Lure the Enemy In

Lure the Enemy In

Inside the commander's tent at the Gama Empire's military camp, Grand Marshal Mo Ya stood before a massive map, an eerie smile on his face.

"As long as this plan succeeds, I'll obtain a High-Grade Black-Tier Cultivation Technique. Then I'll become a Dou Emperor as well. Hai Bodong, I won't let you and your Mittel Family keep crushing me forever!"

A low murmur slipped from Mo Ya's lips.

At this moment, Mo Ya was much like Yun Shan, who had long been stuck at the peak of the nine-star Dou Emperor realm. Unable to break through for so long, he had nearly gone mad.

That was why he now dared to do things he would never even have considered in the past!

Once, he had indeed been utterly loyal to the Gama Empire. But now, for the sake of breaking through to become a Dou Emperor, there was nothing he would not do!

"Report! Grand Marshal, something terrible has happened! Half a corpse suddenly appeared at the camp entrance, and there's a letter on it. General Wu didn't dare make a decision on his own and asks you to handle it!"

At that moment, a messenger entered the commander's tent to report.

"What?"

Upon hearing the messenger's report, Mo Ya's heart suddenly lurched.

For some reason, a sense of foreboding abruptly rose within him.

"Take me there, now!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Mo Ya headed straight for the camp entrance.

Soon, after arriving at the entrance, Mo Ya saw the half-corpse.

"Grand Marshal!"

General Wu had barely called out when Mo Ya cut him off with a wave of his hand.

He had no time to listen to his subordinate's rambling.

However, when Mo Ya saw the face of that half-corpse, his expression darkened even further!

Creak!

At the same time, his fists clenched tightly.

Though it was only half a corpse, Mo Ya had clearly recognized the man. He was the contact the Cloud Empire had planted at his side to communicate with him.

Just a few hours ago, he had even ordered this contact to send word back that Xiao Lin, Mu Chen, and the others were about to rescue Nalan Jie and the rest.

Yet in the blink of an eye, this contact had been cleaved in two and sent back to him!

There was no need to inspect it. Someone had clearly discovered the connection between him and the Cloud Empire.

At that thought, the first thing that came to his mind was whether he should simply defect to the Cloud Empire.

As for the Intel Lineage behind him?

Heh. As long as he, a Battle King, remained alive, he could rebuild another Intel Lineage even if he went to the Cloud Empire!

However, he quickly suppressed that thought.

"No, no one around me knows about my dealings with the Cloud Empire. Since that person in the shadows killed this contact, what do I have to fear?

"Even if the imperial family questions me, I can simply deny it. What can they do to me?

"Besides, since he sent this half-corpse back, he must want something else. I can't scare myself for nothing."

It had to be said that Mo Ya truly deserved to be the Gama Empire's Grand Marshal for so many years. He quickly sorted everything out and swiftly calmed down.

The person in the shadows definitely had some ulterior motive, but Mo Ya did not yet know what that motive was.

However, his gaze was soon drawn to the letter on the half-corpse.

"No one has touched that letter, right?"

After calming down, Mo Ya spoke up to ask.

"Reporting to the Grand Marshal, from the time this half-corpse appeared until your arrival, no one approached it, and no one touched the letter!"

General Wu stepped forward to answer.

"Good. Deal with this half-corpse as soon as possible. Then send more men to patrol the area and see whether any suspicious people are lurking nearby."

"Yes!"

After giving his orders, Grand Marshal Mo Ya took the letter from the half-corpse and returned to the commander's tent.

Once back in the tent, Mo Ya impatiently opened the letter.

It contained only a few short lines: If you do not wish for your collusion with the Cloud Empire to be exposed, come to the Black Rock Mountains at midnight tonight!

After reading it, Mo Ya gritted his teeth and crushed the letter in his hand into a ball. With a burst of Dou Qi, he reduced it to powder.

"Damn it, it really is aimed at me! But who could it be?"

A low roar escaped Mo Ya's mouth.

He could have ignored the contents of the letter, since there was no direct evidence of his collusion with the Cloud Empire.

However, if such a matter were spread around, it would inevitably bring all kinds of trouble.

Leaving everything else aside, the imperial family would certainly investigate him!

If things went badly and the Cloud Empire decided to burn the bridge after crossing it, he really might be finished.

After all, his cooperation with the Cloud Empire was simply to help them win this war and bury the Gama Empire's younger generation in it.

Yes, this time, the Cloud Empire had no intention of keeping prisoners as they had in the past. They intended to kill them all!

That way, the Gama Empire's strength would suffer a generational gap.

In a few more decades, the Cloud Empire would be able to destroy the Gama Empire outright.

That was the Cloud Empire imperial family's plan.

As for why Grand Marshal Mo Ya had chosen to collude with the Cloud Empire, he had two goals.

First, he wanted to obtain a High-Grade Black-Tier Cultivation Technique from the Cloud Empire. Second, he wanted to eliminate the heirs of the Xiao Household, Nalan Household, and Mu Household, the three families most likely to produce future Battle Kings.

Thus, the cooperation between the two sides had been an immediate match.

But now that someone had somehow seen through the plan, Mo Ya naturally grew anxious.

After thinking it over, Mo Ya ultimately decided to meet this mysterious person.

Mo Ya's confidence came from his own strength.

In his view, since this mysterious person was resorting to such furtive tactics, either their strength was inferior to his, or they had no intention of exposing the matter and merely wanted to gain something from him.

Since that was the case, he might as well attend the meeting and adapt to whatever happened.

"I hope your strength is enough to match your greed. Otherwise..."

Though he did not finish the sentence, it was obvious that Mo Ya had developed murderous intent.

The unspoken end of that "otherwise" was undoubtedly silencing the other party forever.

After someone had seen through his scheme, the normal response would naturally be to kill them first and eliminate the threat.

After all, he did not want to leave a handle in someone else's hands forever, did he?

And so, Mo Ya began quietly waiting for midnight to arrive.

Oh, right. The so-called Black Rock Mountains were actually where Nalan Jie and the others were trapped.

It was also where Xiao Lin and Mu Chen had originally been heading.

Although Mo Ya found the choice of location somewhat strange, he ultimately dismissed it as nothing more than a warning from the mysterious person.

After all, Nalan Jie and the others had been trapped in the Black Rock Mountains because of his scheme.

Now that the mysterious person had chosen the Black Rock Mountains as their meeting place, Mo Ya naturally took it as a signal that the other party knew he had orchestrated that matter as well.

Thus, Mo Ya did not think too deeply about it.

Meanwhile, after Xiao Lin delivered half of the Cloud Empire poison master's corpse to Mo Ya, he naturally sent the remaining half back to the Cloud Empire.

Likewise, Xiao Lin had left a letter on the other half of the corpse.

However, the meeting time Xiao Lin arranged in that letter was half an hour later than the time he had arranged with Mo Ya.

That half-hour difference was exactly what Xiao Lin needed!

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