Chapter 13: The Scourge of the Undead
"A month later, the final battle finally began, and the Seven Nations Alliance successfully repelled the Dark Legion on the eighth wall, which is now known as the 'Wall of Sighs', but it itself suffered heavy damage, and it was impossible to fight back and reclaim its homeland, and the territory that originally belonged to the Hussar Nation became the last place of survival for the people of the Nine Kingdoms, and was renamed the 'Frontier Land'. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the two thousand years since then, the two sides have experienced numerous wars at the Wall of Sighs, and although each side has won and lost, neither side has been able to cross the city wall a single step, and then it has entered a period of relative peace.
Fast forward to 20,000 years ago, just as the border people and the dark legions were brewing a larger-scale war, a desperate force suddenly surged from the direction of the Flood Lands at the southern tip of the continent.
An army of about 5,000 Wild Giants raided the other side of the Wall of the Borderlands and soon broke into the Nine-Nation Alliance, but their purpose did not appear to be to cause gratuitous killing, but to proceed directly through the Borderlands and continue to the continent after destroying a section of the Wall of Sighs.
This result is a mixed blessing for the Nine Nations Alliance, the good news is that the Giant Clan goes to fight with the Dark Legion, and in the end, no matter what the result is, it is beneficial to the Nine Kingdoms after all, and the worry is that the walls on both sides of the border land are seriously damaged, and once attacked, they will have no ability to resist at all, and then they will only be slaughtered by others.
In the end, the alliance decided to take a two-pronged approach, on the one hand, to gather labor to speed up the repair of the city wall, and on the other hand, sent two reconnaissance teams into the depths of the continent and the wild land respectively to investigate the enemy's situation, and once it was found that something was wrong, it was better to take precautions in advance.
A month later, both teams returned safely with news that surprised everyone.
The team that entered the wilderness first reported that not only did not find any trace of giants within nearly 1,000 miles of the border with the border land, but not even a single poisonous insect and beast that could be seen everywhere before, according to the spies' estimates, this may be because the appearance of the giant army scared away all other creatures.
The situation on the other side is a little weird, at the beginning, there are still traces of the battle between the giants and the dark legion, but after continuing to go deeper, this sign becomes less and less, and when they arrive at the country of Poison Horn, the two sides of the centaur completely disappear, and the whole area is as quiet and terrible as death, although the spies are beating drums in their hearts, but because of their duties, they have not given up, and they have to stop until they come to the place where the original dragon scale country wall is.
It turned out that the entire area where the Dragon Scale Country was located before began to be shrouded in boundless poisonous mist, and once people entered it, they would immediately turn into a pile of dry bones, and they couldn't get close at all.
At this point, the reconnaissance team could no longer think about it, so they had to come back all the way back to resume their lives.
After listening to the reports of the two teams, although the leaders of the Nine Nations Alliance felt a little strange, but on the whole it was still surprising, but they did not rashly send people to recover those territories that originally belonged to them, they still planned to repair the two sections of the city wall first, and then only regain the lost territory when they were sure that there was indeed no danger.
Their caution ultimately saved some of the people of the Nine Kingdoms and prevented humanity from completely disappearing from the continent.
On a dark night, without warning, countless rotting zombies and skeleton soldiers suddenly appeared all over the borderlands, and these undead spirits, led by some ghouls, desperately attacked human villages and towns, and almost more than thirty percent of the people of the Nine Kingdoms died overnight.
Thanks to the fact that these undead were afraid of the sun, they quietly retreated underground before dawn the next day, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
However, there was not much time left for the humans, who had to prepare for their defenses before darkness fell again, and many scattered people began to gather in the town, and the fortified fortress survived and continues to this day. ”
When playing games in the past, many background plots were recorded in the form of text in some books, and whenever I went to read, it always felt a little long and boring, and it was quite eye-consuming, but now as a listener, he feels very different, not only not boring, but relishing, and has a desire to listen to it all the time.
"Are you saying that the remnants of the Nine Kingdoms have survived for 20,000 years surrounded by the undead?" Taking advantage of the moment when Hesai got up to drink water, Lin Liao finally had the opportunity to interject and ask.
"Yes, during this period, our living dead clan has made great contributions, because they are naturally immune to the attacks of many undead creatures, our people are often at the forefront of the battle, so the casualties are much more than those of other races, and now there are not many left." He took a big sip of the water from the sink with both hands, and replied in a somewhat sad tone.
"In this way, the living environment of human beings here is extremely harsh now, so what can we, the so-called inheritors, do?" After listening to the story so much just now, Lin Liao almost forgot that he was playing a game, and only then did he come back to his senses and remember the primary element of "taking on tasks", which is the first element to promote the progress of the game.
"I'm afraid the situation is worse than you think, about a hundred years ago, we found that the days of the day began to get shorter and longer, and the days were gloomy for seven or eight out of ten days, and many undead creatures have begun to haunt during the day, although the attack power will be much lower than at night, but it is a great threat to us after all, and the disagreement caused by this problem has now caused the human camp to be divided into two factions.
One of them advocated abandoning the frontier lands, and all mankind should flee into the wilderness and find a new place to live and settle down; The other faction believes that there may already be a large number of undead in the wilderness, and it is better to stay where you are and wait for the turnaround to come.
Hmph, at the moment, the two factions have their own opinions, and there are constant disputes, and if they continue to quarrel like this, it is estimated that without the action of the undead, the human race itself will perish because of cannibalism. A sneer appeared on Jose's face, obviously not very fond of either faction.
"This question is very simple, send some people to the wilderness to reconnoitre, and see if there are undead haunts there, isn't it all over, do you need to quarrel every day?" Lin Liao expressed strong contempt for the intelligence of these people.