The Empress’s Gigolo

In the headquarters, an old man stood at the window and watched the blaze in the distance. His facial expressions changed endlessly as that radiance shone upon his face.

A series of brief and hurried voices were transmitted from the walkie-talkie on his desk.

“Commander, it’s the Goodman Richard. We’re in trouble.” There was another man who stood behind him whose face turned pale as he looked in the same direction as the old man.

Putting aside the deaths of hundreds of soldiers, an assault group comprised of three aircraft carriers was conducting training exercises nearby. The flagship of the Seventh Fleet, an amphibious assault ship with a 40 ton draft (TLC. A ship’s draft is the distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull and should be in meters instead of tons. In using tons, maybe the author is talking about the ship’s displacement? However, in that case it should be around 40,000 tons instead of 40 tons for an amphibious assault ship according to Google), had actually been blown up.

This incident would definitely stir up a sensation.

Besides, there weren’t even any explanations for the cause of this situation. Could they possibly say that it was single-handedly caused by one person in the base? Before even considering the possibility of that, if this piece of news got out, would anyone even believe it?

How would the outside world view the Seventh Fleet?

“Look, that’s the Seventh Fleet that had everything turned on its head by a single person. Not only were thousands of soldiers unable to catch a single person, he even blew up their flagship!”

The aftermath of this incident made him shiver in his thoughts.

To salvage this situation, the best option was to find two scapegoats.

Plus, due to such a major incident, the scapegoats also had to be high ranking. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be able to appease the anger of the citizens.

At present, he wasn’t in the mood to worry about the old man in front of him and had started to worry about himself.

To conclude this incident, the old man would have to accept responsibility and resign. However, the other man’s outcome would definitely be far worse.

“There were a few scum in the military who felt resentful after getting punished by their superior. As a result, they colluded with terrorists and bombed the ammunition dump of the Goodman Richard as well as that warehouse,” the old man said slowly.

The other man was stunned momentarily and had to collect himself again. Collusion between military personnel and the outside world. If the story were to be crafted like this, the people would probably buy it.

He probed and asked, “Who are these scum?”

“Find a few Asian people among the dead,” the old man said.

“Understood.” The other man immediately nodded. Their Asian members seldom interacted with the others and problems didn’t arise very often. Furthermore, since the scapegoats were Asian, they could also probably push the blame on that huge country.

The other things didn’t matter anymore. All they needed now was to provide a convincing explanation for the people that would make them buy the story.

As for how the family members of the deceased would react, that didn’t matter anymore.

…

Ren Baqian paddled with one hand, grabbed his clothes with the other, and stealthily swam to the shore in the dark.

His position was already very far away from where he first was—over 20 kilometers away. He was very close to the Japanese armed forces.

Getting to where he assumed the headquarters were would take at least 20 kilometers. No ordinary person would still be able to fight after running 20 kilometers.

The enemy didn’t expect him to run so far away either. As such, the security here was much more relaxed compared to other areas.

However, Ren Baqian was fast and strong enough that it would only take 15 minutes to cover a distance of 20 kilometers if he were to run freely.

This showed that Ren Baqian’s operating limits had far exceeded their expectations. Besides, their military strength wasn’t enough to allow them to scour the entire base. As a result, he had been able to constantly lead them by the nose by staying concealed in the darkness.

Even though they treated him like a superhuman, they had overlooked many areas due to their own negligence.

At present, the military was conducting a search within 10 kilometers of that ship, but he had already avoided being locked down by the enemy armed forces.

20 minutes later, when Ren Baqian was about to arrive at the destination, he suddenly heard a series of chaotic gunfire coming from the target area that was accompanied by blood-curdling screeches.

He was stunned for a moment. What was happening? Could the military be thinking of blowing up their own base?

This indeed attracted some attention.

However, the forthright voice he heard the next second almost made him crash into the ground while he was running at high speed.

“Hahahaha! Kids, daddy’s here!”

“F*ck!” Ren Baqian immediately felt bewildered. Why was the winged cavalry here? Which b*stard had sent them over?

Even though someone was here to save him, happiness wasn’t the first thing that he felt. Instead, he felt like scolding people.

He could do whatever he wanted when he was alone. Now, with this group of b*stards, he had more things he needed to watch out for.

Still, they should have been contacted by Yang Sen, who should have arranged for others to come to his rescue as well, right?

Even so, this was actually the Seventh Fleet’s base. There were still 10,000 armed soldiers going crazy around here!

Ren Baqian rushed toward the headquarters and dashed in through a window. He ran into the corridor and saw more than 10 soldiers frantically firing their guns at the air in front of them.

A black soldier detected something, turned his head, and saw a speck of a star growing larger and larger as it came toward him.

Plop!

All of their corpses fell to the ground.

Someone then extended his head from around the corner and was stunned when he saw Ren Baqian. He then became extremely elated, stepped out from the corner, and asked, “Mr. Ren?”

“You guys are?” Ren Baqian guessed that this man was part of the rescue team that Yang Sen deployed.

“Lady boss?” One after another, five burly men rushed out around the corner and grinned at him. “They said you were here, and we have indeed found you! Otherwise, Her Majesty would definitely have skinned us alive!”

“Mr. Ren, we are acting on orders to come and rescue you.” A tall man wearing ordinary camouflaged clothing stepped forward and spoke with a gun in his hand. His face was so well chiselled that it looked like it was carved out of rock.

“Hmm, why did you attack this place?” Ren Baqian asked.

“This is their headquarters. We planned to capture two of their high ranking officers to force them to release you. Otherwise, in such a large base, we couldn’t possibly rescue you with just a few of us.”

“It’s good to hear that this is their headquarters.” Ren Baqian felt at ease after getting the answer he was looking for and said, “If I wanted to leave, I would have left a long time ago. In other words, I intentionally allowed them to bring me here. Originally, I could do whatever I wanted here, but now that you guys are around, there are more things that I have to look out for. What is the rescue plan?”

“The rescue team is outside, so we have to charge out of this place,” the soldier immediately responded.

“You guys leave first—it’ll be just enough to attract their attention and will buy me some time. I’ll go up and take a look,” Ren Baqian continued.

“We can’t leave if Mr. Ren doesn’t leave. Our orders are to take you with us,” the soldier replied earnestly.

“You guys are of no use to me at the moment. Instead, you’re a burden to me.” Ren Baqian’s face turned gloomy.

From their Man Wheel level abilities, he could tell that these were probably the finest soldiers in the nation.

They far exceeded ordinary people in terms of reaction time and speed.

In addition to that, they were armed with guns. Just one of them might even be able to take down 10 enemies.

The problem was that there were thousands of enemies out there.

Plus, these enemies still had heavy guns.

Even though Ren Baqian looked gloomy, he was still imposing, which made the other party feel as if he was their superior.

However, the soldier still persisted and said, “We will leave together with you, Mr. Ren. If we can’t make it out, we will draw their fire for you and let you leave while they are distracted.”

Ren Baqian was so angry that he almost laughed out loud.

He was a little moved when he heard the soldier’s words. This was what a soldier was.

He turned to look at that group of idiots who were smiling mischievously. How could two humans be so different?

“Do you have a plan to escape the encirclement of a 10,000 strong army?” Ren Baqian countered.

“No! However, since Mr. Ren was able to wreak havoc in this place for so long without getting caught, you should be able to leave from here on your own. Also, these few strong men should be able to make their way out as well. As for us, you do not have to worry.” The soldier spelled it out clearly.

Ren Baqian seemingly saw some sort of radiant glow from that well chiselled face.

The resolution of a soldier who was willing to sacrifice his own life to fulfill his orders had indeed softened up Ren Baqian.

“What’s your name?” Ren Baqian asked.

“637 Base, Captain Shi Guanglong!” The soldier saluted.

“What about you?”

“Zhang Zhihua!”

“Xue Ping!”

“Wang Gang!”

“Qin Ze!”

“11 of us came and we have a total of 23 men, including them. There are still some keeping watch outside, Mr. Ren!”

Ren Baqian lifted his head and looked upstairs. It was so close, yet so far!

He had already gotten so close.

He just needed another 10 minutes.

By then, he would be able to capture the commander of this base and create a piece of breaking news.

However, 10 minutes was more than enough for the enemy support troops to firmly secure the entire building.

Ren Baqian looked at everyone and said in a deep voice, “Let’s go! Rush out!”

Even though he was growing more apathetic toward life, he didn’t want to see these people die here.

All in all, he was still indescribably touched by that soldier’s words.

Even though he had already smoked them through, (TLC. Not sure about this part. Maybe something like “beaten them thoroughly” ?) he still felt a little regretful to see it end this way.

“Thank you!” Shi Guanglong saluted once again.

After joining the group of soldiers outside, he had no time to explain the details to them, and all of them ran straight out from the route that they had entered from.

It had been a rather smooth journey for them.

After all, these soldiers were all at the Man Wheel level. With the winged cavalry warriors to pave the way, they charged, killed, and made their way through with only a few winged cavalry warriors sustaining injuries.

The main difference was that when these soldiers encountered an obstacle, they would move tactically and find cover, whereas the winged cavalry warriors simply charged over it with their blades.

If the circumstances were different, the winged cavalry would probably have exercised some restraint. Currently, however, all of them looked at their comrades, and everyone was very heated up.

Firearms? Weren’t those things similar to Great Xia’s heavenly crossbows?! They had even taken down the crossbow battalion whose numbers were so much greater than the current opposing force!

In any case, they would just stake it all and die with dignity or win with glory!

Ren Baqian moved in the shadows, using the metal chain and his honed killing techniques to hastily resolve many problems. Otherwise, those winged cavalry warriors might have lost a few members.

At least a few of them were saved.