Flame Carriage Department, Flag B3 camp.
Chen Mu sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion, turning a palm-sized pottery figurine over in his hands.
The entire figurine was a miniature Red-Eyed Water Ape, with four arms, protruding fangs, and a pair of blood-red gemlike eyes that seemed crystal-clear and translucent.
Whenever he met those blood-red eyes, a malicious roar would abruptly rise in his mind.
"This Pottery Figurine Ghost Soldier wasn't made from a Red-Eyed Water Ape corpse, was it?" Chen Mu scratched his head. "That'd be pretty creepy."
He took out another humanoid pottery figurine and carefully inspected it from every angle.
"Good thing this is just an ordinary clay puppet. Otherwise..." Chen Mu could not help but shudder.
Both Soldier Figurine Ghost Soldiers had come from Hong Xiu.
The first had been seized during the previous robbery and was probably bought in Jigu City. The second, the ape Soldier Figurine, had come from the other man's Qi Eating Bag and was likely exchanged for military merit only recently.
"No wonder Camp Hai is so obsessed with Water Apes." He felt that his earlier guess had been correct. Camp Hai was stationed here specifically to hunt Water Apes.
Shaking his head and no longer dwelling on it, he took out a bamboo tube the length of his palm and as thick as a child's wrist.
The bamboo tube had also come from Hong Xiu's Qi Eating Bag. It was sealed with a wooden stopper and beeswax, its entire body a vibrant green, with three ancient characters carved into its middle: Yellow Springs Guide.
Pulling out the stopper, he saw clear, water-like liquid inside, with several slender threads drifting within it and occasionally flashing with silver light.
"I've been thinking all day about earning military merit to buy a Secret Art,