Chapter 602: Inside the Jiedian — Preparing to Detonate the Orcs' Mine

Xueya Site put on Jier's Plant Concealment Cloak and carefully stowed away the damaged one. After all, it was an item borrowed from the Agricultural God Church; even if it was broken, it had to be returned to the Church. Otherwise, if one simply didn't return it because it was broken, who would know if it was truly broken or not?

Although the Divine Power on the cloak could not support its use for long, and it could not avoid the need for a Church Priest of the Agricultural God Church to replenish the cloak's Divine Power, the relationship between a parish church in one area and a parish in another was not very significant, aside from both being under the command of higher-level church institutions.

Seeing Xueya Site ready to continue fighting, Jier nodded and handed the Electric Magic Ring from his finger into Xueya Site's hand.

"This is?" Xueya Site had never used such a Magic Tool and looked at the ring in his hand with some confusion.

"Zzzzt—Pop! Haha, this is the Magic Tool that just electrocuted the monster. It's a newly purchased ring. I'll tell you the details of how I bought it later. For now, take it and learn how to use it. The energy inside this thing is enough for several uses. You must use it at a critical moment; recharging it is very troublesome."

Jier taught Xueya Site how to use the Electric Magic Ring. He himself did not need such trouble because he possessed Magic Power. Although it was the Magic Power of a Magic Beast, it could also directly supply power to the ring. When using the Magic Power provided by Jier himself, the Magic Power stored within the ring itself did not need to be consumed.

Jier was not sure if he could replace Yamila to recharge the ring, but he estimated it should be possible, just perhaps not as convenient.

"This thing is so precious..." Xueya Site felt the Magic Tool in his hand was practically burning him; he dared not use it.

But Jier patted this reliable partner who was quite a bit older than him: "Use it with peace of mind. Compared to the ring, the friendship between us is the truly precious thing. Do you remember how to use it?"

Just as Xueya Site was about to speak, Jier hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't you dare recite the activation command while holding this thing; just think it in your heart. Go, defeat those Scout Soldiers, and wait for the others to arrive outside the Jiedian gate as soon as possible. I will go and find more trouble for those Defeated Soldiers, so they keep suffering losses and have no energy to go into the Mine to bother the Villagers."

After the two finished discussing matters, they immediately parted ways.

Xueya Site took out the paper recording the locations of the scouts, carefully identified the direction, fiddled with the Electric Magic Ring in his hand, and muttered something. Meanwhile, Jier mounted the invisible Spirit Dog, Big Nose, and whistled as he returned to the outside of the Jiedian wall.

Jier looked up, and sure enough, the wooden wall that had always been patrolled was completely empty.

It made sense; such a big thing had happened in the enemy Yingdi, so surely no one would honestly continue to be responsible for their original work.

He had Big Nose claw at the wooden wall, and with a light jump from Big Nose's back, he landed on the wall.

Jier had just made a quick entry and exit, changing into a set of enemy Soldier equipment in the Lady's dream. At this moment, even if someone saw him, because of the distance and the identical equipment, they would only think Jier was one of their own acting strangely.

They would never imagine that Jier was an outsider, and that the chaotic situation in the Yingdi was all his doing.

"Let's see the situation first, Big Nose, Scout!"

It was daytime now, and the Shadow Bird, which was more suitable for scouting, could not be used openly in the daylight, so he had to rely on the invisible Big Nose to conduct the scouting.

Big Nose nimbly passed right through the wooden wall; it didn't even try to jump over it, but instead further etherealized its entire body and just walked straight through the wall that was several meters high.

It looked up in the direction Jier pointed and ran over quickly.

Soon, Jier heard the "woof-woof" barking of Big Nose that only he could hear.

Although it was all the same dog barking, Jier could barely understand what Big Nose wanted to say in his mind.

"Ha, they're in a standoff, and someone is even injured in the brawl! That's great. What about the people in other places?" Jier muttered to himself. Following his words, Big Nose ran around the entire Jiedian again and reported back to Jier.

Woof-woof—woof!

Not all Soldiers cared about trust and deception; in fact, most of the Soldiers were extremely bewildered under such extreme changes in the situation. They usually tended to favor the Captain Yeluba, but when the Adjutant Piluo just pointed out that one of Yeluba's subordinates had stolen the belongings of the Soldiers killed last night, and accused Yeluba in front of everyone of whitewashing his own subordinates,

these Soldiers who seemed to favor Yeluba became neutral.

They stood by and watched, not participating in the siege and questioning of Yeluba's people, but instead gathered beside the dug-up ground, collectively dividing the belongings that had been stolen over these days.

Some people grabbed various belongings in their hands while mocking the Soldiers who were following the questioning: "What a bunch of idiots. Since the people are already dead, does it really matter who did it? It's more important to keep the valuable stuff in your own hands."

"Exactly! Captain Yeluba has so many subordinates; they aren't fighting back only because they are in the wrong. If they get pushed too hard, there will be a good fight."

"I think they've just been idle these days, so many of them are keen on this kind of struggle. Once some enemies come, they will definitely unite, and no one will care about who killed their own people anymore. Besides, for us Soldiers, if we get killed, it just means our skills aren't as good as others; if we die, we die!"

These Soldiers scrambling for the stolen belongings discussed, their hands moving fast, even scrambling among themselves, with one side saying this item was lost by them, and the other side saying this item clearly wasn't yours, but lost by my companion.

The two sides tugged at each other; whoever was more shameless and had thicker skin often managed to get the item they were fighting over.

And there were still many Soldiers holding shovels and Mining Picks, constantly digging up the nearby ground, trying to find other stolen belongings that had been buried.

And believe it or not, they really did find some scattered, hidden items.

Only then did everyone realize that even between two thieves who stole from their fellow Soldiers together, there were unspeakable gaps; they would secretly hide the things they considered most valuable alone, without letting the other companion know.

This discovery, on one hand, made the Soldiers remaining here even happier. Many people, after filling their pockets with belongings, still held tools and kept digging nearby. But on the other hand, they had to appreciate the complexity of the Human Mind and maintain a scrutinizing attitude toward other companions around them.

Who knew if a partner sleeping in the same tent would be like these two 'thief' Soldiers, even if they collaborated to do bad things, they couldn't fully trust each other and had their own secretly hidden belongings.

Because of the dispute and brawl here, Soldiers from other parts of the Yingdi were attracted over. The Soldiers at the Mine entrance ran away, not caring about the bags of grain used to weigh and exchange for Mineral Ore, leaving these things lying there.

Jier circled around from behind to the vicinity of the Mine entrance, changed back into the clothes he had worn when communicating with the Villagers, and then came to the Mine entrance, shouting to the Villagers who were watching the outside from within: "What are you all standing there for? Why don't you take advantage of the internal chaos of those Soldiers and go grab the grain they left on the ground!"

The Villagers guarding the Mine entrance were all young and strong. Although they were all exhausted to the point of being gaunt these days, compared to other Villagers who were skin and bones from hunger, they were already much better off.

"Jier? Aren't you inside the Mine? When did you go out?"

The Villagers were a bit strange; they had been following Jier's orders and guarding here since last night, yet Jier had returned from the outside.

How could they know that Jier had used the Shadow Bird's 【Shadow Veil】 ability to enter and exit the Mine and the enemy's Jiedian several times during the night? These Villagers, who were mentally listless due to hunger and fatigue, of course could not discover him.

"Don't worry about that, I have my own special skills to get out. Now, hurry out and get back the Grain Bags those Soldiers left behind. You don't really think those grains belong to those hateful Soldiers after these days, do you? That is clearly the grain you harvested from the land through your hard work! That grain was originally yours; it was only occupied by others because of violence and unavoidable circumstances."

When put this way, the Villagers were a bit enlightened. Over these days, many of them had become accustomed to taking the Mineral Ore they worked hard to dig and exchanging it with the Soldiers for grain.

They had long forgotten that that grain was originally the property of their Cunzi! It was originally their own thing.

It was their own thing, yet they still had to use things to exchange for it. After realizing this, many young people were so angry that their teeth itched.

Under Jier's lead, they rushed out of the Mine entrance with lightning speed, holding heavy Grain Bags in pairs, and hurried toward the Mine. Jier himself carried two bags; if it weren't for the fact that these things were quite bulky, this weight would not have been a problem for Jier.

They brought the grain here back into the Mine in one trip, and then no one was left here. Jier led everyone to escort the grain to a spacious place in the Mine where everyone was gathered.

"Look, what we've brought back again!"

Jier proudly pointed to the Grain Bags behind him. However, at this time, the Villagers didn't pay much attention to the newly brought Grain Bags, because they were all too full. Since yesterday, they had had an endless supply of cooked bird meat to eat for free.

Everyone started by scrambling to eat the most filling parts of the bird, but as the second batch of bird meat and meat soup came out of the pot, the scrambling situation among everyone decreased a lot.

By the time the third batch of meat soup came out, many people could no longer eat anything.

Everyone was chewing in their mouths, holding in their hands, and filling their bowls, but pot after pot of new bird meat was still coming out, and they really couldn't eat anymore.

Seeing Jier bring people back with a large amount of wheat from who knows where, the Villagers didn't react much.

It was clear they were howling with hunger just yesterday.

No, yesterday they were so hungry they couldn't even howl, but who would have thought that in just one day, everyone's situation would change so much.

Jier looked at the way everyone was completely unable to eat anything, and couldn't help but sigh. He had people put down the Grain Bags casually, and then said to the young and strong Villagers behind him: "Look, the pots of meat soup over there haven't been touched at all, why don't you eat some too?"

He himself had drunk several large bowls of Wheat Porridge he had cooked in the Lady's dream, so he wasn't very hungry. Plus, he had mixed in by crawling into the Viscera of a Forest Deer yesterday, and even now he didn't really want to eat meat.

Even the delicious meat broth made from bird meat was the same.

"Since that's the case, everyone should take a rest. I have business with those alien Beast, so everyone had best move aside and clear a path for others to go up and down the Mine. Clear the way; those alien Beast might move out en masse in a while."

The elders among the Villager were somewhat curious about what Jier was going to do that would actually make the alien Beast move out en masse, especially since those alien Beast had already been busy working all through last night.

But Jier smiled and had no intention of explaining.

He strolled along the main path of the downward-sloping Mine and found the Mao Mao who were resting in the middle level of the Mine.

The Mao Mao were still very vigilant; they hadn't sent all their manpower out to work last night. At this moment, in the abandoned mine tunnel where they were resting and active, there were alert Mao Mao guarding the area who stopped Jier.

"It's just me! Look, there's no one else around. And I'm here to discuss something with your leaders. If you can understand me, take me to them," Jier said to the Mao Mao blocking the way.

If it were a Human that other Mao Mao looked down upon, they might have rudely pretended not to understand the Human language, but Jier's battle yesterday had conquered these Mao Mao Warrior, so after hearing Jier's words, they sent two Mao Mao to lead Jier into the mine tunnel, while the other Mao Mao responsible for guarding remained at the entrance of the abandoned mine tunnel.

Along the way, Jier could see many Mao Mao curled up in the mine tunnel; they were all quite exhausted, but it seemed that a small portion of the morning's sleep had allowed most of the Mao Mao to get enough rest.

At this moment, some Mao Mao heard the Human's footsteps, opened their eyes, and stared at Jier without blinking, aided by the faint lighting in the mine tunnel.

If it were an ordinary person, they would probably have been scared witless at this moment seeing those pairs of reflective beast pupils staring at them from all around. But Jier used the ability of the Shadow Bird on his right eye, temporarily granting himself the ability to see in the dark.

He could see clearly that every reflective beast pupil that seemed to be floating in mid-air was actually just a sleepy cat looking at him with curiosity.

The Long-haired Mountain Cat Beast were covered in fur, and if it weren't for their greedy and mean-spirited nature, they would actually be very popular with Human aesthetics.

Calm and composed, Jier passed through the resting Mao Mao and arrived at a relatively spacious area inside this abandoned mine tunnel.

This was clearly being used by the Mao Mao as their core Jiedian; the discarded Metal Lump they had brought in were all being displayed in one corner like treasures, while the large amount of unsmelted Mineral Ore obtained in exchange for bird carcasses from yesterday to this morning were all piled up in another corner.

A bonfire had been specially lit here for illumination, rather than having a Torch stuck in the ground far away like in other places.

Unlike the other Mao Mao who just lay on the ground to sleep and rest, the several Mao Mao leaders here had their own small wooden beds to rest on. As soon as Jier arrived, they climbed up from their small beds. Four of the uninjured Mao Mao leaders hopped over, while the Mao Mao leader who had been injured fighting Jier lay diagonally on its small wooden bed, pricking up its ears toward this side.

"Human, seek, us, have, what, matter?"

After one Mao Mao leader came before Jier, it used its strong tail to prop its body up in place to reach the same height as Jier's head and face, asking Jier with undiminished majesty.

?? Welcome everyone to subscribe to this book, add this book to your favorites, and support this book with recommendation votes, monthly tickets, and tips. Thank you all.