blenderwars Chapter 120 : Chapter 120
Chapter 120 : Chapter 120
Chapter 120: I Say We Fight!
Li Mu spoke one word at a time, each word bursting from between teeth he looked ready to grind to pieces.
The battlefield instantly fell silent.
Xu Wanlin in particular stood there, brows knotted as he glared at Li Mu.
He could not understand why this bastard insisted on making things difficult for him.
The moment he arrived, he had already realized that Li Mu was no ordinary figure.
His cultivation was clearly only Sixth Grade, yet his rank was Junior Tiger Marquis!
At first, Xu Wanlin had assumed Li Mu had stumbled into some absurd stroke of luck, but during the battle, he had deliberately paid attention to him.
Li Mu had actually fought a Divine Elephant Nation officer of the Profound Rank Second Grade one-on-one and killed him in only a few dozen breaths!
His strength and status matched perfectly.
Xu Wanlin had come here to build merit. Even if he could not become Li Mu’s friend, he had not intended to stir up trouble.
Yet his very first chance at merit had been blocked by Li Mu.
And now Li Mu actually dared challenge him head-on!
Xu Wanlin had only just declared that he wanted to see who dared disobey.
Then Li Mu immediately issued him an order!
If he refused to carry it out, he would first be charged with disobeying a military order and be hauled back for investigation.
But if he obeyed, how could that be possible!?
He had just ordered that no one was to kill the prisoners. If he then carried it out personally just because Li Mu said so, would that not be a slap in his own face?
So Xu Wanlin stood there, glaring coldly, but made no move at all.
Li Mu was clearly cornering him from both sides!
No matter what he did, he would be wrong!
When Li Mu saw that he still had not moved, his expression turned icy.
“Disobeying military orders. Seize him!”
Several Junior Wolf Guards strode forward and violently twisted Xu Wanlin’s arms behind his back.
Although Xu Wanlin was a Profound Rank expert, he could not resist.
If he resisted, the nature of the matter would change.
Li Mu’s rank was high, but he held no actual military post, and Xu Wanlin was not directly under his command.
Even if he disobeyed Li Mu’s order, at worst Li Mu could only drag him before a military court.
But if he dared use force to resist, there were still two Profound Rank experts and one Junior Tiger Marquis standing right beside them.
At that moment, Xu Wanlin actually calmed down.
He was not afraid of an investigation over this matter!
Even if it went before a military court, having the whole affair laid out clearly would actually benefit him.
What was wrong with following the Never-Setting Moon Treaty?
As far as principle went, Li Mu had no ground to stand on at all.
And if Li Mu dared rely on his background to twist the facts, then they would just have to see whose backing was stronger—Li Mu’s, or Xu Wanlin’s!
So Xu Wanlin’s expression remained cold and indifferent as several Junior Wolf Guards took him into custody without resistance.
Qin Zhanye, standing nearby, was furious as well.
This Xu Wanlin truly had no idea how to read the situation.
What mattered today was no longer whether some treaty should be followed.
The Divine Elephant Nation soldiers simply could not be left alive!
They had butchered over a hundred Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers, and Xu Wanlin had arrived only to kill half of them and take the other half prisoner.
If word of this got back to the military district, what kind of effect would that have?
Someone kills your entire family.
You pick up a blade and march to their door, and they drop to their knees and say, “Big brother, I was wrong.”
And then you say, “It’s fine, we’re all brothers”?
And what would the Divine Elephant Nation think after that? If they spread the story, what would people from other countries do the next time they encountered Huaxia soldiers!?
So Qin Zhanye stood firmly on Li Mu’s side.
If Xu Wanlin had dared resist, Qin Zhanye would have crippled half his body on the spot!
Once Xu Wanlin had been restrained, Li Mu shouted coldly,
“Do it!”
“Kill every Divine Elephant Nation soldier. Leave no survivors!”
“If anything happens, I, Li Mu, will bear it alone! Kill them!!”
All the soldiers immediately responded with a loud acknowledgment. Their blades rose and fell, and then they rushed into the temporary barracks where the Divine Elephant Nation soldiers were being held.
Those Divine Elephant Nation soldiers who had been grinning in relief at surviving stopped grinning very quickly.
Screams rang out across the land without pause.
Xu Wanlin sneered at Li Mu and said, “You are definitely going to regret this!”
Li Mu looked at him with contempt.
“You should be grateful I do not hold an actual command post. If you were one of my soldiers, I would have killed you first.”
Li Mu had long since seen through Xu Wanlin’s petty calculations.
For the sake of his own interests, he had not considered the feelings of the Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers in the slightest.
As the saying went, one general’s glory was built on ten thousand bones!
And the worst part was that there were truly no few people like Xu Wanlin.
After the battle ended, Qin Zhanye and Mute Man stayed behind with a group of soldiers to handle the aftermath and maintain the defense.
Li Mu, meanwhile, led a group back to the city, escorting Xu Wanlin with them to report in!
Now that such a major clash with the Divine Elephant Nation had already broken out, this Vacuum Zone could no longer be developed without protection.
At the very least, two Teleportation Areas had to be established nearby, ensuring that the military district could send reinforcements quickly.
And they also had to determine exactly how far away the Divine Elephant Nation’s border really was.
After returning to Pearl Military District, Li Mu directly handed Xu Wanlin over to the Military Justice Department.
He then explained the situation to Wang Longcheng and Liang Huajun.
Liang Huajun immediately reported the matter to Bloodsea Military District, the highest military district in the Northern Frontier.
There were several extremely important factors in this matter.
The first was the conflict with the Divine Elephant Nation. In this, the Divine Elephant Nation had clearly been the side at fault. Ma Jun’s Tactical Watch had a full recording of the incident.
The footage clearly showed the Divine Elephant Nation slaughtering the Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers.
This point, however, was not the most difficult part.
The second was the fact that they had encountered the Divine Elephant Nation’s border within the Abyss. This was extremely important!
It proved that the Abyss was indeed interconnected, rather than each Abyss entrance leading into its own separate Abyssal parallel space.
It most likely meant that all of Huaxia’s cities existed on the same Abyssal layer.
Without question, this injected a powerful shot in the arm into the now-stagnant Abyss link-up plan!
If Huaxia’s cities could link up within the Abyss, then teleportation support between them, military strength, resources, and information exchange would all become far more tightly integrated!
That would be immensely beneficial to Huaxia’s overall strength.
So for this point, Bloodsea Military District needed to send another group of scholars specializing in space and Abyss Geography.
The matter had to be investigated thoroughly.
The third point was the use of this Vacuum Zone.
Originally, if the Divine Elephant Nation had not appeared, the main use of this Vacuum Zone would still have been as an exploration outpost
for searching the surrounding region for new resources.
But now that they had come into contact with the Divine Elephant Nation, it had to become a combat camp with border-defense capabilities.
Its primary use would be to deter the Divine Elephant Nation’s border forces and, together with the second point, to explore the possibility of Abyss link-up.
For that point, the major military districts would need to dispatch powerful Martial Artists of the Profound Rank and above to sit in command of the camp!
That afternoon, in Bloodsea Military District, three Mid Dragon Generals sat near the head of the conference table.
They were, respectively, Luo Dongyun, the highest-ranking officer of the Northern Frontier Cultivation Art Research Bureau;
Zhong Xinghai, Commander-in-Chief of Bloodsea Military District;
and Zong Hongyuan, Commander-in-Chief of Shenqi Military District.
In the main seat ahead of those three sat the highest-ranking officer of the Northern Frontier Military Oversight Headquarters:
Dragon General Zu Yuanji, Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Frontier Military Oversight Headquarters.
Zu Yuanji oversaw all military affairs across the ten military districts of the Northern Frontier.
Above him, he answered only to the Northern Frontier Junior Dragon-Tiger Marshal, a figure who almost never showed himself.
At that moment, officials from the major military districts sat below.
After hearing the report on the Divine Elephant Nation soldiers that had been submitted by their subordinates, everyone fell silent, quietly observing the reactions of the others.
Zu Yuanji lifted the teacup before him and said calmly, “Let us hear your views.”
Besides their own positions, all three Mid Dragon Generals also concurrently held deputy posts within the Military Oversight Headquarters.
The Military Oversight Headquarters managed transfer orders between military districts. Xu Wanlin had been sent to Pearl Military District by means of a transfer order issued through that very headquarters.
And now, in the report that had just been submitted, it was stated that Xu Wanlin had advocated taking prisoners, while a young Junior Tiger Marquis had killed three hundred prisoners of war.
It also stated that Xu Wanlin had been sent before a military court.
Zong Hongyuan, Commander-in-Chief of Shenqi Military District, was the first to speak.
“The top priority at present is to clarify the mystery of Abyss link-up.”
“And if we want to clarify that mystery, then information exchange with the Divine Elephant Nation’s Abyss base becomes extremely important.”
“If we had taken prisoners this time, they could have served as bargaining chips in negotiations with the Divine Elephant Nation.”
“But now, the situation has become very troublesome.”
Zong Hongyuan spoke with deliberate weight.
What he meant was to criticize that young Junior Tiger Marquis for acting rashly.
In truth, he was also trying to speak on Xu Wanlin’s behalf.
Because Xu Wanlin had been recommended over by one of Zong Hongyuan’s trusted subordinates.
When that subordinate had come to him, Zong Hongyuan had nodded in approval, so he had an impression of Xu Wanlin.
That meant Xu Wanlin could be counted as one of his own people.
If he did not say a few words in Xu Wanlin’s defense, then the people under him would be disheartened.
At once, Zhong Xinghai, Commander-in-Chief of Bloodsea Military District, opened fire.
“I say we fight!”
“Those damned Divine Elephant Nation beasts actually dared slaughter our Huaxia Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers. This is an outright provocation!”
“I say killing the prisoners was not wrong!”
“If I had been there, I would have led men over and killed them myself.”
Zong Hongyuan was badly rattled by that blast from Zhong Xinghai. Anger rose in his heart, but without showing it, he lifted his cup and took a drink.
Zhong Xinghai cut a sidelong glance at Zong Hongyuan.
He thought to himself, I have long since found your craven old face insufferable.
If you dare keep advocating that bullshit about maintaining friendly relations with the Divine Elephant Nation, I will blast you apart today!