Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 354 It Was A Plague

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

"Where have you been?" Marin looked petulant as she interrogated earnestly upon Rocky'sappearance. She had been waiting for him in the middle of the campsite. She sounded to bedaunted 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. Andagain he sought from the Deputy Commander Chen, "Are you done with what I assigned you todo?"

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

Rocky approached the bodies to look at them by himself in order to ward off any mistake. He foundno foibles in the result. So he proposed to the Deputy Commander Chen to lead in person ofseveral scores of soldiers to complete the plan. They commanded the soldiers to stuff the hundredbodies 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 sitesof 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, twoCommanders were debating about the schemes to beleaguer and apprehend the Rough Slope byone single battle since they received the order from their princess.

"Commander Zhou, Commander Zuo, we are in a tight corner!" A Deputy Commander shrieked ashe 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 utterlyparalyzed," the Deputy Commander reported straight away.

The two Commanders looked at each other in silence as a lamb for a few seconds beforeCommander 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 didthey 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 fromto have an investigation on the cause..." The Deputy Commander continued his answer.

"Then what are you still twiddling your thumbs for? Send someone to replace out what is the problemin 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 adash?" 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 affordto fail this time. Otherwise, we will have to start digging our graves. The princess will not exonerateon one more out of the blue failure.” Commander Zhou figured out that they had put themselves ingrave jeopardy since they let the northeast army get the military provisions and supplies. Theywould 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 promptlyafter they found a hundred rotten bodies on the upstream of the water source. They found thebodies were severely disgusting with overpowering malodor.

The news frightened the two Commanders. Unable to comprehend what had just occurred, theydecided to go to the spot in person with the military doctor. The military doctor concluded aftercareful examination and identification.

"They might have infected by some sort of plague which fatally festered their body. It seems thatthe soaked body resolved some kind of poison which contaminated the water of this river. That waswhy some of the soldiers paralyzed after consuming the water from this river,” the military doctorjudged.

"Then, why are the rest of the soldiers all in perfect condition?" Commander Zhou inquired.

"It probably has something to do with the constitution of the body. But what is imperative right nowis whether the poison would develop into another plague. Everyone in the entire military campwould be infected once it develops into a plague. If that were the case, we'd be in big trouble,” themilitary doctor acknowledged.

"What safety measures can be taken to deter it from occurring?” The two Commanders were struckdumb to the diagnosis of the doctor. They stood as if paralyzed from the neck up. The tens ofthousands of soldiers in the east campsite would have no lack of conviction that they would beinfected if the plague were real.

"We have to burn these bodies in the first hand. Then we have to put the soldiers who werepoisoned in an isolated room. At the same time, we need to collect some herbs that can dischargethe toxic. Then, inculcate the herbs to medical liquid. Spray the liquid on every corner of the twocampsites. And everyone from the military camp, include the two Commanders, has to be immersedin the medical liquid. As for the soldiers who had been poisoned, they would be all right if therewere not any other symptoms by tomorrow evening,” the military doctor said.

"Tomorrow night? Then, does that imply that we have to bog down our ambush by two days?"Commander Zuo glanced, making inquiries to Commander Zhou.

"These bodies should have been discarded here by the northeast army. I have the notion that theplague might have been spread in the entire northeast military camp. They also wanted theepidemic to spread over in our camp. If we take action to attack them, we may fall prey to their trap.What if it is what they want? Since they have only a few thousands of soldiers, they will feel it worthto die with our army of twenty thousand. So I think they threw the infected bodies to the source ofour water to hook us up. We need to be on guard about it.” Commander Zhou had a sneakingfeeling with his concerns.

"Then we shall follow the military doctor's instruction.” Commander Zuo could not help but nod incompliance. The Commanders ordered the soldiers to incinerate the bodies immediately. The firstthing they did when they showed up to their east campsite was to put the paralyzed soldiers in anisolated place. Then, an army of several hundreds of soldiers were sent to the hills near theircampsite to collect some toxic-expelling herbs. They subsequently infused the herbs into medicalliquid. They sprayed the medical liquid to every corner of the military campsites very carefully, andused it to soak themselves as a preventive measure.

But, the twenty thousand soldiers of the Timber Deity Empire were with one's stomach in knots infront of a mere possibility of a plague. The morale of the soldiers fell to zilch.

Meanwhile, Rocky pricked up his ears to the report from the intelligence personnel in the camp withhis legs crossing and yarning at the same time.

"They have fallen into the trap. They were convinced that there was a plague. Hah-hah..." Rockylaughed out loud. His giggle was a stone bouncing across a glossy lake, creating ripples of mirthwhere there had been none.

"I can't believe we pulled a fast one on them.” Marin was also shell startled by the outcome. WhenRocky first came up with the idea, she did not perceive it would stand any chance to work out. Incase the dupe was seen through, the scorned twenty thousand soldiers of the Timber Deity Empirewould take action to invade the campsite in Rough Slope. If that were the case, they would havebeen wiped out by the twenty thousand soldiers of the Timber Deity Empire.

"But, it would not take long for them to smoke out, right?" Deputy Commander Chen worried. TheCommanders of the Timber Deity Empire would not be so dumb to have been fooled by Rocky forthree days.

"That can at least buy us some time till tomorrow evening. In this case, we will have two days inhand. We will triumph the battle if we can hold on one more day.” Rocky squinted his eyes as hesaid, filled with aplomb.

"But, what if the twenty thousand soldiers of the Timber Deity Empire perceived it is out ploy to buyus more time by tomorrow? And they preferred to assail us under the cover of the night. What shallwe do then?" Marin wondered.

"That is highly possible. So we have to finish all our deployment before the dark of tomorrow. Wewill make a move before they could make a riposte.” Rocky awakened everyone by his comment."Make a move before they could respond?" Marin and Deputy Commander Chen marveled in a lackof credence.

"That is correct. We require to knock out the spirit of the army of the Timber Deity Empire. Let's callit a Move of Decapitation.” Rocky bowed his head.

"What is a Move of Decapitation?" Marin and Deputy Commander Chen were in completebewilderment.

"You know, there are two Commanders. Each of them commands two campsites respectively in theTimber Deity Empire. If only we could eradicate either one of the Commanders, then the soldiers ofthe two campsites could go to rack and ruins due to the lack of leadership. The military force of theTimber Deity Empire would be forced to reorganize. That would take at least another day. Then wecan make it for these three days." There was a cold look in Rocky's eyes.

Marin and Deputy Commander Chen were left mouth-open after they heard Rocky's plan.