Chapter 322: The General Is So Willful

It should have heard He Lingchuan and the others chasing, but didn't even spare them a glance.

What was in front of it? He Lingchuan had only blinked once when he saw a sand-yellow figure flash by.

Was it the mountain spirit at the entrance of Chifeng Town? It had also entered? The sand leopard pounced on the side of the Jin Du hatchling, lowering its head to bite its ankles, clearly seeing its bone armor was sturdy and not wanting to break its teeth.

Compared to the unpromising younger generation, its speed was astonishing, catching even the Jin Du hatchling off guard, dragging it into a stagger.

The Jin Du hatchling was about to give it a violent blow with its fist full of sharp spikes, when He Lingchuan threw the Floating Life Blade.

Earlier on the dead-end road, the place was too narrow to swing the blade, but this time the distance between the two sides was moderate, and the "one throw, one hit" characteristic could finally be put to use.

The monster tilted its head to dodge, but the Floating Life Blade made a gorgeous turn, slashing a bloody wound on its chest armor.

Just as He Lingchuan caught the blade, a shadow of fire flashed past from the front, fast to the point of being unbelievable, carrying a scorching heat. It stabbed straight into the wound on the Jin Du hatchling's chest, carrying it flying a zhang away, and nailed it straight to the stone wall!

At this moment, the crowd saw clearly that it was an ordinary standard long spear, but the whole spear was steaming with flames, and it was a pale blue close to ghostly white, showing the high temperature.

The Jin Du hatchling's wound was instantly burned black, emitting bursts of charred odor. It wailed loudly, wanting to pull out its mother to eat a few more bites to recover its vitality, but the sand leopard had already taken the opportunity to snatch the woman from its back and slip away in the opposite direction.

The hatchling wanted to pull out the long spear, but its claws were burned by the high temperature as soon as they touched the spear shaft, emitting white smoke, unable to exert any force at all.

At this moment, rapid footsteps came from the front again, six or seven people.

Finally seeing the reinforcements they had been waiting for for a long time, the patrol guards were overjoyed, but He Lingchuan was stunned on the spot.

A dark red figure walked past him, stopping a zhang away from the monster to stare at it.

That was... could that be? A cold voice echoed in everyone's heart: "Sending little ghosts to cause trouble in my city, Bai Sha Jin Du, what is your intention?"

The monster nailed to the wall just struggled and roared, not looking like it intended to answer.

General Red waited patiently for ten-odd breaths, and seeing it didn't intend to confess, said: "Fine. No matter who ordered it, the ones sent to die are your offspring."

The Jin Du hatchling suddenly let out a long howl, its physique changed, its body became even stronger, and even two more arms grew from its back, and its face looked more like a human's.

This was a form close to an adult, but this kind of mutation seemed to be catalyzed, twisted and unnatural.

It opened its mouth, about to speak, when a cold light flashed, and the whole room brightened.

General Red clapped her hands: "No interest in listening."

Others: "..." The general is so willful.

Then, half of the Jin Du hatchling's head fell off, rolling on the ground, the cut very smooth.

He Lingchuan felt a chill in his heart. Just now, did General Red strike?

Not even a sound.

The group let out a long breath.

This monster had been so difficult to deal with earlier, worthy of being an unkillable cockroach, yet it was finished off so plainly under General Red's hand. Sure enough, after lifting the binding between the underground palace and the monster, the difficulty of conquering the Jin Du hatchling dropped in a straight line.

The crisis was resolved, and the three felt the pain and exhaustion surge at the same time, almost unable to stand.

General Red took her blade and picked out an oval object from the monster's skull and put it away, then turned to the group: "Well done. If we waited for the 'abuser' to build a stable underground palace, it wouldn't have been so easy to take down this nest."

This was called easy? Three teams of twenty-six people entered, and only six or seven survived, all injured.

However, everyone also heard a new term, 'abuser'.

General Red seemed to hear the crowd's grumbling and rarely explained: "Jin Du mothers have many offspring in one litter, but there is a very small chance of giving birth to an abuser. Within ten days of birth, the more people this kind of monster eats, the greater its power and the stronger its supernatural abilities, and it can use the host's body to build a nest, called a flesh-and-blood fortress. Fortunately, we discovered it early, and it built its nest in a sparsely populated place, eating few people."

"In ancient times, an abuser swallowed tens of thousands of living beings in a full city, gaining the ability to briefly contend with true immortals. The flesh-and-blood fortress it built was impervious even to the life-bound magic artifacts of ordinary immortals." She paused, "This abuser was killed by us, which is also a huge loss for the Jin Du mother."

General Red looked at the three and asked: "Are there any survivors in the mine tunnel?"

He Lingchuan opened his mouth to answer, when the skinny man and others limped out from the passage behind, shouting: "We need medical treatment here!"

He was carrying the unconscious Duan Xinyu, while the last person from Xu Chun's team was supporting the injured man with damaged eyes.

This injured man also had good luck, actually surviving the battle on the dead-end road safely. It seemed the abuser determined he had no threat and could be left as a midnight snack for last.

General Red's guards immediately rushed forward to take over.

Soon, people carrying temporarily made stretchers entered the mine tunnel from outside to carry the two injured men who had received first aid out.

As for the unconscious woman, the guards asked General Red for instructions, and she took one look and said: "Carry her back to Chifeng Town."

The skinny man opened his mouth twice but didn't speak.

He was standing behind He Lingchuan, and no one else noticed, but General Red turned to look at him: "Speak freely."

The skinny man was slightly startled, hesitated, and then said: "General, there seems to be a situation deep in the mine tunnel."

"You say."

"When I dug Duan Xinyu out, I found arc-shaped pits on the stone wall, and when I walked out, I paid more attention and found large and small pits like this in the southwestern mining area." He licked his lips, "I dug gold in the Xilin mine tunnel for two years; the pits here look very much like, very much like the traces of 'fire-blasting' left behind in gold mining."

This mine tunnel also produced gold? Fire-blasting was one of the most common gold mining methods, using fire to burn stone, waiting for the temperature to reach a high point, then quickly splashing water to extinguish it, and then using a mining pick to chisel, making it easy to chisel open hard rock to take gold.

General Red also seemed stunned for a moment, nodding after a few breaths: "No wonder. Good, I'll record a merit for you."

As soon as she made the decision, the messenger officer beside her immediately recorded it.

The skinny man coughed lightly: "Can this be counted as an anonymous report?"

General Red seemed very easy to talk to: "Yes."

Next, the group followed General Red out of the mine tunnel. At this time, the mountain road had been cleared of blockages, and carriages and horses were waiting outside.

On the way back, everyone else fell a horse's length behind General Red.

This person naturally had a cold aura that kept strangers at a distance. Facing her, even Liu Tiao, who feared nothing, lowered her eyebrows and didn't dare to speak much, fearing that getting too close would cause frostbite.

Only He Lingchuan drove his horse two steps forward to ride side-by-side with her, asking the question in his heart:

"General, why didn't you let the abuser speak earlier?"

Having entered the Panlong dream for more than half a year, he finally saw the true face of this military war god.

It was a "she."

He was about twenty-six or twenty-seven, with long eyebrows and phoenix eyes, a pert nose, and full lips. His features were grown according to the "three sections and five eyes" standard, perfect like a banished immortal from a painting, or a porcelain carving crafted with painstaking effort by a master artisan.

Beautiful, exquisite, without a trace of human flavor.

The tea-colored eyes were cold and ruthless, and the gaze that swept over was worth a frosty blade and a windy sword. She glanced at He Lingchuan, and the latter felt a palpitation in his heart, subconsciously avoiding her gaze.

This was the powerful pressure from a superior, making one lack the courage to look her in the eye.

General Red might be a woman; He Lingchuan had long expected this.

But he thought what he would see would be Zhong Shengguang's daughter, Zhong Wuhan.

However, calculating by age, Zhong Wuhan at this time was at most a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, at least ten years different from the one before him in appearance.

More importantly, He Lingchuan had actually seen this face.

In the Mitian Temple of the Panlong dream, the huge statue receiving the offerings of all people was somewhat similar to her.

So what he was seeing now was the human appearance of Lady Mitian?

"The abuser's intelligence is limited; I want to talk to the Jin Du mother behind it." General Red answered, "It hesitated for a long time without answering, showing that even the Jin Du mother couldn't make decisions on her own. Later it wanted to open its mouth, that was the real manipulator coming."

This was a bit convoluted; He Lingchuan pondered for a while before barely understanding. General Red meant that the Jin Du mother was also manipulated by others? Hmm, she seemed to have said that just now.

"You don't want to talk to the real manipulator?"

"I know what they want to say; there's no need for dialogue." General Red said coldly, "Just knowing that the Jin Du mother is also manipulated is enough."

He Lingchuan pondered.

General Red's words were not hard to understand literally, but the meaning was obscure. In the end, He Lingchuan had too little information to analyze. But Dong Rui did say that the Jin Du mother's rank among the gods was not high. People are divided into three, six, and nine grades, let alone gods.

"He Lingchuan, is there anything else?"

He was startled: "You recognize me?"

"I recognize every warrior in Panlongcheng."

It would be arrogance for others to say this, but it was different coming from General Red's mouth.

She represented the gods; if she said she recognized, then she recognized.

General Red even added: "Your performance was good."

Eh? Was this affirmation from Panlongcheng? He Lingchuan yielded two sentences, but General Red didn't exchange pleasantries with him, just took something from her bosom and handed it to him: "This trophy belongs to you."

He Lingchuan took it and looked; wasn't this the cocoon pupa he used to eat? It looked like it from color to pattern, brownish-red, the spiral pattern on the surface was very beautiful, and he wanted to break it open as soon as he held it in his hand.

Deep-fried in oil, one mouthful at a time, a crispy snack for drinking.

No, this seemed to be the thing General Red took from the abuser's brain earlier!

"This is?"

"Abuser brain core." General Red talked freely, "There is still a little power remaining inside; you can activate it with true power. It can allow you to simulate the abuser's talent and temporarily build a flesh-and-blood fortress."

Awesome! He Lingchuan was overjoyed: "I can also have the bunker skill?"

The flesh-and-blood fortress was the signature skill of the Jin Du hatchling youngest one, and just relying on this home-field advantage, it had tortured many patrol guards to the point of life and death.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 323 =====