Chapter 25: The Story of Eradicating Bandits – Making the First Move

Flying Bear Mountain.

Mo Xiaobai was not unfamiliar with this peak because he had discovered iron ore in this very area.

Following a group of bandits from Tiger Head Stronghold up Flying Bear Mountain, Mo Xiaobai’s curiosity was completely satisfied in less than half an hour.

The entire Flying Bear Mountain was filled with bandits from top to bottom. Mo Xiaobai did not need to look closely to tell they were not a single faction. Many bandits gathered together, yet they were clearly divided into different groups.

“Really, they think a lot of me.”

Mo Xiaobai estimated there were at least five different bandit factions. Add the uninvited Tiger Head Stronghold, and things got even livelier.

“Old Drunkard, why aren’t you staying at Tiger Head Mountain? What are you doing running over to our side?” As Tiger Lord entered the Flying Bear Mountain base with his men, the welcome they received was not warm eyes, but rather questions and suspicion.

“Do you think I wanted to travel? If someone hadn’t begged me for help, I really wouldn’t have come.” Tiger Lord glared at the man who asked the question, then roared at his own men:

“That white-faced guy from the He family, get over here, now!”

MDZZ!

Mo Xiaobai, pretending to be He Chun’s younger brother, cursed silently in his heart but helplessly walked out of the bandit crowd.

Seeing Mo Xiaobai approach, Tiger Lord’s eye corners clearly flashed with smugness: “See him? That’s him. He is the younger brother of the late He Chun, the former leader of Eagle Beak Mountain. His village suffered disaster this time. They knew I, Tiger Lord, am righteous, so they came to my place for protection. What kind of person am I? When my brother faces disaster, how could I just sit back and do nothing? Revenge must be taken for him.”

As soon as Tiger Lord finished speaking, several middle-aged men standing in front of him, who were also leaders, cursed in their hearts.

What a bastard. What rotten luck he has.

He actually found the last remaining drop of the He family.

Everyone was just scraping by in Dang Mountain. Although there was rarely any contact between them, they all knew about the events at Eagle Beak Mountain. These Northern Vein bandits knew the He family had been forced to become bandits after entering the mountain. Before entering, they were capable people who could stand in Prefecture City. Looking at the soft-skinned and tender-fleshed Mo Xiaobai, several leaders had no doubts and basically confirmed Mo Xiaobai’s “true identity.”

“Since you also want a share, let’s go to the front hall to discuss it together.” The one who spoke was the host and leader of Flying Bear Mountain. His eyes floated with several streaks of gloom.

“Heh heh, let’s go.” Tiger Lord did not back down. He clapped his hands and strode toward the base’s Council Hall.

While the bosses went to discuss how to cut the cake, Mo Xiaobai quietly stepped back, exchanged a glance with Ma Laoliu, and the group soon broke away from the crowd and blended into the surrounding bandits.

After a while, Mo Xiaobai and the others arrived under an inconspicuous locust tree. Ma Laoliu spoke first: “My Lord, there are at least nearly a thousand bandits inside and outside the mountain base.”

“I counted as well. Besides the people of Flying Bear Mountain, the other bandit factions have numbers similar to Tiger Head Stronghold,” Mo Xiaobai nodded, sharing the information he had collected.

“Flying Bear Mountain has the strongest faction. There are no fewer than two hundred young and strong bandits, and not counting the elderly and children, there are hundreds more.”

“The number of bandits is really too high.”

“My Lord, what should we do now?”

The group chattered loudly, but Mo Xiaobai was not anxious at all. Instead, he silently praised in his heart: “This is very good!”

He knew the Intellect Brain would not let him pass the cleanup so easily. With so many bandits gathered together, they could mobilize at least five or six hundred young and strong bandits all at once.

If so many bandits attack Daming Village, can Daming Village’s Defense hold out?

“If I just stubbornly defend the territory, even if I barely survive the cleanup, I’m afraid that after the battle, all the stats of Daming Village will drop to zero, and Lingyan Pavilion might even be destroyed.”

Mo Xiaobai touched his chin, but his eyes sparkled with excitement.

Now, he did not choose to stubbornly defend the territory but chose to attack proactively.

Calculating while others are careless, all the bandits on Flying Bear Mountain will eventually become Mo Xiaobai’s stepping stones.

“It all depends on Maogong.”

“Tonight is the moment when the real show begins.”

…

Ten li southwest of Flying Bear Mountain, a bandit base with a scale not much different from Tiger Head Mountain.

The blood looked especially vibrant under the evening afterglow, but to the bandits, this flash of color was like a death warrant.

“You… who are you? How dare you sneak attack Monkey Mountain while our leader is out?” In front of a Stone Stele of Monkey Mountain, a bandit with a soot-covered face and a tone of fear looked at the more than ten people in front of him.

In his eyes, these ten-plus people were not humans at all.

They were demons!

They had unknowingly rushed into the base and killed anyone they saw without asking questions.

Now, only less than twenty people in the whole base were still able to breathe.

“We are from Tiger Head Stronghold. If you don’t want to die, get out of the way. We want this territory.” A fierce voice responded to the Monkey Mountain bandits.

He had to be fierce because he was also being forced.

If he did not do this, he would die before the others.

To survive, the timid bandit from Tiger Head Stronghold had to try hard to look ferocious. He sliced the Stone Stele with one knife and kicked the man in front of him down Monkey Mountain.

After doing these things, the timid Tiger Head bandit turned around to look at Li Ji with respect mixed with a hint of humility and said:

“My Lord, your orders have all been carried out.”

“Hmm.”

Li Ji gave a slight, non-committal nod. Watching the bandit roll down the mountain and disappear, his eyes also gained a bit of a smile.

Everything happening now was under the control of him and his master.

That night, at Flying Bear Mountain.

The grand play had not yet begun. Mo Xiaobai was watching various complaints and spam flooding the Player channel. The cleanup had just started, but in the Huaxia Region, at least seven-digit Lords had already lost their territories. In fact, most of them had even sacrificed their virgin accounts on the Plane.

Various tones of protest and resistance kept flashing by. Unfortunately, the venting of these people would not change anything except wasting a bit of their remaining personal money.

The Will of the Universe was not a game company. It was impossible to make them compromise and adjust the version.

In the Lord Plane, there was no saying that “one version, one god.”

The strong were always the strong. And for the weak to rise, they must first find the path and direction to become strong.

“I wonder how Dad and Mom are doing. Although in their past life, their territories were lucky enough to escape the early cleanup, this time it is different from their past life.”

Mo Xiaobai scratched his head. In fact, he secretly hoped his parents’ territories would be breached by bandits. Once the territories were destroyed, there would be no reason for his parents to refuse to come to Daming Village.

But it was a pity that so far, he had not received any Intellect Brain information stating that the territories of his direct relatives had been breached.

It seems Mom and Dad’s territory trajectories are the same as in their past life.

“Meaning that in Great Shang and Great Zhou Dynasty, two guys are about to rise, huh?”

Mo Xiaobai remembered clearly that in his past life, the reason his parents’ territories survived was not because their territories were particularly powerful, but because there were powerful Lords nearby.

The way those two dealt with the cleanup was not much different from Mo Xiaobai’s current life. After finding a flaw in the bandits, they chose to attack proactively. This not only saved their own territories but also saved many small neighboring territories by luck.