The Sky Abyss Empire had a folk saying that, translated literally, went: Mouth moves, then ears move.
One meaning was that tugging a single hair moved the whole body—that all things were interconnected. The other was that walls had ears, extended to mean, "Speak of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao arrives."
The situation Liang Lu faced now was not merely mouth moving, ears moving, but his whole body moving... That was a slight exaggeration, but his soul was definitely trembling.
Just as he was getting carried away, the very people at the center of this review had arrived in force with their subordinates.
Liang Lu's earlier analysis had been quite accurate. The most eye-catching person in the group was undoubtedly the huge, powerfully built giant at the front. He was Shiyuan, a third-rank noble known as the "Ruthless Person."
He stood more than half a head taller than Field Officer Sheng Zhan, who was over three meters tall, and practically brushed the upper edge of the passageway as he entered. His ferocious face went without saying. Even inside the base, he wore a layer of metal armor, parts of which extended over his face and seemed linked and fused with his flesh. As he breathed, faint cold light pulsed across it.
With that appearance, he was more than merely ruthless. He was practically a monster.
By comparison, Chang Yihui, another third-rank noble, was far more understated. Although he walked alongside Shiyuan Baronet, he came only up to Shiyuan's waist at most. Perhaps the contrast was too stark, but he seemed even frailer than an ordinary person. His face was long and narrow, his eyes small, and his features thoroughly unremarkable.
Yet Liang Lu feared this man even more. Not merely because Changyi Hui Baronet was the second-in-command of the logistics