My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 472 Accident
Late at night, on the mountaintop.

Bai Zhilang, the commander of the Youzi Banner, sat behind his desk, dressed in black armor, carefully examining a booklet recording battle results and the casualties of the Yin soldiers.

puff!
In the middle of the hall, a cloud of gray mist suddenly exploded, and Gong Huan, the military supervisor, appeared in a wide-sleeved robe with a black background and silver thread patterns.

"Supervisor, has something gone wrong?" Bai Zhilang's cold, square face was full of doubt.

"At dusk, the Gates of Hell suddenly trembled. General... your Soul-Summoning Banner, is there anything wrong with it?" Gong Huan asked solemnly.

Bai Zhilang frowned: "Weren't you acting before?"

"Could it be a multi-headed dragon? Are they also planning to attack the camp like the Crimson-Eyed Water Ape?" Bai Zhilang's expression turned serious. "The lesson of the Hai-character camp is still fresh in our minds. We will have to trouble the supervising officer to investigate again."

Gong Huan nodded: "The Crimson-Eyed Water Ape can attack the Hai-character camp, and the Multi-Headed Flood Dragon is cunning and treacherous. It's hard to guarantee that it won't come ashore to cause trouble."

"I will soon be surveying the entire camp. The operation may be a bit large, so I hope the general will reassure the ghost soldiers in advance to avoid a mutiny."

"Investigate carefully," Bai Zhilang said solemnly.

Gong Huan bowed and clasped his hands in greeting. With a turn of his body, a cloud of gray mist rose up, and he vanished instantly.

The candlelight flickered inside the ghost lamp floating in mid-air, and the hall was completely silent.

Bai Zhilang did not continue to flip through the book in his hand, but instead squinted and stared at the place where Gong Huan disappeared. A faint bloody light appeared in his pupils.

After a long pause, he suddenly spoke to the air in front of him, asking, "Gong Huan is known for his uprightness and strictness, and is a confidant of the city lord. If he really launches a large-scale search, won't we be in trouble?"

Then his expression changed, and he answered his own question: "Don't worry, since we can evade the main camp's investigation, we won't be discovered by Gong Huan."

He still had that square face, but his expression and demeanor were completely different from before, as if two people were living in one skin!
"Should we get rid of him beforehand?"

"Taking action rashly will only expose our weaknesses."

"Then let him live a few more days."

"..."

……

As night fell, the entire camp gradually drifted off to sleep.

The fog that blanketed the camp seemed to come alive, flowing rapidly.

At the foot of the mountain, inside the Flame Walker tribe's camp, Chen Mu lay on his bed, unable to sleep. His eyes were slightly narrowed, and he watched the ever-shifting Divine Mist through the half-open window.

"It's just a slight disturbance, is it really necessary to search and investigate like this again and again?" Chen Mu thought to himself.

Fortunately, I was cautious and didn't venture into Thousand Lanterns City tonight, otherwise I might have been discovered by this midnight raid.

He made his breathing deep and slow, pretending to be asleep, but his mind was always focused on the changing fog outside the window. It wasn't until late at night, when the fog gradually slowed down, that Chen Mu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

We finally dodged it...

Just as he was contemplating whether to enter Thousand Lantern City to make up for his daily practice of the Peaceful Mind Sutra, a muffled boom suddenly resounded. The earth trembled violently, and Chen Mu even felt as if the small wooden house had jumped up!
He was startled and immediately rushed out of the room. He saw the ghostly figure of the Gate of Hell on the mountainside suddenly soar into the sky, but it disappeared with a bang after flying to a height of more than ten stories.

The gates of hell... exploded?!

No!
I barely touched the edge of hell, how could it explode?!

The entire camp was awakened by this sudden change, and shouts and signals resounded from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain.

The bronze plaque with the ghost face on Chen Mu's body vibrated, and orders to calm and suppress the auxiliary soldiers and prevent them from making any rash moves were quickly issued.

But his face tightened, his mind was in turmoil, and he couldn't care less about anything else.

My actions couldn't possibly have caused such a huge mess... right?
……

On the mountainside, at the Yellow Springs, beside the bottomless pool.

Bai Zhilang, clad in black armor, leaned lazily against the gates of hell.

“Originally, I wanted to let you live a few more days.” He smiled as he looked at Gong Huan not far away. “But I saw you still having to patrol in the middle of the night, and you were having a hard time. I couldn’t bear it, so I thought it would be better for you to die sooner.”

Gong Huan: "..."

Where did this lunatic come from?!
"You're not Bai Zhilang, who are you?!" Gong Huan was surrounded by gray mist, his eyes fixed on the familiar face before him.

"Want to die knowing why?" Bai Zhilang raised his right hand slightly.

A series of crystal-clear, blood-red streams suddenly appeared, slowly flowing and converging into a sphere that surrounded Gong Huan and Bai Zhilang.

"Even if we knew, what could we do?" Bai Zhilang chuckled.

“Once a spirit dies, it's gone; there's no way to complain to the King of the Underworld.”

Gong Huan shook his head with a solemn expression: "I just want to know, are you worth my surrender?"

Bai Zhilang: "..."

Lan Zhang: "..."

Isn't he a trusted confidant of the city lord, upright and strict?
They haven't even fought yet, and they're already thinking about surrendering?!
"If you're not Gong Huan, then who are you?" Now it was Bai Zhilang's turn to be confused.

Gong Huan chuckled softly, "General Bai, you can't judge a book by its cover..."

Bai Zhilang: "..."

That's not how you use that word at all!

……

As dawn broke, the Yin soldiers of the You-character camp set out on their expedition.

Chen Mu held the bronze plaque with the ghost face on it, and looking at the information it contained, he couldn't help but relax. "So the commotion last night was all because the multi-headed dragons launched a night attack on the camp. After being discovered by the supervising officer, a fierce battle broke out."

"So, my previous collusion with the Gate of Hell, which triggered the military supervisor's investigation, inadvertently led to the discovery of the multi-headed dragon attack?"

"I've done nothing wrong, only merit!"

Chen Mu chuckled to himself as he continued checking the announcements. But as he looked, he suddenly froze.

"The Bottomless Pool has been destroyed?"

"The auxiliary troops of the Flame Strike Force remain inactive?"

This strange sense of familiarity...

Wasn't that how the Hai-character camp was wiped out back then?!

Chen Mu felt a chill run down his spine.

Could it be that General Bai on the mountaintop has also defected to the Underworld Demon Heaven?

……

For three days in a row, Chen Mu was on tenterhooks, unable to eat or sleep well, and nervously staring at the mountaintop all day long.

Even after he saw the various units of the Flame Strike Army begin moving the corpses of the multi-headed dragons again, even after he saw the Bottomless Pool fully resume its normal operation, even after he saw the supervising officer Gong Huan still meticulously overseeing the military merit records, he... was still not entirely at ease.

Late at night, in the city of a thousand lanterns.

"Bai Zhilang and Gong Huan betrayed Jigu City together?"

Shen Yan laughed as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world: "You have quite the imagination."

“A genius monster like Lan Zhang is one in several hundred years.”

"This kind of person is unwilling to be subordinate to others and is eager for quick success. I'm not surprised that he would rebel against Yinming. I even think that Lord Jian had foreseen this all along."

“But the others…” Shen Yan shook his head: “They don’t have the guts, and they don’t have the talent.”

"What if..." Chen Mu was still worried.

"You're not thinking of hiding in Thousand Lanterns City again, are you?" Shen Yan said irritably. "This is obviously a monster attack on the camp! Can you stop being such a coward!"

"You know nothing! I'm just being cautious!" Chen Mu retorted confidently.

Shen Yan rolled his eyes. If he wasn't afraid that this bastard would drag him out to sunbathe, he would definitely make a good laugh at him.

"Even if Bai Zhilang really has a problem, Gong Huan has absolutely no chance."

“We who serve as military supervisors are all personally cultivated and promoted by the city lord, and we have secret contracts with him. If we betray Jigu City, we will be cursed to death by the city lord’s secret magic.”

"Gong Huan is upright and meticulous in his work, and he always obeys the city lord's orders."

"Since Gong Huan is staying in the Yellow Springs region without any problems, Bai Zhilang cannot possibly have betrayed Jigu City."

Seeing that Chen Mu still looked hesitant, Shen Yan immediately became impatient.

"If he really betrays the city lord, I'll build a platform and do three thousand somersaults in front of these three thousand spirits!"

Chen Mu immediately turned his head to look.

……

The weather in the Underworld is humid and hot, and the various monsters raised there are all sinister and ferocious.

The most obvious manifestation of this is that the fighting on the beach is becoming increasingly fierce.

Despite the numerous deaths of the multi-headed dragon, it still relentlessly fought against the Yin soldiers of the You-character camp.

This has made the task of moving the corpses of the multi-headed dragons increasingly arduous. In the past, it would only take half a day to clean up the battlefield, but now, even after the sun has completely set, only half of the multi-headed dragon corpses can be moved.

The You-character battalion had no choice but to issue Flame Chariots to the auxiliary soldiers of the Yin Wind Division, temporarily transforming them into the Flame Journey Division to assist. Under these circumstances, even a Yin soldier like Chen Mu, a captain, had to personally go and move them.

But he gradually felt at ease.

For more than half a month, Chen Mu had never given up observing from the shadows.

The entire Youzi Camp was spinning like a top, busy with hunting and fighting. Apart from normal battle losses, there were no incidents of spirits disappearing without a trace.

Shi Dechun helped gather information from the various camps, but he didn't receive any unsettling rumors.

"Looks like I was overthinking it." Chen Mu shook his head with a chuckle.

He was actually pleased to see the Flame Walkers' tasks becoming increasingly busy.

"Being busy is good; maybe I can complete my hunting quota sooner and leave the Netherworld sooner," he thought happily.

"It's a bit of a shame that we can't see Old Shen doing somersaults on stage."

"Hmm... how about we trick him into going on stage to perform?"

"Hiss...it's not impossible!" Chen Mu's eyes lit up immediately.

"Anyway, this old ghost can't leave Thousand Lantern City, so it's easy for him to play the role."

"The three thousand spirits have been cooped up in Thousand Lantern City for too long. Their suppressed emotions need a spectacular performance to relieve them."

"Then we'll just have to make things difficult for Supervisor Shen! Haha..." Chen Mu tossed the corpse of a five-headed monster dragon onto the Flame Chariot and walked briskly toward Shi Dechun and Hong Xiu.

Shen Yan is cunning and not easily fooled; he needs to find two accomplices to act together.

(End of this chapter)