Upgrade Specialist in Another World

Book 1 Chapter 19: The time was ripe; infiltrate the stronghold

Within the next three days, some bandits indeed could not endure the fear in their hearts anymore and wanted to secretly flee down the mountain. They were basically the bandits who had witnessed with their own eyes the fight between Bai Yunfei and Xiao Chen.

When the first twelve men took advantage of the night to stealthily go out of the stronghold, they were detected, captured and brought back. Han Xiao immediately gave an order to kill them all for betraying the stronghold.

This ruthless act really deterred some bandits who had been scared out of their wits by Bai Yunfei from fleeing, but the panic in the entire stronghold had not lessened one bit. Instead, because it had been building up for several days, it was more intense now than ever.

The day after the third day was Bai Yunfei’s ‘appointment day’. Almost all the bandits in the stronghold had not slept for a night. Now, even when they walked, they looked around a few times at every step for fear that the enemy would storm the place suddenly and execute them.

But… Bai Yunfei failed to keep the appointment.

After a day of being on the alert and combat-ready, everybody realized that this was just the enemy deliberately making things look mysterious. They could not help letting out sighs of relief. However, on the fifth day, when they had yet to loosen up completely, Bai Yunfei and Li Chengfeng killed their way up Mt. Blackwood again!

They raided two patrolling groups of bandits then immediately fled when they saw the chieftain and vice-chieftain appear!

For the next three days, the bandits in the Blackwood Stronghold simply had to live in deep distress because the enemy could charge up the mountain at any time, and instead of attacking the stronghold, they would kill the ones on patrol near the foot of the mountain then withdraw. The chieftain and vice-chieftain once waited with their men for an entire day at the entrance but nothing happened at all. As soon as they returned to the stronghold, they enemy came out again…

Unexpectedly, when Han Xiao and Yang Tian regained their composure, there were already fewer than two hundred men left in the stronghold.

In the hall of the stronghold, Yang Tian looked at the pieces of the tables and chairs destroyed by Han Xiao in his anger all over the floor then said slowly: “Chieftain, if this goes on, we simply can only wait for our deaths. I think the two of us must take a risk and scout around…”

“Oh? What do you mean?” Han Xiao asked after suppressing the fury in his mind.

“Clearly the enemy are certain that we don’t dare to come down from the mountain to counterattack so they use this ‘cut flesh with a blunt knife’ kind of tactic. In the end, when our stronghold has seriously weakened and lost most of its fighting power, they will go up the mountain to attack again, destroying our Blackwood Stronghold at one stroke. At this point, if we take our subordinates and rush down, we’ll most probably fall into the enemy’s trap. So, I think only you and I should go down from the mountain to scout around.”

Yang Tian paused for a while then continued: “Given our skills, even if the enemy has set up an ambush, we can still get away as long as we’re cautious. At least, we’ll be able to learn a bit about the general situation of the enemy to decide how to fight them later.”

Han Xiao’s mind was already in complete chaos at the moment. He thought for a while then said with a nod: “Alright! Just do as you say. So when do we start?”

Yang Tian observed the color of the sky and said: “It’s already night now. We’ll go down from the mountain to scout at about 3 a.m.!”

When Yang Tian walked out of the hall, he looked somewhat frustrated and worried. In fact, he basically did not want to go down from the mountain to scout. He had said that they could get away if they were a bit cautious only to console his chieftain, otherwise, he would have taken this measure right from the beginning. But now, he had no choice but to do this. However, as soon as he thought about that crimson spear, he could not help shivering inside, wondering if he himself could ward it off in an ambush…

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At the foot of the mountain, Bai Yunfei and Li Chengfeng were slowly heading up the mountain in secret under the cover of the night.

“Following the plan, tonight we’re destroying this Blackwood Stronghold once and for all!”