Free Web NovelChapter 468: Chapter 272: The Weakness of the Contaminated Soldiers
A wide, blood-stained gray cloth was wrapped around Anglo’s waist. He was in good spirits, his voice full of vigor, not at all like someone whose abdomen had been sliced completely open. freēwebnovel.com
Seeing Fang Zhen look over, Anglo laughed heartily, unafraid of aggravating his wound. He pointed to his stomach and said:
"The handiwork of those monstrous trash is pathetic! They only managed to slice open my belly without damaging any organs or my intestines. I slapped some Alchemy Ointment on it, and it’s pretty much healed. I’m almost fully recovered now."
Anglo turned to Fang Zhen. "That Alchemy Bow I left you... I was planning on just giving it to you. But now, I’m going to use it alongside you to protect the warriors heading out of the city. You’re not thinking of keeping it, are you? HAHAHA!"
Hearing Anglo’s teasing words, Fang Zhen smiled. "I was just worried you wouldn’t have the strength to draw it."
"Don’t let my age fool you. This old body of mine has just as much strength as any young man’s," Anglo said.
The duo’s loud jokes and their cavalier attitude toward the monsters—treating them as worthless fodder—dispelled the grim atmosphere on the city wall. The soldiers started laughing along, their spirits lifted with a new sense of hope.
Most Curse Sealers were pragmatic people of action, and they quickly brought over horses. Karen and Pat prepared themselves.
Karen was the team leader, while Pat was responsible for carrying the drone’s relay station on horseback.
Before Karen left, Fang Zhen gave her two items: a walkie-talkie and a Blood Crystal Stone Alchemy Bomb.
Pointing at the walkie-talkie, Fang Zhen quickly taught Karen how to use it. "I’ll be watching the surrounding area from the sky," he said. "If any trouble comes up, I’ll let you know immediately. All you have to do is follow my directions."
"If you can’t avoid the monsters, use your Power of Curse Seal to activate this Rune Bomb and throw it. It’ll draw all the nearby monsters to it, just like the last one did."
Karen looked at the two items Fang Zhen handed over, gave him a long, meaningful look, and then nodded.
In no time, Karen and Pat were ready to depart. Fang Zhen, meanwhile, deployed the drone, sending it up into the sky.
The recent, highly efficient kills had thinned out the monsters outside the city, but to be safe, the Curse Sealers didn’t open the main gate. Instead, they lowered a hoist cage from the top of the wall.
A wooden pulley system was set up on the wall. Karen and Pat got into the hoist cage, and they were lowered down along with their horses.
The Whig Society had many skilled artisans; they had already developed a pulley crane system.
Once the hoist cage landed, the fine horses galloped away from the wall, trampling over the monster corpses. free𝑤ebnovel.com
With the relay station hoisted on his shoulder, Pat followed closely behind Karen.
On the city wall, Fang Zhen controlled the drone, keeping it airborne above Karen and Pat.
On the drone’s feed, Fang Zhen could see that a large swath of the nearby forest had been burned, leaving no cover for any Abnormal Ghosts. Karen and Pat were heading southeast.
Fang Zhen used the drone to clear a path for them from the sky. Whenever he spotted a group of more than thirty or forty monsters, he would immediately radio their position to Karen.
Karen was incredibly sharp and quickly learned to follow his commands, deftly avoiding the monsters.
The journey went exceptionally smoothly. In less than ten minutes, Karen and Pat had traveled two or three kilometers and reached the designated spot.
Fang Zhen had already found a good spot via the drone. He guided Karen over the walkie-talkie, "Alright, put the drone relay station down right here. The signal is still plenty strong."
Karen found a concealed spot, and together with Pat, she placed the relay station inside a shallow natural cave. They then scattered some Alchemy Powder, which monsters despise, around the area.
Suddenly, Fang Zhen spotted a troop of Abnormal Ghosts in the distance, rushing toward their position. It was as if they had been ordered to encircle and annihilate Karen and Pat.
"Karen! Get back here, now! Over a hundred Abnormal Ghosts are coming to surround you!" Fang Zhen yelled into the walkie-talkie.
Upon hearing his warning, Karen and Pat immediately mounted their horses and retreated toward Lanxi City.
Fang Zhen noticed more shadowy monster figures appearing, some in the distance, all moving to pincer Karen and Pat.
Fang Zhen directed Karen on a retreat path to avoid the enemies. After judging their speed, he concluded that the monsters shouldn’t be able to catch up to them.
He hadn’t forgotten his main objective. Once he was certain Karen and Pat were out of major risk, he didn’t pilot the drone back with them. Racing against time, he continued to fly it directly southeast.
Thanks to the relay station with its portable power supply, the signal loaded quickly, and the drone flew for nearly another two kilometers.
Its straight-line flight speed was extremely fast.
Soon, he found Xitan.
Xitan was located approximately five kilometers southeast of Lanxi City.
Through the drone’s aerial camera, Fang Zhen could see that Xitan was a fairly large pool of water where several upstream creeks converged.
Fang Zhen saw approximately 5,000 to 6,000 "polluted soldiers" gathered at Xitan, ceaselessly engaged in some kind of engineering project.
The polluted soldiers had already constructed a dam, blocking the pool’s natural outflow and raising the water level.
Fang Zhen’s brow furrowed at the sight.
’How insidious. The monsters from the Eternal Night Council are actually planning a water-based attack!’
While recording video, Fang Zhen also used the drone’s integrated camera system to snap several photos, which were transmitted back and saved to his control console.
With the evidence secured, Fang Zhen quickly began flying the drone back.
Even though the drone’s round trip was longer, it still overtook Karen and Pat, who were galloping back on the ground below.
