Chapter Seventy-two: New-style Hand Grenade

  "Master, you and Xiaohu have been working on this for almost two days. Is it just these things?" Huang Tao looked at the round iron balls in the box in front of him, a hint of surprise on his face, and reached out to grab one to take a closer look, wondering what they were.

  Zheng Xiaohu saw Huang Tao's action and hastily stretched out his hand to stop him, saying: "General, be careful, this thing can't be taken carelessly, it will explode."

  Leng Xiao Yao smiled and said, "Tiger brother, this kind of thing is called a hand grenade. Generally, it won't explode if you just move it around, unless you remove the safety pin and hit it."

  Zheng Xiaohu and Xing Zixue naturally understood more than Huang Tao, carefully observing the shape of the hand grenade, they immediately knew where the safety pin was located as mentioned by Leng Xiao Yao.

  Huang Tao turned it over and over, but still couldn't see what kind of power this iron ball in his hand had. Why did Zheng Xiaohu and Xing Zixue look so serious? Was there something extraordinary about it?

  Leng Xiao Yao saw the puzzled look on Huang Tao's face and smiled, saying: "Hehe, Brother Huang, let's find a place to test the power of this grenade."

  "Alright." Huang Tao believed that his master would not casually use something to amuse himself, and he was also eager to know if the small iron ball had the great power that Zheng Xiaohu and Xing Zifeng had said.

  Huang Tao brought Cold Xiao Yao and a group of subordinates to the back mountain waist of the Tianjun Corps base, where there was a vast empty space with no one living around, making it the most suitable place for high-level fighting or experimentation.

  "Young master, what do you think of this place?"

  "En" nodded calmly, then swept his eyes over Huang Tao and the others before ignoring Zheng Xiaohu's eager gaze. He turned to Huang Tao and said, "Huang, since you're the commander, you should be the first to test this out personally. I'll tell you how to use it - first, remove the safety pin, then throw it as fast as you can towards where you want it to explode."

  Huang Tao thought this thing should be very complicated, but he never expected it to be so simple, just one pull and one push would do. To make sure he hadn't misheard, Huang Tao asked again: "Young Master, is that all?"

  "Alright, that's it." Leng Xiao Yao nodded very certainly. For this kind of handmade grenade manufacturing method, as a top-notch elite in his previous life, to say something not boastful, with all the materials, he could have made missiles, let alone these small things, otherwise he would really be unworthy of his chemical doctor title.

  "Alright, I'll give it a try." Huang Tao nodded and said.

  "Huang Ge, remember, within three seconds of removing the safety pin, you must let go." Leng Xiao Yao reminded him once again.

  "Alright." In an instant, Huang Tao pulled out the safety pin and threw the grenade hundreds of meters away from himself to ensure everyone's safety. Although he had some doubts about Zheng Xiaohu's boasts about the grenade's power, he would rather believe it was true than not. If it really was as powerful as Xiaohu said, they would be the ones to get hurt, and Huang Tao wouldn't want to take that risk.

  The grenade flew out in an arc and landed exactly where Huang Tao had predicted, but as it hit the ground, Leng Xiang and others held their breaths, as if witnessing a historic moment.

  One breath...

  Two breaths...

  Three seconds passed, and the place where the grenade fell still had no reaction. Leng Xiao Yao was stunned, Zheng Xiao Tiger and Xing Zhe Ye were also stunned, Huang Tao and others were even more stunned. Everyone's eyes in the scene were cast on Leng Xiao Yao, with a questioning look in their eyes.

  "What's going on? That's not right?" A look of puzzlement appeared on Leng Xiangyao's face, and before he could even speak, "BOOM!!" A grenade landed on the ground and exploded with a deafening sound, sending a wave of scorching heat shooting up into the air.

  "It exploded, I told you the power of this explosion is great, now General Huang can believe it." Zheng Xiaohu's face lit up with joy and surprise, his face filled with a thick smile, because he could see that this time's explosion was much more powerful than those animal skin-wrapped explosives used by the vanguard camp before, and its safety was also much higher.

  Xing Zixue gazed at the smoke and ash from the explosion, a faint gloom on his face as he muttered to himself: "If we had possessed these things back then, perhaps the Vanguard Regiment wouldn't have been annihilated. When charging out of Tiger Gate, Peng Fei and the others wouldn't have needed to sacrifice themselves by detonating with the enemy... Alas!"

  After finishing saying this sentence, Zheng Xiaohu, who was originally in high spirits, also put away the smile on his face, and his complexion suddenly darkened.

  Huang Tao let out a soft sigh, and within the past two days, Huang Tao had also heard Zheng Xiaohu recount the story of the Manton Battle. He stretched out his hand to pat Zheng Xiaohu and Xing Zixue on the shoulder, comforting them: "Don't worry! No one can harm the Manton Team and continue to live a carefree life, unless the Manton Team is completely annihilated. Otherwise, there will always be a day when debts need to be repaid. This is my personal promise to you."

  "It's all right, Tiger Brothers, Lineage Brothers, don't be sad. This blood debt will have to be repaid one day, unless our Heavenly Army is completely annihilated. Heh heh." A general with a gloomy smile chuckled twice, and his familiar companions knew that when this person smiled like this, it meant someone was going to be unlucky.

  Leng Xiangyao thought back and forth, wondering why the timing of the explosion didn't match his calculations. Was it possible that he had made a mistake? Suddenly, an idea flashed through his mind.

  "Huang Da Ge, when you threw the grenade just now, did you infuse it with Dou Qi?"

  Huang Tao heard his young master's question, and first he was stunned for a moment. The next moment, he nodded slightly and said: "Yes, young master. Just now, I was afraid that time would not be enough, and if the explosive force was too great, I feared it would hurt you, so I added a bit of Dou Qi to make the hand grenade accelerate during its trajectory."

  "Huang, you're really lucky! We're also very lucky!" Leng Xiao Yao's face showed a hint of relief and he let out a sigh, fortunately the energy only used was just a little bit, if it were any more, it could have exploded on the spot.

  Huang Tao heard Leng Xiao Yao's seemingly praising words, but in reality they were not like that. He opened his mouth and said: "Young Master, what do you mean by this? Please forgive me for my ignorance."

  "Huang General, is your aura fire-attribute?" Zheng Xiaohu suddenly thought of a question and asked.

  Huang Tao nodded and said: "That's right, I am cultivating fire attribute Dou Qi."

  Zheng Xiaohu and Xing Zixue's faces turned pale and weak when they heard Huang Tao's words, and they finally understood what Leng Xiao said earlier: "Brother Huang, you're really lucky! We're also very lucky!" It turned out to be this kind of thing.

  "General Huang, did you know that before the improvement, this explosive would only explode with a gravity strike or by igniting the fuse?" Zheng Xiaohu said with a look of lingering fear on his face. However, he still referred to explosives and hand grenades as "explosives", which was what everyone in the Vanguard Camp called them.

  "Is it going to ignite the fuse and explode?" Huang Tao muttered to himself, his face suddenly turning pale. He now understood what his master had meant by that sentence earlier. As a fire-attributed Dou Qi user, if he increased the amount of Dou Qi entering the hand grenade, it would mean that the grenade could explode at any moment. Good heavens! What if he had increased the Dou Qi just now and directly ignited it?

  Huang Tao thought of this, and his whole body couldn't help but shudder. Although he was a mid-level Sword Saint and could fly through the air for a short time, he wasn't strong enough to withstand a blow from another Sword Saint without any defense, right? Not to mention that the power of the explosion just now had already reached the level of a first-level Sword Saint's attack. Even if he himself could dodge the fatal injury, how would his subordinates and his young master be able to avoid it?

  Huang Tao thought of this and hastily knelt down on one knee in front of Leng Xiao Yao, saying: "Your subordinate almost committed a grave mistake, please punish me, young master."

  Leng Xiangyao hastily stretched out his hand to help up Huang Tao, saying: "Brother Huang, I really can't accept your grand gift. From now on, please never use this kind of courtesy again, or else I'll truly get angry."

  "Master, etiquette cannot be abandoned!" Huang Tao said with his mouth, but in his heart, he was moved. It seemed that the general had chosen a good successor, who did everything just like him and never put himself above others.

  Leng Xiao Yao's face revealed a faint smile as he said, "Brother Huang, there's no need to be overly modest. I've heard quite a bit about your great achievements from Uncle Fu. We're all one family, so let's not speak of two households, alright?"

  "Yes, young master."

  "Huang Da Ge, since we've already tested it, let's head back to the mountain! We also need to deliver these hand grenades to the front line."

  "Yes, young master." Huang Tao responded with a single word, following the footsteps of Leng Xiao Yao as he walked, while Zheng Xiaohu and others followed closely behind him at a moderate pace.

  "Right, Brother Huang, how many men did you send to Luoping Slope this time?" Leng Xiao suddenly remembered that he had been busy making hand grenades for most of the day and hadn't paid attention to the deployment of troops.

  "My lord, I have already dispatched four legions to Luoping Slope."

  Leng Xiao Yao suddenly stopped in his tracks upon hearing this, glanced at the six generals following behind Huang Tao, and then continued walking.

  "This time is Brother Feng leading the team?"

  "Yes, it's Tian Ming that young master leading the team, now their troops should all be camping at Luoping Slope, when does the young master plan to set off?"

  Leng Xiao Yao heard this and stopped in his tracks. After a moment of thought, he said, "Return to the mountain immediately after departure."

  "Huang Chao asked for orders and said: 'I will accompany Young Master down there.'"

  "Okay."

  Suddenly, a figure rushed into the presence of Leng Xiang and others, shouting from afar: "General, something is wrong, something is wrong."

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