Chapter 264: Water Lang

The black fog has dissipated!

The words of the martial artist who landed on the island were the fuse that ignited the fire.

The report from the soldiers responsible for guarding the island chain who rowed over made the news explode completely!

Military merit!

The military merit that was about to be obtained!

No one cared about the outcome of the gambling anymore; the more than a thousand martial artists of the River Po Office operated rapidly like machines.

Xu Yuelong and Wei Lin led people to land on the island together to investigate the situation.

On the vibrant island chain, big trees fell one after another, their vitality completely drained, leaves withered, yellow, and brittle, as if in late autumn.

Fortunately, the worst possibility did not happen.

The corpses of the Wolf Smoke Martial Artists and Galloping Horse Martial Artists lay on the ground perfectly still; for six full days, there was no sign of corpse change.

The phenomenon of "resurrection from the dead" stopped at the Hunting Tiger Great Martial Artists, a very valuable positive piece of news.

Live eels and live frogs scurried in the grass, not having been sucked of life and died.

The martial artists who landed on the island moved freely without any discomfort.

They could land on the island!

News was reported layer by layer, and orders were issued one by one.

Confirming they could land on the island, the next step was the intensive coordination of military merit, transportation of materials, and disposal of corpses.

The weather was too hot; it was clearly impossible to bring their own people's bones back for burial, so they could only be cremated on the spot to take the ashes.

Several black smokes rose one after another on the island.

One small box after another filled with ashes was written with names and accumulated in the dark ship cabin on the bottom floor.

Similar situations were countless.

The battles of martial artists were slightly different from ordinary armies.

As long as the intelligence was accurate and correct, formulating a plan would definitely not allow any high-end combat power to be lost, which was easy to do.

The small battlefields of Great Martial Artists and Grandmasters could be easily cut off from the big battlefield, becoming a battle of a few people, fighting more with less, fighting strong with weak.

That was why Zhang Longxiang of the Great Shun was ambushed by three Grandmasters back then but could still kill his way out, which shocked the world.

But most martial artists could only turn into a tiny wave in the torrent of the battlefield.

Except for their own people, the heads of all hostile martial artists were cut off and stuck on wooden spears for people to identify, register merit, and report for confrontation.

Confirming war merit was very troublesome; relying on self-confirmation was clearly not enough, and there would be quite a few contradictions in the middle.

Not to mention bribery and moving merit, in the chaos of the battlefield, there were often cases of misremembering.

When charging, the brain was hot; when the charge ended, the whole body was in a cold sweat, and when recalling, they found their brains were blank.

In order to be as fair and just as possible, the supervision team would display the enemy's heads for several days to see if others agreed.

If someone reported successfully, not only the individual who reported falsely, but even the small team they were in would be punished.

If there was no questioning or reporting for several consecutive days, then this merit could be considered truly obtained.

Secondly, if an enemy was killed by multiple people, at this time, military merit was hard to count on an individual.

For example, Liang Qu, as an archer, specialized in picking on people who were fighting, relieving pressure on the front line while having better opportunities to kill.

In this way, who the head belonged to was controversial, and it certainly couldn't be counted directly on Liang Qu.

Then this was "collective merit."

After the total military merit came down, it was divided according to the position and branch in the formation.

This behavior could effectively prevent merit attribution disputes; dangerous positions got more, safe positions got less.

The supervision team coordinated and recorded military merit in an orderly manner.

Liang Qu and the others went to transport materials.

If they hadn't secretly landed on the island earlier, it might have taken a while for everyone to discover the mechanism and tunnel.

But in the battle with the human corpse, Xiang Fang Su and Ke Wenbin accidentally collapsed one-third of the tunnel, and the discovery process had no obstacles.

As for the Hunting Tiger human corpse at the door, it was not enough to fear and had long since collapsed on the ground.

The soldiers cleared the stones, and Wei Lin and Xu Yuelong stepped into the tunnel one after another.

Xu Yuelong knew what was going on inside and was not surprised by the crisscrossing slashes in the tunnel.

Wei Lin looked at the traces of the battle on the ground and saw the headless corpse in the hall, falling into silence.

"Someone has been here."

The fifth and sixth-rank officials following the two discussed heatedly.

Who could land on the island?

Wei Lin thought of the leaders of the few ships that were fearless of the black fog on the night of the raid. He looked in the direction of entering the hall in his memory, and a figure flashed before his eyes.

"Lord Wei shouldn't waste time." Xu Yuelong smiled.

Wei Lin looked coldly at Xu Yuelong, turned his head to look at the scribe beside him, and the dozens of people present acted immediately to clear the materials.

Liang Qu huddled in a corner with Xiang Fang Su and the others, feeling very guilty as he watched their behavior.

The Qilin Great Pill was already in his stomach, and he couldn't take it out even if he wanted to.

He turned his head to look at Xiang Fang Su and Ke Wenbin.

Both didn't care at all; Ke Wenbin even secretly patted Liang Qu on the shoulder, signaling him to put his heart in his stomach.

The entire underground was underground, not many people came, and the traces they left were too obvious.

They couldn't hide it.

Sure enough, after a search, Wei Shao ran to Wei Lin and whispered a few words.

Wei Lin squinted at Xu Yuelong.

Xu Yuelong's expression didn't change, and he touched the patterns on the cauldron body, clicking his tongue in wonder.

The entire underground atmosphere was dull, silent, and the pressure filled every corner like a tide.

After a long silence.

Wei Lin waved his big hand.

"Move!"

Whoosh!

Liang Qu let out a long breath.

Ke Wenbin looked at Liang Qu, revealing a proud expression.

Liang Qu gave a thumbs up: "Brother Wenbin is first-class!"

As long as they started moving, the traces they left would be completely destroyed.

In other words, they were safe.

Ke Wenbin became cocky: "Enough for you to learn for a lifetime."

Following Wei Lin's order, the crowd moved the big items like the Black Dragon Wanfang Cauldron out.

"So heavy!"

Liang Qu lifted a cauldron foot, used all his strength, and worked with Ke Wenbin to move a big cauldron out along the expanded tunnel.

He had swallowed the Qilin Great Pill, generated Qilin Bright Spirit Strength, plus the opening of the fifth orifice, and his whole body's strength should have increased by another fifty percent. He didn't expect that he couldn't lift this big cauldron alone.

"Normal. This kind of big cauldron is nurtured by pill-refining masters generation after generation. Like our spiritual weapons, they will get heavier and heavier. Put in some effort."

A big cauldron bathed in the sun, seeing the light of day again from the underground hall that had been sealed for more than ten years, slowly moved toward the big ship.

For the next two or three days, everyone in the River Po Office spent their time moving goods and recording military merit.

The evening of the fourth day.

Xu Yuelong received the military merit book.

He called someone to grind ink first, browsed through it, sat back at the long desk, spread out several blank volumes, and wrote one by one to request merit for his subordinates, or rather, to recommend them.

When it was Liang Qu's turn, Xu Yuelong pondered for a while.

Combing from beginning to end, he was surprised to find that in these four months, Liang Qu had actually done quite a few practical things, with several great merits.

Whale Gang, ship anchor, two Galloping Horse Upper Stage Martial Artists of the Ghost Mother Sect, plus the military merit statistics that came up recently...

The Whale Gang matter had already been promoted by one level...

Xu Yuelong dipped in ink and wrote on the volume by candlelight.

"Liang Qu, from Pingyang County, Huaiyin Prefecture, age..."

How old was he?

Xu Yuelong thought for a while and filled in eighteen.

Nominal age, real age difference is very normal; being older has advantages in the Ministry of Personnel.

"Entered the River Po Office for more than four months, made repeated strange merits.

Broke the Whale Gang, wiped out the Ghost Mother, quick-witted and fearless, outstanding, and even offered the strange object 'Mountain Anchor,' with several times the effectiveness of a four-claw anchor.

His swimming ability is even better than the Sixth-Rank Water Balance Envoy Wei Shao.

Perhaps can be appointed as a Seventh-Rank Water Lang." ===== CHAPTER 265 =====