Li Tianquan's face darkened, and he shouted: "What is this panic about!"
The female clerk who came in was a little scared, but she still said: "Mr. Jing Zhan has just returned to the base. He is seriously injured and unconscious."
Li Tianquan was shocked, stood up suddenly, and said: "How could it be, he brought out a whole company of elite soldiers! What did they do?"
"Mr. Jing Zhan's entire army was wiped out, and General Hong was seriously injured before sending him back."
"Where is the other person, take me there!" Li Tianquan said urgently.
"Elder, there is another piece of news..." the female clerk seemed a little hesitant.
"Hurry up!" Li Tianquan shouted impatiently.
"This... I just got the news that something happened to our troops delivering supplies to the Song Clan, and only... only half of them escaped."
"What?" Li Tianquan's shock was no small matter. He grabbed the hand of the female clerk and said, "Isn't that army led by Li Ke? What about others, let him come to see me!"
"According to those who came back, Mr. Li Ke... died in battle."
Li Tianquan suddenly felt dark in front of his eyes, his body swayed, and when he stretched out his hand to support the edge of the table, he calmed down and said, "Death in battle?"
"Yes, the person who came back said that he saw Master Li Ke being decapitated by the enemy."
Li Tianquan's face turned pale again, and there was even a bloody taste in his mouth.
Li Ke is the backbone of the Li family, brave and resourceful, and a general who can stand alone. If it weren't for being from a side branch, he would have been able to ascend to a higher position. More importantly, Li Ke is an important force in Li Tianquan's party, and his loss is really a major loss.
Li Tianquan tried his best to remain calm and asked, "With Li Ke's skill, how could he be decapitated by the enemy? Who is the opponent and how many people are there?"
The female clerk said in a low voice: "There are only a dozen people on the other side. They rushed straight to the central army and succeeded in one blow. The leader was a demon-born earl. It was he who shot the adult seriously and then beheaded him. The descendant count calls himself Aiden Darkdeep."
"Earl of the Devil, Aiden..." Li Tianquan recited the name silently, feeling very familiar. He suddenly remembered that Qianye had said that day that he had been fighting with a devil-born earl for the past half month. What was the earl's name
Li Tianquan tried hard to recall, but couldn't remember anything, and his mood became more and more irritable. At that time, he didn't believe that Qianye was able to hold back a well-known devil-born earl, and he didn't even believe that there was no dark army crossing the border in that defense area.
Thinking of Li Ke's death, but half of his subordinates escaped back, his heart was even more furious, and Sen Han said: "Here's an order, all those who escaped will be taken down, and they will all be executed for the crime of escaping before the battle and making the master die. !"
As soon as this order came out, even the female clerk was taken aback, and she didn't care that she might be reprimanded for admonishing in her own capacity, so she hurriedly said: "Elder, this...do you want to wait for a thorough investigation before convicting?"
She said it tactfully, but Li Tianquan immediately came to his senses. Executing hundreds of private soldiers of the family at one go, even if they escaped from the battlefield, is a huge matter. Even Li Tianquan, as the second elder, does not have this right. This matter must at least be approved by the elders or the head of the house.
The truth is this, but having nowhere to vent his anger made Li Tianquan's heart burn more intensely, and this anger turned to Qianye's head: "Little bastard, you must have let the demon descendant come over, otherwise Li Ke wouldn't will die miserably!"
However, these thoughts can only be kept in his heart. Li Tianquan took a deep breath, regained the elder's dignity, and said: "Where are the people who escaped now? Take me there. In addition, give me all the information about that demon descendant." I'll send it to the office, don't miss anything!"
Li Tianquan left in a hurry, causing quite a disturbance in the base. Since the start of the war, the Li family has never experienced such a heavy loss. In one day, a general was lost, and hundreds of private troops were lost. Although those mercenary hunters died, they died, but the Li family had to pay a lot of pensions, otherwise, who would work for the Li family in the future
The heavier the loss, the heavier the hatred for Qianye in Li Tianquan's heart. Although he also understood that this was just venting his anger, it was still difficult to control himself. However, Li Tianquan didn't know yet, it was rare for him to think in the right direction this time.
The loss was just the beginning, and bad news came out almost every day. Some weaker troops were directly maimed or even completely wiped out, and powerful teams were also attacked from time to time. More than half of the loss records are related to one name, Aiden.
At this point, people really know the horror of the famous devil-born earl, especially in the foggy forest, his existence is almost incomprehensible.
As the top person in charge of the base, Li Tianquan held several meetings in a row to analyze the battle reports and study ways to deal with Aiden. The information about Aiden has also gradually improved, but the more they analyze it, the more people feel that it is only possible to solve this demon descendant unless a powerful person of level 15, 6 or even higher is mobilized.
However, in the foggy forest, simply increasing the cultivation level of the original force cannot make the perception proportionally extend, unless there is a special talent for perception. According to the known information, Aiden's field of vision exceeds 400 meters, which is a desperate number.
The meeting inevitably reached a stalemate. Is it possible to invite a god general to join the battle in order to solve a dark earl? This is definitely not a good idea. If the imperial side puts a general in the misty forest, the Duke of Darkness will appear immediately on the eternal night side. The war will escalate when neither side is ready.
When the Li family base was in a state of desperation, Qianye completed another hunt.
Unlike Aiden, few of the dark troops who encountered Qianye slipped through the net. He specially selected a team of about a hundred people to attack, silently adding nutrients to himself and the purple matrix.
It has been nearly half a month since the battle, and Anduya's space is full, and all the military certificates are added together, which is about enough to change to the standard second-class merit, which is equivalent to hunting and killing a powerful earl.
It's time to go back, Qianye thought. He silently smoked the last cigarette in stock, flicked the cigarette butt onto the werewolf corpse at his feet, and retreated towards the base.
In the Realm of Eternal Night, outside Heiliu City, a group of trucks is coming from afar. There are only five heavy-duty trucks carrying goods in this convoy, but there are more than twenty military vehicles escorting them. The officers guarding the city gate had already seen the dark fire mark of the convoy, but they still strictly followed the inspection procedures.
It happened that the gate guard officer was familiar with a captain of the guard, so he couldn't help pointing to the truck and asked, "What is so important that you have to use a regiment to escort it?"
The captain spread his hands, lowered his voice, and said, "Hush your voice! It was delivered from the werewolf city. I don't know what's in the car. No one is allowed to carry the goods. It is said that the contents inside are except Only Duan Tou knows about those people in Wolf City."
The guard officer was startled: "Boss Duan is also in the convoy?"
"Of course! Boss holds the line personally, do you understand?"
Duan Hao is an old man brought over by Song Zining from Ningyuan Heavy Industry. He can be regarded as the direct descendant of the direct line, and he has also received sufficient resources and vigorous training from Song Zining.
In the bloody battle, Duan Hao also benefited a lot from the successive battles. He broke through several bottlenecks at the time of life and death, and successfully broke through the generals at the time of the battle. Although Duan Hao is limited by his talent, he may only be able to reach level 11 in this life, but this kind of warrior who came from a regular battlefield has an actual combat power far above the original force level.
This time the convoy was actually escorted by Duan Hao himself, which shows how much he attaches importance to it.
The officer guarding the gate didn't dare to ask any more questions, and after completing the procedure, he waved his hand to let him go. The convoy only stayed in the city for half a day before driving to the airship take-off and landing field outside the city. After a while, a high-speed airship lifted off and quickly went away.
In the guard tower, a lieutenant put down his binoculars, looked at the airship that disappeared into the sky, pondered, and then wrote down something on a piece of paper, carefully keeping it close to him.
Soon it was night, and it was time for the lieutenant to rest. After handing over his post, he didn't go back to the barracks, but walked towards the bustling business district. In Dark Fire, it was not uncommon for a low-ranking officer like him to be alone. When they were not on duty, most of them didn't want to stay in the camp alone, and they would have some fun.
He hesitated, walked into a tavern, sat down in a corner, ordered a bottle of wine, and drank slowly.
After a while, a flirtatious woman sat across from him, looked at the brand of the wine, and said, "Why don't you buy me a drink? I like this wine."
The lieutenant exhaled lightly, and took the woman's hand. The woman frowned, and took her hand back calmly. With this inadvertent little action, she already had an extra piece of folded paper in her hand. After a while, the two of them looked like they didn't agree on the price, and finally broke up.
The woman stayed in the tavern for a while, but left as if bored. After carefully paying attention to the surrounding environment, she walked into a small hotel not far away, went up to a suite on the second floor, and handed the note to a man in his early thirties.
That man has a clean face and a rather elegant temperament, which is quite incompatible with the noisy, lively, rude but vibrant Eternal Night Continent.
He opened the note under the lamp and carefully read every word on it.
At this time, the woman didn't dare to disturb him, and sat beside him idly. The roar of machinery can be heard outside the window, and the air is filled with the smell of rust and damp steam. Even if the windows are closed tightly, this disgusting smell cannot be completely blocked. The woman frowned and wrinkled her nose slightly, showing an unhappy expression.
The man finally read the note, glanced at the woman, and said, "No way, since you're here, you have to endure this."
"Can't we change the place? It's too close to the power tower." The woman complained.
The power tower of Heiliu City uses black stone as fuel, which was completely eliminated in the mainland of the empire more than a hundred years ago. Noise, steam that is always leaking, and low energy conversion efficiency, such shortcomings can be written all over the place. a whole sheet of paper.
But it also has advantages, that is, it is not picky about food, and even the worst black stone can make it move. In addition, it is durable. For example, this big guy less than 100 meters away from the small hotel has already passed its service life for an unknown number of years, but it is still running, and it looks like it can be used for a long time, but it needs to be repaired from time to time.
This power tower is now responsible for supplying power to the old city. The new power tower that Song Zining bought with his own money is naturally placed in the dark fire. Its power only supplies the camp and city defense facilities.
Around the old power tower, ghettos naturally formed. The low-level civilians in Heiliu City and those low-level mercenary hunters don't care much about the environment, and only here can they afford food and lodging. In fact, most of the central cities of the human race in the third and fourth-level defense zones of Yongye are at the level of the old power tower of Heiliu. This is the real life in the abandoned land.
The man burned the note, thought for a moment, and said, "This is already the second batch of similar convoy this month. Wolf City..."