They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 226 Acting General of Luofu: Dan Lei

Bai Lu's wooden bindings were released, and under Dan Lei's strong suppression, the Dragon Masters had no choice but to refuse.

Actually, it's just that Dan Lei wasn't interested in getting involved in politics with these Dragon Masters; otherwise, he really would have replaced them all.

Afterwards, the Dragon Masters remained in confinement. Dan Lei led Bai Lu out of the council hall, but they didn't go far. He asked Bai Lu in the courtyard...
"Bai Lu, after the wooden shackles were removed, are you feeling any discomfort?"

Bai Lu had recovered from her initial tension. Seeing Dan Lei ask about her condition, she decisively spun around, flicked her unusually agile tail, and said...

"There's nothing wrong with my body. To be precise, I've never felt so physically well before."

This is more like the body of a growing girl.

In that previous state, my metabolism was on par with that of an elderly spiritual practitioner; how could I possibly grow taller?

Bai Lu's statement is correct; the binding of the ruler wood will affect the flow of energy within Bai Lu's body, including her vitality.

Although it does not cause disease, it will definitely affect the growth and development of the White Dew plant.

Fortunately, the development period of the Wisdom Clan is very long, so lifting the restrictions now should not affect Bailu's growth into a mature woman decades later.

However, once Bai Lu calmed down, her clever little brain came online.

She gave Danlei the look she gave someone deliberately concealing their illness, and slowly said...

"No, Danlei, you're hiding something from me."

The past two days have been full of strange occurrences. How could the clan have let me go free for so many days without even asking about me?

How could the Dragon Masters allow me to release the Ruler Wood Bindings so easily?

"Danlei, didn't you say I would succeed Lord Yinyue? Then I'm entitled to know about clan affairs too!"

Bai Lu's request was reasonable, so Dan Lei didn't hide anything and told Bai Lu everything that had happened in Luo Fu these past few days and the current predicament they were facing.

Throughout Danlei's recounting, Bailu simply listened quietly.

However, after Dan Lei finished explaining, Bai Lu didn't hesitate to wrap lightning around her tail and give Dan Lei's calf a five-hit lightning whip.

And he said while smoking.

"Damn it, who told you to arrange for me to escape from Luofu on your own?"

You lied to me, you treated me like a child.

"So you'll look down on me and think I'm useless!!"

Dan Lei did not dodge Bai Lu's five consecutive lightning whips, after all, Bai Lu was right.

He genuinely felt that there was no point in her staying in Luofu, so he sent her onto the Starry Sky Train as a precaution.

Of course, with Bai Lu's limited attack power, the lightning from her tail only causes a slight numbness when it hits the body; it's more like a massage than a blow.

Moreover, Bai Lu was just a little girl venting her emotions, and the Dragon Masters' assessment of her childlike nature was not problematic.

However, after venting her anger, Bai Lu began to assert her current power and asked...
"Now that I have inherited the title of Lord Yinyue, does that mean I am already the Dragon Lord?"

Dan Lei answered affirmatively.
"Yes, you are now free. No one will keep you locked up in the Dan Ding Division."

However, now that you've been given the title of Dragon Lord, you should be aware that with your current knowledge and power, you are not yet worthy of this title.

Therefore, you will be facing a massive amount of learning and homework.

By the way, even the Dragon Lord must abide by the rules of the Immortal Ship Alliance. Although it is said to be free to move around, this does not include the various forbidden areas and the outside of the Immortal Ship.

If you want to leave the Immortal Ship, you'll have to do what I did and honestly take the training exam to get a training certificate.

Furthermore, the issuance of a certificate by a Dragon Lord requires a meeting of all the Dragon Lords who possess the wisdom to approve it.

I promise that as long as you pass the exam, I will vote in favor every time.

Dan Lei is simply making empty promises to Bai Lu.

Dan Lei was genuinely worried about Bai Lu's childish nature, thinking that if she went out to take a look, she might sneak into a starship and escape from Luofu.

Of course, in reality, White Dew isn't that fierce.

She does yearn for freedom, but she always considers the feelings of others. When she sneaked out of the Dan Ding Division before, she never went far as she acted alone.

She and her maid had an unspoken understanding; they only needed to find her in a few fixed locations.

Danlei was making empty promises to himself, and Bailu knew it in her heart.

Bai Heng's memories were not inherited by Bai Lu for nothing.

However, because she inherited Bai Heng's memories, Bai Lu was very clear that she was not strong enough to establish herself in the outside world.

So even without Danlei saying it, Bailu would never have left Luofu on her own initiative.

But Bai Lu directly stated her request, saying
"I know I still have a lot to learn, you don't need to tell me that."

However, in this war against the antimatter legion, I will go to the battlefield.

Upon hearing this, Dan Lei was terrified by Bai Lu and immediately rejected the idea.
"No way, what use is your meager destiny on the battlefield? Are you just here to give away credit?"

However, after speaking, Dan Lei realized that Bai Lu might sneak off to the battlefield. He had just said she had freedom, but it wouldn't be appropriate to have someone watch over her. So, he proactively compromised and said...

"However, you can go to the frontline medical team."

That's where you can truly shine.

However, once you're in the frontline medical team, you'll just be a medic. The medical concepts you've learned aren't really suitable for the front lines, so you'll have to follow orders there.

Bai Lu found Dan Lei's statement acceptable, since the frontline medical team was also considered part of the frontline, so there was nothing wrong with it.

However, Bai Lu was still fooled by Dan Lei.

This is a defensive war for Luofu. Once the war officially begins, Luofu, which is at a huge disadvantage in terms of troop strength, can only fight a defensive war around the super fortress of the Immortal Ship.

Therefore, the battlefield was in Luofu, and the frontline medical team was in Dandingsi.

Transferring Bailu to the frontline medical team would both ensure her safety and keep her within the team by entrusting her with responsibilities, thus preventing her from wandering off – a win-win situation.

So Danlei sent someone to summon Yunyou, Bailu's only reliable maid.

This maid, who was once forced to offer herself by the Dragon Master and almost became the wife of Dragon Lord Danlei, eventually ended up becoming Danlei's woman after going through a long and winding road.

Don't misunderstand, Danlei is now quite well-known in the Vidyadhara clan, so it's normal for him to have his own followers.

So Danlei took the opportunity to recruit some of his own people to help him.

After instructing Yunyou to take Bailu to the Dan Ding Division to report, and carrying Danlei's orders to have the Haiyue Second Team of the Pearl Guards act as Bailu's bodyguards, Danlei rested for most of the day before heading to the Shence Mansion again.

Dan Lei went to the Shence Mansion after receiving a transfer order from Jing Yuan. He thought Jing Yuan wanted to hold a tactical meeting with him, so he went directly there.

On the way, Dan Lei discovered that the order for Luofu to fully transition to a wartime state had already been issued.

Because it was an attack by the antimatter legion, and it was clearly led by Xingxiao, the Tianbo Division in the central hub of Xingcha Sea was in complete chaos.

Countless tourists and merchants tried every means to ask Luofu to open the barrier and let their spaceships leave Luofu.

However, they cannot leave at this time; they must wait for Jing Yuan's assault team to be ready before being released together.

With these merchants and tourists providing cover, Jing Yuan was able to better deploy his troops and launch a surprise attack on the Star Howl Fleet while it was unable to move.

However, now that Jingyuan has made his move, Danlei has to take responsibility.

Jing Yuan didn't even inform Dan Lei, and directly appointed Dan Lei as the deputy commander-in-chief of Luofu.

If Jing Yuan dies in battle or loses his command ability, Dan Lei will take over, with authority equivalent to that of the acting general of Luofu.

After it was made public that Dan Lei had led the team to drive away the Great Lord of Annihilation, Huanlong, no one objected to Jing Yuan's appointment.

The only person who wanted to object was Dan Lei himself. However, Dan Lei only learned about his appointment as deputy commander-in-chief when he arrived at the Shence Mansion.

Moreover, Jingyuan, showing a complete lack of martial ethics, took Jingliu and Ren and left first.

When Qingzu saw Danlei arrive, he immediately pressed Danlei into the general's seat and then laid out a bunch of things in front of Danlei.

Of course, Jing Yuan wouldn't let Dan Lei start handling Luo Fu affairs without knowing anything. He left Fu Xuan behind, and Qing Zu was also a professional strategist.

Then, Dan Lei discovered that the so-called general's affairs were actually just a matter of making choices.

Fu Xuan and Qing Zu will write down the whole story and give it to Dan Lei, along with a few suggestions.

If Danlei wants to be lazy, he can just choose the option they give him and execute it.

However, the orders issued by the Shence Mansion concerned the lives of millions of people in Luofu, so Dan Lei dared not slack off at all.

Instead, they carefully examined the background information provided by Fu Xuan and Qingzu, and asked for details about anything that was unclear.

Dan Lei needs to construct a general picture of the Luofu events in his mind before he can make a judgment on a specific event, so as to avoid contradictory orders from both sides.

For example, because the workshop was destroyed, although the weapons stored in Luofu were moved in advance and the losses were not significant, there was no place for subsequent repairs.

Moreover, there was a shortage of transport machinery, so Aozu suggested using civilian freight rafts.

This suggestion was clearly made without knowing that the civilian starships had already been secretly refitted by the spacecraft.

Trying to call up civilian Starships now will only result in the reply that they cannot be called up, wasting manpower on useless work.

Therefore, Dan Lei directly instructed Qing Zu to find Yu Ting and use the star raft she originally intended to use to transfer civilians.

The crisis in Luofu has now been half resolved, and the need to evacuate civilians is no longer urgent. It will definitely not be a problem to transfer half of the ships prepared by Yukong to transport military supplies.

As for the weapons and logistics problems caused by the destruction of the Industrial Construction Bureau.

Dan Lei said that they could only suffer a little longer for the Suiyang lineage.

According to the earlier investigation by the Ten Kings, the explosion of the Jianmu Xuangen should have blasted out all the Creation Furnace Suiyang that Huanlong had previously absorbed.

There are signs of the waning sun appearing everywhere in Luofu now.

Moreover, the demonic image of Danlei eating Suiyang had not yet spread from Zhu Ming to Luofu, so these Suiyang were unrestrained, as if afraid that others would not discover them.

Therefore, the ghost-hunting team is starting up ahead of schedule!
As allies, the Starry Sky Train crew certainly can't be sent to the front lines right away.

Moreover, Xingxiao's army wouldn't be able to reach the edge of Luofu for at least two or three days.

Himeko and Welt don't need to be arranged by themselves.

So it's good to find Xing something to do, so she doesn't have to spend all her time rummaging through trash cans and delivery boxes in Luofu.

You asked Danheng? Danlei has other plans.

If it's March 7th, she's afraid of ghosts, so she'll probably refuse the mission.

Moreover, Gui Naifen's live broadcast could, to some extent, distract the people of Luofu and reduce their panic about the war.

As for how to find these years' yang without floating smoke.

Dan Lei suggested that Xiao Huanlong could also join the ghost-catching team.

With the old fox, Tail-Grandpa, and Little Huanlong, these troublemakers from Suiyang have nowhere to hide.

You must know that Xiao Huanlong is a ten-meter-level Suiyang. Every single Suiyang that erupts from Huanlong's body is no match for Xiao Huanlong.

After all, Xiao Huanlong was able to use Huanlong Jue Mie Da Jun's identity to obtain the power of the Commander-level Destruction Path from Nanuk.

Although the amount that can be called up is indeed not much, it's easy to bully ordinary Suiyang.

Here, Danlei suspected that Nanuk was doing it on purpose; no matter how much Xiao Huanlong resembled Huanlong, he couldn't possibly not be able to tell them apart.

However, Xiao Huanlong can still use the command power that originally belonged to Huanlong, which is obviously with Nanuk's permission.

Dan Lei could not fathom the Star God's thought process.

However, Nanuk's willingness to give power would be beneficial to him, and even if it were not, Danlei wouldn't be able to stop it.

Therefore, the new ghost-hunting team members are the people mentioned above.

Of course, when assigning tasks, Danlei still called March 7th over. It was her business if she didn't want to go, but he had to call her anyway.

As Danlei had predicted, March 7th was afraid of ghosts and declined the mission, but Xing was eager to try.

Furthermore, when Gui Naifen saw Dan Lei, she immediately knelt down and kowtowed, calling him her benefactor, which startled Dan Lei.

Furthermore, Gui Naifen vividly described to Xing and others how Dan Lei miraculously rescued her family from the Humboldt-σ spaceship, making Dan Lei almost dig a three-bedroom apartment out of the Shence Mansion floor.

Fortunately, Gui Naifen's enthusiasm for working on Dan Lei's request was off the charts.

Moreover, her outgoing and friendly personality quickly made her one of the crowd.

Especially her best friend Su Chang, the two of them were meeting for the first time here, and in less than ten minutes, she was won over by Gui Naifen.

After the new ghost-catching team set off, Dan Lei ordered the workers from the Engineering Department to go back and repair the energy circuits on the ground.

Then they directly manufactured temporary production lines in the open air.

With Xiao Huanlong's help, three to four days should be enough for them to capture all the Suiyang scattered throughout Luofu.

It doesn't take almost half a month in the game at all.
As long as Xiao Huanlong swallows all these Suiyang, he can send them back to the Creation Furnace to restart the Industrial Production Line.

At that time, although the environment will still be rudimentary, the factory will at least be able to resume operations.

However, Danlei's work arrangements went relatively smoothly.

Things weren't going so well for Jing Yuan. He was stuck in the last few hours before the Star Howl Fleet became inoperable. He returned with a small squad of wounded soldiers and immediately moved into the Pill Cauldron Division.

Dan Lei, who had originally intended to cause trouble for Jing Yuan, could no longer do so. He could only head to the Pill Refining Department first. Looking at Jing Yuan, who was wrapped in bandages, he frowned and asked...
"Judging from this situation, the raid has failed?"

Jing Yuan's expression was serious at this moment, but he shook his head and said...
"It can't be considered a failure. In this raid, we successfully destroyed nearly half of the antimatter legion's warships, greatly reducing the firepower pressure that Luofu will face later."

Dan Lei didn't say anything here because Jing Yuan would definitely have a "but" afterward.

As expected, seeing Dan Lei remain silent, Jing Yuan closed his eyes and stated...

"However, this is Xingxiao's trap."

She seemed to have anticipated our surprise attack, so she simply used the warships that couldn't be started as bait.

She emptied the troops from those warships and hid them in the nearby asteroid belt.

As soon as we launched our surprise attack, we were immediately besieged by the antimatter legion.

Xingxiao even personally took action, trying to surround and kill me there.

However, she underestimated me, as well as Mirror Stream and Blade.

We exchanged blows; I suffered a minor injury, and she wasn't faring well either.

Subsequently, Jingliu and Ren took advantage of Xingxiao's injury and temporary inability to command the army, tore open a gap, and together with the Yunqi Army, successfully broke through the encirclement.

However, this is all the troops I brought back; it was a Pyrrhic victory.

　The duration of the ghost-catching event in the game can be calculated.

　　Because each event within it consumes one day.

　　Some events clearly took several days.

　　Roughly speaking, this event took about twenty to thirty days in the game.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)