Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 719: Chapter 556: Arrival of the Soul-Devouring Python

As soon as Gu Changsheng finished speaking, an eerie silence suddenly enveloped the surroundings.

What did that mean?

Not even worthy of using people to deal with them?

What exactly did that mean? If not people, what would be used?

The tone of Gu Changsheng was too casual, too matter-of-fact, plunging everyone who heard these words into baffled silence, their mouths agape, eyes filled with uncertainty and suspicion, all casting their gazes toward the striking woman in red!

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, even Gu Changsheng, who considered himself thick-skinned, felt a bit overwhelmed.

Damn it, it was one thing for one or two people to look at him as if they were looking at a dinosaur, but now there were people both inside and outside the door, adding up to two hundred thousand eyes! Wasn’t this tormenting?

Anyhow, Gu Changsheng, who thought himself to have thick skin, was indeed tormented!

His old face involuntarily reddened, and he turned his neck to look at Zhou Mu behind him, asking with an especially innocent tone, ”Uh... that evildoer, did I say something wrong?”

”No.” Zhou Mu smiled and nodded, answering crisply and efficiently.

”...” The people around were silent.

What was this? Speaking such boasts as if no one else was around, did they ever consider the feelings and endurance of the audience?

Even Xia Ruyan lowered her head, deeply feeling that the descendants of the Phoenix Clan were a bit unreliable!

Although they appeared incredibly dashing, it was too offbeat!

”My dear, stop talking nonsense! Otherwise, we might really drown in a shower of spit soon!” Yuan Bao tugged at his partner’s sleeve, speaking hesitantly.

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng immediately glared over coldly, ”What? Can’t one speak the truth now?”

Damn it, she was just telling the truth, why make it seem like she did something outrageously overconfident?

She, Gu Changsheng, was a very realistic person, alright!

”Haha...” Huaheng Mantian finally snapped back to reality and immediately burst into severe ridicule, raised his hand pointing at Gu Changsheng, and mockingly said, ”Gu Changsheng, you’re not afraid the wind might twist your tongue, huh? Let alone these few men of yours, even if you brought all your Dark Night Army here today, you might not fare well!”

”Gu Changsheng, Red Sun City is nothing but a trap! Your troops left in Red Sun City are sitting ducks, with nothing but death awaiting! The Southern Border, far from the Central Plains, riddled with harsh mountains, wicked waters, and rampant Gu insects, is no place for a woman born and raised in the Central Plains to jump around. Today, I shall avenge my Huaheng Clan and take your life!”

Gu Changsheng looked at the finger waving not far in front of her, her face darkened, and she unhappily said, ”I hate it when people point at me!”

Heaven knows, she was telling the truth, she really hated people pointing at her!

In her heart, she considered it an insult!

”Your Huaheng Clan really thinks too highly of itself, using Red Sun City as bait, and its fifty thousand defending troops as bait, just to set up this clever plan...” Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but chuckle softly, and then she looked up sharply, ”Huaheng Mantian, your Huaheng Clan is so unkind and unjust, neglecting the lives of your soldiers, do they all know this?”

Disrupting the morale of the enemy’s troops was something Gu Changsheng was never afraid of!

Although she hadn’t played much with the tricks of palace scheming, she hadn’t eaten pork but at least had seen it walked, right?

Huaheng Mantian dared to bring up that Red Sun City was a trap, that was blatantly asking for trouble!

She was asking for her own destruction! This was definitely not because Gu Changsheng was being mean!

When Gu Changsheng’s words ended, the soldiers behind Huaheng Mantian looked at her differently!

Red Sun City, fifty thousand troops, a clever entrapping plan, bait...

What did these words mean when put together? Even if they weren’t very smart, they grasped the gist of it!

The Huaheng Clan they were loyal to had actually used fifty thousand soldiers of Red Sun City as bait...

Those were fifty thousand living lives!

The battle at Red Sun City, blood had dyed half the sky red, even though it had been a long time, the people of the Southern Border vaguely remembered, that evening’s sunset was unusually red...

To think, such a fierce battle to take the city was, from start to finish, a scheme by those above...

At that moment, the military hearts of Huaheng Mantian’s troops wavered!

Looking at her, their eyes filled with doubt and uncertainty, and a trace of chill...

Huaheng Mantian also realized her slip of the tongue and wanted to retract it, but Gu Changsheng did not give her the chance and brought the matter of the battle of Red Sun City into the open!

In an instant, Huaheng Mantian felt as if her brain had exploded!

Military morale, although invisible and intangible, even Huaheng Mantian, who did not lead troops, knew its importance!

Did she actually lose the military heart within a few exchanges with Gu Chang?

This... how did all this happen?

Huaheng Mantian looked blankly at the woman in front of her dressed red as blood, her brows tightly knitted, her eyes full of undisguised hatred, ”Gu Changsheng, you deliberately provoked me, just to make me slip up, right?”

Had it not been for Gu Changsheng’s boastful talk, how could Huaheng Mantian have let down her guard and brought up the matter of Red Sun City?

Everything was a calculation by the crafty woman before her eyes!

It must be so!

Accused suddenly, Gu Changsheng was obviously confused. He raised his hand, pointed at himself, and spoke with innocence, ”Me? Agitate you?”

What a joke!

How could she, so pure and harmless, do something like agitating someone?

It must be Huaheng Mantian judging her by the standards of a villain, misunderstanding her!

Gu Changsheng secretly nodded to himself, it had to be this way!

”Gu Changsheng, you bitch! It is you who confuse the crowd, aiming to disrupt our army’s morale! This is utterly condemnable!” Huaheng Mantian wanted to salvage the dispersing military morale and could only make accusations aggressively.

”Save your bullshit! I only spoke the truth, which part agitated you?” Gu Changsheng burst into anger upon hearing this; she hated misunderstandings the most!

Anyway, she really hated a lot of things, and whenever she encountered something she disliked, no one should blame her for yelling!

”What’s the matter, Huaheng Mantian, my words agitate you? Let me tell you, a clear conscience fears no ghostly knock at midnight. It was you who slipped up, and I kindly clarified it for you, and still, I am to blame?” Clad in a red dress trailing on the ground, Gu Changsheng furiously advanced toward Huaheng Mantian.

That momentum was indeed unstoppable.

Huaheng Mantian took a step back, compelled.

Gu Changsheng didn’t stop, treating the soldiers behind Huaheng Mantian as if they were air, taking another step closer so that her tender white finger nearly poked Huaheng Mantian’s forehead, visibly enraged!

”I’ll tell you the truth, and you still don’t believe it! What’s the matter? Do I, Gu Changsheng, seem like someone who talks recklessly? I’m so genuine and never speak irresponsibly!” Gu Changsheng pointed at Huaheng Mantian, satisfied to see her stagger backward then snorted coldly and withdrew her hand, speaking nonchalantly, ”Huaheng Mantian, have you ever heard of the saying ’fight fire with fire?’ Today, I’ll show you what ’fight fire with fire’ really means!”

As Gu Changsheng said this, ignoring the shocked Huaheng Mantian, she brought her hands to her mouth and sent out a dark, hoarse signal into the distance!

The signal was low but unmistakably carried far away.

Seeing this, both Huaheng Mantian and Xia Ruyan cursed quietly.

What did this mean?

Gu Changsheng’s sudden appearance during the battle indeed had the effect of a divine weapon descending from heaven, but since her appearance, she had been messing around, and no one could figure out what she really intended!

Now, everyone was even more confused!

Yet, even though they were completely perplexed, under the deterrence of Gu Changsheng and the purple-gold figure behind her, nobody dared to act rashly!

The duo, a man and a woman, looked overwhelmingly powerful!

Out of reverence for the powerful, they did not dare to take action, especially since they had not received any orders to engage, right?

Therefore, their aloof observation was the most rational response!

While both sides were unsure and hesitant about how to react, a rustling sound came from afar!

On the hillside outside the Northern Great Camp, a huge shadow rushed toward them at a flying speed.

Along the way, ancient trees thick enough to embrace were instantly overturned, and flowers and plants were crushed in swathes!

The thunderous sound, like thunder rolling across flat ground, cleaved through trees and grass, its approach fierce as a tiger’s!

”Snake! Snake!”

The soldiers, witnessing the colossal creature plunging down the hillside, couldn’t help but exclaim in awe.

”Cowards! As people of the Southern Border, are you even afraid of a snake?”

”But this is a Python! Who raised such a massive Gu insect?”

”It looks like it’s charging at us!”

”...”

Amidst the panic and exclamations, the Soul-Devouring Python had a clear target, cutting through brambles and bracken, completely ignoring the surrounding soldiers as it headed straight for its feeder!

”Ah, good little guy, still knows the way home.” Gu Changsheng watched the Soul-Devouring Python approaching with bright red eyes, raised her hand to pat it, then realizing it hadn’t appeared in the form of a Snake Bone Chain, withdrew her hand with a flicker of annoyance.

Well, she was still more accustomed to the Soul-Devouring Python as a Snake Bone Chain; she really didn’t care for the stickiness of the Soul-Devouring Python!

The feeder’s retracting hand action made the Soul-Devouring Python feel a bit hurt, its massive snake head drooping powerlessly, looking extremely pitiful.

But upon hearing Gu Changsheng’s words, everyone around was stunned.

Little guy? This massive creature over ten meters tall was a ’little guy’? Were Gu Changsheng’s measurement standards really okay?

Yet, even so, it couldn’t stop everyone from looking at the Soul-Devouring Python with admiration.

The Southern Border esteemed women primarily because most Gu handlers were women, and Gu was the emblem of the Southern Border!

”What’s the big deal? It’s just a Snake Gu, right?”