it.

  Even if there is time, all the core members of the Li family have left, and the leaderless Li family is useless.

  Qing Chen finally understood why Mrs. Li made the decision to block the parent meeting.

Li Yunshou said suddenly: "If the old man is still here, he must also feel embarrassed. And Li Ke, if he comes out of the fire pond after the end of life and death, and hears about it, he will definitely blame me, the father. Changqing also called from the front line, persuading me not to stop the parent meeting... But people are swordsmen, I am fish, and the information of the 41,231 direct descendants of the Li family is all in the hands of the other party. It is brave to stand up and resist, but to resist And after that?"

  Li Changqing, Li Shutong, Li Ke, and Qingchen's apprentices of the Li family, the bond between the Li family and him is already too deep.

   But the problem is that being killed by black magic is really meaningless.

  You are not sacrificing when you seize a certain position, nor do you die halfway to complete a certain cause, taking risks for the cause.

   It's your meaningless death, at most it consumes a little energy for the adjudicators, that's all.

  Dark magic is like a dark cloud hanging over everyone's heads these days.

  At this time, Li Yunshou suddenly said: "Qingchen, if I hand over the Li family to you, will you treat it kindly?"

  Qing Chen was shocked.

  Li Yunshou smiled: "I didn't ask you to be the head of the Li family, but if the Li family gave up their foundation and retreated to the southwest with the parents' association, would they be excluded?"

   Doing so means that the Li family will give up their industrial foundation and economic lifeline in the Central Plains, and hand over the fate of everyone in the Li family to the Qing family.

   Once the Qing family cuts off their supplies, or intentionally isolates them, then the Li family will be very dangerous.

  Qing Chen asked, "Why did you make such a decision?"

  Li Yunshou looked at the lake for a long time: "Just kidding. Qing Chen, let me ask you one last question. Are you determined to fight the Western Continent to the end? We have no chance of winning, so why make unnecessary sacrifices?"

  Qing Chen said: "I will not have a second choice, because I will not watch the people on this land become slaves of others."

   "Understood," Li Yunshou nodded: "Go back, if you want to go to the Mianchi Bridge safely, you will definitely not be able to.

  Qing Chen got up and left.

  Li Yunshou heard the sound of footsteps moving away, but did not get up.

  He just looked at the lake quietly, and the laughter of his brothers and sisters here seemed to be echoing in his ears.

"It's a coincidence that you left, old man," Li Yunshou said with emotion with a smile: "You have to live another year, and you have to make these difficult decisions. Did you mean to..."

   "Brother!"

   "Huh?" Li Yunshou almost thought he was hallucinating, but he quickly realized that someone was really calling him from behind.

  He looked back at the person behind him, and said with a smile, "When did you come here? Why didn't there even be a sound of footsteps."

   "You're too focused," replied the person behind.

   "Let's get started, we don't have time to hesitate," Li Yunshou got up and patted the dust off his clothes, and walked towards Baopu Building alone.

  …

  …

  Return countdown at 13:00:00.

  A gossip came out from Li's high-level video conference. Li was discussing whether to go to war on the Western Continent. As a result, the main combat faction headed by Li Changqing broke with the peace faction headed by Li Yunshou.

  At the meeting, Li Changqing asked Li Yunshou to open the Mianchi bridge for the parent meeting to pass.

  However, Li Yunshou accused Li Changqing of betraying the Li family for the sake of a man.

  The two brothers and sisters quarreled for more than an hour at the meeting, and broke up unhappy.

  After the meeting, Li's logistics department cut off all the supplies of Li Changqing's department, and even canceled the military ranks of Li Changqing and others, and even canceled the electronic authority of Li Changqing's department.

  For a while, the troops under Li Changqing couldn't even start the armored vehicles in his own troops, because they didn't have permission!

  In the afternoon of the same day, Li Changqing’s troops only had one air fortress, Qingshan, and under the pursuit of Li’s air fleet, they retreated into the southwest Qing family and asked for political asylum.

  If it weren't for the air fortress itself being a physically independent military system, maybe they wouldn't even be able to take the air fortress away.

  (end of this chapter)