latelenovela Chapter 236 Mermaid Invasion
Chapter 236 Mermaid Invasion
In the main hall, a general sat high on a purple jade throne.
Below, three men and two women knelt, one of them with his head bowed so low it seemed he was burying it in his chest, holding a scroll aloft with both hands, and speaking tremblingly:
"General Mu, this is all the information I have found about the Yan family."
The scroll suddenly flew up, opened in mid-air, circled the person on the throne once, and was then burned to ashes by a burst of flames.
"After all this time you've been investigating, this is all you've found?"
"General, the Yan family is extremely well hidden. I followed the clues all the way down and found that every secret black market they run has a large number of seemingly unrelated people working for them, from gang leaders to thugs. Most of them are just fake fronts. I really don't have enough manpower on my side."
"Enough! I asked you to investigate a Golden Core family, but it's always either wind or rain. If you don't have enough manpower, recruit them. If there are no flaws, provoke them and make them reveal their weaknesses."
General Mu was somewhat angry. This operation was a classic case of shooting the arrow first and then drawing the target. They had already pointed to the Yan family, but they still couldn't find what they had hidden. They were simply useless. They should have borrowed some manpower from the Hidden Wolf Army to do the work.
"Go, before this round of final assessments for new recruits, I need to see crucial evidence. The Yan family's influence should not be allowed to participate in this distribution of new recruits."
General Mu waved his hand, and a gust of wind blew the people kneeling below out of the palace.
He rested his chin on his hand, somewhat annoyed. Did he have to deal with such a small matter? Couldn't the front line send out even a few people?
Is the situation really that tense?
Or should I go and fight my way in and out three times to scare off some of the enemies?
.....
When the transport ship arrived at its destination, Zhong Ming and his three teammates disembarked, chatting and laughing. They even spat on their hands and said things like, "Let's get a good draw this time."
My attention never lingered on that person; it was as if I truly regarded him as a stranger.
Zhong Ming also wanted to know what kind of scheme that person was going to use, or whether he had simply misjudged the situation.
Xuan Jing counted on his fingers. This trip lasted three days in total. The basic requirement was thirty military merits per person, but the captain did a great job, so he might get more.
Tell me, did the auction proceed completely? Was the thief caught? Were any guests killed?
Um... apart from the person who got slapped hard across the face, none of the others were seriously injured, were they?
Zhong Ming stepped into the auditorium again. "Old Xiong" was still drinking. He wondered if it was just his imagination, but it seemed...
The bear skin looked even bigger, as if it had swelled up, or perhaps the bear's fur had become a bit fluffy.
"Senior, we're back."
"Let's continue drawing lots."
"Then our points..."
"Hehe, those useless people in the statistics department won't calculate your score on the spot. Just wait. Unless some great general personally urges you, it will take at least three to five days, and there's still follow-up verification."
Zhong Ming nodded, obediently picked up the divination tube, and started shaking it again.
The great cultivator looked at him with disdain, unable to discern anything.
Why did the bell ring? These four people are neither geniuses nor ordinary people; they've really figured things out... Could they be the source of Lao Tzu's Dao? Should I choose one of them as my disciple?
After thinking about it carefully, Old Xiong realized that he wouldn't bother to judge which style was suitable. He would take all four as apprentices and decide who was the strongest and most suitable in the end.
"Clap."
Both skewers fell out at the same time and landed on the ground.
"Um, senior."
"Why are you looking at me? Pick one yourself."
"Then I'll choose the one on the left."
Zhong Ming picked up the stick on the left, his expression even stranger this time.
"Senior, this is..."
"Oh, you're in luck, kid. Go ahead, this is a great opportunity to earn military merits."
Mission Summary: Merfolk are wreaking havoc in the East Sea and have fled from Pingzhou to Yunzhou. We need to organize a military force to hunt them down.
Hunting is Yunzhou's simple and brutal approach. There are no diplomatic considerations, prisoners of war, or other concerns. They simply kill all the invading enemies.
The problem is that they are coming from a completely different direction from Yunzhou's current main attack direction, making it difficult to allocate military forces.
"Senior, we new recruits..."
“These operations are all large-scale. Your group will be considered as a late-stage Qi Refining combatant…” He glanced at Zhong Ming, seemingly unnecessarily complicated, since he himself was a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator.
"There will probably be several dozen groups like yours, along with a dozen or so Foundation Establishment cultivators and one to three Golden Core cultivators. Just follow along and fight your way through. If the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up."
Senior Bear looked disdainful. The Merfolk were a weak race caught between the great sea monsters of the East China Sea and the cultivators of Pingzhou, barely surviving on a series of scattered reefs and small islands.
At most, they'd reach the Golden Core stage. Even aside from Nascent Soul geniuses, the cultivators of Pingzhou aren't pushovers; they're probably just petty thieves lurking in the river, swimming upstream.
Zhong Ming took the slip of paper and went outside. Yue Kaishan suddenly gave Zhong Ming a bear hug.
"Brother Cuihong, I knew you could do it. I can finally go on a killing spree."
"I'm afraid we'll be the ones who get slaughtered," Chen Dahai suddenly said, surprising the others.
"Brother Chen, do you have any inside information?"
"It's nothing. I just don't think the other side would have no reason to invade Yunzhou. What are they after?"
Putting everything else aside, how long has it been since the Twin Dragons of Yelanjiang fled into the water? Everyone in the world knows that there are now two more Divine Dragon warriors at the Nascent Soul level here. Who would be so foolish as to provoke them?
"You mean, they have a hidden purpose?"
"Who knows? Maybe it's a thief in disguise, maybe it's working with an enemy from the inside, or maybe it's just to draw attention."
Chen Dahai's analysis was quite logical, but it was all baseless and unfounded. He was simply expressing an attitude: don't get too involved in such matters.
After chatting for a while, Zhong Ming realized this and said, "From the moment this divination stick left the container, we had no choice."
Chen Dahai fell silent again.
"So, if there are no objections, shall we set off now?"
"Let's go, I can't wait to show the merfolk my fists."
Yue Kaishan clenched his fist, his fighting spirit soaring.
In the distance, an ordinary person stood in a daze. After seeing Yue Kaishan wave his mechanical arm, he was the first to turn around and board the transport ship.
He took out a jade slip and secretly dropped it as he passed a seat.
Soon, another person sat down in that seat, took the jade slip, went to the top of the ship, and began writing and talking with great interest.
"Mother (family), I'm about to go to war (the other party has accepted a war mission), don't worry (the mission is dangerous, but action is possible), I'll be back in about a month (the mission lasts a month), maybe I'll even be a junior general when I come back (it seems that a low-ranking general is eyeing them, be careful)."