Chapter 242 The Empty Camp Trap (1/2)
Chapter 242 – The Empty Camp Trap
'17 … 18 … 19 …'
Tong counted as he continued to snipe the guards on watchtowers.
*POEK*
The 20th arrow found its target and pierced the victim's skull. The arrowhead dug into his brain, killing him instantly.
'20! That should be the last guy in this perimeter.'
Tong darted his eyes around the camp, searching for anyone who might have been overlooked.
Seeing that no one else remained inside the watchtowers nearby, Tong snuck into the outer trench. Unlike inside the camp, the soldiers did not carry a torch inside the trench. With his black cloth, Tong blended into the darkness and crawled inside the moat line.
Moving forward for a few seconds, Tong ran into the stationing soldiers inside the trenches who were gazing at the dark forest.
The squad captain had noticed Tong, but he mistook him as a comrade from another squad. He reprimanded Tong and ignored him.
”Hey, don't move around. Stay in your position, didn't you hear the general's order?”
Tong smiled and said, ”I need to poop. Where should I dump it? Inside the moat?”
The entire squad turned to Tong and looked at him with disgust, ”Get your ass inside that forest or I'll splatter your shit on your face!”
”The forest is too dark. I'm afraid of ghost. Can someone come with me?”
”…”
While Tong was messing around with the garrison squad, he counted the members in this group. Only five people were in his line of sight.
”Fine, you and you, go with this shit-break.”
Tong smiled again while his right hand drew the blade from his back, ”Thank you.”
'Overclock mode!'
Without letting anyone utter a word, Tong rushed in and sliced the necks of the five men within two seconds.
After the men collapsed into the moat, Tong stripped the uniform of the soldier captain and disguised himself with the soldier's clothes.
'How nostalgia. I did this when I raided Guo Dian's camp, but I don't have a system map with me this time.'
Finished dressing, Tong leaped over the trench and entered the next line of the moat. Upon entering the trench line, he saw another group of soldiers.
'This can be tedious.' Tong complained in his heart.
”Hey, which squad are you from? What are you doing over here?” The captain of the squad asked Tong.
”The Avenger.”
”Ar-Wen-What?”
*SWOOSH*
*SWOOSH*
*SWOOSH*
Another five-man squad was cut down.
Tong leaped over the moat and slain another squad of patrolling guards. He did not kill them because he felt like it, he was securing an escape route.
With the last line of defense squadron down, Tong left the moat and jumped across the spike barricades and the fences. He proceeded to the watchtower and climbed the ladder to the top of the building.
Upon entering the watchtower platform, a corpse with an arrow on the forehead was there.
'A bunch of noobs. If it were me, I would have stationed at least two guards on one watchtower,' Tong mocked Zou Jing in his mind while he looked back to scout the camps from the tower.
The tents in this camp were packed close to each other, leaving only enough no space to walk at the side of the tents.
In an ordinary set up of the army tents, they had to leave enough spaces on the side so soldiers could use the gap to run when there was an emergency. However, Zou Jing's camp setting was weird.
All tents did not have a light of a lamp. Only torches on the walkways illuminated the light inside the camp.
'Huh? This is odd.'
Tong felt that something was not right about this camp, so he concentrated his feeling, trying to sense a living being using his demonic instinct.
Friday had not taught him about the instinct or the sixth sense yet, but Tong had this tingling unexplainable feeling ever since he had fought with Lu Bu in Jinyang.
He could sense a lifeform signature nearby.
As Tong slowly scanned around the camp, he could feel that there were soldiers inside the trenches, but there was no one in the tents.
'Haiz, now I wish I have the map. My life would have been a lot easier.'
'An empty camp tactic. This is a bait to lure my troops here or me.'
Tong's face darkened as he simulated a scenario where Zou Jing and his men gathered outside of the camp, surrounding it and waiting for Tong to enter. He would have been trapped in here if he was discovered.
'Too risky. I have to leave the camp and scout the surrounding some more.'
Tong climbed down the ladder and returned to the trenches where he first entered. After he reached the first line of the ditch where he stripped the captain's clothes, a horn sound roared from within the camp.
”ARCHERS, FIRE!”
Thousands of fireballs appeared within the dense forest. The moved up and down before all of them were launched into mid-air and landed inside the camp.
The tents caught fires, which spread throughout the entire areas in an instant.
”TRENCH TROOPS, SURROUND THE CAMP! DO NOT LET ANYONE GET OUT!”
While Tong was changing his cloth back to his black uniform, all soldiers inside the trenches stood up and pointed their spears toward the camp as if they were waiting for an enemy inside.
The fire in the camp got stronger each second passed. Tong peeked from the edge of the trench to see the situation outside in shock.
'It is a trap! Were they waiting for me? But how did they know?'
'The tents catch fire too fast. Did they put flammable things in there?'
'Hahaha! Wow, I'm speechless. You are good, Zou Jing. To be honest, I wanted to recruit you. Too bad that I have to kill you because of the goddamn system.'
Tong stopped thinking and leaped from the trench, running toward the dark forest. Unfortunately, the areas were too bright because of the burning camp, Tong's figure was seen by many nearby soldiers.
”There's a runner! Over there!”
”Give chase!”