"who?"
Su Lin looked up at Jia Zhengyi, who pointed ahead and said, "Those new recruits seem to have heard the commotion and sent a few squads to scout ahead of us."
"Send someone to contact them. You go yourself."
Sulin assigned Jia Zhengyi to go with Lyanna and several elves, ensuring Jia Zhengyi's safety and also letting the recruits see Lyanna's presence.
In the eyes of this human army, Lyanna is now the epitome of a proper squad, while Jia Zhengyi is the squad's mouthpiece; this mission is perfect for the two of them.
"Okay, boss."
Jia Zhengyi nodded and left the group with the elves.
The remaining elves continued clearing the battlefield, while Elrere, on Xiao Linlin's advice, continued to interrogate the orc prisoners in an effort to obtain more useful intelligence.
Taking advantage of a rare free moment, Xiao Linlin was excitedly preparing to talk to Su Lin when she looked up and found that Su Lin had already picked up a boxing manual and was reading it.
"Ah, brother! Why are you still looking at it?"
Xiao Linlin felt dejected and pouted, "Haven't you learned it yet? I saw you use it before, it's a very powerful fist technique!"
"It's only a small achievement; it still needs repeated consolidation."
Su Lin replied without looking up, "The fist techniques I used earlier were somewhat of a shortcut, since I already had solid martial arts skills; but these skills are given by the system, so I think I should thoroughly understand this manual before considering switching to others."
Regular self-study should be done step by step, especially the first book on self-taught martial arts skills, which serves as a path to verify the self-study hypothesis and deserves Su Lin's extra attention.
"Um?"
It took Su Lin a while to react, and she looked at Xiao Linlin: "Is there something you want to say to me?"
"Oh, no, no, I just wanted to ask what your plans are next... but based on my analysis, you've probably come with me."
Xiao Linlin spread her small hands, her face full of helplessness: "Anyway, you only care about the result, and don't seem to care much about the details."
"really."
Su Lin smiled and nodded: "Didn't Old Jia say that my followers are my escorts? So how to escape and how to profit should be the escorts' responsibility."
Su Lin teased her, but Xiao Linlin just hummed in response.
He certainly wouldn't leave all the burdens to his followers, but it was also essential to make full use of each follower's abilities.
Just as Su Lin finished speaking, a notification appeared in front of him.
[Congratulations, player! You have achieved a victory in a battle!]
Based on the number of enemies you and your followers killed and their strength, you have received a total reward of 2 million resource coins!
[Reminder: Your single battle win rewards have reached the limit.]
The pure currency reward for winning the battle is here!
Su Lin looked up and couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.
"There really is a limit to campaign rewards!"
Xiao Linlin also saw it, and analyzed while resting her chin on her hand: "Brother, I thought it was strange before... When we first received the reward, we got more than a million pure coins, but we only defeated a few thousand orcs."
"I was thinking at the time, if we kill a million orcs at this rate, the pure currency reward would definitely exceed 100 million, which is definitely unreasonable."
"It seems the mechanism has already taken precautions. Although this reward mechanism exists, it doesn't actually intend to make us rich overnight."
Xiao Linlin sounded a little regretful, and Su Lin rubbed her head: "You little greedy girl, you were planning to get tens of millions or hundreds of millions from just one battle?"
"I'm not that greedy! Besides... even if one battle isn't enough, we can achieve this goal by winning a few more."
Xiao Linlin raised her little head and counted on her fingers for Su Lin: "Brother, even if we take the 2 million cap for a single battle, if we win 10 battles, won't we have 20 million? Wouldn't we break 100 million in 50 battles?"
"Furthermore... I've been thinking about the hints in the campaign reward system, and there seems to be something fishy about it; it looks like there's a hidden mechanism."
Xiao Linlin pointed out a new point of doubt: "Brother, think about it carefully. This time we didn't really do anything. At most, Sister Lyanna killed some orcs, but the number was far less than in the last battle."
"Although Sister Lyanna played a decisive role in this victory, the main force that killed the enemy was still Elrere and the elves."
"They are not the brother's followers, but the reward details emphasize that the 2 million reward comes from the brother and his own 'followers'. Does that mean... during the campaign, all friendly units are considered the brother's 'temporary followers'?"
After Xiao Linlin finished speaking, Su Lin shook his head: "So what? Temporary followers aren't real followers, so we still can't recruit them. We can't take these elves out with us anyway."
"Just explore little by little, and you can always find a way from these details."
Xiao Linlin, however, was very optimistic. She liked to ponder these subtle details, hoping to discover secrets that the other survivors had not noticed.
While the two were talking, Jia Zhengyi had already led his team back, followed by a large group of new recruits.
Su Lin looked up and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
Wow!
He brought the whole army with him!
The new recruits numbered in the tens of thousands, including the recruiting officers and other human nobles, were all present.
This surprised Su Lin, and even Xiao Linlin couldn't help but mutter softly, "They didn't manage to get rid of any of them... These new recruits really trust us."
She had initially thought the recruits would run away, or at least some of them would escape, but to her surprise, they all stayed.
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