224: Chapter 224: An Army of 100,000 Paper Figures Overthrows Myanmar
Atop the towering Pyramid.
Dong Xiaowan, dressed in a plain white qipao, stood beside Lin Mo.
Her delicate hands danced!
Wisps of green energy swirled around her fingertips!
Like a butterfly flitting among flowers!
"Rise!"
Her red lips parted slightly.
Buzz—!
The surface of the Pyramid!
Countless tiny cracks instantly opened!
As if the gates of hell had been flung open!
Swish swish swish swish swish—!!!
Dense and countless! Of all shapes and sizes!
Paper Nezha, holding a fiery spear and riding on Wind Fire Wheels!
Paper Guan Gong, wielding a Green Dragon Crescent Blade, with a red face and long beard!
Paper White Impermanence, with a long, crimson tongue and holding a mourning staff!
Paper Qin Shubao, clad in golden armor and wielding twin maces!
Paper Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li, holding a Linglong Pagoda, majestic beyond compare!
There were even Paper Heavenly Soldiers! Paper Divine Generals! Paper Immortal Beasts!
One hundred thousand paper-crafted divine soldiers! Like a breached dam, they surged out from the cracks in the Pyramid!
A mighty, overwhelming force! Covering the sky and obscuring the sun!
They charged straight for Bai Suocheng's nearest warlord stronghold—Mengpaya!
On the city walls of Mengpaya.
The defending soldiers were casually smoking, lazily on guard.
Suddenly!
"Wh-what is that?!" A sharp-eyed soldier pointed towards the horizon of yellow sand in the distance!
They saw a vast expanse of white "mist" rapidly approaching!
Closer!
Even closer!
"Pa-paper figures?!" The soldier's eyes nearly popped out of his head!
Thousands upon thousands! Of all shapes and sizes! Deities and ghosts from myths and legends! And they were all... paper-crafted?! And they could actually move?!
"It's haunted!!" Another old veteran soldier was so scared he dropped his cigarette, his face ashen, "I... I heard old folks from Dragon Country say! People burn paper figures to accompany the dead... Th-this... this is paper figures coming back to life!!"
"Open fire! Open fire, I say!!" The commanding officer on the wall felt his scalp tingle! He roared hoarsely!
Who cares what kind of ghost it is! Shoot first, ask questions later!
Da da da da—!!!
Heavy and light machine guns on the city wall roared madly! Tongues of flame spat out! Bullets poured down like a storm!
Puff puff puff puff—!
Bullets easily pierced through the paper figures' bodies! Leaving transparent holes!
But!
The paper figures! Did not stop for a moment!
The Paper Nezha, shot through, still held his fiery spear high!
The Paper Guan Gong, riddled with holes, still brought his Green Dragon Blade down!
Those paper holes! Under the circulation of green energy! Instantly healed! As good as new!
"Grenades! Use grenades!!" The officer's eyes were bloodshot!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
High-explosive grenades detonated among the paper figures!
The shockwave sent countless paper fragments flying!
Flames shot into the sky!
When the smoke cleared!
The shattered paper fragments seemed to possess life! They flew in the air! Gathered! Reassembled!
In a blink of an eye!
Another complete Paper Divine General! And... its aura was even stronger?!
"Drones! Launch drones! Bomb them to death!!" The officer was completely insane!
Several armed drones screamed into the sky! Missiles locked on!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Precise hits!
Violent explosions!
Flames engulfed large numbers of paper figures!
However... in the flames!
Countless burning paper fragments did not turn to ash!
Instead, in the raging inferno... they underwent nirvana and rebirth!
Transforming into burning... Fire Phoenix paper figures with pale green flames! They shrieked! Their speed even faster! They swooped towards the drones!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The drones exploded in the air like fireworks!
Burning debris fell!
The defenders on the city wall!
Completely collapsed!
Bullets ineffective!
Grenades ineffective!
Drones ineffective!
The paper figures... couldn't be killed!
And the more they fought, the more there were! The stronger they became!
"The... the immortals have shown their power!!"
"It's the Buddha! The Buddha sent heavenly soldiers to punish us!!"
"Surrender! We surrender!!"
These Myanmar soldiers, mostly uneducated and extremely superstitious!
Their psychological defenses completely crumbled!
Someone took the lead, and then!
Clatter!
The defenders on the city wall! Knelt down in droves!
They threw down their weapons! And kowtowed frantically!
"Immortals, spare our lives! Buddha, spare our lives!!"
"We were wrong! We'll never dare again!!"
Cries and pleas for mercy echoed everywhere!
The paper figure army!
Unimpeded!
Like a white tide of death!
It washed over the city walls!
And poured into Mengpaya!
Paper blades! Paper spears! Paper magical artifacts!
Began... a merciless harvest!
Cries! Screams! Broke out in the city!
Warlord Headquarters.
Bai Suocheng had just finished hearing the grim news from the satellite images.
Another communications soldier stumbled in, his face devoid of color!
"Co-commander! Mengpaya... has fallen!!"
"The defenders... the defenders all knelt down! They said... they said the Buddha sent paper heavenly soldiers down to earth... to... to slaughter the city!!"
"Paper figures?! Heavenly soldiers?!" Bai Suocheng shot up from his seat! His eyes bulged, bloodshot! "What the hell are you talking about!!"
He didn't believe it at all!
"It's true! Commander! Footage from the front line has come back!!" The communications soldier trembled as he handed over a tablet.
Bai Suocheng snatched it!
On the screen!
It was live footage of the paper figure army pouring into Mengpaya!
Paper Nezha, riding on Wind Fire Wheels, zipped through the low sky! His fiery spear detonated armed pickup trucks!
Paper Guan Gong split reinforced concrete bunkers with a single saber strike!
Paper Wuchang's chains hooked souls! Soldiers fell in droves!
Paper Qin Shubao's twin maces smashed armored vehicles!
Paper Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King's Pagoda pressed down! An entire street was reduced to dust!
And his soldiers... either knelt and kowtowed, waiting for death!
Or were slaughtered by the paper figures like grass!
"Gh-ghosts!!!"
Bai Suocheng looked at the hellish scene on the screen!
He saw the paper figures that were impervious to blades and bullets, and couldn't be killed!
He saw his elite soldiers like lambs to the slaughter!
He trembled violently all over!
His face turned from red to white! From white to green!
Finally!
Completely distorted!
"It's haunted!!"
"It's really f***ing haunted!!!"
He let out a desperate, inhuman shriek!
Thud!
He slumped to the ground!
His crotch was instantly soaked!
A pungent smell permeated the air.
This warlord and strongman who had dominated Northern Myanmar for many years... looking at the one hundred thousand paper-crafted divine soldiers on the screen... completely!
Pissed himself in fear!
Bai Suocheng lay slumped on the foul-smelling carpet, trembling like a sieve.
On the screen.
The paper figure army was rampaging through Mengpaya!
Cries! Explosions! Collapsing buildings!
Like a living hell!
Despair!
Utter despair!
Flee?
He was an internationally wanted criminal! Fleeing anywhere was a dead end!
Wait for death?
Bai Suocheng had dominated Northern Myanmar for decades! How could he sit by and wait for death?!
"Commander! Commander!" A trusted staff officer suddenly rushed over, lowering his voice, a hint of desperate madness flashing in his eyes, "There's still a way! There's one last path!"
"Speak!" Bai Suocheng clutched at it like a drowning man grasping a straw!
"In the deep mountains of Northern Myanmar! There's a reclusive eminent monk! Known as... the One-Eyed Dragon King!" The staff officer's voice was urgent, "Legend says he possesses boundless magical power! Specializing in countering evil spirits! Years ago, when a sorcerer caused trouble, he was the one who suppressed him! Within a hundred-mile radius, ghosts and demons dared not approach him!"
"One-Eyed Dragon King?!" Bai Suocheng's cloudy eyes suddenly gleamed with a sharp light! Like a drowning man seeing driftwood! "Quick! Quick, invite him! No! I'll go myself to invite him! Prepare the car! No! Prepare the helicopter! Quick!!!"
He struggled to his feet! Ignoring his soaked pants! He roared hoarsely!
"As long as he can drive away these ghostly things! I'll give him whatever he wants! Golden Buddhas! Temples! Women! As much as he wants!"
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