According to the rabbits' plan.

Taihe Building and Shaxian Snacks Shop will serve as the rabbits' first long-distance intelligence station in the Damo Realm, destined to have a very profound impact in the future, as they are a pair of eyes at the forefront.

No choice.

Chixian City and Linyuan City are really too small, so small that there's hardly any chance to gather important intelligence.

At best, they can only know of movements within a hundred-mile radius—and with several days of delay at that.

This is something the rabbits absolutely cannot accept, which is why the 'Yi Yin' project team led by Ye Fangwei has a heavy task.

The command center has given Ye Fangwei's team the strict order to officially start operations within a month.

The issue of the site isn't too difficult to solve.

After all, there's Yang Bolin, the tool person previously brought by the trade group, finding a territory by using a bit of influence shouldn't be too hard.

But the remaining work of cooking new dishes and learning the language within a month is quite tight.

Especially language learning.

The warriors in the unit are outstanding men, their character and awareness are such that everyone in Juyi Hall could take a front seat, no problem.

If you asked them to fight for their country with guns, they'd charge forward without blinking an eye.

But if you ask them to learn a foreign language...

The difficulty of this is simply nightmarish.

Many warriors joined the military just to avoid studying in the first place...

If you don't believe it, you can ask around, given the choice between studying and bare-handed combat with a Gundam, a lot of them would definitely choose the latter.

"Study, what the heck to study" is a classic line from Teacher Li Youbin in "Drawing Swords", which basically represents the sentiments of over 95% of the warriors.

But as the 'waiters' in the restaurant after opening, language is an indispensable link in either basic communication or intelligence gathering.

At the very least, Yu Lian and others cannot pretend to be dumb and get by like before.

Thus, on the way to Ziqiong City.

These iron-blooded men, who don't flinch at the sight of blood, were forced to start painfully chewing on the language books tailored by the command center.

As Ye Fangwei and Gu Junming and others were busy preparing for the two restaurants.

A significant and high-profile meeting was being held a thousand kilometers away at the Fire Camp.

The person presiding over the meeting was still Lin Li.

After all, he is the current head of the Fire Camp, responsible for both internal and external affairs.

Besides him, all other senior personnel at the camp also attended the meeting.

The civil and scientific research personnel sat on Lin Li's lower left side.

The first seat was occupied by Zeng Gu Cheng, the director of the Modu Physics Research Institute and deputy of the Fire Camp.

Next were Ma Ning, Liu Xiangqian, Hua Jun, Dai Chaohong, Bo Binghui, and other high-level officials and project leaders, with Xiang Hua attending on behalf of Mr. Yuan.

The military cadres sat on the lower right side.

Lin Ziming sat in the second seat, followed by Yan Shaohua and other military cadres, while Cao Yi, an official cultivator with extraordinary talent in dual spiritual roots who does not belong to the military system, sat in the last seat.

Sitting in front of Lin Ziming was an officer in a blue camouflage uniform.

This person looked about forty to fifty years old, with two thick sword-like eyebrows slanting upwards, a prominent philtrum, a wide nose tip like garlic, and sharp, determined eyes.

After the meeting began.

Lin Li first stood up, looked around, and said:

"Comrades, the commencement of the double-headed ox capture battle we initially scheduled is just over a week away.

The readiness task for our camp is heavy this time, so today I've specially gathered everyone here to have a meeting and have a good exchange with several of our battle commanders."

Then he looked at the officer in the blue camouflage uniform and said:

"Major General Man, you are the general commander for the double-headed ox capture campaign set by our core, and as someone outside the field, it's not appropriate for me to guide the experts here, so I'll leave the rest of the meeting to you."

Major General Man nodded at him politely.

This blue commander, whom numerous opponents have etched into their hearts with a desire to punch his garlic nose, is actually pretty mild and modest in private, after all, he is a distinguished graduate with a double master's degree.

Then Major General Man stood up, nodded to everyone, and said:

"Hello, comrades, I'm a certain brigade commander of the Blue Army, Major General Man. This time I have the honor of being appointed by the headquarters as the general commander of the Xiaolianzi Mountain double-headed ox capture battle.

Thus, I am fortunate to cooperate with everyone and to launch our first main offensive battle on the map of the other world."

Clap—clap—clap—

Applause resounded at the meeting at an opportune moment.

After the applause.

Major General Man's expression became solemn, and he picked up a remote control and pressed a few buttons on the screen.

Soon, an electronic map with detailed parameters appeared on the screen in the conference room.

"This is the topographic map jointly drawn by Hu Fei Group's manager Bo Binghui and the information engineering team. As shown in the diagram, the target Xiaolianzi Mountain of this battle is here, located one hundred and forty-four kilometers southeast by east of our camp."

Major General Man, like a lecturer, flicked the remote control a few times, manipulating an infrared light dot to draw several circles on the map.

Then he pressed a button again, and two icons on the map began flashing blue lights:

"These two markers are the only two cities within a hundred kilometers surrounding Xiaolianzi Mountain.

The further one is called Giant Spirit City, roughly ninety miles in a straight line from Xiaolianzi Mountain, with Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer cultivators present.

The other is Dingxing City, only about sixty miles in a straight line, and the highest combat power in the city is only at the Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer, with a much smaller scale and population than Chixian City.

If the battle breaks out, Dingxing City is more likely to be alerted, since they are closest to Xiaolianzi Mountain and have the highest monitoring effort."

Sixty miles of road translates to about thirty kilometers in Huaxia currency.

It's similar to the distance from the urban area of a county to a subordinate township, with a local bus ride taking about thirty-five to forty minutes.

This distance isn't exactly near, but it's not far either.

As the saying goes, "One cannot sleep soundly with a stranger on one's bed."

In other words, if someone stronger insists on sleeping beside you, you won't be able to sleep peacefully.

Therefore, Dingxing City will inevitably invest a lot of manpower and material resources to monitor the movements of the monsters at Xiaolianzi Mountain.

So once the battle breaks out, it's hard to say what will happen in Giant Spirit City, but there's over an 80% chance that Dingxing City will detect abnormalities.

At this point, Ma Ning and Dai Chaohong exchanged glances, couldn't help but ask:

"So, Major General Man, does the headquarters have any contingency plans for this?"

Major General Man nodded and explained:

"As you might know, now that the Ziqiong Market has dispersed as predicted, most of the cities within two thousand kilometers have realized the significant price surge of beast materials.

Therefore, the core team plans to masquerade as a force from a city more than eight hundred kilometers away, where it's typical for a major city to organize such escapades as a tradition," he said, acting like a lecturer, waving the remote a few times and using an infrared pointer to circle areas on the map.

He then pressed another button, and two cities illuminated within a hundred kilometers around Xiaolianzi Mountain lit up on the map:

"Here's the further city called Giant Spirit City, at a distance of, as indicated, one hundred sixty kilometers from our camp in an east-southeast direction towards Xiaolianzi Mountain."

Major General Man swayed the remote a little, handling the infrared dot to circle a few points on the map.

Then he pressed a button, and on the map, two cities within one hundred kilometers around Xiaolianzi Mountain began to flash with blue lights.

"These are the only two cities within a hundred kilometers of Xiaolianzi Mountain.

The further one is called Giant Spirit City, located about 144 kilometers southeast by east of our camp.

The closer one is Dingxing City, only over sixty kilometers in a straight line from Xiaolianzi Mountain, with its highest combat power merely at the Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer; it is the closest and most likely to be in the state of maximum alertness given the proximity."

A journey of over sixty miles converts to about thirty-five to forty minutes by regular township buses.

This distance is not exactly near, but it is also not far.

As the saying goes, if someone stronger than you insists on sleeping beside you, you won't be able to sleep soundly yourself.

Therefore, once the battle starts, it's hard to say about Giant Spirit City, but there's an 80% or higher likelihood that Dingxing City will notice the anomaly.

Thinking of this, Ma Ning and Dai Chaohong exchanged glances, then Ma Ning asked:

"So, Major General Man, we would like to understand what the headquarters has planned if Dingxing City reacts?"

Major General Man nodded and explained:

"You all should know that as the Ziqiong Market has dispersed, most of the cities within a two-thousand-kilometer radius of Ziqiong City are now aware of the current high premium on beast materials.

Therefore, the core team intends to use the pretext of an eighty-kilometer-away city, making it look like a high-level city organizing to tackle this beast tide as a tradition."

Indeed, as Major General Man explained, these kinds of expeditions to other territories are quite common for large cities these days.

It's just that typically, each city rarely ventures into another's territory, that is unless they have a significant military advantage.

Xiaolianzi Mountain has an estimated beast tide of around 1,000 heads of beasts, a scale usually only tackled by a thousand-mile-scale dominant city like Celestial Fate City—which has already suffered a heavy loss against this wave.

This is somewhat of an unwritten rule that everyone generally agrees on, even without a formal agreement.

The market for monster materials has surged in prices dramatical; the rabbits' excuse therefore conveniently fits the bill.

After all, beasts aren't like fixed resources such as Spirit Stone mines.

With Celestial Fate City's strength greatly diminished and unable to handle the beast tide, they can't prevent rabbits from coming, and a post-stamp-sized city won't be able to handle the loss efficiently—especially not when the rabbits are an eight-hundred-kilometer-away city.

Consequently, regarding the authenticity of the rabbits' cover, Dingxing City would be more worried about whether the rabbits have enough hard strength to eliminate the beast tides, rather than focus on the authenticity of their origins.

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