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Chapter 139 Disguised Infiltration? This is called entering openly and legitimately!
Jiang Ming looked at the panel and nodded in satisfaction.
This thing is simply a miracle worker for clearing out crowds.
There's no need to search for rockets everywhere; as long as you have enough mental energy or magic crystals, you can fire indefinitely.
This was practically tailor-made for Jiang Ming, who possessed the talent of "Synthesis of All Things" and could refine magical materials at any time.
He casually slung the magic rocket launcher over his shoulder and turned to look at the students who were struggling to move stones.
The bespectacled boy named Lin Yu was very clever. Although he was sweating profusely, he was the quickest to move and didn't forget to direct the others to stack the ore neatly.
Jiang Ming walked over, pulled over a relatively intact wooden box, and sat down.
"Lin Yu, come here."
Lin Yu quickly put down the stone he was holding and jogged over, rubbing his hands nervously. "Brother Jiang... what can I do for you?"
"Tell me your situation." Jiang Ming took out a bottle of purified water from his storage card, unscrewed it, and took a sip. "How did you end up in this godforsaken place?"
Lin Yu saw the water, his Adam's apple bobbed violently, but he didn't dare to ask for it.
"We...we time-traveled here a few days ago." Lin Yu swallowed, his voice a little hoarse. "We were having evening self-study when suddenly there was a red light outside, and the entire teaching building and the playground fell into this wasteland."
"Only your school?" Jiang Ming asked.
"No, there was also a nearby farmers' market and half a commercial street." Lin Yu recalled the scene at the time, a trace of fear flashing in his eyes. "At first, everyone panicked. Later, the teachers from the school and a few retired security guards organized everyone to build a camp. Relying on the supplies from the farmers' market, we barely managed to survive for more than ten days."
"and then?"
"Then... the night before last, this group of orcs rode in on their wolves and stormed into the camp." Lin Yu's eyes reddened, and his voice began to tremble. "They were too strong. The security guards' riot batons were completely useless against them. They killed everyone they saw, stole everything they could eat, and even captured us young people, saying they were going to send us to some 'Black Rock Mine' to be slaves."
Jiang Ming listened quietly, his face expressionless.
He'd seen this kind of thing many times before.
With the two worlds merging, Earthlings are seen by these alien natives as nothing more than moving pieces of fat and cheap labor.
Without absolute force, having more people only makes you easy prey for the enemy.
"When your school was transported here, did anyone awaken any special abilities? Like being able to see attribute panels or something?" Jiang Ming asked indirectly.
Lin Yu paused, then shook his head blankly: "Attribute panel? What's that? Like in a game? I've never heard of anyone having that ability. We're all just ordinary people, the strongest being the PE teacher, and he got knocked out by that orc leader with one hammer blow..."
Jiang Ming narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Mr. Jiang!" Marlowe ran over carrying the rough animal hide map, interrupting Jiang Ming's thoughts.
"I checked the map, and the destination of this convoy is indeed the Blackrock Mine."
Marlowe spread the map out on the wooden crate and pointed to a mark on it with a skull painted in red paint.
"Blackrock Mine is the Bloodskull Tribe's largest resource site. It not only produces Deep Blue Star Iron, but it is also said to contain high-grade fire-attribute crystals. There are at least five hundred orc guards stationed there, as well as several warrior-level overseers."
Marlowe looked up at Jiang Ming tentatively: "Mr. Jiang, we've now seized their convoy and killed their warlord... This place is no place to stay any longer, let's find a way to retreat quickly."
"Withdraw?" Jiang Ming laughed.
He pointed his finger and tapped the skull marker on the map twice.
"Five hundred guards, and high-grade fire-attribute crystals. Such a huge piece of meat, you want me to retreat?"
Marlow gasped, his scalp tingling. "You...you're not planning to attack Blackrock Mine, are you? That's five hundred regular soldiers! We, including these students, don't even have twenty people!"
"Who said I was going to fight?" Jiang Ming stood up and kicked over a wooden crate next to him. "Chen Qi! Have everyone change into these orcs' clothes and cloaks, and cover their faces. The students should stay in the prison cart and try to look convincing."
Chen Qi immediately understood Jiang Ming's meaning: "Brother Jiang, you want to disguise yourself as a convoy and infiltrate?"
"Smart." Jiang Ming patted Chen Qi on the shoulder. "I cleaved that warlord in two, his face was mangled. I was wearing his armor, riding on the kodo beast in front of me. As long as I didn't say a word, who could recognize me?"
"But..." Marlowe wanted to persuade him further.
"No buts." Jiang Ming coldly swept his gaze across the entire room. "In this world, the bold get rich, the timid starve. If you want to live, if you want to become stronger, you have to fight for it. If you don't want to, you can get out now."
No one dared to move.
Chen Qi immediately led his men to strip the clothes off the orc corpses.
Although Lin Yu and the other students were trembling with fear, they obediently crawled back into the prison van and wrapped the broken chains around their hands.
Half an hour later, a convoy that was poorly disguised set off again.
Jiang Ming rode on the broad back of the Kodo beast.
Jiang Ming rode on the broad back of the Kodo beast.
This giant beast has thick, rough skin and walks like a broken boat rocking on dry land.
The orc armor on his body emitted a sour, rotten smell that had been fermenting for half a month, mixed with the stench of dried blood.
He pulled the helmet's visor all the way down, revealing only his eyes; the menacing wolf bone composite breastplate was completely hidden inside.
"Brother Jiang, this smell is too strong, I'm about to throw up," Chen Qi complained in a low voice as he walked next to the Kodo Beast.
He was wearing a tattered leather coat that he had stripped from the corpse of an orc, and his face was covered in black ash and the excrement of some unknown animal.
"Bear with it." Jiang Ming didn't even turn his head. "Did your special operations team feed dogs during their usual camouflage training?"
Chen Qi shrank back after being scolded and dared not utter another word.
In the prison van behind, Lin Yu and several other students huddled together.
Their wrists were wrapped in broken iron chains, which rattled and clanged with the bumps of the wheels.
"Lin Yu... are we going to die here?" A girl sobbed softly, her tears washing away the black ash and leaving two clear white streaks on her face.
"Don't cry!" Lin Yu gritted his teeth and warned in a low voice, "That man named Jiang Ming is even more ruthless than a half-orc! Didn't you see how he just cleaved that monster in two? We have no choice but to listen to him now. If we don't act well, he'll really feed us to the wolves!"
The students were so frightened that they immediately shut up and even held their breath.
The convoy traveled along the dry riverbed for more than an hour, and the terrain began to gradually rise.
After crossing a long, gentle slope, a large, dark cluster of buildings appeared at the end of the field of vision.
It was a huge mine that was carved directly out of the black rock mountain.
The outer perimeter is surrounded by a thick wooden fence more than ten meters high, covered with dried skulls of various creatures.
The towering chimneys continuously spewed out acrid yellow smoke, turning half the sky a murky color.
"Mr. Jiang, the Blackrock Mine is just ahead." Marlowe approached, leading a dire wolf, his voice trembling. "There are at least four watchtowers on the outer perimeter, and twenty fully armed orc warriors guarding the gate. Are we...are we really going in?"
Jiang Ming ignored him, but simply raised his hand and gestured for them to continue forward.
The convoy slowly approached the mine gate.
"stop!"
A rough roar came from the gatekeeper.
Two burly orc guards, carrying rusty iron halberds, strode to block the road.
【Orc Heavy Infantry (Lv.18)】
Jiang Ming glanced at the information that popped up on his retina.
"Which battalion are you from? Where is Governor Gru? Why is there a different leader?" The guard on the left with a scar on his face shouted, questioning Jiang Ming, who was riding on a kodo beast, with suspicion.
Orcs have a very keen sense of smell.
Although Jiang Ming and his companions were covered in filth, there was still a subtle difference between the human and orc smells.
Chen Qi's hand had already quietly reached for the rifle hidden under his fur coat.
Marlowe was so frightened he almost wet his pants.
Jiang Ming sat on the back of a kodo beast, looking down at the scarred guard.
He offered no explanation, nor did he produce any so-called token.
Snapped!
Jiang Ming pulled out the demonic beast whip hanging on the saddle with his backhand, flicked his wrist, and lashed it hard across the scarred guard's face with a whooshing sound.
He used five-tenths of his strength to deliver that whip.
"Ah!" Scarface screamed as half of his face was instantly torn open. He was spun halfway around by the force of the blow and crashed heavily to the ground.
The other guard was startled and instinctively raised his halberd.
Jiang Ming suddenly stood up, stepped on the kodo beast's head, and used the momentum to leap down, landing directly in front of the guard.
He grabbed the man's chest hair and with a burst of immense strength, lifted the two-hundred-pound orc with one hand.
"You're blind as a bat!"
Jiang Ming roared in an extremely hoarse and rough voice, while simultaneously activating a gravity spell to suppress the opponent until their eardrums were ringing.
"That idiot Gru was ambushed by a bunch of human reptiles on the road and is dead! I barely managed to salvage the goods, and you dare to block my way here? If you delay our mission, I'll twist your head off and shove it up a Kodo's ass!"
The social rules of the orcs are extremely simple—whoever has the biggest fist is the one who holds the truth.
Jiang Ming's terrifying power and domineering attitude instantly dispelled the guards' doubts.
The guard, suspended in mid-air, blushed and struggled desperately, begging for mercy: "My lord! My lord, spare me! I didn't know you replaced that idiot Gru! Quick! Open the door!"
Seeing this, the other orcs in the gatehouse dared not ask any questions. They hurriedly turned the turntable and slowly pulled open the heavy iron-clad wooden door.
Jiang Ming snorted coldly, tossed the guard in his hand far away like trash, mounted the Kodo Beast, and swaggered into the Black Rock Mine.
Upon entering the gate, a pungent smell of sulfur and sweat hits you.
"We...we're in already?" Chen Qi leaned close to Jiang Ming's leg, his voice extremely low. "Brother Jiang, what's next?"
Jiang Ming looked around.
The unloading area is on the left side of the mine pit, where it is piled high with Deep Blue Star iron ore.
At the deepest part of the mine, there is a solitary fortress built of black boulders, with two rows of well-equipped orc guards standing outside.
"Marlow, where are the high-grade fire attribute crystals?" Jiang Ming asked.
Marlowe pointed at the black fortress, his hands trembling: "It's right there! That's the residence of 'Bonecrusher' Baal, the mine's chief foreman. All the best ores are sent there for inspection first."
"Very good." Jiang Ming jumped off the Kodo Beast. "Chen Qi, take your men and drive the truck to the unloading area. Find an opportunity to plant the explosives in those piles of Deep Blue Star iron. Lin Yu, you guys stay in the truck and don't move. As soon as the explosives go off, run straight to the gate."
"And what about you?" Chen Qi asked.
Jiang Ming reached back and touched the [White Bone Magic Rocket Launcher] wrapped in rags on his back, then grinned.
"I'm going to the fortress to get something. While I'm at it, I'll set off some fireworks for them."
……
The unloading area of the mine was chaotic.
Everywhere there were the neighing of livestock and the rude shouts of orcs.
Chen Qi, along with his special operations team, pretended to be clumsy as they unloaded boxes of raw ore from the truck.
Taking advantage of the foreman's inattention, he quickly stuffed several high-explosive grenades and the [bone fragmentation landmine] that Jiang Ming had synthesized into those piles of deep blue star iron ore.
Lin Yu and several students huddled in the prison van, so nervous that they could hear their own heartbeats.
On the other side, Jiang Ming walked alone towards the black fortress deep in the mine.
He made no attempt to conceal his presence, striding confidently across the muddy ground covered in coal dust and blood.
"stop!"
As soon as they approached within thirty meters of the fortress, two orc guards standing at the foot of the stone steps immediately raised their heavy tower shields.
[Orc Guardian (Lv.22 Elite)]
[Characteristics: Heavy armor defense, Frenzy.]
"This is Lord Baal's private territory. All unauthorized persons, get out of here!" the guard on the left roared in Common.
Jiang Ming stopped in his tracks.
He ripped off the stinking, tattered orc cloak, revealing a grotesque wolf bone composite breastplate underneath.
"I'm not here to just wander around." Jiang Ming stretched his neck, his knuckles cracking crisply.
He reached out and grabbed the tattered bundle on his back, then yanked it off forcefully.
The pale, bone-like cannon barrel was exposed to the murky air, with dark blue magical patterns faintly visible on its surface, and the magic energy core at the grip emitted a dangerous light.
The two guards were stunned.
They had never seen such a bizarrely shaped weapon in their lives.
"What the hell is this thing...?"
Jiang Ming didn't answer, and simply slung the [White Bone Magic Rocket Launcher] over his right shoulder.
He closed his eyes, mobilized his spiritual power, and frantically poured it into the crystal core in the grip.
Om-!
The magical energy inside the cannon barrel began to compress rapidly, emitting a teeth-grinding buzzing sound.
The surrounding air was visibly distorted due to the convergence of energy.
"Enemy attack!"
"Stop him!"
The guards finally reacted, roaring as they raised their tower shields and charged towards Jiang Ming with heavy steps.
It takes three seconds to fully charge.
Jiang Ming opened his eyes and pulled the trigger.
"Try my precious baby!"
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