Chapter 392 (1/2)
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After snowing for more than ten days, the snow finally began to show signs of subsiding. In some places, the acc.u.mulated snow had reached up to the waist, and there was a vast expanse of white everywhere. Many simple and crude huts and log cabins had collapsed under the pressure of the acc.u.mulated snow. There were many common people on the road who died. They either froze to death or starved to death, there were too many of them to count.
Although the Proud Moon Empire also had such a long period of continuous heavy snowfall in the past, only a small region was affected by it. Never in history was there a snowstorm so strong which lasted for so many days. Snow literally covered the entire empire, forming vast snowfields.
Due to the heavy snowfall, traffic was blocked. As such, transmission of intelligence reports became a much more difficult task as compared to the past. It also forcibly broke off the route which the Violent Dragon Empire and Nalan Empire used to transport their army provisions. If the snowfall didn't stop, soldiers belonging to both the Violent Dragon Empire and Nalan Empire would constantly be in a state of anxiety.
Long Yi opened the tent and looked at the dazzling snowland around with a wry smile on his face. In the beginning, he had felt that this snowfall was interesting as it made the weather much more comfortable. At first, Long Yi used to play in the snowfields with his wives. They used to enjoy themselves and thought that a little snow was not too bad. However, when the effects of this terrible weather became serious enough to affect the lives of the people living in the area, their views on the snowy weather underwent a huge change. They felt as though this snow was rather annoying, and they wished for the snow to stop falling endlessly from the sky.
Every morning, when the soldiers from the Unparalleled Battalion got up, they would sort out the acc.u.mulated snow in their campsite. If they didn't have the discipline to shovel the snow away, their entire campsite would have been buried in snow by now.
After several days of shoveling snow out of their campsite, a wall of snow formed around the Unparalleled Battalion's campsite. The acc.u.mulated snow formed a snow wall of several meters in height, completely encircling the Unparalleled Battalion inside it.
Just when Long Yi was lost in thought, he suddenly sensed a weak magic fluctuation approaching the Unparalleled Battalion from outside the snow wall.
A yellow radiance flashed and a boorish looking man wearing an earth magic robe appeared outside the snow walls.
”Stop, identify yourself. What is your purpose for trespa.s.sing into our military camp?” Just as this magician was about to step foot into the Unparalleled Battalion's campsite, two soldiers who were on duty placed their blades against his neck. Noticing the commotion, the patrol squad which was closest to the magician rushed over, surrounding him in their battle formation.
”Everyone, don't get excited, I have no ill intentions. I am looking for Young Master Ximen to give him my report.” This earth magician raised his hands and bowed unctuously. However, the soldiers found it hard to believe his words as he had the words ”I am a villain” plastered on his face.
”Tie him up first, we'll talk later. We shall let the general decide his fate.” The patrol captain waved his hand, signaling for his men to restrain this magician. Several soldiers rushed up to the earth magician as if they were ferocious wolves and tigers.
However, before they laid a hand on the earth magician, Long Yi arrived. Long Yi flew over to the earth magician and said, ”Release him, leave this person to me.”
Hearing Long Yi's words, every single soldier obeyed his order. After they released this boorish earth magician, they left after Long Yi gave them a signal.
”Skynet number 8806 pays respect to Young Master.” The earth magician made a unique gesture as he paid his respects to Long Yi.
”Did Yin Jian send you?” Long Yi raised his eyebrows and asked. This fellow should be the trusted subordinate Yin Jian cultivated outside the Hengduan Mountains.
”Young Master is wise. Lord Yin Jian sent me here with a secret message. I should have arrived two days ago, however, the heavy snowfall blocked the mountain path. The block greatly delayed my journey, which was why I was two days late.” This earth magician took out a thick bamboo tube which was sealed and respectfully handed it over to Long Yi.
Long Yi broke open the seal and saw two slips of paper inside it. Reading one of them, a delighted smile appeared on his face. He patted the shoulder of this earth magician and said with a smile, ”Go back and relay my message to Yin Jian. I, Long Yi, will remember his meritorious service.”
Listening to Long Yi's command, this earth magician accepted the order and disappeared into the snowland using Earth Escape Magic.
”Yin Jian, that boy, he truly possesses a few tricks of the trade. In such a short period of time, Skynet actually managed to take root in the Hengduan Mountains. Looks like my eye for people is quite good.” Long Yi smiled with narcissistic thoughts. The report he just received stated that although the beast-man clans appeared united under the Bimeng royal family on the surface, they were actually fighting each other in secret. In short, they were not united at all. Since they had already lived in the Hengduan Mountains for so many years, most of the beast-men clans were satisfied with their lives. Patriarchs of many beast-men clans opposed the idea of taking up arms again. Also, due to the fact that the Bimeng Clan's patriarch was getting old, several of his sons and grandsons started to fight among each other. It was practically impossible for them to gather enough beast-men soldiers to start a large scale invasion.
After thinking about it, Long Yi came to the conclusion that the beast-men clans reached an agreement with the Proud Moon Empire. That was the reason they carried out a surprise attack on the western border of the Nalan Empire. Their main objective was to confuse the two great empires. It was to mislead both the Violent Dragon Empire and Nalan Empire into thinking that the beast-men clans were about to attack them from the back. The moment both the empires withdrew their soldiers, the beast-men clans and the Proud Moon Empire would achieve their objective.
After reaching his conclusion, Long Yi quickly browsed through the second slip of paper. After reading its contents, a strange expression appeared on Long Yi's face. This slip of paper was Yin Jian's complaint which stated that the fund Skynet had was critically lacking. As such, he wanted Long Yi to send some funds back in order to upgrade Skynet's capabilities. Of course, Long Yi was fine with giving Skynet more funds. The fund was not the issue. What made Long Yi frown was the second half of the letter. In the second half, Yin Jian had mentioned the inhumane price he had paid for the sake of establis.h.i.+ng Skynet in the Hengduan Mountains.
”Yin Jian ah Yin Jian, I will give you as much funds as you need. I'll even compensate you for the inhumane price you paid.” Long Yi muttered while shaking his head. He couldn't help but laugh, today was the day he was the happiest he had been in a long time.