Ren Xiaosu patiently explained to Tang Zhou, "I was conscripted into the private army, but on the way there, those bastards from the Divine Arms Battalion suddenly stopped us and said they wanted us to change into our uniforms. They even drove away our vehicles. Now we have no choice but to walk in the wilderness. It's snowing so heavily that we still have to hurry on our way."
Ren Xiaosu explained the entire story to Tang Zhou. Tang Zhou was stunned by what he heard. "So that's what happened. It looks like our intelligence was wrong. It's a little too late to chase after them now. We'll have to cross several military zones in the middle of the journey, so we won't be able to get there."
"Why would we go there?" Ren Xiaosu was puzzled. "Don't you know that even if you manage to intercept the Divine Arms Battalion, let's not talk about whether y 'all can win. Even if you can, do you think y' all can make it back alive?"
Tang Zhou said seriously, "It's my duty to obey orders. Frontline soldiers can't have such thoughts. We might not be able to make it back alive, but as long as it's for the sake of winning the war …"
Ren Xiaosu sighed and said, "I can't understand your sense of belonging, but the Kyung Clan hasn't treated you well either."
"No, if I lose at the front lines, it'll be embarrassing for Boss Luo if word gets out that it was his soldiers who messed things up." Tang Zhou said, "Now that they're being held captive in Stronghold 111, I have to do something for them."
"Alright then." Ren Xiaosu said regretfully, "You and Fatty Luo seem to have a very sincere relationship. But since you can't defeat the Divine Arms Battalion now, why don't you retreat? Go back and tell the Kyung Clan's commanding officer to tell the follow-up troops not to come to Mt. Fengyi, lest they get me hurt."
Tang Zhou was stunned for a moment. "We can't get in touch with HQ right now. When everyone came here, they were already prepared to die. Now that the mission has not been completed, none of us have the face to go back."
Ren Xiaosu always felt that if there were more people like Tang Zhou in the Kyung Clan, they would be able to win any war.
Ren Xiaosu asked, "How many people are there in your unit?"
"More than 300 people." Tang Zhou said, "It's not good to advance in the mountains with more people. We'll be discovered."
Ren Xiaosu said in exasperation, "Then why are you fighting the Divine Strategy Battalion? There are more than one thousand people from the Divine Strategy Battalion here!"
"That can't be." Tang Zhou was stunned for a moment. "Didn't you say that the main forces of the Divine Arms Battalion went to the Yang Clan's Mt. Ping? According to the information we received, there are only about a hundred people here. "
"This is also part of their plan. I saw that the commander of the private troops was also very surprised by this." Ren Xiaosu explained, "Your intel is definitely inaccurate. I've seen them with my own eyes, so I'm very sure of it."
"Then it's over." Tang Zhou sighed and said, "We can't complete the quest."
However, when he was chatting with Tang Zhou, Ren Xiaosu felt a tinge of regret. He had been using his identity as a member of the Office of Special Investigations to clamp down on spies, but in the end, he had exposed the Divine Arms Battalion's plan.
Ren Xiaosu thought about it. From the Li Consortium's point of view, what he had done could be considered spying.
He did not expect he would have to bear so many identities at such a young age that he should not have.
The Divine Arms Battalion, the private troops, the Office of Special Investigations, and the Kyung Clan's spies.
Ren Xiaosu suddenly said, "Can you trust this platoon of yours?"
"Don't worry." Tang Zhou whispered, "They're all our people. It's not just the platoon. Other than the commanding officer and the adjutant, the rest of the elite troops are all our people. Moreover, the commanding officer was only sent here because Qing Yun does not like him."
By "our", he was probably referring to Qing Zhen and Luo Lan.
Ren Xiaosu said, "Why don't y 'all hide in the mountains for now? If I come across any Li Consortium troops that you think you can defeat, I'll lead y' all to fight them."
Tang Zhou's eyes lit up. "Will that work?"
At this moment, Ren Xiaosu was thinking if the Kyung Clan got wind of the Divine Arms Battalion's whereabouts, would they be able to push them back from the front lines of the battlefield to recuperate?
If the Divine Arms Battalion suffered a heavy blow and their numbers decreased, he could find an opportunity to collect nanomachines.
Ren Xiaosu looked at Tang Zhou. "If I get you a satellite phone, can you contact HQ and pass the news back to them?"
Tang Zhou hesitated for a moment. "Yes, but we don't have one."
Ren Xiaosu smiled and said, "It's fine, I have one here."
To be precise, it was not Ren Xiaosu who had one, but the five officers of the Divine Arms Battalion in their platoon who had one.
Ren Xiaosu felt he was probably going further and further down the path of colluding with the enemy.
…
It was still very lively at night at the private troops' campsite. Li Qingzheng and the others had put in a lot of effort to get a campfire going. Although there was a lot of smoke in the beginning, it was nothing compared to keeping warm.
If no one had started a fire, the entire campsite would not have made it through the night. But after Li Qingzheng and the others got the campfire going, the others also started one out of envy. Suddenly, the entire campsite started to light up.
The purpose of the campfire was not only to keep warm, but it could also roast the buns they brought with them. If they were to eat cold food in this weather, they would really be freezing cold from the inside out.
When Ren Xiaosu returned, Li Qingzheng and the others were chatting by the campfire. When Li Qingzheng saw Ren Xiaosu, his first reaction was to ask, "Xiaosu, where's the wild boar? Didn't you catch it? "
"The wild boar?" Only then did Ren Xiaosu remember the excuse he got Chen Wudi to prepare. "Mhm, yes, we didn't catch it. It ran too fast, so we didn't dare to chase it too far."
"Here, have a bite of a bun." Li Qingzheng handed a browned bun to Ren Xiaosu. "The people from the Divine Arms Battalion said that we're going to set up camp here and wait for the snow to stop before setting off. We're going to continue heading north to Mt. Fengyi."
"Mhm," Ren Xiaosu answered absent-mindedly. He was currently thinking about how he could get his hands on the satellite phone that the Divine Arms Battalion had.
However, it would not be easy to get his hands on it. The other party treasured the satellite phone so much that it never left their side.
It looked like he could only kill the officers of the Divine Arms Battalion first. It just so happened that he had been eyeing the nanomachines in their bodies for quite some time now.
Moreover, Ren Xiaosu had a feeling that there were more nanomachines in the bodies of these Divine Arms soldiers than in Lin Qi and the others!
Suddenly, Ren Xiaosu called Jiang Wu's students aside and asked, "What's the knowledge y 'all have been studying? Have you learned any mechanical knowledge on your own? If … and I'm just saying if, if y' all were asked to design a simple set of armor, would you be able to do it?"
Ren Xiaosu did not like to use the nanomachines in his body as support like the people from the Divine Arms Battalion. His own body was already strong enough, and he only lacked a defense system.
So he had only simply covered his body with the nanomachines without any elaborate structures. But now, Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt that he should borrow the power of knowledge.
Didn't Zhang Jinglin always say that knowledge could change one's fate?
The student named Wang Yuchi thought for a moment and said, "This is a little beyond the scope of knowledge. It involves belt drives, screw drives, chain drives, worm drives, hydraulic drives, pneumatic drives —"
Ren Xiaosu interrupted, "Don't say anything I don't understand. I'm just asking if y 'all know how to do it."
Wang Yuchi said calmly, "Yes."
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