Chapter 625: Tu Ji Comes to the Island
According to common sense, few isles like Feng Awakening Island were even recorded.
The reason why it was is that it was special, because historically, a famous anti-demon hero [Qing Feng Xing], had regained consciousness here.
Despite her heavy injuries, she gathered the remnants of her army here and turned around the naval battle, successfully routing her pursuers.
From this, the Main Plane’s allied armies officially began their counteroffensive against the demon army.
Feng Awakening Island coast.
It was desolate and uninhabited and could be seen over in a glance.
A figure slowly walked out of the seawater and stepped foot onto Feng Awakening Island.
He looked ordinary and his clothes were too, but he displayed a lofty, yet threatening dauntlessness, it was Tu Ji.
“Feng Awakening Island, when young Qing Feng Xing lost consciousness due to her injuries, she was awakened and cared for by a passing druid here. This island was consequently given its name from that.”
Tu Ji looked around, his gaze quickly fixing on something.
A moment later, light and shadow fluctuated, and a silhouette awkwardly became visible.
“Lord Tu Ji, my code name is ‘Awaken’, I was ordered to welcome you.” It was an imperial secret spy.
Tu Ji replied, “I didn’t expect an imperial secret spy to be here. You spent quite the effort to build a teleportation formation too. I want to use that teleportation formation to go to Magnet Archipelago.”
“Yes, I have been briefed by my superiors on this. Please follow me!” The imperial secret spy led the way.
Tu Ji followed after the imperial secret spy “Awaken” to the magic formation.
Very quickly, he saw the real Feng Awakening Island – a castle that stood in the middle of the isle.
The castle covered a massive area and stood tall, nearly dominating 80% of the isle. The castle was lined with ballista, cannons, and had numerous magic runes engraved into its walls, displaying its formidable fighting strength.
Upon entering the castle, Tu Ji was astonished to find that the castle had a considerable garrison.
“This is your secret spy headquarters?” Tu Ji curiously inquired.
Secret spy “Awaken” chuckled, “Lord Tu Ji, you aren’t part of our organization, please forgive me that I cannot tell you about such secrets.”
Tu Ji coldly snorted and didn’t demand an answer.
He followed Awaken down a path, until finally arriving at a two floor high platform with a teleportation formation on it.
This teleportation formation was built as a towering spatial gate. Inside the gate frame, there was a constantly spinning starry river vortex that disseminated a strong spatial fluctuation.
“This is a large-scale teleportation gate; it can teleport both a large amount of lifeforms and goods.”
“So that’s how it is, they use this teleportation gate to resupply.”
Generally speaking, the Secret Spy Agency cannot have too many people garrisoned. After all, doing intelligence wet work and doing military affairs were two very different things. The secret spies were not an army.
Having so many people garrisoned somewhere was very rare for the Secret Spy Agency.
Because every day, people needed to eat, drink, defecate, and urinate, all of which needed a large amount of supplies. Transporting supplies was sufficiently troublesome and was very difficult to mask, and if an enemy was motivated to check into it, it wouldn’t be hard for them.
But seeing this teleportation gate, Tu Ji had an understanding.
“Feng Awakening Island is desolate and uninhabited, it is of no interest to anyone, it is a good place to build a secret base.”
“Feng Awakening Island is also near Magnet Archipelago, which sees vigorous streams of people every year and its ports are a picture of an endless river. Perhaps the Secret Spy Agency first transports supplies to Magnet Archipelago, then through a hidden teleportation gate to deliver them to Feng Awakening Island.”
“I will be traveling by this supply route.”
Tu Ji obviously thought this and didn’t vocalize it.
After waiting for a moment, Awaken had him step into the teleportation gate.
As he walked towards the teleportation gate, Tu Ji could feel it drawing him in.
He simply used a defensive battle skill to protect himself, then let himself be pulled into the gate.
In a split second, he landed on the ground, and he entered an underground plaza on Magnet Archipelago.
Naturally there was an imperial secret spy waiting for him to show the way.
Because Tu Ji was not an imperial secret spy, he used his authority as a member of the Blood Light Punishment Institution to requisition manpower and resources. Therefore, the imperial secret spy wanted to immediately lead Tu Ji out of this covert base.
But Tu Ji wasn’t in a hurry, instead he asked for information on Hong Zhu.
The imperial secret spy took out some materials and gave it to Tu Ji, “My Lord, this is all of the information we have on Hong Zhu. You can take your time reading it on your own.”
But Tu Ji shook his head and opened it on the spot.
After looking through it, his complexion sank, “This is the information you’re giving me? The newest information the grand Imperial Secret Spy Agency has on Hong Zhu is ten days old?!”
Tu Ji was dissatisfied.
The imperial secret spy bitterly spread his hands, “My Lord, our mission isn’t to investigate a silver level treasure hunter.”
“You’re skimping on me! Several days ago, I issued a command that you all should investigate Hong Zhu with all you had!” Tu Ji coldly snorted with inquiry.
The imperial secret spy shirked responsibility, “Lord Tu Ji, it wasn’t that we didn’t try, but Magnet Archipelago’s terrain is complicated. Because of the magnetic field variations, every isle can change position due to that. Not only that but don’t be fooled by the archipelago’s bare surface bereft of life. As a matter of fact, there are many earth elementals living underground and even magnetic earth elementals.”
“There are no lack of gold levels among the earth elementals, and they are the masters of this place. If it were not for all these earth elemental tribes fighting each other, outsiders like us would never be able to regularly move throughout the area.”
“Hong Zhu is a solitary treasure hunter, and it is difficult for us to follow her tracks. She is an expert at tracking, surveying, and conversely, her anti-detection ability is quite good.”
Tu Ji’s eyes transmitted cold daggers as he tightly stared at the imperial secret spy, “These problems were to be handled by you people, not me.”
“I simply issued an order, and you were responsible for gathering information on Hong Zhu.”
“I came here to chase down a necromancer, and right now, Hong Zhu is the only trail.”
“To cover my tracks as much as possible, I didn’t land on Magnet Archipelago directly, instead I went to Feng Awakening Island to secretly teleport here.”
“4 hours.” Tu Ji raised four fingers, issuing an ultimatum, “I will give you that much time, and at the end of it, if I don’t get any valuable clues, I will see your head roll and condemn you as a close friend of the necromancer who was protecting them!”
The imperial secret spy instantly changed color and wailed, “My Lord, that is slander.”
“You cannot do this!”
“We are both imperial citizens; I have worked hard for the empire.”
Tu Ji sneered, “Don’t shout, I learned this method from your colleagues.”
“Don’t think I’m joking with you.”
“Now, you only have 3 hours and 59 minutes.”
The imperial secret spy firmly grinded his teeth and turned heel. Within a step, it turned into a jog.
He was cursing wildly in his heart: Tu Ji, you madman! Then he began to deploy as much manpower as he could to frantically search for Hong Zhu’s whereabouts.
The one cursed as a madman was actually rather calm.
As a member of the Blood Light Punishment Institution, he really hunted and killed necromancers regardless of the perils. But on the other hand, their reputation for being insane had also been intentionally spread by them.
The scene before him was Tu Ji using his reputation for being crazy to mobilize the full force the imperial secret spies here.
He wasn’t disappointed, and 1.5 hours later, the imperial secret spy came back to find Tu Ji with a sweat soaked head and reported, “Several days ago, someone saw Hong Zhu go to this isle. This information was tentatively confirmed and verified.”
Tu Ji was expressionless, “Tentatively confirmed? Then you will follow me there.”
“If I don’t find Hong Zhu, I’ll have to come back and behead you according to the law.”
The imperial secret spy’s body and mind quaked.
But Tu Ji was forcing him, so he had no choice but to brace himself and leave with Tu Ji.
Meanwhile.
After sending off Tu Ji, Tan Mo relaxed.
Upon obtaining the latest report, he couldn’t help but smile, “It is confirmed, Tu Ji has made landfall on Magnet Archipelago.”
“Obviously he could have directly landed, but going through the trouble is actually the professional way of doing things.”
“The secret spy in charge of the Magnet Archipelago will have a hard time. But that isn’t our problem.”
Tan Mo sat in the captain’s room and looked out of the window, where the ocean and sky intersected, his mood cheerful.
Freeing himself from Tu Ji made him carefree.
Although he had a Secret Gate Church cleric still on board and his saint level bodyguard, they were carrying out a more secret mission and to Tan Mo, they were far better to deal with than Tu Ji.
“The entire Blood Light Punishment Institution is full of lunatics. To eliminate the undead, they will do and sacrifice anything.”
“They would rather wrongly kill ten thousand than let one escape. They won’t just do that to others; they will also go through the pains to kill themselves too.”
“The most terrible thing is that the Blood Light Punishment Institution’s background is too strong!”
The backers of the Blood Light Punishment Institution members was tougher than the templar knights.
Because the latter’s only backer was just Heavenly Emperor Sheng Ming, while the Blood Light Punishment Institution had almost all of the empire’s gods backing them in an alliance of benefits.
Other powers had similar organizations to the Blood Light Punishment Institution.
These powers united into the widest divine alliance. It was the gods expressing their ultimate wrath against the necromancers who were encroaching on their core benefits.
“Tu Ji is gone, next is finding a pirate gang to put on a performance.”
“Of course, first I need talk to talk the Secret Gate Church’s people and communicate this in advance.”
With this goal in mind, Tan Mo entered the Treasure Chest’s deepest spatial floor and knocked on a cabin door.
After getting permission, he pushed open the door and entered, seeing the two from the Secret Gate Church.
Tan Mo got right to the point, stating he had a military operation coming up. He gave the reasons why, after all, the Treasure Chest was an imperial warship and didn’t have the right without cause or reason to enter the Ice Sculpture Kingdom, that would provoke quite the trouble. Doing it by force might lead to deportation.
Therefore, before that, Tan Mo would go find pirates to “set up”, he would “lose”, then he would drag his wounded body into an Ice Sculpture Kingdom port and request emergency relief.
By doing this, he could alleviate himself of suspicion and use the dignity of the Ice Sculpture Kingdom. They would have no good grounds to refuse him, and he would be able to smoothly enter a kingdom port.
When they reached port, the Secret Gate Church’s two people would naturally sneak out. Then Tan Mo’s escort mission would be complete.
The two Secret Gate Church people glanced at each other, then nodded, indicating that they greenlit it and allowed Tan Mo to do as he saw fit.