Chapter 366: Reinforcements Arrive and End
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The shallow layer of cloud floc resembles a piece of "woolly" glass, giving the sky a faint blue that is almost indistinguishable. γγ/
On the ice field under the sky, more than a dozen gray shadows swept across the snow, and the knights on the gray shadows were also dressed in white armor, and at first glance, they almost blended with the color of the snow.
Outside a white camp of varying heights, the dozen or so scouts slowed down. [Otherworldly Survival Rules] Good Novels[]
They divided into two groups and circled around the camp, and then the snow wolf under the crotch no longer stepped on the snow silently when running, and the scout on the snow wolf also made a snorting sound from time to time as he ran, and the low whistle was long and short, as if it was spreading some kind of codeword, but it did not get any response for a long time.
A dozen scouts, divided into two groups, converged at the other end of the camp.
An exceptionally tall snow wolf stepped out, and the red-haired scout captain with a dagger and rope insignia on his white armor raised his chin to his subordinates, "Guge, Harry, you guys take two of you in and have a look." β
Two of his men took the order, and the rest of them sorted out the positions of their weapons at their waists, ready for battle at any time - they were not on the lookout for the original owner of the camp, but for some unknown horror that might arise.
On the northwest side of the camp, an abrupt valley mouth was filled with gray mist, and from time to time exhaled an eerie and cold breath, and all the scouts shuddered when they remembered the trembling look of the friendly scout who reported the news, and they were a little afraid to look at the valley mouth.
The sound of the wolf riding on the snow soon returned, and the figures of the six companions were quite neat, and they did not seem to have experienced any battle. Guge, who was at the front, shook his head from afar, "No one, it's probably been a day since I left, and there is no trace of a battle, there should be a planned retreat." β
The Scout Captain's face relaxed.
Among the scouts, he was the only one who knew best what happened to the army under the command of Captain Williams, and the reconnaissance of Guge showed that the army's empty city plan had been successful at the beginning, and I don't know what happened later.
He thought for a moment, and then ordered:
"Guge, you take half of the men and find the direction where the friendly forces are retreating." The rest followed me......" He didn't have much saliva in his dry mouth, and simply spat at the dry foam, "let's go in that direction...... Let's see. β
The people who were selected all shivered, and the other half of their companions cast sympathetic glances of "good luck" at them, and the scout captain was not without worry in his heart, but he still scolded when he saw this:
"What are you doing with your eyebrows! Hurry up, or we'll change the two teams! β
Guge shrugged his shoulders, looked at the gray valley mouth, and hurriedly beckoned his companion to leave.
"Whatever you find, meet here in half an hour!"
The captain of the scout shouted behind their backs, then pulled the reins and said to the remaining men who were praying at their chests:
"Let's go."
He pulled the reins and walked away, and the rest of his men were only a beat slower before following.
Half an hour later, the two separate groups of scouts converged on the edge of their original camp as promised, and the two teams remained intact and undamaged.
The team led by Guge came back early, and when he saw the team led by his captain coming back from the direction of Taniguchi, there seemed to be no traces of battle on his body, but his expression was a little sluggish, and even the majestic snow wolf under his crotch was a little listless, wilting and drooping with a big tail like a long "hairy" broom. [Otherworldly Survival Rules] Good Novels[]
Guge didn't think it was strange at all, Taniguchi's cold breath occasionally blew along the changing direction of the wind, and it made people feel a chill from a long distance, not to mention going to the vicinity to scout - the captain They were lucky that they didn't encounter those legendary terrifying undead, and now they looked so sluggish, it was probably because they were sucked by the undead hiding in the snow.
The mysterious horror of the undead made Guge, who did not understand their essence, mystify them more and more, and the big horror stories he heard since he was a child were deeply rooted in Guge's heart, and he never imagined that he would have to fight such a terrible army one day.
Thinking about the 'chaos' in his heart, Guge went up and reported the results of the investigation to his captain:
"Captain, the friendly troops were evacuated in batches from the opposite direction of the valley mouth, that is, to the southeast, and we found some traces that were not completely buried at a depth of about half a foot underground, judging from the thickness of the snow and the weather and wind speed here yesterday, the time of their evacuation was about 11 o'clock to 1 o'clock in the middle of yesterday night. γβ
After a pause, he added, "After finding the direction of the retreat of the friendly forces, we followed the route to expand the detection area, and no other suspicious traces were found around......"
Hearing the latter sentence, the scout captain was not surprised, but nodded a little strangely and said:
"We didn't find any suspicious signs in the snow near Taniguchi."
Ice sheets change in climate, and sometimes a single night of snow and wind can change the landscape. However, the weather was good last night, there was no heavy snowstorm, and the traces of the army could not be completely concealed, as a scout who had survived in the ice field for many years, he might not be able to find the traces of a few targets a day ago through the thick layer of snow, but the traces left by a large number of troops, with years of experience, could basically be judged to be ten.
Guge and his subordinates behind him were stunned, happy and suspicious: "So, the 'those things' inside didn't come out?" β
As an old scout, combined with the previous conditions, it is not difficult to come to such a conclusion, but a group of people were mentally prepared to face a terror before setting off in advance, and they did not expect that the situation was far better than the best situation they imagined, and while they were happy for a while, they couldn't help but be a little suspicious.
Moreover, the undead army did not leave the valley, and they went out of the valley and then retreated, and the psychological feeling is different:
It's like encircling a tiger with a cardboard box, although it knows that the cardboard box can't be trapped, but the tiger stays in the box in a safe way, and the psychological sense of security is naturally much higher than that of the tiger continuing to stay in place after the cardboard box is scratched.
The scout captain's expression did not relax like his subordinates, and the undead did not come out of the valley, which was naturally good news for friendly troops, the army of the Western Front, and even the entire Terran army of the Ice Plains, but for them, it was not necessarily.
His gaze wandered around the faces of his men, and the hand holding the reins tightened, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he said:
"Now, send two people back to the front army to report the situation, and the rest of the people will go into the valley with me to investigate!"
As soon as the voice fell, the ease that had just appeared on everyone's faces suddenly froze, but the captain's prestige in the team was extremely strong, and everyone knew that this was their task before they came out, and the military order could not be violated, but they just subconsciously wanted to steal a point of ease. γγ
Without waiting for his subordinates to say anything, the scout captain directly called the name, "Little Locke, Garrison, you two report back!" β
"Captain!"
Two calls sounded at the same time, and a male duck's voice could even be heard a little immature.
"Shut up! This is a military order! The scout captain snorted in a deep voice.
Rock Jr. is only sixteen years old, the youngest of the team, and has a great life, while Garrison is the only adult male in his family, and he has an elderly mother and two younger siblings under the age of three, who have to support his family with the money he sent back.
The others were aware of the situation and had no objection despite their fears. [Otherworldly Survival Rules] Good Novels[]
The sixteen horsemen were like inconspicuous little black dots on the edge of the white "color" camp, and they stayed in place for a moment, divided into two teams, one large and one small, and ran in opposite directions.
β¦β¦
In the thick fog, accompanied by a "gurgle" sound, there was a low "ouch"!
"Who!"
Outside the range of the dense fog, the two guards who were holding their swords and pretending to sleep jumped up violently.
Their bodies were so dirty that they could no longer see their original appearance, and the blades of the swords in their hands that had not been sheathed at all had broken into large and small gaps, but their vigilance was not reduced by this situation, and after subconsciously jumping up and asking, their minds realized one step slower than subconsciously that it was not the undead who made the sound - after all, the undead are not called "ouch"!
There was a burst of "commotion" and "chaos" from the source of the sound, as if I didn't expect there to be living people here, and after a while of "chaos", a voice asked cautiously and vigilantly:
ββ¦β¦ Who are you? β
Judging from the Su zhΓ¬ shown in this short period of time, the other party is just ordinary soldiers, but although the undead in the dense fog of Taniguchi have been cleared after they came out, these ordinary soldiers dare to come in, and their courage is not small. γγ
The two guards glanced at each other, and had already guessed what the identity of the other party was, and their expressions were shocked and "revealed" a little excited, but they still said solemnly:
"Western Front Chapter 363 Message, "Have you and your companions been fighting here all night long?"
The injuries on your body must be proof of your heroic battle, and it is conceivable that you and your companions will be rewarded with great merit for this heroic battle! β
The scout captain stretched his hand and drew a big circle to show how great this battle feat was - this is by no means an exaggeration, in fact, the level of the scout captain was far less than Cheng DΓΉ, who knew the overall military situation, otherwise he would definitely know that the battle exploits and awards that he might get for successfully dragging down such an incredible army of hundreds of millions of undead were much larger than the circle he had drawn, so big that he could not have dreamed of it!
"No, the real battle actually ended in the middle of the night last night," the guards seemed to think of something, and their faces darkened, "and it's not our ...... who really has the credit."
"We're just lucky stealers," he added in his mind.
In the battle of Izuku last night, although they had the full strength of Master Lin and Master Elvis, they still paid a lot of price.
In the end, two brothers drank the scarlet blood and burst out of fighting spirit for them, and stayed here forever, and the others were also slightly and seriously injured, among which the two mages, Krum and Philip, forcibly cast spells until the magic power was exhausted, and suffered a magic backlash, so this group basically lost their combat power.
After rushing out of the corpses, they dodged left and right to avoid the scattered undead in the first half of the ice valley, and finally rushed out of the ice valley, but what was waiting for them was an empty camp.
Just when everyone was unaware of the situation, Master Krum's love suddenly erupted, catching Master Philip and roaring, and Captain John finally stood up and revealed the ultimate purpose and mission of this Ice Valley mission.
Everyone's reactions to the truth were mixed, but the only thing that was certain was that they didn't have the strength to rush into the corpses, a conclusion that made even the most violently reacted Krum mage lose the strength to roar.
In the end, after everyone discussed, the soldiers divided into two ways:
The Canberra Lieutenant and the Philip Phu, with two of their own guards, who were not seriously wounded, hurried to chase the evacuated army and report on the military situation, while the rest remained to recover and keep an eye on the changes in the valley. γγ
The Canberra vice-captain and his party didn't know what the situation was, but the situation they encountered in this group was far beyond their expectations:
The army of the undead that was expected to attack soon did not appear for a long time, and they sent people into the valley to probe, and found that the area occupied by the corpses had shrunk inward, as if they were besieging something intensively, which couldn't help but remind them of the two mages after the break.
Things were unexpected, and they were overjoyed.
So Lord John and Lord Faith quickly made the decision to go into the valley to test the situation further, and although it was not enough to go deep into the corpse group, no one did not want them to attack on the periphery, which could slightly ease the pressure on the two mages in the middle of the corpse group - although the idea was ridiculous, everyone did their best to do it, which is why they entered the valley again.
And the two of them guarding the valley mouth are not lazy, but their fighting spirit is exhausted in the battle again, and they have to recover from the battle, and at the same time, they also serve as the guards, and once the corpses are touched, they must also retain some combat strength to retreat.
ββ¦β¦ So, why don't you leave? The question of the scout captain in his ear pulled the guard's thoughts back to reality.
"We still have two companions inside, most likely still alive." The guard said expressionlessly.
"According to what you said, tens of thousands of corpses can't even splash water into it, even 200 people in it will have to be gnawed into bones and slag in such a hellish place!"
The Scout Captain's imagination is not rich, and the tens of thousands of poisonous zombies and resentful spirits described by the guards are nothing more than the most terrifying scenes in hell in his imagination.
But the scout captain also sensed something from the change in the guard's looks--the robe and the relationship between life and death in the army are common, so he understands the guard's mood very well, although he feels that the two companions that the guard said have little chance of survival, but he won't say it, but sighs with the guard.
The guards didn't know what the scout captain was thinking, and after he confirmed the subordinate of the scout captain at the mouth of the valley, he sent a signal to Captain John and the others who were still in the valley, so soon after passing through the middle of the valley, he saw the familiar figure of Captain John.
"Captain!"
The guards excitedly ran towards Johanm, bringing with them the good news of the arrival of reinforcements.
In the eyes of the scout captain behind the guard, the captain's wolf bèi Cheng dù in the mouth of the guard was superior to the guard.
He held an iron rod in his left hand, which was no longer called a long sword, and his right hand was hung up with a skin that could not be seen, and he limped unnaturally in his movements, and it looked like he was injured in his leg and right hand.
As an experienced scout, the scout captain can almost infer the situation of the entire team from the situation of this Excellency.
"Sure enough, it's completely at the end of the mountain," the scout captain couldn't help but admire, "In this case, he still insists on fighting, and he really deserves to be the leader of the most elite eagle heads under the Long-tailed Green Eagle!" β
"Captain, how's the situation going?"
As soon as they met, the guards who brought the scout captain did not have time to report the situation, and immediately inquired about the situation in the back section of the ice valley, because of the abnormality of the corpses, they had always had hope for the survival of Lin An and Sidney.
Although they all knew how slim this hope was, they all returned to the ice valley without complaint, preferring to stay in such a hostile environment to slow down their recovery speed rather than miss the possible opportunity to respond - the last moment of rushing out of the corpse group, the attack pressure was the strongest, this is what they all know, for this reason, whether Lin An and the two can get the last step to receive and help, may be the key to determining their life and death.
To the disappointment of the guards, John shook his head, "The range of the corpses has expanded again, but the reaction is a little strange, and it didn't come to attack us, so it's impossible to determine the situation inside now." β
The worst seems to have finally happened.
Lin An and the two were able to hold out in the siege situation for nearly a day and a night, which was far beyond their expectations, and the reality had to make them think so.
And the necromancer who was hiding in the depths of the valley after solving the great enemy, he himself was also weakened a lot, perhaps afraid that they would find his hiding place, so he did not dare to let the undead army out of the valley again, wanting to further deceive them, so John They did not dare to act rashly, only dared to kill some zombies on the periphery.
When the guards heard this, their faces immediately darkened unconcealably:
Now that they are approaching the time when they expect the reinforcements to arrive, the undead army has not come out of the valley, although it is because of Lin An and the two, but they can be regarded as having completed the mission given by Lord Williams in twists and turns, and it can even be said that the result is far beyond their expectations, and the army that has been in advance for a day is no longer able to be caught up by the army of the undead.
Therefore, in the minds of the guards, the concept of the arrival of reinforcements is that there are finally conditions for rescuing the two trapped mages. However, now that he had learned that the two mages who had sacrificed their lives to cover them had fallen a moment before the rescue arrived, the arrival of reinforcements would have lost the greatest meaning for them.
The guards had just learned the news, their throats were slightly choked, their eyes were red, don't turn their faces, and they were no longer in the mood to hand over the life-sacrificing military intelligence task to the scout captain.
John, however, could not forget his duty, cheered up, and smiled at the scout captain who was left out in the cold, his smile indescribably stiff.
"This is the captain of the scout team that will send reinforcements first," John could see the rank of the scout captain at a glance, after all, the scout captain is far more glamorous than them, "We have been waiting for reinforcements for a long time, when will the friendly troops who come to help arrive?" β
The captain of the scout saluted respectfully to the captain of the personal guard with the status of nobleman, understood what the other party was most eager to know, and said directly:
"Honorable lord, the army is already thirty miles away, and it will be there in one magic hour at most!"
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In the depths of the burial pit, under the mountain of corpses and bones, a secret door that was hidden very deep was opened, and the deep tunnel behind the secret door was "exposed".
A slender dark purple figure burst out of the tunnel, accompanied by the stench and vibrations from the depths of the earth, followed by another figure with outstretched wings, and the waist under the flapping wings was very bloated, and on closer inspection, it turned out to be more than a dozen bulging storage bags, turning Sidney's slender waist into a pot-bellied poop like a baby in October.
As soon as Lin An rushed into the sky, none of the poisonous zombies crowded outside the secret door rushed up, but instead squeezed back one by one.
Lin An ignored the zombies, turned around in the air, looked back at Sidney a little helplessly, his mouth squirmed, but he did not blame Sidney for delaying until the last moment of the tunnel collapse to stop the search as originally intended, and sighed and said:
"How's it going out there?"
"Nothing out of the ordinary, huh...... The guys who rushed out ran back again. β
After finding the necromancer's location and entering the tunnel, Sidney had already retrieved all the undead minions, leaving only the ethereal Screaming Wraith to guard outside, at this time he contacted the Wraith Wraith, and found that there were several more people on the periphery of the corpse.
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