Chapter 1007 - Zhuang Shuo, Solo! (1/2)

Chapter 1007: Zhuang Shuo, Solo!

“Someone’s back again!”

The gates of Colorful Star Fortress opened, and the neat army coming in was greeted with exclamations from onlookers.

“What is the Saintess planning? Didn’t this army just leave?” a Sacks civilian whispered.

Let alone the civilians, even the recalled soldiers were confused. They had just deployed to a small fortress at the front lines, but they had just arrived when an order from the Saintess summoned them all back. This was the third group that had returned to Colorful Star today.

“Eat your food, this has nothing to do with you.”

In an inn inside the fortress, Bai Xiaofei’s group was sitting around a table. Except for Zhu Chunyang’s team, everyone else managed to get in.

However, the fortress was not peaceful at all. Because Ye Qingtong had killed over a hundred Sacks patrols, they naturally noticed something was wrong and after the situation was reported, the whole fortress was on the alert. At the moment, all Moonlight people were inspected.

Fortunately, for some reason, the Moonlight people here weren’t imprisoned. Instead, the Saintess ordered them to continue operating their shops, and even those without jobs weren’t harmed. In addition, a large number of Sacks civilians had poured into the fortress. At a glance, if one didn’t know about the situation between Moonlight and the Sacks, they would have thought that the two shared a friendly relationship

“Fine, I eat, I eat.” Tan Xin coldly snorted, obviously unhappy that she was reprimanded by Bai Xiaofei.

“Do you know why they spared the Moonlight people? If they just want someone to serve them, there is absolutely no need to keep everyone,” Ye Qingtong wondered. Ever since this problem occupied her mind, she had been unable to care about anything else.

“The Sacks have always been nomads and are not good at town management. If they don’t keep these people, they may not be able to maintain the basic operation of the fortress. But as you said, there’s absolutely no need to leave so many people, so they should have a deeper purpose. Unfortunately, I can’t make an educated guess,” replied Bai Xiaofei calmly. Compared with this matter, he was more concerned about something else –

His bet with the three generals was still in progress!

“Forget it, it’ll all work out… But what should we do now? At this rate, they will find us before our plan can even begin,” Tan Xin muttered as she carefully scanned the surroundings.

“Well, if you keep acting like this, we are really not far from being caught,” Bai Xiaofei remarked.

Tan Xin immediately retracted her eyes and shot him a glare.

“Don’t worry, I’ve asked Zhuang Shuo to figure out the situation. We will act when he returns,” said Bai Xiaofei.

“Don’t tell me we have to wait until dark again.” Tan Xin had seen through Bai Xiaofei. He seemed to be a nocturnal creature whose brain would only work well at night.

“No, this time we will move during the day. The Sacks have already started to guard against the people in the fortress and they should be extra careful at night. Meanwhile, most are busy with the investigations during the day, making it the best time for us.” Bai Xiaofei grinned.

Ye Qingtong once again learned how wicked a person could be. It was a good thing that he wasn’t her enemy…

“Boss!”

Speaking of the devil, Zhuang Shuo stumbled into the room, the excitement on his face speaking volumes.

“There are four granaries in the fortress. Aside from the one we’ve been to that day, there is another publically known one and two hidden ones. The two public granaries used to be used by Moonlight while the two secret ones are in the south and the west respectively. Both don’t have many people guarding them. Also, just like you said, they currently have all of their focus on the investigations and so have let down their guard on those key parts.”

After finishing his report, Zhuang Shuo poured a cup of water into his mouth. Clearly, he had spent a lot of effort to get the information.

“Is everyone all right?” Bai Xiaofei’s primary concern was not intelligence, but the situation of the Fickle Army. Every single member was extremely valuable to him.

“Don’t worry, Boss, not even a scratch on anyone.” Zhuang Shuo smiled happily.

Bai Xiaofei then put down his bowl and chopsticks. “Let’s clean up. Time to get down to business!”

Hearing this, everyone perked up.

“Tie up these people well, I don’t want any problems here,” said Bai Xiaofei as he glanced at the shivering Sacks soldiers in the corner of the room.

“Tch, look at you. So there are also Sacks people who are scared of death too, huh?” Zhuang Shuo walked to them with a grin, his stark-white teeth looking particularly scary.

“Cut the nonsense. Let them smell this, then send a signal to Zhu Chunyang and them to assemble.” Tan Xin handed Zhuang Shuo a small bottle, which was the enhanced version of the sleeping drug previously. Even if these people’s heads got sawed off, they still wouldn’t wake up.

As Zhuang Shuo finished with the Sacks soldiers and the Fickle troops inside the fortress assembled, Bai Xiaofei began to assign missions.

“There are four granaries, each of us takes one. Sister Qingtong and I are in charge of the public ones and you two the secret ones. Remember, after setting them on fire, run away and do not engage in combat. After destroying the granaries, immediately head towards the barracks and meet up there,” Bai Xiaofei said and took out a Recording Eyeball. “Set the fires in one hour from now. If anyone fails to infiltrate your target within one hour, then give up on it and go directly to the barracks.”

The four then looked at each other with the same smirk on their faces.