Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower
Chapter 332: A Thrilling Story

Chapter 332: Chapter 332: A Thrilling Story

This was a show of power from Meng Yi, and he made it abundantly clear that any loose talk would ensure that person could not walk away unscathed.

Even the Lame Man understood that today was a good opportunity to challenge Meng Yi. If he were to speak up about how Meng Yi had deserted the battle that day, then it would be Meng Yi who couldn’t walk away unscathed.

But what good would it do to say anything?

At most, Meng Yi would be beaten with military sticks or fined a portion of his military pay. After all, they were just the abandoned ruddy men. Now was a time when every man was needed, and using the life of an elite troop to exchange for the life of a ruddy man was a loss-making deal that the Great General naturally didn’t want to make, and perhaps Meng Yi would even be rewarded for his decision to abandon position to save the troops.

Furthermore, after the Great General had left, the boss here would still be Meng Yi. By then, it would be hard to tell how these ruddy men might end up being wasted away.

It didn’t matter so much to their sworn brothers, but behind them were 700 innocent people. Hadn’t they been lying low here all these years just to protect these people as best they could?

Therefore, although the Lame Man Uncle had no respect for Meng Yi, he knew that this was not the moment for self-serving bravado.

He clasped his hands together and bowed towards the Great General before saying, "Reporting to the Great General, three days ago, we were preparing to go to the Armory for the roll call as usual. When we stepped outside, we saw a flock of Man-eating Eagles hovering in the sky. Fearing accidental injury, we hid in the Tube-shaped Building until Supervisor Meng came with the Elite Troop, and we joined up with them to investigate. However, the situation ahead was urgent. The Supervising Army Officer left behind more than half of the soldiers with us to respond, and he himself went back to fetch reinforcements."

These words did not differ much from what Meng Yi had described. Liu Shang seemed to ponder for a moment before looking at the others and saying, "I am already aware of this. What happened afterwards?"

"Taking advantage of Supervisor Meng’s Elite Troop struggling against the Man-eating Eagles, we tried to secretly surround them and launch an attack from the rear flanks of the Man-eating Eagles.

Unexpectedly, we found another battlefield at the rear. It wasn’t until then that we realized the unrest among the Man-eating Eagles early this morning was due to them fighting among themselves, with dozens of Man-eating Eagles attacking the Eagle King.

That Man-eating Eagle King, having lived for who knows how long, had tail feathers that had turned ash-grey and were enormously large, more than three times the size of an ordinary Man-eating Eagle. Seeing this, we joined the fray, and we were fortunate to hunt down 24 wounded Man-eating Eagles, while the rest scattered and fled back to the base of the cliff."

"And the Man-eating Eagle King?" Liu Shang asked with concern.

"The Man-eating Eagle King also fled wounded to the base of the cliff, and we guarded the cliff for three days, ensuring no further abnormalities before returning."

Lame Man Uncle’s words were heavily processed on the basis of Bai Junjun and Li Wenli. The reason was simple—neither of those two wanted to expose themselves.

Lame Man Uncle also felt it unnecessary to expose them. After all, if they got recognized here, they would be tied to the Eastern Army, which wasn’t a good thing.

If possible, Lame Man Uncle still hoped these young people could return to a normal place and lead a normal life.

Upon hearing Lame Man Uncle’s words, Liu Shang laughed heartily, "It seems the heavens bless our Eastern Land, unwilling to let us fall into a desperate situation!"

He had been worried about how many troops would have to be sacrificed to eliminate the Man-eating Eagles, but in an instant, he received news of the Man-eating Eagles killing each other, and the ruddy men had taken advantage of this to slay over twenty of them.

They even brought back the heads of eight Man-eating Eagles, as well as the beaks of sixteen Man-eating Eagles.

These items could totally be made into beast heads to be displayed alongside tiger skins!

Liu Shang was overjoyed, "All the ruddy men who took part in this Man-eating Eagle hunt will be promoted to Soldiers, and those who hunted a Man-eating Eagle will be credited with one piece of Military Merit, to be rewarded according to merit!"