Chapter 46 The Situation
When Chen Mo woke up again, it was around noon the next day.
From the movements he subconsciously touched his waist as soon as he woke up, it can be seen that Dong Zhuo gave him a very strong pressure. For Chen Mo, Dong Zhuoshi's powerlessness on the opposite side was far beyond the scene of Sun Jianshi on the opposite side.
After all, Sun Jian is a very orthodox warrior. He follows the so-called martial ethics of the warriors and will not play with his opponents wantonly. Even if he has killed Chen Mo once, Chen Mo still respects him very much. Sun Jian, that is an opponent worthy of respect!
Compared with Sun Jian, Dong Zhuo's behavior seemed extremely bad, with a eccentric and violent temperament, and liked to play with his opponents. He repeatedly gave Chen Mo hope in yesterday's assassination, but he ruthlessly destroyed that hope and used it to make fun. Chen Mo had never encountered such a warrior.
However, it was precisely because of Dong Zhuo's appearance that Chen Mo realized that he was still too weak. Chen Mo, the assassin of the Yingchuan Yellow Turban, met those real warriors, was like the scene when he faced the Sanhe Cavalry.
There is no room for fighting back!
"Xiao Mo!" With a soft call, a soft body pounced on Chen Mo's arms and cried softly.
It's Tang Xiner.
"...I'm really scared when I see you covered in blood..."
Listening to her intermittent crying, Chen Mo couldn't help but feel a little apology in his heart, because he had never seen her cry so sadly before.
"Aren't I doing well?" Rourou hugged her in her arms, and Chen Mo gently patted her back and comforted her. It was not until he experienced the moment of life and death yesterday that Chen Mo truly realized that he had completely fallen in love with the gentle and well-educated woman in front of him, because at that moment of death, what appeared in Chen Mo's mind was the little things about him and Tang Xiner.
"Yes!" Tang Xiner nodded obediently, quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and then lowered her voice and said quietly, "Is the one who brought Xiao Mo back yesterday your acquaintance?"
"Bring it back? Who?" Chen Mo realized that he had actually returned to Tang Xiner's bedroom. He remembered that before he lost consciousness yesterday, he was not lying in Dong Zhuo's residence in the Western Garden of the Palace?
"It's the general holding a long halberd. Yesterday he carried Xiao Mo back with blood all over his back. I was really scared at that time..." Speaking of this, Tang Xiner patted her chest with lingering fear, then seemed to have thought of something, and said, "Oh, by the way, he hasn't left yet. After bringing Xiao Mo back yesterday, she has been sitting in the front hall of the hall and drinking alone, and asked me to tell Xiao Mo to wake up and go out to see him."
"..." Recalling the scenes yesterday, a figure of a person suddenly appeared in Chen Mo's mind.
Lu Bu!
In the future, Wen Hou and Lu Bu!
He saved himself?
Chen Mo felt very confused.
Seeing that Chen Mo had gotten out of bed, Tang Xiner took the washed armor and handed it to Chen Mo to help him dress neatly. It was not until she took care of everything that she breathed a sigh of relief. This relaxation caused the fatigue of not sleeping all night.
After all, she was taking care of Chen Mo thoroughly.
Looking at Tang Xiner, who showed deep affection in her eyes, Chen Mo felt very guilty for some reason.
"You have a rest first, I'll go out to see him..."
"Yeah!" Tang Xiner nodded obediently. She was extremely intelligent and gradually realized that perhaps the general who was drinking alone in the hall was not an acquaintance of the man she admired, but she did not ask much.
Let Tang Xiner rest on the couch and cover her with a quilt. Chen Mo took a deep breath and walked towards the front hall.
Sure enough, when Chen suddenly came to the front hall, Lu Bu was sitting in the hall drinking in front of the desk, looking at the table full of wine pots, it was obvious that this guy had been drinking almost from night until now.
Lu Bu is worthy of being Lu Bu. The moment Chen Mo appeared, he noticed something. He glanced at Chen Mo from the corner of his eyes, silently drank the wine in his hand, then put it down, and said lightly, "It was several hours earlier than what Lu expected. It seems that Lu did not see the wrong person!"
"You saved me?" Chen Mo walked over with a puzzled look on his face.
"Sit!" Lu Bu raised his hand and pointed to the other side of the case, as if he had seen through Chen Mo's thoughts, and smiled faintly, "Are you trying to ask, why did Lu save you?"
"Yes!" Chen Mo nodded.
"The reason why Lu saved you is because you have the value of being saved by Lu!" As he said, Lu Bu picked up the wine pot and poured a glass for himself and Chen Mo, and said lightly, "Lu is not a saint and gentleman. If you save you, you will naturally use your place. Remember, you owe Lu a life!" As he said, he looked at Chen Mo up and down and asked, "How is the injury? Is it healed?"
After hearing this, Chen Mo moved his arms, nodded and said, "It's nothing serious!" That's what he said, but he himself was very confused. After all, he was tortured by Dong Zhuo last night.
It seemed to see the surprise in Chen Mo's eyes. Lu Bu picked up the wine cup and drank it all, and said lightly, "This is one of the reasons why Lu Bu saved you. Dong Zhuo's blood has the effect of healing the wound quickly, but not everyone can absorb his few drops of demon blood. Although ordinary people drink it, they will lose their minds and go crazy, becoming a wild beast that only knows how to kill, no longer has any human nature. Yesterday, Dong Zhuo poured his blood to you to continue having fun. Unexpectedly, you will awaken your fate after drinking it..."
"Fate?"
"Well, fate is also the natal monster. Everyone in the world can have their own natal, but not everyone can stimulate it. The reason why Dong Zhuo is so powerful is simply that his Nine Infant's fate is too strong. As long as someone fails to find out where his nine vital life gates are located, he will never be killed..."
"No matter how you can't kill it? What if your head is cut off?" Chen Mo asked curiously.
Lu Bu opened his mouth, looked at Chen Mo in surprise, and said mockingly, "No one can survive after his head is cut off, so is Dong Zhuo. If he really stood so stupidly and asked you to cut off his head, why should Lu save you?"
Chen Mo was speechless, coughed awkwardly, and asked hesitantly, "Have you not even found his last vital point?"
"Well!" Lu Bu sighed slightly and frowned and said, "For the past few months, I have been monitoring him every day, and occasionally taking advantage of the opportunity to test, but... Didn't you try it last night?"
Chen Mo nodded silently. When he recalled yesterday's scene, he almost stabbed Dong Zhuo's body with flesh, but Dong Zhuo was obviously nothing unusual.
After thinking about it, Chen Mo asked curiously, "Do you want to kill him? Is it to avenge the governor Ding?"
A few complicated expressions appeared in Lu Bu's eyes, and he flashed away, and then he sneered, "Ding Jianyang will die because he is stupid. He doesn't know how to do what he can. I will avenge him? Don't say such ridiculous words! The reason why I wanted to kill Dong Zhuo was just to try my skills, Lu Fengxian, just like Dong Zhuo would take me as his adopted son, all of which was to challenge his own skills! Dong Zhuo knew very well that I was looking for opportunities day and night to kill him, but he had no intention of stopping me, because he wanted to borrow me to become stronger. Ordinary life would erase the will of a warrior. Only in crisis can the warrior become stronger... I have inquired about your deeds. You are the Yingchuan Yellow Turbans who have experienced the Battle of Changshe? Then you won't understand this principle."
Chen Mo remained silent. Although it was not his original intention, as Lu Bu said, from the Battle of Changshe to the assassination of Dong Zhuo now, he had experienced countless dangers. In addition to his astonishing anger, his killing skills alone were much more skillful than before.
Lu Bu drank a cup of wine silently and said in a deep voice, "But it is very difficult to kill Dong Zhuo. Maybe it was life and death for you last night, but for Dong Zhuo, it was just fun. The people of Xiliang have been unruly since ancient times, but why did they obey Dong Zhuo's advice? Because Dong Zhuo is so strong, it is incredible!"
"Better than you?"
"..." Lu Bu's expression stuttered slightly, nodded with a somewhat reluctant look, and said in a deep voice, "At least I can't escape unsuccessfully, so I need a helper, and you are the helper I like!"
"Me?" Chen Mo looked surprised.
"I know what you want to say. You are indeed very weak now, so weak that Mr. Lu is so disdainful of warriors like you on weekdays, but your fate and ability are very rare!"
"Fate? Mine?"
"Well, the ferocious beast [Greedy Wolf], also known as Tianlang, is an extremely fierce type even among ferocious beasts. It is as fierce as a tiger, as cruel as a sheep, as greedy as a wolf. The ancients once named Xingsi, which is responsible for the blessings and life and death. As long as you practice diligently, you will have something to do in the future!" As he said, Lu Bu paused, turned his head and looked at Chen Mo, and said in a deep voice, "From today, I will teach you martial arts. When you have eight points of Lu's ability, it will be when Dong Zhuo gives his order..."
When Chen Mo heard Lu Bu teach his martial arts personally, he was obviously stunned. It wasn't that that was bad. After all, what kind of person is Lu Bu? Besides, even though Chen Mo originally did not want to kill, it does not mean that he did not want to become stronger. Whether for Tang Xiner or for himself, he urgently hoped that he could become stronger. In this way, at least he would not feel the powerlessness and despair that last night.
But then again...
"I will help you kill Dong Zhuo?" Chen Mo looked surprised.
"Why? Are you afraid?" Lu Bu was obviously wrong, and looked at Chen Mo contemptuously and said mockingly, "A ordinary man has despair after seeing Dong Zhuo's power. Lu can understand that you, who is destined to be a greedy wolf, dare not face Dong Zhuo again?"
"That's not," Chen Mo shook his head and said in surprise, "I just feel strange. Didn't you say you wanted to kill Dong Zhuo in order to challenge your own ability? If I help you, that's not..."
Lu Bu never expected that Chen Mo was thinking about this problem. He opened his mouth and was speechless. After a moment of silence, he glared at Chen Mo fiercely, stood up, and shouted in a low voice, "Shut up, come out with me!"
Looking at Lu Bu turning to the outside of the hall, Chen Mo suddenly realized in his heart that perhaps the reason why this Wen Hou wanted to kill Dong Zhuo in the future was not for the weapon of that warrior.
Chen Mo followed Lu Bu to the outside of the hall, but saw Lu Bu walking into the garden in the garden, turned around and looked at Chen Mo, suddenly clenched his fist with his right hand and hit a big rock next to the rockery. The fist seemed to be neither light nor heavy, but unexpectedly, the big rock was covered with cracks after being hit by Lu Bu's fist, and it broke the ground with a thud.
"【Broken Rock】!" Chen Mo was obviously the basic move of this warrior.
"Very good!" Lu Bu nodded with satisfaction, then punched another big stone. With the same technique, the big stone exploded and turned into stone chips all over the sky.
Looking at the stone chips as thin as rice flour, Chen Mo was shocked and murmured, "[Bengjin]!"
"Yes, although it looks similar, these are indeed two different tricks, and the use of power is very different. Broken rock is a rigid force, and the force is from the outside to the inside, while Broken rock is actually a soft force, and the force is from the inside to the outside, so [Beng Jin] has the effect of restraining [Rigid Body], which is something Broken rock does not have."
Chen Mo nodded suddenly and realized. Although he had heard Sun Jian mention these things before, Sun Jian would not say that Lu Bu thoroughly. After all, the two were enemies at that time. It was only out of martial ethics that Sun Jian would simply explain these tricks to Chen Mo who did not understand martial arts at all.
Later, Lu Bu introduced Chen Mo to [Rigid Body] and [Iron Cutting], because these two moves are the moves that martial artists pay the most attention to and are used in a particularly wide range.
[Rigid Body] The rigidity means that it is not violated. A powerful warrior can not only block the enemy's weapons, but also move forward and retreat freely in the rain of arrows.
[Iron Cutting] does not mean that one can cut off steel. This iron simply refers to all hard objects. In other words, no matter what you can cut off, this is the essence of this trick.
In addition to these two, Lu Bu emphasized the explanation [Fuwu].
Attached to martial arts means fighting spirit and martial arts, injecting evil spirits into the weapon, making the weapon more sharp. Simply put, to effectively use iron cutting, you must master the battle spirit and martial arts.
I remember Sun Jian once said that even a piece of scrap iron is a supreme magic weapon in his hands, and this is the reason.
Therefore, using iron cutting on the basis of fighting qi attached to martial arts is also one of the methods that can restrain the rigid body. Although the effect is obviously not as good as the collapsed force, it is the most commonly used method for warriors in the world.
After all, Bengjin needs to inject his own energy into the opponent's body. This condition is particularly harsh on the battlefield, because no one will be so stupid to get you close.
So the Colonel is more used in hand-to-hand combat when the weapon is lost, and it is very time.
In the following days, Lu Bu taught Chen Mo's halberd technique again, which was exactly what Chen Mo lacked, because Mozi's sword technique can only be used in one-on-one battles, and the Mozi sword technique that implements the idea of "being good at defending" and "non-attack" is obviously not very suitable, especially when killing people on the battlefield.
What? Go to the battlefield to kill people?
Yes, you read that right. After all, Dong Zhuo would not raise an assassin like Chen Mo for no reason. Just like he tolerating Lu Bu, he also hopes to use Lu Bu's power to help him solve other things, such as fighting and killing enemies!
In other words, Chen Mo can only make Dong Zhuo feel that he is valuable as much as possible, so that he and Tang Xiner can stay in the palace safely. Otherwise, if Chen Mo is still so weak, even if Dong Zhuo does not kill him, Lu Bu might have abandoned him, because all Lu Bu needs is a strong man who can kill Dong Zhuo with him!
Fortunately, perhaps Chen Mo's qualifications and talents are indeed materials for martial arts, or Lu Bu's teachings, so that Chen Mo's progress is very rapid. It can be seen that when he saw Lu Bu and Chen Mo appear at the same time, even Dong Zhuo's eyes occasionally showed a little uneasiness. As the saying goes, raising a tiger is a disaster, and the consequences of tolerating a tiger are already visible. Tolerating two tigers... Not to mention anything else, at least Dong Zhuo is unparalleled in terms of ability, because he is confident that he can shock these two tigers!
In the blink of an eye, it was October of the first year of Chuping. Chen Mo was still the guard of Lu Bu, often traveling and leaving Dong Zhuo in front of and behind, always peeking at Dong Zhuo's every move, thus finding his last key point.
Although he was living under someone's roof and walking on thin ice, Chen Mo's current situation was obviously much safer than when he was hiding in Tang Xiner's bedroom. At least he could enter and exit the palace freely.
Of course, Tang Xiner can't do it. Although Dong Zhuo gave many palace maids, everyone understands that it is mostly a kind of surveillance, because both Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu know that Tang Xiner is Chen Mo's life gate.
But no matter what, the two of them are safe for the time being. During this period, Chen Mo also informed Zhang Susu about his own situation. After all, he still had a feeling of being unable to let go of Zhang Susu.
I thought this unstable and stable life would last for a while, but unexpectedly, Cao Cao, who fled Luoyang, openly issued a manifesto in Chenliu with the support of his father Cao Song, the Cao family and the Xiahou family, inviting the governors of all over the world to boycott Dong Zhuo's control of the government.
As soon as this manifesto was released, Yuan Shao, the prefect of Bohai, responded first, leading 30,000 troops away from Bohai to Chenliu to meet with Cao Cao. Then, Yuan Shu, the prefect of Nanyang, Liu Dai, the prefect of Yanzhou, Yuan Yi, and the prefect of Shanyang, Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, responded to Cao Cao's call. To be honest, those who responded to Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were all relatives and friends of him. Dong Zhuo did not care at first, but one after another, representatives of respected scholars such as Xuzhou, Tao Qian, the governor of Jizhou, Han Fu, and Kong Rong, the prefect of Beihai, also did not stand up with Dong Zhuo and openly responded to Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, which made Dong Zhuo realize that something was wrong.
Within half a month, all the princes of the world led their troops to Luoyang. After a rough calculation, they were no less than 200,000. Obviously, a fierce battle was inevitable...
Chapter completed!