Chapter 384 Awareness
Although disguised as an ordinary caravan, the caravan transporting greenskin slaves had a smooth journey westward from the War Council and the southern border of the Green Tide.

However, this success was only based on the uneven level of vigilance in various parts of the War Council.

As for the inspection of caravans, the War Council mainly focused on the western territory close to the border wall. The goods transported by each caravan had to undergo layers of inspection before entering the territory of the Council.

Due to the large number of people and materials moving around in the western territories, each town in the western territories will try its best to establish a warning and inspection system, and widely use various magic arrays and strange machines to ensure that no illegal and dangerous items will pass the inspection and mix into the committee's territory.

If the caravan has any problems, they will be resolved before they enter the committee territory.

In the eastern territory of the committee, the inspection and review of caravans is not so strict. Since there are no idle spellcasters and the output of strange machines in the strange machine industrial zone is limited, most of the towns in the eastern territory still use traditional manual inspections.

Traditional manual inspections are naturally not complete, not to mention that the rotten and smelly city defense forces of the War Committee and the United Army have all been liquidated and shot out. Only a few old-timers who have been idling around, punching in at work, and have not done any major evil will not be liquidated.

Therefore, most of the city defense forces in these cities in the eastern territory were retrained by the committee in the past year. Although they have a diligent work attitude, they were directly put on the job after simple training, so they still lack work ability and do not understand many tricks. Therefore, they were easily passed by the caravan.

"Captain David, you're slacking off again."

At the gate of a small town, a captain of a city defense squad walked out of the town and circled the gate. Just as he was feeling pleased at the people who were sticking to their posts, he saw out of the corner of his eye a city defense soldier who was resting in the shade. Seeing this, he walked over and said.

The city defense soldier who was resting in the shade looked up at him lazily and spoke casually.

"Hey, it's break time now, how can you say I'm lazy? I'm just following the schedule."

Hearing David's words, the team leader shook his head slightly helplessly and said.

"Then you should rest somewhere else. They still have to stand guard."

"Oh, I don't like to hear that. They can stand on their own terms. I don't affect them."

David said lazily, scratching his back.

The captain extended his right finger and said to David.

"Forget it, kid. I don't want to talk to you."

He had originally planned to say something to educate him, but after seeing David slowly turn over, the team leader became helpless and discouraged.

After all, although he was a little unhappy with David's current state, David was diligent and responsible in his daily work after all, so he just let it be and he was too lazy to care.

Just as the team leader shook his head and prepared to go to other places for inspection, he also raised his head slightly and looked along the road that had just been built this year at the door. A medium-sized caravan was heading towards this side from afar.

"This doesn't look like our team."

When the team captain was looking at the caravan in the distance, David, who had just been lying on the ground to rest, appeared beside the team captain. He looked at the caravan in the distance and whispered.

Hearing David's voice, the team leader rolled his eyes at him and said.

"It's a caravan from Sinar. Why make a fuss? It's not the first time a caravan has passed by. Just follow the rules."

After saying that, the team leader didn't pay much attention to it and turned around and left.

Watching the captain's back as he left, David cast another glance at the caravan approaching from a distance, then slowly lay back in the shade.

Although this is only a small town, due to the restrictions imposed by the Committee on foreign caravans, even though it is located in the Committee's eastern territory, this town has received various caravans, large and small.

Therefore, the city defenders were not too surprised by the approach of this caravan.

After the caravan approached, the city defense soldiers at the city gate also stopped the caravan. Then, they began the inspection according to the committee's procedures. One city defense soldier found the merchant of the caravan and checked the mark on his piece of paper, while other city defense soldiers, under the guidance of the caravan workers, checked the goods in the caravan one by one.

Since the city defense troops were guided by the caravan workers to conduct inspections, their simple spot checks were ineffective.

Even if the city defense forces checked the spice boxes, they just took a quick look and skipped over them, and did not discover the green-skinned orcs hidden under the spices.

"Wow, where did all these boxes of spices come from?"

Just as the city defense troops and caravan members were happily inspecting, David, who had just been lying in the shade, walked to a spice box for some reason. Without any caravan workers watching, he pushed open the box, looked at the spices inside, and spoke with interest.

After hearing David's voice, the guards in the caravan who were silently wiping their weapons turned their eyes to him.

Under their gaze, David showed no fear at all. He drew out his standard long knife and was about to poke the spices in front of him.

"Sir, please show mercy!"

After David drew his weapon, a member of the caravan finally reacted, rushed over, held David's hand, and spoke loudly.

"Sir, these are all the spices I just bought. They are all legal and compliant. Look, there are even labels on them."

As he spoke, he pointed to a stamp on the spice box, an official stamp from the committee's official shop.

David glanced at it and put away his long sword as if nothing had happened. He stretched out his right hand in the blind spot blocked by the caravan members and rubbed his fingers a few times.

After seeing David's little action, the caravan member suddenly realized what was going on. He moved closer to David, skillfully took out a purse from his arms and stuffed it into David's arms.

Under the gaze of the caravan members, David silently weighed the purse and smiled with satisfaction. Then he put the purse in his arms and spoke as if nothing had happened.

"It seems there is no problem."

And just after all this happened, the city defense soldier who confirmed the mark on the paper with the merchant put the paper back to the merchant. He frowned and looked at David and said loudly.

"David, what are you doing? Don't disturb our work."

"Hey, I'm here to help you take a look."

David took a few steps back from the spice box, looked up at him and said with a smile.

After David left, the guards in the caravan who had been secretly watching David also silently withdrew their gazes.

"Climb, climb, climb. Isn't it time for you to rest? Go and lie down quickly. It's good enough that you're helping and not making things worse."

The city defense army said unhappily.

David shrugged at his words and lazily returned to the shade, lying down again and closing his eyes.

Without David's interference, the city defense forces quickly completed the inspection of the caravan. After finding no problems, they allowed the caravan to enter the town.

The merchant of the caravan sent away the inspecting city defense soldiers with an apologetic smile. Then, after taking a look at David, who seemed to have fallen asleep in the shade, he quickly led the caravan into the town.

After all the members of the caravan entered the town and disappeared from the sight of the city defense forces, the city defense forces standing guard at the city gate also prepared to communicate with David.

They were going to remind David to pay attention to his image. They were the face of the committee and could not be so lazy, disorganized, and undisciplined. As for why they didn't say anything just now, it was naturally because the caravan hadn't left yet.

But when they looked towards the shade, they were surprised to find that David had left at some point.

In the town, the captain of the city defense team was inspecting the work of the city defense forces in various parts of the town according to the schedule.

After patrolling one block and preparing to move on to the next block, the team leader walking on the street suddenly raised his head and looked into the shadow of an alley nearby.

As he watched, the shadows in the alley began to ripple slightly.

Seeing this, he also glanced at the busy streets around him and continued walking along the streets as if nothing had happened.

He quickly walked to an empty corner, then climbed over the wall and entered the alley.

The team leader stood in the shadows and spoke calmly.

"Come out, what's the matter that requires you to be so cautious?"

As soon as he finished speaking, David's voice came from the shadows.

"There's something wrong with the caravan that just came into town."

As his voice rang out, David's figure emerged from the shadows.

The team leader frowned slightly and asked.

"How is the strength?"

"They are very strong. If we rely on the city defense forces alone, we may not be able to take down all of them."

David said cautiously.

"There are at least ten low-level extraordinary people. Even the ordinary people are elites who have been trained."

"Also, there are several holes in their cargo that are imperceptible to humanoids. They could be dangerous objects and need to be handled with caution."

"Can't you tell what it is?"

The team leader looked up at him in surprise and said.

David rolled his eyes at the team leader, waved his hands and said.

"I'm only a level 1 or 2 transcendent, and they were able to hide it from so many towns. Isn't it strange that I can't detect something?"

"That's true."

The team leader nodded, thought for a moment, and said.

"To be on the safe side, let's notify the City Hall and ask them to contact the military. As long as the army takes action, everything will be fine."

"Ah."

David nodded, agreeing with his idea, and then he prepared to leave.

As he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something, took out a purse from his arms, threw it to the team leader, and said.

"This is the money I cheated from them when I came over to check. Please hand it over for me."

"I understand, but remember to write the report yourself. I can't help you with that."

The team leader took the purse and said helplessly. After a pause, he continued.

"Are you really not planning to go to the academy for further studies? With your talent, the City Hall will be happy to help you apply. There is no need for you to waste your time in the City Defense Force. You can make more contributions to the committee."

Hearing his words, David paused, and his whole figure merged into the shadows, leaving only one sentence.

"Let me think about it again."

The team leader sighed helplessly. He sincerely felt that there was no need for David to waste time in the city defense army.

As the person who brought up David, he knew very well how talented David was. When he practiced with a rotten book sold at a street stall, he couldn't even make any progress, but David was able to easily become an extraordinary person.

If he could go to the committee's academy for further studies and receive a truly extraordinary education, his future prospects would absolutely be immeasurable.

Unfortunately, because of the brutal rule of the previous coalition forces, David had deep doubts about any regime and officialdom, and he did not trust even the committee.

When the committee was forcibly integrating the population and land, David had a fight with the committee's legionnaires and was directly suppressed and captured.

Although no one knew what happened afterwards, David was released one day after being captured. After this experience, David's attitude towards the committee softened a little, but he was still a little resistant.

"Hey."

The team leader sighed, left the alley, and headed to the town hall in the center of the town, ready to pass the message to the town hall.

Over at the City Hall, after receiving the news from the team leader, they did not hesitate and decisively sent a message to the troops stationed nearby, requesting their support.

According to the alert order issued by Roland, after receiving the support information from the city hall, the troops stationed nearby also moved quickly.

While reporting the news to the military headquarters, the officers in the barracks quickly organized an elite force of 100 people to go to the town for support according to the authorization of the alert order. At the same time, they mobilized other troops in the barracks and sent them to various places to strengthen local defense.

With the transportation network established, the elite force of a hundred men sent from the military camp arrived at the town in less than half a day by forced march.

Through the town's secret gate, the one hundred elite soldiers entered the town quietly.

After the elite soldiers arrived, the military superhumans who accompanied them also mobilized all the city defense forces, and the town’s administrative system also fully cooperated, and the superhumans in the administrative department also began to prepare for their first battle.

Fortunately, more than a year has passed since the committee's transition from military control during the occupation to administrative rule in this town, and the committee has a high level of control over the entire town.

Therefore, relying on high control, the authorities quickly evacuated all the people near the foreign caravanserai and quietly replaced them with city defense troops.

After getting almost everything in exchange, the authorities took action against the hotel, carefully arranging elite soldiers to enter the hotel and arranging the evacuation of other people in the hotel.

Perhaps it was due to the official caution, or perhaps the caravan was too lax at night, but until the last citizen evacuated the hotel and all the people inside the hotel were replaced by elite soldiers, the caravan did not notice anything wrong.

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