My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 436 Arrival
Outside the north gate of Jigu City.

As far as the eye can see, there is a vast, open field.

The twelve poles floated in the distant sky, while the so-called North City Camp was actually quite a distance from the north of the city.

Chen Mu walked out of the city gate with a palm-sized bronze plaque in his hand.

One side of the bronze plaque features a bulging, snarling ghost face, while the other side is engraved with the characters "稽古" (Ji Gu). It is a newly issued identity document, already bound to Chen Mu's aura.

"Which camp is Boss Le going to?" Chen Mu asked Le Yang'an beside him.

The other person fiddled with the bronze plaque with the ghost face on it, then looked up at a banner on the east side that was used to summon souls: "It should be the 'Bing' character flag."

"What a pity," Chen Mu said with a regretful expression.

He was being carried by a soul-summoning banner from the westernmost side, clearly indicating that he was not in the same location as Leyang An.

Boss Le arrived in Yinming earlier than him and was well-informed; he had previously hoped to be assigned to the same place.

pity……

"Take care," Chen Mu said solemnly.

"Farewell." Le Yang'an tossed the bronze plaque in his hand up and caught it again, bowed slightly, and left calmly.

"Is this Boss Le very powerful?" Shi Dechun, who had been waiting at the city gate, quietly approached.

"That's no ordinary feat," Chen Mu exclaimed, thinking of the other person's cabinet full of figurines.

With those paper effigies, Le Yang'an can easily form an army all by himself. How could he not be formidable!
"Speaking of which, haven't all the people you know well left? Why are you still here?" Chen Mu glanced at Shi Dechun.

Shi Dechun's expression turned serious: "We've crawled out of the River of Oblivion together. How could I bear to see you all alone? Of course, I'll accompany you on this expedition!"

I believe you!
Shi Dechun chuckled: "Of course, it would be even better if Brother Chen could give us a heads-up in case of an emergency."

He had always felt that the bald guy in front of him was not simple. This expedition was uncertain and his life or death was uncertain, so he immediately decided to get closer to Chen Mu.

That old fox!
"If you hear any news, please tell me about it."

On the way to Jigu City, he noticed that the old man's hearing was exceptionally good. He seemed to be able to quickly understand whatever the group was talking about.

"It's a deal!" Shi Dechun was overjoyed.

Chen Mu chuckled, hung the ghost-face bronze plaque on his waist, turned around and strode towards the Hai character flag on the west side.

……

To the northwest of Ji Ancient City, Haiziying is located.

When Chen Mu arrived, a huge crowd had already gathered, stretching as far as the eye could see.

The flagpole for the soul-summoning banner, with a diameter of seven or eight meters, stands dozens of meters high in the air.

The rectangular flag at the top is jet black, with faint blood-red cloud patterns visible along the edges.

At the center is a dark gold "亥" character, which keeps surging and turning with the flag.

The area under its command was the location of the Hai-character camp, but the entire area was shrouded in a gray mist.

Apart from a few clusters of pale green flames, only the five- or six-meter-high gray-white archway at the camp gate stood alone in front of everyone.

"Are we going into the camp?"

"There's no one in charge..."

"Where are the ghost soldiers and demons...?"

Amid the chaotic crowd, numerous voices of doubt rose and fell.

"Brother Chen, do you know what kind of regulations this is?" Shi Dechun asked in a low voice.

Chen Mu shook his head slightly and looked up at the soul-summoning banner in the sky.

Since arriving here, he has felt a pulling force slowly rising within him.

He looked at the crowd in the distance and noticed that several people were also frowning and staring at the sky.

"really……"

Before he could even figure out what was going on, the air suddenly vibrated.

hum!
Chen Mu suddenly turned his head and saw a shadow rising into the sky from the archway not far away.

It quickly grew larger and larger, and in the blink of an eye, it became an enlarged phantom of a 200-story building.

Then, a water-like curtain appeared above the wide central doorway, followed by a sudden appearance of a dark void.

At the same time, a constant buzzing sound emanated as twelve illusory gray-white archways appeared one after another.

Before Chen Mu could observe carefully, the soul-summoning banner with the character "亥" above his head suddenly shook.

An invisible force swept in, pulling countless spirits into the air, where they transformed into humanoid black shadows, converging into a massive black torrent.

Chen Mu felt a sudden lightness throughout his body and involuntarily floated into the air. He was then swept up by a torrent of black shadows and involuntarily flew into the illusory portal, instantly disappearing into the dark void.

In the distance, the banners summoning souls swayed one after another, and huge wisps of black smoke rose up like tornadoes, plunging into the phantom of the archway.

In the blink of an eye, all the evil spirits vanished. The summoning banner shook violently, and sparse black shadows were dragged from the distant sky to the area around the flagpole. When no more black shadows flew over, the summoning banner disappeared into the illusory portal.

hum!
The air vibrated again, and the twelve enormous archways slowly dissipated.

In the open fields north of the city, a wisp of wind swirled up some dust.

In Jigu City, a lone red lantern hangs, but there is no one under it.

No one spoke in the burdock forest except for the rustling of the fiery red leaves.

……

Dim, warm, and sluggish, the moment Chen Mu entered the void, he felt as if he had fallen into the River of Oblivion once again.

The only difference was that this time he was able to remain somewhat conscious, watching the ghostly spirits tumbling and soaring around him.

It felt like a long time had passed, yet it also felt like only a moment, when suddenly a bright light shone before my eyes.

Chen Mu's sluggish thinking suddenly accelerated, and he opened his eyes to a dark, blood-red sky.

In the distance ahead, there are dark, continuous mountain ranges, behind which stretches an endless, empty plain, and in the middle, a gray fog extends to the far distances on both sides.

At this moment, a strange restlessness arose in his heart, as if a voice was faintly urging him to smash and destroy.

Chen Mu frowned slightly and turned to look at Shi Dechun.

Then they discovered that the old man, who used to be cowardly and slippery, was now staring furtively at the back of someone's head, as if he was about to give that person a good whack at any moment!
Chen Mu's lips twitched involuntarily.

"This place... is a bit eerie."

Fortunately, the soul-summoning banner appeared in time, and its slight swaying brought everyone back to their senses.

Fog, archway, pale green light—an identical campsite with the character "亥" (Hai) appeared before everyone.

Following the pulling force, everyone stepped forward and passed through the fog.

Squads of armored ghost soldiers were already lined up and waiting.

Before Chen Mu could take a closer look, tens of thousands of Yin Spirit auxiliary soldiers were dispersed and taken away by the Yin soldiers, quickly integrating into the camp.

Chen Mu, Shi Dechun, and more than a hundred others were also called away by a long-faced middle-aged man wearing black armor.

……

On the way, Shi Dechun muttered to himself with concern, "I wonder what they want us to do."

"Staying in the camp is fine; a little hardship and fatigue don't matter."

“But if we go outside the camp…” Shi Dechun shuddered.

He's always been law-abiding, but just now outside the camp, he actually thought of hitting someone with a club?!
If this is true for me, what about others?
This is too weird!
"Don't worry," Chen Mu said confidently.

"Brother Chen, have you received some news?!" Shi Dechun's eyes lit up.

"I already inquired about it."

"Becoming a human-shaped spiritual field for collecting jade dew is the only destiny for us newcomers."

"If something goes wrong after leaving the camp, wouldn't that be a waste of manpower?"

“If you want to make the best use of people…” Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.

"They won't even let us step out of the camp?!" Shi Dechun was overjoyed.

Chen Mu nodded calmly, his face full of confidence.

Then the leader of the ghost soldiers suddenly stopped and said expressionlessly, "Starting tomorrow, you will follow me to the banks of the Blood River to clean up the battlefield and move the corpses."

Chen Mu stood there stunned.

Clean up the battlefield? And move the corpses?

What the hell?!
Asking a green recruit like me to carry corpses and clean the ground on a dangerous battlefield?
This is not what I know!

The ghostly soldier then pointed to a row of mud-sculpted bungalows not far away: "That's your barracks. After you come here to collect your Flame Chariots, you can go in and rest."

"Work under orders outside the camp, and do not wander around inside the camp. If you lose your life due to recklessness, don't blame me for not warning you."

"Humanoid spiritual field?"

"Making the best use of people?"

Shi Dechun looked resentful.

"Did you retrieve this information from the River of Oblivion?"

"This moisture content is extraordinary!"

Chen Mu looked dejected.

I want to know why too.

(End of this chapter)