Liu Bei: My younger brother is a deity.

Chapter 87 Holographic Projection

In the darkness of night, a strange bird silently rose into the sky, with a faint light flickering above its head.

Immediately afterwards, a very faint curtain of light descended from the night sky, as thin as a cicada's wing and as light as smoke, blending into the darkness and becoming extremely difficult to see with the naked eye.

That was a holographic projector that Liu Quan had removed from the escape pod. It was originally intended for entertainment, but now he was using it as a secret weapon.

On the south gate of Liucheng, several Xianbei soldiers were chatting idly by the crenellations.

A young Xianbei soldier yawned, casually leaned his spear against the wall, and took a swig of mare's milk wine from the leather pouch at his waist.

Another, older man, half-squatted behind the battlements, squinting as he glanced at the dark wilderness outside the city.

There was nothing there.

He then lowered his head again and continued to shave a section of human bone with the knife.

It was a bone taken from the leg of a Han Chinese man who was going to use it to make a bone flute for his youngest son.

The night wind blew in from the grassland, carrying the coolness of autumn.

A fog seemed to rise over the open fields outside the city.

Several Xianbei soldiers were puzzled. Why was it foggy at this time?

But I didn't think much of it.

The fog grew thicker and thicker, descending from the sky in wisps and strands, slowly spreading towards Liucheng.

The first to notice something was wrong was the old Xianbei soldier on the city wall who was shaving bones.

As he was slicing, the knife in his hand suddenly stopped.

I felt a little uneasy.

He stood up, squinted, and looked towards the darkness outside the city.

"Why did the fog rise so quickly?"

"Wait, what's this fog? Why is it so shiny?"

"Wait, what's that?"

His eyes widened, as if he could see something moving deep in the fog in the darkness.

It's blurry, but it looks like a human figure?

He rubbed his eyes, and when he looked again, the figure was gone.

"My eyes are playing tricks on me," he muttered, about to bend down and continue whittling the bone in his hand.

I think I caught something out of the corner of my eye.

He looked up again, gazing into the depths of the fog, his pupils suddenly contracting.

One after another, dark figures seemed to appear out of thin air, densely packed and arranged in a scattered line, pressing towards Liucheng.

"Enemy attack!"

The Xianbei veteran roared mournfully.

The companions around him stopped chatting and looked into the darkness.

Within that thin mist, which resembled a ribbon of light, more and more dark figures emerged, stretching into the depths of darkness.

Woo~woo~woo~

The bugle sounded.

The Xianbei soldiers searching for Zhao Bao's family in the city were taken aback at first, looked in the direction from which the bugle sounded, and then burst into even louder shouts.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"Don't panic, don't panic."

"Send another team to the north to prevent a surprise attack."

"Archers, archers!"

"Are they our reinforcements?" Zhao's mother felt she had guessed something.

Liu Bei winked at A Quan, knowing it must have been A Quan's doing.

More and more Xianbei soldiers rushed up the city wall, their footsteps clattering and the clanging of metal echoing.

More and more torches were lit, and the light from the city walls merged into one, illuminating a vast expanse of yellowish-brown wilderness outside the city.

The dense, dark shadows were still approaching.

Unhurriedly, step by step, one step at a time.

They did not become anxious or flustered at all because the enemy noticed them.

"Archers, prepare!" a Xianbei general shouted, drawing his sword.

Dozens of bows were drawn, arrows pointing into the darkness.

The shadowy figure was getting closer.

The thin mist had unknowingly brightened a little more.

The Xianbei people finally saw what those figures looked like.

They let out gasps of surprise.

"What is that?"

"Demons! Those are demons!"

"Heavens above, what is this?"

That's not human at all.

They have human-like shapes, but are much taller than humans.

His body was disproportionately thick, and his shoulders were like two huge rocks.

His arms were as thick as tree trunks, and when they hung down, they almost touched his knees.

The skin was an unhealthy grayish-white, with a corpse-like sheen in dim light.

Some monsters even ride mounts.

Those mounts weren't cattle or horses; they were more like enlarged wild boars, with short, thick limbs, a raised back, and tusks curved like blades.

As the distance continues to close.

Some sharp-eyed Xianbei soldiers had already spotted the monster's face.

This only exacerbated their fear.

These monsters had faces that were completely unlike human faces. Their eyes were sunken, like holes, their noses were pressed tightly against their faces, and their mouths were wide open with the corners of their mouths curving downwards, making them look both painful and ferocious.

Some of the monsters had crisscrossing scars on their faces, as if they had been repeatedly cut by a blade or bitten by something.

Some of the monsters had horns on their heads, crooked and twisted, like withered tree roots emerging from their temples.

The monsters had no armor; their bodies were covered in tattered leather, revealing large patches of grayish-white skin and bulging muscles.

Their weapons were even more terrifying: they were thick, long bones from some unknown creature, studded with countless iron nails.

The Xianbei soldiers on the city wall were trembling, trembling uncontrollably.

The sound of teeth chattering was almost continuous.

The monsters stopped less than a hundred paces from the city wall.

They then began to assemble the team.

Immediately afterwards, a group of monsters emerged from the rear of the formation, dragging a huge war chariot.

A giant monster, over three meters tall, stood atop the chariot, holding a massive staff-like object made of human skulls.

"Leader, leader, monster leader!" someone on the city wall blurted out.

The monster leader raised his skull staff, pointed it forward, and then spoke in an unintelligible language.

Immediately afterwards, the monster army roared in unison, a deafening roar that could be heard even in the city.

Zhao's mother, wife, and daughter were all startled.

Zhao's mother was secretly astonished, "What is that sound making that noise?!"

Liu Bei looked at Liu Quan.

Liu Quan smiled.

On the city wall, a young Xianbei soldier vomited due to extreme tension.

"Hold on! Hold on!" The Xianbei general's voice trembled. "It must be fake, it must be fake."

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge drumbeat came from the darkness.

The monsters' ranks moved closer to the city walls once more.

"Fire arrows! Fire arrows!" the Xianbei general roared.

Whoosh whoosh~

Arrows were shot out one after another.

Then something even more shocking happened.

The arrows struck the monsters, whose bodies seemed to contort as the arrows passed through them.

"What?!"

The Xianbei general leaned against the wall, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

"Keep firing! Keep firing!" he shouted.

The arrows were fired in increasingly dense bursts, but the result was no different from before.

"They can't be killed, they can't be killed!"

A panicked cry rang out.

On the city wall, soldiers began to retreat.

"Stop! No retreating!"

The Xianbei general drew his sword, pointing the tip at the nearest retreating soldier.

But his own hands were trembling, his body was shaking, and his eyes were filled with fear.

He swung his sword at the fleeing soldier, the blade striking the man's shoulder, splattering blood all over his face.

The man screamed and fell to his knees, but more people had already begun running towards the foot of the city wall.

It's not that they weren't brave enough.

The Xianbei soldiers who came to the border region for revenge were all elite troops who had fought against the Han army under Tan Shihuai.

But this situation is...too unusual!!!