New and dark light years

Chapter 313 Hidden Traces
Looking at the densely packed, frantically rushing poisonous insects out of the pit, Li Lin felt a lingering fear.

These little things look incredibly resilient, and most importantly, they release toxins.

Li Lin turned to the personal guard beside him and said, "Go and tell Commander Mu what happened here, and ask him to relay the information to the higher-ups."

"As ordered!"

The guards left immediately; he understood the importance of the matter.

Li Lin sighed. The front line was a full incense stick's time away from here; hopefully, they could make it in time.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look up at the sky and ask, "True Lord Liu Shen, how is the situation at the front?"

"It's getting dark, and it's hard to see clearly. It seems like no torches have been lit yet."

Li Lin frowned: "It's already dark, and there haven't been any torches lit yet?"

As the two were talking, the fire in the pit burned for a while longer. Now there were very few insects crawling out of the pit. Occasionally a few large ones would flip up and even crawl outside the fire, but they would be immediately chopped into pieces by the soldiers who had been preparing for a long time.

Li Lin waited a while longer, then couldn't help but cover his mouth and nose with his sleeve.

There was no way around it... the smell of burning corpses was too awful, and it was mixed with a strange pheromone scent.

Very impulsive.

Xiao Chunzhu walked over from the side, also covering his mouth and nose, and said, "Commander, you are of noble health and should not suffer like this. Go back to the camp to rest first. I will watch over things here."

Li Lin nodded and left.

He really didn't need to stay any longer.

All that's left is to wait for the fire to burn out, and then fill the pit with soil.

Li Lin led a dozen men back to the camp. As soon as they entered the camp, Mu Yi came looking for them.

"Supervisor Li, is it true that you asked me to relay this message?"

Li Lin nodded, then pointed to the towering flames in the south: "There, thousands of corpses are burning right now. A large number of poisonous insects rushed out just now. Fortunately, we discovered them early, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable."

Mu Yi's face turned green: "Then... isn't the front line already infested with insects?"

"Perhaps it's already like this," Li Lin sighed.

"May the True Lord take a look?"

"I already asked her, but it's dark and she can't see very well."

Mu Yi looked towards the east, where the front line was.

The area looks very peaceful now.

He thought for a moment, then said to the guard beside him, "Sound the drums and summon the commander of the Eastern Route Army."

Then came the rapid beating of drums.

Not long after, Qu Wenjie, the military commander of the eastern route, rode in on a fine horse.

He dismounted, clasped his hands in greeting, and asked, "Commander-in-Chief, I have been summoned here."

"Take some men to the front lines and check the situation," Mu Yi said in a low voice. "If anything seems amiss, come back immediately and don't linger."

Qu Wenjie paused for a moment, then nodded.

He mounted his horse again and galloped away.

Then Mu Yi looked at Li Lin: "Li Jian, be prepared. If things go wrong, immediately take your men and escort me westward back to Jin County, understand?"

Li Lin hesitated for a moment, then clasped his hands in a fist and said, "Yes, sir."

In fact, Li Lin felt that running away was not a good idea under these circumstances, but when he thought that he had already withstood a surprise attack once and now only had a little over a thousand soldiers under his command, he gave up the idea.

With just over a thousand soldiers, their role on this battlefield is extremely small.

He wasn't a famous general who could defeat tens of thousands of people with only a few hundred or a thousand.

That's the destiny of a great general; he felt he couldn't achieve it now.

Li Lin returned to his southern troop camp and immediately summoned the other commanders. "Have all the brothers prepare; we may have to retreat and relocate."

Upon hearing this, the group exchanged bewildered glances, their eyes then gleaming with delight.

Someone asked, "What about the brothers who have mobility issues?"

"Make a simple stretcher right now, and naturally we'll take them with us."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and immediately began to take action.

Soon, the unusual activity at the southern troop camp attracted the attention of the soldiers in the other two camps.

Most people are actually quite intelligent, especially when it comes to matters concerning their life and safety.

The soldiers in the other two camps went to their superiors to inquire, but could not get a definite answer. The thought of being abandoned lingered in the minds of these soldiers.

In a very short time, their morale had plummeted to rock bottom.

Resentment was growing, and there were faint signs of a possible collapse.

Li Lin was unaware of this matter; he was currently inside his tent.

Li Yanjing stood beside him.

"My husband, if things become impossible, I will take you with me."

"No need." Li Lin waved his hand: "You should leave first and take my paper figure to a safe place. That's the most practical thing to do."

"But!"

"But the paper figure cannot be more than five miles away from me, otherwise it will have no effect."

Li Yanjing thought for a moment and said, "If something really happens, the paper doll will transfer you here. That's a good method. Now I'll go find a safe place to stay."

"Ah."

"If my paper doll doesn't trigger within five days, you'll have to go home on your own. Do you remember the way home?"

"Even if I forget everything, I will never forget my husband and the way home." Li Yanjing smiled gently, her eyes filled with affection.

Li Lin touched the other person's face, then placed his hand in front of her mouth: "Take a couple of breaths!"

“At times like these, my husband needs his strength even more.”

Li Lin shook his head: "If you leave the altar, you will lose yin energy. Take a few more breaths and you can last a few more days."

Li Yanjing thought for a moment, then nodded gently.

On the other side, Qu Wenjie led two hundred cavalrymen, galloping forward.

All the cavalrymen were carrying a bundle of torches.

More than two hundred torches can illuminate a fairly large area.

But Qu Wenjie always felt something was wrong, because he sensed a very strange atmosphere in the surrounding darkness.

After running for a while, Qu Wenjie suddenly said, "That's not right. We've been running for so long, we should have reached the front line by now. Why is there no movement ahead? There should at least be the light of a campfire."

The soldier next to him also stopped.

Then Qu Wenjie narrowed his eyes, pointed to a cavalryman behind him, and said, "You... go and take a look around."

The cavalryman was somewhat frightened, but under Qu Wenjie's fierce gaze, he had no choice but to spur his horse to the side.

As the cavalryman went further and further away, the torch in his hand slowly turned into a firefly in the distance.

Not long after, the 'firefly' suddenly disappeared, abruptly and without warning.

Upon seeing this, Qu Wenjie immediately turned around and shouted, "Retreat! Retreat!"

He turned his horse around and shouted, "You stay behind me. If there are enemies, cover my retreat! Hurry!"

(End of this chapter)