Given Xue Xi's current status as a Cosmos Rank squad leader, it would be quite difficult for her to meet this military lord commander without using special means. Not to mention she had no idea whether there were any hidden experts here, the defenses of this border pass were definitely far more complex than they appeared. She needed to lure him out for a private meeting. As for exactly how to do that—Xue Xi had her own clever plan!
She took out a palm-sized bronze bell. It was a Heavy Treasure she had kept from the batch of supreme treasures rewarded by the Chaos City Lord, and now it was finally coming in handy!
Looking at the little bell in her hand, Xue Xi chuckled. "Since your subordinate can't meet Commander, then I'll have to trouble Commander to come personally!" With that, she placed the bell on a device in the room.
This device was an exchange channel linked to the Mohu Army's military merit system. Only beasts of squad leader rank or above possessed one. It handled the distribution of military merits and the recovery of spoils for each squad. When there was no war, it was basically a salary dispenser; only during wartime, when spoils were involved, was it frequently used.
From the memories of the squad leader she had replaced, Xue Xi knew that before the system's data was submitted to the Mohu Army's main military merit system, the commander stationed at this section of Star Gate Pass would review all the details. If her Heavy Treasure appeared in the system, it would definitely catch his attention.
Xue Xi operated the military merit platform and activated its appraisal function.
``` [Sky-Sealing Bell]: Ordinary Heavy Treasure. Once activated, it can provide defense and seal off the surrounding airspace,