Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 141 - 136: Start Showing Off Acting Skills

Chapter 141: Chapter 136: Start Showing Off Acting Skills

"Whoosh!"

The arrow flew, hitting a tall bandit right in the forehead.

Then came the second arrow, and the third!

Although General Deng’s archery was otherworldly, its actual accuracy still depended on the situation.

If he were surrounded, with a large number of bandits attacking, then his archery would naturally suffer.

Historical records of "three arrows to decide the fate of the world" actually referred to a rather ideal state.

For instance, the first time Li Hongyun passed through, General Deng actually shot four arrows—because he encountered some interference with the last one and had to shoot an additional arrow.

But now, this was the ideal condition!

Fan Cun, Zhao Haiping, and Li Hongyun had already led the garrison soldiers into a stalemate with the bandits, even gaining a slight upper hand. Under no pressure, General Deng shot three arrows in succession, each one claiming the life of a bandit leader.

The death of three leaders with three arrows dealt an immense blow to the bandits. Together with the heightened will to fight from the three players, the bandits finally showed fear and began to flee.

"Follow me, pursue them!"

At General Deng’s command, Fan Cun, who could hardly wait, roared and charged forward!

Zhao Haiping and Li Hongyun followed closely behind.

The other garrison soldiers didn’t have their vigor—some lay on the ground, gasping for air, while others were still frightened, looking around hesitantly, not daring to advance.

The result was a bizarre scene: General Deng, leading just three men, chased the panic-stricken bandits northward, cutting down a few more and broadening their victory.

The four men pursued for a while but eventually turned back with reluctance when the bandits ran too far.

A resounding victory!

Fan Cun even felt unsatisfied with the fight, eager to enter the phase of aggressively attacking Puning Port.

General Deng looked at the three men, thinking, when did such warriors arise among my garrison soldiers?

If all the troops had this kind of fighting power, what bandit would be of concern? In just a few months, they could drive all these bandits into the sea!

Mist gradually enveloped the area as the historical slice continued to propel forward along General Deng’s storyline.

...

Above the historical slice, a cloud of black mist churned.

A powerful demon was silently observing everything.

The moment the historical slice was reset by the strength of the Restorer, everything returned to its original state, including the demon’s memory, which was temporarily reversed.

At that moment, it knew only that it had just entered a brand-new historical slice, and if it succeeded in altering it, it could forge a path to the real world.

As a higher-order demon, it was fundamentally different from those that invaded miniature historical slices.

Those weaker demons could only possess the body of some invading foreign race and change a specific historical figure through touch.

This one, however, was different; it could observe the whole picture from a god-like perspective and exert a subtle influence over the entire historical slice from afar.

For example, it could demoralize the armies of the Great Sheng Dynasty, making them more prone to flight, or make the bandits more ferocious and battle-driven, or it could even concentrate its demonic power on a key historical figure, altering them subtly.

Of course, the larger the historical slice, the more cautious one had to be with alterations.

That’s because a large slice could have multiple key figures, each potentially pivotal to the destiny of the entire slice. Also, large slices were more likely to contain heroes full of righteous energy; attempting to alter such individuals was a waste of effort.

Apart from this, monsters had a significant shortcoming relative to Restorers: they did not know the preordained trajectory of historical development.

Restorers could attempt to restore history to its original state through historical records and various accounts, but monsters, having no such records, naturally did not know how history was originally supposed to develop.

The way monsters altered history was by entering a slice of time, observing the entirety of its development, and making a decision before the slice reached its end, using the power of monsters to alter a character within.

Should they fail, they would trigger the historical slice’s self-protection mechanism and be expelled.

After being expelled, it would be very difficult for the monster to locate the same slice of history within the chaotic currents of time and space.

Thus, although the monster currently had a God’s eye view, able to see everything happening within the slice, it also had to make its choices cautiously.

Although Li Hongyun and his two companions were rampaging with General Deng, their behavior wasn’t too outrageous; after all, the Sheng Army could conceivably have two or three special soldiers like General Deng—it wasn’t completely impossible.

When a real Restorer took action, it was much more outrageous.

The black mist churning in the sky signified that the monster was also deep in thought.

It was trying to decipher this slice of history, looking for the most covert and efficient way to alter it.

In fact, from the start, it had the idea to alter General Deng, but very soon, the radiant righteous qi shining from him like the sun somewhat hurt it, letting it know that this was a beloved heroic figure, absolutely impossible to change successfully.

Heroes often do not perish from external troubles, but are destroyed by internal worries.

If one could interfere at other critical points, even with a famed general like Deng, the situation might still be hopeless.

Therefore, the black fog in the sky eventually dissipated, and the monster once more lay in wait, continuing to observe this slice of history from a God’s eye view, searching for the most suitable target.

...

The white mist dispersed, and black smoke rolled.

The monster had traversed time and space to hover above the governor’s office.

Nothing within the office could escape its gaze.

Before coming to the governor’s office, it had already surveyed the situation at Puning Port.

Although General Deng and the three brave Deputy Generals also fought valiantly and achieved some results, Puning Port was still far from being completely conquered; there was no need to worry in the short term.

At this point, the monster had already discerned that the key to this slice of history lay in two words: military supplies!

With a generation’s general like Deng, as long as there were sufficient military supplies, it was only a matter of time before the bandits were completely eradicated.

Thus, how to intercept this batch of military supplies was key to altering this slice of history.

The monster’s gaze settled on Lin Xiangmin.

It was beginning to suspect that there might be Restorers lurking within this slice of history.

The previous three, although still acting within the range of normalcy, could also possibly be assistants to Restorers.

While the monster pondered who to alter, it was also scanning the slice of history for clues. If it could find traces suggesting the presence of Restorers, it meant this slice of history was likely already in an altered state. Then, the monster could concentrate all its power to attack the Restorers and, using the natural barriers of the historical slice, possibly succeed in expelling them...

At this moment, the monster was like an ordinary person in a dream, drifting with the current to peer into this dream while also searching for the illogical parts of it, wanting to shatter it from its very foundation.

Inside the governor’s office, Lin Xiangmin looked around at his strategists: "I’ve heard that the terrain of Puning Port is not very high, and there’s a dyke nearby. What do you think about breaching the dyke to flood the enemy?"

At this time, Xiang Min had fully immersed himself in Lin Xiangmin’s character.

As he spoke, the conflicting emotions of concern for his country and its people genuinely surfaced on his face.

The actors were about to start showing off their acting chops!