Chapter 70: Not Existing

After finishing breakfast, Li Ji and the others left the mansion one by one.

Just as Li Guang turned to leave, Mo Xiaobai called out to him: “Flying General, please wait a moment. I have some other matters to discuss with you.”

Hearing this, Li Guang stopped, clasped his fist in a salute, and said: “Does My Lord have any orders?”

Seeing that Li Guang was being so formal, Mo Xiaobai waved his hand and smiled: “It is just a small matter. I would like to ask how the Village Soldiers transferred to the Rattan Armor Barracks yesterday are training.”

The battle the day before last night had ended. When Mo Xiaobai started working yesterday, he adjusted the soldiers under his command. He sent another 40 Village Soldiers to the Rattan Armor Barracks to reach a round number of one hundred, leaving only 60 Village Soldiers to continue training under He Chun.

Originally, training Rattan Armor Soldiers required a ten-day cycle, but Mo Xiaobai’s Territory Building could ignore this time limit, reducing the cycle to just one day.

“Reporting to My Lord, the soldiers in the barracks are well-trained and ready for duty.”

Li Guang’s answer was exactly what Mo Xiaobai expected. With over a hundred Rattan Armor Soldiers, the other matter that had been weighing on Mo Xiaobai’s mind could now begin.

“Our Territory’s population is currently small, so I only plan to maintain the current number of Rattan Armor Soldiers. Having Jianli lead the Village Soldiers to defend the Territory is enough. I want the Flying General to lead the Rattan Armor Soldiers to station outside the village to protect villagers when they go out to collect resources.”

The construction within the Territory was gradually getting on track, and Mo Xiaobai finally had the free time to develop the mines around the Territory.

However, while mining ore, he had to ensure absolute safety around the mine sites. Sending out a sufficiently strong army was undoubtedly the best choice.

What Mo Xiaobai specifically wanted to do had nothing to do with Li Guang. Li Guang only needed to understand My Lord’s orders clearly. After listening to Mo Xiaobai, he immediately asked: “When does My Lord need this subordinate and the Rattan Armor Soldiers to depart?”

“As soon as possible. I will give you one hour to prepare.”

“Yes, this subordinate will return to the barracks immediately.”

Li Guang left to prepare for departing the village, and Mo Xiaobai went to finalize which villagers would accompany them. Happily, there were no major construction projects in the Territory at the moment, so many Territory Citizens were idle.

Two hours later, Mo Xiaobai left 50 villagers to farm the Farmland, learn to plant Medicine Fields and Spirit Fields. Thirty people were responsible for the daily construction of the Territory, and sixty people gathered wood and stone from the surrounding areas. All the remaining able-bodied villagers were brought along, escorted by the Rattan Armor Soldiers. A convoy of several hundred people left Daming Village.

Taking so many people out had already been planned by Mo Xiaobai. The first wilderness resource point he wanted to develop was the Lingshi Mine, which produced clay.

Choosing to mine clay was not only because the Lingshi Mine was close to the Territory, taking only half a day to reach, but also because the difficulty of mining clay was much lower than that of Iron Ore. The coal mines that Daming Village urgently needed at this moment had not yet shown even a hint of appearance, so Mo Xiaobai could only let the villagers collect clay first and then find coal mines when time allowed.

The area of the Lingshi Mine that produced clay was no less than seven or eight li in radius, slightly larger than the Village Level 3 of Daming Village. When Mo Xiaobai led the group to the spot, he did not rush to order the excavation. Instead, he called Li Guang over first: “Flying General, please thoroughly scout this mountain range first. Be sure to clear away all Wild Beasts and Fierce Beasts. If anything unexpected happens along the way, return immediately to report.”

Li Guang knew this was the mining area favored by Mo Xiaobai. He did not dare to be negligent, so he personally led the Soldiers up the mountain. Soon, screams from fighting beasts echoed from above.

While the fierce battle raged on the mountain, Mo Xiaobai was not idle either.

Using materials found on the spot, he first built the framework of a Military Camp. The villagers also needed a shaded shelter for rest, which they had to build themselves. Once Mo Xiaobai was busy enough, two Rattan Armor Soldiers ran down the mountain and reported that they had cleared the eastern mountain slope.

With one area cleared, Mo Xiaobai began directing the villagers to dig for Lingshi stone.

The Mantou Kiln in the Territory was waiting for clay to start working, and Mo Xiaobai also wanted to use ceramic plates and teacups as soon as possible. All these things depended on the speed at which the villagers mined clay.

In the afternoon, when Li Guang led his Soldiers throughout the entire mine and returned with a large pile of furs and beast meat, the villagers who had worked for several hours had also mined more than a thousand jin of Lingshi stone.

Mo Xiaobai could not handle the Lingshi stone himself; he had to take it back to have Li Yi, the kiln master, process it. Fortunately, to facilitate the transport of materials like rolling stones, Chen Shen, the carpenter of the Territory, had previously made a batch of single-log wheel carts. Mo Xiaobai had brought a few of them out this time, which were enough to transport the Lingshi stone back to the village.

However, since it was getting dark and it was not safe to travel at night, he could only let the villagers send it back tomorrow.

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and there was no crow cawing in the mountain forest.

With nothing else to do, Mo Xiaobai held a wooden spear and demonstrated with it in front of Li Guang. He practiced the spear techniques he had figured out in his previous life and hoped to hear Li Guang’s evaluation.

In his previous life, Mo Xiaobai had not been so fortunate to receive individual comments from a Historical Famous General. But he felt that with a long spear in hand, Player characters and wild monsters with similar Attributes might not necessarily be able to defeat him.

Li Guang had been quietly watching My Lord wield the spear until Mo Xiaobai stopped. Then, he said in a low voice: “My Lord’s spear techniques are simple and easy to understand. The movements are fast and fierce, and they are quite threatening in one-on-one combat.”

An expert knows an expert!

In his previous life, since losing his Territory, Mo Xiaobai was basically cut off from Lord gameplay and could only play as a personal adventurer. Therefore, Mo Xiaobai’s spear techniques were mostly trained by killing monsters one-on-one.

Li Guang could see through this at a glance. Mo Xiaobai was not surprised at all. Instead, he smiled and said: “Flying General, please be direct. Tell me what defects my spear techniques have.”

“My Lord has a thorough understanding of basic spear techniques. Even this subordinate may not be able to compare with My Lord in this aspect. However, if speaking of defects, My Lord does not focus on footwork, which is indeed a major flaw.”

While saying this, Li Guang casually broke off a broken branch, stepped closer, and said: “This subordinate just speaks, and My Lord may not understand. Why not My Lord try to attack me? Let me show you how I break it.”

“Fine, let’s practice.”

Since Mo Xiaobai had poured all his Attribute Points at level twelve into his Martial Value, he had given up his original wish to be a quiet, wise, and composed Great Lord. Now, raising the long spear, Mo Xiaobai immediately thrust it at Li Guang without a word of warning.

A soft “clink” sound echoed. Li Guang simply shifted his right leg slightly. With a light flick of the broken branch in his hand, he deflected the wooden spear. As his body leaned forward, the tip of the branch struck Mo Xiaobai’s wrist with a “pat” sound.

The question of whether a surprise attack is effective against a General with 99 Martial Value was answered by Li Guang’s absolute strength:

Can a surprise attack hurt me?

Not existing!

“Come again!”

Since one strike failed, Mo Xiaobai was not discouraged at all. But sometimes, even the courage given by Liang Jingru might not turn into actual strength.

The sound of “pat, pat, pat” was heard more than a hundred times in less than fifteen minutes.

After being easily repelled by Li Guang for the 111th time, Mo Xiaobai looked miserable and decided not to play anymore. Li Guang only slightly raised his leg, twisted his waist, and waved his arm, yet no matter how hard Mo Xiaobai tried, he could not touch him.

It was simply unreasonable. How angry!