Chapter 139 Return to the Northwest

A month later, Fen City Military Base, in Er Wei's Calamity Shadow training space.

Jiang Xiao, pillowing the sound-sound bear as it slept soundly, gazed at the dim stars in the sky.

A lot had happened in a month.

Jiang Xiao's main body was constantly on guard in the Calamity Shadow's Ruins, while the decoy accompanied the three team members, returning to the Imperial Capital Star Warrior University together, and receiving the Frontier Army's Medal of Honor. At the same time, Jiang Xiao also obtained the Frontier Army's Wildfire Medal of Honor.

At this time, the medal and certificate had already been placed in Jiang Xiao's Calamity Shadow World, in the stone villa.

And in the inner star map, the pitiful third-level Starfire Medal finally had someone to back it up.

The raging first-class Wildfire Medal hung in the upper right corner of the inner star map, squeezed in front of the Starfire Medal.

The fiery flames seemed to be able to incinerate everything, standing against the other row of first-class Full Moon Medals.

The Guanghan Qinghui and the fiery Wildfire butted against each other, neither giving way.

Jiang Xiao believed that if the Starfire Medal could speak, it would definitely be grateful to Jiang Xiao...

At the same time, Jiang Xiao also received another second-class Crescent Moon Medal, which was the Medal of Honor from capturing the Huaxing member, Leanna. It also provided Jiang Xiao with 3,000 skill points.

At this time, Jiang Xiao's inner star map was full of points, seemingly rich, but in reality, it wasn't even enough to upgrade a star technique quality for the Hum-Hum Whale...

After this Crescent Moon merit, Jiang Xiao also completely became "Commander Jiang."

Star Warrior officers are indeed a special profession, with positions and ranks following military merits.

You should know that Jiang Xiao was only 19 years old at this time. If it were a normal society, a regular army, Jiang Xiao would never be able to reach his current position, even if he used all his strength.

In most industries in normal society, there are generally rules of "seniority," which is objectively true.

In fact, Star Warrior soldiers also have such unwritten rules, but such a high-risk profession has a high mortality rate, and officer positions change extremely frequently. This is a very sad thing: Positions are always available, and military merits speak for themselves!

And Jiang Xiao, with his illustrious military achievements, no one could suppress him...

As a soldier who had captured many Huaxing members, Jiang Xiao, accompanied by Er Wei, systematically reported to his superior, Commander Feng Yi. Regarding the previously announced "Huaxing Cheng Wu," that the star map could increase the quality of star techniques, Jiang Xiao had already clearly and succinctly reported it.

Indeed, a lot happened in this month. After receiving the medal, Jiang Xiao led the team and said goodbye to Qin Wangchuan.

Qin Wangchuan also knew that Jiang Xiao and others were preparing for the Dragon Cave, and he did not refuse. As for Jiang Xiao's abduction of Gu Shi'an, Qin Wangchuan seemed to have been mentally prepared for it, so his reaction was not as big as expected.

In the past month, the Huaxing organization seemed to have disappeared from the world. Not only did they not come to cause trouble for Jiang Xiao, nor did they go to cause trouble for the Yi family, but even in the information summarized from all over the world, there was no trace of the Huaxing organization causing trouble.

Jiang Xiao always felt that such tranquility was the calm before the storm.

He was constantly paying attention to the news from various countries. Once there was a trace of Huaxing members, Jiang Xiao would choose to take the initiative to attack. However, the Huaxing organization really seemed to have evaporated from the world.

In the past week, Jiang Xiao went to the Yi family with Exploration Leather as agreed, and taught his disciples Yi Qingchen and Chen Lingtao again.

Both of them had asked for leave to come back, but Jiang Xiao was very satisfied with their training progress. Although it had only been a month, their basic skills were quite solid.

Star Warriors are indeed different from ordinary martial artists. Their physical fitness is stronger, and the most important thing is... Yi Qingchen and Chen Lingtao are the best of the younger generation of the Yi family. Yi Qingchen is even the best among her peers in the world. That talent for cold weapons is simply terrifying.

In this lesson, Jiang Xiao started the second stage of training for the two. In "data terms," Jiang Xiao started teaching them the "Silver Quality Halberd" skills.

When Jiang Xiao was leaving, he repeatedly told them that he would come to inspect them next month, and he specifically stated that the first three stages of skills were nothing at all. Only when they entered the fourth stage of training would the halberd be considered truly mastered.

Yi Qingchen and Chen Lingtao were full of confidence and returned to school.

Regarding Yi Qingchen becoming a Night Watch apprentice, she ultimately failed to pass her father's test. Yi Zhizhong had already planned out her life path.

In daily life, Yi Qingchen is a relatively obedient girl, and Jiang Xiao couldn't say anything. In fact, as long as it's not in battle, she's always been very well-behaved.

It is worth mentioning that when Jiang Xiao went to the Yi family this time, he also saw many unfamiliar Star Warriors in the martial arts field, waiting to be assessed.

It is said that these Star Warriors had heard that the "Yi Martial Hall" had killed a Huaxing member and driven away a Huaxing member, so they came to learn from them.

And such Star Warriors were still pouring in from all over the country.

Yi Tenghui became the most sought-after master. After this calamity, the Yi Martial Hall not only did not decline, but became even more prosperous.

Yi Zhizhong once said to Jiang Xiao: In the end, the Yi family members die in battle, not in fear.

Now it seems that many Chinese Star Warriors have such thoughts. Don't they know that the Yi family is very dangerous at this time?

Jiang Xiao believed that they should know, but still, Star Warriors were constantly gathering here from all directions of China.

Whether it was to become a disciple, spar, or ask for advice, in short, the Yi Martial Hall was very lively.

And Jiang Xiao's main body, in the past period of sparring, archery proficiency had reached Gold quality Lv.7, and halberd proficiency had reached Platinum quality Lv.1.

Everything was progressing in an orderly manner.

After diligently training and improving two small levels, and archery proficiency reached Gold 9, Jiang Xiao planned to rush directly up, and then... Withered Bow Star Chart! Huaxing Cheng Wu!

"Jiang Xiao." A hoarse voice came.

"Hmm?" Jiang Xiao, pillowing the sleeping sound-sound bear, tilted his head and looked over. At some point, Er Wei had entered the training space and was striding towards him.

This is Er Wei's Calamity Shadow training space, so she can of course enter and exit freely.

Since being awarded medals in the Imperial Capital and taking the Hai family of four into the Calamity Shadow World, Jiang Xiao and others swaggered back to Beijiang Province with their ID cards, and directly entered Fen City Base.

Since then, Jiang Xiao had been hiding in the Calamity Shadow Ruins.

Except for when Exploration Leather went to the Yi family to teach, Jiang Xiao had to hide himself on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also had to have the ability to freely enter and exit the space and rush to support him at any time, so in addition to hiding in his Calamity Shadow World, Jiang Xiao and his team had been in Er Wei's training space at other times, which was convenient for training and for Er Wei to summon everyone and explain tasks.

"They are sparring, and you are resting." Er Wei came to Jiang Xiao and looked down at him.

After such a long time, Er Wei knew the extent of Jiang Xiao's hard training. She said this not as a real criticism, but more like a kind reminder.

This is like a head teacher, differentiating between students who study well and those who don't.

For those students who study well, even if they are sleeping, the head teacher thinks that the child stayed up too late reading last night and was too diligent... Anyway, everything looks pleasing to the eye.

Er Wei also knew what happened to the Yi family, and after she asked in detail what had happened to the Yi family, it took her a long time to digest the information completely.

And this time, she didn't blame Jiang Xiao.

In fact, Er Wei hadn't said any words of blame, not even a blaming look.

On the contrary, in those one or two weeks, her attitude towards Jiang Xiao was a little better, and she paid more attention to Jiang Xiao's mental state.

Jiang Xiao had always believed that Er Wei was someone who had sealed off her emotions and was cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and that was indeed the case.

In fact, Er Wei's thoughts were very simple. Ten thousand words of blame from others were not as good as a trace of guilt from Jiang Xiao himself.

Er Wei understood Jiang Xiao's character, and she knew that he had given her enough already. Judging from Jiang Xiao's actions in the past month, his change was clearly visible.

What's more, Er Wei sincerely believed that some things were unavoidable, especially when facing an organization like Huaxing.

Including the Yi family members, whether it was Yi Zhizhong or Yi Zhixiao, they all believed that Jiang Xiao had done enough that night.

That was Nana Zi, that was a Huaxing member, someone even Xinghai pinnacle Dou Zhan - Yi Zhixiao couldn't stop, but Jiang Xiao brought back her head...

Only Jiang Xiao believed that he hadn't done enough.

If he had used a decoy to attend the apprenticeship ceremony, even if the decoy was shattered when encountering this calamity, even if he exposed the fact that he had decoy star techniques and clone star techniques, at least he could have rescued more Yi family disciples.

Until now, Jiang Xiao didn't think his strength had been exposed too much.

He had always been opening the Domain Tear. At least when he came, Baze was gone.

Whether it was "Domain Tear" or "Sea Whisper," Jiang Xiao and the Hum-Hum Whale had not discovered Baze's figure during or after the battle.

That Nana Zi, who knew some real information, didn't even have a chance to turn her head around before she was torn to pieces by Jiang Xiao.

Jiang Xiao was the only one in the Yi family who could catch up with that battle group. When he teleported there, Yi Tenghui had already activated his self-destruction and was in a state of confusion, and he fell unconscious in Jiang Xiao's blessing.

So Jiang Xiao had reason to believe that his Silence, Flower Blade, and so on had not been exposed.

In this way, Jiang Xiao believed that although Huaxing was still in the dark, he still had unexpected trump cards.

Of course, when Jiang Xiao went to the Yi family for the second time, he didn't ask the Yi family for that head to exchange for military merits. That head had already been taken away by the local military, but even if it hadn't been taken away and was still with the Yi family, Jiang Xiao would not have asked for it. This wasn't a matter of three thousand points.

Regarding Nana Zi's head, Jiang Xiao had already explored the star beads in her head the night he killed her.

22 star techniques, 1 dead Devouring Sea Soul, the combination was very dazzling, but there was no trace of the Black Mist Puppet.

In this way, it seemed that when Star Warriors died, if the Star Pet was in the Star Slot, then the Star Pet would be buried with the master.

For example, the Devouring Sea Soul that Nana Zi had taken back into her body on the battlefield.

If the Star Pet was outside, they would regain their freedom. For example, the Black Mist Puppet that had been missing all along.

This also indirectly confirmed what Er Wei had once said. When she was performing the Dragon Cave mission for the first time, she had said to Xiao Xiao: Before I die, I will summon you out. From then on, Jiang Xiao will be your master.

"Ah." Jiang Xiao lay on the ground, looking at Er Wei who was walking over, and replied, "My head is a bit messed up."

Er Wei: "Okay, let's go."

"Go?" Jiang Xiao was stunned for a moment, raised his eyes to look at Er Wei, and said, "Where to? Is Dragon Cave open?"

Er Wei shook her head and said, "Not open, we received orders to return to the Northwest."

"Hmm?" Jiang Xiao sat up and looked up at Er Wei, "Return to the Northwest? We're not doing the Dragon Cave mission?"

Er Wei sighed softly and said, "The Dragon Cave is far away. And the world outside is getting more and more chaotic. We are wasting resources here. The higher-ups asked me to return to the Northwest to guard it. If the Dragon Cave opens again, we will be notified at that time."

Jiang Xiao frowned slightly. Has it become so chaotic?

You should know that the mission to explore Dragon Cave is a priority mission for the entire Chinese army, and this team preparing for Dragon Cave is actually required to return to guard the Northwest?

Jiang Xiao had just returned from Zhongyuan Province, so he was very clear about the situation outside.

In Zhongyuan Province, the frequency of opening of the other dimension space is still acceptable and still within the controllable range. In this way, the Northwest of China may be a disaster area?

Er Wei looked down at Jiang Xiao and said, "The superiors have always been very satisfied with our performance. This time, I want to expand the Tail Feather formation, with three Dawn Chaser squads under it, and each Dawn Chaser squad with three Dawn Chaser teams under it."

Jiang Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "A total of 9 Dawn Chaser teams, so many? What do the higher-ups want to do, do you want to allocate a province to you?"

The configuration of the Night Watch · Dawn Chaser team cannot be compared with the regular army.

Picking out one person is world-shattering.

Of course, members of the Huaxing organization are a group of lunatics standing at the top of the world. They cannot be used for horizontal comparison with players of the same level and cannot be used as a benchmark. They are special among the special.

According to the evaluation standard of ordinary society,

The personnel in the Dawn Chaser team are mostly at the highest level of Earth Star Warriors in terms of personal ability. Therefore, four people are considered a team.

And Er Wei, who leads 3 Dawn Chaser teams, was put at the position of "Commander".

Suddenly, six Dawn Chaser teams were added, allowing Er Wei to lead three regiments?

To what extent is Er Wei's jurisdiction going to expand?

Er Wei nodded and said, "Yes, the protection and supervision of the entire Dajiang Province, and everything related to the Night Watch Army, is all given to us. The requirements from the superiors are very clear, four words: Defend the border."

Jiang Xiao nodded: "Hmm..."

Er Wei sat down slowly, but her long legs suffered. It was a bit difficult to sit with her legs crossed.

Jiang Xiao said, "You don't have 9 Dawn Chaser teams, you have 36 or even more peak human Star Warriors, each of whom is a Xinghai powerhouse. If you don't lead well..."

Er Wei pondered for a moment and said, "This has indeed exceeded the configuration of a 'regiment'. We are still an independent unit, directly led by the highest officer of the Northwest Night Watch Army.

The superiors instructed us to become a rapid reaction force, ready for battle at all times, independently undertaking tasks such as offense and defense."

Jiang Xiao secretly clicked his tongue and said, "Independent Brigade?"

Er Wei nodded: "Tail Feather · Dawn Chaser Combat Brigade. The higher-ups gave me a buffer time. Currently, I am leading 3 Dawn Chaser groups, and eventually I will expand to 5."

Hearing this, Jiang Xiao couldn't help but grin. Er Wei's thigh is getting thicker and thicker...

Er Wei silently looked at Jiang Xiao and said, "Come back with me."

Jiang Xiao thought for a while and said, "If you are leading troops in battle, I will go back with you and guard you. But your current identity is probably to strategize and be a commander who coordinates the overall situation..."

Er Wei quietly looked at Jiang Xiao. After a long time, she said, "Chief Instructor Qin has released people."

Jiang Xiao: ???

Er Wei turned her head, and her gaze passed through the slightly dim environment, looking at Xia Yan and Han Jiangxue who were training in the far distance.