Mountain and sea lantern

Chapter 675 Run quickly
The members of the 3000th squad of the Heavenly Order, despite having difficulty recognizing each other, focused their attention primarily on Shi Chun. They all felt that it was most important to remember the leader first, so that if anything changed, they wouldn't follow the wrong person.

The recognition barrier that everyone encountered was the same for Shi Chun, which is why he secretly cursed a group of useless people.

If it were just the Mingshan Sect group wearing masks, it wouldn't be difficult to identify them from a small group of masked people based on our previous familiarity. But now that there are hundreds of them, they can easily confuse you and make identification very difficult. With their armor covering their faces, it's even hard to distinguish between men and women.

Fortunately, there were no problems identifying Wu Jinliang, and as for Tong Mingshan, his silver hair peeking out from under his helmet made him instantly recognizable.

However, these are minor issues for now, and Shi Chun is too lazy to argue with these unfamiliar people.

Feng Chi, who was beside him, reminded him, "Boss, according to the rules, whichever squad captures nine tokens from the enemy can, if they encounter a squad of their own faction that they like, order the other squad to hand over their own faction's tokens and merge them into their own ranks. And so on, capturing ninety tokens allows them to merge ten squads, and nine hundred tokens allows them to merge one hundred squads."

She spoke with a confident tone, already having confidence in the leader. Her achievements in the Heavenly Rain Meteor Tournament and the Divine Fire Alliance were one of the sources of her confidence. She knew that the leader was very good at this, and in addition, before coming in, the leader made it clear that he did not take the others seriously, saying that the others were just a bunch of worthless idiots.

She was very excited to have come along this time and to think that she would also be involved in the battle. This was much more enjoyable than being a madam dealing with customers.

Shi Chun glanced at her. In truth, he was unwilling to bring Feng Chi in. After all, she was from the Demonic Path, and who could easily believe that she had sided with him? He had initially planned to hide in the Underworld after entering, but the Demonic Path wanted to plant a spy by his side to keep an eye on him, so they insisted that he bring Feng Chi in as well.

He snorted, "I wonder which bastard designed these rules. Those with strength all want to have autonomy. How can they easily tolerate the orders of other teams, especially the possibility of being ordered to fight and die? At the start, they have to go all out and grab a wave of resources first."

Feng Chi was pointing out exactly that. Was it appropriate for everyone to dawdle like this? So he reminded them again, "Boss, we need to hurry. If we're too late, we might fall into the control of other teams, and then we'll be in trouble because we won't be able to control ourselves."

Mulan Qingqing glanced at her sideways and said indifferently, "The leader has her own plans."

She didn't like the brothel madam either, and found that the madam acted like Shi Chun's woman, often sidling up to Shi Chun and being so intimate as to be shameless, which made her very uncomfortable.

Shi Chun seemed to agree with her words, nodding slightly, and said to Feng Chi, "Let's see first."

Feng Chi smiled through his mask and nodded with complete trust, saying, "I was overthinking it. I'll leave it to the Chief's arrangements."

Old man Chai Wenwu, who was nearby, immediately chimed in, "It's all up to the boss."

So a large group of people followed suit, shouting that they would follow the leader's arrangements. The collective flattery was loud and clear. On the contrary, Ming Shanzong and his group were stunned and speechless. They had not seen the details of the list and were not clear about the overall situation. They were all surprised by the cohesion of this temporary team.

Shi Chun had no liking for this group of good-for-nothings, so he didn't say anything. He just gave Wu Jinliang a signal, led him to the side, and secretly slipped him a centurion's token. "Whether it's useful or not, get a hundred tokens ready first, and make it look more legitimate."

Wu Jinliang instantly understood, beaming with joy. He patted his chest and whispered, "Things are different now. Don't worry about my skills, I've got your back."

Then he turned around and waved to Tong Mingshan, calling out, "Old Tong, come here for a second."

Tong Mingshan dodged past, and after a brief exchange, Wu Jinliang took him away, as he was skilled at starting fires.

The others watched, unaware of what they were plotting.

Feng Chi nodded slightly, his face full of appreciation. He realized that the leader was indeed the leader. Even before the situation had unfolded, he already had a different plan. He was far inferior to someone like himself who only knew how to rush in and grab at the beginning.

Mulan's expression, though not concealed beneath her green veil, was complex. This time, she wanted to see if her previous defeat was truly unjust.

Ming Shanzong and his group were already used to such secret plots.

After watching Wu Jinliang leave, Shi Chun paced back and forth, pondering whether or not to go find Zhen'er. He and Zhen'er had no connection through the mother-child talisman, and he thought that old man Situ Gu's way of doing things was a bit ridiculous. If he wanted to contact him, why didn't he set up a way for them to communicate beforehand? This last-minute thing made it difficult for him to even find her whereabouts.

Just then, he suddenly stopped and took out another mother-child talisman to examine it. It was given to him by Xiang Lan'er before, who said it was for making contact with the demonic path after entering the Demon Realm. She didn't reveal a word about who the contact person was, only saying that he would know after entering the Demon Realm.

The message on the mother-child symbol is just one sentence: what is the squad number?

Shi Chun raised an eyebrow and directly gave a reply of "three zeros". It seemed like a mistake, but it was actually a deliberate mistake. The dishonest act of omitting a "zero" was done without the slightest hesitation.

It's simply that the other party wants to take the initiative, while he doesn't want to be too passive.

For someone like him, who came from a prison background, in such a situation, he would not easily allow himself to fall into a desperate situation if there was any possibility of buying himself more room to maneuver.

Then the other party sent another message, telling him to head towards the West Bull team and try to grab as many tokens as possible if he had the chance.

After agreeing, Shi Chun casually asked for the other team's team number. The other team replied that he would know when the time came.

In short, I won't tell him.

Shi Chun was too lazy to argue any further. He accepted the mother-and-child talisman and would deal with it after Wu Jinliang finished his work...

At the Heavenly Court's central command post, Manxi, standing on a high platform, kept a close eye on the changing images on the Heavenly Mirror, occasionally paying attention to the movement of the light spots on the Landscape Map.

The person controlling the two treasures stood to his left and right, ready to obey orders at any time. One would switch the mirror image in time, and the other would zoom in on the sequence number of the light spots on the landscape map.

Ahead of Manxi, there was a group of people, each holding a magical artifact, facing him, each responsible for communication between thirty small teams.

At this moment, Manxi was quickly identifying the enemy's main force in order to help his own main force temporarily avoid the enemy's sharp edge and first help his own main force obtain some tokens so as to gain greater autonomy.

The same applies to most other companies.

There was no way around it; that was the rule of the Amnesty War. Everyone had a chance to rise to the top, and everyone had the ability to compete. If the command centers of the five factions didn't lend a hand, even the main force might become subordinate to the non-main force. Mulan Jin, one of the supervisors, sometimes paced back and forth with her hands behind her back, and sometimes stood quietly with her arms crossed, observing the mirror image and the landscape map, quiet and undisturbed.

At this moment, the cluster of light spheres gathered on the landscape map had basically blossomed like chrysanthemums, scattering into tiny, needle-like sparkles. Without specific identification, no one could tell which light point corresponded to which team.

After getting a general grasp of the overall situation, Man Xifang took a breath and looked at the light spots on the entire landscape map again. Suddenly, his gaze stopped and he noticed that there was a light spot near the central area.

The light spot was small, somewhat like the darkest place under the lamp; it was so close, yet I hadn't noticed it before.

So Manxi pointed and said somewhat displeasedly to the person next to him who was controlling the landscape map, "Let's see which team it is."

He's definitely not part of the main team. He knows where the main team is, but you can't just hide and slack off. No matter how weak you are, you still have to play your part. Even if you can create some resistance and damage to the enemy, that's a contribution. If everyone hides and doesn't fight, how can we fight this battle?
Mulan, who was lingering nearby, stopped abruptly, realizing that Manxi might be making an example of someone, and wondered which unlucky person had run into it.

The golden dot on the landscape map rapidly expanded, soon revealing the number '3000'.

Manxi was taken aback, immediately realizing who was hiding right under their noses. He cursed inwardly, "Is Shi Chun brain-dead? If he's going to hide, at least go somewhere further away. Doesn't he know the enemy's first target is the central areas of all sides? Is it appropriate to be so obvious?"

He was about to speak up to restore the image of the landscape map when the person controlling the overhead camera, who was used to cooperating with him, quickly and skillfully checked wherever he pointed. The person quickly locked onto the location of the 3,000th squad and zoomed in to examine the target location.

Manxi was startled. He didn't want to expose Shi Chun and the others' location in public. Just as he was about to stop them, he found that there was no one in the mirror image, only desolation.

Somewhat speechless, Manxi guessed that the person had hidden under the cliff, but the mirror image swept back and forth across the cliff without seeing anyone. The image couldn't be turned, so who knew which nook or cranny they were hiding in? Anyway, they were definitely there; the location of the landscape map couldn't be wrong.

Manxi quickly restored the overall picture to the left and right, then looked back at Mulan Jin, wanting to ask if she knew what it meant.

Mulan raised her hand and pressed her forehead, also puzzled.

Although the images from the Sky-Gazing Mirror and the Landscape Painting were restored quickly, as soon as the word 'three thousand' appeared in the Landscape Painting's light spots, someone among the on-site supervisors immediately pulled out a mother-and-child talisman and secretly sent a message from their sleeve...

Jie Yunzhao, leading his team at breakneck speed through the air, suddenly pulled out the Mother-Child Talisman, glanced at it, sneered, and continued onward...

On the high platform at the center of the Dongsheng battle team, someone whispered something to Commander Wei Mo. Wei Mo immediately turned his head to signal to the person next to him, and the light spot near the center of the Heavenly Court battle team in the Mountain and River Map was quickly enlarged to show the number 'three thousand'. After confirming it, Wei Mo smiled slightly...

The landscape painting in front of the central platform of the Southern Battle Team suddenly zoomed in to examine and verify the nearby light spot of the Heavenly Court Battle Team's central area...

The Northern Battle Team's central command, amidst its busy schedule, also took a moment to confirm the location of the Heavenly Rank 3,000 squad...

Nearly half an hour later, Mulan, who was pacing on the central platform of the Heavenly Court team, suddenly stopped and stared intently at the location of her daughter on the landscape map. She discovered that four different colored lights were approaching her daughter's location from three different directions.

Two blue dots, one white, and one red.

At first, Mulan didn't notice it either, firstly because the light spots were too small, and secondly because the battle had already begun. Manxi kept zooming in on the light spots in various locations to check them, until the light spots were almost clustered together and became somewhat conspicuous, which is when he, who was paying special attention to his daughter, caught a glimpse of them.

One approach could be an accident, but suddenly four people approached his daughter at the same time. With his ability to discern, he immediately realized the problem and subconsciously glanced at the various supervisors below the stage.

His suspicions were useless; it was normal for supervisors from different teams to exchange messages. He could only urgently send a telepathic message to Manxi, "Something's not right with Shi Chun; someone's targeting him."

Manxi then noticed the anomaly and immediately made the same judgment as Mulan: Shi Chun and the others had been exposed and were being targeted. He immediately sent a telepathic message to his subordinates.

A servant wielding a magical artifact on the opposite side quickly sent a warning signal to the token held by Shi Chun…

While Shi Chun and the others were hiding at the foot of the cliff, they were bored when Wu Jinliang and Tong Mingshan suddenly appeared.

Wu Jinliang shoved the token into Shi Chun's hand and said urgently, "The commander has sent word that our hiding place has been exposed, and four teams are coming towards us. They're already close and we need to leave quickly."

"Fourth team?" Shi Chun was surprised.

"Yes," Wu Jinliang and Tong Mingshan confirmed simultaneously.

Upon hearing this, Feng Chi immediately felt ready to roll up his sleeves and get to work, but Shi Chun suddenly shouted, "Run!"

The enemy came prepared. If you don't know their strength, why not run?

He was even cursing inwardly, unable to understand why he had been exposed so quickly. He felt it shouldn't be like this. Could it be that he had been targeted by the Sky-Gazing Mirror again?

He threw down his words and was the first to take out his Wind Scale and leap out, taking Wu Jinliang, who was following closely behind, with him. He didn't wait for the others who were slower to react.

Han Bao immediately swept Mulan Qingqing away with a flick of his sleeve, and the Mingshan Sect group also fled in a swarm. With their leader telling them to run, what was there to hesitate about?

The remaining eighty or so teammates were in chaos, because many of them did not even have wind scales. The flight speed of a human immortal was not as fast as that of a wind scale, but they all rushed out from the bottom of the cliff to chase after them.

Manxi had already used the Mirror of Heaven to lock onto Shi Chun and the others' location, intending to monitor their escape. However, she was surprised to see a group of masked men flying out of the screen. The colors of their masks were so varied that it was dazzling.

Not to mention the others who were dumbfounded, even the well-informed Mulan was stunned. After quickly looking around, she couldn't tell which one was her daughter.

(End of this chapter)