CHAPTER 658: CHAPTER 115: A FATAL TELEPORTATION MISHAP

After several days of maintenance, the Transmission Array in Dawo Village was finally restored to operation.

The Southern Expedition Army had also completed its reorganization. After the arrangement, Long Jiuzun established batches of ten people each.

Because the Transmission Array couldn’t directly transport the Dark Array, everyone’s Dark Beast was collected through Dragon Pattern or Beast Pattern before being sent through the Transmission Array to the next destination, Miss River Valley, where the second Transmission Array awaited them.

The transportation of humans and Dark Beasts had been temporarily resolved, but Qing Residence’s supply ships couldn’t be directly transported.

Due to the Soul Devouring Ants, the Dark Array on the ships still needed some adjustments before it could operate normally. After discussing with the workers, Qing Zizhu decided to go ahead with the Southern Expedition Army to the next destination, while the supply ships would follow once everything was ready.

"Ten people per batch, with the interval between transmissions roughly thirty minutes. The next batch will immediately follow the previous one. We will meet at the River Valley dock in Miss River Valley," Long Jiuzun allocated the batches such that Yue Jinghua and her brother Yue Minzhi were separated, though it was uncertain if this was intentional.

She was grouped with several people from the July Mercenary Corps Group, Qing Zizhu, Ji Yun, and others. As for Cheng Ying, she was grouped with Long Jiuzun, Yue Minzhi, and others.

When it came to Long Rui’s turn, she refused to be in the same group as Yue Minzhi. Even though Long Jiuzun repeatedly advised her, she still insisted on selecting another batch.

"Huahua, be careful on your way. Big brother will be waiting for you there," Yue Minzhi was still worried and gave several reminders before leaving with the other advanced members.

Yue Jinghua and Ji Yun, being incompatible, were reluctantly placed together, but with no other options, they only entered the Transmission Array after the previous rounds of people had left, showing their unwillingness. Right at the moment they stepped into the Transmission Array, they suddenly saw someone else jump in.

"Long Rui?" The newcomer was Long Rui, who should have left earlier.

"I realized I’ve lost something just as I was about to leave, so I went back to get it. By the time I returned, I’d missed the earlier batch. Your group has only seven people; adding me wouldn’t affect the transmission," Long Rui said with an apologetic expression.

In Yue Jinghua’s group, which included Yue Jinghua, Shalman, Qian Luo, Chi Xi, Ji Yun, Qing Zizhu, and a Dragon Rider surnamed Zhang—an additional Long Rui made exactly ten.

The group entered the Transmission Array together.

Before leaving the village, Yue Jinghua also sought out the old village chief.

Taking into account the unique environment of Dawo Village, as well as its abundant poisonous insect resources, Yue Jinghua, in her capacity as the Lord of Fengdan County, proposed a cooperation with the village chief and covertly signed a cooperation agreement.

Once her mission in Fandi Port to quell the rebellion was completed, she would send Qian Luo back to Dawo Village to establish another Transmission Array between Dawo Village and Fengdan County.

Such mutual assistance would surely promote the better development of Dawo Village.

Although Yue Jinghua also invited Mu Hu to leave Dawo Village and join the July Mercenary Corps before departing, Mu Hu still declined, choosing to stay in Dawo Village.

Everyone has their own aspirations, and Yue Jinghua did not insist.

"Brother Yue, welcome to visit Dawo Village again, and I’ll treat you to roasted insect eggs," Mu Hu said with a chuckle, seeing them off.

Amidst everyone’s peculiar glances, Yue Jinghua let out a few coughs.

In Mu Hu’s eyes, roasted insect eggs seemed to be a culinary delight.

Inside the Transmission Array, the Xuan Pill emitted a snow-white Dark Light, and everything in Dawo Village began to blur.

Mu Hu’s honest face and the sincere farewells of the villagers of Dawo also vanished following that.

Everything around them turned into rushing wind noises as if they were swiftly flying through the sky, and the few people quickly left Dawo Village.

If the Canglong Continent were to popularize list rankings like the modern world, then the Transmission Array would undoubtedly be elected as one of the continent’s greatest inventions.

Compared to flying and riding on Land Xuan Beasts, a normal Transmission Array usually only requires a certain amount of Dark Pills.

For the Transmission Array in Dawo Village, it takes roughly thirty minutes to get from Dawo Village to Miss River Valley Village and consumes about one-tenth of the Dark Power of a Fifth-Order Xuan Pill.

In the middle of transmission, not only is time conserved, but it also effectively prevents excessive fatigue of Dark Beasts due to flying.

The Miss River Valley, which would normally take three full days of flying to reach, can be arrived at in just thirty minutes under the effect of Dawo Village’s Transmission Array.

As the first group to depart, Yue Minzhi, Long Jiuzun, and the other eight people smoothly arrived at Miss River Valley.

After a brief rearrangement, they began to wait for the arrival of the following groups.

"The second batch, the third batch... all arrived safely." The military scribe recorded the personnel arrival, and a hint of mockery crept into Long Jiuzun’s eyes. He gazed at the constantly flickering Transmission Array, which kept producing members of the Southern Expedition Army, and silently sneered inwardly.

Yue Jinghua, this time, perhaps not even the heavens can save you.

After the penultimate batch of the Southern Expedition Army members stepped out of the Transmission Array, there was no fluctuation of Dark Power within the Transmission Array in Miss River Valley Village for a long while.

After taking stock of the personnel, Long Jiuzun also discovered that Miss Long Rui was missing.

His complexion grew grim, and Yue Minzhi was anxiously pacing back and forth beside the Transmission Array.

"Where is Ruru?" Long Jiuzun strode through the crowd searching for his sister’s whereabouts.

"Young General, I seem to have seen the Miss rushing back to Dawo Village at the last moment, as if she had to grab something. But it’s alright, there’s still one batch left..." Before the military scribe could finish speaking, Long Jiuzun let out a stifled grunt.

"Why hasn’t the last batch of people to be transmitted appeared yet?" Yue Minzhi was also waiting with greatly mounting anxiety.

It had been over two hours since the previous batch had come through the Transmission Array, by now Yue Jinghua and the others should have already arrived.

"Immediately find the village head of Miss River Valley, ask him to contact the village head of Dawo Village through Mirror Sound Spring," Long Jiuzun’s expression was fraught with anxiety.

After contacting Dawo Village through Mirror Sound Spring, the military scribe reported back anxiously, "Young General, Knight Yue, the people from Dawo Village said that over two hours ago, the last batch of the Southern Expedition Army, including Young Master Yue and Miss Long Rui, had already entered the Transmission Array heading to River Valley Village."

They had entered the Transmission Array over two hours ago, why hadn’t they arrived successfully?

"There is only one possibility," Long Jiuzun’s face also turned pale, "a mishap or malfunction occurred during transmission through the Transmission Array."

"Transmission mishap?" Yue Minzhi’s mind went blank with a boom.

Everyone present understood what a transmission mishap with a Transmission Array implied.

A transmission mishap sometimes even means death!