Serial Player
Chapter 178 - 177: Taking Action (Seeking Subscription)

Chapter 178: Chapter 177: Taking Action (Seeking Subscription)

In the jungle, on the trunk of a large tree, Li Changhe opened his eyes. He spent the entire night experimenting with new tactics.

Experiment participants: stray dogs.

As he looked at the frightened stray dog that wouldn’t bark, Li Changhe generously gave it a can of meat.

Although he was tired from experimenting with curses multiple times, he had finally found a direction to work towards.

Once [Player]’s abilities have recovered, Li Changhe can apply them in real combat.

[Friends] Moon God has already reminded him that they have already departed.

Actually, even without their reminder, Li Changhe had already heard the lively sounds from afar. Those were the citizens of the Sun Kingdom, cheering for the annual Sun King God’s Sacrifice.

Even though... they already cheered yesterday.

Li Changhe drank an energy potion and approached the main road. As he watched the smiling and expectant citizens of Sun Kingdom, he felt genuinely disgusted.

Of course, they were expecting something - after offering the ’sacrifice’ this time, the Sun Kingdom would receive some kind of power and resources.

After all, they would benefit without putting in any effort; they only had to offer sacrifices to get what they wanted.

The whole Sun Kingdom seemed twisted and disgusting. In contrast, the Great Tang under the [Chang’an Plague] valued ’teaching a man to fish rather than giving him a fish.’

They only wanted technology and development. Under the feudal monarchy, they acquired so much advanced knowledge, it’s unknown how much the Great Tang has developed now. Moon God even provided some high-end steam engines from a [Plot Task].

Li Changhe wouldn’t be surprised if he saw cars the next time he went there.

While daydreaming, Li Changhe’s actions were not delayed at all. Through Yun Ting’s perception, he avoided one patrol group after another and even dodged several nearby sentries.

This was the most important sacrificial event in Sun Kingdom, and their security was very tight.

Li Changhe took some effort to get close to the main road. During this time, he also put on some casual clothes he found, making him look like an ordinary child, not causing any anomalies to others.

That was the only advantage of the ’character’; if Li Changhe had appeared in his original appearance, he would have been recognized at first sight.

In Li Changhe’s words, he was too handsome to be unnoticed in a crowd.

"Have some shame! How did my old man raise you to have this kind of character?" Yun Ting criticized.

"Aside from instilling an attitude of not accepting fate, my old man didn’t teach me anything else... Just practicing Octopole Fist. If he were a [Player], his [Skill] in Octopole Fist would probably be at level E."

"Tsk..." The person and the demon criticized each other.

From the gate of Sun King City to the sacrificial altar of Sun King’s God Sacrifice, there was about a five or six-kilometer distance. The citizens cheered all the way.

As for the ’sacrifices’, they all showed fear on their faces. Living one more day didn’t provide much comfort to them.

Today, they were still going to enter the Sun King’s tomb. It was said that the screams of the ’sacrifices’ would last for three days and three nights.

This was more terrifying than being killed with a single slash. Being killed yesterday would have been much easier!

With pale faces, the ’sacrifices’ had tried to escape yesterday. Unfortunately, they were captured and brought back. Now they could only pray that their families would come to save them, but they also feared getting their families into trouble. They were led down the road with mixed feelings of expectation and fear by the black-robed priests.

Moon God and the others were among them, their faces also showing shock and confusion.

Hiding on the rooftop of a building by the street, Li Changhe chuckled quietly, "Brother Moon God, your acting skills are too poor, aren’t they? You don’t look like someone about to be sacrificed. You look more like a man whose wife has discovered his hidden stash of cash."

"Get lost!" The figure among the ’sacrifices’ stiffened for a moment, "Don’t say such horrifying things! This is my [Skill: Facial Expression Derivation] and I even upgraded it to level B. Do you have it, huh?"

[Facial Expression Derivation] Li Changhe didn’t have it, nor could Yanyun have that part-time job for extras.

However, Li Changhe had a lot of other flashy [Skills], such as [Cold Reading Skill], [Jewelry Appraisal], [Route Planning], [Handicraft]...

After all, Li Changhe was known as the Working Emperor by He Feng, so he had quite a few scattered [Skills].

However, most of the levels were low, mainly D and E. They were miscellaneous and not refined, just some superficial knowledge acquired during his working days.

When the funds were almost used up, Li Changhe estimated that he would have to enter the Working Emperor state again. He had to consider learning more [Skills] that could be used in combat.

"We’ll take action according to the opportunity!" Moon God replied, "We’ll also make our move at the same time."

"I understand, you guys be careful with that Grand Priest. I’ll deal with Tudah, striving to unlock [Skills] and [Title Skills] as soon as possible. I don’t want to be chased and hacked by the cavalry." Li Changhe watched as the ’sacrificial offerings’ procession was led to the altar.

The black-armored guards guarding the altar were numerous, and the defense was strong. There were over a thousand black-armored soldiers alone.

God’s Whip was on guard in the streets. Once something happened at the altar several hundred meters away, they could launch a charge instantly.

Leading the cavalry was General Tudah, who was holding a bone bow and arrow, scanning the surroundings.

The citizens of Sun Kingdom were not far from the altar, watching and cheering from time to time.

"This is disgusting. This country should just perish quickly." Li Changhe sighed again. A black hawk was not far from him, waiting for instructions at any moment.

At the base of the altar wall was carved a huge human face, with a bright red sun painted on its forehead.

The Grand Priest, with strange white lines painted on his face, held two bone staffs and was muttering something mysteriously.

"So the so-called Sun King Tomb is hidden under the altar?" Li Changhe thought. From afar, he saw two purple rays of light appear from the bone staffs in the Grand Priest’s hands.

The eyes of the human face stone wall moved, its mouth began to widen, and eventually fixed into a two-meter high door.

Watching the black-robed priests escorting the ’sacrifices’ into the large door, Li Changhe could see that many people hidden among the citizens of Sun Kingdom were eager to take action.

They were the guards or family members of those ’sacrifices’ who wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to rescue them.

They had originally lost hope, but last night, Miss Bella from the Rodale family was rescued. It was said that a powerful immortal witch had taken action and given a mysterious magic potion.

She even claimed to destroy the Sun King at the sacrifice ceremony.

This ignited their confidence. They gathered together and prepared to act collectively. With no movement yet, they started to grow impatient.

Li Changhe watched as the tomb door was about to close completely, and General Tudah breathed a sigh of relief, putting down his bow and arrow at that moment.

"Take action!"

The human face stone wall that was about to close suddenly cracked. Screams came from within the stone wall.

A black eagle shot into the sky in an instant, letting out a sharp cry.

At that moment, countless figures wearing masks and hooded black clothes burst out from the buildings.

"Charge!"

The Sleeve Swords in their hands simultaneously emitted deadly cold lights, aiming straight for the God’s Whip Knights.

At the same time, screams came from the crowd of Sun Kingdom citizens. Many soldiers wearing various colored leather armors tore off their disguises and began attacking the crowd.

The panicked citizens of Sun Kingdom instantly disrupted the formation of the black-armored guards maintaining the sacrificial order.

General Tudah’s face changed drastically, thinking entering the Sun King Tomb would be safe, he didn’t expect all this to come so quickly. His spies placed in other nobles gave out the belief that ’sacrifices’ were to be rescued today.

But he never thought that something would go wrong inside the Sun King Tomb!

Tudah was about to raise his arrow and shoot the black-robed assassin who was piercing the knight’s neck not far away.

A bell-like sound seemed to come to his ear, and a petite shadow fell from the sky.

"Fierce Tiger Climbing!"