In the blood-soaked twilight, a lookout soldier with a monocular stood on a high watchtower, looking at the increasingly eerie Warcraft Forest ahead. As soon as there was movement, he would pick up the monocular, point it in that direction, and take a closer look at the situation through the lens.

As a sentry, if you only find an ordinary situation that has not been explained by your superiors, you can directly use the rope on your left hand to inform the officers and soldiers guarding the castle tower below to pay attention. But if there are special circumstances, he pulls another rope on the right side, and then he has to write a briefing on a piece of paper, and put it in a hole next to the rope, which leads to the intelligence collection room below, and there are also soldiers on duty in the collection room. If the situation is very urgent or the enemy attacks, the lookout soldier will directly ring the alarm bell, this alarm bell will be hung in the middle of the tower, and after ringing, it can be completely transmitted throughout the fortress.

This is Versailles, the northwestern frontier fortress of the Atlantan Empire, which is located at the southernmost point of the Warcraft Forest, and now serves only as a trade checkpoint. You must know that the Warcraft Forest in the north is already a natural line of defense and sirens, if the orcs in the north of the Warcraft Forest go south, do not take the "road of shock" The Warcraft Forest itself is a line of defense, and the Warcraft in it will help the Atlantan Empire fight the enemy and make its head bleed. And take the "road of shock", the size of the army will definitely be limited, and the marching dynamics will also allow the flying monsters to inform the fortress, when the orcs who go south walk out of the monster forest, they will face the Versailles fortress that has been supported and fully prepared.

The fortress of Versailles is built in a canyon flanked on either side by towering mountains, which are almost very steep in the direction of the Warcraft Forest (where they are not steep, they are artificially turned into cliffs). So that it is very difficult for the orcs in the north to go south, to go over the mountain, of course, it is still too "gentle" for Warcraft, fortunately, to this day, Warcraft is still very "honest" living in the Warcraft Forest, and has not gone south on a large scale.

Suddenly, as if the sentry had noticed something, he first pulled the rope on his right hand twice, then immediately wrote a briefing on a piece of stiff paper, rolled it up, wrapped it around a string, tied a standard knot, and threw it down into the hole (which had happened before when the soft paper got stuck......

When Payne Yasser, the team leader on duty, got this briefing and read it, he felt a little strange because it had four words written on it: Target returns.

Payne Yasser, the captain of the "Rangers" brigade of the fortress of Versailles of the Empire's northern border force, is the leader of the reconnaissance team, and is a down-and-out aristocrat in the north. Originally, there was no "ranger" in the North Gate duty arrangement this month, and the duty officer of this shift tonight should be the captain of the logistics team. But the captain of the logistics brigade slipped away, and called Payne, who was relatively easy to summon and had no backstage in the fortress, to help.

The logistics brigade of Versailles is usually very idle, and is generally responsible for the guarding of the south gate of Versailles, and there is much more oil and water than that of the north. As for the caravans going south, most of them reached the end point when they arrived at Versailles, and most of the few armed caravans went to the orcs to do business with the backstage, whether there was a "toll" or not, it was collected by the guards of the south gate, and the north gate was only responsible for guarding. And when the caravan comes back, on the surface, the north gate is eligible to collect "tolls", but the returning caravans will not specifically keep some Atlantan coins in circulation in the empire, just to pay the "tolls", they are all in the north to sell their own products to the orcs at a high price, and then buy valuable "orc specialties" from the orcs at a low price, and there may be some products of the Warcraft Forest. In the end, the expensive ones will definitely not be used as "tolls", and the low value will be given to you, and you will have to sell them to the buyer at a low price to realize them...... Not to mention those who can go through the Warcraft Forest to do business with the Northern Beast Clan, not to mention the power of the backstage, just because they are armed caravans, let you be careful, it is not that there has never been a forced card rush......

Versailles began the month strangely, at the beginning of the month, the commander of the fortress sent half of his troops to guard the castles of the other fortresses, and then imposed military control, strictly prohibiting entry and exit from the fortress. The logistics captain has no way to make money because of this, which is fine, because this matter has also been informed by the above, and the people above know that the logistics captain of their fortress is a son of a great nobleman. In the following duty arrangement, the name of the logistics captain often appeared in the guard officers of the north gate, which made the logistics captain with a lazy personality suffer.

Although the North Gate Guard is much easier than the other hilly defense line of the empire that borders with the Beasts, it is not as easy as the South Gate Guards, although it is impossible for the Warcraft and the Orcs to go south on a large scale, but a small number of them will also make the North Gate defense nervous, and there is only one Warcraft or Orc, and it has not been discovered by the guards when it arrives in the city, and the officers on duty will lose their heads, and the family of the logistics captain has no way to do this kind of thing.

Before today, the captain of the logistics brigade also insisted on working on duty for half a month, but in the past half a month, his preference for women has become more and more desired, and he feels that if he doesn't go to the "flower alley" at the south gate today, he may really make trouble...... The captain of the logistics brigade believes that in order to stabilize the fortress, he must slip the number and solve the physiological problems, so that he is responsible for himself and the fortress!

Today, the night shift was handed over, and the logistics captain hurriedly found Payne to replace him, and he secretly ran to the south gate, where there was a "flower alley" that was only open at night......

The logistics captain was in too much of a hurry and didn't explain anything at all, Payne Yaser looked at the briefing in his hand, and he had no clue, so he had to hand it over to the logistics captain's adjutant and let him watch it.

After Payne handed over the briefing, he didn't think about it, the adjutant just looked at the content of the briefing, and immediately looked at it and hurriedly ran away.

"I guess I'm going to find his captain. Captain Payne thought so, and after walking a few steps, Payne suddenly understood something, and hurriedly explained a few words to the soldiers who followed him. When the soldier understood, and then ran away, Payne turned back and walked to the edge of the wall, looking at the "Road of Shock."

After looking at it for a while, Payne finally saw a vague figure, a figure running wildly on the darkening "Road of Shock"!

"Captain Payne, is that Burroughs back?" the last remaining headquarters soldier next to Payne also saw the figure, he was Burroughs' friend Galen, he said a little worriedly.

"I hope it's him, it looks like it's fine......" Captain Payne replied softly.

"Captain, I have a question that I asked very early. Galen had a little anger on his face: "I admit that only our team of Burroughs can do such a task, but why didn't we arrange for backup to follow? Not even a flare for him? If Burroughs had an accident outside, we probably wouldn't have known." Galen said a lot in one breath, and it seemed that these questions had really been in his mind for a long time.

“...... Gallian...... If...... If your family is in danger and needs to be traded for Burroughs, what would you choose?" Captain Payne did not answer Galen's question, but instead asked Galen a somewhat frightening question.

"I ......" Galen was asked, a little slurred.

“...... Let's wait for Burroughs to come back......" Captain Payne's tone grew softer, but he felt that the atmosphere was getting heavier......

The adjutant of the logistics team received the briefing from Payne, took a look, and immediately changed his face, and then hurriedly went to the stables to take out a military horse, and ran in the direction of the south gate without explaining anything, attracting the surprised eyes of a large group of guard soldiers, and even caused a short riot, and some thought that there was an enemy attack in the north.

"Captain, captain, you don't go early or late, but you go at this time!" The adjutant, who was extremely anxious and scared, rode on horseback, cold sweat broke out, and the wind brought by the horse running could not be blown dry.

......When he was about to pass by the General's Mansion in the center of the fortress, the guards in front of the General's Mansion ran in front of him, blocking his way, and his heart was cold: "I'm really anxious! How can I pass in front of the General's Mansion...... It's a dead ......."

The adjutant had to dismount, and when he saw an obvious officer come out, he immediately bowed his head and made a respectful gesture, a small officer in front of the general's door would be much more "powerful" than his little adjutant.

"During the period of military management, you are not allowed to run horses in the fortress without special circumstances! The general still thinks that you are going to send him a message, why does it seem that you are going to the south?" A voice with a bit of yin and yang came to his ears, this tone was still a little familiar, and the adjutant looked up, isn't this the captain of the general's own soldiers who often eats and drinks with the captain!

"Ah, it's Captain Tori! Great, I'm in a bit of a hurry to get home, and I've forgotten the rules, and I'm accommodating, and I'll invite you to drink when I come back!" said the adjutant a little overjoyed, and immediately flattered and made an excuse.

"What's the urgency? Do you have your captain's token? At this time, it seems that your logistics brigade is guarding the north city gate. "This Captain Tori is also ready to close the team, old acquaintances are easy to talk to, if it is that "Iron Rooster" Captain Payne, it will not be so simple.

"I ...... My wife is about to give birth...... Token...... Captain Token forgot to give it to me. The adjutant was in a hurry, no, he said it in a panic.

"What?" Captain Payne felt a little abnormal, and the hand that was supposed to instruct the soldiers to close the team stopped in the air.

"Captain, I'm really in a hurry, you see I'm sweating in a hurry. In fact, the adjutant himself felt that he had said the wrong thing, and he was so anxious that he was really sweating, but it was just a cold sweat.

"Your captain forgot to give you a token? Well, he's really capable of doing that. Captain Tori's hand that stopped in mid-air did not let go, but raised it up, and several soldiers behind him immediately took their guns and drew their bows and aimed at the adjutant: "But your wife is about to give birth?...... Why did you say last time that your tigress wouldn't let you go to bed for a year!"

Captain Tori suddenly yelled at the adjutant at the last sentence, and the adjutant was so frightened that he knelt down.

"Usually you look very arrogant, why did you kneel down like this?" Tori is really a little strange, when I had a drink with the logistics captain before, the captain couldn't do it, but this adjutant continued to fight with himself.

"Say!, what's the reason?" Tori felt more and more wrong, and when he thought of the general who was still waiting for his reply at the gate, he tried even harder to frighten the lieutenant, and at the same time he drew half of his sword.

"I ...... I ......" The adjutant was so frightened that he couldn't speak, so he had to take out the briefing note on his body with trembling hands, hold it up and hold it above his head.

Captain Tori flicked his hand, put the saber back in its scabbard, then walked over and took the briefing, squinted at the lieutenant, and opened it.

As soon as the words "target returns" came into his eyes, Captain Tori knew the reason, and when he turned around to report to the general, he turned around again and asked the adjutant who was still kneeling on the ground: "Is your captain not at the north gate?"

"Hmm......," the adjutant replied apprehensively, nodding.

"Then who is the officer on duty at the North Gate now? You're all here, is there no officer here?" Captain Tori felt that things were a little bit off.

"Captain Payne......" After saying this, the adjutant collapsed directly, and he also thought at this time, how inappropriate it was to let Captain Payne stay at the north gate now, and how serious the consequences were......

"You ...... Why don't you wait to die!" Captain Tori was frightened when he heard this, and he hurried to the general with a cruel word.

The adjutant, who was still kneeling, looked at the soldiers left around him and found that they were still tense, so he had to continue to kneel.