Castle of Black Iron

Half an hour later, Zhang Tie walked out of one room in the command post of the advanced base.

Those who came and went in the command post of the advanced base were all soldiers in uniform in Taixia Country. Not all of them were knights; additionally, there were some female soldiers in civilian posts. However, all of their eyes carried a bit of admiration when they looked at Zhang Tie.

Half an hour ago, 20 earth knights who would like to be the scouts for the whole army held a conference. Luo Tiancheng the marshal of Black Armor Army was responsible for introducing the situation facing the Western Theater of Operations and the deployment of forces of Taixia Country to all of them. After that, the 20 earth knights separated and entered a smaller back room respectively. Each of them then received a military map for the theater of operations which was divided by grids. Furthermore, each of them bore a remote-sensing communications code and received their first task.

When Zhang Tie approached the lobby of the advanced base, Zhang Tie stroked the wholly new remote-sensing finger ring on his hand unconsciously. He could contact this advanced base with this finger ring. Each earth knight who applied to be scout would get one exclusive remote-sensing communications finger ring. In emergencies, he could directly contact Ye Qingcheng by this new finger ring and transmit the latest news to Ye Qingcheng as a guarantee.

All the knights who were gathering in the lobby had scattered, except for some knights who were still wandering over there.

Elder Muray and Elder Muyu, Bai Suxian and Mountain Lifting Hermit were waiting for Zhang Tie in the lobby.

When they saw Zhang Tie walking out of the path which was guarded by soldiers on both sides, they soon surrounded him. Those men were fine; however, Bai Suxian almost cried out.

“I have one hour here. Half an hour later, I will set off. I know what you want to say. Let’s talk about it back in the airboat!” Zhang Tie said before they opened their mouths.

On the way from the advanced base to their airboat, Zhang Tie felt that those people on the roadside paid more attention to him. Qianji Hermit had become more famous among all the knights in this advanced base. Previously, Qianji Hermit was well-known across the country due to his mysterious methods, immortal bloodline, battle skills and endless means; now he was also known as being dauntless.

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After 5 people crowded in Zhang Tie’s room, they didn’t even have a place to sit. Therefore, they could only stand there. However, on this occasion, nobody would care about that.

“Easy, even though I am a scout, it doesn’t mean that I’m destined to die. Am I not standing here safe and sound?” Zhang Tie said. Although he wanted to make them relaxed, he had not imagined that Mountain Lifting Hermit, Elder Muray and Elder Muyu turned more solemn while Bai Suxian dropped off her tears at once.

“If you deepened into the rear of the enemy, it would definitely be 10 times more dangerous than that in the Earth-element Realm…” Mountain Lifting Hermit said with a solemn look.

“Elder Mushen, you’re the pillar of Huaiyuan Palace and the owner of Iron-Dragon Sect, why would you enter such a dangerous place…” Elder Muyu let out a sigh as Elder Muray nodded forcefully.

“Do you want me to become a widow before marrying you, you d**chebag…” Bai Suxian almost cried.

Looking at these people’s expressions, Zhang Tie rubbed his nose. Closely after that, he asked them as he pointed at his own nose, “Do you think I’m an idiot?”

The other 4 people became silent as they exchanged a glance with each other.

Zhang Tie asked once again, “Perhaps you feel that I’m lunatic or have no hope for life?”

The other 4 people’s eyes moved as if they had understood Zhang Tie’s meaning slightly.

Zhang Tie let out a long sigh as he said calmly, “Actually, Elder Muyu’s words are not enough. I’m not only the grand elder of Huaiyuan Palace and the owner of Iron-Dragon Sect, but I’m also the son of my parents, the husband of a lot of women, the father of over 10 kids, also the Mr. Right of you, Bai Suxian and the dad of our kid in the future. If I died, how sad would my parents be? How could I leave so many wives alone? How could I feel like having my kids lose their father since they are young?” Zhang Tie looked around those people whose expressions were changing before continuing, “Therefore, please believe in me, I will not die. Now that I’m called Qianji Hermit, I could survive any dangerous situation. Additionally, it’s my responsibility to go there. This task suits me most. Even Ye Qingcheng didn’t’ say that, I would also request to leave this advanced base to fight demons!”

Zhang Tie finally convinced the other 4 people and told them that he was not playing a funky game. In the final analysis, Zhang Tie had never let them down no matter what dilemma he was in. Additionally, Zhang Tie’s trump cards were always shocking.

Bai Suxian stopped dropping tears immediately as she asked, “Will you leave in half an hour?”

“Yes!”

“What’s your task?”

“In a period of time, I will stay near Helan Mountain Range between Huanzhou Province and Wuzhou Province to snipe and kill those demon knights who invaded Huanzhou Province from Wuzhou Province as the scout of the vanguard of this base. I should try my best to prevent the wing demon knights from invading Huanzhou Province after crossing Helan Mountain Range. Additionally, I should pay attention to the actions of the vanguard corps and large troops of demons in the west of Helan Mountain Range and provide early warning to the advanced base…”

After hearing Zhang Tie’s words, the 4 knights finally knew why only earth knight could execute this task. This task requested the scout to snipe demons’ advance wing knights and defend the border of a province while paying attention to the actions of the demons’ army and providing early warning to the advanced base behind him. Black iron knights could barely face such a tough challenge because demons could easily sweep all the black iron knights assigned by Taixia Country as scouts.

Certainly, theoretically, earth knights were destined to die when they met a shadow knight or a heavenly knight. However, both humans and demons had few shadow knights or above. Shadow knights and those above shadow knights were all major and cardinal figures in the opponent’s camps. Only idiots would assign high-level knights as vanguards and scouts for the safety of low-level knights. It might happen in some special situations; however, from the perspective of wargaming, this was not the normality of wars and could be ignored on most occasions.