Origin Crystals

Han Ling glanced at Lü Wenrui and said coldly:

Simply put, mission is why you do it, and duty is how you should do it.

"Oh, I see!" Lü Wenrui's eyes lit up. "Then..."

He had only uttered one word when he paused, cautiously glancing at Tang Yuanyang.

"Captain, what is a soldier's duty?"

Tang Yuanyang said with a stern face, "A soldier's duty is to obey orders!"

"Obey orders?" Lü Wenrui frowned slightly. "What does that have to do with what I said about going to provide support?"

"Obeying orders, simply put, means not acting on your own initiative and following orders in everything you do." Shen Heng looked at Lü Wenrui.

"And we haven't received any orders to provide support in the past."

"The previous order was to hold this firing point and prevent the Calamity Beast from breaking through the defenses."

"Therefore, what we need to do now is..."

"So, you just stay here and keep watch?" Lü Wenrui interrupted Shen Heng before he could finish speaking.

Shen Heng looked at Lü Wenrui and nodded slightly.

"But if we go to provide support, wouldn't we be able to deal with the other Calamity Beast much faster?" Lü Wenrui asked, somewhat puzzled.

"If we go there, we can indeed deal with the other Calamity Beast more quickly, but what if more Calamity Beast emerge from the Erosion Zone and head in this direction?" Tang Yuanyang said in a deep voice.

"This... is unlikely to happen, right?" Lü Wenrui felt a slight headache.

"Statistically speaking, the chances of the Calamity Beast coming this way twice in a row are indeed slim." Tang Yuanyang looked sternly at Lü Wenrui.

"But since there's a probability, it means it's also possible for it to happen."

"And what we need to do is prevent this from happening."

"This..."

Lü Wenrui raised his hand and scratched his head, feeling that there was something strange about the conversation just now.

What they said seemed to make a lot of sense, but he just wanted to argue against it.

He wanted to refute it, but he didn't know how.

Shen Heng glanced at Lü Wenrui's condition, pondered for a moment, and said, "In your opinion, were we at an advantage or a disadvantage in the battle just now?"

"This..."

Just as Lü Wenrui was about to speak, he was interrupted by Shen Heng's additional words.

"Just looking at that last instance, and that involved the human side and the Calamity Beast side, not an individual."

"Should we release the humans and the Calamity Beast?" Lü Wenrui looked up and thought for a moment before asking.

"We definitely have the greater advantage!"

"After all, there must have been at least a thousand Calamity Beast that just came out of the Light Gate, right?"

"Of the thousands of Calamity Beast that charged in, only a few remained, and then we killed them all."

"So we humans definitely have the greater advantage!"

"So, what do you think the disadvantaged side should do to win a war?" Shen Heng continued to ask.

"This..." Lü Wenrui opened his mouth, unsure how to reply.

"A surprise attack, a risky move!" Shen Heng looked at Lü Wenrui. "Only in this way will we have a greater chance of winning."

"This..." Lü Wenrui hesitated, "Are Calamity Beast really that intelligent?"

"I'm not sure if the Calamity Beast are that smart, but if the dominant side wants to secure a win, they need to prevent the disadvantaged side from making any risky moves as much as possible."

Shen Heng looked calmly at Lü Wenrui.

Even so, preventing this risky move may require paying a price.

Lü Wenrui stared blankly at Shen Heng.

He then realized why he Intuition something was off about what the captain was saying.

This approach, from the very beginning, was not intended to ensure the survival of more people who were resisting the Calamity Beast in the Erosion Zone.

Instead, the goal is to achieve the most stable situation and the most victories with the least cost.

This approach seems perfectly acceptable in high-level decision-making.

But this isn't very friendly when applied to frontline combat personnel like them.

Because they could become the price to pay for victory at any time!

"Is it alright to be so blunt?" Han Ling walked to Shen Heng's side and whispered.

"The deeper your understanding, the deeper your awareness may become in the future..." Shen Heng glanced at Lü Wenrui, who was looking down and questioning his life, and then turned his gaze to the distance.

Twenty or thirty kilometers away, the firelight was still flickering intermittently.

At dawn, the sky was just beginning to lighten.

Shen Heng and Han Ling had returned to the vicinity of the campsite and relit a campfire.

Yesterday's battle here took them about half an hour.

The other two places will take longer, about an hour and a half.

Afterwards, with the deaths of all the surging Calamity Beast, silence returned to the plateau.

Everyone was doing their job, and apart from the corpse still lying on the ground, everything seemed as if nothing had happened.

This situation continued until just now.

Shen Heng raised his eyes and glanced into the distance.

Below the Light Gate, cranes were operating rapidly.

The Calamity Beast were lifted up and placed on heavy trucks.

Once the trucks had finished loading, they quickly started up and drove off in an orderly fashion into the distance.

Once daytime arrived, it was confirmed that the Calamity Beast in the Erosion Zone seemed unlikely to appear for the time being.

Headquarters immediately began mobilizing manpower to move the corpses of the Calamity Beast.

Just then, Tang Yuanyang and Lü Wenrui, who had finished resting, came over.

Lü Wenrui raised his hand to his forehead and gazed into the distance.

"If you were to sell this, it would probably be worth two or three billion, right?"

Shen Heng looked up at the distance, then nodded.

"Yes, but if you actually try to sell them, it's fine once or twice, but if you do it in large quantities, the price will drop immediately."

"Even if it's fallen, it's still quite a drop!" Lü Wenrui remarked.

Shen Heng nodded slightly, without refuting.

He said, "Alright, let's distribute yesterday's spoils."

Upon hearing this, Lü Wenrui's eyes lit up as he looked over.

"Are you asking about Origin Crystal?"

"Hmm," Shen Heng nodded slightly and picked up the box that was placed to the side.

"While you were resting, the Logistics Department department extracted the Origin Crystal from the slain Calamity Beast and brought them over."

"As for the materials from the Calamity Beast, they have all been converted into points. They will be sent back for testing and their value will be determined before they are credited to our personal accounts."

"It's alright. I've seen plenty of points, but I've never really seen many Origin Crystal," Lü Wenrui said, slightly excited.

Although members of the Supervision Bureau had previously been active on the front lines of killing the Calamity Beast.

However, unless you specifically go and dissect the corpse of the Calamity Beast, it's really difficult to find the Origin Crystal.

Beside him, Tang Yuanyang took a deep breath and also looked over.

On the other side, Han Ling's expression was relatively calm, after all, she had been on night duty with Shen Heng and had been receiving these Origin Crystal together.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the wooden box was slowly opened.

Looking at the rhomboid, shimmering white crystals, everyone's breathing became heavier.

This is the Origin Crystal, Origin Crystal that can awaken abilities and aid in cultivation!

It was that Origin Crystal Origin Power, which ordinary people couldn't even sense in the past, yet it supported several high-level martial artists!