Chapter 61: Bell's Orders and Letters, Flo Cunzi

Early the next morning, Jier rode out alone to scout the movements of the parasitic monsters in Banjiu Cunzi.

The results of his scouting would determine how he and his warriors would act today.

If there were signs that the monsters around the village were gathering, Jier and his men would not head south today, but would instead take the initiative to strike and crush them before they could assemble!

But if there were no signs of the monsters gathering, Jier and his men would follow the pre-arranged plan: notify Yemei Town that the second wave of returning villagers for this route should prepare to depart from the trench entrance, while Jier's team would immediately attack another village south of Banjiu Cunzi.

They would strive to clear the second village on their route that needed to be taken by that afternoon, so that the returning villagers could arrive back at their village just in time.

However, when Jier rode out to scout, he sporadically discovered some scattered parasitic monsters in the fields outside the village, but they showed no signs of wandering or gathering; instead, they were walking in a hurry toward the northeast.

It was as if something there was summoning them from afar.

"This direction..."

Jier sat on his horse, shielding his eyes from the scorching early morning sun with his hand, and looked toward the direction the monsters were moving—it was exactly where the Sun God Church had caused such a scene last night.

He guessed that something must have happened over there, which was why the monsters were summoning the parasitic monsters scattered throughout Northern Sasi County. But he could not guess what exactly had occurred; it might be a good thing, or it might be a bad thing.

Jier rode his horse, brandishing his Blue Axe, and dealt with all the scattered monsters he encountered along the way before quickly returning to Banjiu Cunzi.

As soon as he returned, he saw the messenger who had left yesterday afternoon riding back.

"Any news? Speak quickly." Jier grabbed the young man; although the other party was much older than him, he dared not resist at all and could only let Jier grab and shake him.

"Knight Jier, I reported our actions here to Young Master Bell yesterday, and I also received two orders and letters from him that he asked me to deliver to you, which I obtained yesterday and this morning."

The messenger took two documents from a leather pouch with buttons at his waist: one was a scroll, which was a more formal order, and the other was a few sheets of paper simply wrapped up, which was a private letter from Bell to him.

After taking them, Jier first unfolded the scroll containing the order in front of everyone and read it aloud:

【To Knight Qiao-Jier: It is known that you have successfully taken Banjiu Cunzi on this route and successfully accepted eight hundred and forty-four villagers to return. Upon receiving this order, if there is no monster harassment, please proceed south on the second day according to the plan and take Flo Cunzi on the second day. Also, have the messenger notify Yemei Town to relocate the second batch of seven hundred and fifty villagers to Flo Cunzi on that day. Bell-Sasi】

After Jier finished reading, he handed the order scroll to the Yemei Town official who had temporarily joined the team; these items would be recorded by them so that others could understand this operation in the future.

Of course, Jier would not announce the contents of the other private letter that Bell had asked the messenger to give him.

Jier walked to the side, opened the letter, and saw the contents written on it.

【To my friend Jier:】

【Yesterday, after a fierce battle, my men and I successfully took Celebration Cunzi. These monsters are still difficult to deal with, and the team suffered some casualties; fortunately, none of the Knight Family partners who serve as the main force were injured. After a bitter fight, we finally managed to separate and annihilate the five monsters with blooming heads in the village one by one, and used fire to collectively burn their corpses. Jier, I wonder how the fighting is on your side? The morale of my soldiers is not very high after the battle. The strength of those monsters is too great; even though I tried my best to have the soldiers use Long Spears to restrict them from getting close, many people were still torn apart by those monsters.】

【But we succeeded in the end, and successfully allowed the villagers of Celebration Cunzi to return here. However, that night, that is, last night, there were sporadic monsters approaching and attempting to sneak attack outside the village. Their numbers were not small, and my main force had to be divided into two teams to hold them off. By morning, the number of sporadic monsters had not stopped. I had my scouts ride out to investigate, and as expected, these guys all came from the northwest.】

【Their lair must be somewhere in North Sas County. The Priests suspect that a village on the commercial road outside the county was occupied by the monsters and became their lair. As long as there are living people or corpses, they can continuously cultivate new parasitic monsters. Although I also discovered a small nest where they were cultivating new monsters nearby in Celebration Cunzi. It is similar to the one we found at the Lumber Yard last time. Also, I have already burned down the building found in Celebration Cunzi; I hope you can do the same. After all, the main body of a parasitic monster is actually very small. If they have not successfully parasitized, they might be hiding in some dark corner of a house. You and your men must be careful.】

【As for the matter on the other route, I believe you must have seen it last night, right? It was truly exaggerated. The God of Nobility is above, those Priests of the Sun God Church were really not boasting; the plan they mentioned before is likely truly useful. In fact, I am already a bit regretful now, but after thinking about it carefully, even if their plan works, it is not acceptable. This will break the original balance of church power in Sasi County, as well as the proportion of the people's Faith. This is no small matter, and I do not consider myself qualified to make such an important decision.】

【After all, the counterattack plan is something I deduced after careful consideration as a necessary action, and taking a shortcut to let the Sun God Church complete the counterattack plan will bring trouble to the family's future that will be difficult to handle. I am the Heir of the family; obviously, the trouble I cause today will be left for me in the future, won't it?】

【However, although the Priests of the Sun God Church are very capable, my men discovered some ominous movements. They seem to have angered those parasitic monsters. Since last night, the parasitic monsters attacking the route of the Sun God Church have not stopped. Up to the moment of writing this letter, the Priests have still not been able to lead the returning villagers to reach Bitter Water Cunzi while resisting the continuously emerging monsters.】

【This is very bad. Although because their location is not far from Yemei Town, supplies can still reach them by having fast carriages break through the monsters' interception, under the current situation, they will be unable to proceed with the next step after taking Bitter Water Cunzi.】

【Simply put, the counterattack plan for their route cannot be completed! But fortunately, we still have you on our side! My important friend! I am asking you here: if the Priests' route is truly trapped in Bitter Water Cunzi in the future, then I can only trouble you to work a little harder and, after completing the plan for your route, finish the counterattack area for the Priests' route as well.】

【I know this is a difficult operation; the warriors need rest and rewards. And I cannot let my new friend be so busy based on a simple request alone. But please rest assured, I will provide things that will satisfy you. I heard you mention that your Knight Training is only halfway done? Right? Then I think you must be troubled by some content regarding the other half of the Knight Training recently?】

【Please burn the next page of this letter after reading it. And I will not admit in any situation that I wrote the following text.】

【Jier, in order to trouble you to take over the possible mission of the Priests' route, I am willing to offer a skill from our Sasi Family in Knight Technique to ask for your help. At the same time, one of the members of the Luoer Knight Family under the family, another loyal partner of mine of the same age, also learned of my troubles and is willing to offer a Knight Unique Skill taught to him by his father as a reward for your help in completing the task that the Priests cannot finish.】

【These are family secrets that are rarely passed on; I believe you must be curious about them, right? Please rest assured, they will satisfy you.】

【Then, at the end of the letter, I wish you and me a smooth journey, defeating the enemy and winning.】

【Your friend, Bell-Sasi】

【Year 94 of the Southern Saint Hors Kingdom, 13th day of the Fanyue Month】

Jier read the letter and read the content of the penultimate page several times. Seeing from the text that Bell was not joking or anything, he pulled out this page of the letter, tore it into pieces, and personally found a campfire to watch the letter fragments burn to ashes.

He put away the other pages of the letter, mounted his Tianxuecao warhorse, and said to the warriors who had finished their meal: "Prepare to set off. According to the plan, today we are going to take Flo Cunzi, which is closest to the south of Yemei Town."

Jier turned his head and shouted to the messenger: "Messenger!"

"Knight, sir! I am here." The messenger led his horse and hurried over.

"Inform Yemei Town and Bell's side that there are few monsters around Banjiu Cunzi and no intention to harass the village. According to the plan, I and my men are going to take Flo Cunzi in the southeast direction today. Have Yemei Town immediately gather the villagers for Flo Cunzi, as well as some villagers from other villages that need additional placement. Hmm, after the gathering is complete, have the escorting Town Guard and Armed Civilians set off immediately, do not delay!"

"Yes, Knight, sir! I understand your order, I will deliver the message immediately!"

After speaking, the twenty-something-year-old messenger rode off, whispering the segments of Jier's order into simple, easy-to-remember parts, repeating them in his mouth to memorize them.

Jier watched the man ride out of the village and immediately turned to the warriors who were still stunned around him and shouted: "Move, everyone move. Leave the corpses of the fallen in Banjiu Cunzi, and the monster materials we collected yesterday should also be left in Banjiu Cunzi. For the next two days, there will be fast carriages from the town coming and going, and the corpses and the materials packed in barrels will be sent back to the town."

The thirty warriors under his command quickly climbed into three carriages, and the dozen or so guards and hired thugs who had temporarily joined also climbed into two carriages with low morale. The supply vehicles and the carriage carrying the Mao Maos were also ready.

Speaking of the Mao Maos, when these one-meter-tall upright cats crawled out of the Wooden Box last night, they scared the two low-level town officials accompanying the team and the attendant sent by Bell to monitor them. They thought these were monsters that had popped out from nowhere to take their lives, which ended up being a big joke for Jier's warriors.

However, because of this, even though the three outsiders in the team were very curious about the upright cats that could speak human language hired by Jier, they were unable to successfully talk to the Mao Maos.

On the contrary, several of the caravan guards temporarily mixed into the team were well-traveled and knowledgeable; they had seen the power of these long-haired lynx Beasts before and took the initiative to introduce the skills of the Mao Maos they knew to the people around them, and told everyone to keep an eye on their own purses and weapons.

It seemed that the Mao Maos these caravan guards had seen before did not have very clean hands, leaving a very deep impression on them.

Jier could only laugh at this.

At noon that day, Jier panted heavily as he killed the last few parasitic monsters in the abandoned farmland outside Flo Cunzi one by one.

These damn monsters did not resist stubbornly as before; instead, after confirming they could not beat Jier and his team, they scattered and fled throughout Flo Cunzi under the lead of the head-blooming monster.

At that time, the warriors were fighting a head-on, hard-fought battle with the monsters on a main road in the village. This actually made Jier very satisfied, because as the main force of the battle, many of his warriors possessed a sturdy Soldier Shield, and combined with the Plate Armor on the warriors' bodies, his men had a great advantage in head-on combat, especially in high-intensity, small-scale battles.

The facts were indeed so. With Aoni leading, more than a dozen armored Shield Warriors formed two rows, blocking the narrow main road of the village tightly. They stood shoulder to shoulder, shield to shield, their bodies mostly protected by metal Armor and shields. After wrestling and squeezing, the parasitic monsters crowded into a mass were successfully pushed down and trampled underfoot.

After dozens of warriors in the front and back trampled over, these poor parasitic monsters had their limbs and chests broken, and were completely and easily finished off by the hired guards in the back rows.

And at this time, these guys, whose morale had been low since yesterday, finally became high-spirited again, with disdainful words spilling out of their mouths, cursing the parents and families of these monsters—if they had any.

The number of monsters in Flo Cunzi was even smaller than in Banjiu Cunzi. It was unknown whether they had sent some to attack the Priests of the Sun God Church or had split some to the nearby Duoduogongti Cunzi.

When Jier and his men passed by earlier, they attacked and killed the parasitic monsters in Duoduogongti Cunzi, but they only stayed for one night before heading to Yemei Town the next day. So after they left, the monsters in Flo Cunzi obviously needed to send people to regain control of Duoduogongti Cunzi.

At the very least, the water well in the village was very important to these parasitic plants.

After all, if there were many monsters in a village, they had to rely on the few water wells in each village to draw water in this hot weather.

But there are so many monsters and so few wells, and some wells are even reserved for the high-Tier blooming monsters within the monster groups! As for other ordinary monsters? Go wait in line honestly!

Just as the battle at Flo Cunzi turned against the monsters, the monsters began to scatter and flee.

This was troublesome; after all, Jier was not afraid of them confronting him head-on—these monsters had absolutely no concept of formation, basically swarming forward only to be whittled down by archers along the way, and by the time they reached the front, they had to face a sturdy shield wall they could never cross.

As for the blooming monsters capable of breaking the shield wall, Jier had kept an eye on them in advance, luring them away early or targeting them specifically.

When the monsters scattered to flee, Jier dared not let his subordinates pursue the monsters one-on-one, because apart from capable fellows like Weier, most other Human Warriors could handle a monster while in a battle formation, but when facing a parasitic monster alone, most people actually could not beat them.

Even two people were not safe; they could only let three people pursue one parasitic monster.

Yet Jier currently had forty or fifty men under his command, and at most they could only pursue fewer than twenty parasitic monsters at a time; the rest of the monsters were running further and further away.

"Damn it, looks like it's up to us, good partner." Jier's expression was ugly as he mounted Tianxuecao, preparing to leave the village to intercept those monsters outside. Especially since he could not let them run head-on into the returning Villagers who were currently on their way.

Although among the hundreds of returning Villagers, there was protection from the Armed Civilian group formed by their village's young people, as well as about fifty Town Guards maintaining order and organizing the personnel, these people were fine dealing with a few scattered monsters, but if ten or twenty monsters swarmed them together, it would mostly cause great chaos in the ranks, and it would be hard to say how many losses there would be.

However, at this moment, the accompanying Priest of the God of Agriculture stepped forward; they tossed handfuls of Bean high into the air and prayed in unison to the God of Agriculture, and surging Cyan Divine Power clustered around those plump Bean, flying straight toward the various fleeing parasitic monsters.

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