Chapter 4 Know Yourselves Before You Know Your Enemies
Realms of fog covers the outside environment of the revolutionary army base. When visibility is critically reduced, one must use a torch to find their directions. How strange, everyone is still breathing normally in this layer of heavy fog.
Common sense tells us that that fogs are similar to clouds. They form from the evaporation and condensation of water particles inside the atmosphere. As a result, A thick fog would require a large amount of ground heat.
However, there is neither water source nor enough water particles around this area, and humans are still able to breathe freely without any obstacles.
This geography, in fact, is the ingenious work of the nature itself. The gas particles around here are confined within the special soil on top of them. The nature has created an unending green house. Usually, it is rather strange for the gas particles to be superimposed upon this environment with a radius of about two hundred fifty kilometers; however, weird things happened… and something weirder is waiting for the right time to reveal itself.
Hei slowly straightens his body, and proceeds to observe the deep dark cave in front of him.
Undoubtedly, this environment represents the Karst topography. Looking at the inside structure of the cave, Hei has found out that the cave is made of Stalactites, which ensures the absolute toughness of its foundation. From the movement of the air inside the cave, it is very easy to conclude that this cave has at least another entrance.
"Basic information analyzed. Verification will proceed with this unusual soil composition."
Revealing his poker face, Hei pushes his glasses back to his eyes, and turns toward the soldiers next to him.
"If my observations are correct, then there resides a large water source underground. With the help of the caves, the probability of success will increase by around ten percent."
Making sure that no one else is paying attention, Hei walks into the cave and carefully places a cubic package under a pile of rocks.
Walking out of the cave, the sky is starting to turn red. The sun is coming out soon.
"No stars, I see."
Hei frowns at his thoughts.
"Why would I care about the stars? They have no meaning in my plan."
Looking at the sky once again, Hei slowly takes off his glasses.
"Maybe Li's body memory is interfering with my judgement… How can that be possible? This is not his real body, and my brain is incomplete from the experiment."
Deciding that he should ignore the question for now, Hei takes out a small bottle of orange liquid, and nods his head at the sight with a sign of satisfaction.
"If there are more than one cave…"
"Hei! What are you doing here? Why do I feel like you are planning something we don't know?"
The soldiers finally shift their focus onto this young man again. To them, something about this man just doesn't feel right.
"I am only planning for this battle."
Hei turns his face away from the soldiers.
"Then why aren't you looking at us?"
"Trust me."
Hei turns his head toward the soldiers once again, but his emotionless face does not convince any sign of honesty or dishonesty.
"You…" The soldiers become speechless again as they look into Hei's eyes.
"It is almost time to verify my last hypothesis…"
Ignoring the soldiers around him, Hei looks up into the sky again.
"Now… Stars, where are you?"
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How would you handle a small bug that you hate? Would you kill it in one smack, or would you play it around until it meets its final fate? That is an interesting question.
If the revolutionary army is a defenseless bug, then the empire army is an elephant that is able to destroy anything in its way. When you stand in front of such a large beast, you will feel yourself trembling at its absolute power, not even mentioning the cruel torture fetish Esdeath is known for.
If one is caught by Esdeath…
…
On a large plain with no trees, countless white tents are lined up in a perfect manner. If one can become psychologically ill from a look on those tents, then the illness can be called Intensi-phobia.
The reason for a large army to setting in the middle of a grass plain is rather obvious. When settling in the plains, it is much easier for the scouts to detect the enemies. Furthermore, the river next to the settlement is needed to constantly provide water for the thirty thousand troops. On the other hand, if this army settles in the valley, then possibility of ambush would be much higher.
However, even though the river is vital to the lives of thirty thousand troops…
A young maiden is still freely touching the water sprays with her toes.