Fu Qingyang suddenly opened his eyes and saw crisscrossing beams and fish-scale roof tiles. He rolled over and sat up, surveying his surroundings. He was in an ancient barracks.
Several heavy bows hung on the wall. Three swords rested on the long table, while spears, halberds, lances, and pikes stood in the weapon rack.
His upper body was bare, and thick bandages wrapped around his right chest, faint bloodstains seeping through them. When he lightly pressed the area with his fingertips, intense pain shot through him.
This body was badly injured; even its heart and lungs had been affected.
At that moment, the "Puppet Master" mark on his forehead grew faintly hot, transmitting a fragmentary, brief memory.
Fu Qingyang's current identity was Yang Ce, the youngest General of Chariots and Cavalry in the Southern Dynasty, a first-rank official.
A month ago, the Northern Dynasty had gathered an army of four hundred thousand and marched south, conquering cities and strongholds along the way. The Southern Dynasty's troops were weak; they either abandoned their cities and fled or surrendered to the enemy and betrayed their country.
In a time of crisis, General of Chariots and Cavalry Yang Ce had been appointed Grand Marshal. Leading the Southern Dynasty's last fifty thousand elite soldiers, he guarded Summer's Edge City and swore to halt the Northern Dynasty's southward advance, keeping the enemy beyond the capital.
That was all the information there was.
So this was a "role-playing" instance. No wonder the main quest was a "character quest." As an experienced Spirit Realm Walker, Fu Qingyang had encountered this sort of instance before.
Role-playing instances were usually high-difficulty instances.
Furthermore, such instances had another characteristic: you did not know what roles your teammates had taken on.
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