Chapter 297 Water Heart Flame Mine

Gu Yuzhi said: "If I remember correctly, Yin Hong had the highest level of beast control when he was in the City Guard. I remember he had reached the fourth level of transcendence.

The second was Shi Yao. When you retired, your beast control was about to break through to the third level of transcendence."

Shi Yao clasped his hands together, "My Lord, my beast control has already broken through to the fourth level of transcendence."

Gu Yuzhi then looked at the remaining four people, "Du Yu, you have the longest experience here. Your main beast control was sacrificed in a war, so you retired from the City Guard. Now the main force you have retrained is... What happened?"

Du Yu didn't expect that the city lord would still remember him. He had retired from the city guards for nearly sixty years. This time, he was fighting again to seek some benefits for his descendants. With white hair and tears in his tiger eyes, he choked and said, "Reporting to the lord, the new beast I trained has already transcended the fourth level."

Gu Yuzhi nodded gently, "Not bad, looking forward to your performance."

Other people around looked at Du Yu in surprise. This old guy's beast could be trained to transcend the fourth level again. It seems that he had another adventure after retiring from the city guards.

Then Gu Yuzhi reminded the remaining three people, Gu Wu, Shi Chen, and Shi Luoshan.

The main beasts of these three people are all in the realm of transcending the second level.

"Then follow the old rules and divide the benefits according to the battlefield contribution. If you kill the opponent yourself, 90% of his benefits belong to you, but the distribution of collective combat contributions will listen to Mr. Chen's opinions. You are all old men in the army, and I don't need to say more about some rules." Gu Yuzhi reminded the six people.

The six people understood that City Lord Gu was using this method to remind them that they should abide by the rules after joining the mercenary group, and the right to distribute the contribution of collective combat was in Chen Xing's hands.

So the six people understood that if they wanted to gain more benefits, they naturally had to build a good relationship with Chen Xing.

"I understand." The six people said in unison.

Gu Yuzhi turned to Chen Xing and said, "Then I will leave these good men to you. If there are any who don't abide by the rules, you come and tell me."

Chen Xing clasped his hands and said, "Thank you, Lord City Lord."

After signing the contract, Chen Xing led everyone back to the base first.

Six super-class beastmasters, plus 547 high-level beastmasters.

Even if this force is put in the Stone City alone, it is still a strong force. Some weaker families cannot gather six super-class beastmasters alone, let alone more than 500 high-level beastmasters.

According to Jin Yewei's intelligence, it is difficult for ordinary large mercenary groups to gather six super-class beastmasters.

Because super-class beastmasters need a lot of resources, Chen Xing has a deep understanding of this after becoming a super-class beastmaster.

For super-class beastmasters, there is no such thing as "enough" resources.

If their own resources are not enough, how can they allow more super-class beastmasters to share resources with them, unless there are very few special cases, such as a mercenary group occupying a huge resource point, but this kind of force will not develop into a single mercenary group structure, but will develop more complex industries, and this kind of force is no longer considered a mercenary group.

Armed personnel who complete various tasks for the purpose of money, participate in armed conflicts for the sake of interests, and occasionally work as bandits are the groups of bandits in the eyes of foreigners.

Back at the mercenary group's base, Zhao Guangming asked Chen Xing, "All the people are here. These are retired city guards. Their combat qualities should be much better than ordinary beastmasters. They can be directly put into the battlefield after a little training. What should we do next?"

"Let me think about it." Chen Xing took out the tablet and opened the internal map tool.

Zhao Guangming came over and looked at the carefully drawn map on the tablet. It not only showed the mountains and rivers in the northwest region, but also the precise coordinates of various cities and large resource points that had been detected, as well as the gathering places of dangerous monster tribes.

At the same time, there was a filter icon in the upper right corner, which could selectively filter which information to block.

This map tool is an internal software, and only high-level people with permissions in Daxia can open it.

And the level of detail of the map information that can be viewed varies with permissions.

As the Xinhuo Black Robe Executive, Chen Xing naturally has extremely high permissions, and basically all map information can be viewed.

Chen Xing first chose to hide the resource point in the upper right corner.

Suddenly, there was a lot less content on the tablet.

Chen Xing said: "Call the other six people over. After all, they are locals in Stone City. Let's see what they have to say."

Gong Yinhong and the other six were called in, and Chen Xing briefly explained the current situation.

Du Yu thought for a moment, then said, "Sir, I wonder what your purpose is?"

"Since you have been hired, and you are also the people brought by the city lord, I naturally trust you. In order to work together, I will tell you the core mission of our mercenary group - destroying Jiuchi City."

The six people were stunned at the same time,

"Ah?"

"Me?"

"Just us?"

"Mr. Chen, is your pronunciation not standard? Could it be Jiuchi City?"

"There seems to be no place called Jiuchi City nearby."

"Of course, it's not just relying on us." Chen Xing said, "Don't you know the recent situation of Jiuchi City?"

"I know. Last month, Jiuchi City wanted to seize the largest mineral vein in our Stone City.

I heard that the city lord also killed several of their beastmasters, and then the city guards fought several battles."

"Those people in Jiuchi City are really disgusting. They have been trying to occupy various resources in our Stone City in secret and overtly over the years."

"I heard that there are several mercenary groups dealing with the City of Nine Reds, and there seems to be mysterious forces behind those mercenary groups."

"Could it be the Lord of the City?"

Several people looked at each other and seemed to have guessed the answer.

In recent years, the conflict between Stone City and Jiuchi City has been deepening. What's more important is that behind Jiuchi City there is a huge Burning Sky City.

It is difficult to deal with the Nine Red City simply relying on the power of Stone City, so the Lord of the City united with Daxia.

Thinking of this, the six super-level beast masters felt that they might have guessed the truth.

After they came in, they felt that there were many masters among the dozens of Daxia beast masters who originally lived here.

Now it seems that it is the force sent by Daxia.

"This is the best result, but it should be no problem for you to grab some resource points and hunt down the super beast masters in Jiuchi City." Chen Xing looked at the six people.

"That's no problem." Du Yu nodded, "This is not the first time that the beast master of Jiuchi City has been killed."

Shi Yao thought for a moment and said, "Okay."

Gong Yinhong reminded: "It is best to check the intelligence before taking action, especially the strength of the beast masters stationed at the target resource point."

Gu Wu said: "Leave it to me then. Detecting information is my old skill, but it's too slow for me to find out information alone. Many of the mercenary regiments used to be scouts. I saw several familiar faces. Chen Sir, I want some mercenaries to accompany me to gather information."

"No problem, I will ask Ning Yi to accompany you to select people later. After the selection is completed, register them. The selected people will serve as full-time scouts."

"You can take a look at the map first. Our target is this area."

Chen Xing zoomed out the map and pointed at the western area of ​​the Lake of Fire, two thousand miles northeast of Stone City.

Several of the six people actually noticed the tablet on the table when they came in.

It's just that I didn't take a closer look when I was communicating with Chen Xing just now. Now I'm a little scared when I take a closer look.

"The map here is so detailed." Gu Wu was very surprised.

He compared it with his own memory and found that the map was more detailed than the map in the city guard camp.

And it can even be zoomed in and out, and the picture above is extremely clear.

"I have long heard that Daxia's machine creations are extraordinary, and now it seems that they are indeed so." Shi Yao praised.

Gong Yinhong said: "The northwest area of ​​Qianhu District, there are more resource points in this area, I think it is okay."

Stone City is located two hundred miles southwest of the Lake of Fire, and Jiuchi City is located eight hundred miles northwest of the Lake of Fire. There is a large lake of fire between them.

The eastern part of the lake of fire is a huge lake of fire that is nearly 800 miles in diameter.

The central and western regions are made up of many scattered small lakes, so this area is also called the Thousand Lakes District.

The more special the geographical environment, the easier it is for resource points to be born.

The quality of monsters living in the eastern large lake is higher, and the water level is quite deep, so many resource points are inconvenient to mine.

Relatively speaking, the fire lakes in the central and western regions are much smaller in both depth and area. Deep water supports big dragons, while shallow water supports tortoises. Therefore, the resource points in the central and western regions have become a place for more forces to compete because they are easier to exploit.

These resource points were previously occupied by Jiuchi City. Beast masters from Stone City would be killed or captured to work as coolies to mine resources if they came near.

However, as Stone City has developed and grown over the years, it must have more resources. Therefore, the conflict between the two cities in the past few hundred years has mainly been a war that broke out around the competition for resource points in the Two Thousand Miles of Fire Lake.

This is history on the surface. After knowing Gu Yuzhi's identity, Chen Xing knew that the conflict between the two cities was inevitable.

Then the six people briefly discussed the details, and finally decided to collect the information before taking action.

Wait until the six people leave.

Chen Xing said: "Brother Zhao, there are six super beast masters in the mercenary group, plus the beast masters we brought, we have a total of 19 super beast masters."

Zhao Guangming nodded, "You and I, as well as Ning Yi Zhou San, and Ning Yi Zhou San's family each sent 4 super-level beast masters to accompany them, as well as Uncle Qin, totaling 19 people.

This is only the number of transcendent beast masters. Some people have more than one transcendent beast master. It is normal for the number of transcendent beast masters to double. "

Chen Xing murmured, "I just don't know how much effort the super beast master from Ning Yi's Zhou San family will do."

Zhao Guangming consoled him: "Since the families behind Ning Yi and Zhou San have all invested in our salary, they will definitely not do stupid things that are ineffective at work, and they may work harder than the beast masters of the mercenary group. Otherwise, if both parties are unhappy, their bet will be in vain.”

Hearing what Zhao Guangming said, Chen Xing felt that it made sense.

At the same time, there was a valley three hundred miles away from Stone City.

A group of beast masters are stationed here.

In the core camp, a secret negotiation is taking place.

"I heard that the people from Xinhuo have arrived. Do you want to contact them to coordinate the operation?"

"It's just a group of child soldiers. What's there to connect with? I heard it's an organization composed of young people who have just graduated and those who haven't graduated yet. Don't you want them to get a share of the pie?"

"This should be the purpose of sending them here from China."

"Oh, it's better not to cause trouble to the child soldiers. They can just pick up some soup and drink from the outside. This way we can still ensure safety."

"Send them a piece of information and give them the areas where the masters of Jiuchi City are stationed in the nearby area."

"Old Han, do you want them to participate?"

"Oh, I heard that the leader of Xinhuo this time has a certain relationship with their old Han family."

The man called Lao Han said calmly, "That guy is my niece's student, but I have never seen him.

I didn't want him to participate in the operation. I gave him an intelligence map to prevent them from accidentally stepping into the pit."

A man next to him said in a muffled voice: "I agree with Lao Han's opinion. Everyone is working for a common goal. Fair competition is fine, but don't let competition ruin your original intention!"

After selecting forty scouts, Gu Wu took a group of scouts to explore intelligence. Before leaving, Chen Xing told Gu Wu the locations of several resource points that he had focused on selecting.

Gu Wu didn't ask too much, and set off after noting down the locations of the resource points.

That night, a mercenary who claimed to be from the Heart of Resistance brought Chen Xing a document.

The document detailed the resource points in various parts of the Fire Lake, as well as the number and strength of the beastmasters stationed in the other resource areas of Jiuchi City.

Although the intelligence about the number of enemy stations in many areas was not very specific, there was only an approximate number, and the strength of many strong men was only intelligence estimates.

But this information was very important to Chen Xing.

Wars are fought with intelligence, and Chen Xing understood this when he played games before.

The fog of war in the whole map and the unlocking of the whole map vision are completely two different games with different difficulties.

This intelligence saved him a lot of energy.

It was just a little late. If the intelligence had arrived one day earlier, Chen Xing would not have sent Gu Wu out.

Six days later, Gu Wu returned with the intelligence.

Chen Xing convened the senior management of the mercenary group to discuss and finally determined the target - the Shuixinyan Mine in the north of No. 174 Zhonghu Lake in the north of Qianhu District.

According to the intelligence, this Shuixinyan Mine is a large and rich mine.

The forces stationed here belong to the Chi family, the overlord of Jiuchi City, with more than 600 beastmasters, and the number of super-class beastmasters is not less than 8.

At the same time, it is known that the person in charge of Shuixinyan Mine is Chi Xie, the seventh elder of the Chi family, a master with a reputation for hundreds of years, and his main beastmaster is at least above the sixth level of transcendence.

"It seems that I, a geologist, have discovered a rare and large precious mineral vein as soon as I arrived." Chen Xing smiled at the meeting.

Compared with Chen Xing's satisfaction, the others were not in such a good mood.

"Mr. Chen's main beast tamer, Chixie, had already surpassed the sixth level thirty years ago, and it is said that his main beast tamer is a dual-system of water and fire, and his strength is not affected in the Fire Lake." Shi Yao's face suddenly changed.

What is the concept of surpassing the sixth level? Even if there is only Chixie, he can probably defeat a group of them directly.

"It doesn't matter, leave Chixie to me, and the rest to you." Chen Xing waved his hand.

Hearing this, the six people were surprised and uncertain, this is an opponent who has surpassed the sixth level.

But seeing Chen Xing's confident demeanor, the six people were skeptical, mainly because Chen Xing looked too young, but if he could really deal with the six people, they couldn't help but show a little more awe on their faces.

After determining the target, Chen Xing set off with a large force.

But only when he really managed more than 500 people, Chen Xing realized how terrifying Han Xin's "the more the better" talent was.

Let alone Han Xin's "the more the better", Chen Xing felt that it was a headache for him to manage more than 500 people.

The food, clothing, shelter and transportation of more than 500 people, including how to act and command, and in addition to more than 500 people, each person has several beasts to control, which adds up to thousands of beasts!

The eating, drinking, defecation and urination of thousands of beasts must be managed, how to arrange them to patrol, camp and deploy battlefields in the wild

He originally wanted Zhao Guangming to help, but Zhao Guangming was not willing to take on such a hard job, and hurriedly declined, saying that he was not capable enough.

Zhao Guangming immediately said to Chen Xing seriously: "You are the commander-in-chief of this operation. There are only a few people, more than 500 people. It's just right for you to practice. You don't have to be proficient, but you can't be completely ignorant."

Practice is the best teacher. Fortunately, these more than 500 people are not rookies who have just entered the battlefield. They stumbled at the beginning, but gradually became proficient. After a few days, Chen Xing gradually became more proficient in managing the mercenary group, and the marching speed of the large army gradually accelerated.