Elder Mu Lei and Elder Mu Yu of Huaiyuan Hall were currently away from Blackwater Base on assignment. The two had been dispatched to Ring Prefecture, where they were stationed long-term in a Class-A city in Xing'an Commandery. Under normal circumstances, Great Xia's Class-A cities would not need so many resident knights, but now—especially within a war zone—it was clearly necessary to assign resident knights to such cities.
Though Ring Prefecture was a war zone, it lay far from the front lines and east of the Helan Mountains. Xing'an Commandery, in particular, was located in the northeastern part of Ring Prefecture near Military Province, and it was also where Blackwater Base had first stopped. Elder Mu Lei and Elder Mu Yu's assignment could be called exceedingly easy. At least before the Devil Race formally broke through the Helan Mountains, the odds of a place like Xing'an Commandery in Ring Prefecture being attacked by Devil Race knights were far too slim. This was a comparatively relaxed assignment, and the danger involved was minimal.
During his contact with Elder Mu Lei and Elder Mu Yu, Zhang Tie asked in detail and learned that not long after he had voluntarily become a scout, the two had been assigned to Xing'an Commandery as resident knights. Bound by their duties, they had not even made it in time for the first surprise assault by the Great Xia knights under Zuo Qiu Mingyue's command.
Zhang Tie mulled it over and found the arrangement rather interesting—he had voluntarily taken on the most dangerous scouting mission, so Elders Mu Lei and Mu Yu, who came from the same family as him, had been assigned relatively easy and safe duties.
This arrangement also made Zhang Tie feel quite at ease. It had to be said that even amid the