Chapter 231: Internal Contradictions
"Although the number of humanoid monsters in this wave is not small, it is not too troublesome."
At the head of the eighth district, Meng Yang saw the battles that were going on in various districts by summoning elves.
The main types of humanoids are still those with pig-headed people, gnolls, sheep-headed people, green-skinned snakes, and four-armed lizardmen.
Among them, the Gnoll, the Greenskin, the Snake, and the four-armed lizardman occupy the main number, and although the Forgotten Lands are full of monsters, they have developed into large humanoid monsters of a certain scale, and the types that Meng Yang and the player are exposed to are mainly these.
It cannot be ruled out that there may have been a large number of other humanoid monsters on this continent, but it takes a certain amount of luck to survive in this monster world where individual strength far exceeds the limits of what the group can reach, whether it is humans, humanoid monsters, or other strange monsters.
Especially in the period of the outbreak of the demon tide, the individual is awakening to the extraordinary, or moving towards a higher level of transcendence, the biological chain is completely in a state of disorder, all the monsters want to find themselves in this new ecology which level of the food chain, yes, chaos, killing, noisy, will inevitably appear in large numbers.
"Human beings are really a special existence in this world."
Meng Yang looked at the battle that was still going on outside the city wall, and some extraordinary players with strong melee ability, like several other urban areas, were not satisfied with just stationing on the city wall, and they all went down to the city to fight the monsters.
Meng Yang did not deliberately block this, but was happy to see it happen. For the current total of almost 50,000 players, almost half of them have been summoned to this world in the last few times, and there is still a big lack of cooperation and accumulation of combat experience.
At this time, facing a not so powerful and terrifying opponent is undoubtedly the most suitable for military training.
Meng Yang is only lamenting what human beings have encountered in this continent now, and through the understanding of various information, Meng Yang can now further confirm that this forgotten land was not originally a forgotten land and a place of exile.
In the earliest days, this continent should be the largest and most mainstream continent in the world. If we compare the earth world to the African continent.
The first human beings originated here, and established and developed civilization in this world, which is the most mainstream race on this continent, and other giant creatures and monsters are in the shadow of the development of human civilization. Relatively primitive tribal groups have been established, and empires have even developed into embryonic empires.
This is basically similar to the earth world, where the growth and development of the terrifying two-legged beast and Homo erectus is often accompanied by the fall and extinction of many other races.
According to the original trend, the human beings on this continent should basically enter the slave society from the early primitive society, and then enter the feudal society, and the future development may enter the era of scientific and technological civilization.
But the time is about one or two thousand years, and after the first Demon Tide erupted, it seems that everything has changed here.
The significant impact of the outbreak of the Demon Tide is that the great power of the individual is attributed to itself, and the absolute position that human beings have just established over other races in the course of development has been completely defeated by the outbreak of the Demon Tide.
After the transcendental, the strength of individual monsters has increased geometrically, and the rapid mega-size has made it impossible for human beings to effectively fight against the original hunting methods and intelligent means such as collective cooperation.
Of course, in the human world, there are many people who have been affected by the demon tide and have mutated and stepped into the extraordinary, but compared to the large number of other races, it still seems to be weak.
Since then, the human race on this continent has become bad, every time the demon tide erupts, it is a complete reshuffle of the biological chain, and after a few times, the human beings at the top level have basically begun to wander in the middle and lower levels.
At this time, wisdom, knowledge, teamwork, and the use of tools, which make human beings the top race, cannot form an effective confrontation in the face of the rapid outbreak of the demon tide in the short term.
A large part of these human beings began to leave this continent and gradually re-formed a new civilization in the eastern and western continents.
And with the passage of time, this continent, where humans first grew up, eventually became a place of oblivion and exile.
Of course, in the past thousands of years of development, the human beings of the Eastern and Western Continents have not been indifferent to this continent, from the establishment of the City of Despair to the frequent distribution of exiled prisoners of various criminals to come here, in order not to want to completely lose their foundation.
For Meng Yang, this conclusion is undoubtedly more convincing than the answer given by the aborigines living in the City of Despair, and at the same time, it also makes the situation of the entire continent and the situation of the eastern and western continents roughly clear.
The only regret is that the Forgotten Lands are still blank as to how big they are and how many monsters there are.
Too many years have passed, and even if there were records, I am afraid they have long been lost. In the years of one or two thousand years, sometimes the past is not too far from a macro perspective, but in the era when the productive forces are not particularly developed, there are already more than ten dynasties, and dozens of generations have passed.
This is like a modern person, looking back on the past, needless to say that it is too long, even one or two hundred years feels far away, and three or five hundred years is an unattainable era, let alone in such a complex world.
"Look, what's that?"
Just as Meng Yang's thoughts were a little fluttering, thinking about the history of the past thousand years, suddenly someone shouted in his ears.
Meng Yang came back to his senses slightly, and looked out in the direction of the voice, only to see that above the ground, the mighty humanoid monsters had begun to retreat and flee one after another.
These humanoid monsters seem to have been expelled by some powerful beings to attack in front of the wall of despair, but after a long period of attack, instead of causing a large number of casualties, these humanoid monsters finally could not resist the loss and began to scream and flee.
Compared with other monsters, humanoid monsters, even if they are not as intelligent as humans, are orcs in a sense, have more complex emotions, and are also afraid of death.
And just as these monsters began to scatter and flee, trying to leave here, suddenly in the distant sky, one after another huge black shadows slowly emerged.
Meng Yang used his eyes to look into the distance, and could only see the majestic corners that were revealed in the smoke and dust of flying sand and rocks, and then asked for a newly baked straight telescope from a guard beside him.
Through the telescope, he could barely see clearly.
It was a kind of arthropodic monster similar to a centipede, but it was tens of millions of times larger than an ordinary centipede, and at least a distance of more than ten kilometers, he could already see the huge figures of these monsters churning.
Some of the gnolls and green-skinned snakemen who fled in all directions were directly crushed by this group of arthropod monsters.
"There should be more than 30 heads, and if it's just going to one city, the pressure is quite high." After Meng Yang saw these monsters clearly, he instantly felt a burst of pressure in his heart, the size of such a monster, especially the arthropod insect monsters, was basically able to reach the level of the transcendent third order.
If the number is only relatively small, three or five, it is not very difficult to cope with the firepower of an urban area now. But if so many heads gather at the same time and attack a city together, the pressure is quite great.
"Seven, eight, nine, according to the distance, it should be these urban districts, I have to quickly deploy manpower."
Looking at the group of transcendent third-order monsters that were getting closer and closer, rampage, and disturbing the Forest of Bones as if they had been run over by a road steamroller, Meng Yang's mind spun rapidly, and then he quickly checked the situation in other urban areas by summoning elves.
In the face of these huge monsters tens of meters long, if you don't prepare quickly, as soon as they get closer, I'm afraid that in addition to a few rounds of fire from the magic crystal cannon, the waiting result can only be the destruction of the city in the end.
And just as Meng Yang watched the appearance of these arthropody-like transcendent third-order monsters like centipedes, the third city district at this moment first ushered in an unexpected small riot.
"Otherworldters, please leave our defense area, we accept the leadership of the City Lord's Mansion, and we will also defend this section of the city wall for the sake of our homeland, we don't need you."
Dressed in smooth armor, Lan Yu stood in the middle of a group of equally heavily armored aboriginal soldiers, looking at the hideous and terrifying figures on the opposite side with a grim expression. The heavily armored soldiers standing beside him were basically equally vigilant, their hands clenched tightly in their weapons, as if they were on the lookout for something at any time.
"Don't need our help?"
On the other side, a sturdy figure, a head taller than ordinary people, looked at the extremely terrifying and terrifying figure pursed his lips disdainfully, and snorted coldly, "If it weren't for us, you wouldn't know how many times you would have died, not to mention the previous green snake and four-armed lizardmen attacking your camp, the help we provided was just now, that bloodthirsty beast, if it weren't for us, you would have finished the game a long time ago." ”
Lan Yu's chin was raised, looking at the monster who was talking, if he remembered correctly, the other party should be called Tang Man, a person from another world, but after taking the potion, his body was mutated and became what it is now.
Although Tang Man's appearance could bring a lot of pressure to many aborigines, Lan Yu was not afraid at all, and just said coldly: "You can clearly relieve our soldiers outside, but ...... But you stand by and watch, and I know that there is a price to be paid for your resurrection from the dead, and we are willing to give it to you, but you are still there watching their deaths. ”
Later, Lan Yu's voice was already a little sad and angry.
"Damn, you're embarrassed to say that stupid hat." Before Tang Man could speak, Wang Liao, who was standing beside him, couldn't help it anymore, suddenly took a step forward, and roared angrily, "Don't go forward, don't lean forward, you just don't listen, Lao Tzu has died at least seven or eight times for this,, this is really sick." ”
Whoop -
At the moment when Wang Liao took a step forward and scolded angrily, the heavily armored soldiers, who were already extremely nervous, unconsciously raised their weapons in their hands, and their expressions were full of vigilance.
A humanoid monster with a height of more than two meters and a whole body like bone suddenly rushed towards the person, and the sudden burst of power made the already nervous aborigines a little unbearable.
"You ......"
Suddenly refuted by Wang Liao, Lan Yu's face suddenly turned red with anger, and he didn't know how to say for a while.
These otherworldly people called "players" were originally mainly stationed in the first and second districts, but because Xu Zhe's side in the fourth city fought particularly well, many monsters abandoned the fourth city and launched an attack on the third city instead.
Although there are many players in the third city who are also helping to garrison and protect the city wall, due to the power of the remnants of the Eastern Continent in the human camp in the third city, to a certain extent, they still maintain a lot of autonomy. In this defensive battle, they were also listed as defensive forces.
But the monster impact in front was too fierce, so that the aborigines of the third city had to launch a request for help from players in other cities, and after the player arrived, it was natural to need to take the lead in the whole battle, coupled with the previous contradictions between Tang Man, Wang Liao and some people in the third city, it was not so pleasant under the cynicism.
In the middle of a battle just now, a monster with spikes all over its body, like worms, rushed under the city wall, Tang Man, Wang Liao and others repeatedly advised the people in the third city to get out of the way and let them attack, but the final result was that some people did not listen, and finally caused the five aboriginal soldiers to die before they had time to evacuate.
And Tang Man, Wang Liao and others were busy fighting with other monsters at the time, and after discovering the situation, it was too late, and after this wave of monsters was repulsed, the contradiction between the two parties was ignited in an instant.
In fact, for such a thing as casualties, whether it is Lan Yu or other heavily armored soldiers, they have always been mentally prepared. But when you see that these otherworldly people don't die, there will still be an imbalance.
This is also an invisible chasm between players and natives, a gap that is bigger than the extraordinary and ordinary people, even if many natives are grateful and welcoming to the player's arrival, but deep down they will inevitably have all kinds of ideas.
It's like everybody's life, but suddenly you're surrounded by people from another world, and they can keep dying and they won't die, and no matter what, it will have a certain impact on people's hearts. Either fear and fear, or worship and admiration, or jealousy that is deeply pressed in the bottom of the heart.
"Enough!"
Just when the emotions of the two parties seemed to become a little sharp, a crisp voice suddenly sounded above the city wall.
On the inside of the sixty-meter-high city wall of the third city, on a fifty or sixty-degree slope specially built for people to quickly enter and exit the city, the figure of a wind beast jumped to the top of the city as quickly as it flew.
"Lan Yu, go back to me."
Lan Ling, dressed in military uniform, appeared in front of everyone, first glanced deeply at Tang Man and Wang Liao, and then shouted at Lan Yu and other heavily armored soldiers behind him.
"But ......" Lan Yu watched Lan Ling appear in the city, and was slightly happy at first, but then after hearing Lan Ling's words, she immediately dimmed.
"The dead are gone, and we need to look forward now." Lan Ling's face was expressionless, and her delicate face without a helmet seemed to be covered with a layer of ice, "We are under the leadership of the City Lord's Mansion, but not all of us from the other world, you must distinguish this." ”
At this time, the first priority is to protect the city wall from being breached, so that more people can survive. Other details, whether they are right or wrong, wronged or not, can no longer be taken into account at this time.
"Hey, this woman just doesn't like us." Wang Liao heard that Lan Ling seemed to have something to say, and shouted a little unpleasantly.
Although the other party is a top beauty in the other world, it is not so easy to really want people to kneel and lick, but because they have been besieged by the other party several times, they almost hung up once, and they have a lot of resentment in their hearts.
"Alright, let's retreat."
Just when Tang Man was about to choke a few times on the side, on the other side of the city, I don't know when, there was already a tall figure as a burly mountain.
The black lacquered outer armor reflected the ghostly light, the hideous face, the height of almost three meters, and the extremely strong figure, just one appearance caused many aborigines in the city to feel inexplicable fear.
Sun Shuai's yellow and black eyes were cold and clear, he glanced at Lan Yu, glanced at Lan Ling again, nodded slightly, and his body jumped suddenly, the city wall dozens of meters high was like flat ground to him, and disappeared in the head of the third city in a blink of an eye.
His appearance here was actually also due to the news from the players that Tang Man, Wang Liao and others might have a conflict with the aborigines. He deliberately did not participate in the rescue of the third city before, worried that the two of them and some other mutated players might break out after being hostile and dissatisfied with these aborigines.
That's why he deliberately stayed away a little. But unfortunately, the arrival of new exiles, as well as the setting of defense zones between each other, inevitably produced a lot of intersections.
Now all Sun Shuai can do is to appease the player as much as possible, and during the outbreak of the demon tide, he will not make too much trouble. As for after the outbreak of the Demon Tide......
He had some ideas in his heart, but these ideas could not be declared, and at least he had discussed them with Xu Zhe, Li Yuncheng and others, and even needed the support of the City Lord's Mansion.
Lan Ling gently controlled the Wind Beast, and was also preparing to leave, the entire Third City needed to be defended, even with the support of many magic crystal cannons, the pressure on them was also not small.
It's just that Lan Ling rode the Wind Beast before leaving, and still unconsciously turned his head to look at the back of Sun Shuai, who had disappeared, "Death Fury, these people from the other world have not lost their minds after becoming Death Fury, but have developed and integrated step by step, becoming more and more powerful. ”
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