55: The Vanished Granary

"It's not silent; I can sense their movements. Their spatial energy fluctuations create a ripple every time they move!" Huang Yichen said seriously to Wei He.

"What do you mean? Will they be discovered as soon as they appear before the enemy?" Wei He said in disbelief.

"If there were no mages present, it would be quiet, and no one would notice!" Huang Yichen said calmly, looking at the Chrono Legionnaires before him.

Wei He looked at the multifunctional infantry vehicle before him and suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Back when he played games on Blue Star, he loved putting Chrono Legionnaires into multifunctional infantry vehicles. Putting different units into a multifunctional infantry vehicle would yield different effects.

At this thought, Wei He hurried back into the base and built a dozen more multifunctional infantry vehicles, placing the Chrono Legionnaires into them one by one.

"Moving like this, there won't be any spatial energy fluctuations, right?" Wei He asked Huang Yichen beside him.

"Yes, this way there are no spatial energy fluctuations, and they can sneak onto the battlefield silently!" Huang Yichen said calmly.

Fite City was the last city before entering the Ande Valley. Jian was currently drinking and making merry with the City Lord of Fite City. In the center of the dance floor, over a dozen beauties were dancing gracefully. Their elegant movements and slender waists made Jian's eyes light up, his lustful gaze darting around greedily.

As for the military grain Alice needed, it would still take a few days to be gathered at Fite City. This made Jian, who hadn't indulged in days, extremely happy; he walked into the bedroom with a woman on each arm.

This also gave Wei He time to operate. A dozen multifunctional infantry vehicles carrying Chrono Legionnaires were racing frantically toward the Ande Valley.

"I still need to build the Superweapon as soon as possible. With the current scale of my forces, I'm far from being a match for the Magic Empire!" Wei He muttered to himself as he watched the multifunctional infantry vehicles speeding across the screen. "If only I had a chronosphere, I wouldn't have to go through all this trouble!"

Because the Magic Empire's army was blocking the only road into the Ande Valley, the multifunctional infantry vehicles had to advance with difficulty through the forest.

Finally, the multifunctional infantry vehicles arrived at Fite City just before Jian set off for the Ande Valley.

Even though it was midnight, people were still coming and going through the gates of Fite City. Large groups of soldiers were driving beast-drawn carts loaded with grain and fodder toward the city's granaries.

Inside the granaries, the walls were lined with stone lamps made of Magic Crystals, casting a brilliant light that illuminated the path forward.

"So tired! Transporting grain this late at night... this really isn't a job for humans!" Soldier A, who had a pockmarked face, grumbled. For the past few days, he had been moving between multiple cities just to transport military grain.

"Stop talking! Be careful not to let the General hear you, or you'll get the paddle again!" Soldier B said cautiously.

"Have you heard? Things aren't going well at the front. Our main army hasn't even arrived yet, and the food has already been burned to a crisp. That's why they're urgently gathering more grain to send to the front!" Soldier C said secretively.

"Hmph, how useless. The grain disappears before they even see the enemy. Who knows if it was burned by the enemy or if he sold it all himself!" Pockmarked Soldier A said disdainfully.

"Do you want to die? How dare you say such things!"

"Alright, alright, let's just get back to work."

...Inside the base, Wei He was monitoring the situation in Fite City at all times. To have more granaries to store food, Jian had driven out the commoners in the south of the city and used their houses to store grain.

The multifunctional infantry vehicles arrived at the southern city wall. A section of the wall was directly erased by an Eraser Ray. The multifunctional infantry vehicles entered the city openly and aimed their Eraser Rays directly at these temporary granaries. One house after another gradually became transparent until they vanished completely. The beast carts and grain inside, including the soldiers transporting them, also vanished.

At the Qunfang Courtyard in Fite City, a soldier ran inside hurriedly and arrived outside Jian's bedroom door.

"General! General! Something is wrong, General!" the soldier shouted anxiously.

"What are you doing? Today isn't the day we set out! If you disturb me again, I'll have your head!" Jian said, lying naked in bed, flanked by two equally naked beauties embracing him.

"General, the grain is gone! Please come and see for yourself!" The soldier was so anxious he was almost in tears, wondering how he ended up following such an unreliable general.

"What? Are you joking?" Jian snapped awake instantly, pushed the women aside, and sat up.

"Oh, what's the matter? I was sleeping!" One of the beauties, woken from her slumber, frowned and complained with a pout.

"Get out! Get out! All of you, get out!" Jian pushed them off the bed and threw their clothes at them.

"General, it's true! General!" the soldier said anxiously, hearing the commotion inside.

Jian grabbed his clothes, pushed open the door, and walked out quickly.

In the south of Fite City, Jian stood where the houses storing the grain had been. It was now an empty expanse of compacted earth; even the floor tiles were gone.

"Where is the grain? Where are the houses? Where did it all go? Did you people sell it off in secret?" Jian roared in anger, looking at the empty plot in disbelief.

"General, we don't know either! We had many brothers inside the houses unloading grain, and now they've disappeared along with the houses!" Pockmarked Soldier A said with a look of grievance.

"Are the northern granaries still there?" Jian suddenly noticed the neat gap in the city wall and, as if thinking of something, asked urgently.

"The northern granaries are still perfectly fine!" Soldier A replied with certainty on his pockmarked face.

"Let's go, to the north!" Worried, Jian mounted his steed and galloped toward the north of the city. It was only because the northern granaries were overflowing that they had moved grain to the south.

As Jian was speaking, the multifunctional infantry vehicles were also moving from outside the city toward the northern city wall.

The soldiers at the northern granary had just changed shifts when they saw Jian riding up quickly.

"Greetings, General!" the soldiers guarding the granary shouted loudly.

"Mhm. Nothing unusual has happened here, has it?" Jian asked with authority from atop his tall horse.

"Reporting to the General, everything is normal here!" a soldier replied seriously.

At that same moment, a multifunctional infantry vehicle erased a section of the northern wall and entered the granary district. One granary began to turn transparent, enveloped by ripples of blue light.

"General, the granary! The granary is turning blue!" a soldier shouted, his eyes filled with terror as he looked at the building.

"What! What is going on?" Jian asked in shock as he watched the granary gradually become transparent.

"Your subordinate doesn't know, General!" Even as the soldier spoke, one granary vanished from the spot.

"Ah! Hurry, go and see!" Jian rode his horse toward the location of the vanished granary, with a squad of soldiers following hurriedly behind.

Another granary began to turn transparent, and then... swish, it vanished. Then the third, the fourth... "What on earth is going on?" A helpless

Jian desperately whipped the horse's rump with the crop in his hand, yet all of this happened right before his eyes.

Finally, all the granaries vanished. All the grain inside and the soldiers stationed there were also erased by the Eraser Rays.