Let's suffer a little longer, fellow Blue Star folks.

A burly shirtless man was holding a piece of grilled meat wrapped in vegetables. He stuffed it into his mouth while shouting to two slaves who were grilling the meat not far away.

Although the people who built this camp considered building a kitchen, most of the rebels were still accustomed to making a fire and grilling meat directly in the open space in the center of the camp.

"By the way, have you found the slave who ran away?"

The burly man chewed the meat in his hand and swallowed it, then suddenly looked up at the person sitting opposite him.

This man was quite handsome. I heard that he used to work as a clerk in Yunhe Town. Later, for some unknown reason, he fled to the demon-occupied area and became a captain in this camp.

The missing slave was one of his men.

When the handsome man heard this, he silently withdrew his hand that was reaching for the barbecue and shook his head.

"He wasn't found, and the slaves who were transporting the goods with him didn't see him escape either. He must have planned this for a long time."

In order to confuse the public, Yu Shui took the cart and the food on it with him during the evacuation.

After running for about ten kilometers, he finally found a place with overgrown weeds to throw these things away.

It is to interfere with the judgment of these rebels at this time.

"Boss, do you want to send a few more teams to search? That slave has no cultivation and shouldn't be able to run far." The handsome man continued.

"no need."

The burly man waved his hand casually.

"Just treat him as dead."

Just a runaway slave, not worth their trouble.

"There's one more important thing. This afternoon, we received a message from Camp No. 6 asking us to set off tomorrow and head directly to Camp No. 2."

As he spoke, the burly man snorted coldly, and his tone became somewhat disdainful.

"They said they will continue to move the supplies from Camp 3. They told us to take seven days' worth of supplies and leave first. They will provide more supplies immediately."

"Humph, you're talking nonsense."

The burly man paused, then looked around at the dozen or so people in front of him.

"What do you think?"

"Boss! I think this Xie guy is targeting us!" A captain sitting about four or five meters to the left of the burly man slapped his thigh and shouted angrily.

"We came all the way here from Camp 12, and before we'd even spent a few days at Camp 3, he told us to keep going!"

"Why doesn't he go himself?! He has the cultivation base of the late Yellow Rank, and he has two captains in the middle Yellow Rank under him, yet he just stays in Camp No. 6!"

"I think he's just afraid of death!!"

The handsome man couldn't help but interject a few words as he heard the captain's words become more and more outrageous.

"Since Captain Xie has been appointed commander-in-chief, there shouldn't be any problem for him to be stationed at Camp No. 6."

"What? Just because Mr. Xie praised your knowledge, you're now speaking up for him?! Do you know how close Camp No. 2 is to Yunshan? If the Yunhe Army wants to attack us, do you think Mr. Xie will save you?!"

"I'm just speaking the truth. The order for us to march immediately is definitely biased, but there may be some deeper meaning behind it. I'd like to ask for clarification."

"Deeper intentions? Criticisms! He's just looking for revenge! The commander-in-chief said to attack slowly and act accordingly, so why is he so eager for us to set off?!"

"..."

The two argued louder and louder, and finally they even rolled up their sleeves.

"Alright, alright." The burly man picked up the barbecue that the slave had just brought over, and while dipping it in the sauce, he said, "Xie is the commander-in-chief. We can only follow his orders."

"We can go to Camp No. 2, but not tomorrow."

Having said that, he also glanced at the two people who were on edge.

"You two should take your men to Camp No. 2 tomorrow to investigate the situation."

Then he looked into their eyes again and spoke word by word.

"Remember, check it out carefully for me."

……

The bright moon gradually rose high in the sky, the lights in the gathering place were brightly lit, and the noise gradually dissipated.

The fellows from Blue Star finished a day's 'work' in the game and had to go back to work in reality.

There is a saying that goes: Being busy in reality is so that you can be busier in the game!

And players have always been strong supporters of this statement.

"There's only one battalion..."

Tang Yi was still sitting in Xia Keyu's small office at this time, and on the screen in front of him was a graphic and text document provided by Xiaoxing summarizing Yu Shui and others' reports today.

In the afternoon, he also specifically asked Li Shan about the specific situation of the Black Beard Army.

It has to be said that the Yunhe Army stationed on the border is indeed very familiar with the rebels outside.

The Black Beard Army has a total of seven commanders, each of them has strength above the Xuan level, so they also call themselves the "Black Beard Seven Stars".

Each commander had many battalions under his command, with each battalion consisting of about one hundred to two hundred people.

When going on an expedition, if none of the seven commanders set out, they would select a battalion commander from the several battalions that set out, temporarily appoint him as the commander, and give him the right to dispatch other battalions.

As for those stone camps, some were built by the Black Beard Army, while others were built by earlier rebels.

Within the Black Beard Army, these camps were arranged according to their distance from the border of Yunhe Town, with Camp No. 1 being the closest, Camp No. 2 being the second, and so on.

According to the unlucky guy captured by Yu Shui and others, the rebels are now stationed in Camp No. 3.

"The straight-line distance is 53 kilometers, and the fastest distance is 65 kilometers."

Tang Yi looked at the distance between Camp No. 3 and the Yunshan Mountains again, and tapped the screen lightly with his finger.

65 kilometers. If the rebels with a certain level of cultivation march at full speed, without having to worry about the demons, they can reach the foot of Yunshan Mountain within a day.

Although it was unclear how these people were going to act, there were demons lurking in the Yunhe Army. As long as he leaked the patrol time of the Yunhe Army, the Heihu Army would naturally have a way to slowly transport people into the valley.

This situation is common in many towns, especially the neighboring Jiaoqiu Town, where countless traveling merchants and refugees are often killed by refugees who come from nowhere.

But when the Jiaoqiu army arrived, these exiles disappeared in an instant.

In the end, we had no choice but to let it go.

However, since the valley was too close to the Yunhe Army's camp, Li Mu had a precedent of secretly running into the gathering place.

Therefore, the leader of the Black Beard Army is unlikely to come in person, but frequent small-scale wars will also disrupt the development of the gathering place and affect Tang Yi's practice.

"It seems that we still need to add a new version activity." Tang Yi said in a low voice.

Rather than sit and wait for death, it is better to take the initiative.

After all, there is still a big gap in the number of low-level monsters in his current system tasks, so it would be better to let the players kill directly to the other side of the valley.

This way he can kill monsters, capture rebels, and continue to improve his cultivation.

It really kills three birds with one stone.

And now he discovered that although the player could not gain strength if he did not kill monsters, he could comprehend the laws.

Once a cultivator enters the Xuan level, sometimes what they compete with is their understanding of the laws. Their cultivation level is somewhat like a blue bar, which only determines how long their battle can last.

Anyway, he felt that his understanding of the thunder attribute had been rising steadily recently, maybe he had already reached the late stage of the Xuan level?

Looking at it this way...

Could it be that he is also a genius in cultivation?

Chapter 172: There are still thieves?

Early morning, Yunhe Town.

Xia Keyu opened her eyes drowsily, but today, there was no familiar noise in her ears, nor familiar sunshine in front of her eyes. Instead, there was another scene in her memory.

The bed that my body adapted to, the ceiling that felt familiar yet strange, the room decor filled with memories, and even the fragrance I hadn't smelled in a long time.

It was her mother's favorite fragrance, made with cloud pear blossoms and agarwood as the main ingredients.

During the years after her mother passed away, she would fall asleep every day smelling this scent. Over time, she also came to like this smell.

It was light, somewhat sweet, and a little refreshing. When she smelled this scent, she would always smile unconsciously, and her mood would slowly calm down.

"smell good……"

Xia Keyu closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

All of this wrapped around her gave her the illusion that nothing had happened.

My father was not possessed by a demon, my mother was not dead, and everyone in the Xia family was still alive.

Everything is the same as before.

She slowly sat up and paused on the bed, her eyes a little absent-minded, as if she had seen some beautiful sight.

Until the end, it seemed as if a person suddenly walked into her life.

Everything else began to fade, but the figure of that person became clearer and clearer, and she smiled a little.

"call--"

Xia Keyu shook her head slightly, then skillfully got out of bed, changed her clothes, finished washing up, and finally stretched herself beautifully.

"Squeak~"

The door that had not been used for a long time made a slight sound, and the sunlight shone into the house through the gap and hit Xia Keyu's face.

"Hmm~"

She nodded slightly.

The weather is nice today.

"Miss, you are awake."

A little girl happened to walk down the corridor on the right side of the room. When she saw Xia Keyu open the door, she immediately stepped forward and spoke.

"Your subordinates are already dining in the dining room. Do you want to go over now?"

This little girl is a maid of the Xia family. Xia Keyu just met her yesterday. Her name is Xiaoqing.

Because several servants of the Xia family had died of that strange disease before, the housekeeper learned from Cai Cheng that Xia Keyu was still alive, so he specially bought Xiaoqing in.

The little girl was not very old and looked only thirteen or fourteen years old.

Xia Keyu looked at Xiaoqing's head, then smiled and stretched out her right hand. The little girl immediately lowered her head and even trembled subconsciously, probably thinking that Xia Keyu was going to hit her.

But she didn't dare to run, she just closed her eyes silently.

But after a few seconds, the expected pain did not come, but a gentle caress came instead.

So this is what it feels like to touch someone's head.

"They are not my subordinates, they are my partners." Xia Keyu said with a smile.

"Xiaoqing said the wrong thing." Xiaoqing said immediately.

Xia Keyu blinked, then withdrew her hand, walked out of the room silently, and then put her hands behind her back and staggered towards the restaurant. Xiaoqing immediately followed with her head down.

However, Xia Keyu's pace was not fast. She looked around and asked casually:

"I didn't have time to ask you yesterday why you came here to be a maid. I remember that a lot of things happened in the Xia family some time ago. People outside said that this place is not auspicious."

"Miss, my father couldn't pay off his gambling debts, so he sold Xiaoqing to the housekeeper." Xiaoqing answered immediately, with a hint of grievance in her tone.

After all, she had only been in the Xia family for a month, and she still couldn't get over the fact that her father sold her.

"That's it."

Xia Keyu nodded slightly.

It seems like a very old-fashioned, yet heavy reason.

"Then are you willing to leave Yunhe Town with me and go to the new gathering place we have established?" she asked.

"I……"

Xiaoqing was stunned. Xia Keyu changed the topic so quickly that she didn't react for a moment.

"Don't rush to answer. If you're willing to stay at the Xia family, that's fine. I'll come back here often in the future."