Chapter Fifty-One: Awareness

  Among the clear and melodious bird calls, Liu Yu carefully made his way through the bushes, trying to make as little noise as possible, while seriously observing the surroundings. It was now the sixth month after the Beast God Festival, they were carrying out a patrol mission under Ge Ri's leadership, and Liu Yu was acting as the vanguard scout for the entire team.

  Today, Liu Yu's partner is Fadi and four wolf tribe warriors. Except for Liu Yu, the expressions of the others are still relatively relaxed, but Liu Yu seems to be in no mood.

  During these months of patrolling, Fandor's patrol team seemed to be deliberately covering up something, although they still encountered the Beastmen Kingdom's patrol team and exchanged a few rounds of blind fire before retreating.

  At first, Liu Yu thought it was dangerous and tried to avoid their arrows as much as possible. However, he later discovered that the shooting skills of these guys seemed to have deteriorated, and even if they were blind shooting, they couldn't be off by a wide margin. Moreover, whenever the beastmen patrol team advanced, they would inevitably retreat, running faster than rabbits.

  It's said that the patrol teams of the Nord Empire are generally not inferior in strength, and their numbers are even more than those of the Beastman patrol team, so they shouldn't be afraid of the Beastman patrol team to this extent.

  A few days later, outside a barracks of the Fourth Army's camp, Liu Yu found his old partner.

  "What's the situation with your recent patrol around Nord that you and Feite were on?" Liu Yu decided to ask about the other patrol teams' situations, having already asked three other members of the Weilin family the same question before finding Feite.

  "It's normal, those guys are poor at shooting and have small guts. Lord Huo Wei has killed several of their members many times, they just threw down the bodies and ran away, not daring to fight us head-on." Fite's answer gave Liu Yu a premonition.

  At the same time, in the large tent of Ji Lun, the fourth division commander, Ji Lun and a wolfman with a blood-red long gown and full-body red hair were sitting listening to a golden-haired Bamun officer reporting the situation.

  "The adults have collected all the patrol situations of the patrols over the past few months, and there is indeed something unusual about Fanord's side. They seem to be afraid to fight us head-on, and their blind shooting accuracy is also very poor. We have almost no casualties."

  "Shall I send a journeyman to lead the team and see how it goes?" Gilen asked indifferently, his expression calm and unruffled.

  "Five days ago, I sent him out with ten elite soldiers. Yesterday, in the message he sent back through the homing pigeon, he said ' Fifteen miles in, nothing unusual'. I told him to go another five miles and then return." The officer replied honestly.

  "Oh, fifteen miles without anything unusual, that's too few. You immediately go and summon him back, I'll send someone else." Gilen thought for a moment before giving the order.

  "Obey orders." The officer immediately left the main tent.

  "What's wrong? They won't attack now, they should wait until after the autumn harvest." The wolfman who was sitting asked Jiren.

  "They don't seem to be coming over for a fight, I just think it's strange that this kind of thing can't be taken lightly. I plan to send Komu to investigate, what do you think?" In the fourth division's military camp, as Gilen, only the second lieutenant Til Horre of the Wolf Tribe could ask for his opinion.

  "Alright, let's investigate. With the strength of a 7th stage Dou Wang in his later stages, there shouldn't be any problems. I'll send two Dou Wangs who are skilled at hiding to help him." Thiel hesitated for a moment but still followed Guren's suggestion.

  "Alright, let them set out tonight. But that's not enough, herald." Gilen called out to the outside of the tent, and soon a black-clad herald walked in.

  "Pass down the order: all patrol teams to go all out and double their density."

  "It is an order from above, immediately pass it on."

  That night, all the fires responsible for patrolling in the Fourth Division received orders to bring together 200 wolf tribe warriors to participate in the patrol tomorrow morning. Even the patrol teams that had just finished patrolling and could rest were required to re-participate in the patrol.

  While Girun was making a countermeasure, more than 100 miles away, two officers of the Fanode Empire stood shoulder to shoulder at the pass of a valley in the mountains, gazing out westward.

  Both officers are in blue military uniforms, with two blue star-shaped medals on their chests, but the officer on the left has more ornate sword decorations at his waist.

  "How have things been these past few days?" The officer on the left spoke up first.

  "Everything is normal, the hunting squad that was dispatched has sealed off the border within thirty miles, even if the beastmen's side has detected something and sent out their elite scouts, we can still take them down." Another officer replied.

  "What I'm worried about is not this, but how about the Shehe Valley in the south? It's too close to the border, just over a dozen miles. Giving it up would be a pity." The officer on the left chimed in with some concern.

  "It's impossible to give up, the beastmen can hold on to that place even if hundreds of thousands of troops come to attack. On the other side, I've also dispatched four sixth-rank battle commanders to lead the defense, and Semen is not far from there, so it's definitely fine."

  "That's good, we have a guard army here to help with everything, and it will be done quickly. I believe that after a while, you can rest assured."

  "Ah, I'm exhausted to death." Liu Yu sat on the grass and wiped the sweat from his forehead. The warriors around him, including Ivan and others, all looked tired. Not far away, a large group of wolf tribe warriors wearing light armor were also sitting on the ground resting.

  After receiving the order yesterday, Ge Li gathered his 200 wolf tribe warriors and set out to patrol the border with them at dawn today. In order to arrive at the border as soon as possible, they all proceeded on foot at a run.

  In addition to Geli's order that all warriors must be fully armed, Liu Yu and his men wore thicker leather armor, while the Wolf Tribe warriors wore lighter chain mail. Adding weapons, dry rations, tents and other things, each warrior carried dozens of pounds. In this situation, running wildly, Liu Yu felt that this was simply playing with their lives, more exhausting than the long run before the battle against Kao Erke and his men in those years.

  He believes that he can now return to Earth and participate in some marathon competitions and absolutely get a good ranking.

  "Alexander, you and Fadi form a group to scout the east side, Diqian, you and I form a group to scout the south side, ...." Geli didn't give everyone much rest time before assigning tasks.

  Liu Yu and his patrol team were heading south, usually they would run into Fano's northbound patrol team head-on, so the scouting mission in the south was the heaviest. Liu Yu thought to himself that this time the orders from above might not be simple, as Geli brought only one other six-stage Dou Shuai, Di Geng, besides him to take charge of the south.

  Military orders are like mountains Liu Yu was very tired but still insisted on going with Fadi and the four wolf warriors to the east of the team.

  The eastern patrol team is facing the border of Farnod, where they occasionally encounter the Farnod army, making it a relatively heavy task. Geli's decision to send Liu Yu and his team here shows his trust in them.

  It was early summer, and the southern mountain range was lush with vegetation. The forests were teeming with animals and birds, and the vast expanse of greenery and the clear bird songs eased Liu Yu's tense mood. Walking on the green mountain terrain, they bent their bodies and headed south through the grass thickets.

  Liu Yu's eyes had never left the forest to the east, but heaven seemed not to want him to see anything. About two aisles of time passed, and Liu Yu still didn't see any movement in the east.

  An aisou is a unit of time in the continent of Pylong, one aisou being the time it takes for an hourglass to empty, roughly estimated by Liu Yu to be slightly longer than an hour.

  "Don't be too tense, relax a bit. Those bastards will retreat once they see us, what are you afraid of?" Fadi comforted Liu Yu, noticing that he was somewhat tense.

  "Hmm, I know." But Liu Yu secretly felt that the days when Farnod would retreat as soon as he saw them were probably not far off.

  "Crunch, crunch." Just as Liu Yu's voice fell, a rustling sound came from the grass thicket, and two tall figures emerged from the woods to the east, running towards Liu Yu with all their might.

  "Ready." Fadi picked up his bow and arrow at the first time, and the four wolfmen beside him also picked up their bows and arrows and aimed at the two figures.

  "Liu Yu swiftly grabbed Fadi's bow and arrow."

  "Our man." Liu Yu spoke before Fadi could interrogate him.

  Those two figures were all dressed in a cyan green cloth, and their heads were also wrapped in green cloth. In this deep mountain, if they hid quietly on one side, Liu Yu would never be able to find them.

  But when running, one of the heads had loosened its cloth, and Liu Yu saw that under the green cloth was a mass of dark brown hair.