Doomsday: Gain experience by hunting

“People just left, and someone went missing again?”

“Commander, could it be a coincidence?” the reporting guard captain asked.

Tang Wen sneered, “Coincidence?”

He was angry inside. He didn't really care about the lives of scavengers and couldn't manage them all even if he wanted to.

But their inexplicable disappearance, preventing him from hunting, smoking bacon, and stockpiling food, was unbearable.

“Two commanders, what's the next step? Should we go to the site to take a look?”

Seeing Tang Wen thinking, Zhou Bing signaled the guard captain to be patient.

After a few minutes, Tang Wen said, “This is definitely not a coincidence. The scavenger camp is crowded and chaotic, and there might be spies among them.”

“Very likely.”

Tang Wen continued, “Like this, send a few hot-tempered people to vent some anger in the scavenger camp. Accuse the scavengers of having internal spies. Then openly tell them that we have no time to deal with it.”

The guard captain thought he understood, “Then we secretly send people to infiltrate the scavengers!”

“Ahem, no need to be so troublesome. Those scavengers can be bought off with just a handful of millet. We can't tell who's the informant.”

After hearing Tang Wen, the guard captain's eyes showed admiration, “I was thinking too simply.”

“Just send people to watch the road to the Black Mountain camp.”

The matter was settled.

Four hunting teams quietly left the city, one team ambushing on the road to the Black Mountain camp.

The other three teams were scattered around the scavenger camp, not getting too close.

“Caw caw caw,” the hunting team, wearing armor, left the city, the sound startling a red-eyed crow.

“Damn it! Bad luck, running into this thing as soon as I leave.”

“Damn bird.”

Someone in the team raised a bow and arrow, and the red-eyed crow turned and plunged into the forest.

“Damn! It's quite clever.”

This kind of crow is a low-level mutated beast.

Because of its unpleasant cry, black feathers, and blood-red eyes, people consider it ominous.

As for how it's ominous, no one knows.

It's basically the same as black dog blood warding off evil and black cats being able to communicate with spirits.

After the hunting team went out.

Tang Wen and the other commanders were not idle.

That night, Commander Zhang was on duty, and Tang Wen and Zhou Bing slept in their respective rest rooms.

The night passed, but nothing happened.

The one-armed Commander Zhang sat alone in the council hall until dawn.

In the morning, the hunting team reported that there was nothing unusual, not even a wild beast.

The three commanders were silent. Commander Zhang, who hadn't slept all night, rubbed his temples and said irritably, “Forget it, report it directly and prepare to fight those Black Mountain ghosts!”

Obviously, this was just an angry outburst.

Tang Wen waited for him to calm down before saying, “This is not at all like the Black Mountain ghosts' style. If we go to war with Black Mountain, the people hiding in the dark will probably laugh in their dreams.”

“People in the dark?” Commander Zhang was shocked, realizing that this was indeed possible. He took a deep breath and calmed down.

Zhou Bing also felt that it was unusual. She speculated, “Could it be that someone has been watching our camp gate in secret? As soon as they see the hunting team leave, they don't act. They only act after we withdraw our people.”

“Possible.” Tang Wen stroked his chin, thought for a while, “Send a few teams of hunters disguised as ordinary people, leaving the camp from the inner city. Let them monitor, and withdraw the current guards.”

“Okay!”

“Good idea.”

Half an hour later, four hunting teams took a detour and left the camp, scattering from the inner city gate.

They wandered around in the forest outside until dusk before gathering at the agreed location and going to various locations to lie in ambush and observe.

And the four hunting teams that left the city last night stepped into the camp gate with unpleasant expressions, cursing.

And that night, still nothing happened.

The next day, Tang Wen drew out three hunting teams as usual to hunt, cut trees, and cooperate with the camp cafeteria cooks to smoke bacon.

Nothing happened that night.

Another day passed, and Tang Wen changed three hunting teams to go out hunting.

In the evening, everything was still peaceful.

No one went missing from the scavenger camp, and the hunting teams monitoring various locations did not find anything unusual.

Five days later, Tang Wen and Zhou Bing recalled the four hunting teams responsible for monitoring.

As a result, that night, dozens of people went missing from the scavenger camp again.

“This is slapping us in the face!” Upon receiving the news, Commander Zhang was furious.

Zhou Bing's pretty face was stern, and the faces of the hunting captains were very ugly.

Tang Wen, who had lived two lives, was calm.

He was even satisfied with the result that no one in the hunting team was injured.

Now that things have reached this point.

They definitely need to ask the inner city for help.

And before asking for help, his hunting team had seen the enemy's strangeness and cunning without paying any price.

That was already good.

In the afternoon, Tang Wen reported his work to the General's Mansion in the inner city.

He explained the whole story of the “scavenger disappearance” in detail.

Inside the room, a group of knowledgeable commanders looked at each other.

Obviously, they couldn't figure out how the enemy did it either.

A hot-tempered commander shouted, “Just go and grab someone from the Black Mountain ghosts to ask!”

“Yeah, no matter what the situation is, just beat up the Black Mountain ghosts, that's definitely right!”

“I think it's okay.”

“Okay, what's okay, shut up.” General Zhou glared.

The commanders immediately stopped talking.

General Zhou had been powerful for a long time, and no one dared to argue with him.

After a slight pause, General Zhao spoke to ease the atmosphere, “It hasn't rained for dozens of days, and the millet seedlings in the farmland outside the city are almost withered. We don't know how long the drought will last, so it's really not suitable to start a war.”

Tang Wen nodded secretly. The two generals in charge of the camp were both sensible people.

But everyone understands the truth. But the scavengers keep disappearing, and the hunting camp can't catch the culprit.

The matter is not big, but it makes people feel irritable.

Tang Wen understood this feeling the most. He looked at Zhou Bing, thinking that he possessed a treasure, but had no use for it.

It often made him feel uncomfortable!

Qian Dong, the commander of the Imperial Guards, suggested, “I think we should send the hunting camp to patrol every night to see if they dare to come again?”

Scaring the other party away is not a bad solution.

But the risk is even greater.

After the other party figures out the strength of your patrol team, they might send experts to directly eat them.

At that time, the Flame Camp will suffer even greater losses.

After discussing for more than an hour, they didn't come up with a reason.

The two generals let Tang Wen and the other three stay and dismissed the meeting.

After the other commanders left, the atmosphere in the room became even more depressing.

The two generals looked at each other, and General Zhou asked with a serious face, “Do you think it is possible that there is a problem within us?”

Uh?

Tang Wen, Zhou Bing, and Commander Zhang looked at each other.

Finally, Zhou Bing shook her head and said, “It should be impossible. The elites I brought from the hunting camp in the inner city, the martial arts apprentices from the martial arts hall, are all veterans in the camp. Their whole families live here. Doing this kind of thing, making the camp panic, what good is it for them?”

“What about the outer city guards who were newly absorbed into the hunting camp?” General Zhou asked again.

Commander Zhang said, “I dare not say anything else, but the outer city guards have families and mouths to feed, and they are basically very reliable.”

The guards are similar to iron rice bowls with a government job, and their status is high, so there is almost no reason to cause trouble.

The camp's promotion system is all in the open, if you want to be a captain or commander, then practice martial arts well.

As long as you have the strength, it's hard not to be one.

The clues are broken, and things are at a stalemate.

“Little Tang, what's your opinion?”

Tang Wen thought for a long time, and when he heard his name called, he immediately said concisely, “Send out commanders to try!”

His tone was natural, and his problem-solving ideas were straightforward and direct.

It's like a regimental commander facing the question, “What if a 50mm grenade launcher can't take down the opponent?”

He would naturally answer, “Bring up a larger caliber! Bring up 100mm grenade launchers and 155mm grenade launchers for me!”

For Tang Wen, the hunting camp captain is a 50mm grenade launcher.

A third-class martial master-level commander is a 100mm grenade launcher.

A second-class martial master-level commander is a 155mm caliber.

As for a first-class martial master!

It's probably comparable to a 203mm giant cannon.

He explained, “Although I don't know how the people in the dark did it, the fact is that our hunting team can't touch their shadows at all.”

The two generals whispered a few words, and General Zhou said decisively, “Okay, in addition to you and Zhou Bing, send out four more commanders!”

Zhou Bing and Commander Zhang unloaded the burden in their hearts.

With six commanders dispatched, they should be able to find out the enemies in the dark, right?

But Tang Wen didn't think so. It's still that sentence, what if the other party has a general-level expert?

“If Ice Sister and I leave at the same time, someone still needs to be in charge of the outer city.”

Saying that, he looked at General Zhao.