The perception of the higher blood nobles was far too keen. As Qian Ye pulled the trigger, the blood noble had already reacted and made a dodging move. He had taken a risky approach to within five hundred meters, but still failed to assassinate the Blood Jazz.
Qian Ye ran without stopping, closely pursued by three blood knights whose speeds varied, gradually increasing the distance between them.
The closest blood knight had already chased to within tens of meters behind Qian Ye, with several spikes whistling past his head and sides.
While running, Qian Ye kept listening intently, judging the situation behind him through every tiny sound carried by the wind. Finally, he waited for the perfect moment.
Ahead, a trench several meters wide lay across the land. Qian Ye accelerated and leaped, suddenly turning in mid-air, then landing steadily in a half-kneeling position. In each of his hands, he now held an antique-style short gun.
*Bang! Bang!* Two origin bullets shot out from the guns, striking the closest pursuing blood knight!
Although the blood knight had been extremely vigilant throughout, he never expected that the other party would launch a surprise attack while crossing the obstacle. Unprepared, he didn’t even get a chance to adopt a defensive stance.
The blood knight screamed as he was thrown backward, his chest armor shattered at once, and his waist and abdomen were mangled. Tiny streams of invisible blood energy rushed into his body, wreaking havoc.
At this moment, the patterns on the bodies of the “Twin Bloom” guns lit up, and the origin light outlined two sinister dual-colored flowers, one on each side. The illusion had not yet faded; it actually swayed slightly in the wilderness breeze, then merged into a pair of twin flowers before slowly dissipating.
The two blood knights who lagged behind simultaneously exclaimed, “That’s the gun of Marquis Ross! It turned out to be in his hands!”
They then realized that their injured companion was down and out. Upon closer inspection, they found that the blood knight was already in a critical state. The wound was much larger than expected, emitting a foul stench, and large areas of flesh were blackening and necrotic. The blood knight’s power of blood was on the verge of collapsing.
The two blood knights were startled; it was their first time seeing a human with a more terrifying blood poison than Mithril. The power of Marquis Ross’s “Twin Bloom” indeed lived up to its legendary terror. They dared not pursue Qian Ye any further, only watching as he ran further and further away, eventually vanishing over the horizon.
Qian Ye, who had injected himself with a stimulant, was now dashing across the land. At this moment, he began to regret, perhaps he should not have been so eager to use the “Twin Bloom.”
Qi Qi was very interested in these two guns. Seeing that Qian Ye was unwilling to transfer them, she even dragged him and Ji Yuanjia to test them. Humans using blood noble weapons naturally had wear and tear. Under the full force of two level seven experts, the Twin Bloom only managed to achieve the equivalent of a normal level four origin gun. This was already a rare high-quality item among blood noble weapons. For a human to achieve a level three result with a general level four blood noble gun was already quite impressive. Thus, everyone regarded these two guns as antiques with some historical value.
Who knew that when Qian Ye fully activated them, these guns would produce such eye-catching special effects! Now, Qian Ye knew that he and Company 131 were likely to gain fame.
When the combat report of the 131 reinforced company reached the rear, Qi Qi’s heir evaluation record received its first entry.
Sitting in the meeting room, Qi Qi faced a room full of majors and colonels, still propping her long legs directly on the table. She carefully read the document in her hand, then tossed it onto the table, asking, “Do you believe this?”
Some officers in the room frowned, while others remained expressionless. No one voiced an opinion.
This document recorded the battle achievements of Qian Ye’s 131 reinforced company over the past half month. It included severely wounding a blood noble, killing six blood knights and similarly ranked other dark race warriors, and nearly a hundred regular dark race soldiers below level six.
Such achievements would be strenuous even for a regular battalion, let alone a reinforced company.
Ji Yuanjia, observing his colleagues’ reactions, spoke first, “Captain Bao Zhengcheng, the former commander of 131, also appended his confirmation signature to the battle report. Captain Bao has always been straightforward and has no history of misconduct in this regard. With his confirmation, the authenticity of the achievements should be unquestionable.”
“How could a regular reinforced company achieve such results? If every company had such outcomes, wouldn’t I just need to bring a legion to conquer the entire Evernight Continent?” Qi Qi asked.
The officers present, including Ji Yuanjia, were at a loss.
At this point, a major suggested, “Speculating without basis won’t yield results. Why don’t we ask 131 to submit a detailed battle report themselves?”
Qi Qi nodded, “Alright, let’s do that!”
At this moment, the door to the meeting room opened, and a staff officer quickly entered, placing an intelligence report in front of Qi Qi and whispering a few words.
Qi Qi unfolded the intelligence, browsed through it, and handed it to Ji Yuanjia, “The dark races have been very active recently, with signs of large-scale troop movements. Be cautious when going in and out, and notify the front-line troops to focus on defense and contraction until we understand the enemy’s intentions. I will also request the expeditionary army to investigate what the dark races are planning.”
Ji Yuanjia read the intelligence several times and said, “The dark races around Company 131 are moving more frequently. We need to remind Captain Qian to be cautious in his recent actions, avoid rash moves, and not fall into the dark races’ trap.”
Qi Qi waved her hand casually, “Alright, proceed with that.”
Next, the officers began tactical tabletop simulations. Qi Qi’s personal command units, along with support and allied forces, finally initiated preparations. They had already completed terrain collection for the battle zone and were now discussing and analyzing the next moves of the dark races based on the week’s military intelligence and the newly acquired dark race troop deployment map.
However, Qi Qi was an outsider in this battle zone, with limited line length and few troops under her direct control. Thus, her primary source of intelligence was the military department, with almost no private channels, lacking many reference points for comparison. In Xichang City, the expeditionary army was still the undisputed main force.
Ji Yuanjia did not participate in the discussion, still reading the latest dark race troop distribution, frowning, “Miss, 131 might face powerful enemies.”
Qi Qi lazily said, “In a war zone of this level, powerful isn’t all that powerful. How about allocating some special unit-level equipment to them, and there won’t be any problems. Even if the enemy is stronger, I can drown them in money!”
Ji Yuanjia smiled awkwardly and cautiously added, “Miss, 131’s own combat power is limited. Shouldn’t we advance the positions of our other two companies and station either me or Old Xiao there, so we can provide timely support if something goes wrong?”
Qi Qi yawned and waved, “No need! Let my little lover fuss around. Without being tested by the flames of war, how can he develop a manly spirit? Anyway, there’s still some time, let’s see what surprises he can pull off.”
She looked up at the officers still conducting the tabletop simulation and waved, “Dismissed. Whatever the dark races are planning, it’s just a big battle. You all should go and make sure your armaments are complete. This rural place, sometimes the efficiency is abysmal.”
The officers stood up, saluted, and left one by one.
Ji Yuanjia was the last to leave. After organizing the intelligence materials on the table, he looked up to find Qi Qi still sitting there. He paused, “Miss?”
“Will you be able to break through the eighth node after the Heavenly Spring Hunt?” Qi Qi, when not smiling, had a particularly dignified and composed face, different from her usual appearance.
Ji Yuanjia simply replied, “Yes.”
“You know, I’ve always had high expectations for you. With the right cultivation method and sufficient potions, you could break through to the rank of war general within three years.”
Ji Yuanjia lowered his eyes, listening quietly.
“And those two things, the Yin family has promised to you.” Qi Qi stood up and walked towards the door.
Long after Qi Qi’s footsteps had completely disappeared, Ji Yuanjia raised his head, gazing at the half-closed meeting room door and the empty corridor. The Yin family? Yes, just the Yin family.
In the secret room, the meeting minutes and related documents had been sent for storage. The young female lieutenant received the files, carefully locked the door, and quickly withdrew a differently sized letter paper, then used the prepared pen and paper to quickly copy the meeting minutes. These two items were later hidden in the briefcase of a colleague leaving work.
Before long, these minutes were placed in front of a young man.
He had a handsome and masculine face, with a tall, nearly perfectly proportioned body. His black hair was slightly disheveled, adding to his charm. Otherwise, his face would appear too stern.
He read the minutes quickly, then meticulously read the separate letter, his gaze fixating on the term “little lover,” the flame in his eyes almost burning through the thin paper.
The veins on his hand throbbed as he suddenly crumpled the paper, about to tear it. But at the last second, he forcibly controlled himself, unfolding and smoothing the letter, gently ironing out every crease, as if caressing a lover’s face.
He took out an inconspicuous file folder from a drawer, placing the minutes and the letter inside. Inside the folder, there were many similar papers. There were meeting minutes, handwritten intelligence, and cut-out newspaper articles. All of them, regardless of content, were related to Qi Qi and her scandals.
The crumpled letter was placed on top, and he wrote a number in the corner: 11, then put the folder away.
He walked to the window, staring outside, lost in thought.
This was a small officer’s dormitory, only a dozen square meters. Apart from a bed, a cabinet, and a table and chair, nothing else could fit. It was a lieutenant’s dorm. The man wore no rank insignia, but with the seven faintly fluctuating origin nodes on his body, he was clearly not just a lieutenant.
The dormitory window faced a training ground where expeditionary soldiers were doing combat training. Further away were the high walls and the gate of the camp, with sentries on two watchtowers observing the endless wasteland vigilantly.
This was a logistics station, guarded by a full regiment of the expeditionary force, about a hundred kilometers from Xichang City. It was both a bulwark for Xichang and a transit point for frontline supplies. All materials, intelligence, and personnel heading to the front first arrived here before being dispersed in all directions.
At this moment, the large, black-iron gate of the station slowly slid open, and a convoy of heavy trucks, escorted by several armored vehicles, slowly drove in. Among them, two heavy trucks bore the Yin family’s crest.
The man watched the two heavy trucks, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes.
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