Half an hour later, Zhang Tie emerged alone from a room in the forward base command headquarters.
Great Xia soldiers in military uniforms moved back and forth through the forward base command headquarters. Although not everyone here was a knight—and there were even some female soldiers who seemed to hold clerical positions—everyone who saw Zhang Tie still showed a trace of reverence in their eyes.
Half an hour earlier, the twenty Earth Knights willing to become scouts for the entire army had held a meeting. Luo Tiancheng, commander-in-chief of the Black Armor Army, introduced them all to the situation in the Western Theater and Great Xia's deployments. Afterward, the twenty men were separated. Each Earth Knight entered a smaller sealed chamber alone, where an intelligence officer from the base received him. They were issued military theater maps divided by grid coordinates, committed a remote-sensing communication cipher to memory, received their first missions, and then the meeting ended.
As he reached the forward base's main hall, Zhang Tie could not help touching the new remote-sensing crystal ring on his hand. He had just received this ring as well. Apart from the remote-sensing crystal on the Xuanyuan Decree that could connect with this forward base, every Earth Knight who became a scout had also received a dedicated remote-sensing communication ring. In an emergency, this new ring could directly contact Ye Qingcheng and immediately relay crucial intelligence to him. It was a safeguard.
Most of the knights who had gathered in the hall earlier had already dispersed, but a few still lingered there.
Elders Mu Lei and Mu Yu, Bai Suxian, and Mountain-Bearing True Person had all remained in the hall, waiting for Zhang Tie to emerge.
The moment they saw Zhang Tie come out from the passage guarded by soldiers, they crowded