"Everyone is dead!?" Everyone present opened their eyes wide.
"Impossible! Our previous actions have driven the rebels out of a radius of twenty miles. It is impossible for Rust Face to have rebel activities now!" Katori said immediately.
"It's true. I saw it with my own eyes. Everyone stationed at the station had fatal stab wounds on their bodies. No one was spared!"
"But, who else could quietly kill all the Soul Reaper stationed there overnight?" Lin Nan said in a deep voice, "Are there any other enemies that might be hiding in this area?"
Katori frowned. "Even if it is done by the rebels, it is not easy to kill all the troops stationed there quietly."
"Captain Katori, I wonder how many people are stationed at our station? Maybe we can use this information to deduce the approximate number of enemies." Ukitake asked curiously from the side.
In normal times, the number of people stationed at each garrison is confidential information that only Deputy Captain-level and above can know. But facing enemies hiding in the dark, any information is useful.
"Right now, there is a shortage of soldiers. Depending on the location, the number of soldiers at each garrison ranges from five to fifteen. These refer to formal soldiers."
Nagano Yasuko said in a tired voice, "The Seventeenth Block Station is a medium-sized station, and there are ten soldiers stationed there. There are also ten college students who were just sent to the station today to assist in logistics transportation..."
Katori heard that the students in the college could not help but shudder. "Are all the students in the college dead too?"
Nagano closed his eyes in pain and nodded helplessly. "They are all dead..."
Katori The silver teeth are clenched tightly, and fire is about to burst out of the eyes. But now the enemy is in darkness and we are in the clear, even if there is monstrous anger, there is nowhere to vent:
"Instruct all strongholds to be vigilant and stand firm. If you find any suspicious signs, immediately send a message using Hell Butterfly to request support!"
Seeing this, Lin Nan whispered in Katori's ear, "The enemy can kill twenty people silently, which shows that their power can also pose a fatal threat to other stations.
The top priority now is to preserve our effective strength and avoid being defeated one by one. When the enemy's whereabouts are exposed, we will use all our strength to encircle and annihilate them."
Katori thought for a while and felt that Lin Nan's method was more reliable, so he nodded and immediately made arrangements:
"Nagano, immediately use Hell Butterfly to notify all stations to shrink their defenses! Temporarily put aside other work at the station and return to the squadron station immediately to stand by!"
Nagano said yes, and then released Hell Butterfly to convey the order.
More than twenty Hell Butterfly flew in different directions.
Lin Nan frowned and looked at the black butterfly flying farther and farther, and said helplessly, "This thing doesn't fly very fast!"
"There's no way, this is already our fastest way to pass orders. It's faster than an ordinary team member's pace. Even at Seated Officer level, you have to use Shunpo to keep up with the speed of Hell Butterfly."
"That's not fast enough." Lin Nan smacked his lips, "What are you going to do with the next deployment?"
Katori did not answer, but ordered the soldiers who had gathered in the station to stand by and turned back to her temporary office. There was her combat map there.
Lin Nan and Ukitake saw this and followed them. As assistant deans in the captain's office, they need to be on call at this moment.
Katori, with his face sinking, found the location of the 17th block station on the map, as well as the locations of the two closest stations.
"Nagano, immediately send people to verify the situation at the two stations in the 14th and 19th blocks;
Ukitake, help me draft a situation statement immediately and hand it over to deputy captain Nagano later. Use Tenteikūra to send messages and warnings to several surrounding squads;
Lin Nan, you..."
She had just finished setting up her work, when suddenly there was a loud noise outside the office, and faint sounds of crying could be heard.
Everyone hurriedly came outside and found that the playground was in chaos. Dozens of team members who had been on standby were surrounding a dozen students covered in blood. They kept asking questions.
Vice Captain Chang Ye quickly stepped forward to preside over order and stopped the noisy team members, "Where did you college students come back from? Why is there blood on your body?"
"We were assigned to the 14th, 19th and 21st blocks respectively to perform auxiliary work.
Last night, the station was attacked, but those of us escaped unharmed, met halfway, and then returned to the team together!" said a college student with bloodstained face, crying.
As soon as the words came out, the other team members on the playground immediately looked at each other, and the entire playground suddenly fell into an uncomfortable silence.
No one spoke, but everyone felt it, and a sense of panic began to spread quietly.
Lin Nan was a little helpless and whispered, "We should bring them into the office and then question them. This is too bad for morale!"
Katori also sighed softly, "Nagano has been assisting me in the civilian work of the team, and has no experience in combat tasks and leading a team - forget it, that's the case, let's consider countermeasures as soon as possible."
With that said, she asked Lin Nan and Ukitake to settle the surviving deans into a vacant big tent, and let everyone rest for a while. After appeasing the official team members, Katori then entered the vacant big tent and started asking questions.
"You all survived the attack. Tell us what happened?"
The students were shocked and recalled the bloody events of last night with trepidation.
At midnight last night, the students who were doing auxiliary work had already fallen asleep, and the official Soul Reapers also started to stand guard. I don't know how long it had passed, but the students who were still sleeping heard the sound of fighting coming from outside.
By the time everyone came to their senses, the unknown enemy had already slaughtered most of the Soul Reaper team members. The remaining team members tried their best to cover these college students who had no actual combat experience. The college students also picked up their own weapons to participate in the resistance.
However, the disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves was too great, and not long after, all the people stationed in the camp were massacred.
Some of the surviving students were hiding in the dark, and some were crushed by their dead companions, and finally escaped.
"What are the enemies wearing? What kind of weapons are they using?" Katori asked.
"It's dark, so I can't see very clearly. The enemy should be wearing black night clothes and holding a long knife. It seems to be Asauchi..."
The students in the hospital couldn't help but tremble all over as they recalled the ferocious enemy.
Everyone's hearts suddenly jumped up. Ye Xingyi, holding Asauchi?
Ukitake asked hesitantly, "Did the lost Asauchi appear?"
Katori did not answer, but let these students rest where they were, while he took the three Lin Nan back to the temporary office.
"Maybe the lost Asauchi really appeared. This is troublesome. If the rebels really got Asauchi, then our pressure will suddenly increase." In the office, Katori rubbed his forehead irritably.
"If that's the case, it's better to dispatch all troops directly. The large troops will directly form an encirclement. It seems that the enemies are fighting in small groups. We can also defeat them one by one by following our example."
Lin Nan touched his chin and asked tentatively.
Katori glanced at him distressedly. "Of course I know this, but now we don't have enough manpower. The combat attrition in the last battle has not been replenished, and the same is true for several other squadrons.
Right now, the combat personnel we can assemble are only half of our strength at most, and some of them have to be allocated to protect the students."
Lin Nan glanced at Ukitake who was busy writing a situation explanation next to him, turned to Katori and said:
"Then hurry up and use Tenteikūra to recall all the personnel from the outer base! The situation is urgent and we can't wait any longer for Hell Butterfly."
Nagano Yasuko said while drawing the symbols for performing magic on the open space next to him:
"No, you must have at least a sixth-level Rei-Power or above in order to receive Tenteikūra's information. Most of the Soul Reapers in the base do not have this level of spiritual pressure, and Tenteikūra cannot locate them!"
In other words, even if it is Seated Officer, some messages from Tenteikūra cannot be received.
"What should we do?" Ukitake, who had finished writing the explanation, couldn't help but ask after hearing this.
"8th Division encountered such a situation, I'm afraid several other teams are also in trouble. We can only find a way on our own." Katori looked at the combat map, his brain spinning rapidly.
"You are the captain and need to stay at the headquarters. You cannot leave easily." Lin Nan pondered for a moment and said to Katori,
"It is better to send out a few outstanding Shunpo teams and recall the nearest stronghold with the largest number of people first to minimize losses."
"Most Seated Officers have been dispatched to strongholds. There are only three Seated Officers stationed here at the headquarters." Nagano Yasuko said with some hesitation, "Shunpos who are ordinary soldiers cannot guarantee that they can carry out long-distance raids."
"Let me go, my Shunpo should be able to complete the task; as for Rei-Power, it can also reach the level of Seated Officer." Lin Nan turned around and said to Katori.
Now he is showing normal Rei-Power, which is about eleventh grade. He has reached the level of middle and lower Seated Officer.
This makes Nagano Yasuko very surprised. Isn't this Lin Nan just a new student of the Spirit Arts Academy? It's actually comparable to Seated Officer?!
It took nearly ten years to raise my spiritual pressure from the team member level to the Seated Officer level!
Katori Liu frowned slightly and said with some worry, "But the situation outside is unknown, and it is too dangerous for you to go alone. Moreover, you haven't practiced Shikai yet..."
Lin Nan looked at her nervous expression and couldn't help but smile, "It doesn't matter, don't forget, I am a genius that you have personally chosen. How could such a simple task not be completed?!"
Ukitake raised his right hand. "Lin Nan, I'll accompany you. I just trained as Shikai, I should be able to help."
"Okay!" Lin Nan agreed and said softly to Katori, "Don't worry, there will be no danger as Ukitake is with me."
Katori looked at Ukitake. Although his spiritual pressure is not as good as Lin Nan, fortunately, Shikai can really help.
She nodded uneasily. "Okay, then you go! Remember, if you encounter an enemy, don't be reluctant to fight and retreat to the headquarters immediately!
I will match you two with Hell Butterfly. If you have any news, you can send a message through Hell Butterfly! I will go to the rescue as soon as possible!"
Lin Nan nodded, tightened the tie around his waist, fixed Zanpakuto, and smiled at Katori.
"Don't worry, I'll be back soon!--Ukitake, let's go!"