130: Military discipline supervision

"Why do I feel like this thing was specifically made to make it easier for others to calculate military merit?" Chu Yuan pinched a crystal, which emitted a fiery red glow under the sunlight.

Perhaps because it had left its owner's glabella, the light was no longer as vibrant, but it still contained immense energy.

"...If the Crystal Fire Clan heard you say that, they would definitely fight you to the death." Li Mengru was speechless, explaining, "Although the crystal in the center of their forehead is their vital point, it is also their strongest weapon."

"Another 'strongest weapon'? Like the tail of the Three-Tailed Lizard?"

"Uh..." Li Mengru was at a loss for words, organizing her thoughts before saying, "The tail of the Three-Tailed Lizard Clan is equivalent to giving an unarmed person an innate blade, and a poisoned one at that."

"The crystal in the glabella of the Crystal Fire Clan is equivalent to bestowing every clansman with an innate Martial Skill!"

"The energy beam emitted from the glabella crystal has astonishing penetrating power! Those of the same realm almost dare not take it head-on!"

"As for it being a vital point... isn't the glabella of every race a vital point? You don't have such a crystal in your glabella, but would you survive if you were stabbed there?"

"The reason you feel that way is simply because you are stronger than them. But let's forget about the Three-Tailed Lizard Clan; the Crystal Fire Clan does have powerful experts..."

"...If you put it that way, the Human Race is quite disadvantaged."

Li Mengru smiled and said, "The advantage of the Human Race lies not on the outside, but on the inside. Otherwise, how did we establish ourselves on the Outer Heaven Battlefield starting from zero? Let's go, continue patrolling..."

To tell the truth, the patrolling process was a bit boring. Chu Yuan and the others' combat power already exceeded this area... To use gaming terms, it was like a level 70 character farming level 60 monsters.

They also encountered some small squads of the Crystal Fire Clan that had infiltrated, but they were all easily dealt with. This was also normal.

On the Outer Heaven Battlefield, those in the Ninth Realm check and balance each other and generally do not take action unless it is a particularly large-scale battle. It seems to be a tacit understanding and an unspoken rule formed between the various races.

Those in the Eighth Realm, who are below the Ninth Realm, are at the level of Legion Commanders of the major legions, so of course, they wouldn't come to personally do small tasks like patrolling...

Further down is Zhang Yue's level, who are also high-ranking and powerful with a ton of things to do. For conventional frictions or tasks, having someone in the Sixth Realm enter is already the limit. If stronger Martial Artists enter, it means the situation has escalated!

For this kind of task, the difficulty is not how to kill the opponent, but how to find the opponent. But as luck would have it, once Chu Yuan spread his Divine Sense, it was like turning on full-map vision...

Time flew by, and three days passed. Li Mengru dug a crystal out of the glabella of a Crystal Fire Clan member at her feet. "Let's go, we have two more days, let's go inspect the military discipline."

Chu Yuan asked curiously, "What are we mainly inspecting?"

"Theft by those in charge, bullying the weak... and colluding with alien races, though no one usually dares to commit this one."

"What if they are caught? How will they be dealt with?"

"If they don't resist, they are sent to the suicide squad to make amends for their crimes. If they resist... they can be executed on the spot." Li Mengru tapped on her terminal to operate it, planning the route.

It wasn't actually that she was keeping secrets from Chu Yuan, but rather that Chu Yuan had limited time staying on the Outer Heaven Battlefield, so there was no need to understand these tedious procedures in detail. If he came to the Outer Heaven Battlefield again in the future... then he could learn about it then. As long as one's own strength was strong enough, everything else was secondary...

"Let's go to Mining Site No. 7 first."

fire flame gold is indeed very precious, but it is not precious enough to make high-level Martial Artists come to mine it themselves. Even though the Fire Burning Mountain Range is very dangerous, most of the creatures in the mining site are still in the Second Realm or Third Realm... There are even very few Human Race members; most are weak alien races affiliated with Great Qin.

Only the team of Martial Artists responsible for protecting the mining area is directly under the Ninth Legion. It is composed of one Sixth Realm Martial Artist and four Fifth Realm Martial Artists, which is enough to deal with the Crystal Fire Clan that infiltrates from time to time. This is only because Mining Site No. 7 is large and has high output...

"This damn life is finally coming to an end! One more month, and the task period will be over." A burly man with a bare chest and thick chest hair drank alcohol in large gulps.

"I don't know what the boss was thinking, accepting a garrison task. I'm bored to death!"

Beside him, a young man with a gloomy temperament, sitting on a giant rock with one leg propped up, tossed two nuts into his mouth. He glanced at the burly man and said nonchalantly, "You've gained benefits and are still complaining. How many people want to take this task but can't? Only the boss has this connection... If you are really unwilling, I will help you tell the boss and let you go back to risking your life."

The burly man smiled awkwardly and muttered, "It's not that I'm unwilling... It's just that I'm bored."

"If you're bored, go Cultivate," the youth said casually, his gaze turning back downwards. There were no figures in the rock, only dense holes. Mining Site No. 7 had been mined for a long time. Now, to find more fire flame gold, one had to continue digging deeper, so there were no living beings on the surface.

At a certain moment, figures gradually emerged from the passages in the rock. They carried baskets on their backs, looking disheveled. After gathering in the open space, they poured out the Ore from their baskets, waiting to be collected and inspected.

Although they looked pitiful, they were not actually mining slaves. Those from the Human Race are unwilling to take risks and are afraid of death, so they accumulate military merit in this way, hoping to leave the Outer Heaven Battlefield one day; or they are those who have violated military discipline, but not seriously, and mining is their punishment.

Those from the alien races also came voluntarily. Their clans do not have the strength to compete for such precious resources as fire flame gold, but they have the need, so they provide manpower and effort, and then split the profits with the Ninth Legion. The clansmen who mine will not stay here forever; after serving for a sufficient number of years, they can return to their clans, and another batch of people will come to replace them...

It is easy to say that, but when living under someone else's roof, how can there really be equality? Someone stepped forward to count and tally. Afterwards, they collected all the Ore together and set aside about one-tenth of the share.

The gloomy youth jumped down from the giant rock, openly stored this small pile of fire flame gold Ore into his storage ring, and then, ignoring the complex gazes of the miners, walked away on his own.

After these shares were in the youth's hands, they would no longer be recorded on the accounts. It was equivalent to the miners working in vain... But ever since the last miner who questioned it was executed in public, no one dared to say a word...

Chu Yuan's Divine Sense saw this scene, and the gloomy youth's taken-for-granted actions left him somewhat confused. "Mengru, is the salary of the garrison team paid in fire flame gold that they take for themselves?"

"How is that possible? It is also military merit."

"Then this garrison team... their hands aren't very clean..."