Chapter 264: Chapter 251: Do You Want Books Hidden in Fish Bellies, Wild Foxes Howling in the Night, or Signs from Heaven? (Please Subscribe)
Amidst the haze, Ryder had a most peculiar dream where he saw himself transford into soone else, a poor laborer in a vast empire, conscripted and sent off to guard the borders at Fishery…
“Wake up, wake up quickly!”
An urgent voice reached his ears, and Ryder groggily opened his eyes to see a man with a shaggy beard in front of him.
Wu Guang…
The na suddenly surfaced in Ryder’s mind; this man was his good brother, soone trustworthy.
The two were temporarily promoted to fort captains because of their outstanding abilities, assisting the officers of the Great Qin in escorting nine hundred laborers to the borders at Fishery.
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And his own na seed to be Chen Sheng.
Ryder looked confused. In fact, he was completely unfamiliar with these two nas, but the him in the dream had long since forgotten everything that ca before.
Ryder hesitated for a while, not snapping back to reality until the other man repeatedly called his na. He looked outside at the dim sky and the pouring rain and asked with confusion,
“What’s wrong, Big Brother Wu? Are we setting out again before dawn?”
“No, I just received so very bad news,” Wu Guang said with a sigh. “Due to the continuous rain in recent days, the road ahead has been blocked by falling rocks and mudflow, and even taking a detour, it’s not enough to make it to Fishery within this month.”
“Alas, Qin laws have always been harsh. If we exceed the deadline and fail to reach the border, by law we shall be beheaded! I’m afraid you and I, brothers, will have to say goodbye to our lives and fortunes.”
At this news, Ryder was startled. He knew nothing of so-called Qin laws and hadn’t even fully figured out why he was there, with only so vague mories in his mind.
But he felt a natural closeness to the man in front of him; his good brother wouldn’t deceive him!
This ant they were going to die soon!
Fear of death imdiately surged in Ryder’s heart, but even more so, he felt helpless.
“Listen to , my good brother. Since we’re going to die sooner or later, we might as well go all in and rebel against them!” Wu Guang spoke with fervent passion.
“The Qin has excessively levied corvée and waged wars year after year, forcing us poor people to suffer indescribably. Now the Founding Dragon [Qin Shi Huang] is dead, and the Second Emperor has succeeded him. His cruelty surpasses his predecessor, and he’s even conspiring to kill Prince Fusu, the rightful heir. Who in the world can accept this?”
“If we take up arms now, we’ll surely have overwhelming support and can establish great achievents!”
“For the sake of the people of the world, for the lives of our brothers, for your and my glory and wealth, let’s take a stand and do it today!” Wu Guang said, patting Ryder vigorously and speaking with great excitent.
Though Ryder hardly understood, his blood was boiling, and he grasped one clear point—if he was going to die either way, he might as well fight back!
However, his enthusiasm only lasted a mont. As a sincerely honest child, Ryder dared to stand up against the foreman in a mont of passion, but he had no experience at all in rebelling and could only weakly seek Wu Guang’s advice.
“But, what should we do?”
“Don’t worry, I already have everything arranged!” said Wu Guang, full of confidence, and handed him a roll of white silk. “Tomorrow, when you go out fishing, find a way to stuff it into the belly of a fish…”
Ryder carefully accepted the white silk and saw that it was written in a red ink as bright as fresh blood—Great Chu shall rise, King Chen Sheng!
Ryder was completely stunned; wasn’t his na supposed to be Chen Sheng?
This this this… Isn’t this a bit too much?
Otherwise, do you want to try?
However, Wu Guang didn’t give Ryder a chance to decline, and imdiately ca up with a brilliant strategy called “Books Hidden in a Fish’s Belly”!
The honest Ryder had never imagined that a rebellion could be conducted in such a way; wasn’t this just tricking people?
“Rember, if you want to save them, don’t regard those laborers as too smart, and never tell them the truth!” Wu Guang reminded him.
The next day, following orders, Ryder who had stuffed the white silk into the fish’s belly, soon witnessed his good brother’s performance once again.
With “Books Hidden in a Fish’s Belly” before and “The Wild Fox’s Night Howls” afterward, Ryder managed to bamboozle the crowd of laborers, and he keenly noticed a change in the way they looked at him compared to before.
The mont had quietly arrived. Taking advantage of an officer in the escort team getting drunk, Wu Guang began his acting career, first deliberately claiming in front of the officer that he was going to escape, provoking the officer’s anger, which led to public humiliation and flogging, igniting the rage of the people.
Then, joining forces with Ryder, he killed two accompanying officers with a seized sword and gathered everyone together to give an inspirational speech.
Phrases like “The laws of Qin are harsh, missing the deadline ans execution!”, “To perish today is to die, to plot a grand sche is also to die, to wait for death is to die with the nation, can that be right?”, “Strike down the unjust, condemn the tyrant Qin!”…
Reid stood dazed on the platform. Although he was the main character among the main characters, Chen Sheng as proclaid by Wu Guang, he was like a puppet being manipulated.
In a daze, his soul seed to be drifting away from his body. Reid saw himself standing on the stage, raising his hand high, and issuing an exhilarating roar from his mouth.
“Do princes and generals have so special birthright?”
In an instant, the response was like a mountain echoing with the roar of the sea, resounding through heaven and earth… The laborers below, one by one, raised their torches and cheered in unison.
“Great Chu rises, King Chen Sheng!”
In the midst of this thunderous shouting, Ryder awoke from his sleep, sweating profusely.
The familiar, dreary mine tunnel was still in front of him, and all the mories he had lost before ca flooding back into his mind.
Was it a dream?
Ryder thought this way, but everything he had experienced was so real, almost indistinguishable from reality. He could even rember every detail of the dream clearly.
For a mont, Ryder couldn’t tell whether he was truly the imperial camp commander Chen Sheng or Ryder…
He didn’t know what it ant by “Zhuang Zhou Dreams of Butterfly,” but at this mont, he had a similar feeling!
Suddenly, Ryder felt sothing unusual in his hand. He looked down and discovered that at so point, a delicately styled ring had appeared on the index finger of his right hand.
He had never seen sothing so exquisitely made. The face of the ring bore extrely mysterious patterns and was emitting a faint glow.
A devil’s creation?
Ryder imdiately thought of this, as the Church had always been propagating that within the Kingdom of Hadalata, there existed a group of Believers of the Evil God and devils.
They possessed extrely bizarre witchcraft and were capable of accomplishing many unbelievable feats. If anyone saw objects inscribed with strange rune patterns, those were undoubtedly traps set by the devil’s Believers.
Just touching them would bring misfortune, or even contaminate the soul, dragging a person to hell!
With this thought, Ryder quickly took off the ring, intending to throw it away, but rembering everything he experienced in the dream made him hesitate again…
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