431: Damn Japanese

Shidai Tianyin Company headquarters building, Twenty-Six floor. This was one of the company's leisure areas, featuring various recreational services such as Cultivate, fitness, dancing, ball games, shooting, bars, teahouses, movies, gourmet food, and even massages, body scrubs, saunas, and spas. Many employees would come here to relax after work.

In a private room at the teahouse, Xu Ruoying and Long Yuan were sipping tea while watching the bustling capital scene outside the glass curtain wall. Xu Ruoying smiled and asked, "How is it? What's your impression of the company?"

"I can only say, wealthy!" Long Yuan laughed.

"Hehe, I don't dare let anyone else in the company know you're here, otherwise you'd definitely be surrounded!"

"Is it really that exaggerated?" Long Yuan said intentionally.

"Hmph, just look at the intensity of the information about you spreading online right now and you'll know. I'm definitely not fear-mongering!" Xu Ruoying glared fiercely at Long Yuan.

"That's not just information about me; it's mainly about you. Now they are more concerned about who that royal beauty is..." Long Yuan laughed gleefully.

Xu Ruoying's expression faltered. She secretly regretted her actions; her behavior when picking up Long Yuan earlier had indeed been too high-profile. The current situation was a bit passive. She knew that fans today were not easy to fool; one wrong move could damage Long Yuan's reputation, leading to a massive loss of followers—that would be her fault!

She thought for a moment and asked, "What brings you to Shuntian Prefecture this time? Can you cooperate with the company to hold a fan meeting?"

Long Yuan shook his head and said, "A fan meeting? You really dare to think! The Sea Race is about to attack, wouldn't holding something like this now just add chaos to the Great Ming's war preparations?"

"Eh, it's not like the fans aren't strongly demanding it. Besides, where are the Sea Race? At most, they are currently messing around over in Fusang Country. It would take a long time for them to actually reach our Great Ming, right?" Xu Ruoying argued.

"The Sea Race's strength is immense. From now on, they could appear in the waters of the Great Ming at any moment. I think the company shouldn't mess around!" Long Yuan laughed.

Xu Ruoying's expression changed slightly as she heard this, and she quickly asked, "Why do you say that? Do you know a lot about the Sea Race? Will they really invade our Great Ming?"

"Well, you might as well watch this video..." As Long Yuan spoke, he casually brought up a light screen and started playing it...

Xu Ruoying looked up, and her expression changed instantly. Her eyes widened, and her whole body trembled slightly...

On the screen, a group of Sea Race was attacking a Human Race city. These Sea Race had various forms; some were huge with thick leather armor, while others were quite slender and agile. Some acted alone, while others charged in groups. Some crawled, some jumped, some flew short distances, and some gathered together, spitting out some unknown liquid. Soldiers on the city walls who were touched by it were in agony and fell one after another!

The Mystic Cannons on the city walls were firing wildly, but their lethality was extremely limited. The Sea Race on the ground only fell into slight disarray before quickly reorganizing into attack formations. The soldiers' Xuan Gun fire was even more useless, only able to take down some low-tier Sea Race and unable to cause any damage to the ranked Sea Race...

Before long, a large number of Sea Race stepped over the mountain-like corpses under the city walls and breached the city. The slaughter officially began!

Human Race warriors engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the Sea Race, but their combat power was often inferior to Sea Race of the same rank. Mid-to-high-tier humans could kill more Sea Race at first, but the strong among the Sea Race soon sought them out for battle. Before long, the humans were completely routed. Even more chilling was that the Sea Race behind continued to pour in endlessly—there were at least millions of them, perhaps even tens of millions!

They were like a wriggling black cloud, swallowing the entire human city bit by bit!

With a "bang," the teacup in Xu Ruoying's hand fell to the ground and shattered into pieces...

Her face turned pale, and her whole body trembled. The image of the urban goddess and royal daughter was gone...

Long Yuan laughed inwardly but said, "This is footage of the Sea Race attacking the Fusang Country capital. Right now, the Fusang People are fleeing frantically towards the Great Ming, and the Sea Race are in hot pursuit!"

Hearing this, Xu Ruoying woke up from her shock. She stood up abruptly and said with a trembling voice, "Damn! Aren't they leading the Sea Race towards our Great Ming?"

"Indeed! However, the Sea Race were going to attack the Great Ming anyway; the Fusang People's actions will just accelerate the process!" Long Yuan nodded.

"Oh no! I have to tell my aunt about this!" Xu Ruoying said urgently. She picked up her phone and tried to operate it, but her hand slipped, and the phone fell. Fortunately, Long Yuan caught it in time.

"No need to rush; your aunt must already know!" Long Yuan said.

Hearing this, Xu Ruoying felt relieved and finally recovered slightly. She asked curiously, "How do you know my aunt already knows about this?"

"Because I already sent this information to Imperial Grandfather and Prince An yesterday!" Long Yuan laughed.

Xu Ruoying realized, "So that's it! No wonder Aunt didn't come home last night. I thought she had gone back to the Family!"

"Judging from the direction the Fusang People are fleeing, they will first arrive at the coastal line northeast of the Great Ming, which is the area east of Shuntian Prefecture. Although there is a certain buffer zone, the area south of Shanhai Pass will face brutal slaughter, so your aunt is under considerable pressure!" Long Yuan said.

"My god, what should we do? If the Sea Race break through, our Shuntian Prefecture..." Xu Ruoying was too scared to continue.

"What are you worried about? You don't need to go to the front line. Besides, Shuntian Prefecture is the Foundation of the Great Ming and will definitely be heavily guarded. Teams from various bases across the country will come to support, so it won't be lost no matter what..." Long Yuan smiled.

Hearing Long Yuan say this, the pale color on Xu Ruoying's face slowly returned to a hint of rosiness. She seemed to have figured something out and smiled, "You're right! Girls have that advantage; in times of war, they can receive a certain level of protection. However, as someone from the Xu Family, if the Family issues a call, I will definitely go to the front line to fight. One more person means one more strength!"

Long Yuan was slightly stunned to hear this. He hadn't expected her to say such things, but for a girl from a noble Family to say this was truly not easy. There was no need to ask for anything more. Just as Xu Ruoying said earlier, young women are certainly protected during wartime, and the Empire still needs them to contribute in the rear and simultaneously breed offspring for the Empire; otherwise, with no one to sacrifice their lives, could the Empire have a future?

After all, this was the Xuanwu World, where much combat power was in the hands of individual living beings, not like Earth where there were so many high-tech weapons that could replace human labor in combat. In the Great Ming, every inch of land was won by Xuan Practitioners with a sword and blade...

However, after he, a person from Earth, appeared here, he would slowly change these rules...