Chapter 210: Fishing in Troubled Waters
"Do you think Joseph's bastard made Zi Sun stupid? How is it possible not to get lost in such a place without drawings? A big Russian man who looked like a polar bear grumbled as he swung his tomahawk and chopped through the branches and vines along the way.
A mage next to him who was holding a scroll and walking away said without raising his head: "Joseph is not crazy, that guy is shrewd." ”
"Then why did he divide his troops? Let's just this person.,There's only this one on the map.,Divide into two teams.,How can the team find the target without the map? ”
"Call you stupid and you still don't admit it." The mage put away the map and pointed to the side, "Don't go this way, we've deviated from the goal, cut that way." ”
The strong man changed the direction of the road and asked, "Then what are you thinking about him?" ”
"Isn't that easy? Joseph, that guy actually just wants to take credit. He was a commanding officer, and he had no experience with us as a soldier. If he wants to gain something, he must become the leader of a certain team, but in terms of seniority and strength, which turn will it be for him to be the team leader? ”
"So he wants to split up?"
"Of course. There are only a few masters who can lead the team in this alliance, and everyone else has to stay to tie up the main force of the Chinese, and only the five of us can leave. You, me and Cook are the golden iron triangle, everyone knows that we must be a team, Natasha has no idea of being a team leader at all, Joseph knows that he can't compete with the three of us on his own, and if he wants to be the team leader, he has to make the team change from one to two, otherwise he won't even be able to touch the edge. ”
"But even if it's a team, how can he guarantee that his team can get the map? Without the map on the quest scroll, he couldn't find the target at all, so wouldn't it be good to run for nothing when the time came? ”
"Who told you that he was going to rush with us to complete the mission?" The mage said, "Joseph's shrewdness is here. He knew that he couldn't handle the task alone, and he would run away with us in vain, so he wanted to divide his troops. When the time comes, he just needs to lead the team and follow us. If we are in trouble during the mission, he can come up and help, and if the task is completed, he can get a credit for helping to complete the task, and the benefits will be shared. Even if the mission is not completed, he has an explanation, anyway, the map is with us, and we are mainly responsible for not completing the task, and he has nothing to do at all. Besides, if there is a chance, he can still snatch the results of the task in the process of completing the task, and then the credit will be all his, and we will become free workers. ”
"Wouldn't he be sure to make a profit?"
"Hey, he's dreaming about it." The mage said proudly, "Do you know what Cook is doing?" ”
"yes, where's that guy Cook?" The strong man seemed to realize that his important companion was missing.
The mage didn't answer the strong man's question directly, just smiled slightly. But the strong man below didn't know, but I was standing on the tree and knew it very well. They had just walked past the big tree where I was hiding. With the help of the shade of the tree trunk and my invisibility ability, they didn't even notice that I was less than three meters above their heads. I heard their conversation very clearly. It seems that the Russian elite who disappeared should have been divided into two detachments, and the following one was only one detachment, and the guy named Joseph should have taken another group of people not far behind them. As for that Cook, you don't have to think about it to know that he must have gone to make trouble for the detachment behind him. Although he can't directly attack the opponent's team, since he is a master who can lead the team, his strength should be good, even if he doesn't directly participate in the battle, it will definitely be no problem to lure a large group of monsters over. As for whether the monsters can take out the second team,
That's not something he needs to care about. As long as the second team is stopped, he will process the traces of the team in front of him, and even if those guys survive, they will not expect to find the whereabouts of the first team again.
As I watched the group of Russians pass below me, I carefully clung to the trunk of the tree and waited for them to be fully cleared, and the faint sound of vibration from the trees behind me clearly signaled that I had a large group of creatures passing near me, and it was clear that it was the group of monsters that Cook had led to attack the second echelon.
As the sound of the monsters became farther and farther away, I was about to set off to chase the first echelon, when suddenly I heard a noise from behind, so I quickly clung to the trunk of the tree to stay still. A few seconds later, a figure swung like a monkey from a distance, and then landed lightly on the trunk of the tree I was standing on, less than a meter away from me, and I could even smell the sweat coming from him. However, this guy was on the way, and he must have been very excited to lure the monster to the second echelon, so he didn't notice me close at hand, but jumped slightly to the trunk in front of me on the trunk of the tree I was standing on, and disappeared after a few takeoffs.
"Rose vine."
With a sand sound, rose vines quickly appeared at the edge of the trunk beside me, then fell from the tree to the ground and plunged headlong into the soft earth. Seeing that Rose successfully dived underground, I was a little more skilled, and darts and white waves appeared around me one after another.
As soon as the dart appeared, it quickly jumped up the branch, and then disappeared into the dense forest in front of it like lightning, and Bai Lang jumped from the trunk of the tree to the ground first, but he was originally snow-white and had turned into a faint shadow after landing. In fact, the phantom I saw was just a projection of Bai Lang's spiritual connection with me, and the real Bai Lang had long been completely invisible, and no one else could see him except me.
After releasing three magic pets in a row, I flipped my palm again, and the space channel in front of me flashed again, and the huge body of the sickle slammed out of the training space. However, although the scythe was very large, he was a spider-type monster after all, and when he landed, he was so light that he could barely hear the sound. And he moved back and forth between the trees, and after a few ups and downs, he disappeared without a trace, and his speed was not much slower than that of the white waves.
Once I was sure the pet was in position, I began to leap forward on the trunk of the tree, and quickly caught up with the elite Russian detachment in front of me.
It is said that it is a small team, but in fact, the number of people in this team in front of him is not quite large. There are almost 700 people in the front and back of this entire team, including players and NPCs, and it is impossible for many people to be parallel in the dense forest, so the team is very long, but looking at the silent appearance between their marches, it can be determined that this is indeed an elite army.
I'd love to know what these Russians are doing here if they're not fighting us on the battlefield, but that doesn't mean I can't attack before they reach their destination. Although raiders will leave their names on their messages, NPCs don't have this feature, and with more than half of the NPCs in the current team, it's a good idea to help them streamline their team before they reach the target location.
In the elite squad of the Russians, the strong man and the mage who had opened the way were listening to Cook, who had just returned, talking about his attack on the second echelon, and the three of them couldn't help but laugh out loud when they talked about the highlights. However, their laughter did not last long when they were interrupted by a sudden exclamation.
"What's going on?" Hearing the screams coming from behind, the three mages immediately ran back. "What the hell is going on? Who was calling just now? ”
One of the players carefully guarded the jungle around him and said, "It's an NPC next to me who is calling, and just now we were walking and suddenly a white thing flew out of the woods next to us. The thing hung on the NPC in an instant, and in an instant pulled him out of the team and into the forest. The scream was made when he was dragged away. ”
"White stuff?" The mage asked suspiciously, "Do you know what it is?" ”
The player shook his head. "I didn't see it clearly, the thing was too fast, and it dragged people away as soon as it stretched and retracted."
"Is it something like a frog's tongue?" Cook asked.
"No, it doesn't look like a biological structure, and I don't see anything like hooks or lassoes. It felt like the thing was sticky, and it stuck to the person when it touched it, and then it pulled the person away as soon as it contracted. ”
"Sticky?"
All three of them were made a question mark by this player's words, because if it was grabbed by the body of some animal, or dragged away by someone with a rope, it was easy to understand, but it was glued away by something sticky, which is a little too strange. The three of them thought about it for a long time, but they couldn't imagine what it was.
The three of them were worrying there, when they suddenly saw a flash of white light in front of them, and then they saw a person not far away who screamed and was pulled away, and then disappeared into the dense forest next to him like lightning.
"Damn." As soon as the strong Russian man saw that someone else was being pulled away, he immediately raised his axe and rushed forward. However, he had only run two steps before Cook stopped him.
"Don't chase, the other party is obviously more adapted to the environment here, and it will be a loss if you chase it out."
"What then?" The strong man asked a little depressed.
"The way to do this now is to be on your guard, as long as you don't get touched by that thing." As Cook was talking, the white thing was coming again, and this time it was even more exaggerated. Before, it was a white ball that flew in, even if it stuck to one person, but now it flew out of the net directly, stuck five or six people at once, and then pulled them all into the dense forest with a whoosh.
"How can it be!" Cook, who had just finished teaching the strong man, saw that five or six people had been pulled away this time, and he exploded at that time. Regardless of whether he would suffer a loss, he directly chased after the person who was only dragged by the white line. However, just when he chased more than ten meters and grabbed a vine and was about to swing over to chase the white line, the vine he grabbed suddenly moved, and he didn't catch it, and fell directly from the tree.
Seeing Cook fall from the tree, the mage and the strong man behind thought he had been tricked, and rushed over, but they had only run a few steps before Cook stood up and shouted at them, "Don't move, all go back." There are plant-based monsters here. ”
Originally, he was still wondering how the other party was so powerful in the dense forest, but when he heard that it turned out to be a plant-type demonic beast, the mage and the strong man both showed expressions of sudden realization. In the forest environment, plant-based monsters do not prevail or are there any monsters that dominate?
As he sent the people around him back, Cook himself followed suit, but the attack he expected didn't happen. It's not that I don't want to attack him, it's that I don't want to expose the fact that I've found out about them. As soon as my pet attacks them, they'll know I'm coming. It's nothing to run into an ordinary Chinese player in this kind of forest, but if you do, a fool will know that I'm chasing them.
However, even though I let Cook go, I have no intention of stopping the attacks on those NPCs. Just as Cook cautiously stepped back, there was a sudden noise in the surrounding bushes, and then he saw that the bushes on the ground suddenly separated by themselves, but nothing appeared there, but in the next second, one of the NPCs in the team suddenly grabbed his neck and screamed and was knocked out, leaving a blood line in the air. However, the NPC that was knocked into the air suddenly stopped screaming, and his body also suddenly fell to the ground, and the bushes not far from the corpse were suddenly pressed out of a pit by something, and then the thing quickly disappeared into the bushes.
"Damn, this place is not only full of plant monsters, but also invisible monsters." The strong man cursed.
The mage shouted to the surroundings, "All mages turn against invisibility." Don't let that thing get any closer. ”
"Yes. Ah......h And just as the people around him were panicking because of the mage's situation, the white lines that had been stopped for a while reappeared, and there were more than a dozen of them, sticking to more than a dozen NPCs at once, and all of them were thrown into the jungle.
"You can't stand so stupidly." Cook retreated to the mage's side and said, "It's not good for us to start a war here, everyone run, it's safe to get out of the forest." ”
Hearing Cook's words, the mage immediately shouted and led the team forward, while the crowd behind was still swept away by a few rattans or white threads flying out of the dense forest from time to time, and by the time the whole team ran out of the dense forest and entered a relatively sparse forest area, the original team of more than 700 people had only more than 400 people left. The NPCs in the team have been reduced by almost half.
"Stop, stop." Seeing that no one had been attacked for a while, the mage quickly stopped the group. "Count the number of people immediately, and the people on the periphery should be on guard, tighten the line a little, and don't stretch it too long."
With a series of orders, the people in the team quickly completed the formation and alerting work. After carefully counting the personnel, everyone in the team was worried about the forest just now. Although they all thought that they might not be able to defeat the things that attacked them in a head-to-head fight, they could not find their target in the forest, and there was no way to do anything but be beaten passively. This kind of battle is something that everyone will feel afraid of, after all, this kind of unilateral beating and not being able to fight back is too severe a blow to morale.
The strong man from before took his axe and carefully guarded the surroundings and said, "It seems that those things are wild creatures, and we probably entered their range of activities before, so we were attacked." ”
"At least it's safe now." Cook said, looking around.
The wooded area they are in now is clearly the edge of the primeval forest, and the surrounding trees are generally no more than ten meters, and the gaps between the trees are very large, even some miniature cars may drive past, and most importantly, the ground here is relatively clean. In the previous primeval forest, not only was the light on the ground poor because the trees were too tall and dense, but there were also waist-deep shrubs growing on the ground, and people walked on the ground as if they were wading through water, and they couldn't see anything under their feet. In addition, because the trees in the primeval forest are a mixture of new and old trees, some trunks will be much higher than the ground, plus some withered and decayed trunks, the ground of the entire woodland will be high and low, and ordinary people will not be able to walk normally. In that kind of complex environment, it is not bad that the average person's combat power can be exerted by one-third, so that many players of more than one thousand levels can't even do eight hundred level native demonic beasts in the forest.
Although this woodland is also a forest, it is a new woodland, so the ground is almost flat except for a layer of fallen leaves a few inches deep, and except for snakes, which can pass under the leaves, slightly larger creatures will be spotted as soon as they appear.
"How far are we from our destination?" Cook asked the mage next to him.
The mage took out the map and flipped through it, then said, "It should have been there a long time ago, but it seems that we were off course when we just ran out." Now if you walk another kilometer or so, you should be able to see a river, and you will be almost there after following the river out of the forest. ”
"Then speed up. The Frozen Banshee Guild will probably not drag on for long, and the Chinese cannot wait forever. ”
The mage nodded and said, "Then speed up, everyone summons mounts." ”
Although the mounts in "Zero" have not yet reached the point of popularity, since these people are the elite of the Russians, there is naturally no shortage of mounts. Soon, they released their mounts and turned from infantry to cavalry.
Riding a horse in such a forest must have been much faster than walking, and I had to put away all the pets and quietly follow them in the Night Shadow. In such a semi-open area, it is much more troublesome to follow people without being detected than in the dense forest. Fortunately, the other party is not three or two people, and the traces left by more than 400 people are still relatively obvious, and it is probably not so easy to lose them.
After less than ten minutes of changing their mounts and running, the Russian elite left the woodland and entered a large barren mountain. It's strange to say. There is obviously a river passing through this ghost place, and there is a dense forest around it, but only these few mountains are not grassy, and it looks like the Great Gobi.
"Is that so?" After seeing the barren mountain, Cook couldn't help but ask.