Baker Village.

A small border village with a population of less than 100 people.

This kind of small village that does not rely on the sky and the earth is as many as cattle hair in the Huayu Plateau.

Although it is located at the junction of the fault mountain range where the Huayu Plateau meets the Eternal Night Army, there is no important transportation to pass through here.

Therefore, it did not take advantage of the situation to develop and grow like some lucky villages.

However, there were several groups of young people who were unwilling to be lonely, joined the ranks of the caravan, and then never returned.

Those young men have either died on the way to trade, or they have taken the opportunity to make enough money.

Either way, they will never be able to return to the little village where they were born and raised.

Ten years of monotonous life have made the pace of life here very slow.

Even the news of the large-scale invasion of the Eternal Night Army, which had caused chaos in the entire Huayu Plateau, did not have much impact on this place.

A few days ago, there was a herald who came here to convey the news.

After hearing this, the villagers here left it behind and went about their lives step by step.

They are just a small village where birds don't, and even if the two major military leaders beat out their brains, it will not have much impact on them, at most, it will be another group of people who will come to collect taxes in the coming year.

August 3rd.

The village of Baker is as calm as ever.

The diligent ones have gone down to the ground and begun to work.

The lazy ones were already lying in the haystack and basking in the sun.

This calm came to an abrupt end.

Rumble!

The ground not far from the entrance of Baker Village trembled irregularly, and the small stones around it trembled.

"What's going on?"

"What just happened?"

"Did you just feel the earth moving? Is it my delusion?"

"I feel it too, it's definitely not a delusion!"

"Is there any monster underground?"

"Nonsense, what kind of monster can make such a big noise? I've lived here for more than 40 years, and I haven't heard of a monster in our village. ”

Several well-known Baker village men jumped up from the haystack not far from the entrance of the village, and looked around in some disbelief.

There are few earthquakes on the Huayu Plateau, and they don't even have the concept of earthquakes in their minds, so they naturally don't associate it with this aspect.

Rumble!

The next second they stood up, less than ten meters away from them, debris flew and a huge mouth with a diameter of more than five meters broke through the ground.

I saw that the huge mouth was full of spiral-shaped sharp barbed teeth, each of which was thicker and longer than their arm, and a strong sour smell came to their faces.

"Oh my god...... There really are monsters......"

"Quick, quick, run...... There are monsters, there are monsters at the entrance of the village......"

"Pull me, pull me, I can't run...... Please, pull me along, I don't want to be eaten by monsters......"

These lazy men, who had never seen such a scene, were scared silly on the spot.

It's just that in the face of danger, people react differently.

Some of them are the first to turn around and run, the speed is faster than they imagined, and they are only afraid of running so fast for the first time in their lives.

Some were stunned in place, obviously wanting to run, but their legs trembled, and they couldn't take half a step at all, and the warmth in the crotch of their pants was felt clearly.

Boom! Boom!

That terrifying giant mouth had no intention of devouring them at all, and it expanded and contracted several times, and the underground entrance had been widened to more than ten meters.

Then the terrifying jaw retracted into the cavern and disappeared without a trace.

"Where's the monster?"

"Where are the monsters?"

"Don't go, don't go, that monster is so terrifying, you go over, it's not enough for it to stuff its teeth. ”

"Hansen, did you drink too much last night, and you haven't sobered up yet? You see a kitten as a mountain tiger? Look at your current cowardice, I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of, take me over quickly." ”

Soon there was a commotion from the direction of Baker Village, and a group of people rushed out with pitchforks and sticks.

The people who were pushed and yelled at the front were the lazy men who had just fled back to the village.

A small village also has the benefits of a small village.

Most people are related to each other, and they are more grouped, and they respond to anything they want.

As soon as I heard that there was a monster at the entrance of my village, I naturally rushed out to see what was going on.

These lazy and lazy men have a bad reputation in the village, and few people believe what they say, but they are exaggerating, presumably intimidated by some uncommon creature.

Over the years, it is not a new thing that occasionally an uncommon ferocious beast has rushed out of the fault mountain range and finally been killed by the villagers and has become a delicacy in the stomach.

The villagers were far away from seeing the bloody mouths in the mouths of these lazy men, so they naturally became more determined about this, and they had to sneer at those lazy men again, especially the one who was scared to pee his pants and collapsed in place.

It is estimated that he will be the biggest laughing stock in Baker Village for a long time to come, until they see the huge underground cavern no less than the diameter and swarthy rushing towards Baker Village, everyone can't laugh.

"What is this pothole and how did it come out?"

"You're not going to tell me it's a monster in your mouth, are you?"

"It's true, it's a monster. ”

"What about monsters? What about monsters?"

"It's been retracted into the hole. ”

"Now you believe it? It's a big cave that a few of us can't dig out, and your dirt is still very fresh. ”

"What's this goomy?"

"Don't touch it, who knows if these things are harmful to people's bodies. ”

"What are we going to do now? Shall we go down there and have a look?"

"You don't want to die, who knows what's down there? The guy who can make such a big cave must be a behemoth, and we rush into it, I'm afraid it's not enough to stuff people's teeth." ”

Facing the swarthy underground cavern, these Baker villagers looked at each other, at a loss, and only felt a chill rising from their backs.

People are full of natural fear of the unknown.

Especially in the face of this kind of sudden appearance that cannot be explained by common sense, coupled with the previous descriptions of several lazy men, it is even more creepy.

It seems that in the underground caves, a biting cold wind is blowing, as if a monster will rush out of it at any time.

Boom!

Bang Bang!

Rhythmic crashes and whispers came from the underground caverns, and countless faint lights flickered in them.

"Hell!"

"There really are monsters!"

"Run!"

At this moment, the courage of the villagers of Baker Village, who had finally mustered up, was instantly dissipated, and they scattered in a hurry, and the speed of their escape was more than twice as fast as the speed they had arrived before.

It is normal for ordinary people who have not undergone professional training to really encounter things and have such a reaction.

"Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up again, act according to the established plan, the first team is due east, the second team is due west, the third team is due south, and the fourth team is due north, take the exit as the center, explore the situation within a radius of ten kilometers, pay attention to concealment, if the whereabouts are exposed, the control of the situation can be controlled, and the killing of those who cannot control the situation must not be allowed to slip away from the living tongue. ”

"Report to the captain, the ground breaking point is a little off, we are now at the entrance of a village. ”

"You just have to carry out your set tasks, and leave the rest to the brother troops behind. ”

"Although the squadron leader can rest assured that he will complete the task, he will run, run, raise soldiers for a thousand days, and now is your best chance to perform, why don't you use all the strength you have to eat?"

Soon a figure rushed out of the underground passage on a path paved with magical masonry that had not yet completely dried.

It's a group of living people, some kind of monster or ghost.

The rhythmic crash that the Baker villagers had heard earlier was the sound of their boots hitting the ground.

The whisper was the voice of their captain's orders.

As for the ghostly light, it was the magical glimmer of light that emanated from their eyes, and once exposed to sunlight, it immediately returned to normal.

These people are dressed in uniform uniforms that the villagers of Baker Village have never seen before, with white emblems on a black background, and they exude a clean and neat atmosphere from the inside out, and their movements are even more vigorous.

After coming out of the underground cavern, they split into four and ran in different directions, not much slower than the horses that ran away, which was quite amazing.

These well-trained soldiers are like a rushing tide, which has been gushing out in a steady stream since it came out of the first place.

By the time the villagers of Baker Village woke up from the shock, the entire village had been surrounded by water.

"Which of you is the chief or elder of this village, come out and speak. "In the army from the underground, a young officer speaks this fluent Highland language.

"I ...... I'm the head of this Baker village...... "An old man with gray hair was reluctantly pushed out of the crowd, and his speech was a little trembling.

Although the other party is not the monster they imagined, it is not much better.

For ordinary people, war is one of the most terrifying monsters.

But they are now at the very center of the war.

The villagers of Baker Village did not have much knowledge, but most of them had already guessed the identity of this army—an invading army led by the Eternal Night.

"Don't worry too much, the village chief, our army is here to liberate the toiling masses, you just need to cooperate with our actions, and we will not kill for no reason. The young officer of the Eternal Night had a gentle smile on his face.

"We must cooperate, we must cooperate......" said the head of Baker Village.

If you don't cooperate, you can't do it, didn't people just say it?

They don't mean they kill for no reason, they don't mean they won't kill.

If they try to resist, or run away to give a tip, they will definitely raise their butcher's knives against them.

"Please tell the village chief the total population of your village and take us to count the number of people. ”

"It's okay to count the number of people, but I really don't know the total population. The head of Baker village hurriedly explained, "We have never counted the number of villagers before. ”

"I don't know the population of the village, so how did you pay taxes to your lord before?" asked the officer of the Eternal Night, raising an eyebrow.

"We pay taxes on a household-by-household basis. ”

"And how many households do you have?"

"Fifty-three households. ”

"Then take us to count the number of people from house to house, I hope you seek truth from facts, don't deceive, otherwise we will find out, the matter will be serious, I hope you can actively cooperate with us in the next period of time, as long as you cooperate, I can guarantee your personal safety until the end of the war, believe me, it won't take long." ”

"Yes, yes...... Please come with me, sir...... Your Excellency, you see, no more, no less, there are fifty-three households in total, and the population of each household is not missing, and the whole village of Baker Village is here......"

"Very good, I think this is the beginning of a good cooperation between our two sides, in the near future, we will have centralized military control over you, your village and land, we need to temporarily expropriate, rest assured, we will properly resettle you after the war, so in the meantime, I hope you can cooperate with our actions and do not cause us additional trouble." ”

"Certainly, definitely, we will wholeheartedly cooperate with the actions of the adults, and only ask the adults to ensure the safety of our villagers. ”

"I repeat our policy, as long as you don't try to ventilate and leak our military intelligence, we will not create unprovoked killings without authorization, this is our military rules and discipline, you may not believe it now, but time will witness everything, come and put them under centralized supervision. ”

"Yes!"

In front of such a group of tigers and wolves, these ordinary farmers in Baker Village, who have never seen the world, are as well-behaved as the most obedient sheep, so that they will never dare to go west if they go east.

Report to the local nobles, not to mention whether these villagers in Baker Village have this awareness.

Even if they had, they wouldn't have the ability.

After all, they are just a bunch of honest farmers who don't have much knowledge, and they have no training in this area at all.

Honestly obeying the other party's arrangements and saving their own lives and the lives of their families is their primary consideration.

It's the survival instinct of these little people.

The army that suddenly came out of the ground of Baker Village was naturally none other than the vanguard of the Southwest Front led by the Eternal Night Army.

In front of those Lai Hans, the terrifying giant mouth that showed its head once was naturally the Eternal Night Army's Ground-Digging Purple Worm, which had the reputation of being an infrastructure artifact.

The Eternal Night Army Leader has not been peeking at the Flower Language Plateau for a day or two, but after he has become a momentum, he has already launched an active plan.

After starting with the Digging Purple Worm and with its help, the first underground magic guide railway of the Eternal Night Army was developed, this matter was officially put on the agenda.

This underground magic guide railway connecting the Huayu Plateau and the Danube Plain, most of the sections have been built under the cover of the Eternal Night Army's large-scale development of the Danube Plain, and even the magic guide tractor has been prepared as many as five.

However, in order to ensure that it can have the effect of taking it by surprise and attacking it unprepared, the section leading to the Flower Language Plateau in the end has not been completely opened.

The ruling class of the Flower Language Plateau jumped up and down and actively prepared for war.

The army led by the Eternal Night Army has obviously been assembled, but it has been slow to hold its ground, just waiting for the opening of the last passage.