The disguise team had just completed a major project, and everyone, including Wang Yao, was too exhausted to say anything more to Mr. Zuo. They simply nodded silently and split into two groups: one to continue clearing the thorns, and the other to sabotage the dock and the back mountain passage.
Wang Yao naturally stayed in the thorn forest. He worked until dawn before he finished clearing away the thorns needed for the entrance to the back mountain passage.
Next, he put on Mr. Zuo's jacket and gathered with all the members of the disguise team, and then disguised the cleared area of thorny forest as cultivated farmland.
It wasn't until the sun was high in the sky that they finally finished everything. Wang Yao went to find Mr. Zuo to inspect the work. The other team members, along with the team leader, ate a quick brunch and then collapsed on the edge of the field they had just cleared. Before Mr. Zuo arrived, they all fell fast asleep.
Wang Yao was, after all, an immortal. Although he felt somewhat tired, he was not sleepy. When he found Mr. Zuo, Mr. Zuo was boiling a dark, pungent, asphalt-like substance at the entrance of a secret passage. Wang Yao explained his purpose to him, and Mr. Zuo nodded.
"Let's boil this pot and rest for a while. When I get back, make sure the children don't get close." He carefully handed over what he was doing to a woman beside him, gave her a few more instructions, and then went north with Wang Yao.
"If only we had more land back then!" Mr. Zuo sighed as he looked at the land reclaimed by the camouflage team. He then went with Wang Yao to the east to carefully inspect the transplanted thorn forest. Finally, they went to the entrance of the back mountain passage.
Mr. Zuo was generally satisfied with the work of the camouflage team, but he also pointed out a few areas where the camouflage was not up to par. After all, they had rushed to finish the work last night, and some of the camouflage was too heavy-handed and rough. Fortunately, the problems were not too serious.
The main idea behind setting up the disguise team is to use thorns to prevent the demons from discovering the Burial Abyss. Through their efforts, this part is basically done. The rest are just minor details and may not have a serious impact on the overall situation.
While pointing out the existing problems, Mr. Zuo made some simple adjustments with Wang Yao. He was getting old and not very nimble, and Wang Yao was too slow to work alone, so he planned to call over the disguise team, but Mr. Zuo shook his head and refused.
"Is there anything else to do?" Wang Yao asked Mr. Zuo when everything was finally finished and the sun was already setting.
"There's nothing else. I brought the production team back before you destroyed the dock. Apart from a few who were assigned to continue looking after the fields, the rest were transferred to the weapons team. Now the weapons team has enough manpower. Let me take you to see the hiding place I've arranged for you."
Mr. Zuo hesitated for a moment before speaking.
Wang Yao followed Mr. Zuo back to the exit of the secret passage. There, he saw a group of women carefully applying a black paste to the tips of arrows with wooden shavings in the twilight. A little further away, children were gathered together carving arrow shafts.
The thatched hut at the entrance of the secret passage had been demolished, and the stones around the exit had been cleared away. Several newly built deer-shaped fortresses, still exuding the fresh scent of trees, surrounded the exit of the secret passage. Li Laicai, Wang Xiaoxiao, and several other boys, holding bows and arrows, stood guard behind the fortresses.
"Look..." Mr. Zuo led Wang Yao to a thatched hut not far from the entrance of the secret passage, next to a field. Wang Yao noticed that the hut seemed to still be inhabited by villagers.
Although the pots, pans, stove, and bed inside the thatched hut were crude, they were all there. On the windowsill of the hut, Wang Yao also saw a wooden doll with a cheerful face.
“We’ve deliberately kept this place exactly as it is, so that even if the demon cubs come in, they won’t easily find where you’re hiding.” As Mr. Zuo spoke, he walked to the bed deep inside the hut, lifted the bed forcefully, and revealed a deep cave underneath.
“We’ve tested it. Even if all the thatched huts upstairs burn down, you won’t be in danger down there,” Mr. Zuo said to Wang Yao, gripping the bed with both hands.
Wang Yao nodded, and Mr. Zuo put down the bed. The two left the thatched hut while talking.
“You can hide in there whenever you want. We’ve already moved that family over there.” Mr. Zuo casually pointed to the west.
"We plan to send you another bow and arrows, but there are only 20 arrows. This thing consumes too many arrows, so we can't give you too many."
"Mr. Zuo, we've run out of eel broth. We need to make some more." As the two men walked past the women who were applying the broth to their arrows, a village woman suddenly called out to Mr. Zuo.
"Um... wait a moment." Upon hearing this, Mr. Zuo turned to Wang Yao and said.
He returned to the fire where he had been working, opened a large earthenware urn sealed with wooden wedges, carefully used tongs to take out a piece of black, coal-like substance, and placed it in a small, empty earthenware jar.
Then he resealed the large earthenware urn with wooden wedges, added some random, rather complicated-looking powders to the small earthenware jar, mixed in a little water, and then put the small earthenware jar over the fire to boil it.
"This is the venom of the Poisonous Eel from the Burial Abyss. It's extremely potent. Instructor Tao was able to kill that ferocious demon entirely thanks to this. There are some risks involved in brewing this, so I'm the one who does it," Mr. Zuo explained to Wang Yao while he was busy.
After collecting the large amount of odds and ends he had taken from his person, Mr. Zuo instructed the village woman beside him to watch the fire for him, and then led Wang Yao to the weapons distribution area not far away, where he received a bow and 20 arrows.
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