Chapter 1473: Chapter 1471: Redstone City
In a certain sense, gathering intelligence can be more dangerous than going to the front lines. Once your identity is exposed, it would be worse than death. But from another perspective, high risk brings high reward. In his previous missions, Ma Qiu became a departmental key player. If this mission is successful, he might become a candidate for department manager.
So, does one want to live a lifetime as a mediocre person safely? Or take the risk and become someone big?
Ma Qiu chose the latter.
Opportunity has been given to him, and he cannot let it go easily. He must give it a go... Ma Qiu thought of this as he squinted at the eastern horizon, where his target lay.
According to some vague intelligence, Grey Forest City—this city established after the collapse of the Soma Alliance—has developed rapidly because it received support from the Truth Society and is possibly planning an attack on Shalin along with several other large cities.
Is this intelligence true? Has the Truth Society already controlled Grey Forest City? What exactly is their attack plan? Will the Truth Society’s manager named Fen Feng appear again to personally lead the attack?
Furthermore, the threat level of the attack on Shalin must be clarified—is it Mad Beast Level or Surge Level? If it’s Mad Beast Level, it can basically be ignored, just alert the nearby cities; if it’s Surge Level, then it needs to be reported to higher-level departments for some military force deployment. As for higher levels... he might become successful but could also die in Redstone City...
Hope, this trip won’t be too unfortunate... Ma Qiu thought in his heart... After all, he still wants to come back and have dinner with a beautiful lady.
As he goes to Grey Forest City on this mission, he might be unable to have dinner with beautiful ladies for several weeks, which is a huge regret.
"Sigh—"
Ma Qiu sighed deeply, shook his head, and stepped forward.
During his walk, he occasionally touched the metal tube behind him, which gave him a sense of reassurance—the truth is, when actually carrying out a mission, if his identity is exposed or other dangers occur, he might have to rely on this metal tube to cut a bloody path.
Hopefully, it’s reliable...
Furthermore... after completing the mission, he might look for an opportunity to undergo Wizard Potion modification... from what he knows, this thing that was made more than two years ago is relatively reliable. Although the cost is a bit high, there is indeed a way for a person without talent to become a wizard...
After becoming a wizard, executing missions would have some assurance, and handling a weapon like a metal tube would be easier... Besides, as a member of the army, he seems to get discounts for Wizard Potion modifications... With these scattered thoughts, Ma Qiu walked further...
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Soon, just two days later.
Ma Qiu didn’t know where he had arrived in the wilderness, while Philip and his son, Little Jimmy, crossed the wild and successfully arrived in front of Redstone City.
In the eyes of the father and son, what is called Redstone City looked like an ancient giant beast lying on the earth, with a large stretch of mountains behind it resembling the many tails of the giant beast coiled up.
As the name suggests, Redstone City is entirely red, with dark red stones containing Iron Stone making up its walls more than ten meters high. The top of the city walls is angular, with rough lines, giving a sense of iron and blood, coldness, and ferocity, with a faint murderous air.
This made the father and son somewhat uncomfortable, which was slightly different from what Philip imagined.
Standing a few hundred meters in front of the city, Philip was hesitating whether to approach when a voice sounded from behind him, inquisitively asking, "Are you two here in Redstone City waiting for containment?"
"Ah?" Philip turned abruptly and saw a squad of Soldiers had somehow appeared silently behind them.
They wore bird-beaked masks similar to Ma Qiu, but instead of light robes like Ma Qiu, they were clad in black Armor. They didn’t carry a metal tube on their backs but held something resembling a javelin in hand—with a somewhat short length, only less than a third of a regular javelin. The end was deformed, seemingly crushed flat, with some unknown decorative pattern on the surface. The middle was bulging, with a structure resembling a mechanical crossbow’s trigger, giving it a strange appearance.
The Soldier who questioned originally pointed this strange weapon at him, cautiously, but after a few glances, lowered the weapon voluntarily and waited for his response.
Philip was a bit stunned, not knowing how to answer, as he didn’t quite understand what "containment" meant.
It was at this moment that his son, Little Jimmy, spoke up for him, saying, "I don’t know what ’containment’ means, but my dad and I are from Bright Town near Grey Forest City. On our way, we met Ma Qiu Philip, who told us to come to this Redstone City. He also said he was something 165021. And, Ma Qiu Philip gave us this too."
Saying this, Little Jimmy stood on tiptoe, took down the cloth bag from Philip’s shoulder, and pulled out half a green round cake from inside.
"Ma Qiu Philip gave my dad and me two of these. We ate one and a half, leaving this half." Little Jimmy added.
"It’s Issue One rations, looks like someone from the military tasked with field duty gave it." The questioning Soldier glanced at it and turned to whisper to his companion, "But who is Ma Qiu, I’ve never heard of him."
"I haven’t heard of him either, probably not from our Redstone City system." The companion responded, "Or perhaps not from our Redstone City at all."
The questioning Soldier nodded, agreeing with this point and looking back at Little Jimmy and Philip, saying, "I don’t know the Ma Qiu Philip you mentioned, but I can ask for you. But that’s not important; since you’re from near Grey Forest City, you likely came for ’containment.’ So follow us into the city, and we’ll take you through the procedures. Some things will be slowly explained to you."
Having said that, the Soldier led the way.
"Oh, yes, sir." Philip, bringing Little Jimmy along, quickly caught up, walking towards Redstone City with the Soldiers.
After taking a few steps, questioning Soldier seemed to remember something, turning back to give Philip a word of praise, "You seem to have a good son; bringing him to Redstone City is the right choice. Here, he might develop beyond what you can imagine."
Hearing this, Philip was first stunned, then smiled, for hearing others praise his son is always pleasing. However, he didn’t fully understand the Soldier’s words, so he simply smiled and said nothing.
The Soldier said no more, leading the father and son straight to the city walls. With no controls in sight, the city wall slid open horizontally, revealing a two-meter-wide, two-meter-high passage.
The group queued up and entered Redstone City.
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