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Chapter 106: Can He Be Trusted?

Chapter 106 – Can He Be Trusted?

"Fengxian! Stop!"

Ding Yuan shouted with all his strength. Because the collision of killing intent and the duel made him weak in the knees, Ding Yuan had to shout instead of jumping in front of Lu Bu.

"Don't worry, pops. He doesn't even hurt."

Lu Bu shrugged as if he had nothing to do with it. He proceeded toward Tong who was still lying on the ground with his hand on his forehead.

"Good fight, brat. Can you stand?"

Lu Bu extended his hand to Tong, gesturing his goodwill.

Tong grabbed his hand and got up while he was still dizzy by the headache.

"Yeah, thank you, senior."

"Don't call me senior. Just call me by Fengxian! What's your name?"

"Zhang Tong, senior. I meant brother Fengxian. You can just call me Tong."

"That's an odd courtesy name. But who cares, right? That was a good outburst by the way! Where did you learn that? It took me five years to master that killing intent. You know that when I was young I …"

Lu Bu started talking nonstop which surprised Tong. He thought that the God of War would be haughty, arrogant, and dignified. However, the person in front of him was just like a battle maniac or a nerd martial artist.

This event made Tong doubt that the big guy over here was actually Lu Bu or an imposter.

'He's too innocent to be a backstabber. Perhaps something turned him into that kind of person. The event at Xiapi in the year 196 was the proof that he can't be trusted … wait! Maybe!'

Tong opened his eyes wide as he had enlightenment. He had one theory in his mind at the moment. If this theory was correct, then the other Lords might have misunderstood him as an unfilial person and branded him as untrustworthy in Tong's history timeline.

By the records of ancient historians, Wang Yun plotted with Lu Bu to kill Dong Zhuo. It was possible that Wang Yun was the mastermind, and it was Lu Bu who was being used as a tool.

After he killed Dong Zhuo and fled from Chang An, he sought shelter under Yuan Shu in Wan City. However, Yuan Shu detested Lu Bu for being unfilial and his deeds for being a betrayer, he did not welcome him. As a consequence, Lu Bu developed a paranoid trait, which worsened his standings with every Lords in the future.

Then, he went to Yuan Shao and asked him to be employed under him, but Yuan Shao plotted to assassinate Lu Bu because of his past deeds. Both of them ended up having a feud with each other because Yuan Shao sent a team of assassins to kill him at night.

Afterward, Lu Bu fled southward. He encountered Zhang Miao in Chenliu, who invited him in and welcomed him wholeheartedly. Unbeknownst to the plot that Zhang Miao had planned, Lu Bu accepted to live in Chenliu for a while.

In 194, Cao Cao, who was the master of Zhang Miao and Chenliu City, launched a campaign against Xu Province under Tao Qian's control. Chen Gong conspired with Zhang Miao and dragged Lu Bu into the picture by forcing him to help them occupying Pu Yang City.

Lu Bu did so as Chen Gong and the rest of the defectors of Cao Cao had asked him, which ended up as him betraying another Lord, and eventually lost the city back to Cao Cao.

Then he was used again by Yuan Shu when Lu Bu sought shelter with Liu Bei. He was tricked into attacking Xiapi by baiting Lu Bu that Yuan Shu would be willing to solve his provision and army supply problems, however, Lu Bu had to help Yuan Shu taking down Liu Bei. Thus, Lu Bu betrayed Liu Bei and took Xiapi.

On 197 Yuan Shu proclaimed himself Emperor, Cao Cao tricked him into becoming an ally and attacking Yuan Shu. As a result, Lu Bu betrayed his previous ally, Yuan Shu.

At the battle of Xiapi, which was Lu Bu's last battle, Cao Cao gave Lu Bu an offer that if he were to surrender to him, Lu Bu would be allowed to serve under Cao Cao. Lu Bu wanted to surrender, but he was stopped by Chen Gong and the others who were once subordinates of Cao Cao because they were afraid of the repercussions of being traitors.

There were many other cases where Lu Bu had been led by the nose by other people and his reputation continued to sink further and further. Everything happened because he lacked the abilities to judge people and skills to make a thorough plan for the future, which ended up getting himself killed by the hands of Cao Cao and Liu Bei in the year 199.

'With zero reputation, Lu Bu was considered deceitful by the historians. But was it actually the case?' Tong thought.

'But there is one more question. If he is not a duplicity person as I have in mind, why did he kill Ding Yuan to serve Dong Zhuo? What is the factor that drove him into this act?'

While Tong gazed at the Lu Bu in front of him, the others had regained their sense and leg strength. Ding Yuan rushed in to apologize to Tong in frantic. He was afraid that Lu Bu might create a feud with this young Lord, then he would lose out this trading partnership.

Tong did not mind it. He chatted with the two father and son for a while before a messenger barged in and gave out a report.

"Report to the Lord Governor! Zhang Ji of Dong Zhuo Army has come to visit! They are waiting for you inside the main hall!"

"Ah? Right. I totally forgot about it. I'm sorry young master Zhang. I will have to attend these guests. Please excuse me."

Tong's heart skipped a beat. The presence of a person of Dong Zhuo here gave Tong a bad premonition.

He was afraid that the event that Lu Bu killed his adopted father to join Dong Zhuo would happen earlier than the original timeline. If Lu Bu killed Ding Yuan and joined Dong Zhuo now, this Jinyang City might become a thorn to him in the future.

Tong could not afford to let Dong Zhuo snatching away Lu Bu right now!

"Do you mind if I go along as well? I also have a business proposition to Dong Zhuo. I wish to use this opportunity to contact his messenger, so it can save times."

Tong gave out an excuse to attend the meeting too. He wanted to monitor Lu Bu that he would not get a secret message from Dong Zhuo Army.

"Very well, young master Zhang. You can come with me. You have such sight in such a young age, I really envy your father."

"Haha, please don't. It is me who envy your son. He's so strong that he can beat me in less than 3 moves! I thought I'm strong but he is way stronger than me."

"HAHAHA!" Lu Bu and Ding Yuan laughed.

The three chatted and laughed while they headed to the government main hall. After they arrived, they found Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu waiting for them inside.

Both of them thought that Tong was one of the subordinates of Ding Yuan, so they did not pay attention to him.

"Greetings, Lord Ding Yuan. We've come as representatives of Lord Dong Zhuo. We've brought our humble treasures as our gifts. Please accept them."

There were boxes of gold, decorated vases, paintings, and miscellaneous objects in the middle of the hall. They were the tributes for Ding Yuan.

Tong glanced at the treasures, then he looked away as he did not interest in them. All of those were useless to him. Only gold, provision, army supplies, or famous generals and strategists could attract his interest.

On the contrary of Tong, Lu Bu looked at the tributes with desire. He wanted to take some of them and gift them to his wife or decorate his house with a few of these paintings.

Ding Yuan was an elite politician. He was indifferent toward tribute treasures like these. Thus, he continued with his formality.

"Please thank Lord Dong Zhuo for such gifts. Do tell me your mission. What can I do for you?"

"We are currently traveling to Julu City, so we have to pass this region. We are just stopping by to resupply ourselves. Please do not mind us."

Ding Yuan opened his eyes in surprise while he glanced at Tong in secret. On the other hand, Tong squinted his eyes and tried to read Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu.

'Why the hell is Dong Zhuo sending messengers to my city? What does he want from me? Wait a minute. Does he want me to be another Lu Bu? Judging from his wicked character and Li Ru, they would definitely try this strategy. But …'

Tong peered at Lu Bu by his side, who was staring at the treasures in a daze. It was not difficult to see his inner thought.

'As I suspected. Lu Bu is greedy by nature. He was probably easily tempted by Dong Zhuo in my timeline. Dong Zhuo was the grand chancellor of Han Court at that time, so he can appoint any high ranking official with just his words. For this reason, Lu Bu was tricked.'

Tong cleared up some of his suspicion of Lu Bu's character. If he was the type whom money and position could buy, then he could be tricked to kill his foster father easily.

'I wonder if I stop this father killing event, can I convert him and his father into my subordinates?'


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Friday bonus chapter!

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The next chapters onward will be locked from now on. But that means the first mass release is coming soon.

After the mass release, I'll try to make each chapter a bit longer.

It's late, but happy new year, guys!

Chapter 107: Visiting Lu Bu’s Camp

Chapter 107 – Visiting Lu Bu's Camp

Zhang Ji and the rest were guided into the guest houses by Ding Yuan while Tong asked Lu Bu to tag along with him for the moment.

Lu Bu agreed. He planned to spar with Tong again anyway, so he brought Tong to his army camp nearby to give him a tour.

"There are mountains everywhere but most of your troops are cavalries?"

Tong was astonished by the sight of horse ranches and the warhorses. They were twice as big as ordinary horses he had seen.

An ordinary horse was usually a bit thin and light, while these warhorses were muscular and thick. Common horse weighed only 500-700kg, but these guys should be around 800 to 1,200kg each.

Back at Julu, the majority of Bo Cai's soldiers still used common horses as their warhorses, which was depressing if Tong compared it with the proper cavalry units under Lu Bu here.

"These are not ordinary warhorses, Tong. These are Xiangnu warhorses. They can traverse on cliffs and hike the steep terrains."

"Xiangnu warhorses? The Xiangnu Tribes!?"

"Of course, we aren't actually at war with all of the tribes. Some of them trade with us. Our city was barren, to begin with, so we have to rely on trading with neighbors even if they were barbarian tribes. We profit from selling ores and raw jewelry we dug up in the mines while we bought food and supplies from Shangdang or the Xiangnu tribes. Come to think of it, your city seems to be doing well on the trading fields. Are you now a conglomerate?"

Tong gazed at Lu Bu in disbelief. He thought that this man was just a simple muscle-brain greedy warrior, but he seemed to be well-versed on other fields as well.

"Yes. We're selling a few kinds of stuff to the merchants."

"Good, good! Young masters like us have to be good at commerce! Those nobles without financial knowledge are a bunch of rotten fools. They will burn out all of their treasures if they don't know how to earn some gold!"

Listening to Lu Bu's random rambling, Tong could not believe his ears. Was this the Lu Bu, the God of War? Why did he sound like a son of a merchant? Was he always like this in his timeline too?

"Did you learn all of these from your father?"

Tong decided to probe this man a bit. It was not hurt to gather around a few pieces of information.

"Oh, I learned it from one of my subordinates. I meant my adviser. Thanks to him, our soldiers have been well-fed and disciplined. At first, he was just a no-name brat that I picked from one of the roadsides. Who would have thought that he turns out to be such an intelligent youngster? Come to think of it, both of you are at a similar age. I should introduce him to you."

Tong feet came to a pause. His mind was as if he had been struck by a lightning.

Everything in this world happened for a reason. And the reason Lu Bu acted like this was obvious. He did not have any advisor until he met Chen Gong in Chenliu City. The existence of Lu Bu's advisor here did not fit in the historical timeline, which Tong came to a conclusion.

He was influenced by an otherworlder!

'Why does thing always get complicated like this!? All history timeline and people's habit I had remembered are all useless here!'

Realizing that a reincarnator had taken root in this city, Tong threw away all his previous knowledge and references from his previous life. Every person here had to be reevaluated from a scratch.

'This reminds me. There are 20 reincarnators remaining, me, Hua Shi, Liu Ping, and Te Langpu. So that means 16 other people are still roaming around somewhere this country. Unless I get rid of them all, the butterfly effects will get more chaotic and unpredictable.'

Tong's face turned serious while he caught up with Lu Bu. He calculated in his mind about a plan to retreat or escape from this place as he observed the surroundings. In the worst case scenario, if he ended up having a feud with Lu Bu and his gangs, Tong could still keep his life and fled this city.

Secure the escape route first, then proceed to the battlefield.

It was a motto that Tong kept in his mind as a fruit of his experiences in this world.

'I'll observe the situation first. The other party should also know that I'm a reincarnator as well. I still have my time stop skill and both my gun and rifle are still in my inventory. If thing goes south, I'll just kill them all.'

The feet of Lu Bu stopped all of a sudden. He turned around and peered at Tong with the corner of his eyes.

"Oi, brat. I don't know what you are thinking about. But no one plans to harm you in here. You don't need to be that cautious."

Tong jolted and snapped out of his thought with Lu Bu's words.

"Huh?"

"I can sense your killing intent. I know it wasn't for me and others but someone else, so I'll overlook it. I'll say this again. No one can harm you as long as I'm here. I'm your goddamn host, and it's my job to protect my guests. Any asshole that comes for you will have to get through me first. So relax."

As an elite and veteran in the battlefield, Lu Bu had sensed Tong's killing intent when he was thinking and planned about how to kill the otherworlder behind Lu Bu.

Though Lu Bu could not tell exactly why Tong would emit a hostile intent now, he and his men did not plan to harm Tong from the start. Therefore, he warned Tong, so he could relax around here a bit.

Acknowledging his good will, Tong nodded and calm himself. Both of them continued to proceed inside Lu Bu's camp.

Upon reaching the training ground, the sounds of soldiers in the middle of training could be heard. A hundred was doing a push-up. Another hundred men were jogging around the training field. Other groups were doing different activities.

Tong frowned the moment he saw the actions of the soldiers. What they were doing was a training method of the 21st-century, which was the same that he did with his army.

It was clearer than crystal clear that Lu Bu's advisor was one of the people from his time.

Among the training soldiers, a young man in a scholar cloth was riding a horse in an awkward manner. By the looks of it, he was practicing riding a horse with another soldier riding beside him to give him a pointer.

The scholar stood out from the rest. He did not tie his hair with a knot or had long hair like other natives here. Instead, he cut his hair short. He had no beard nor mustache. In other words, he was so not from this world.

Tong looked at the scholar with a cringe expression while he marked the person with his radar map. The name was shown as Li Feihong, which never appeared in the Three Kingdoms Era.

'Good thing that I didn't have to search around.'

The soldiers noticed Lu Bu and stopped training to salute him. The scholar also turned around and rode his horse toward Lu Bu's direction. At the same time, two middle-aged men in a fancy armor showed up to greet Lu Bu.

"Welcome back, young master."

"Welcome back, young lord!"

Seeing the two men cupped their hands and bowed to himself, Lu Bu waved and allowed them to look up.

"Zhang Liao, Gao Shun! I want you two to meet this person. He is Zhang Tong of Julu that we heard about. He managed to receive my full power strike head on and still standing! He's also probably stronger than both of you in terms of swordsmanship! Don't you two look down on him!"

The two middle-aged men, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, gazed at Tong with both round eyes as they were astonished. Both of them sparred with their Lord before, so they knew how absurd Lu Bu's strength was. Yet, their lord had spoken himself that this person could withstand his attack head-on.

In addition, they had heard about Tong's feat, which he routed Zou Jing and killed Guo Dian despite the great disadvantage in the battle of Anping before. As generals of thousand men, they admired the strategies and the valor that Tong showed in the battle.

The eyes of astonishment turned into the eyes of admiration. Zhang Liao and Gao Shun bowed and cupped their fists as they greeted Tong with respect.

"Greeting, Lord Zhang Tong!"

"Greeting, Lord Zhang!"

Tong also returned the greeting with respect.

"Sir Zhang Liao, Sir Gao Shun, well met! Please to meet both of you!"

Lu Bu laughed and nodded that he succeeded in making a connection between Tong and his two subordinates. He waved his hand and called the other subordinate over.

"Li Feihong! Come here! I want you to meet someone!"

On the contrary of everyone's mood, Li Feihong was in a panic when he heard the name "Zhang Tong" from afar. He attempted to turn his horse around to escape, but it did not listen to him at all.

'No, no, no, no, no. Please turn around, or I'll be dead!'

'That's definitely another reincarnator! I have to escape!'

'Should I open the gate right now?'


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