Chapter 286: The Burning Settlement
The Lost City
This once bustling human city, turned into a ruin after the invasion of hell, after nearly a thousand years of vicissitudes, finally returned to the hands of humans, nearly 2,000 pioneers came here, and the largest ruined area here began to rebuild settlements. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Far from Ru Gain and Starry Sky City, at the very edge of the human realm, there is also a guard team of fifty people made up of converts and mercenaries. However, this guardian team does not belong to the Star Collar and the Huls Federation, but is formed spontaneously by the families of these two thousand converts, although it seems to be safe here after the Hell Force withdraws from the entire area, but there are still some giant bugs eroded by the remnants of Hell Power from time to time, and the formation of this Guardian Team is very necessary.
These transferees are all civilian transferees, they don't have a deep family background, and the equipment on their bodies is just some whiteboards, mixed with one or two blue outfits in between, not to mention any gold or dark gold equipment. But today turned out to be their lucky day.
"Look there, Captain," the mercenaries guarding the team said to their captain from the settlement's improvised lookout.
The captain looked in the direction pointed by the mercenary, and found that there was a group of cavalry there who quickly thought about approaching here, and the banner of the cavalry showed that these crowds were from the Huls Federation, in fact, seeing these knights appear, the captain knew where they came from.
The group of knights rode up and stopped at the gate of the settlement, but did not enter it without any haze, but looked at the people on the lookout at the door and asked, "Who is your head here?" ”
"I just don't know what your Excellency does," the captain asked.
The knight leader said, "I have some latest news to report here, and some equipment to be distributed to you, how many fighters do you have here?" ”
"What's new... Giving out equipment? Hearing this, the captain was not calm, and immediately got down from the lookout, and said, "I'm sorry to slack you, please go to the settlement and drink water." ”
"Yes, thank you very much," said the chief knight, and the group of knights dismounted and followed.
Kim, the leader of the knights, walked over, glanced at the surrounding environment, and said, "Your defense here still needs to be strengthened, and at present, such a defense facility will be directly destroyed when it encounters a monster attack." ”
"There are no more monsters in the vicinity that can harm us," said the captain of the settlement.
The knight leader shook his head and said, "We are no longer facing the side of the Seven Demon Kings of Hell now, but two forces from Hell, which are even more brutal than the side of the Seven Demon Kings, but we still don't know where those guys are attacking from," as he spoke, the knight leader took out a detailed report of some recent events from his side, and handed them to the captain of the guardian team of the settlement standing beside him, and continued: "Look at it, these are useful to you. ”
"What's that?" The captain of the settler pair took the information and asked curiously, when he opened it, what he found was the news that Lu Gain and Rogge Fortress were merged into the Huls Federation, and everyone who went out from Lu Gain to open up the wasteland automatically became citizens of the Huls Federation, and this news made the team leader very excited,
And this news also made everyone in the settlement excited, because they also saw that all settlements had to be reported, and settlements with more than 1,000 people would have special personnel come to install and install teleportation arrays specially used to escape in critical moments.
"Well, my lord, are we going to install this kind of teleportation array here," the captain of the guardian team asked the knight leader.
The knights who had drunk water and rested for a while had eased their spirits at this time, and the knight leader said: "That's right, not only will this emergency teleportation array be installed here for you, but also some equipment will be provided to you," said the knight leader and beckoned the other two knights, took out a bunch of weapons, armor and other equipment, and placed them neatly there.
Seeing that the knights had taken out their weapons and equipment, the residents here no longer suspected anything, and they all slowly gathered around, wanting to take a closer look at these weapons and equipment that emitted different lights, and at this time, the knight leader already knew the number of transfers and mercenaries here, so he shouted: "The combatants have come to get their weapons and armor." ”
Not only are the members of the guardian team to be armed, but two catapults and two bed crossbows are also being placed on the roof of the settlement, near the edge, but this is only temporary, and the defenses here need to be further strengthened.
After disseminating all the supplies that needed to be distributed to individuals, the Knight Leader and the Settler's Principal chose an ancient, renovated boulder house to serve as a safe house for the settlement, and set up an emergency evacuation teleportation array.
Of course, it's not just this one settlement that is doing this kind of work, after Lu Gain and Rog Fortress were officially incorporated into the Hulse Federation, Chen Chen immediately sent out all the cavalry of the Knights of the Stars, and also asked each team of cavalry to carry five sets of newly made teleportation circles to connect all the external settlements, and once something happened there, the personnel of the settlement could be evacuated immediately, so as to reduce the casualties of civilians on the periphery.
Although there was no movement in the occupied paradise, Aenarius did not let Chen Chen relax for long, and the scouts who had been working at full strength made a major discovery on the Kurast Causeway, where a certain assassin team sent out to reconnoiter found the black gate under construction, as well as the monsters that kept roaming around the gate.
"We're going to report back immediately," the assassins of the Reconnaissance Team had a lot of experience, and when they saw this situation, they knew that the matter was very tricky, so they immediately returned to Kurast with their team using the Book of City Teleportation, but the information they brought was not taken seriously by Kurast, and they all thought that the news brought back by the assassin team was alarmist.
The news quickly spread back to Lu Gaoin and Starry Sky City, and at present, the administrative organs of the Hulls Federation have basically stumbled over Starry Sky City, but Chen Chen is generally not here, and many things are thrown to King Alva and Empress Doria and others to do.
"Is the information accurate?" King Alva was the first to know that the Gates of the Kurast Causeway, where the monsters under the command of Aenarius were building, and that it was described as a stronghold for Aenarius's attack on the human world, and that the monsters would pour out from behind the gates, destroying all the human settlements in the Kurast area, which were scattered in the Spider Forest, the vast wetlands, and the Peeling Forest.
"Yes, Your Majesty King Alva, I saw it with my own eyes," said the Assassin Captain of the Scout team, pulling something out of his storage space. That thing was the telescope that Chen Chen had distributed to all the reconnaissance troops, and the glass already had a complete manufacturing technology here, so it was not troublesome to make some lenses.
Empress Doria asked, "Is there any response from the Kurast side?" ”
"No, Your Majesty, those people thought we were alarmist, and they didn't even let us finish, and they kicked us out, so we can only rush back and report to the two Majestics, and if Kurast doesn't react, the people of the settlements outside won't survive if the monster legions attack," said the Assassin captain.
Empress Doria said, "I know, it's hard work, go down and rest." ”
"Yes, my subordinates have retired," the Assassin captain bowed to Empress Doria and King Alva before retreating from the room.
Empress Doria showed a little helplessness on her face after the assassin went out, because after the last meeting, after the merger of Ru Gain and Rog Fortress into Huls, the heads of the noble families in Kurast wanted to express their dissatisfaction with the high-level in the two places, so that the reconnaissance forces of the Huls Federation could operate in Kurast, in Doria's opinion, it was already a face-saving thing, but thinking that those human civilians and converts in the outside settlements were going to be slaughtered, Empress Doria felt a little uncomfortable.
King Alva on the side, looking at the map of the Kurast area, the location of the settlement that has been marked on the map, and the family to which the settlement belongs, Alva can be regarded as a die-hard in the general association of demobilists, they have always controlled most of the power in it, and the president and the like seem to be more like a microphone, these people are disgusted with Chen Chen and the Hulse Federation, and it is no wonder that they will not care about or even reject the information brought back by the scouts complained by the Hulse Federation.
"It seems that we have to give up on these people, and maybe we can do better without them," Alva said lightly.
Empress Doria said, "Give up? ”
"Yes, I heard Chen Chen say that when doing some things, especially in this situation, human beings must go through such pains in order to gather everyone under one belief, and then they can burst out with infinite potential," Alva said calmly, at this time he had already decided to give up those humans in the settlement of Kurast Forest, even if he didn't give up at this time, the Hulse Federation would not be able to rescue them all, after all, the current Hulse Federation's army recruitment work has just begun, and there is still a big gap in the number of troops, Moreover, the newly recruited soldiers were all untrained, and if they participated in the battle at this time, they would undoubtedly commit suicide.
Empress Doria remained silent after hearing Alva's words, there are still nearly three million people on the Kurast side, and one million people are scattered in the forest settlements, but among these people, civilians only account for less than 600,000, and all the others are members of major families, which can see how powerful the Kurast family is.
After Chen Chen got the news, he just smiled and didn't pay too much attention to it, at this time, Chen Chen had more important things to do, that is, to develop the elixir that could improve the basic attributes together with Eco and Mara, and the previous refined elixirs would not flow out of the Star Palace.
The war took place without anyone having met them, and after the gate on the Kurast Causeway was built, tens of thousands of demons under the command of Aenarius poured out from the other side of the gate, destroying all the settlements in the Skinning Forest in less than a week, and none of the people in it were spared, because there were no settlements in Curast that were planned like in the fortress of Ru Gain or Rog, and basically had a completed security system, and a teleportation array used as an evacuation array when this is not possible.
By the time news of the monstrous attack by Aenarius's monstrous attack on the garrison outside of Kurasruo, the settlements in the vast wetlands had already suffered heavy losses, and some of the inhabitants had escaped to bring the news back.
In the Temple of the Clawed Pit Viper in Rugoin's Crowd Canyon, a massive spatial door opened underground, because it was below the surface, the reconnaissance team did not find anything here, but it was still not suitable for a settlement, and the monster legions of Aenarius who rushed out of the ground rushed towards the nearest settlement.
"Bang Bang..."
Unlike Kurast, the guardians here are very vigilant, and after the accident with Kurast, the guardians here were told that when those monsters were not close to the settlement, they were discovered by the guardians, but the number of monsters was too much, and these guardians could not fight against such a number of monsters, so they had no choice but to evacuate, at this time the teleportation array played a huge role, although these monsters swept all the human settlements in the lost city, but the real casualties of human beings were minimal, It's just that the monsters have left behind the settlements that are about to be built.
After Chen Chen heard the news, he just said: "People can still build houses, but if there are no people, there will be nothing..."
Under the guidance of this idea, the defenders of all settlements will protect the people who live in them as their first priority, and when they feel that it is impossible to do so, they will immediately retreat, and those monster legions have not been arrogant for long, in the passage of the distant oasis into the forgotten city, the Hulse Federation has built a fortress, although the whole of the fortress has not yet been fully completed, but at this time the huge defensive outer wall has been completed, and the attacking equipment on the defensive outer walls to keep the monstrous legions of Aenarius from appearing there, and prevent the settlements in the distant oasis from being attacked.
When Nataya, who was personally assigned by Chen Chen to investigate the damage, stood in the human settlement where the flames had not yet been extinguished, the tragic scene here shocked Nataya, a battle-hardened veteran assassin, and the demon army under the command of Aenarius was completely here for destruction...