RPAGF Chapter 7266 Cancer
Chapter 7266 Cancer
Chapter 7266 Cancer
In official history, Hua Xin was not a good person, but Liao Li was not a decent person either. However, that is only in official history. Human growth and morality are greatly related to the environment in which they live. Because of the impact of the Yangtze River flood more than ten years ago, Liao Li may not have really improved much in terms of morality, but at least he knows that he must be careful with his words and deeds.
Over the years, Chen Xi has listened to Liao Li's words and observed his actions, and has come to believe that Liao Li is an excellent and morally upright bureaucrat who knows what he is doing and strives to do it well.
As for Hua Xin, the reason why Chen Xi disliked Hua Xin so much was not because of the story of Guan Ning severing ties, or trivial matters such as embezzlement and bribery, but because Hua Xin had once proposed a very outrageous thing to Chen Xi, namely the so-called cloud tax.
Supermodel Cloud Qi, as everyone knows, is the most basic of all secret arts, but it can definitely be the foundation of a great power. However, neither the Han Dynasty nor Rome has developed such a useful thing.
Well, to be precise, only the Han Dynasty really didn't do it. Given the current situation in Rome, it's highly likely that they've already started secretly doing it. However, since it's done secretly, it means that there must be something shady about it. Therefore, when Hua Xin suggested to Chen Xi two years ago that they implement a cloud tax, for the first time, murderous intent towards a certain person appeared in Chen Xi's usually calm eyes.
Hua Xin is a great Confucian scholar, and one of the best. He is quite capable and knowledgeable about many things. But how could he dare to propose such an absurd thing as a cloud tax when he knows everything?
For Chen Xi, it didn't matter what it meant anymore; he just wanted to die.
However, at this moment, Liao Li actually remembered this thing too. He actually came over in the early morning hoping that Chen Xi would use Jingxiang as a pilot project to draw on the supermodel cloud energy. With cloud energy hundreds of times greater than that of Yunmeng, the demon god could be directly suppressed. Then, relying on the one-way enhancement brought by the high cloud energy difference, beings like Lu Bu and Guan Yu could receive the full enhancement of their combat power, thus achieving a quick victory.
Of course, considering that there are a few elites with self-awareness among the demon gods, even with such a large difference in the aura, the Han army will still be suppressed to a certain extent after truly entering the demon gods' battle line, thanks to the demon gods' exaggerated basic qualities and the guidance of these self-aware demon gods.
Overall, the supermodel cloud can easily overwhelm the demon god with its scale and quantity, which is clearly a simple and effective solution.
"I want to know, who told you about Supermodel Cloud?" Chen Xi asked seriously. To be honest, if she didn't know that Liao Li was acting out of public interest, Chen Xi would have already blacklisted Liao Li as well. Liao Li's efforts in governing Jingxiang for more than ten years still have a place in Chen Xi's heart.
“I’ve always known about this stuff, and I even had a vague idea of its side effects, but compared to the potential accidents, I think these side effects are acceptable.” Liao Li shook his head and said, “The existence of a polluting demon god is practically a natural disaster for ordinary people. If one escapes, far too many ordinary people will die afterward!”
"I see. Then you can leave now. I'm going back to sleep." Chen Xi waved his hand, looked Liao Li up and down to make sure that the other party was acting in his own mind and not being led by someone. "Supermodel cloud energy is absolutely not allowed in the Han Dynasty. The limit I can accept is the kind of cloud energy storage warehouse that the Kushan Empire has, which releases supermodel cloud energy in a short period of time, not the kind you are talking about."
"The latter takes too much time and lasts too short; it often needs to be stored for several months before it can be used once," Liao Li said, shaking his head.
"He Yuan, send Governor Liao out." Chen Xi glanced at Liao Li, too lazy to explain to him. The Han Dynasty currently has several very serious problems that are bound to explode in the future. These are the basic strength enhancement brought by crops made from the essence of heaven and earth, the guarantee of a woman's spiritual talent in her first child, the impact of the Brahman system on Han aristocratic families, and the most serious cloud tax.
The effects of crops made from the essence of heaven and earth are not yet very obvious at this stage. After all, even the sons of Lu Bu and Zhao Yun cannot eat them every day, nor can the children of Chen Xi's family. Most of the time, they still have to rely on the freebies from the Cookie family to have them at every meal. However, this is indeed something that can create a significant difference in their foundation.
Chen Xi estimated that after he retired, Zhuge Liang would be able to barely keep things under control, but in the future, the main recipients of this stuff would become powerful families and officials at all levels. It would be unrealistic for ordinary people to be able to get it just by joining the army, as they do now.
However, in Chen Xi's view, this thing was just so-so. Because of the base number, even if this thing could increase the success rate by two or three times, it was still just so-so. Smelting was destined to be on the battlefield, to fight on the front line, to condense one's own beliefs and will, and to master one's own elite talent.
Given this premise, even with crops imbued with the essence of heaven and earth, the actual change in probability wouldn't be significant. As for achieving the separation of internal energy from the body with such a thing, well, the chances are slim. It's already a matter of about one in a million, so even if it doubled, it wouldn't make much difference.
So Chen Xi just let it go; it wasn't a big deal.
As for the idea that women with spiritual talents are guaranteed a minimum number of children in their first pregnancy, in reality, its impact is less than the previous one. When any such thing is scarce, recorded in single digits, even if it remains stable in single digits in every era, it doesn't really have much impact on the overall situation.
Because the country is so large, you'll never encounter a single-digit exception, so it won't have any impact. After all, such single-digit exceptions have existed since ancient times. People won't occupy your resources, or there were two separate paths from the beginning.
If we're talking about something that really had an impact, it was probably the existence of Brahmins. But once the Han Dynasty won, Brahmins became irrelevant. The victors might absorb the strengths of the losers, but they would never accept them entirely.
Therefore, the truly fatal point is actually the Cloud Tax. From the moment the Supermodel Cloud appeared and Chen Xi realized its true nature, he knew that it was a poison pill, just like the Corpse Offering, a poison pill created by the Kushan Empire and forcibly fed to the whole world.
The essence of cloud energy is the combination of human beings' own qi and blood essence and their free will with the external essence of heaven and earth, which then gives it the ability to suppress superhuman beings. In essence, this thing exists to protect human beings themselves.
With this understanding, when you look at the supermodel cloud, you should understand that the supermodel cloud is a cloud produced by the combination of blood and qi that exceeds the level of human self-dispersion, more self-will and more heaven and earth essence. The reason it is called supermodel cloud is simply because the scale and quantity of cloud produced under this condition are far greater than the normal level.
The supermodel aura of the Kushen Clan can be supermodel-like to a degree that is ten times the normal level. This is why some elderly and frail individuals died before the Kushen Clan could construct its second supermodel aura. This is because excessive consumption of vital energy, blood, essence, and willpower can be fatal.
Perhaps the Kushans didn't intend to kill people with the drug. Chen Xi even believed that when Vasudeva I and Zhuhelai did this, they must have presented very righteous reasons and clearly stated that this level of drug extraction was reasonable and affordable for the people; otherwise, Oswin would never have approved it.
What is reasonable for normal people may not be so for some people with underlying medical conditions.
So, during that round of supermodel cloud formation, people died in Kushan. This is why Oswin has been reluctant to allow Kushan to activate supermodel cloud ever since, since it is indeed very dangerous.
Is it useful? No, it's not. Cloud energy is very important. Although it is a spontaneously generated, self-protecting, and suppressive force, without Han Xin's optimization, it only has this most basic expression. But even so, it is still a resource, a very important universal energy.
This is very important!
This is also what makes the Supermodel Cloud technique so attractive that even Chen Xi couldn't help but pay special attention to it. However, what he learned in the end made him keep his distance from the Supermodel Cloud.
This thing could uproot human civilization!
Even after Chen Xi kills the Kushans, he can write down the exact structure of the supermodel cloud in the history books so that future generations can see it and understand why Chen Xi wanted to exterminate the Brahmins!
Because this thing is too ruthless. How ruthless? So ruthless that if the upper echelons truly have no conscience, combined with their ability to keep the people ignorant, it's enough to ensure that ordinary people can never rise above their circumstances.
Just look at the neighboring Fusang, the divine land. The essence of the divine land is to extract the essence and spirit of the people of Fusang and then form so-called gods. However, the degree of extraction is not high and does not reach the level of supermodel clouds. Yet, even so, the average height of adult men in Fusang in this era is only 1.3 meters.
Even this is only because Fusang Divine Land is extracting resources naturally in the least harmful way. If it were extracted artificially, or even explicitly called a cloud tax, frankly, they might never be able to recover. That's why Chen Xi clearly stated that anyone who mentions supermodel cloud energy will die!
Chen Xi was speaking privately at the moment, but once the Kushan Empire was destroyed, he would immediately inform everyone of the details of the Supermodel Cloud, so that everyone would be aware of its dangers. Even so, because of the Supermodel Cloud's usefulness, the Han Dynasty's high-ranking officials might still take that step.
However, as long as it cannot continuously extract resources like Japan and maintain this level of prosperity, the sudden rise will lead to the question of whether kings and nobles are born with special privileges. And if a dynasty dies because of this, its successors will inevitably guard against it with utmost vigilance.
After all, the first thing a new dynasty needs to do is to block the path to its own dynasty. So, since the previous dynasty died from the super-model cloud and the imposition of cloud tax, the new dynasty will definitely guard against the cloud tax. In this way, the death of a member of the Han dynasty can at least prevent this poison pill that is worse than the sacrificial ceremony of the dead.
So Chen Xi would refuse to let anyone mention this thing to him, because there are some precedents that cannot be set, especially not by Liu Bei and Chen Xi. If these two dared to use this supermodel cloud that draws on the essence of all people, it would be a miracle if others didn't follow suit and it didn't become a common practice.
After all, with the former taking the lead, there's no need to worry about the latter shifting the blame. If King Jin and Marquis Chen did this, what can we do? We can just continue from the past and make what we had to do become the norm. If King Jin and Marquis Chen could do it out of necessity, then we will only have more to do. Can you compare to King Jin and Marquis Chen?
This was a dead end, so Chen Xi directly refused.
After carrying Liao Li out, Chen Xi wasn't sleepy at all. After all, she had just accomplished such a big task, so why bother sleeping? She had to keep working.
"He Yuan, bring me the mission book. Let me see how many are left." Chen Xi adjusted his mindset and called out to He Yuan outside. In the past few days, He Yuan had already repaired his newly reattached arm. As the saying goes, the margin for error when breaking the limits of willpower is high!
He Yuan quickly brought over the backup task book. Chen Xi took it and flipped through it, then felt his head hurt even more. A few days ago there were only 470 or so, but after several days of processing, the number of scattered wandering demons had actually increased to more than 500.
“We’ve cleared out more than sixty sites in the past few days, and seven people have been injured. The most serious one is Yang Si, whose right arm has been crippled again.” He Yuan said with a hint of helplessness, “The fighting power of the demon gods is indeed terrifying, especially after Yunmeng was buried for hundreds of years. The characteristics of some demon gods are really hard to understand.”
"Continue the cleanup, treat all the wounded, and count them as merits," Chen Xi said calmly, then sent He Yuan away. As before, after reading the mission book, Chen Xi could understand why Liao Li had come to give him this suggestion. To be honest, more than ten thousand demon gods were still too difficult to deal with.
Unlike other intelligent beings, most of the Binshi Demon Gods have no intelligence, or even a sense of self. The reason they can form clouds is entirely due to their unimaginable qualities. Simply put, in terms of basic qualities, the Sevenfold Refinement can reach the lower limit of internal energy leaving the body. The Binshi Demon Gods in Yunmeng can form clouds because of their excessively high quality. Despite their extremely poor organizational ability, they have formed a level of cloud quality far exceeding that of normal elites.
This is also why Zhou Yu felt the suppression when he was still hundreds of miles away from the main force of the Demon God. Although the Demon God lacks organizational ability, its strength has increased. Just in terms of the intensity of the cloud suppression, it is no weaker than the first support of the same scale.
After all, the top soldiers of the First Auxiliary Force, in terms of stats alone, are actually about the same as the grunts among this batch of Yunmeng Demon Gods.
Do you even understand what it means to be an elite force capable of wreaking havoc on the world? This is it!
Therefore, even dealing with just a few hundred remaining wandering demon gods was quite difficult for the Han Dynasty. Of course, it was difficult because not a single veteran had died, which showed that the Han Dynasty was handling the situation very cautiously, probing and maneuvering within a safe range. This also indicated that the situation was still under the Han Dynasty's control. However, with just a little thought, this scale of over ten thousand...
To be honest, it's understandable that Liao Li had this idea. In Liao Li's view, the elite troops that Chen Xi had mobilized were completely insufficient to fight. Even with the fully armored Imperial Guards, they couldn't withstand the bombardment of this thing. So it's more realistic to directly create a super-model cloud aura, combining the cloud aura of millions of people in Jingxiang to create a cloud aura difference. This would allow superhumans like Lu Bu and Guan Yu to rely on their own cloud aura advantage to unleash combat power close to or even fully breaking through the boundary level under the cloud aura.
To be honest, in a real war, a difference in cloud formations of this scale is impossible to occur unless the enemy is defeated and our side is capturing prisoners. Otherwise, it is simply impossible for our own skilled fighters at the Inner Qi Separation level or above to be able to exert their full combat power under the cloud formations.
But since this is the local area, the number of demon gods is limited, and there has been no Han Xin era or hundreds of years of optimization. Although natural clouds have been formed, they have also shown super strong cloud suppression power due to their own qualities. However, if Liao Li really forcibly extracts the essence and spirit of the people of Jingxiang to form super cloud clouds and gathers them in the Jiangling area, it will still be no problem to crush the demon gods.
But this is something that can't be done. At the very least, as long as Chen Xi is alive, he has an obligation to suppress the birth of this hellish world!
"Liao Li is getting anxious. It seems that Tao Tong and Zhang Wen said something to Liao Li, making him wary," Chen Xi muttered to himself. After all, the battlefield is in Jiangling. If they lose, others can run away, but what chance do the people of Jiangling have?
"It seems we need to think of a way. The idea of cloud energy difference is one, but should we draw cloud energy from all places?" Chen Xi recalled the road network he had built and how he mobilized cloud energy to gather in Jiangling. In addition to drawing blood, the creation of supermodel cloud energy could also be accumulated slowly. Over the years, the Han Dynasty had accumulated a lot of cloud energy and even built so-called cloud energy reserve warehouses. However, to be honest, mobilizing it to Jiangling is already the third step in the plan.
"It seems I need to discuss this with my second brother to see if we should use the original plan or go straight to Plan Three. To be honest, if we use Plan Three, the Kushan Empire will definitely be on guard. The fact that Yunmeng was able to come out was due to the Kushan Empire's interference, and they must be watching us closely now." Chen Xi had a headache. To be honest, he had a backup plan, but it was better not to use it if possible!
"Lord Chen, there's an urgent report from the Ganges." Just as Chen Xi was pondering, Wu Yu spoke from outside the door, carrying a confidential document.
"Urgent report from the Ganges? Or is it for me?" Chen Xi was stunned for a moment. He had Wu Yu hand him the secret document. After opening it, he saw that it was a secret report sent by Xun Qi, who had finally escaped from Motuluo and returned to the safe zone of Qu Nu City. After quickly glancing through it, Chen Xi's expression became extremely solemn. Damn it, what does it mean that Oswin can command 600,000? Yu Jin is probably doomed!
I can't get up, I really can't get up, it's hopeless.