Infinite Lucky Emperor

Bloody battle in the wild (6): Eavesdropping

Translated by Jev Kaez
Edited by Jev Kaez

“What does this mission want us to do? Up to now, we have only been kept in the military camp for training. The ‘huge shadow’ mentioned in the main mission had no appeared at all. The difficulty of the survival mission cannot be reflected only in the difficulty of training, right?”

The middle-aged lady who was doing the task of ascending the area was anxious to ask her experienced teammates for help. She had experienced seven or eight mission worlds in the white paper area.

“Don’t worry, you have to change your mind. Unlike the missions in the white paper area, which are usually very short in time, the task time in the bamboo silk area will become longer. I heard that someone spent several months in the mission world.

Moreover, the background of the mission world in the bamboo silk area is more complex, and the danger will not be put in front of you as soon as it comes up like the mission world in the white paper area. In this case, you need to explore it patiently first, or you won´t even know how you died

Besides, yesterday we have arranged for Xiao Dong to be eliminated on purpose, and he will pass on the information he collects outside.”

The square-faced captain who claimed to have gone through multiple missions in the bamboo silk area comforted him, but the expression on his face was not as relaxed.

He seemed to be comforting the middle-aged lady, but in fact he was comforting himself and the other team members. The situation encountered in each mission world was different, but it was also their first time encountering this kind of survival mission that did not have any danger except that the training was exhausting.

Not only would the danger that had not come for a long time not make them too happy, on the contrary, it would make them have a bad premonition that a huge conspiracy was brewing in the dark, which made people panic.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other. Yesterday, the eliminated trialer really deliberately took the initiative to leave the barracks. they wondered if the other party had gone to Guitu tavern and if he had he gained any important information?

“We are going to participate in the duty mission starting tonight, and we should get more information by then.”

The female team member who was good at magic was a young girl. Hearing the words, she said, giving others more confidence.

The six people exchanged their income for one day. Because they were trapped in training all day, there was no more gain than the previous two days. In the end, they could only leave each other, suppress their anxiety, and look forward to receiving information from their teammate and leaving the barracks tomorrow.

There was no liveliness to watch, and this time did not match the biological clock of the two. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian simply slipped out of the barracks, preparing to go to the Guitu tavern to check the situation before the start of the duty mission.

Surprisingly, the tavern street that was very lively the previous two nights was unusually desolate tonight. All the street vendors were gone, and many taverns were closed. There were not many people who drinking lively.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian opened the door of the Guitu tavern, and found that there were very few people inside. There were only a few dozen spirit hunting warriors in the spacious tavern, and they gathered together in twos and threes to chat in a low voice.

The two walked to the bar, ordered two special snacks, and asked the bartender what happened.

“You didn’t come yesterday, didn’t you? Fortunately, you didn’t come. Yesterday, few teams left the city. As a result, all those who came back had a conflict. After a few words, they started fighting. They fought all the way from the tavern to the street. The defense team brought them back.”

The bartender sighed, and it was not that he had never seen a fight between spirit hunting warriors, but he had never seen so many people fight together in the middle of the night, dozens of people were taken away by the defense team.

Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize felt a move in their hearts. They knew what kind of conflict they were in. Da Niu dragged a group of people to accompany him to the Evil Sea without prior notice. How could it be so coincidental?

“What kind of conflict were they making?”

Xia Ruize asked.

The bartender’s expression was also very puzzled, and there was confusion in his voice, “Yeah, we are also strange, that is, the ordinary spirit stone distribution problem, this is not the first time they have cooperated, and few people make trouble for this again, I don’t know what was crazy last night?”

“It seems that no one is out of town tonight.”

Cheng Huaiqian looked around, and since they came in until now, no one had stood up on the small platform in the center of the tavern to recruit team members, nor did they see spirit hunting warriors scattered in the tavern trying to find teammates.

“Who said there wasn’t, the people who came back last night said that the number of evil spirits outside the city had begun to increase, and even fewer dared to leave the city tonight, and they went out as soon as it got dark, thinking about going early and coming back early, if you are looking for teammates at this moment, it will be difficult to find.”

There were few guests in the tavern tonight, and the bartender couldn’t find anyone if he wanted to chat, so he didn’t mind chatting with the two for a while longer.

After sitting for a while, and finding that there was no news to collect in the tavern, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian left the Guitu tavern and simply went to the City Lord’s Mansion.

Cheng Huaiqian released the high-level evil spirit, and saw the little black ball bouncing a few times in Cheng Huaiqian’s hand. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian waited patiently for ten minutes according to the information returned by the little black ball. He changed his shift with the sergeant who was originally standing on the side of the City Lord’s Mansion, and began to patrol continuously around the City Lord’s Mansion.

The strange thing was that the waist cards on their waists suddenly disappeared at a certain moment, but they did not respond to it, as if they hadn’t seen it, they continued to patrol around the City Lord’s Mansion.

As for their waist cards, they were naturally given to Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian by Da Hei and Xiao Hei, and they were able to easily enter the City Lord’s Mansion.

In the discussion hall, the city owner was discussing with a group of senior managers of Ping’An city, and the content of their discussions was related to the livelihood of Ping’An city.

“City Lord, the weather has turned cold recently, the number of sick city residents has increased, and the reserves of doctors and medicines are somewhat insufficient. What should I do?”

“City Lord, recently, the number of fruits and vegetables supplied by surrounding villages has decreased, but the increase in foreigners has actually increased the price of grain in the grain stores in the city. The city residents have some complaints. Do you think we should take any measures?”

“City Lord, the foreign spirit hunting warriors are often not restrained, and even beat people in the street. Today, I received more than ten complaints from the city residents. Do you think we should restrict the foreign spirit hunting warriors?”

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One after another was bad news, but the city owner was not irritable, sitting there without anger, calmly ordered to continue to observe, and there were no unnecessary instructions.

The top management of Ping´An City reported all the recent news but did not receive any specific instructions. While looking at each other, they were sent away by the city Lord. Only the captain of the defense team was left behind.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were even more interested, and they heard the captain of the defense team start reporting:

“City Lord, last night, a total of 46 teams of 389 spirit hunting warriors left the city, and finally 42 teams and 367 spirit-hunting warriors returned safely.

In addition, there were 96 people who made trouble in the Guitu tavern last night, of which 65 people came back from outside the city, and the rest joined the scuffle after being affected. ”

Reporting, there was doubt in the expression of the captain of the defense team, “After interrogation, they could not say the specific reason for the trouble, and the final conclusion may be that they drank too much?”

This conclusion, even the captain of the defensive team himself did not quite believe, after returning to the city safely, going to the Guitu tavern for a few drinks was something that every spirit hunting warrior would do, how could there never be such a large-scale disturbance after drinking wine before?

As expected of official statistics, much more accurate than the numbers casually said by the bartender, it seemed that there were a large number of spirit hunting warriors with fixed team, and they did not need to temporarily recruit team members at the Guitu tavern and could go out of the city on their own, so the number of teams that the bartender saw going out of the city was far less than the actual number.

As for the disturbances in the Guitu Tavern after returning to the city safely, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian knew why the originally lively street had withered when they thought of nearly a hundred spirit hunter warriors fighting near the tavern.

“Since it’s a drinking mistake, let them drink less in the future, lock them up for a day, and let them go.”

Surprisingly, the city lord accepted the conclusion that the captain of the defense team didn’t quite believe, and ordered it lightly.

Noticing that the captain of the defense team seemed to have different opinions, the city lord suppressed the dissent and continued to order:

“Okay, in the special period, it is still important to encourage spirit hunters to go out of the city to clean up the evil spirits, and the more they clean up now, the less pressure my Ping’An will face when the full moon tribulation comes, if they are worried about danger, let them not cross the green warning line, only clean up in the area where the low-level evil spirits are active.”

The captain of the defense team received the order to leave the city lord’s mansion to execute, and the city lord also returned to the inner courtyard at the rear protected by another layer of spirit shield.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian saw that there was no fun to watch, so they also left the City Lord’s Mansion. After returning the access cards, the two returned to the barracks.

This time they set up their tents in the barracks, and if someone called them, it wouldn’t be strange for them to walk out of the barracks.

The two didn’t chat a few words in the tent when, at 9:40, someone came to the barracks and knocked on the door to wake up a few people.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian naturally integrated into their team. They followed the corps first to the edge of the martial arts field and put on the anti-spirit armor. Then, they put on the spirit-shooting crossbow on their backs, hung up the real spirit-breaking arrows, and walked out in a line with the big sword in their hands.

Outside the barracks, there was already a member of the official defense team waiting for them. A total of ten people boarded the city wall and walked along the city wall to the pre-arranged rotation point.

The corporal instructed: “This is your first time on duty tonight. It’s actually very simple, as long as you don’t fall asleep. Next, each of you will follow an official team member to a specific location.”

This time, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had to be separated. Fortunately, the distance between them was no more than 100 meters, which did not affect their communication.

After standing at the specific guard position, the official team member who taught Xia Ruize signaled that Xia Ruize could sit down.

“Your most important job is to stare at both sides. If someone jumps over the city wall and jumps out, just count how many people there are. There may be fewer people returning to the city now. If you see it, remember the number.”

The official team member told Xia Ruize.

“Don’t you need to stop them?”

Xia Ruize asked the question deliberately, and sure enough, he got a surprised look from the other party, “Why stop it? The more people who go out, the better.”

The official team member who taught him was very talkative, and maybe it was because the duty was too boring. He simply chatted with Xia Ruize:

“If it is usual, these spirit hunters have killed too many evil spirits, and the income of our defensive team will be much less, but now it is different, the full moon tribulation is about to arrive, I heard the seniors say that the number of evil spirits will be so large that people’s scalps will be numb, so it is good that they kill more in advance.

It’s just that those guys are all softballs. When they can be a little more active, they shy away. The number of spirit hunting warriors who have been out of the city for the past two days has not increased but decreased, which is simply irritating. It’s still our own team that is reliable, and we have been able to bring back a lot of gains every day recently. ”

Xia Ruize’s heart moved, and he quickly asked: “Do the members of the defense team also go out of the city to kill evil spirits every night?”