Chapter 809: Avoiding the Large Army

Scouts were already no match for Mongol cavalry. Three scouts, facing four martial arts experts from the Central Plains, had nowhere to run and collapsed in pools of blood.
Ding!
A system notification sounded:
“Mission to eliminate enemy scouts completed! 30% progress achieved on the reconnaissance task!”
Ding!
The system continued:
“Enemy scouts have fired signal flares; patrol troops are arriving swiftly. The main camp will send a large cavalry force to hunt them down! Map creation is temporarily suspended! Leave this area immediately to avoid the enemy’s attention and evade patrol sight.”
All four received the warning at the same time. Xu Jun’s expression changed: “We’re on enemy territory now. Where can we run?” As he spoke, they all heard faint horse hooves approaching from afar.
“Damn it!” Xue Chi, who had earlier said the reconnaissance task was easy, looked extremely worried. Patrol teams appeared in both the east and north, each consisting of five men. Moreover, they could clearly feel the ground trembling slightly, turning pale…
A cavalry army!!
A few Mongol cavalrymen might still be manageable, but with an entire cavalry army attacking, probably only Kai Xin would have the confidence to escape unharmed…
“What are you waiting for? Run!” Xue Chi hurriedly grabbed his horse token, but Xu Jun stopped him: “Where to run? Summoning a mount now means revealing our location to the enemy!”
“What should we do then? We can’t just stand here and wait to die!!” As the cavalry grew closer, Xue Chi quickly scanned the area, summoned his horse, and mounted it.
“You…”
In such a crisis, Xue Chi had no time to worry about the others. With a whip swing, he headed in the opposite direction of the enemy camp.
Though he acted rashly, he wasn’t foolish enough to ignore the situation. The direction he took had no patrols and avoided the main cavalry force.
But Kai Xin, Xu Jun, and Xiao Yuyan all knew that by revealing himself, Xue Chi would surely attract the patrols. With Mongol cavalry’s speed across the grasslands, he might not be able to escape.
It should be noted that although these Mongol cavalrymen were few in number, each group was extremely careful and sudden in their attacks on patrol teams, using ambush tactics to succeed—there had never been a head-on confrontation…
Under the three’s watchful eyes, the two patrol teams that appeared in sight were indeed drawn to Xue Chi, quickly changing direction to chase after him.
“Since he’s left, we don’t need to pay attention to him…”

Kai Xin quickly averted his gaze and said at high speed, “Judging from the amplitude of the ground vibrations, the cavalry is still a long way away. I plan to take a risk and avoid them first.”
“I agree!”
“But how do we know if there aren’t patrols in other directions? If we move now, we’ll be spotted by them…” Xiao Yu Yan reminded him worriedly.
“We don’t need to move,” Kai Xin said with a smile. He walked over to where the three scouts had been hiding in disguise, lifted the fur covered in grass and soil, revealing a huge cave that was just right for the three of them to hide in.
“This is a disguise fur! Great!” Xu Jun was delighted. The three scouts had been hiding here without raising any suspicion, but they had been so focused on killing that they forgot about this important item.
“Let’s hide now before it’s too late.”
At Kai Xin’s urging, the three of them quickly re-disguised the fur and lay down in the cave, covering themselves with it…
Kai Xin used his spiritual senses to check and confirmed that nothing was amiss before feeling relieved—the terrain here was rugged and complex, so the cavalry wouldn’t be able to easily pass through.
“It’s a shame if Xue Chi doesn’t leave…” Xu Jun sighed softly in the cave.
Kai Xin replied indifferently, “If he doesn’t leave, none of us will survive.” Xu Jun immediately fell silent.
That was true.
The cave prepared in advance could only hold three people, and even if no one distracted the patrols, they still risked being discovered.
Seeing that Xu Jun remained quiet, Kai Xin continued in a low voice, “Stop talking. It’s less than half an hour until dark. By then, the patrols will have limited visibility, making them easy to deal with. We’ll go out once it’s dark to complete the remaining tasks…”
“Mm.”
Xu Jun and Xu Xin blinked, indicating they understood.
There was no sound left in the cave. From the outside, it looked like just a desolate grassland, with nothing unusual…
But in the next half hour, a large cavalry unit roared past, very close to where the three were hiding. The noise was almost enough to knock them out;
Fortunately, they came and went quickly!
The armored cavalry rushed by without stopping.
But since it wasn’t yet dark, the three remained motionless, not daring to move, unsure if there were still patrols outside or behind them.
Sure enough…
Amidst faint hoofbeats, several more groups of riders rushed past one after another as the sky gradually darkened.
…
Huh!

The moment the animal skin was lifted, the three of them rushed out of the pit at top speed, forming a triangle, their vigilant eyes scanning various directions swiftly.
The sky over the grassland was filled with bright stars, but it was still difficult to see far ahead.
The cool night breeze blew across the quiet grassland, and only then did the three of them breathe a deep sigh of relief—they were truly safe now.
Ding!
System prompt:
“Task of concealing one’s presence completed successfully. Milestone completion progress reached 40%!”
“Successfully disguised to evade the patrol’s detection! Milestone completion progress reached 50%!”
“Successfully avoided the cavalry unit’s search! Milestone completion progress reached 60%!”
“Out of danger. Terrain mapping progress resumes. Current completion rate: 20%… 21%…”
“Remaining unfinished tasks: terrain mapping, investigating the supply route…” The continuous system prompts left the three of them silent for a while.
Xu Jun stepped closer, glanced at the other two, and then spoke, trying to keep his voice confined to just the three of them:
“My idea is that the terrain mapping can probably be completed quickly at night, allowing us to reach over 80% completion… This task will earn 1,000 points in total, so each of us can get at least 800 points…”
“You mean you don’t plan to complete the last task—investigating the supply route…” Kai Xin could tell he was considering giving up.
The latter gave a bitter smile: “What else can we do? It’s night now, and things are relatively okay. Mapping the terrain shouldn’t be a problem. But as you saw just now, those damned scouts know how to disguise themselves. What if we get caught again?” He paused, then said solemnly, “We’re very close to the enemy camp now. More scouts will surely appear, increasing the risk of being discovered. As for the supply route, we don’t have any clues… Instead of taking risks here, it’s better to go back and complete the task. 800 points is already quite good.”
“If you want to leave, go ahead. I’m not leaving. It took so much effort to get this close, and we haven’t even had a chance to kill many enemies yet. It would be a shame to leave now.” Kai Xin spoke calmly, but his gaze fell on Xiao Yuyan:
“What do you mean?”