Viking 026

  Human behavior is often manipulated by the seven emotions and six desires, to a large extent influenced by the body's endocrine system, as long as one is human, it is inevitable.

  I'm sure men can fully understand the meaning of "lust in the brain". Indeed, at times, strong physical desire overcomes rational thinking, which is a very common thing.

  If compared with humans, deities also possess emotions, but these emotions no matter how strong will not affect their thinking and judgment.

  Let's take a more extreme example, even if a loved one is brutally murdered in front of you, the temple is destroyed, believers are slaughtered, and the doctrine is publicly insulted. Even if you are infuriated to the point of no return, the deity will not change its predetermined course of action because of this. If they choose to retaliate, it will be a well-thought-out decision, not a blind reaction driven by temporary anger. In short, no matter how much turmoil love, hate, and resentment stir up, the deity's mind remains unmoved. This state may also be called the "apathy of the sage".

  The Art of War says: A ruler should not mobilize the army in anger. If a human king cannot do so, how can a god?

  Carrying on the excellent traditions of many predecessors, Lin Xu is now watching with his eyes open as the pirates of a different race plunder and kill. Although he is very angry in his heart, the burning anger will not affect Lin Xu's thinking process for making decisions at all.

  "Zhang Xin obeyed the order and hastily deployed troops to come and surround them."

  Lin Xu gave orders to Zhang Xin after thinking clearly about the relationship between success and failure, benefits and harm. Deputy General Ma immediately stepped forward and said:

  "Yes, I will obey your orders."

  About five minutes later, with the giant horn leading the army forward, the desolate and long voice suddenly sounded on the coast, and the dark soldiers who were faintly visible in the air rushed towards the Vikings.

  "Honk! Honk——"

  The sound of the horn shook the eardrums, making them almost deaf, and the ground beneath their feet felt the drums beating, shaking the earth. If such a grand scene were to appear before ordinary people, they would be frightened to death without even needing to fight. However, the Vikings lived up to their reputation for being fearless of death. These strong northern nations, who grew up in harsh lands and were half-merchants and half-thieves, deeply believed that only warriors who shed blood on the battlefield could gain divine protection and ascend to the heavenly palace of Valhalla after death. Those cowards who died in bed would only be sent to the underworld after death. It was precisely because of this that even if their opponents were not human, it did not affect their strong fighting spirit.

  As the two armies were about to engage in close combat, the Runes on the various weapons held by the Vikings, which seemed like decorative patterns, flashed with colorful light, adding lethality to these steel-made weapons against non-human targets.

  The Vikings had a courage that viewed death as a homecoming, but their opponents were even more so in this regard.

  Most of the dark troops that participated in the war had very limited intelligence, mainly reflected in how to learn efficient killing methods. They didn't understand what fear was, so this battle was twice as bloody and cruel as a normal war.

  Blood and flesh flew everywhere, livers and brains splattered the ground. Of course, these raw materials were all Viking, their opponents had long since lost their physical bodies, even if they were annihilated, they would only return to nothingness, leaving no trace in the world.

  As the number of living Vikings dwindled, Lin Xu grew increasingly anxious. The undead warriors returned from death, their intelligence long since surpassed that of the living. Killing was easy for them, but capturing their opponents alive was too difficult a task. If these undead warriors truly possessed such far-sighted and meticulous thinking abilities, they would have long since ceased to be mere cannon fodder soldiers and at least risen to the rank of officers.

  Lin Xue knew that under such circumstances, the hidden soldiers were basically hopeless, so he had to take matters into his own hands. Immediately, Lin Xue observed a Viking warrior with the most luxurious equipment on the battlefield for a long time, motionless and silent like a crocodile ambushing its prey. Seeing an opportunity, he suddenly burst out and launched a surprise attack.

  "Hunyuan Yiqi Daqin Na!"

  This large black hand, born from a mixture of sand and divine power, grasped the sturdy body of the Viking warrior, then pressed him firmly to the ground. Under such immense pressure, no matter how hard the Viking warrior struggled with all his might, his body couldn't budge an inch.

  Gently landing on the ground, Lin Xu raised his hand and pointed at this captured Viking, shouting:

  "Tell me, where did you come from?"

  The Viking warrior subdued by Lin Xu's divine technique had no intention of cooperating, he continued to struggle with all his might, trying to break free from the control of this big hand, but all efforts were in vain. After struggling for a while, he was exhausted and could only stare at Lin Xu with a pair of green eyes, shouting loudly.

  “×&……％￥#@￥…@@…&×&”

  Don't ask, Lin Xuan didn't understand a single word the captive said, but he burst out laughing at this moment, leaned in close to the Viking and said:

  "Don't pretend to be stupid, I'm communicating with you through spirit. Do you think you can fool me by talking nonsense?"

  At the sound, a hint of fear flashed in the eyes of this Viking warrior. Perhaps death is not to be feared, but how many people can really be fearless when facing an entirely unknown fate and a powerful and mysterious enemy?

  "Oh, oak tree with axe in hand! Expecting the arrival of the sea's stallion, friends follow me on the path of the whale! Let us go to Valhalla together..."

  After a brief moment of silence, the heavily wounded captive, realizing he had no chance of escape, loudly recited Viking poetry, ignoring his own blood-soaked body and numerous injuries, as well as Lin Xuan's increasingly ugly deathly pale face waiting for an answer from him.

  At this scene, Lin Xu could only shake his head helplessly. It seemed that death was just a destination for the Vikings, and these guys were indeed the most stubborn prisoners under heaven. Just as Lin Xu hadn't thought of a better way to pry open this hard-mouthed prisoner's mouth, the prisoner's pale face, which had turned white due to excessive blood loss, had already taken on an eerie flush, as if he had just downed a bottle of strong liquor. The red gemstone pendant hanging from his neck emitted a dim and bright light, like a giant beast slowly breathing.

  Seeing this, Lin Xu stood up in surprise and immediately realized something. He opened his arms wide and shouted:

  "Everybody, disperse quickly!"

  "Boom——"

  Before Lin Xu's words fell, a deafening roar accompanied by a fiery red flame pillar rose, and the massive fireball that shot up to the sky easily engulfed nearly a hundred square meters of beach.

  Under the scorching flames that were comparable to the sun, the unimaginable high temperature directly melted the sand and rocks on the ground, quickly turning into a semi-liquid lava lake. As for the living captive who had just been captured by Lin Xu, he was of course burned to nothing but ashes in such an intense explosion.

  "Bad luck! Retreat... wait a minute!"

  The remaining flames from the passionate suicide of that gentleman are still burning on the beach, Lin Xu was about to announce a retreat when he suddenly stopped the action.

  An ordinary person's eyes can't see the faint white shadow that flashes by at low altitude, its movement as light and agile as a gliding albatross. Fortunately, Di Zhi has an innate yin-yang eye, so those beings that walk between life and death can't escape his gaze. This passive ability, which doesn't need to be deliberately maintained, makes up for Lin Xu's lack of experience, otherwise he might have missed this inconspicuous detail unintentionally.

  At this time, in Lin Xu's field of vision, the vengeful spirit of the Viking warrior who had just self-destructed and died was crawling up from the ground with a painful expression.

  That white shadow that came from who-knows-where silently circled around the yin soul a few times, then suddenly opened its mouth and swallowed it into its belly.

  At the moment when the strange white shadow swallowed up the yin soul, its originally vague shape that could only be seen in size also became clear. Lin Xu took advantage of this to see its true face. It was a humanoid female with a curvaceous and beautiful body, plus a pair of pure white wings like a swan on her back. If not for her unchanged eyes and icy expression that didn't seem human, just looking at this beautiful appearance would make it almost indistinguishable from the beautiful angels in Western legends.

  Kneeling down to think, Lin Xu also knew what he should do. He immediately used all his strength, aimed the palm of his hand at the white shadow, and shouted loudly:

  "Yin and Yang Twin Instruments Capture Hand!"

  Lin Xu Cheng succeeded the divine position of Huo Shan Shen, which was a coincidence. People like him who became gods halfway were the most troublesome. They didn't understand much and their starting point for cultivation was too low, with a huge gap between them and those powerful local deities, a chasm that couldn't be bridged by human effort in just a few years.

  Most of the abilities Lin Xu currently possesses are derived from the basic functions attached to his divine position, and their power is questionable. However, the consumption of divine energy is extremely high. Especially for a type of unconventional technique that includes grappling hands, the consumption of divine energy is even greater. Even if Lin Xu is no longer worried about incense offerings at this stage, he would still feel very painful to squander it so recklessly!

  The key now is the white shadow that appears on the battlefield, suspected by Lin Xu to be a Valkyrie or an angel. It undoubtedly sparked Lin Xu's great interest in research, and he chose to ignore the excessive loss and try again, attempting to capture the target in one go.

  "Chirp, chirp——"

  Under a series of pleasant chirping sounds, a big grey hand stretched out and scratched fiercely in mid-air.

  At the same time, a swift and agile white shadow moved slowly through the gap between the fingers of the big hand, and then transformed into a long light shadow flying rapidly towards the north with lightning speed.

  Although he had already displayed the strongest control skills he had learned in his life, Lin Xu was now stunned, holding the few white feathers that were as clean as snow and crystal clear. After a while, when he came back to himself, he found a small amount of silver light flashing at the base of one of the feathers. When he leaned in to smell it, there was a faint scent of flowers, but Lin Xu's nose was not as sensitive as that of a professional perfume appraiser, and he couldn't tell what kind of flower it was.

  With full confidence, the result was only a few feathers, Lin Xu had no strength to mock today's successive losses. Gazing at the beach battlefield where corpses were scattered all over, Lin Xu finally sighed helplessly and announced the cleanup of the battlefield, withdrawing the entire army back to the mountain.