Do you understand?!
To be honest, Chen Yu truly didn't understand.
From the moment he entered Fengqi City, he sensed the deficiencies in its defenses. His first action was to contact Kailin and have Black Donkey from the free town transferred over.
Yet, Black Donkey was here talking to him about attacking cities.
What city was he attacking?!
"What are you talking about? What do I understand?" Chen Yu frowned, his voice grave. "I told you to bring troops and hurry to Fengqi City to find me. You've delayed for a month, and now you're babbling nonsense at me. You're attacking cities? What cities are there for you to attack?"
"Just the cities we encountered on the road," Black Donkey mumbled, his confidence wavering.
"You attacked..."
Before Chen Yu could finish, the words caught in his throat. He frowned and remained silent for a long time.
"Wait a moment," Chen Yu slowly raised his hand, his eyes filled with confusion. "You said you attacked cities you encountered on the road, pointing to..."
"The cities along the route to Fengqi City."
"Huh?!"
In an instant, Chen Yu was truly dumbfounded. He stared at Black Donkey in disbelief for more than half a minute, then licked his lips and spoke tentatively.
"Explain in detail."
"Well, you know, you asked me to find you in Fengqi City urgently," Black Donkey explained, and Chen Yu nodded slightly.
There was nothing wrong with that statement; Chen Yu was indeed in a hurry.
"You need soldiers urgently, and our Free Town is too far from Fengqi City. So, I had to plan a route to get to you sooner."
"The route, didn't I already sort out the route for you?"
Chen Yu tapped his wristband, found Kailin's chat box, and scrolled up repeatedly.
"Which plane to travel to, which space-jumping point to use, I marked it clearly for Kailin. If you follow this route, you'll arrive in seven days. There's no such thing as encountering cities."
"Boss, your route is no longer usable," Black Donkey spread his hands and sighed.
Amidst Chen Yu's questions, Black Donkey explained the situation outside in detail. The summary was that the fragmented planes within the Tatu Kingdom had finished merging.
Roni and Chen Yu went to the kingdom, and about a month later, the planes merged.
From the timing, Chen Yu was already in the River Town area of the Batu Federation. The planes of the Batu Federation were not in chaos, which allowed Chen Yu to witness areas without fragmented planes.
When he returned to Fengqi City from the Batu Federation, the plane fusion had entered its final stage.
"So, the space outside is no longer fragmented planes?" Chen Yu's eyes were filled with deep surprise. Black Donkey shrugged and spread his hands. "Didn't you notice it in Fengqi City? Where are the space-jumping points around here? Aren't these all contiguous territories?"
"..."
If Black Donkey hadn't asked him this, Chen Yu wouldn't have paid much attention to it.
It seemed that the entire Fengqi City was a unified entity.
"Since the route I gave you is unusable, how did you reach Fengqi City?" Chen Yu asked softly. Black Donkey grinned, "Looking at the map! Kailin got a map of the Tatu Kingdom from our surrounding city-states. I followed the map all the way here. To shorten the time, I used the knowledge that 'the shortest distance between two points is a straight line' and drew a straight line on the map."
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
The cultural and educational efforts of Free Town were indeed up to par. He was even more certain that those who imparted this knowledge were survivors invited from outside the underground caves.
This familiar adage gave Chen Yu a sense of returning to his nine years of compulsory education.
"Following the straight line, you encountered some troublesome cities along the way, so you attacked them all," Chen Yu said casually. However, the moment he saw Black Donkey's eyes, the smile on his face vanished.
He quietly watched Black Donkey's serious expression and slowly swallowed.
"Don't tell me you actually attacked them?"
"I did!" Black Donkey nodded without hesitation. "All the cities that appeared on my line were conquered. Some that were slightly off my route, I also took care of, and looted quite a bit of money and supplies from those cities."
"What!?"
Upon hearing this news and looking at Black Donkey's bright eyes, Chen Yu could no longer remain calm and exclaimed.
"You..."
Chen Yu, after moving his lips for a long time, didn't know what to say. He let out a few deep breaths and asked Black Donkey for the map.
"Give me the map."
Black Donkey fumbled through his spatial artifact to find the map. During this time, Chen Yu was contemplating how daring Black Donkey was to rashly attack cities without his command.
The problem was, he had actually succeeded in attacking them.
He now hoped that the cities Black Donkey had attacked were few. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to manage them, and the ensuing chaos within the cities would only cause suffering to the people in the underground caves.
Although he thought this, Chen Yu estimated that Black Donkey should have only attacked a few cities.
Chen Yu didn't know the exact travel time from Free Town to Fengqi City after the plane fusion, but the distance was definitely not short. Black Donkey and his men had been attacking and traveling for over a month, so attacking three to five cities should be the limit.
Unexpectedly, the moment Chen Yu saw Black Donkey spread out the map.
"Are you f***ing serious? You attacked all the cities on this route?" Chen Yu stared at the map, feeling somewhat suffocated.
Black Donkey, however, still had that dauntless expression and nodded noncommittally.
Damn it!
this old Black Donkey had indeed done a lot on the way, and it was something terrifying.
Lauren, standing beside him, was completely stunned.
The location of Free Town, as shown on the map, was in the northern region of the Tatu Kingdom, bordering its territory.
Fengqi City was located on the western side of the entire Tatu Kingdom.
From the attack route drawn by Black Donkey, if the entire Tatu Kingdom was viewed as a square cake, Black Donkey, who had marched from Free Town, had essentially sliced off a corner of this Tatu Kingdom cake.
This corner was roughly one-tenth the size of the entire cake.
Lauren's eyes were fixed on the map, then he silently looked up at Black Donkey, and after about half a minute, he looked back down at the map that was within his reach.
What followed was unspeakable shock!
Just how formidable were the people under the City Lord? Before Batu Federation even attacked, one-tenth of the Tatu Kingdom had already fallen to the troops under their City Lord.
Even more outrageous was that, listening to the conversation between the City Lord and the capable individual in front of him.
It took less than fifty days.
Lauren truly couldn't believe it. From his perspective, traveling from Free Town to here would take about forty days, leaving them less than ten days for attacking cities.
In such a short period, they had torn open a gap in the Tatu Kingdom.
What kind of elite soldiers and fierce generals were these?!
Could this be a dream?