Chapter 883: WEL (1/2)
Swhoosh!
After I appeared in Vanished God City, I contacted Gui Guzi again and joined his party. Li Chengfeng and High Fighting Spirits were with him, and they were currently in a forest to the south of Vanished God City. They were only three hours away from Blazing Hot Lips’ territory now, and logically speaking, nothing should happen until then.
I exited the city and rode along the edges of the forest with the Phantom Wolf King. I was able to catch up with the escort party in less than ten minutes. It was because I was wearing the Divine Martial War Boots—which boosted my movement speed by 250%—and riding the Armored Ice Qilin Horse. In short, I was moving 5 times faster than normal!
I saw a long line of supply carts of varying sizes at the distance. They had departed from Dark Moon City. The flag of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls was flying above every cart, and the wheels looked like they were bending under the sheer weight of ores they were carrying. Warhorses neighed from time to time as they dragged the carts across the wet ground.
The supply carts were surrounded by a ton of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls troops. The one thousand Dragonlight Cavalrymen I ordered to protect them were already standing by.
Gui Guzi welcomed me warmly as I rode up to them. ”Boss Broken Halberd, you should’ve just left this to me and Li. You didn’t need to do this yourself!”
”It’s fine. I’m just here to take a look, and better safe than sorry, you know?”
Li Chengfeng also came over and asked me with a smile, ”Lu Chen, I heard you went to speak with Stranger of Three Lifetimes earlier today? You must’ve made a deal with her, or there’s no way you would send her several million resource units, right? You’ve never even sent Beauty Lin, your girlfriend, this many resources before, hahaha!”
I grinned. ”You know me too well. Yes, that’s correct. I’ve made a deal with Stranger of Three Lifetimes.”
”It’s the mages, isn’t it?” Li Chengfeng said with a meaningful smile.
High Fighting Spirits raised his warhammer as he chimed in, ”Oh, I heard about that! Blazing Hot Lips sent us 1000 high-level mages temporarily to help us build up our mage party, right? It’s already posted in the forums. Even half a month’s time should be enough to help significantly bolster our numbers!”
Xu Yang agreed. ”Yeah, this should be the last piece we need to set up our mage party. It’s not like Lian Xin can’t do it—she’s been doing recruitment drives at the plaza of Sky City since this morning—but it’s too slow, and it stresses her out too much.”
Gui Guzi complained, ”Still, we paid 2 days’ worth of production for just half a month’s worth of employment. I feel like it’s a bit too much…”
Li Chengfeng’s smile suddenly grew wider. ”Little Gui, Fighting Spirits, Xu Yang, it looks like the three of you still don’t understand Lu Chen quite well!”
”What do you mean?” Gui Guzi asked in puzzlement.
Li Chengfeng looked at me before explaining, ”Have you ever seen Lu Chen being on the losing end of a business deal? On purpose no less? No, I’m sure he has something in mind. For example… He has no plans to return the 1000 mages Blazing Hot Lips lent us.”
Gui Guzi exclaimed in shock, ”Holy f.u.c.k! Really? If that’s true, then…”
I smiled. ”I’ll tell you guys all about it later. For now, let’s focus on delivering these resources safely into Blazing Hot Lips’ territory.”
”Yeah!”
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I opened the world map and stared at it for a moment. Suddenly, I frowned a little and asked, ”Little Gui, Chengfeng, who’s the one who picked this route?”
”The NPCs picked it themselves. What’s wrong?” Li Chengfeng asked.
I pointed at a spot to the southeast and said, ”Hall of Immortality’s territory is less than half an hour’s journey away from this spot, and they desperately need resources to upgrade their Rank 6 territory. If I’m not mistaken, Hall of Immortality might attempt to rob us here. You all know how greedy that Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch is.”
”It’s fine!” Li Chengfeng said in an unconcerned manner, ”We have 1000 Dragonlight Cavalrymen and 10000 Cyan Tiger Cavalrymen. I doubt Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch has the guts to act on his greed!”
”That’s not necessarily true. An ambitious villain loves to take risk, and Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch definitely fits the bill. Well, we’ll see what happens in a moment. For now, I want a troop of Cyan Tiger Cavalry to patrol the southeast side and stand by.”
”Okay!”
……
As it turned out, my prediction was spot on. Not long after the discussion, Eighteen Steads of You and Yun reported, ”F.u.c.k, Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch is here! He’s brought tens of thousands of troops with him!”
At the same time, the sound of thundering hooves appeared from the open plains in front of us. It was the Ghost Riders of Hall of Immortality, and I counted around twenty thousand of them. They were far inferior to the Dragonlight Cavalry and Cyan Tiger Cavalry, but what they lacked in quality they made up for in numbers. If a fight actually broke out, we might not be able to get away unscathed.
I gazed to the horizon and noted that Hall of Immortality players were still running out of the distant forests. They were all mages and archers. If I allowed them to get close, then our supply carts would truly be in danger.
Chiang!
So I pulled out the Purple Ying Sword and pointed to the southeast direction. I ordered, ”Chengfeng, stay here and guard the supply carts. Gui Guzi, High Fighting Spirits, Xu Yang, bring your men and come with me to meet Hall of Immortality! No way in hell we’re surrendering these resources to them!”
Li Chengfeng nodded and said, ”Be careful!”
Not long after I and around 2000 cavalry departed, we came face to face with the Ghost Riders of Hall of Immortality. We glared at each other, but didn’t make any rash moves.
……
”Gulp!”
Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch’s eyes burned with greed as he stared at our supply carts. However, he was reminded of the risks when Gui Guzi, High Fighting Spirits and I rode up to meet him.