Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master novel Chapter 354

Rocky came back to the stationed military camp late at night.

"Where have you been?" Marin looked petulant as she interrogated earnestly upon Rocky's appearance. She had been waiting for him in the middle of the campsite. She sounded to be daunted witless that Rocky would not come back. And the mere thought agonized her a bit.

"As I informed you before I took off, I went for a stroll." Rocky twisted his lips as he responded. And again he sought from the Deputy Commander Chen, "Are you done with what I assigned you to do?"

"Yes, everything is all set up." Deputy Commander Chen nodded his head as he took a glimpse at the hundred bodies that were laid beside them. Those bodies had been degraded beyond recognition.

Rocky approached the bodies to look at them by himself in order to ward off any mistake. He found no foibles in the result. So he proposed to the Deputy Commander Chen to lead in person of several scores of soldiers to complete the plan. They commanded the soldiers to stuff the hundred bodies on ten grain carts. They subsequently transported the bodies out of their stationed camp. They went on until they appeared to a small river which was adjacent to the two eastern camp sites of the Timber Deity Empire. They forced all the bodies into the stream.

They returned to the stationed camp under cover of the night after they had completed their tasks.

The next morning, inside the right camp of the Timber Deity Empire at the east side, two Commanders were debating about the schemes to beleaguer and apprehend the Rough Slope by one single battle since they received the order from their princess.

"Commander Zhou, Commander Zuo, we are in a tight corner!" A Deputy Commander shrieked as he hastened like a hunted deer into the camp with significant perturbation at that moment.

"What is the matter there?" Commander Zhou rapped over the knuckles.

"Many soldiers felt numb this morning when they woke up this morning. They were utterly paralyzed," the Deputy Commander reported straight away.

The two Commanders looked at each other in silence as a lamb for a few seconds before Commander Zhou asked hurriedly like lightning, "What is the diagnosis of the military doctor?"

"The military doctor thought they might have been poisoned," the Deputy Commander replied.

"Poisoning?" Commander Zuo looked grave upon the news. Again he inquired again, "What did they have for supper yesterday?"

"They presumably had the same food as the others," the Deputy Commander responded.

"Is that possible that someone poisoned the food?" Commander Zuo made suppositions.

"The military doctor recommended paying a visit to the river where we used to take the water from to have an investigation on the cause..." The Deputy Commander continued his answer.

"Then what are you still twiddling your thumbs for? Send someone to find out what is the problem in a flash," Commander Zhou ordered in a dull voice.

The Deputy Commander disengaged himself with the directive.

"Commander Zhou, what about the plan to blockade the Rough Slope? Shall we institute it in a dash?" Commander Zuo fixed his gaze at Commander Zhou as he posed for answers.

"It will be appropriate for us to hold our horses for the result of the investigation. We cannot afford to fail this time. Otherwise, we will have to start digging our graves. The princess will not exonerate on one more out of the blue failure." Commander Zhou figured out that they had put themselves in grave jeopardy since they let the northeast army get the military provisions and supplies. They would be incarcerated to death if they flopped in the capture of the Rough Slope.

Shortly thereafter, the squad that was dispatched to investigate delivered back the report promptly after they found a hundred rotten bodies on the upstream of the water source. They found the bodies were severely disgusting with overpowering malodor.