6kv Chapter 132 I don’t know
Chapter 132 I don’t know
"Okay, thanks bro. I suddenly remembered, this isn't probably urgent for me."
The leader of the medium-sized barge thought for a moment and then spoke.
With that, he ordered the helmsman to turn and head back the way they had come.
"Take your things."
Fu Que also used his qi to manipulate objects, returning the exquisite box intact.
After the medium-sized barge had been sailing for about five or six minutes, the combat barge could no longer be seen from the stern.
"Brother, if we just go back like this, what will happen to the sect? Even if we don't consider the feelings the sect has nurtured in us, our waterworks are operating under the name of the Xuanjia Sect, and even the vacancies in the Liuyun Chamber of Commerce were arranged for us by the sect leader."
"Now that the fate of the Xuanjia Sect is unknown, if we slink back like this, not only will we lose face, but who will dare to cooperate with us in the future?!"
One of his trusted confidants said angrily, "We must work together towards the same goal. Only by sticking together can we survive in this treacherous place. Why is the Xuanjia Sect able to occupy a resource-rich port?"
"Isn't it just because the sect leader is strong and has the support of us disciples scattered in various places? If the Xuanjia Sect falls, what kind of backing will we scattered disciples have left? Without the skin, where will the hair attach? Brother!"
"Shut up, you don't even understand what's going on, what are you yelling about? Didn't you hear what they said? They're going to block the waterway, and they don't even want money, they're using combat barges that can serve as supply platforms on the water."
This is not something you can just acquire casually. Even the Xuanjia Sect only managed to purchase four of them at a high price through the Liuyun Chamber of Commerce. They treat them like treasures and keep them guarded in Linjiang City, rarely deploying them, because maintenance and upkeep are extremely time-consuming.
But look at them, they've driven right up to this godforsaken place to block approaching ships. If there are people using combat barges to intercept them here, what about the other waterways? Wouldn't there be even more people and ships there?
This is definitely not a simple case of river bandits. In fact, I think the sect leader must have encountered something extraordinary, met someone extraordinary, for the Xuanjia Sect to suffer such an attack.
The leader sighed, "Let's go back first. When we get back, I'll have someone use the merchant guild's channels to find out what happened. At the same time, I'll have my family send people to inquire about the situation along the waterways leading to Xuanjia Gate to find out what happened."
"With such a large operation and so many people involved, surely they couldn't have kept it completely secret?"
As the group talked, the medium-sized barge gradually disappeared into the turbulent waterway.
As Nan Zongqi watched the medium-sized barge depart, a sudden tightness gripped his heart.
Giving the other party so much information and letting them leave safely—it's obvious what they'll do when they get back; they'll definitely send people to find out what happened.
They received the order hastily, and even with the Dragon Tiger Cavalry's organizational speed and combat skills, they couldn't guarantee that their actions wouldn't leave any traces. If they paid attention, they would always find some clues.
"Company commander, what we're doing is violating the orders we received from above. After all, the mission instructions are to carry out the execution operation as soon as we see a ship and after warnings go unheeded."
"Nan Zongqi said in a low voice."
"What orders did we break? Wasn't the execution only carried out after warnings went unheeded? The warning worked quite well; the other party obediently left, didn't they?"
The company commander glanced at General Nan indifferently: "Don't talk nonsense."
"Heh, Company Commander, it's no use explaining this to me. It will be written in the combat report after the mission. You should explain it to the battalion commander and the others."
"I'm a general," said Nan Zongqi with a smile.
"I'm not explaining to you, I'm explaining to myself. Although we are a knife, that's for external use. Let's kill fewer people internally. This order came too suddenly and too inexplicably."
The company commander of the 10th Company murmured, "In the past, our Dragon Tiger Cavalry acted independently. At most, the higher-ups would send people to monitor us, but they wouldn't interfere with our actions or objectives. But now it's different."
Although they still don't interfere much, once they do, it's deadly. For example, this time, even if we really executed them all according to orders, the scale of the bloodshed was still enormous.
It also concerns the Xuanjia Sect, which has paid its taxes in full. For both reason and duty, the prefect of Yuntai Prefecture will send people to investigate. After all, if they obediently pay their taxes, it's equivalent to paying protection money. If you don't even utter a sound after your sect is wiped out, who can accept that?
Paying taxes or not makes no difference, so what's the point of paying them?
"They'll still trace it back to us eventually, so since we're going to be the ones taking the blame anyway, we might as well kill fewer people."
"You mean, give the Heavenly Official some trouble, make him have something to do, and stop interfering with our normal tasks?"
Nan Zongqi understood immediately.
"I didn't say that. That's all your own conjecture. I was just carrying out the mission orders flexibly. They left after being warned, so I didn't carry out the execution order."
The company commander directly denied it.
The tiger riders around him smiled knowingly and didn't dwell on the topic any further. They understood the principle of keeping things quiet.
The boats remained suspended in the waterway for a full day. For the first time ever, quite a few boats, all of them fast boats, came to this remote waterway. Most of these boats left after Fu Que's friendly warning.
Only a small number of die-hards, relying on their powerful backgrounds or being smugglers and speculators with wanted posters on their backs, were paralyzed by the Tiger Cavalry of the 10th Company with crossbows and then executed by the Tiger Cavalry by boarding.
Once the battle begins, the Tiger Cavalry shows absolutely no mercy. Any ships that attack, whether or not they surrender or not, are all executed and their cargo burned on the spot.
Fu Que stood silently on the battle barge. Most of the time, he would act according to orders. Only on rare occasions, when the ships he was fighting on were filled with sinners, would he volunteer to fight.
After a while, not to mention other spoils, the income from the Sinful Cloud Ink alone made Fu Que feel much better. He had been tormented by the Flesh and Blood Puppet Technique for some time now.
He only saw the astonishing execution and lethality of the Blood Hunter, as well as its portability, but he overlooked the difficulty of creating the Blood Hunter. The wolf demon, which was his teaching tool and first test subject, was really hopeless.
Fu Que has already invested a lot of resources in the wolf demon, enough to train five or six peak-level martial artists. But the current wolf demon probably can't even beat a beginner-level martial artist who has just broken through to the bone level.