Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 128 - 123 Identity Correction Successful!

Chapter 128: Chapter 123 Identity Correction Successful!

"What are you dazed for? Kill the traitors!"

Li Hongyun said as he picked up a long spear from the ground once again.

Seeing the Lord Governor rolling up his sleeves to join the fray in person, the other soldiers were greatly inspired and engaged in a bloody battle with the bandits on the city walls!

In fact, since the first time he impersonated Wang Zongchang, Li Hongyun had noticed something.

That was, Mr. Wang’s physical condition was actually quite good!

It was even better than the physical condition of an average soldier.

As for why Mr. Wang, a typical civil official, had better physical condition than the soldiers, that was unclear—it could only be said that in ancient times, not all officials were weak scholars, many had strong physical constitutions.

Not to mention the distant past, the County Magistrate in the previous instance was a civil official who could wield a large saber to chop people down.

In short, it was precisely because he felt Mr. Wang’s physical condition that Li Hongyun decided to give it one last try to see if he could use Mr. Wang’s identity to defend the city.

General Deng relied so much on him, there must be a reason for it.

Soon, fierce fighting broke out on the city walls!

For Li Hongyun, he had completely let himself go at this moment, no longer thinking about the act of impersonating.

Wang Zongchang was a civil official, and perhaps he should have used a civil official’s methods to resolve this crisis, perhaps General Liu had been tampered with, and perhaps only by having General Liu and Wang Zongchang cooperated could they win this battle...

But as a player, Li Hongyun had temporarily set all those things aside in his mind, now he had only one thing to do: keep picking up the long spears from the ground and hurling them at the bandits climbing toward the city!

If the bandits were scaling the ladders, he’d strike them down on the ladders; if the bandits made it to the city walls, he’d strike them down on the walls; if the bandits got into the city, then he’d use every advantageous terrain and prop within the city to strike them down!

The whole of Nanhe City had transformed into a grisly battleground.

Several Deputy Generals gathered around Li Hongyun, protecting him as they fought a bloody battle with the bandits.

As for Liu Ji, the moment the bandits began their ascent, Li Hongyun had already cut the ropes tied to him, letting him charge to the front lines to fight the bandits.

Outnumbered, Liu Ji was, after all, a considerable combat force.

Seeing the situation so desperate and retreat completely impossible, Liu Ji had no choice but to pick up his weapon and fight desperately with the bandits.

Before long, more and more corpses piled up around Li Hongyun, some of bandits, some of the Sheng Army.

One by one, the Deputy Generals died in battle, and the long spears next to Li Hongyun had long been thrown empty, forcing him to pick up the spears from the dead Sheng Army to use.

Suddenly, a flash of saber light!

Just as Li Hongyun had thrown a long spear, a bandit seized the opportunity and viciously chopped down at his back with an Eastern Barbarian sword!

Li Hongyun barely managed to dodge, well aware that he most likely hadn’t evaded it completely, but the blade did not strike him.

Turning his head, he saw Liu Ji, blood-soaked, grasping the Eastern Barbarian sword that had pierced his abdomen with his left hand, while his right hand hacked fiercely with a waist saber at the bandit!

After striking the bandit down, Liu Ji too reached the end of his strength.

He looked at Li Hongyun, opened his mouth as if wanting to say something, but blood gushed from his mouth, and in the end, he couldn’t make out a complete syllable, leaving behind only a complex, indescribable gaze.

And then, with a "thud," he collapsed to the ground.

More and more bandits arrived at the top of the city walls, and Li Hongyun knew that most likely this instance had come to an end.

But just at that moment, the sound of horse hooves came from afar.

Outside the city, dust billowed—a signal that General Deng had finally arrived with the elite Sheng Army troops who had conquered Puning Port!

"Good, you’ve come at just the right time...

"General Deng has indeed lived up to expectations in conquering Puning Port!"

Li Hongyun knew that the bandits were in a blood frenzy, and he definitely wouldn’t be able to break out, but the fierce battle in Nanhe City had firmly pinned them down, preventing them from escaping.

Once General Deng arrived, all of the bandits would be captured, not a single one spared!

With Puning Port breached and this force of bandits mixed with a substantial number of regular troops eliminated, perhaps the bandit problems in the southeast... could be settled once and for all?

It was just a pity that this time’s process wasn’t perfect, didn’t find which character had been altered, and didn’t truly hold the city, falling just before the dawn’s last moment.

But no matter what, it had been thrilling to fight!

Li Hongyun let out a furious roar, stabbing the last long spear into a bandit’s chest, and then he was cut down by random blades.

Just a bit unexpectedly, as he was dying, he saw a special fragment in his field of vision, which even bore Liu Ji’s image.

A memory fragment!

Before Li Hongyun fell, everything within the memory fragment flashed through his mind like a zoetrope.

"General Liu, this is a secret letter from Elder Yan. The bandits will attack Nanhe City while General Deng is assaulting Puning Port."

"Your Excellency, I understand, and will certainly hold Nanhe City to the death, never to fail the trust Elder Yan and Lord Governor have placed in me!"

"No, General Liu, you are mistaken. It means you need not do anything at all."

After that, Li Hongyun saw Wang Zongchang in the memory fragments of Liu Ji.

Not the Wang Zongchang he had impersonated, but the real Wang Zongchang.

At the city walls, Wang Zongchang, a mere civil official, was clad in armor, fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Deputy Generals. However, the real Wang Zongchang didn’t throw spears and kill enemies like Li Hongyun did; instead, he fought bloodily with a rattan shield and a saber in hand.

After that, the mist gradually covered Li Hongyun’s vision.

He returned to the beginning of the instance again.

Only this time, there was an additional line of prompt in his field of vision.

[Key character identity correction successful!]

[Key character: Wang Zongchang]

[This character’s image has been successfully established and will from now on always act in the corrected state!]

As this prompt appeared, a memory fragment naturally emerged in Li Hongyun’s mind.

It was a memory fragment that would appear after achieving the goal of correcting the identity of a key character, similar to an automatically playing cutscene.

The real Wang Zongchang didn’t put the knife around Liu Ji’s neck, but still successfully ordered the Deputy Generals to bind Liu Ji and bring him up to the city walls.

After that, he arranged the troops, strategized, and in the end, fought bloodily and even personally slew more than ten bandits, finally dying a valiant death.

Li Hongyun had not expected that without intending to play the role, in the end, he wouldn’t be much different from the real Wang Zongchang!

"So that’s how it is...

"The demon didn’t tamper with Liu Ji, but if I had failed to play Wang Zongchang once and then went to play Liu Ji, it would have been falling for the trap.

"Even if I had tried hard in the guise of Liu Ji, I probably still wouldn’t have won, because Wang Zongchang’s image was twisted by the demon into that of an ordinary civil official who was all talk and no skill.

"But in reality, he was a warrior brave enough to join the fray and cut down enemies himself.

"Moreover, Liu Ji wasn’t tampered with at all; he wanted to desert because he received Elder Yan’s instigation...

"Elder Yan has always had control over the situation of suppressing the pirates in the southeast, and he had long noticed that Governor Lin had ignored his secret message of ’when the birds are gone, the bow is put away,’ so he thought of another method.

"As long as Nanhe City falls, the plan to attack Puning Port would probably have to be shelved, and if bandit reinforcements come again, the problem of bandits in the entire southeast might continue for another year and a half.

"At that point, any unexpected circumstance could happen.

"It’s just a pity that Elder Yan, for all his planning, still missed Supervisor Wang. Indeed, who could have expected that a civil official turned supervisor could actually hold Nanhe City?

"Looking at Liu Ji’s final gaze, he must have been moved by Supervisor Wang’s performance as well. Although he made a grave mistake that almost led to irreversible consequences, he too fought bravely to the death in the end, which is a good outcome."

By a stroke of luck, he had actually succeeded, which once again made Li Hongyun marvel at how being lucky can really come in handy!

"But why haven’t I cleared the level yet?

"Supervisor Wang’s identity has been corrected, meaning Puning Port has been captured, and the main force of the bandits has been completely annihilated by General Deng. By all accounts, I should have cleared it, right?

"Is there something that hasn’t been wrapped up?

"Am I to personally command the battle of Puning Port again?"

Li Hongyun was somewhat puzzled, his gaze swept across several identity cards, but he found that the situation with the cards had changed.

Some cards had become unusable, such as Governor Lin’s card, which had turned gray and was not selectable.

The identity cards for the soldiers, General Deng, and the strategists, however, remained usable.

"What does this mean?"

Li Hongyun was somewhat perplexed, but after pondering for a moment, he still chose the soldier’s identity again.

The reason was simple; he was more familiar with this one, and it would be good to see things through properly.

Retaking Puning Port as a soldier again wouldn’t be too bad.

However, when the white mist dissipated, he did not appear in Puning Port.

Instead, he found himself amidst a previously unseen scene!

Sand flew across the sky, and the landscape in view was clearly not the scenery of the southeast coast, but rather resembled the Northern Border beyond the Great Wall.

Li Hongyun was a bit dumbfounded.

This instance was about suppressing bandits, wasn’t it? Surely, there wouldn’t be Eastern Barbarian bandits appearing in this place?

What was going on?

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