Knowledge can only be called true knowledge when it becomes a factor of spiritual life, attracts people's minds, and stimulates people's interest and enthusiasm.

- Elfried Jelinek (Austrian female writer, recognized as one of the most important writers in Central Europe)

After filling his spatial ring with food, Adrion transferred several battlefield ghosts from the nearest netting stronghold, and with the battlefield ghosts that Adrion sent to the Wind Base before, his direct combat force in the Wind Base will reach as many as fifteen.

Fifteen battlefield ghosts are enough to help Adrion complete the task assigned to him by Bai Feng, and even Adrien himself is confident that these battlefield ghosts alone can provoke infighting between the new and old armies of the Wind Thieves.

Before dawn the next day, Adrien infiltrated the heavily guarded Tempest base with the ghosts of the battlefield around him, and their identities did not alert the other refugees.

It was normal for a large number of refugees to gather in the small base of the Tempest, and to find some old friends and relatives who had been separated from each other, so Adrien easily integrated into a small group of refugees.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees inevitably form small independent groups, less exclusive, bound by fellow villagers or by blood, with new people joining and old ones leaving every day.

The most prestigious person in this small group that Adrien joined was a middle-aged man with a strong body, and after being introduced by the intelligence officers of the net, Adrien learned that this Luke was actually a retired captain of the Imperial Army!

The fact that Luke, who was not from a noble background, was able to serve as a captain in the Imperial army as a commoner was in itself a good indication of his ability, and with him as the core, supplemented by the support of his family, a small small group was formed.

In Luke's group, which has a population of just over 3,000 people, there are a total of four people who really have the right to speak, and in addition to Luke and his two brothers, the remaining person who has the right to speak is a battlefield ghost under the pseudonym Lu Jie.

The first batch of battlefield ghosts who infiltrated the Tempest base, in order to better carry out the operation of attracting refugees and gathering intelligence, joining a certain group and showing good strength to gain the trust of the core of the group is the most efficient way for them.

Lu Jie, who joined Luke's group, in a conflict between Luke's group and other groups, 'happened' to save Luke, who was almost stabbed to death, and also 'inadvertently' exposed his strength as a junior swordsman, which was valued by Luke.

According to common sense, Luke, who had served as a captain in the Imperial army, could not have been plotted by other groups of refugees, after all, the acumen and vigilance of a professional soldier were not comparable to ordinary people without military training.

And the reason why Luke was almost stabbed to death by refugees from other groups was purely because this so-called conflict was a game set up by the ghosts of the battlefield, and the 'refugee' who stabbed Luke was actually another ghost of the battlefield who used a pseudonym.

After gaining Luke's trust through this arrangement, Lu Jie's status within Luke's group rose rapidly, and he soon became second only to Luke, and even Luke's two own brothers had to obey Lu Jie's command.

With such a useful network, how could Adrien not make good use of it? Ardrien, who joined Luke's group as Luke's cousin, quietly hid a batch of grain in a dilapidated empty house not far from Luke's group, and then pretended to have found it himself.

"Brother Luke, my cousin found a batch of well-preserved grain in a rotten house when he was in a hurry today!" Under Luke's compulsion, Lu Jie has always been called a brother to Luke, and this time is naturally no exception.

"What?" Luke, who was worried about food, jumped up on the spot and grabbed Lu Jie's arm when he heard Lu Jie's words, and asked urgently, "Where did he find this batch of grain?

"Don't worry, my cousin knows the preciousness of this batch of grain, and he didn't delay when he found out, so he quickly came to tell me; ”

"Brother, I'm not worried about being discovered by people from other groups, but I'm afraid of being discovered by the veterans in the base, if those unscrupulous veterans find out this batch of food, they will definitely not leave us a single grain!"

Lu Jie, who was smiling secretly in his heart, deliberately pretended to be anxious on the surface, and suggested to Luke: "Big brother, then let's hurry up and smuggle this batch of grain back, otherwise, if we put it there, it will be discovered by others sooner or later." ”

"Okay, you go and gather the men, and we'll go and smuggle the food back at once." The resolute Luke, without the slightest hesitation, gave Lu Jie the order to gather men to smuggle food.

More than 100 of Luke's group, who were relatively strong, quickly rushed to the rotten house where Adrien had hidden the grain, and the fifteen sacks of flour not only shocked Luke, who had personally led the team, but also made the people present swallow their saliva involuntarily.

The people of Luke's group, who were only one step away from running out of food, relied on a few grains of gruel to survive every day.

Fifteen sacks of flour, which were too large, were divided into 100 small cloth bags by the attentive Luke, and then each of the people hid a bag and brought back to the Luke's group's settlement.

It was not until the gruel for dinner was cooked that Luke carefully took out five bags of flour and poured them into a pot of gruel with water and a handful of rice one by one to improve the food of his group.

The abundant amount of five bags of flour turned the gruel in each pot of Luke's group into a fragrant flour paste, and this dinner became the first full meal for the people of Luke's group in nearly half a month!

After dinner, Luke personally met with Adrian, who had discovered the grain, and promoted him to the fifth person in charge of the Luk's group, unbeknownst to Luke's death.

After nightfall, Adrien asked an intelligence officer in the other group to report the situation that Luke's group had coincidentally found a batch of food and secretly hid it, and reported it to the veterans of the night patrol of the Wind Thieves.

At first, the night patrol veterans of the Storm Thieves didn't believe the intelligence officer's informant, because all the food in the Storm base had already been collected in a unified manner, and there could be no missing food anywhere else.

Seeing that the whistleblower was ineffective, Adrien had to personally steal a bag of flour from the place where Luke's group hid the flour, and let another intelligence officer go to the whistleblower again;

In the eyes of the veterans, they and others are now starving every day and bear the heavy responsibility of defending the base, and those refugees who have nothing to do can still have enough to eat, which is a reality that all veterans cannot accept.

The enraged veterans of the patrol went straight to the Luk's colony without even reporting to their superiors, and the veterans, who did not know where the flour was, searched the houses of the Luk's people one by one, which once again led to clashes between the recruits and the veterans.