With everyone having trouble recognizing one another, the members of the Heavenly Character No. 3,000 Squad focused their attention on Shi Chun first. They all felt that memorizing the Chief's appearance mattered most, so that if anything happened and they had to run after him, they would not follow the wrong person.
Shi Chun faced the same difficulty recognizing them, which was why he inwardly cursed them as a bunch of useless fools.
If only the Bright Mountain Sect group had masked themselves, their familiarity with one another would have made identifying a handful of masked people easy enough. But now there were over a hundred of them, and a little mingling made recognition a struggle. With armor on and faces covered, it was hard even to tell men from women.
Fortunately, recognizing Wu Jinliang posed no problem. The same went for Tong Mingshan; the silver hair showing beneath his helmet gave him away at a glance.
For now, though, these were minor problems, and Shi Chun could not be bothered to argue with this bunch of strangers.
Feng Chi, standing beside him, offered a reminder. "Chief, under the rules, any squad that captures nine enemy Command Tokens can order a squad from its own camp that catches its eye to surrender its token and absorb it under its command. By the same principle, ninety tokens let you absorb ten squads, and nine hundred let you absorb a hundred."
She sounded rather buoyant as she spoke. She had always had confidence in the Chief, with his achievements at the Skyfall Meteor Assembly and in the Divine Fire Pact among the sources of that confidence. She knew he excelled at this sort of thing. Before they entered, he had also made it clear that he thought nothing of the others, dismissing