Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Traveler's Battle Caravan
In the Night Watch or the Banner Brigade, no matter what your strength is, whether you are a witcher of several stars, you will carry this "graduation certificate" with you. Of course, it's not for the sake of showing off, but it does require some of the badge's functional effects.
If you compare it with the same type of item props on the market, this kind of badge that belongs to mass production is probably just the most common accessory props. But the effect is very practical.
Every seven days, it can absorb enough energy to fire up a shield, enough to withstand a blow from the centurion. Although the cooldown time is a bit long, it is better to be reusable, and this alone is an excellent attribute that far exceeds similar items.
In addition, the wearer of the badge can gain a certain degree of night vision when he perceives the badge with his or her own mental power. This is also a signature skill of the Night Watch for the Witcher who fights the demons in the night.
In addition, the badge can perceive and resonate with nearby "kinds"; The closer you are, the more badges you have, and the stronger the resonance becomesβa function used to discover peers and find organization.
Moreover, when the resonance reaches a certain level, the area around the graduates will be impregnated into the "Pitch Black Field", the exclusive domain of the Night's Watch Legion.
The above is the basic template of the war ability of the Banner Brigade Legion.
Every member of the Brigade graduated from the boot barracks, and this badge is also a prop for all staff to equip.
When there is a large-scale operation of more than 1,000 people, all the badges are connected together, and the increase brought by the resonance can make this legion face the demon king-level army!
But then again, this kind of badge is the kind of prop that is stacked in quantity to produce qualitative changes, and if there are only one or two pieces, it is no different from ordinary props.
So Ling Jian never took it too seriously. After all, to be honest, the last thing Ling Jian lacked was all kinds of props, and when he left, he took away all the works of Mr. Zhang Wenjie in the past few years - of course, only those goods that he had replaced by him. And Ling Key can make better props himself.
Taking 10,000 steps back, from a cognitive point of view, it is difficult for Ling Jian to understand the thoughts of people in this world, so he has been ignoring his badge.
However, the others didn't think so, and the adventurers who had been teasing and teasing Ling Key before were all silent.
Rookie or something, it's completely impossible. One of the most well-known of the camp's notoriously rigorous training is the wilderness survival or actual combat raid mission. The three- to four-star level of difficulty in the alliance is actually used in their actual combat training.
The recruits trained under such conditions cannot be said to be experienced, but they are by no means something that can be summed up by a rookie.
Soon, the news that Ling Jian was from the new barracks spread among the team, and no one dared to underestimate this overly young boy anymore. Although the adventurers are not good in temperament, they are definitely not stupid, and they can't afford to get along with a promising young man for the sake of a momentary tongue.
The rest of the road was a good one, and the caravan made its way along the road safe and sound. Although it is not as fast as ordinary wheeled vehicles, the wilderness walking car can easily walk 300 miles in one morning.
There is no such thing as the "danger-ridden" feeling that people have been rumored, and the journey is calm and drowsy. The idle and panicked adventurers simply got together in twos and threes to set up a position and played the card game "Battle of Gods and Demons".
The atmosphere of the game was so hot that even the members of the escort team joined in. In this regard, the leader of the caravan, Old, did not say anything. After all, this section of the road is really safe.
Because it is so close to the flower capital Zeno-Ulu, even outside the "suburbs" of the city, the safe zone of Zeno-Ulu still radiates out a large area. In addition, the team is walking on the road, and there are post stations with soldiers and witchers stationed at each distance to patrol back and forth, so there is usually no danger.
After 300 miles, the caravan stopped at the next station, the largest one encountered on the way, to rest and have lunch.
It is the "transportation hub" of several surrounding cities, and many highways meet here, so the post station is also built very large.
At first glance, this place is completely a steel base, completely different from the style of urban buildings that can usually be seen, and in Ling Key's opinion, it is full of "science fiction style". Almost all of the Kingdom's cutting-edge technology and alchemy techniques have been used on this base. Self-propelled robot sentry, fully automatic machine gun fortress, "Eye of Vision" magic detection system...... It's just that the mage who patrols with the robot is a bit of a joke.
Except for the seemingly dangerous equipment of war, the rest of the parts are much more peaceful. There are supply stations, parking lots, restaurants, souvenir shops part-time, and even a tavern. By the time the caravans of travelers arrived, many caravans and tourists had already gathered here.
"Is it something like a high-speed service station?" Ling Jian got out of the car and looked around the camp, moving his muscles and bones by the way.
"How does it feel? Is it your first time at the station? Fan Li walked over.
"Sort of, I've only been to the Night's Watch's forward base before." Ling Key shrugged. Then look up at the highest point in the center of the station...... There stood a flaming torch that was also somewhat out of place at the base.
Others, however, don't think so, and they've apparently embraced a similar mix of things for a long time.
"That's the sign." Uncle Fanley explained, "I'm sure you've heard of it, right? This kind of system is present in every forward base. Strictly speaking, this is the technical legacy of the Knights of the Torch - where the light of the torch shines, even in the dark of night. Nowadays, this road sign system also has the function of guarding road nodes, and even further, as a relay station, enabling large-scale civil long-range communication. β
Ling Jian nodded to show that he understood, as a fabricator, he had already studied these techniques. Ling Jian took out his communicator, and sure enough, even if he left Zeno Ulu, the signal of the "Concentric Spider" was still "full", and it could clearly connect to the senior sisters in the city.
"Alright, let's go eat." The uncle patted him on the shoulder, "Afternoon is when the journey really begins." β
While everyone was having lunch, they saw Old Dekker talk to the person in charge of the post station for a while, and then take a thick envelope.
Ling Jian was a little stunned, this order is reversed, right? Why did the commander of this garrison give money to the caravan?
"Oh, here's the mission!" At this time, a member of the escort team beside him cheered quietly.
Then Ling Jian noticed that the "envelope" in Old's hand was a little large, strictly speaking, it should be more like a "document bag".
Thinking of the particularity of the Traveler Caravan, Ling Jian somewhat understood: "Is this the area we need to patrol?" β
The team member replied, "No, that's the threat spot that was detected during the patrol of the surrounding post station before, and it needs to be handed over to us to exterminate." We're not going to do that kind of inefficient patrol mission. β
Looking at the pride that couldn't be concealed in the other party's expression, Ling Jian could only nod. He himself has always lacked a real sense of these so-called honors. However, should it be said that it is worthy of being the second studio in the league, can it directly challenge the existence of the night watch? The people at the Traveler's House are really confident.
As if he saw what Ling Key was thinking, the young guard also scratched his head: "Actually, it's nothing, the dark forces of this era have retreated, and there are basically no too powerful demons and monsters near the highway." And the existence below the centurion, there really isn't much of a threat. β
Then soon, Ling Jian saw that the young guard dared to rely on it so surely.
After lunch, and relevant information was obtained, the caravan was soon on the road again.
This time, they didn't continue along the road that had been built. Old Dekker waved his hand at the leading car, and the convoy went straight down the roadbed and plunged headlong into the nearby wilderness.
Although it was only a few dozen meters away from the road, everyone seemed to feel cold, and they all cheered up in an instant. The afternoon sun is still so bright, but it can't dispel the coolness in people's hearts.
From the moment they leave the road, they are truly in the wilderness β an environment that is not human.
Although it is not far from the road, and the safety is actually no different from walking on the road, everyone's attention is still fully absorbed and subconsciously switches their mental will to combat mode.
The convoy continued to advance deeper into the wilderness, through a small patch of jungle, and the road behind it was completely out of sight.
At this moment, there was another rhythmic clicking sound in Ling Key's ears, and at the same time, his body felt a slight vibration inside the walking car.
The fifteen walking cars changed again: the roof was flipped open and a rotating turret was raised, but this was still a cargo car, so it was not equipped with a large-caliber main gun, but it was still equipped with a twin-mounted heavy machine gun, and the guards who were still chatting with everyone in the car just now had been sitting in the shooter seat of the turret at some point.
Fifteen "chariots" were lined up in a diamond shape, and machine guns were pointed at the front and rear of the procession, left and right corners.
The dark and rough barrel of the gun shines with a fierce light no less than that of a sword, and the yellow and clear bullet chain extends to the inside of the body, as if the temperament of the "weapon of war killing" is vividly displayed.