Chapter 426 - Play-acting (1/2)
Chapter 426: Play-acting
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The supply depot of the Great Snow Mountain was situated about 20 kilodo the Xiaoyao Lake and built on a small pier To either side of it was a small river that acted as a natural trench The only way in or out of it was a narrow passageway at its northeast corner
About five kilometers away from the depot was the spot called the Wild Boar Slope The slope itself was a piece of wilderness streith rocks It was slightly undulating with a path situated below the slope
Shangguan Fei gave the excuse that he had to answer the call of nature and ran up the slope He gazed afar as he urinated, but he was confused by what he saw
About one to two kilometers ahat seemed to be a barren swampland, covered with potholes of all sizes It was filled with a thick, viscous black liquid which bubbled slowly and lifelessly
There were roughly 200 hundred or more people there, their nostrils covered with cloth, ere scooping out pail after pail of the black liquid then loading the thedom
An unfauan Fei did not even kno to describe it
He felt bewildered, but the Dragon King had instructed hi what he saw, he need not inquire further “That’s all?” Shangguan Fei thought
Shangguan Fei knew the Dragon King’s character – he would never divulge his entire plan beforehand Shangguan Fei curled his lips together and was about to fasten his belt, before soht his attention
Someone who looked like a foreman lit a piece of tinder up and threw it into one of the laden pails, see to test the properties of the liquid
A dazzling column of flah shocking the surrounding people
Shangguan Fei got a shock as well He could roughly guess what the liquid was on King want to let the eneuan Hong?” </e’s plans are always too couan Fei considered secretly He leaped off the slope andup with the colu to be left behind for long; the Dragon King was right about the possibility that the Golden Roc killers could be waiting for him to be alone
There was no lack of inventory in the supply depot It was full of weapons and armor and it see
Zhong Heng had indeed spent considerable effort at this end
The Shangguan brothers acco because they wanted his protection, not because they wanted to contribute to strategy As such, they tactfully remained silent
In a corner of the depot,away as they worked around the clock The iteh: narrow strips of wood about two ht holes punched at their tips Wooden spikes about awere then fastened by rivets to the holes and were extrees
Typically, Gu Shenwei did not explain what the spikes were to be used for; he only asked the supervisor of the depot, as beside him, some questions softly The supervisor, as slow to catch on, replied loudly, “We tested the in a suppressed voice, “They’re quite useful Though some of them will break off, there will always be a few spikes that will pierce through”
That day, the Dragon King was occupied with many tasks After the visit to the depot, he went to check on the training of the slave soldiers In between all that, he summoned at least seven people to ask the
Especially focused on the lay of the surrounding land, he would ask his attendants to take note of every location they passed by that could work in their favor during battle He even had theraphy
As such, the Shangguan brothers had a strong impression that the Great Snow Mountain ar battle
It was close to uards split into three parties and went in different directions so that casual onlookers would not be able to deduce the Dragon King’s actual quarters
Shangguan Fei began thinking about how to pass on the fake to Shangguan Hong information in a clever way; he could not tell him directly as it would only arouse the suspicions of his brother
Just as he was about to reach the caood books of a feords He waited for the Dragon King to dis theuan Fei could be a very char the Great Snow Mountain, he had been very focused on building up his relationshi+ps with the other swordsmen, and thus his invitation ar had issuedbattle, he see of alcholic beverages