Elder brother's garrison

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"...This kid seems to like me quite a bit," the young admiral muttered. "What's his name?"

“…She is a girl.” Cui Niang lowered her head, looking at the child in the young admiral’s arms with tender and loving eyes. “Her name is Jinghua.”

"Oh, oh, oh, a girl, a girl!" The young admiral's face flushed. "We've been playing together since we were little, and this is the first time I've ever held your child."

"..." Cui Niang's face darkened, and she nodded silently, "Mm..."

"..." The young admiral looked down at Cui Niang, his gaze sweeping over the somewhat dilapidated and run-down state of her home. "Well... I mean..."

"Um……?"

"You really like me, kid."

"……Yes."

"I've been a bachelor my whole life... well, I was thinking..." the young admiral muttered softly, "...how about..."

"Ok?"

Cui Niang looked up at the young admiral with a puzzled expression.

Her beautiful eyes were filled with a pure and innocent gaze.

Two or three strands of fine black hair clung to his temples, which were slightly damp with sweat.

A strange feeling of dryness and thirst rose up within me.

The young admiral immediately felt a surge of shame.

"Uh! I have to get to work in the fields!" The young admiral hurriedly took the baby back into Cui Niang's arms and then ran out the door as if his life depended on it.

He ran to the door with a thud, and the young admiral leaned against the door and glanced back into the room.

Cui Niang was holding the baby, her head bowed, looking at the child in her arms with the gentleness of a young mother.

"..." The young admiral gritted his teeth, "Cui Niang!!"

"Huh?" Cui Niang looked up.

“I…I also like children!! I think you’re especially good!” the young admiral shouted to Cui Niang.

"..." Cui Niang stared blankly at the young admiral, who was holding a baby, her face full of astonishment.

It's been a long time.

The baby, back in Cui Niang's arms, suddenly started crying again.

"Pfft." Cui Niang covered her mouth and laughed. "You silly A Niu, what are you talking about..."

"Hehe...hehe." The young admiral scratched his head, swallowed hard, and retreated outside the door.

"A-Niu!" Just then, Cui Niang's voice rang out from inside the door.

"Huh? What's wrong?" The young admiral turned around and looked into the room.

Inside the door, Cui Niang held her child. She looked at A Niu outside the door with a bitter smile full of self-consciousness and embarrassment.

"You...you really don't...dislike me...?"

"...No way! How could I possibly dislike him! I'll...I'll beat him up!" The young admiral quickly reached out and patted his muscular chest.

Cui Niang stood stunned for a moment.

Then, through tears, she broke into a touching smile.

"...Thank you, thank you..."

"Hehe, well, I'll come find you again after I finish work today! No, I'll come find you all again!" The young admiral smiled憨憨地 at Cui Niang and the baby in her arms, and left the door.

The young admiral was in high spirits and ran very fast.

The streets were peaceful and quiet.

Several children chased each other in the street, while a large windmill spun and swayed in the wind.

An old man pushing a snack cart was squatting by the roadside smoking.

"Grandpa! Grandpa!" The young admiral saw the old man, immediately raised his arm, and ran over laughing. "I'm going to find Cui Niang! Please listen to me, I'm here today—"

Right now.

The peaceful street seemed to have been paused, coming to an instant.

Time seemed to stand still at that moment.

then.

The surrounding scenery changed like a television channel switching, transforming into a scene of raging fire and scorching heat.

Time flows again.

Screams and howls.

Instantly, the air filled the space around the man who was laughing and waving his arms in front of him.

The man swallowed back what he was about to say and stared blankly at his surroundings.

The streets were already engulfed in flames.

The surrounding buildings collapsed completely.

A torrential downpour of fiery rain fell from the sky.

In the distance, there were terrifying screams, like those of ghosts.

The streets were filled with people running and screaming.

far away.

A snack stand that had overturned was smashed to pieces by a shell.

Amidst countless fragments, a leg stretched out, its head held high.

"Ya ya ya ya ya"

"There's a deep-sea amphibious ship! There's a deep-sea amphibious ship—"

"Run!"

Screams and cries of fear rose and fell (II) Umbrella Thinking of Leek Seven Umbrella IV.

The young admiral stood frozen in place, staring blankly at the street in front of him for a long time.

"Ah! Cui Niang!!" The young admiral turned around frantically and ran back the way he came, shouting, "Cui Niang! Cui Niang! Cui Niang!"

Running against the flow of people, Cui Niang's home came into view.

The gate of Cui Niang's house was wide open.

The young admiral jumped into the room.

The room was filled with the cries of babies.

"Cui-niang—"

The young admiral shouted and searched, finally finding a woman with faint breaths under a collapsed beam in the room.

The woman's body was slammed into the ground by the roof beam. She was still holding the baby she was tightly protecting in her arms, barely breathing.

"Cui Niang! Cui Niang!!!" The young admiral looked at the woman lying under the roof beam in disbelief. He ran to Cui Niang like a madman, knelt on the ground, and frantically tried to move the roof beam.

It seemed to have sensed the young admiral's actions.

Cui Niang, who had kept her eyes closed for a long time, opened them shakily and looked at the young admiral.

"Cui Niang! Just hold on a little longer, I'll move the roof beam right away, I'll be right there..."

The young admiral looked at the woman with surprise and immediately worked even harder to move the roof beams.

The next moment.

A cold, delicate hand trembled as it touched the man's face.

"Ah...you...you're back..." Cui Niang smiled at the man, her face pale, trying her best to support herself, "You're back..."

"I'm back! I'm back!"

"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..." Cui Niang's hand fell to the ground, grasping the man's hand, and she began to cry, "I'm so sorry... Waaah... I'm so sorry..."

"It's alright, I'll save you, I'll save you, whether it's you or Jinghua, I'll save you!" The young admiral lifted the roof beam like a madman, as if he had squeezed out all his potential and actually gained infinite power, lifting the entire roof beam.

"Look! Cui Niang, I've lifted it up! I've lifted it up! I've lifted it up..."

bang

The house eventually succumbed to the flames and collapsed.

A huge hole was exposed in the roof.

A deep-sea amphibious warship was perched on the roof, its massive cannons extended, staring with scarlet eyes at the two adults inside the room.

The gun barrel was lowered.

Aim at the room.

Boom! ! !

The excruciating pain of blood and flesh splattering and bones being crushed, accompanied by the furious roar of a human male as if he were risking his life, echoed in the endless darkness.

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Boom! ! !

The young admiral was thrown back to the ground from between Lu Yun's hands.

Soaked to the skin.

His face was filled with shock.

He looked up, staring blankly at what lay before him.

Before the young admiral lay the ruins of the village that had just been burned down.

The ground was covered in black ash.

Very quiet.

Lu Yun looked down at him just like before.

Indifferent as before.

Chapter 1377 Old Friend

Everything seemed to have returned to how it all started.

The streets ablaze with fire, the screams of panicked people fleeing like schools of fish—all of it vanished.

All that remained around the young admiral was the ruins of a village and a path covered with thick layers of black ash.

It felt like everything that had just happened was a fleeting dream.

In that dream, I became a different person, with different relationships, and did things that were completely different from my real-life self—it was all just a dream like a movie that I could watch from the sidelines.

It should have been a dream.

The young admiral stared blankly at Lu Yun in front of him. He stared blankly at Lu Yun's face, and for some reason, he felt his eyes burning, and hot tears kept streaming down his face. Even his chest was in pain as if it were being torn apart.

Resentment, despair, confusion, hatred, and other emotions were like razor blades hanging over his heart, the tangible pain almost making it hard for the young admiral to breathe.

too painful.

So desperate.

So...sad.

The young admiral opened his mouth, gritted his teeth, and let out a low growl.

The young admiral covered his head, struggling to shake off the strange emotions swirling in his mind.

"What...what are those things?!"

"What did you show me?!"

"What did you do?!"

The young admiral struggled and fell to the ground, clutching his head and asking Lu Yun in confusion.

“I already told you, but you still don’t understand, you don’t understand at all.” Lu Yun slowly squatted down in front of the young admiral, looking into the young admiral’s confused eyes, “You have been living in your own fantasy from beginning to end.”