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Who is Zheng Yong?

Li Changsheng tried hard to recall, the name seemed familiar to him, but before he could remember anything, he heard Chang Xiao happily talking about Zheng Yong.

It turns out that Zheng Yong has been in the advance camp for a long time.

Despite the heavy casualties in the advance battalion, the survival rate of Zheng Yong's team was relatively high every year.

Everyone is saying that no matter which team Zheng Yong is assigned to, the number of people who survive in that team is basically more than half as much as in other teams.

The reason is simple: Zheng Yong is afraid of death and is always more cautious than others. Chang Xiao is really happy to have him around.

This means that there is a high probability that the mortality rate of this group of people will be extremely low, so everyone has a chance of survival.

However, before setting off, these ten people discussed together and decided to select a team leader.

Otherwise, a team will be like a pile of loose sand and difficult to manage.

Originally, they were the first team of the advance camp, and the team leader was Chang Xiao. However, Chang Xiao said that Li Changsheng was the strongest among these people, so from now on, Li Changsheng would have to take on the role of team leader.

Everyone had different expressions, especially the newcomer Zheng Yong.

Although his strength was low, he had actually been a team leader in the previous times. He did not expect that he would be controlled by Li Changsheng this time, so he looked a little unhappy and expressed his attitude directly.

"My natal Gu worm is a reconnaissance type. It can't attack me, so I usually stay at the back. This way, if something really happens, I might be able to lead everyone to escape death!"

This is a euphemism, but in fact it is also to distance himself from the situation. The meaning is very clear: it is not possible to ask him to work hard, and he has another way to escape.

Li Changsheng originally didn't want to lead this team because Chang Xiao was much more qualified than him, but in the original book, Chang Xiao was the team leader of this team. In the end, everyone in this team seemed to have died except Xu Da.

"Okay, then I'll be the team leader. But I'm not familiar with many things, so Brother Chang Xiao will usually take care of it. I just want to say that everyone must be alive, no one can be left behind, and everyone must go and come back safely!"

Li Changsheng's words shocked everyone, and hope shone in their eyes. Even Zheng Yong, who was originally a little unconvinced, nodded in agreement. Zhu Kaisheng's eyes lit up and he raised his hands to agree with Li Changsheng as the captain.

Because he said that there were a pair of children waiting for him at home, and an elderly wife and daughter-in-law waiting for him, he couldn't die, he would crawl back even if he had to!

Finally, half an hour before the advance team set off, it was confirmed that Li Changsheng would be the captain of the team and Chang Xiao would be the deputy captain.

This time, the advance camp consisted of six teams, and they did not move very fast. When they set up camp to rest that day, they were only thirty miles away from Shangjing.

The guards will officially set out for the wilderness three days after the advance camp leaves.

In fact, there were hundreds of mortal servants following Li Changsheng and his companions. They were dragging a lot of supplies, and the giant mountain spider that often laughed and the fat beetle of the monkey were also among them.

A little further back, there were many caravans following closely behind. These people would specially come to visit Li Changsheng and Chang Xiao at night. According to the usual rules, they would politely give them some Yuanshi, so that they could follow behind them more conveniently and relatively safely.

When he first came into contact with these things, Li Changsheng even had the illusion that he was not in the guard army, but was a bodyguard in a caravan, collecting protection fees.

Seeing Li Changsheng's confusion, Chang Xiao explained.

"You will get used to it slowly. It's because we are poor and the subsidies from the guards are not enough to support everyone. We have to find a way out on our own. Otherwise, no one would be willing to work so hard without a generous reward..."

It turns out that in the Dayan Dynasty, Gu Masters had a high status, but they were too expensive.

The Gu Master originally used the true essence in his own empty cavities as the foundation and used Gu insects as a means. In addition to his own cultivation, he also had to refine, raise and use the Gu.

The process of refining, raising and using Gu consumes a lot of Yuanshi, which is hard to earn. Even though the Dayan Dynasty provides some subsidies to Gu masters every month, that little Yuanshi subsidy is simply a drop in the bucket. It all depends on the Gu masters to find a way out themselves.

Relying on the country is just a beautiful imagination.

A low-level Gu Master like Zhu Kaisheng can only risk his life and take a chance just because he has a child to raise. So it is normal for him to protect the caravan or sell some supplies himself. After all, everyone is short of Yuanshi, and if they want to survive, they have to live off the land.

"Well, let's hurry up for the next few days, then we can go to a place to rest and replenish our supplies..."

This place is relatively close to Shangjing, and the frequency of Gu Masters appearing here is quite high. Even if some ferocious beasts appear occasionally, they will be strangled to death quickly.

So on this day, they had almost no dangers, did not see any ferocious beasts, and were quite comfortable.

However, days like this only lasted for two or three days. As they went further north, there were fewer and fewer villages on the road, and more and more forest vegetation. Even on the roadside, one or two howls of ferocious beasts could be heard occasionally.

The six teams of the advance camp were connected end to end, but each team had ten people. There were three in the front, namely Xiong Zhuang, Chang Xiao and Xu Da, on both sides were Monkey and Sun Xuanyang, in the rear were brothers Li Youtian and Li Youdi, and in the middle were Li Changsheng, Zheng Yong and Zhu Kaisheng.

Once there is an accident in any of the front, back, left or right, the people in the middle can rush over as quickly as possible. Moreover, Zheng Yong and Zhu Kaisheng in the middle are also responsible for paying more attention to emergencies in the front, back, left and right during the march, and helping to deal with the team transporting supplies.

So they didn't walk fast.

Liu Chengwu and Liu Chengwen were also in the team. They had three winged snakes that were very eye-catching, while Zhao Tianyuan was placed in a carriage.

No one had approached the carriage in the past few days, and the pungent smell of smoke could be smelled from a long distance away. It was very stinky.

Li Changsheng did not have much contact with the Liu Chengwen brothers, so others did not know that they were Li Changsheng's men. It was just that when Chang Xiao was on patrol, he had talked with the Liu Chengwu brothers and learned that they had bought the Winged Snake on the black market and that the price they offered was a little higher than theirs at the time, so they did not become suspicious.

It’s just a pity that they also wanted to buy this winged snake, but unfortunately they were unlucky and didn’t get it.

Liu Chengwu also smiled, but of course he would not say that the winged snake was bought by Li Changsheng and that these goods were also Li Changsheng's property.

The team moved forward as usual that day. After dark, they would reach the village that Li Changsheng said they could have a good rest. However, Chang Xiao, who was walking in the front, blew a whistle!