"All Wind Patrol Envoys are ordered to report to the Western Patrol Envoy Department of the Heavenly Patrol Division within seven days and await assignment. Any who fail to arrive by the deadline shall be dealt with under military law!"
This was the military order Ye Zhen had received from the Western Patrol Envoy Department. Its wording was stern, and though it appeared to be an order issued equally to Wind Patrol Envoys from every route, Ye Zhen knew perfectly well that it had been deliberately aimed at him, the Second Wind Patrol Envoy.
The time limit in particular had practically been calculated for him.
The Western Patrol Envoy Department was located in Qingzhou City, where there was an Ancient Teleportation Array. But Lingzhou, where Ye Zhen's North Sea Commandery lay, had no Ancient Teleportation Array. If Ye Zhen wanted to reach Qingzhou, where the Western Patrol Envoy Department was located, he could only pass through the Ancient Teleportation Arrays in Tongzhou or Haiyuan Prefecture.
Under normal circumstances, it would take Ye Zhen five to six days to reach Tongzhou City or Haiyuan Prefecture City.
That seven-day deadline had pinned Ye Zhen down completely. Under normal circumstances, he would have had to set off immediately upon receiving the military order.
However, Ye Zhen, who possessed a Marshal-class Heavenly Spirit Boat, was in no hurry.
Yet Ye Zhen understood that this military order was merely Western Patrol Envoy Xi Qiangu's follow-up killing move.
Once Ye Zhen arrived on Western Patrol Envoy territory, things would be difficult to say. He would practically be clay in their hands, free for them to knead flat or round. The danger was extreme.
But refusing this military order was absolutely not an option.
If he refused, the Western Patrol Envoy Department would have countless perfectly valid