Alliances (4)

 

A considerable number of the enemy were killed, but the beast archer roared with anger.

"Bloody bastards!!"

It was a matter of course.

Despite such swift action, about twenty Beast Palace warriors were poisoned to death before they could fight properly.

And about a hundred of them were still trying to drive out the poison with their luck, and the masters were carrying the bowels on their backs to help them detoxify themselves.

Mild addicts also easily exceeded hundred.

However, the animals that suffered the most were the companions and family members of the Beast Palace warriors.

Lingling's ability to manipulate the inner air was a very special case among spirit creatures.

In other words, most of the animals were vulnerable to poison, except for the mankr, which was resistant to the poison itself.

Since you can't push away the poisonous energy with your inner air, there's almost no other way but to heal naturally.

The number of animals that had already died was more than a hundred, and the number of animals in serious condition was more than a hundred.

"Uhhhhhh!!h

It was Gu Yang and Mu Jin who approached the Beast Palace, who roared into the air as if they were fighting the world.

"It's not that I don't know how you feel, but now is not the time to just be angry..."

Gu Yang said to the Beast Palace Master in a cold tone.

“··· What have you said now?"

The Beast Archer, who had not yet subsided his anger, looked at Gu Yang with bloodshot eyes.

His eyes were full of predator-like flesh.

But Gu Yang was still calm.

"You're the archer of the Beast Palace, aren't you? In a time when we mourn the loss of warriors and animals, we must think of a way to deal with the misreading that has made the Beast Palace like this."

But that didn't mean Gu Yang didn't have any feelings. He was also angry inside.

It wasn't as badly damaged as the Beast Palace, but there were several poisoners among the Red Tiger members.

The only difference from the Beast Palace was that the Red Tiger Corps took the first action instead of charging ignorantly like the Beast Palace warriors.

As a result, there were many addicts, but fortunately, there were no deaths.

However, the Beast Archer didn't have time to understand Gu Yang's situation, nor did he intend to. My reason was already on the verge of being blown away.

"After all, you are like a coward in the North, and you are talking about your mouth as much as you want..."

When the Beast Archer and Gu Yang glared at each other and began to fight with each other, Mu Jin intervened.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

When Gu Yang translated what he had said to the Beast Archer, Mu Jin sighed.

"From now on, I'll tell you, and you only have to interpret. Huh?"

Mu Jin, who had Gu Yang Fei interpret, said to the Beast Palace Master.

"This friend is a little unlucky with his words, but please understand. What he meant was that we should discuss how to take revenge on the cowardly man who had done this cowardly move."

Gu Yangfei frowned at Mu Jin's words that he was unlucky with his words, but when Mu Jin opened his eyes, he sighed and interpreted it for him.

"Cancer· I need my revenge. The next time I see them, I'm going to tear them apart."

Looking at the Beast Archer, Mu Jin pointed somewhere.

"Why don't you dig into them for some information?"

There, in a hurry, several of the poisonous men of the Poison Gate who had been brought out of the Poison Zone together had been subdued.

"You can take out your anger on them a little bit. But I need to dig up information, so please don't kill me..."

Mu Jin's words, the Beast Archer, who seemed to be about to pounce on them, took a deep breath and replied in a slightly calmer tone.

"I'll leave the interrogation to you..."

No, it wasn't calmer. Instead of needlessly venting your anger in the air, you're just storing it up for the future.

"If I step up, I don't think I'll be able to save a single one..."

The venomous predator was there.

* * *

In the end, the interrogation was conducted by Mu Jin and Gu Yang.

The loyal Red Guards insisted that they take care of the chores.

"You don't speak Mandarin anyway, do you?"

They were momentarily dumbfounded by his logical rebuttal.

"I can do it at a basic level, Lord Lesser!"

"How can you interrogate them with basic conversations?"

“····”

I wonder if it's because I've been entrusted with the chores of interrogation to the minor principal.

The speechless members of the Red Tiger were fidgeting like puppies who were desperate for poop.

It was sad to see that, Gu Yangfei sighed and said.

"There will still be people who are addicted, so get treatment first. You never know when you're going to have another battle, so you have to be prepared."

“··· We will try to improve your condition as soon as possible."

In the end, the Red Guards withdrew, with a guilty face.

In any case, after the interrogation that followed, Mu Jin was able to get some information.

There was information about the approximate power of the misogynists, but what bothered me the most was the information about "that man".

"It's Huanggon..."

I finally learned the name of the man who was suspected of being the lord of Shincheon.

It is said that Huang Gon first approached Wu Dokmun under the name of Jiangsu Merchant and gradually cultivated the deal, and a few years ago, he began to make a deal with the Fortune Chang Sect in earnest.

"You've been hiding your skills all along..."

It was said that even the Germans of the Wu Gate did not know that Huang Gon had mastered martial arts, but that he was a master of the martial arts.

After digging up some useful information, Mu Jin and Gu Yang approached the Beast Archer, who was whispering the poison of anger to himself.

"What happened?"

"I was able to determine the approximate strength of the enemy... With the identity of the master who stopped you at the end..."

At Gu Yang's answer, the Beast Archer muttered with a bizarre smile that only raised the corners of his mouth.

"Yes... Come to think of it, he too..."

He was preoccupied with poison, but now that he thought about it, he had caused countless wounds on Mankr's skin.

"First of all, the number of enemies we have encountered is four hundred. Those who came out of the misreading were two hundred· One hundred and fifty romantics. And there were fifty warriors led by the man named Huang Gon who fought against the Beast Archer."

Whether the Beast Archer was muttering to himself or not, he was reciting the information he had grasped.

"I had a rough idea of what I was doing during the rescue a little while ago... Most of the Nangs seemed to be dead, and about fifty of the poisonous people of the Pentateuch seemed to be dead. It is said that the number of Germans in the Five-Fold Gate is a little more than five hundred, so it seems that there are a little less than five hundred left."

"What happened to the people that Huang Gon dragged away?"

"There is no way to tell them apart, but from the information of those who interrogated them, they seemed to have suffered little damage because they were in the rear... It is said that more than a hundred people joined the Pentateuch in preparation for this war, so it would be better to assume that those hundred or so were preserved."

"Are you saying that the total is about six hundred? The numbers are similar to ours of the Beast Palace..."

At the words of the Beast Archer, Gu Yang shook his head.

"Maybe they'll hire additional Nangs in the Middle Plains. This time, they have been killed by them, but it will take a while for the news to reach the Middle Kingdom. And they're the ones who will find a place to die for a lot of money, aren't they?"

"Hmph· It doesn't matter how many of the despicable Northerners there are."

For some reason, Gu Yang nodded in agreement with the arrogant answer of the Beast Palace.

"There aren't many masters among them, so you don't have to worry too much... At best, it will only serve as a shield to reduce our health and internal attack."

"If that's enough, we can sort out the Beast Palace and you without the Sun Palace..."

The number of warriors in the Beast Palace alone was about six hundred, and they were accompanied by the Red Tiger Corps and Mu Jin.

On top of that, the Sun Palace was about to advance in the south, so it felt like a war that had already been won.

Gu Yang shook his head and opened his mouth.

"There are two main problems. One is that Huang Gon is the one who connected the Zhongyuan and the Wu Gate exchanges."

"Why does that matter?"

"The gate he gave me was one of the gates called the Gu Pile Room. If we leave it like this, the Misreading Gate will be ruined, and they will probably ask for reinforcements from the fortune teller."

Unlike the Nangs, who were mostly third- or second-rate, the involvement of the disciples of the Gu Pile Room was enough of a variable.

"Humph! I'm not afraid of the cowards of the North! And kill all the grubs in the Pentateuch before they come!"

At the words of the Beast Archer, who snorted and shouted, Gu Yang replied, "That's it."

"That's where the second problem arises. It's the poison of the misreading. Unless they're serious idiots, they'll probably try to stall for time until reinforcements arrive. And there's nothing like poison when it comes to stalling for time."

If the Sun Palace and the Beast Palace were to spray poison at every point of their advance, it would inevitably slow down their advance.

"And during the interrogation, I heard that the stronghold of the Poison Gate was equipped with even more poison than the one that was sprayed on us at the end."

"I don't know what poison is but there is a terrible poisonous dance flowing in the swamp where their home base is located."

"That poison is poisonous. It is said that even the poisonous people of the Misreading Gate cannot survive if they are exposed. You can only survive if you move according to the true law."

"Sniff· Then you must have figured out how to get in during the interrogation process..."

"I've heard of it, but they're not stupid, so why don't you change the true rules?"

Gu Yang's logical rebuttal made the Beast Archer scratch his head.

He didn't expect to change the rules of the base.

And Mujin, who had been listening carefully to the conversation between the two, finally opened his mouth.

"So the bottom line is that it's a matter of Divination and Reinforcements and Poison?"

"Yes..."

"So it's simple, right?"

"What do you mean simple? Are you going to just go through it with your body again? You may be able to do it, but if you do, you and the Beast Archer will be trapped in the middle of enemy territory."

For some reason, Mujin felt bad because he felt like he and the Beast Archer were on the same level, but he decided to move on for now.

In fact, I had thought about going through it with my body alone, so my conscience pricked me too much to get angry.

"Ahem· There must be a simple way to do it other than that ignorant way..."

"What's that?"

In response to Gu Yang's question, Mu Jin pointed somewhere north and replied.

"We can call for reinforcements, too..."

As much as the enemy uses poison, it is a reinforcement who is well versed in poison.

* * *

Mujin sent a messenger of sorts to request reinforcements from the Middle Plains. With Su Linya to guide the way.

However, it would take some time for reinforcements to be requested to reach the Central Plains, and for the reinforcements to come back here.

Still, spending time resting here would have left the enemy too free.

After completing the first aid and maintenance, the Beast Palace began to advance towards the Odok Gate in earnest the next day.

But it wasn't a simple ignorant charge unique to the Beast Palace.

Beastbow warriors with animals that were somewhat resistant to venom or sensitive to incense or poison were entrusted with the role of a kind of outpost.

And when the outposts sensed the poison, they would be able to use Mujin or Gu Yang. Masters such as the Beast Archer stepped in to drive out the poison.

Behind them, the Red Tiger Corps and the warriors of the Beast Palace, who had been resting comfortably, were slowly advancing little by little, clearing the surroundings and securing supply routes.

It was Gu Yang who was spearheading all of this.

"Still, it's easy to have someone who knows how to use your brain..."

Mujin will only drive them away if they are sometimes found to be poisonous. It was just a leisurely move in the rear.

Well, there were some poisonous guys who were preparing to attack not only the occasional poison, but also the poisonous ones...

Whoops!

"Ugh..."

It wasn't Mujin's opponent.

"Phew· After all, it's easier to use your body than your head..."

He didn't need to plan strategies and command people, so except for the time when he was pushing back the poison, he was just lazily training his muscles in the rear.