Li Tianquan's face sank and he shouted: "Why are you so panicked!"
The female secretary who came in was a little frightened, but she still said: "Master Jing Zhan just returned to the base, seriously injured and unconscious."
Li Tianquan was shocked and stood up, saying: "How could it be possible? He brought out a whole company of elite soldiers! What did they do?"
"All of Master Jing Zhan's soldiers were wiped out. General Hong was seriously injured and was able to send Master Jing Zhan back."
"Where are they? Take me there and see!" Li Tianquan said anxiously.
"Elder, there is another news..." The female secretary seemed a little hesitant.
"Hurry up and say it!" Li Tianquan shouted impatiently.
"The news we just received is that something happened to our troops transporting supplies to the Song clan. Only half of them escaped."
"What?" Li Tianquan was so surprised that he grabbed the female secretary's hand and said, "Isn't that army led by Li Ke? Where are the others? Let him come to see me!"
"According to people who came back, Lord Li Ke died in battle."
Li Tianquan suddenly felt his eyes go dark, and his body swayed. When he stretched out his hand to hold the edge of the table, he calmed down and said, "Death in battle?"
"Yes, the people who came back said that they saw Lord Li Ke being beheaded by the enemy with his own eyes."
Li Tianquan's face turned pale again, and there was even a taste of blood in his mouth.
Li Ke is the backbone of the Li family. He is brave and resourceful, and he is a general who can stand alone. If he had not come from a side branch, he would have been able to reach a higher position. More importantly, Li Ke is Li Tianquan.
Fang has important combat power, and his loss is really a heavy loss.
Li Tianquan tried his best to calm down and asked: "With Li Ke's skills, how could he be killed by the enemy? Who is the enemy and how many people are there?"
The female secretary whispered: "There were only a dozen people on the other side. They charged directly at the central army and succeeded with one blow. The leader was a demon count. It was he who shot the master to seriously wound him, and then beheaded the demon.
The descendant Earl calls himself Aiden. Deep Dark Abyss."
"Demon Earl, Aiden" Li Tianquan muttered the name silently, feeling very familiar. He suddenly remembered that Qianye had said that day that he had been fighting a demon Earl for the past half month. What was that count's name?
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Li Tianquan tried his best to remember, but couldn't remember anything, and he became more and more irritable. At that time, he didn't believe that Qianye could hold back a demon Earl, let alone that there was no dark army crossing the border in that defense area. Qianye was fighting with the Demon Earl.
merit.
Thinking that Li Ke was dead, but half of his men had escaped, he was even more angry. Sen Han said: "Send the order, all those who escaped will be captured. They will all be executed for the crime of escaping before the battle and trapping the master to death."
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As soon as this order came out, even the female clerk was startled. She didn't care that she might be reprimanded for admonishing in her own capacity. She hurriedly said: "Elder, do you want to wait for an investigation before convicting?"
She said it tactfully, but Li Tianquan immediately realized it. Executing hundreds of family soldiers at one go, even those who escaped from the battlefield, was a huge thing. Even though Li Tianquan, as the second elder, did not have this right.
This matter must at least be approved by the elders or the head of the family.
This is the truth, but having nowhere to express his anger made the unknown fire in Li Tianquan's heart burn even more intensely. This fire turned to Qianye: "Little beast, you must have let the demon come here, otherwise how could Li Ke
He will die miserably!"
However, these thoughts can only be kept in his heart. Li Tianquan took a deep breath, regained his authority as an elder, and said: "Where are the people who escaped back now? Take me there. In addition, give me all the information about the demon descendant.
I'll send it to the office, and don't miss anything!"
Li Tianquan left in a hurry, and there was a lot of commotion in the base. Since the beginning of the war, the Li family has never suffered such heavy losses. In one day, they lost one general and hundreds of private troops. Those
Although the mercenary hunter dies, he will die, but the Li family will also have to pay a large amount of pension, otherwise who will work for the Li family in the future?
The more severe the losses, the heavier the hatred Li Tianquan felt towards Qianye. Although he also understood that this was just to express his anger, he still found it difficult to control himself. However, Li Tianquan did not know that his thinking direction this time was rare for the right one.
The losses were just the beginning. Bad news came almost every day. Some weaker troops were directly maimed or even wiped out. Strong teams were also attacked from time to time. More than half of the loss records were related to one name, Aiden.
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At this point, people truly understood how terrifying the famous demon-born Earl was, especially in the misty forest, where his existence was almost unexplainable.
As the top person in charge of the base, Li Tianquan held several meetings in a row to analyze battle reports and study ways to deal with Aiden. The intelligence about Aiden was gradually improved. However, the more they analyzed it, the more people felt that unless levels 15 and 6 were mobilized,
Only with the arrival of a higher powerhouse can it be possible to deal with this demon.
However, in the misty forest, simply increasing the level of Force cultivation cannot extend the perception in proportion, unless there is a special talent for perception. According to known intelligence, Aiden's field of vision exceeds 400 meters, which is disappointing.
of numbers.
The meeting inevitably reached a stalemate. In order to solve a dark count, invite a god general to join the war? This is definitely not a good idea. If the empire puts a god general in the misty forest, darkness will appear immediately in the Evernight side.
Duke. The war will escalate when both sides are not ready.
While the Li family base was in a state of panic, Qianye completed another hunt.
Unlike Aiden, few of the dark troops who encountered Qianye slipped through the net. He specially selected a team of about a hundred people to attack, quietly adding nutrients to himself and the purple matrix.
It has been nearly half a month since this battle, and the Anduya space is full. If all the military merit certificates are added together, it is about enough to get a standard second-class merit, which is equivalent to hunting down a powerful earl.
It's time to go back, Qianye thought. He silently smoked the last cigarette in his inventory, flicked the cigarette butt onto the werewolf corpse at his feet, and retreated towards the base.
In the Realm of Eternal Night, outside Black Current City, a group of heavy-duty trucks is approaching from afar. There are only five heavy-duty trucks carrying goods in this convoy, but there are more than 20 military vehicles guarding the city gate.
The officer had already seen the hidden fire mark of the convoy, but he still strictly followed the inspection procedures.
It happened that the guarding officer was familiar with a captain in the escort force. He couldn't help but pointed at the truck and asked: "What is so important that a regiment is needed to escort it?"
The captain spread his hands, lowered his voice, and said: "Keep it down! It was sent from Werewolf City. I don't know what's in the car. No one is allowed to carry the goods. It is said that the contents inside are except
Only Duan Tou knows about those people in Wolf City."
The guard officer was suddenly shocked: "Boss Duan is also in the convoy?"
"Of course! The boss personally takes charge of the battle, do you understand?"
Duan Hao was an old man brought over by Song Zining from Ningyuan Heavy Industry. He was considered a direct lineage, and he had received ample supply of resources and vigorous training from Song Zining.
Duan Hao also benefited a lot from the bloody battles. He broke through several bottlenecks in life and death, and successfully broke through the generals before the battle. He also became the number one master under Dark Fire Zi Qianye and Song Zining. Although Duan Hao
Due to his limited talent, he may only be able to achieve level 11 or level 1 achievements in this life, but the actual combat power of a warrior like this who comes from a regular battlefield is far above the level of the Force.
This time the convoy was actually escorted by Duan Hao himself, which shows how seriously he takes it.
The officer guarding the gate did not dare to ask any more questions and waved to let them go after completing the procedures. The convoy only stayed in the city for a short time before heading to the airship landing field outside the city. After a while, a high-speed airship took off and quickly flew away.
In the guard tower, a lieutenant put down his telescope, looked at the aerospace craft disappearing into the sky, thoughtfully, and then wrote something down on a piece of paper and kept it close to his body.
Soon it was night, and it was the lieutenant's rest time. He handed over his post and did not go back to the barracks. Instead, he walked towards the bustling business district. In the dark fire, it is not uncommon for low-level officers like him to be alone.
, when they are not on duty, most people do not want to stay alone in the camp and will look for some fun.
He hesitated, walked into a tavern, sat down in the corner, ordered a bottle of wine, and drank slowly.
After a while, a seductive woman sat across from him, looked at the wine brand, and said, "Won't you buy me a drink? I like this kind of wine."
The lieutenant breathed out lightly and held the woman's hand. The woman frowned and took her hand back calmly. With this inadvertent movement, she already had a folded piece of paper in her hand. After a while, the two of them looked at each other.
It seemed like they didn't agree on a price and ended up breaking up on bad terms.
The woman stayed in the tavern for a while, but then left as if she was bored. She carefully paid attention to her surroundings, then walked into a small hotel not far away, went up to a suite on the second floor, and handed the note to a
A man in his early thirties.
The man had a clean face and a rather elegant temperament, which was quite incompatible with the noisy, lively, rude but vibrant Yongye Continent.
He opened the note under the lamp and read every word on it carefully.
At this time, the woman did not dare to disturb him and sat next to him doing nothing. The roar of machinery continued to come from the window, and the smell of rust and moist steam filled the air. Even if the window was closed tightly, she could not completely isolate this kind of order.
A disgusting smell. The woman frowned and wrinkled her nose slightly, showing an unhappy look.
After finally reading the note, the man looked at the woman and said, "I can't help it. Now that I'm here, I have to endure this."
"Can't we change places? This place is too close to the power tower." The woman complained.
The power tower of Blackstream City is fueled by black stone, which was completely eliminated by the empire more than a hundred years ago. It has many shortcomings such as noise, constantly leaking steam, and low energy conversion efficiency.
A whole piece of paper.
But it also has advantages, that is, it is not picky, and even the worst quality black stone can make it move. In addition, it is durable. For example, this big guy less than a hundred meters away from the small hotel has long been used.
I don't know how many years it has expired, but it is still running and looks like it will last a long time, but it needs repairs from time to time.
This power tower is now responsible for supplying power to the old city. The new power tower that Song Zining bought with his own money is naturally placed in the dark fire. Its power only supplies the camp area and city defense facilities.
A slum area has naturally formed around the old power tower. The low-level civilians in Blackstream City and the low-level mercenary hunters don't care much about the environment, and only here can they have affordable food and accommodation. In fact,
, most of the human central cities in the third and fourth level defense zones in Yongye are at the level of the Black Current Power Tower. This is the real life in the abandoned land.
The man burned the note, thought for a moment, and said, "This is the second batch of similar cargo convoys this month. Wolf City."