Chapter 959: A Jealous Dog

Zhang Yi's words instantly calmed the fire that had been burning in Deng Shentong's heart.

However, after thinking about that large spirit, he decided not to tell Zhang Yi.

If, as Zhang Yi said, the small spirit was just an energy construct, then what about the large one?

That one might be the real Divine Source!

Deng Shentong had his own selfish motives; he kept the matter to himself.

"Anyway, thanks for sharing the intel. I'll keep an eye out."

Zhang Yi smiled at Deng Shentong.

Deng Shentong felt a little guilty, but people are selfish by nature. His talent wasn't as outstanding as Zhang Yi's, so he had to look out for himself.

He wanted to become stronger and refused to be anyone's understudy.

Not long after, the two of them left Star Island.

Zhang Yi brought Deng Shentong back to Xuanwu.

Their return astonished everyone on Xuanwu.

It was only the first day, and Deng Shentong came back covered in wounds.

A few officers from the East Sea Region couldn't help but sneer when they saw him.

"The Jiangnan Region captain-level, already withdrawing from the battlefield so soon?"

"Well, at least he kept his life."

Nearby, Yan Yun Guard members from the Jiangnan Region hurried over to provide support.

Hearing those remarks, anger flashed in their eyes.

But Deng Shentong was clearly badly injured, and they had no way to refute it.

Zhang Yi glanced at the few Sea Dragon unit officers making snide comments and said calmly,

"Yeah, we just wiped out three allied superhuman squads—completely annihilated them!"

"I wonder how your East Sea Region's record is doing right now?"

The Sea Dragon officers from the East Sea Region immediately changed expression.

This sort of thing could be verified with a simple check, and given Zhang Yi and Deng Shentong's status, there was no way they could be lying about it.

Their faces grew awkward, and for a moment they had to cover it up with coughs.

Zhang Yi couldn't be bothered with them and ordered that Deng Shentong be taken to a medbay pod for treatment.

When Li Tianyang and Situ Xin heard the news that Zhang Yi and Deng Shentong had returned, they also came over.

They couldn't monitor the island's situation in real time.

After the various superhuman units landed on the island, they had dispersed to operate independently.

Because everyone secretly had designs on the Divine Source, they wouldn't synchronize battlefield updates in real time.

Only special incidents would be reported to the command center.

"Chaos, Erlang Shen, why are you back so soon?"

Li Tianyang asked with his hands behind his back and a frown.

Zhang Yi shot him a glance. "Erlang Shen singlehandedly wiped out a Malai superhuman squad. Their leader claimed to be Malai's number one powerhouse—called... what was it? The name was so long, it's damn hard to remember."

Deng Shentong smiled, "Tapel Elias."

Li Tianyang and the others changed color.

Of course they had heard of that Malai superhuman's reputation.

Li Tianyang looked at the severely injured Deng Shentong. "You killed Elias?"

"No, Chaos and I teamed up to kill him."

Deng Shentong spoke frankly.

Zhang Yi looked at him in surprise—hadn't they agreed that the origin would belong to Zhang Yi and the credit to Deng Shentong?

Deng Shentong smiled at him. "Empty fame? I've had too much of that in my life. It doesn't matter to me."

Zhang Yi gave a helpless laugh. "Fair enough."

As a scion of the Deng Family, Deng Shentong didn't care much about mission credits.

Li Tianyang stared at Zhang Yi sharply, his gaze like a shark locking onto prey.

Zhang Yi gradually narrowed his eyes in response.

Li Tianyang had always been at odds with him. Hearing about Zhang Yi's achievements now clearly made him resentful.

But Zhang Yi simply ignored him. Although this operation was led by the East Sea Region, that didn't mean the Jiangnan Region could be bullied.

Besides, Li Tianyang was only an operations chief, not the regional commander.

"I need a batch of new supplies prepared. Especially high-yield explosives and weapons, plus food and fresh water."

Zhang Yi told Situ Xin.

Situ Xin nodded. "Okay, no problem. Whatever you need, we'll get it!"

Situ Xin's grin was almost crooked.

Zhang Yi's performance today had really put some honor back into the Jiangnan Region.

It showed the East Sea Region that Jiangnan wasn't as weak as they assumed.

"Hold on!"

Just as Zhang Yi was about to leave with the logistics officer, Li Tianyang suddenly called after him.

Zhang Yi gave him a cold glance. "What is it?"

Li Tianyang asked sternly, "How could you act on the battlefield without authorization? Why didn't you follow my orders to advance toward Mist Valley? Instead you conducted guerrilla operations at the edge of the battlefield and disturbed the enemy. That affects the entire campaign!"

He lifted his chin and snorted coldly. "Is it impressive to have wiped out a few small squads? Why didn't you go take on Colombia's Hell's Lock?"

"Don't forget our main goal. It's not for you to show off—it's to obtain the Divine Source!"

After hearing Li Tianyang's words, Zhang Yi slowly narrowed his eyes.

This bastard, shamelessly using public duty as a pretense to criticize him.

Zhang Yi glanced back at Xuanwu.

Although Xuanwu's head was down playing video games, Zhang Yi couldn't take action against Li Tianyang while he was here.

He could only let out a cold laugh and look at Li Tianyang with disdain.

"When did we need to report to you about every move on the island?"

Li Tianyang didn't expect Zhang Yi to retort and immediately scolded loudly, "How rude! I'm the overall commander of this operation. On the battlefield you must obey all my orders! Otherwise it's disobeying military command!"

Situ Xin approached Li Tianyang with a smiling face and put a hand on his shoulder.

"Minister Li, calm down. As the saying goes, commanders in the field may need to disobey some orders. Conditions on Star Island are complicated; some situations require flexible responses."

"Chaos's actions were driven by many environmental factors."

A flash of killing intent flickered in Zhang Yi's eyes and then vanished.

Although Li Tianyang's attitude was infuriating, Zhang Yi wouldn't be foolish enough to strike him here.

Maybe Li Tianyang's purpose was to provoke him, to force Zhang Yi to act.

If Zhang Yi struck, with Xuanwu present they could easily detain him.

They would then accuse him of disobeying orders and confine him within Xuanwu's body.

In that case, Zhang Yi would be unable to take part in the struggle over the Divine Source.

Having figured it all out, Zhang Yi restored his calm demeanor.

But he noted the matter and would remember it.

Xuanwu noticed that the killing intent in Zhang Yi had disappeared and gave him a bright smile.

That made Zhang Yi's heart tighten.

"Looks like he's ready to move against me."

Although Xuanwu was currently in spirit form, on his true body he was the absolute master.

Zhang Yi didn't know Xuanwu's methods, and he wasn't stupid enough to pick a fight with him.

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