154: Chapter 154 I've been used to a hard life since childhood

The earth trembled violently as the explosion instantly obliterated everything within a hundred-kilometer radius.

The black light dissipated, but the roar of the explosion showed no sign of stopping.

The Orc Allied Forces outside Fuxin City didn't even have time to react to what was happening before more than half of their numbers were wiped out.

Jesse Marshall, the commander of the Orc Allied Forces outside Fuxin City, was also left dazed by this sudden strike.

According to their understanding of the Great Xia Dragon Country, the humans would never strike first; they would only retaliate if they were truly under attack. Otherwise, the Orc Allied Forces wouldn't have dared to array their troops right before Great Xia's borders.

Moreover, when did the Great Xia Dragon Country acquire such a powerful means of attack?

With just a single blow, the majority of the Orc Allied Forces' camp had been destroyed.

Marshall suddenly felt that all the information they had previously gathered about the Great Xia Dragon Country was wrong.

The Great Xia Dragon Country might not be as fragile as it appeared to be.

Right! Great Xia must have been feigning weakness on purpose. These Great Xia humans loved playing the pig to eat the tiger.

"Fuck! Damned Great Xia humans!"

Before Marshall could continue his complaints, a familiar figure appeared before him.

"General Chebman?!"

"Why are you here?!"

Chebman looked at Marshall with a face full of terror.

He had thought escaping through the spatial portal would be enough, but he hadn't expected those humans' attacks to follow them through the portal and strike them anyway.

Having been hit by the shockwave of the Divine Wrath Poison Lotus, Chebman's health had nearly been completely depleted.

Fortunately, Chebman still had an Epic-grade healing scroll, which saved his life and the lives of the Orc Professionals following him.

Furthermore, when Chebman opened the spatial portal, he had intentionally chosen the Orc Allied Forces camp outside Fuxin City because its scale was similar to the headquarters, but he hadn't expected to drag them into this mess as well.

However, as the supreme commander of the Orc Allied Forces, Chebman naturally wouldn't tell Marshall that he had been beaten into this state by a few human Professionals.

"Great Xia sent an army to attack the Allied Forces' headquarters. We suffered heavy losses. Only General Dick Hogan and a few others managed to escape with me."

"The information we had about the Great Xia Dragon Country was completely wrong. They aren't as weak as we imagined; the strength of Great Xia's Professionals is very high."

"We need to redeploy our battle plans."

Chebman's words indirectly confirmed Marshall's suspicions: the Great Xia Dragon Country was indeed playing the pig to eat the tiger.

As a result, all the previously established strategic layouts could no longer be implemented and indeed needed to be replanned.

Looking at the remaining half of the Orc Allied Forces camp, Marshall couldn't help but wonder, "Is there really a need to keep fighting?"

But he understood that if they returned empty-handed like this, their fate would likely be worse than dying on the battlefield!

Therefore, they had no way back.

"Order all units to retreat. Send word for all the High Priests to return as well!"

Chebman's voice rang out again, and Marshall's subordinate generals took the order and withdrew.

Immediately, the remaining Orc Allied Forces outside Fuxin City began to pack up and retreat.

At the same time, the other Orc Allied Forces also began to retreat upon receiving the orders.

The sudden movements of the Orc Allied Forces left the Guard Army at various Great Xia positions completely bewildered.

Why did the enemy suddenly retreat?

Especially the Guard Army outside Fuxin City; after hearing the explosion, they thought the Orc Allied Forces were attacking. After waiting for a long time, the enemy actually ran away, leaving a field of corpses behind.

Meanwhile, Tang Mo was taking the time to clean up the battlefield.

Seeing that Wei Shenchou and Zhan Wuji were picking up equipment faster and faster, Tang Mo quickly lowered his head again.

"These two old guys don't know how to look after the youth at all. These are clearly my things, yet they're using the excuse of 'wartime resource utilization' to frantically compete with me for them."

But on second thought, their storage space was limited anyway, so how many pieces could they actually pick up?

Wouldn't the rest still be his?

Looking at the equipment scattered all over the ground, Tang Mo couldn't help but remark that the Orc Allied Forces' gear was generally better than that of the Great Xia soldiers.

The lowest-grade items dropped on the ground were diamond-grade equipment.

supreme-grade equipment could be seen everywhere, and diamond-grade equipment was as common as cabbages on the street.

If he could recycle all of this equipment—maybe not all, but at least enough—he could probably upgrade another four or five God-level Skills to the maximum level.

Of course, that was provided all this equipment was recycled by Tang Mo.

Wei Shenchou was hale and hearty, his hands and feet not a bit slower than Tang Mo's. He didn't even bother looking at the low-level items, specifically picking out high-level supreme-grade equipment and Secret Technique Scrolls dropped by the Orc Professionals.

Wei Shenchou had personal experience with the power of the Secret Technique Scrolls used by the Orc Allied Forces.

If he could take these scrolls back and study them properly, Great Xia's strength might once again advance by leaps and bounds from now on.

Zhan Wuji didn't look up the whole time, concentrating fully on cleaning the battlefield. His hand speed was even faster than Wei Shenchou's.

Wei Shenchou's mouth twitched as he watched. This corporate slave was even faster than him; if this continued, wouldn't all the good stuff be snatched up by him alone?

Hmm, I need to think of a way...

Thinking of this, Wei Shenchou began to contact the Yulin City Command Center, asking them to send troops over to clean up the battlefield.

Tang Mo was immediately unhappy when he heard this. "Elder Wei, it's fine if you take some yourself, but why are you calling for more people?"

"If people come, we'll have to count the equipment piece by piece."

These Orc Allied Forces and ferocious beasts were all killed by Tang Mo, so the equipment and dropped items should rightfully belong to him.

Tang Mo was counting on them to earn skill points, so he certainly couldn't let Wei Shenchou call people to take them all away.

"Kid Tang, I didn't realize you were such a little money-grubber."

"But what time is it now? You're still haggling over money. If we have this equipment, the combat power of our Great Xia soldiers can be greatly enhanced. We'll have more confidence in facing the Orc Allied Forces."

Tang Mo fell silent for a moment. This... was he being fed another 'big pie' (empty promises)? It seemed that even after transmigrating, he couldn't escape the fate of being fed empty promises.

But Tang Mo always believed that his fate was in his own hands, not the heavens'.

"Look at what you're saying. Am I the kind of person who lacks national righteousness?"

Wei Shenchou nodded, thinking he was a teachable youth.

But Tang Mo continued, "Then in a bit, just give them a 0.1% discount."

As he spoke, Tang Mo began to count on his fingers right in front of Wei Shenchou.

"One piece of diamond equipment has a market price of about 10 million gold coins, so let's just charge them 9.9 million. supreme-grade equipment is the same; we'll just collect 99 million gold coins per piece."

Seeing that Tang Mo was completely unmoved by persuasion, Wei Shenchou said with a hint of anger, "You kid have really fallen into a pit of money, haven't you?"

Tang Mo remained neither humble nor arrogant, arguing his case. "This equipment didn't just fall from the sky. I was used to a hard life since I was a kid; I had to make every penny count. I'm scared of being poor, so I have to be meticulous."

Tang Mo's words were like a needle, piercing deep into Wei Shenchou's heart, making him feel ashamed and resentful of himself.

It seemed that after Tang Mo lost his parents, his life had been very difficult.

How could he have spoken to him like that just now?

I'm really not a decent human being!

If he wants to charge, then let him charge. Just consider it compensation for this child.