Chapter 2465

Inside Segona City, the black dragon landed from above. The city had been roughly cleaned up, and the burnt smell had dissipated a lot. In just about an hour, his own soldiers would be able to completely take over this fortress city.

Through the negotiation with Mo Lei and her companion, Su Xiao basically determined that the rule-breaker named Saw-Poison was not an old schemer, which was good news.

The Sand City was a big pit. If the power-holders of Sand-Flame were really fighting internally, the central battlefield would have long since been unable to hold. The chaos of power would be reflected in the front-line battlefield at the first opportunity.

Su Xiao had previously stepped one foot into that big pit, and after discovering it was bottomless, he immediately withdrew to the front line.

The current situation was favorable to Su Xiao. He temporarily ignored the rule-breaker named Saw-Poison. Only by developing well on the front line was the best means to deal with rule-breakers; otherwise, the War Lord title would be wasted.

Segona City had been successfully captured. Su Xiao stood on the dragon's back, looking at the large number of houses in the city. They were basically two-story, long, strip-shaped stone barracks. Each of these barracks was ten meters wide and nearly thirty meters long, with a height of about eight meters.

Su Xiao jumped down from the dragon's back and pushed open the door of a barrack. The light inside was quite good, and it was well-ventilated. In the middle was an aisle, and on the front and back sides were connected beds, divided into upper and lower levels.

Each barrack had two floors, with four beds on each floor. If there were eight beds in total, excluding the area occupied by lockers, etc., there was no problem with 100 soldiers living in each barrack.

Looking around, the city was basically full of such barracks, divided into eight large rows, totaling over a thousand buildings.

Stationing troops here was simply the most suitable. Soldiers were human too; constantly rushing around would eventually lead to problems.

Su Xiao did not let his soldiers rest immediately. Through Baja's reconnaissance, at least 250,000-plus dwarf troops had arrived as reinforcements in the area around Segona City. It was Spring Steel-Sheep who had arrived.

What made Su Xiao feel strange was that these dwarf troops did not attack immediately, but instead set up camp in the surrounding area, making a gesture of siege.

"White Night, good news, we caught a big fish."

Caesar ran over quickly. Upon hearing this, Su Xiao knew why Spring Steel-Sheep didn't bring troops to attack immediately. It turned out there was a 'big fish' in the city, and Spring Steel-Sheep was wary of this point.

"Caught Leighton Red-Beard again. That dwarf is currently drowning his sorrows in alcohol."

"..."

Su Xiao narrowed his eyes. He felt something was wrong. He hadn't thought of exactly what was wrong, but he could be certain that the 'big fish' Spring Steel-Sheep was wary of was definitely not Leighton Red-Beard.

"You stopped him from committing suicide?"

In Su Xiao's cognition, it was unlikely that Leighton Red-Beard would be captured alive twice.

"Commit suicide? No, that guy surrendered quite readily."

"Is that so."

Su Xiao sat on the bed, his eyes thoughtful. A moment later, he asked: "How many civilian prisoners are there?"

"About 3,000 people."

"Specific number."

Su Xiao needed to investigate one thing. Related to this matter were Leighton Red-Beard's surrender and why Spring Steel-Sheep didn't attack directly.

Based on his understanding of Leighton Red-Beard, this guy shouldn't have been able to bear such humiliation. Being captured alive twice in a few days—with that dwarf's fiery temper, he would likely have committed suicide before being captured, but the other party didn't do so, which was somewhat abnormal.

"As for civilians, 2,759 people, basically that's it."

Caesar was very confused, not knowing why Su Xiao cared about how many civilians were captured.

"Go find them. Find the corpses of all the civilians, then recount them."

"Not a single civilian died. They are all hiding in the barracks toward the rear, just like this kind of barrack."

Caesar pointed to the ground beneath his feet, meaning the kind of barrack the two were in.

"Go find them. Dig three feet into the ground to find them."

What Su Xiao could think of was that someone was hiding in Segona City, or something very important to the Kingdom of Peru.

"Find what?"

"Not clear. Bring everything suspicious to me. Baja."

"Here."

Baja appeared suddenly. After having space abilities, it was almost always on call.

"Sense the spatial fluctuations in the city. Look for whether there is any different space opened up by extraordinary abilities here."

Baja flew away, and Caesar also led soldiers to search for anything suspicious in the city.

Su Xiao let Bubu Wang release a dark crow to notify the Sand City side that he had captured Segona City and urgently needed troop reinforcements, and implicitly indicated that if there were no reinforcements in terms of troops, he could only talk to the King of Peru.

Capturing Segona City represented one thing: regardless of Uno's attitude, he had to make a gesture. Otherwise, whether Segona City would return to the hands of the Kingdom of Peru was not certain. After all, Su Xiao only had 68,000 soldiers under his command, which made it 'very difficult' to hold Segona City.

His own soldiers began to search everywhere in Segona City. Even if they saw a mouse, they had to pull it out of its hole.

Half an hour passed, and the captured Peruvian dwarf soldiers began to cause trouble. Their reason was that Sand-Flame could defeat them, but could not insult them and trample on Segona City at will.

After the dwarf officer who led the trouble was executed, the dwarf prisoners became honest.

An hour later, Leighton Red-Beard requested to meet with Su Xiao. He wanted to talk to Su Xiao on behalf of the Kingdom of Peru.

Su Xiao was still in the barrack, pondering what was in Segona City.

Leighton Red-Beard, carrying a bottle of wine, was escorted into the barrack by several soldiers. After shaking his shoulders, he came to the bed opposite Su Xiao and sat down on it with a thud.

"Kukulin, is it really wise to station in 'Segona City' for a long time? This is the gate of our Peru. How many soldiers will come to attack here? Others might not know, but don't you?"

Leighton Red-Beard exhaled alcohol, already somewhat tipsy.

"Let me return to Peru, I will go talk to my royal brother. My bottom-line guarantee is that all of Peru's troops will withdraw from the Sand-Flame border and return your territory. This round, you won."

Leighton Red-Beard's proposal was not impossible. 'Segona City' was too important to Peru. No one had expected that someone could capture 'Segona City' within an hour. The war machines here were so numerous they made people shudder.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, just looked at Leighton Red-Beard with a smile.

"Think about it. By the way, there's one more sentence, you can pretend you didn't hear it, and that is: what Sand-Flame can give you, Peru can give you ten times over. Peru has never been a country with only dwarves. I'm leaving, you think about it slowly."

"Wait."

Su Xiao's words made Leighton Red-Beard's footsteps pause.

"Red-Beard, let me guess, which noble person is in Segona City? It wouldn't be your Goddess, would it? I heard your gods want to interfere in the central battlefield?"

"Hahaha, Goddess? Kukulin, how long has it been since you've been with a woman? You actually have such fantasies. Will your Sand Emperor come to the front line?"

Leighton Red-Beard laughed and walked out.

"Thank you, Red-Beard. You saved me a lot of time. So she was hiding in a different space."

"What are you talking about? You really should go find a woman, hahaha."

Leighton Red-Beard walked to the door of the barrack, laughing.

"So she was mixed in with the civilians."

Bang!

A muffled sound came, and Leighton Red-Beard lunged at Su Xiao. With a 'swish', a sharp sword pierced through his abdomen from behind. Several soldiers lunged forward and pinned him to the ground.

"So it really is the Goddess. I even thought it was some kind of artifact."

Su Xiao lit a cigarette. Hearing this sentence, Leighton Red-Beard, with a mouth full of blood, roared.

"You won't die a good death, Kukulin!"

Leighton Red-Beard was dragged away while roaring. Su Xiao snapped his fingers, and in a short while, Baja appeared out of thin air.

"Boss, what's up?"

"The Peruvian Goddess is in Segona City, mixed in with the civilians. Be quick, she might be about to flee."

"Understood."

Baja flew out of the tent. In a short while, the sound of a horn representing assembly came from outside.

"Whole army assemble, check all civilians, focus on females, quick!"

The soldiers quickly assembled. This time, capturing Segona City was not as simple as catching a big fish. Leighton Red-Beard appearing in Segona City itself had hidden circumstances.

Su Xiao could feel that this was the key for him to find the God of Lush Growth. If he caught the Goddess and the God of Lush Growth manifested an avatar or something to rescue her, that would be great. It was simply a benefit delivered to his door.