Chapter 33, Chapter 34, Chapter 35: Three Birds with One Stone
Hao ran with everyone for nearly an hour, including him, everyone was wheezing violently, especially the children and women, they had almost no energy left, and when Hao stopped first to rest, they were all lying on the ground, and they all had no strength to get up.
Hao took a breath for a while, and immediately said to Mu: "Check the team immediately, confirm the number of deaths, confirm the number of injured, and confirm the food, fresh water, medicine, and ...... at the same time" Speaking of this, Hao couldn't say any more, because this time the matter was really too hasty and sudden, except for a small amount of food and fresh water, there was nothing else, no, there were weapons, there were armor, but not enough, not much, not strong, no medicine and tools...... Do you want to face the Flood Desolate Continent with such a posture?
Not to mention......
Hao looked back in the direction of the steel fortress, the huge fortress can still be seen, the current steel fortress has been unrecognizable, the internal explosion has blown out many holes in the outer wall of the steel fortress, and there are more green flames burning on the steel fortress, and there is a pitch-black aura rising up, from the steel fortress there are countless souls absorbed by this pitch-black breath, hovering and wailing above this steel fortress.
"The camp attacking this area is the underworld camp, it is the general name of the underworld, the underworld, the underworld, the land of the nine yin and other lower planes in the direction of death, the creatures there, no, not creatures, the existence there is the existence of death, what they like is the soul, and their energy source is also all negative thoughts, all bad emotions, as well as pain, wailing, despair, etc., they bind these souls together and put them into a device called the soul furnace, which produces explosive terrifying energy. The Dark Elf Girl stood beside Hao, and she also looked at the steel fortress in the distance and spoke.
Hao was chilling when he heard this, although he had seen these things in books, but when he really saw them with his own eyes, he realized that this horror was so deep in the bone marrow, he didn't dare to imagine what the souls captured by this soul furnace would become in the end, or what they would become, this is a more terrifying end than death, much more terrifying......
"Let's go, we don't have much time. Hao turned around and said to the dark elf girl, to the two elf guards, to the other eight elves who followed, to the non-commissioned officer beside him, and to himself.
"Wait, wait a minute, God, they can't walk!" said the Dark Elf Girl immediately grabbed Hao and pointed at the humans.
Hao bowed his head slightly to the dark elf girl, and said respectfully: " Adult, go, just walk, you don't need to continue to run, but you have to go, you can't stop walking for a moment, until the night, we can be a little safer, the appearance of the underworld camp means that the steel fortress is the center, the negative energy here will continue to accumulate, for the transcendent profession can resist, but for the non-transcendent profession, here is a huge negative energy radiation field, the closer you get, the more dangerous your life is, if there is no protection, you will die in twelve hours at most, and it is the kind of death that becomes an undead creature, at this time, even if it is to die, it is better than this kind of endγ β
The Dark Elf Girl let go of Hao, she understood that what Hao said was the most correct way, but seeing that those women and children were completely unable to walk, how ruthless did they have to be to force them to continue walking?
And Hao just sits, some people really can't walk, Hao will let the people around him help him up and continue to walk, if he doesn't even help him up, but has to lie down on the ground to rest, Hao's practice is to beat with a whip, keep beating, beating until these humans don't dare to stay at all, even if they desperately want to continue walking.
Some of the elves showed reluctance and reluctance, but more people were full of ignorance, and only the dark elf girl silently watched Hao, watching his every move.
In this way, everyone continued on the road, and walked all day, until the dusk of the day was past and the sky began to sink, Hao finally gave the order to stop, and at this time, at least more than half of the human group collapsed directly to the ground, and even directly appeared in coma and shock.
Hao didn't pay attention to these unconscious and shocking people, but ordered Mu to take the non-commissioned officers, as well as their men who could still move, and start lighting fires to cook, boiling some hot water, etc., and at the same time, allocate half of them to guard the surroundings, and it was not until all this was done that Hao walked towards the Dark Elf and her two guards.
"My lord, I know that one of the first-order magic is the blood dissolving technique, which is a very ordinary magic that can dissipate the blood congestion at the wound and improve blood circulation, I don't know if my lord will do this magic. Hao asked respectfully to the dark elf.
Before the Dark Elf could finish speaking, the male guard shouted, "Human, remember your identity, do you want the adults to use magic for your human subordinates!?"
Hao lowered his head and said respectfully: "My lord, magic is a very precious power, magicians are extremely noble career paths, and it is indeed a waste to use them for us humans, but the current situation is that we may encounter the army of the underworld camp at any time, at least the stragglers, even if we don't encounter them, we will also encounter beasts and even demonic beasts on this desolate continent, in this case, there are more people than an advantage, whether it is collecting food, reconnaissance intelligence, or even as cannon fodder, it is ......"
The male elf guard had to say something, and the dark elf woman waved her hand and said, "I didn't dissolve the blood congestion technique. β
Hao's face sank, and he nodded slightly, and at this time, the dark elf girl said: "But I have a second-order magic group self-healing technique, which can speed up the metabolism of the body and improve the body's self-healing power, this magic is feasible?"
Hao immediately raised his head, his face was full of surprise, and then he bowed his head slightly and said respectfully: "Thank you, my lord, they have been marching for a day today, and the people I have been training are barely harmless, but women and children are not, please cast magic for them." β
The dark elf girl nodded, and she said to the male elf who was still unscathed: "You, you are all grown up in the elf clan, and you also live in the elf clan, and you have never left the empire to come to the Flood Desolate Continent, the sky is right, the current situation, more people are helping us, and I am a second-order magician, I can cast five second-order magics in a day, eleven first-order magic, and one second-order magic is fine." With that, she followed Hao towards the human group.
The human group is now exhausted, even if it is the five hundred people who have been trained by Hao for a long time, most of them can't get up at the moment, this time the rapid march is much longer than the previous ones, and they ran for an hour before walking, and the people who can still hold on are all the physical fitness brought about by the martial arts movements taught by Hao, otherwise I'm afraid that no one here will be able to stand up.
Hao's expression was still serious, but he saw that the women and children who had collapsed to the ground, especially some who had fallen into a coma and shock, felt as if they were being entangled in pain, and after the dark elf girl came to the scene, she directly began to chant magic spells, followed by gestures, and then magic, these are the standard processes of magic, unless it is after becoming a high-level magician, it begins to involve various super magic skills, otherwise it is impossible to avoid this process, and even some large-scale or high-level magic still needs various materials to be used.
With the use of magic, a fresh breath descended on almost all humans on the scene, this breath was not very obvious, like blowing a cold breath on a hot summer day, but as this breath fell on the body, all humans began to feel that their bodies began to become hot, and then their legs, which had been stiff and completely unfelt, began to become sore, and more and more sore.
Hao also felt this, and he is now the Ming Jin level in martial arts, and his sense of the flesh is particularly keen, when this breath enters the body, this breath immediately disperses, turning into a stream of heat to stimulate the flesh and blood and meridians in the body, and at the same time stimulate the internal organs and bone marrow, just this magic, almost all the organs in the body are running, and this is not the kind of skill that will leave a dark wound in the martial arts, it is just a simple magic, no side effects, no harm to the body, quick effect, just a few breaths, Hao felt that the body seemed to be a little easierγ
(Sure enough, it is not a legal path that stands at the apex of all transcendent paths, just such a magic solves the biggest problem now, without this magic, at least fifty of these clansmen may die, and even if they don't die, they will be disabled, but such a second-order magic saves their lives...... Magic...... οΌ
Hao sighed in his heart, but he immediately thanked the Dark Elf Girl, and the Dark Elf Girl looked at Hao quietly and said, "God, now we are all people on the same ship, don't call me Sir in the future, my name is Aister Lanshutton, you can call me Aiyi." β
Hao immediately said: "Don't dare, how can I call my lord's name when I took care of me so much, not to mention that the Lanshuitton family is the marquis of the Elven Empire, and I also know the honorific title of the Southwest Shield of the Elf Empire, even if it is for the name of the adult's family, I will never dare to call the adult's name." β
The two guards who followed behind Aye, their faces were not good-looking when Aye cast magic, and then his faces were a little better, and Ay thought for a while: "For the name of the family, then you can call me Miss Ae, after all, it is no longer a superior-subordinate relationship, and you are the one who leads the most people here, you call me an adult, I can't command your people, so it's decided." β
This time, Hao didn't say anything more, he said respectfully: "Miss Aye, please wait a while, I told them to make dinner and bring it to you, the food may not be rich, but it will definitely be clean." β
Ay said, "It's very lucky to have a bite to eat at this time, and we haven't turned into an undead creature or been pressed into the soul furnace, so let's discuss our next move after dinner." β
There was nothing to say at the moment, everyone was actually tired all day, even if it was an extraordinary professional, they were all tired during the whole day's trek, after all, the highest strength on the scene was Aye's second-order magician, and there were high-level professionals who followed before, but they were all high-level border guards, and then they all returned to the Steel Fortress, so the highest strength here was Ayi.
Everyone was resting, Hao dragged his tired body and instructed the people to drink water to the unconscious, and organized them to take turns cooking and resting, and after the food was ready, he served the most sumptuous part to all the elves, among which Ai had more wild vegetables in his food.
Although Ai Yi was born into a marquis's family, her behavior was not squeamish at all, but there was a kind of neatness in the army, and after eating all the food quickly, she began to meditate, and after Hao had settled all the clansmen, she waited for Hao's arrival.
When Hao arrived, Ey, the two elven guards, and the remaining eight elves were already here, and they didn't bring any wild tents, but fortunately, Ay was a magician, and it seemed that he had learned a lot of magic, they found a nearby big tree, and Ay directly used magic to turn this tree into a tree house, barely enough to live eleven of them, but there was no furniture inside, and it was just barely better than humans.
When Hao arrived, Ay pointed to the floor of the treehouse, which extended into a wooden table, and then Ay chanted a few incantations on the wooden table, and suddenly a three-dimensional map appeared.
"This is where we are now. Ay tapped lightly on the map, and a light lit up on the map.
"This is the Steel Fortress, this is the border of the Elven Empire......"
Ay clicked and drew on the map, and suddenly, the entire map became clear, and she said at the same time: "There are a total of 1.7 million garrisons in the Steel Fortress, including 16,000 professionals, 137 high-level and above professionals, four legendary professionals, and one demigod professional...... The demigod profession is the commander-in-chief Gonzel, but it is estimated that he has defected. β
Speaking of this, Ay said: "I used my magic eye to check the border of the Elven Empire before, and the green flame is still burning, and it still covers all the areas that my magic eye can see, at least in the range of our ten-day trip, we can't cross the border, so now we can only continue to walk along the border." β
Many elves nodded, but they didn't want Hao to say directly: "Miss Aiyi, I don't think we can continue to walk along the border. β
Many elves immediately looked at Hao, and immediately a few people scolded directly, and some people even told Hao to get out, there was no room for him to speak here, but Ai Yi said: "God, tell me what you think...... I know that you are a person who has an idea in his heart, and that everything you have done since you came to the camp has been done with a purpose, and since you have this idea now, you might as well say it for us all to refer to. β
The rest of the elves still have a problem, but since Ai Yi, the highest status here, said so, they just looked at Hao coldly, and Hao was not polite, walked directly to the wooden table, pointed to the map and said: "Miss Ai, I have read the topographic map here in the books that my master gave me, so I have two questions, the first question is, can the underworld camp cross the gap into the real world out of thin air? The second question is, why does the power of the underworld camp block the border of the elven empire?"
The many elves looked at each other, and then a tall female elf said: " Human, I've read your information, you are a human slave raised by Lord Iluvita, so you have probably read many books, but after all, you are a human and can't learn magic, so it's normal that you don't know this, I'm a magic apprentice, I can tell you, whether it's the demon of the bottomless abyss, or the devil of the Nine Hells, or the purgmy of Hell or the undead creatures of Hades, they all exist in the lower plane, how can they easily break through to the real world? If it was so easy, this world would have been invaded by these monsters a long time ago, and it would have been a long-term invasion, so it is impossible for them to easily come to the Flood Desolate Continent and come to the real world, understand, humans?"
Hao didn't care about the contempt in the mouth of the female elf, so he continued to ask, "In that case, how did these inter-gap magic teleportation arrays of the underworld camp come about?"
The female elf immediately said disdainfully: "Where else could it be from? β
At this time, Ay frowned and said, "No, it's not right! Even if the commander-in-chief betrayed, or even the four legends betrayed, or the entire border guard corps in the fortress betrayed, they couldn't easily summon the underworld camp!"
The tall female elf was stunned, and she said in surprise, "Why not...... Adults mean relative conservation!?"
Ay nodded, "This is the first rule of magic, and it is good that you can recall it." β
The tall female elf blushed suddenly, and Ay said to Hao: " In the field of magic, one of its cores is the theory of relative conservation, that is, the effect of magic has a constant relationship with the magic power it pays, or the materials used, and the level of magic, so when we magicians want to use super magic skills, they will pay extra magic power, or spiritual power as a balance, and when they want to summon the lower plane, or even the more exaggerated low-latitude existence, the amount of money they pay is not just a little magic or spiritual power can be leveled, if it is just to summon one or two lower planes of demons and the like, it is good to say, only need to consume more gems or other things, but if you want to summon the existence of a legion's lower plane, then you must have a blood sacrifice, that is, the body, soul, etc. of life are completely consumed, and it is not one or two lives, it is thousands of lives, and during this period, you also need to use a magic array, and you also need to consume a lot of equipment. β
"In other words, in the steel fortress in full view, unless everyone, including me, betrayed, it is impossible to complete all this quietly, not to mention, the traitors just betrayed, they did not go crazy, even if someone went crazy, it could not be that millions of people went crazy, right?
When Ai Yi said this, she looked at Hao and said: "The answer to the first question is this, it can't appear out of thin air, there must be a large number of sacrifices, or massacres, and it's near this border, you can ask this question, I think you should have already deduced this, right?" I don't know the answer to the second question, you can say your answer." β
Hao looked at Ay and the rest of the elves, and he pointed to the three-dimensional map and said, "Combined with the covenant signed by the ancestor of the nobility that you mentioned before, and the ancestor of the nobility was rebelled by the oath of the River Styx, in fact, the situation is already obvious, the other party ...... That is, the underworld camp, and perhaps the abyss camp, as for whether there are other lower planes, it is not clear, but at least these two camps absolutely exist, and they used a strategy of killing three birds with one stone. β
"Three birds with one stone?" the elves, including Say, repeated the word.
Hao said with his fingers: " First of all, the ancestors of the nobility have to shelter the human race because of the restrictions of the covenant, which will cause the disgust of the middle and lower classes of the nobility, but in fact, it is only limited to disgust, and the ancestors of the nobility, as well as the high-level of the nobility are not unaware of this, so they limit the human race to the borders, just use the refugee camp to shelter, theoretically speaking, this has no contact opportunities for the middle and lower classes of the nobility, and there is no pain, at most it is regarded as a joke on weekdays, scolding a few high-level people, which is really nothing. β
All the elves nodded slightly, and the fact is that this is indeed the case at the beginning, the middle and lower classes of the elves use the wealth of their own race to protect human beings, especially the reputation of human beings is so bad that it is almost similar to rats and cockroaches, which does make some of the middle and lower classes of elf thinking dissatisfied, but this is only limited to dissatisfaction, and the situation has not become very bad.
Hao said at this time: "Here, I have a conjecture, that is, the ancestor of the nobility is unable to issue oracles because of certain things, or the frequency of issuing oracles has been greatly reduced, and he can't even know the specific situation within the nobles, is that true?"
The elves looked at each other, and the tall female elf looked at Hao curiously, and she said: "Our ancestor was injured in a previous war, although it was not a fatal injury, and he was not destroyed, but now the war of all races will start at any time, and the ancestor will fall into a semi-deep sleep to speed up the recovery, so the oracle of the ancestor has indeed rarely appeared recently, you are not wrong." β
Hao nodded and continued: "The problem is actually here, the noble holy throne deity...... There must have been some people who had betrayed the ancestors of the nobility. β
Saying this, many of these elves' faces changed drastically, and some elves planned to scold Hao, but after all, they didn't speak, but stared at Hao to see what he had to say later.
Hao paused and continued: " In the ancestors of the nobles, or even the ancestors of the nobles were asleep for a short time, a certain of the nobles, or some holy gods rebelled, and they concealed the situation of the nobles from the ancestors and ancestors of the nobles, and at the same time, their forces, some latent control forces, began to control public opinion, and at first it was estimated that it was unlikely to overdo it, and it was estimated that it was mostly how inferior some human beings were, how unorderly human beings were, how uncivilized human beings were, and how inferior human beings were, or coveted the wealth, civilization, or women of the elven race, right?"
The elves' faces became serious, and they thought back to the past few years, indeed, I don't know when it began, in the newspapers, in various middle schools, or in various notes, all kinds of episodes and information about human inferiority and lust began to appear.
Hao continued: "Then, in the newspapers, or other public opinion information, there began to be a gradual emergence of human beings and elves without reproductive isolation, how humans pollute elven genes, and how mixed-race elves seize the public resources of the elven race, and then gradually replace the pure-blood elf race, gradually, it will become more and more exaggerated, and the mixed-blood elves will begin to appear, and even directly humans, drive out the elves and exterminate the elves to the extermination of the elves, discuss, and, right?"
"Then, the newspapers began to appear that humans did some bad things, at first it was killing some wild animals that the elves liked, such as all kinds of beautiful birds, or burning a certain forest, or killing unicorns, etc., and then, it was a human group action, killing a single one, or some elves, playing with them, and so on, and the end was often that the elves were killed and eaten, and none of the elves who were rescued were left, right?"
Speaking of this, Hao sneered and said: "At this point, the middle and lower strata of the elf race, some people who are famous in a certain town or a certain field, will begin to stand up and discuss the question of the fate of human beings, and the discussion of whether the elf race should shelter human beings, and at the same time continue to accumulate the resentment of the middle and lower strata and incite their hatred, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, the middle and lower strata of the elf race are separated from humans by 108,000 miles, and all human beings are still outside the border, they don't even have contact, why is there such a big hatred!?" I dare to assert that the hatred among the lower and lower elves may not be as great as you think, and a large part of them are herd mentality, and some of them are represented. β
Many elves were stunned, and their gaze towards Hao began to gradually change, but Hao didn't notice it for a while.
Hao continued: "In fact, this part is not the result, and the next step is to guide, let some of the human beings 'inadvertently' enter the border, and then 'inadvertently' have a conflict with the elves, of course, basically it can only be human beings kneeling down and being slaughtered, but it is definitely impossible in public opinion, basically it will be human stealing, robbing, raping, etc., and then the elven civilians will block, be injured, die, or be killed...... In short, the incitement will continue, and that's pretty much what the script is. β
"And the upper echelons of the nobility also found out about this, but they can't contact the ancestors and ancestors of the nobility, and they contact other holy gods, and they are likely to be informed." Let it be', but the upper echelons of the nobility are not idiots, they certainly can't go with the flow, so there is a scene of legislation, but without the support of the holy gods, without the direct oracle of the ancestors and ancestors, such legislation is the fuse, of course, if there is no me, and there is no trained group of human refugees, then this fuse is just a long dark fuse, but because of me, this fuse must be detonated immediately. β
At this point, one of the elves asked, "What do you mean by killing three birds with one stone?"
Hao said: "Three eagles with one stone, the first eagle is the ancestor of the noble elves, she has a covenant with us humans, once it is violated, then it will be eroded by the Styx, the second eagle, through the hands of the elves to carry out the slaughter, my lords, many times, many people actually do not intend to betray, but after inadvertently doing the betrayal, then they have to betray, this is the second eagle, as for the third eagle, it is us humans." β
The elf who had just asked the question immediately sneered: "I can understand the first eagle and the second eagle, so what is the third eagle?
"Life. β
Hao said calmly: "We humans are everywhere, only this life is still there, and combined with what Miss Ai Yi and this Lord said before, if you want to summon the legions or lives of the next plane, you must have enough sacrifices and sacrifices, and this sacrifice and sacrifice ...... It's us humans!"
"Instigating the elves to slaughter the human race, which led to the ancestor of the nobility being eaten by the Styx, and at the same time the elves saw the appearance of the Styx, and the ancestor of the nobility was counterattacked, they knew that they had betrayed the truth, and there was no turning back, even if they turned back, the ancestor of the nobility would only be cleansed by thunder, it was impossible to let them go, and even they would not be forgiven if they died, and the soul would suffer for thousands of years, so they had to rebel, and they would always rebel, they were the group that was most unwilling for the ancestor of the nobles to return from the resurrection, even before that, they were the group that most revered the ancestor of the nobles, and at the same time, the humans they slaughtered would be turned into sacrifices to summon the army of the next plane, human flesh and blood, soul, will become this victim, to contribute to the arrival of the underworld camp, and even the demon camp, the devil camp, and the devil camp. β
Many elves were shocked, Ai Yi looked at Hao deadly, and immediately asked: "Then why do you want to block the border, I'm afraid that the weight of our people is not enough for the great power to block such a long border, right?"
Hao pointed to the map, swiped his finger up and down along the map, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this is not actually for blockade, but just a gesture......"
"Posture?" The many elves didn't understand it even more, they looked at each other, completely unaware of what Hao was talking about.
Hao looked at them and said seriously: "Enemies, whether it is the underworld camp, or demons, devils, or other things, their plans are ......"
"Encircle the point to send reinforcements, and this fire is not a blockade of anything, but a gesture for the outside world to see, look, the elves are besieged, the elves are surrounded, come on, you come quickly. β
Hao said this, he looked at the map with deep eyes and said: "In the camp of attacking the elven race......"
"There are capable people. β