"First, cut the streaky pork into bite-sized pieces. Then, rinse them and add a spoonful of cooking wine. Soak them for an hour before draining them."
In Song Yifei's kitchen, two beautiful women in aprons were huddled together. It seemed like Song Yifei was teaching Liunian Ling how to cook.
"Add oil to the wok and fry the meat until it's slightly yellow. Add in the dried chili, grass fruits, star anise, ginger, soy sauce, and light soy sauce.
Then, add in boiling water and simmer in the clay pot for two hours. "
Song Yifei was very serious in his teaching, and so was Liunian Ling. As she watched the braised pork being simmered in the clay pot, Liunian Ling rubbed her hands and feet. She was ready to do her part.
At that moment, Song Yifei's personal terminal suddenly rang with an ear-piercing alarm … Actually, it was not just Song Yifei. At that moment, about half of the sword wielders in Yuzhang City who were above Sword Grade had their personal terminals ringing with alarms.
"Did something happen?"
Liunian Ling looked at Song Yifei who was listening to a message. There was no alarm on her personal terminal.
"…" Song Yifei was stunned and dropped the spatula in his hand.
"Nothing!"
Song Yifei took a deep breath and turned around to tell Liunian Ling, "Ling, it's finally Yuzhang City's turn to attack!"
…
At the same time, on the hoverbike, Guhan was speeding alone. Misaka Mikoto was not in Guhan's car … Misaka Mikoto's ability had reached an incredible level. She could use electromagnetism to form an anti-gravity magnetic field in her body, allowing her to float in the air like a hoverbike. At full speed, Misaka Mikoto's speed was a few times faster than the hoverbike. At that moment, Misaka Mikoto had already gone to Fort Yuyang to scout out the situation.
That's right. Guhan did not plan to follow Liunian Ling's decision to return to Yuzhang City through Fujian Province. They had decided to return to Yuzhang City through Fort Yuyang … That was the fastest option. If they took a detour through Fujian Province, they would have to waste an entire day.
Most importantly, the main purpose of the trip was to accompany Misaka Mikoto to rescue her friends. The last time Misaka Mikoto saw her friends was at Yueyang Fortress. Misaka Mikoto would not give up until she turned the entire fortress upside down.
Although Gu Han did not want to go to Fort Yue Yang as he wanted to return to Yuzhang City as soon as possible, Misaka Mikoto's opinion came first. Gu Han had no choice but to listen to her.
Since they were going to rescue their friends from Fort Yuyang, they had to investigate the situation at Fort Yuyang.
According to Misaka Mikoto's original plan, she did not want to do any scouting. Instead, she wanted to rush into Fort Yue Yang and beat Rocky up. After that, she would force him to release his friends. With Misaka Mikoto's strength as a Universe Level Guardian, even two or three Universe Level Guardians would be no match for her. She could easily take over Fort Yue Yang.
However, Guhan stopped Misaka Mikoto from doing that. Guhan's reason was simple.
If Rocky and Misaka Mikoto's friends were not in Fort Yuyang, they would be alerting the enemy!
Even if Misaka Mikoto conquered Fort Yuyang, it would be useless. On the contrary, it would alert Rocky and he would use Misaka Mikoto's friends to threaten Misaka Mikoto … If Guhan was Rocky, Guhan would do the same. Previously, he had used Misaka Mikoto to threaten her friends. Now, he was using her friends to threaten Misaka Mikoto. Things in this world were just that interesting.
That was why Guhan asked Misaka Mikoto to investigate Fort Yuyang without exposing herself. He wanted to find out if Rocky was in Fort Yuyang before coming up with a new battle plan.
"Oh!
She's back! "
Guhan heard a buzzing sound in his ears. Misaka Mikoto had returned after investigating for less than ten minutes. From her unfriendly expression, it seemed like she did not get a satisfactory result.
…
In the Central Conference Hall of the Swordbearers Service Center.
The Central Conference Hall was built like a large theater. Rows of seats were filled with sword-bearers who had rushed here after receiving the alert from their gadget. If you looked closely, you would realize that all of these sword-bearers were Artifact Grade sword-bearers. There wasn't even a single Ancient Grade sword-bearer.
There were no fixed seats in the Central Conference Hall. All the swordbearers found their preferred seats.
The seats from the third to the sixth row were the most popular. When Song Yifei and Liunian Ling arrived, the seats from the third to the sixth row were already filled with swordbearers. Song Yifei stuck out his tongue in annoyance. He then pulled Liunian Ling to get down from the seventh row.
However, when Song Yifei pulled hard, he realized that Liunian Ling was not moving at all.
"What's wrong?
Let's find a seat! "Song Yifei turned around and looked at Liunian Ling strangely. She could not understand why she was not moving.
"Why do we have to go up?" Liunian Ling frowned. "Why do we have to sit at the back?"
Fleeting Cold then pointed at the first row and said, "Yi-fei, the first row is empty. Why don't we sit in the first row?"
"…" Song Yifei's expression was very strange. She didn't know how to answer this question. For her, or for most people, it was a habit to automatically sit in the back row when they entered a classroom, conference room, or any other place with many people … Of course, they didn't really want to sit in the last row. For most people, the middle seat was the best seat … This was especially obvious on a university campus. Except for those strong students, no one would take the initiative to sit in the first two rows. After all, it was too inconvenient to read novels in class.
This had become a habit of the Chinese. Moderation was almost engraved in their bones. Even after a thousand years, this had not changed.
Therefore, when Liunian Ling suggested sitting in the first row, Song Yifei felt strange. She had never taken the initiative to sit in the first row before.
Although she was reluctant, Song Yifei could not say anything to refute Liunian Ling. This was because she did not want to lose to Liunian Ling. She did not want to lose to Liunian Ling when it came to choosing seats.
Therefore, Song Yifei turned around and took the initiative to sit in the first row with Liunian Ling. This caused a slight commotion. The other sword bearers were curious as to who had the guts to sit in the first row.
As time passed, more and more sword bearers took their seats, filling up the entire central meeting room. A rough estimate put the number of people at around five thousand. This was a huge number. One-sixth of the sword bearers in Yuzhang City were here.
However, what made Song Yifei feel strange was that even though she had paid special attention to Koo Rok-in's figure, Koo Rok-in did not appear until Ju Wudao appeared on the rostrum.
At such an important moment, this teenager, who would be embarrassed if he did not show up, did not appear.
"Chairman of the Yuzhang City Sword Bearers Committee Standing Meeting, Sword Immortal Ju Wudao is here!"
"Deputy Chairman of the Yuzhang City Sword Bearers Committee Standing Meeting, Sword Pavilion Master of Yuzhang City Heavenly Sword Immortal Liu Lei is here!"
"Standing member of the Yuzhang City Sword Bearers Committee Standing Meeting, Sword Spirit Chen Wen is here!"
"Standing member of the Yuzhang City Sword Bearers Committee Standing Meeting, Sword Spirit Mu Xue is here!"
"Standing member of the Yuzhang City Sword Bearers Committee Standing Meeting, Sword Spirit Li Yue is here!"
"…"
As the host on the stage read out the names of Ju Wudao, Liu Lei, and a large number of other spirit sword bearers, all the sword bearers stood up in unison and began to applaud and welcome the arrival of these high-level and powerful people of Yuzhang City … This was the first time Song Yifei had seen such a scene. She just stood up and applauded with everyone in a daze.
"Okay!
Okay! "Ju Wudao pressed his hand down, indicating that the applause was over. Only then did everyone stop.
"Play Yuzhang City's city song …" According to the usual routine, this kind of meeting with so many sword bearers would have to sing the city song. However, before the host could speak, he was stopped by Ju Wudao.
"Okay, you shut up. I'm not going to do these things today!" Ju Wudao said very sternly.
"Ah …" The host was a little confused. What was going on?
Wasn't it always like this?
If there was no need for these procedures, then what was the point of having him as a host?
"Just sit down and listen to me!"
Under Ju Wudao's order, the host could only reluctantly sit down on the stage. On the stage, there were only Ju Wudao, Liu Lei, and other spirit sword bearers sitting on the stage.
At this time, besides Ju Wudao and Liu Lei, the two immortal sword bearers, there were 12 spirit sword bearers sitting on the stage. There were a total of 23 spirit sword bearers in the entire Yuzhang City, which was equivalent to half of the high-level power of Yuzhang City gathered here.
What was going on?
Why were there so many sword bearers gathered here?
Could it be that the Yuan Xing is about to attack us?
All the sword bearers who participated in the meeting were confused, but they had a vague feeling that some of them might not have the chance to come to this meeting room again.