Gaoxi Ravine.
Peaks towered like screens, and a hundred streams surged through the valleys.
Atop the jagged, rugged cliffs, silver crystal clusters occasionally bloomed silently like flowers.
Beautiful and enticing.
Under normal circumstances, lizardmen skilled in jumping and climbing would have joyfully discovered them, carefully dug them up by the roots, and placed them in cages. But now, they grew there in silence, neglected, left to wither and die within their extremely brief maturation period.
Supported by two bamboo poles, a large banner fluttered in the wind. Below it, a bustling crowd surged, creating an extraordinarily lively scene.
Countless slogans, large and small, crowded behind. The scale was massive; viewed from above, it resembled a grayish-brown dragon winding forward. It was a grand and imposing sight, with a crowd of at least several thousand people.
At the very front of the procession were several lizardmen clad in mourning clothes, their faces filled with gloom. They walked with heavy steps, their eyes dull and their expressions doleful, looking as though they had lost their souls.
Splitting her focus to control them, Xian Xiao'ai quietly rubbed her temples when no one was looking, cursing under her breath.
“Tsk, this new lord is a real coward.”
“Grandma came up with such a ruthless plan, burning down his house and administrative office, yet he doesn't even dare to fart.”
“Where did this spineless coward come from...”
Xian Xiao'ai grumbled.
A few days ago, she had seen a spaceship land early on, but after several protests, they hadn't seen the lord at all, nor had they received any response. It was as if the other party was completely ignoring them.
The protest march continued to advance slowly. To maintain morale, Xian Xiao'ai turned around and, walking backward, shouted loudly.
“Grandpas, grandmas, uncles, aunts! Fellow neighbors, we cannot just watch our kin die tragic deaths! We must unite, we must resist, and we must fight on!”
“My family died under the lord's tyrannical oppression. I am heartbroken, and I am deeply grieved, so I don't want anyone else to experience this feeling!”
“In this protest, we must stand united and persist to the end! We will completely occupy the massive granaries where the lord has stockpiled food by exploiting us!”
Xian Xiao'ai had the appearance of a young lizard girl—slender and wearing tattered clothes, making her look incredibly pitiful.
Her words and appearance naturally evoked widespread sympathy, and the crowd quickly chimed in.
“Well said! That's right!”
“Even a child understands this so clearly, how can we back down!”
The atmosphere was successfully stirred up, and everyone became filled with righteous indignation.
While Xian Xiao'ai's eyes were misty with tears on the surface, she sneered inwardly.
A strand of strange, dark gold energy swirled around her fingertips. Then, she gently flicked it toward the crowd.
This was the 【Trickery】 Origin Grandma had given her. Even apprentices couldn't resist it, let alone these ants.
Empowered by the energy, everyone became as though injected with chicken blood, their fighting spirit soaring as they quickened their pace toward the granary.
“Charge! For our home!”
“For justice!”
The granary tower loomed directly ahead.
Xian Xiao'ai kept her pace, her mind racing.
Ever since the lord arrived, all the supplies consumed by his personnel had to be drawn from the granary. As long as they destroyed the granary tower and disrupted the airport's normal transport with their protests, the lord's faction wouldn't be able to hold out for even a month. When that time came, someone would have to come out to negotiate.
Xian Xiao'ai's thoughts grew increasingly sinister.
“I don't believe you'll still refuse to show your face even after this.”
“Don't ruin Grandma's grand plans!”
“What Tiannan Star lord?”
“We lizard-dragonkin are descendants of the Dragon Clan, noble beyond measure. Returning to join our kin and sharing in their glory has always been the only proper path.”
The procession officially arrived in front of the granary tower.
To Xian Xiao'ai's surprise, the guards at the granary tower were still the same old doorkeepers as before. Not a single defensive measure had been added.
They occupied the place almost effortlessly.
Xian Xiao'ai was somewhat speechless.
“And here I thought you were planning something. I even went through the trouble of buffing the protesters, but you're literally just hiding in your shell...”
Laughing at her own over-cautiousness, Xian Xiao'ai shook her head and was the first to step into the granary.
Then, she heard cries of pleasant surprise.
“Guns! So many guns! Everyone, come grab them! They look brand new!”
Xian Xiao'ai was startled.
While taking weapons to increase their strength was certainly a good thing, for some reason, an uneasy feeling crept into her heart.
“Not just guns, there are cannons too! Magic crystal cannons! I knew this new lord had bad intentions. His silent treatment was just to lull us into a false sense of security, just like the previous lord! But don't worry, everyone, these are all ours now!”
“Don't just stand there, keep moving inside! There are rocket launchers too!”
Looking at the mountain of weapons piled up in the warehouse, the protesters couldn't help but gulp.
Xian Xiao'ai's expression froze. The unease in her heart grew even stronger.
...
Not far away, a stealth drone transmitted a large amount of footage back.
This included, but was not limited to, the crowd ecstatic over distributing the weapons and trying to fire the rocket launchers...
Bai Xiaodu watched all of this coldly.
No, to be more precise, it was Bai Xiaodu's black-robed clone, Bai Xiaojing.
“Cultivating a body like a crane, reading two scrolls of scripture beneath a thousand pines.”
When handling such matters, as the lord, Bai Xiaodu naturally couldn't bear any infamy. He only needed to stand behind the scenes.
He had temporarily assumed the role of head coach, heading toward High City with Lott and the newly trained crowd.
The replacement of the granary's contents was, of course, ordered by Bai Xiaodu himself.
If they raided a granary, it could be argued they were just hungry, law-abiding citizens. But once they raided an armory and took guns and cannons, they became outright rebels.
After transmitting all the video footage back to the academy, Bai Xiaodu clapped his hands with a smile.
Beside him, Lott, wearing a tactical helmet, stepped forward with an excited expression.
“We can't let this go on, Commander Jing!”
“To dare to raid the armory, they are utterly lawless!”
“These are no longer ordinary citizens; we must strike hard!”
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