Reborn as Xiao in another world, targeted by the little red bird

In Baihe City.

Due to the recent intensified exploration of the anchor point, the friction with the enemy has increased a lot. In addition, they will advance into the mountains and have more intense conflicts with the enemy later, so they must arrange the supply of logistics medicines and tools.

Originally, he didn't need to deal with this kind of thing personally, but the head of the production workshop set up by "Yuanliu" here had a strange and stubborn temper, and had an inexplicable obsession with "trials".

He had stepped in to settle this matter many times before and was considered experienced. He was afraid that others might not have enough experience and, after being sent over, would be delayed for several days by the head of the neighborhood using the excuse of some inexplicable "trial" as an excuse.

Even though he came in person, it still took him half a day and it was already evening.

After having dinner at the City Lord's Mansion, he was about to return to the military camp outside the city to deal with the pile of affairs when his communication stone rang.

After sending everyone away, he answered the call.

"General, Wood and the others said Xiao is lost!"

Ye Lingchuan listened to the report from his men in the communication stone and did not seem surprised.

"Where was Xiao last seen?"

"It's the inn where he stayed. After he came back from your place, he stayed in the room the whole time and never went out. It wasn't until Wood and the others noticed something was wrong and broke into the room that they found there was only an illusion inside. The aura of the illusion was exactly the same as Xiao's, and since they didn't see Xiao leave, they were deceived until now."

"An illusion with the same aura as the real body?" Ye Lingchuan fell into deep thought.

There are quite a few such substitute spells on the continent. Among them, there are some advanced spells that can imitate the aura of the original body, but the imitated aura will have some flaws.

The people he sent to keep an eye on Xiao were all outstanding reconnaissance experts in the army, and many of them had a record of seeing through high-level substitute spells. But in the end, they were all deceived by Xiao's illusions. It was not until they confirmed it with their own eyes that they realized they had been deceived. What exactly was the origin of Xiao's spell?

As far as he knew, spells that could have such effects were almost all monopolized by major forces. Where did Xiao learn it from?

Could it be the magic that leaked out from the destroyed royal family?

Or is it from the Huangguxuan Sect?

Or maybe after so many years, someone in "Yuanliu" has become bolder?

He narrowed his eyes for a while and said, "It's lost, so let it be. He is not our enemy. There is no need to waste too much time and energy on this. If he reappears later, let me know."

"Yes!" There was silence on the other side of the communication stone for a moment, and soon a voice came again, "By the way, General, there was another strange thing today."

"explain."

"In the afternoon, a horse from the Spirit Horse Post suddenly left its rider behind while carrying out a delivery mission and ran away."

"Hmm?" Ye Lingchuan raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's going on?"

"We asked the administrator of the post station, and he said that the mount was left at the post station by someone else, and was not integrated by us."

"You mean... a honey trap?"

Ye Lingchuan's expression finally changed slightly.

This is not the first time that this has happened. Among the people, when renting their mounts to the Spirit Rider Station to earn rent, some people occasionally do something tricky.

They signed a usage agreement with the post station through an intermediary, which would render the agreement invalid and the post station unable to command his mount, and he could take the opportunity to gain some benefits before the post station found out.

The ritual of sharing the right to use the contracted beast was passed down from a very long time ago. Now no one knows its principle, and naturally there is no way to improve this phenomenon. However, when people's interests are damaged, the potential they can unleash is unlimited, and post stations in various places have successively developed various identification methods.

Of course, the party behind the honey trap was also keeping up with the times, and the struggle between the two sides was very fierce. Overall, the post station party still had the upper hand.

Ye Lingchuan thought that the military was a third party independent of the two fighting parties, and that there would be no blind people who would come to the military to perform a honey trap, so the relevant review was relatively lax. He did not expect that even if he was lax, someone would actually dare to perform a honey trap, and use the most primitive method.

If the people from other armies of Mengji Army knew about this, they would probably not be able to hold their heads up for a long time.

In the communication stone, the other party was still angrily saying, "Yes, it's a trap. He actually set it on us. If I catch this little bastard, I will skin him alive!"

“Do many people know about this now?”

"Don't worry, General. Family disgrace should not be made public. The brothers are well aware of this truth."

Ye Lingchuan breathed a sigh of relief: "Well, how much is the loss?"

"There was no loss. The brothers who were thrown off by it were eventually caught by the people they were traveling with. The supplies they were escorting were not damaged or lost."

"Is it just a simple mount escape? That's not bad. How is the investigation going so far?"

"Heh, that guy was very cautious and didn't leave any contact information. We're still investigating."

Ye Lingchuan thought for a moment and asked, "What about the mount that escaped? What did it look like? Where did you see it go last?"

"The leader said it was a cyan bird of prey with golden feathers on its wings. It looked very big, handsome and majestic. It left us behind and headed towards Baihe Mountain."

Hearing his men's description of the runaway mount, Ye Lingchuan suddenly thought of the last general meeting of the Mengji Army's senior generals, where it was said that Xiao had completely transformed into a giant green bird of prey during a competition in an arena.

Could it be a coincidence?

"General, do you think that bird was transformed from one of those monsters across the sea? Or is it a traitor of the human race passing information to those monsters?

I heard from the brothers next door that they have begun to encounter people who believe in monsters. It's so funny. Those monsters just ignore them and kill them when they meet. What do you think, General?

"Hmm? General?"

The shouts of his men brought him back to his senses, and he said, "Don't jump to conclusions and cause panic. Let's investigate first."

"Yes! These two are the most important things today. I have sorted out the rest of the miscellaneous matters and sent them to your account."

"Okay. Oh, by the way," Ye Lingchuan suddenly remembered something before hanging up the call, and added, "Contact the advance team. If they find Xiao's whereabouts in the mountains, report immediately."

"General, do you mean... that Xiao will go up the mountain? Didn't you reject his kindness before, but he still went? What kind of great man?"

At the same time, the little bastard and great good man Xiao was going to accompany Red Xiao as agreed.

It was a bit boring to just keep company, so Xiao talked about his experiences during the day just like last time. However, after hearing about his perfect disguise process, Red Xiao was inexplicably unhappy, saying something like "I was forced to be inferior to others and lost my face", and then he went away to sulk.

Although Xiao was a little confused, he felt that there was nothing wrong with his operation, but he still went to coax people obediently.

Moreover, compared to the previous Red Xiao who didn't say a word and didn't even mock him when he exposed his flaws, it was obvious that this angry Red Xiao made him feel more at ease.

Although this anger really came from nowhere.

When Xiao left, the resentful spirits emerged again. Red Xiao suddenly ignored the waste of power and said to the air: "I said, he is just borrowing power normally, not trying to take advantage of it and kill the donkey after it has done its job."