〈2. Caught off guard〉

Taking advantage of Xiaobai's rest, Blackjack observed his surroundings.

The pond is not small, and its widest point does not exceed 500 meters. There is a small stream on the left and right, which runs through the woods on both sides and joins the sea.

The source of the water is a small waterfall that rushes down a steep mountain.

Depending on the size of the mountain, there should be a volcanic spring at the top of the mountain.

This means that the mountain in front of you is an extinct volcano, and it also means that the water will be extremely rich in nutrients.

Based on the biome in the pond and the surrounding flora and fauna, it can be determined that the spring water is harmless.

The only thing that is unimaginable is that the chances of such an ingenious and complete ecosystem and topography appearing in such a not friendly world are really very small.

The most interesting thing is, why are there no indigenous people on this? I remember that on the way here, I came across several large and small islands, all of which have traces of human activity.

Unless there is one possibility, the island does not exist.

Black Jack was distracted, and he didn't respond to Xiaobai's call several times, and it wasn't until Xiaobai shook his hand in front of his eyes that he came back from his contemplation.

"Let's go, the good stuff is over there, just under one of the strongest mangroves over there."

White pointed to the stream to Blackjack's right.

"Quietly touch the past, don't make a noise, those guys' tail pins are not a joke." Xiaobai specially reminded Blackjack.

Black Jack nodded, and walked lightly towards the mangrove tree after Xiaobai.

Crossing the creek, the fish in the water scattered and fled.

Behind the bushes at the edge of the forest, several heads sneaked up on an unidentified object that shimmered with a crystal light on the trunk of a mangrove tree.

A few steps away, Blackjack finally got a glimpse of the magical thing in its entirety.

That's a giant crystal hive!

The honeycomb is divided into three areas by three colors, and the texture and color of the crystal give people a... The feeling of energy crystals.

If you look closely, you can see countless killer bees in and out of the hexagonal holes in the hive, and from time to time one or two of them will fall into the air and then take off again in the air with a sudden stop.

Not all the bee colonies are busy, and a few of them stay in the air and on the trunks of trees, obviously vigilant and observing the situation, and I don't know if it is their original habits, or if they have just been affected by Xiaobai.

Turning around, Blackjack was silent. On the contrary, Xiaobai was very excited and suppressed his voice and talked to Black Jack.

"What do you think that would be? Anyway, no matter how I look at it, I think this should be an energy crystal, right. ”

"As for why it's a bee nest, I don't understand that. Hey, I remember you didn't observe that kind of big bee before? Do you think this is an energy crystal? ”

Blackjack shook his head and said, "I'm not sure, I've never seen anything like this before. Also, what is an energy crystal? ”

In fact, Blackjack knew about energy crystals, and he was sure that the hive was definitely made of energy crystals.

As for why lying?

In Xiaobai's consciousness, he is just an initial hero that comes with the system.

It's okay to be a little different from those creeps, and if you still know everything, it's obviously problematic.

Even if Xiaobai's nerves are bigger, he can't be regarded as a fool.

He usually likes to think of others as fools, and he himself is certainly no better than fools, or even more stupid.

Xiaobai likes to subconsciously touch his head when he thinks about things, and says to Black Jack while touching: "What about the swelling, directly and violently demolish?" But if it's really an energy crystal, wouldn't it be a big loss. ”

"I've never seen this kind of bee before, and I don't know if I can tame it. Why don't we get a set of protective gear and try it? But if we go to get this kind of special equipment on this little broken island, I'm afraid we won't be able to get even a rudimentary version of it. ”

Blackjack shook his head silently in his heart.

Hey, I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing to meet a commander like this. Although people always say that fools are lucky, this is a dangerous island world, an island world where local wars can occur at any time. Forget it, let's take it one step at a time, and I don't know what the mysterious hive is.

Seeing that Xiaobai was still meditating there, Blackjack had to remind: "Boss Bai, maybe the store function in the assistant can help us solve the problem." ”

Hearing Black Jack's words, Xiaobai's hand on his head slapped hard at himself.

"Oops! Why didn't I think that I still have the artifact of the system! ”

Xiaobai was a little excited, and inevitably got carried away, coupled with the screams at the beginning......

So, the killer bee in charge of the guard happened to fly near the two.

There was another burst of chickens and dogs, and Xiaobai and his party fled back to the headquarters.

With a bang, the frantic swarm of bees was blocked out of the door.

Angry Xiaobai said that he was very angry, and he decided to punish these disobedient guys.

Although he has regarded the beehive as a bag, it does not prevent him from killing "people" to vent his anger.

Summoning Infinite, Xiaobai begins to ask about the store service.

The general classification in the store is similar to that of traditional games, with more COC-like building interfaces.

Because the first of these projects is impressively written as "defensive" buildings.

Xiaobai clicked into the defense interface, which was filled with all kinds of strange defense towers.

Except for the first tier of sniper towers, all of them are unlocked.

Click on the Level 1 Sniper Tower, and the brief description is as follows:

"Level 1 Sniper Tower"

"Introduction: Use the most advanced Allied supertechnology to quickly build a Tier 1 defensive sniper tower."

"Attribute: Quick Attack. The sniper tower has an additional sniper slot that attacks twice as fast as a regular sniper tower."

"Price: 100 crystals (pink diamonds, henceforth collectively referred to as crystals.) Or an energy crystal particle."

"Note: This tower is a special defense class, and it can only be recycled at a discount or cost more crystals to upgrade, and cannot be upgraded normally."

Xiaobai said that his heart was very hurt at this time, which was obviously biased in favor of kryptonite players, and he didn't play like this.

Slid down again, and the purchase options below are a little different.

There is also an option in front of "Buy".

"Loan Purchase"

"Introduction: Sao Nian! Want to shop? Special offer!"

"Price: After deducting the offer, you need to pay off the principal plus 15% interest within a month."

"Explanation: As a chopping party, buying and buying is the only joy of living."

Before he finished reading the explanation, Xiaobai was already furious, and he almost forgot to search for special equipment and was ready to leave angrily.

Forcibly suppressing the 10,000 C Nima galloping in his heart, Xiaobai really found the special equipment needed to tame the killer bee.

Equipment includes a full set of high-quality hermetically sealed chemical protective suits, a canister of tame spray, and a special dedicated crystal shaped beehive.

The price only requires a hundred gold coins or one crystal.

Looking at the terrifying one hundred and five percent interest, Xiaobai still clicked on it with a ruthless hand.

Instantly, a prompt appeared that the item was to be distributed to the space warehouse, which could be picked up in the underground storage inside the headquarters.

At the same time, you can also complete an achievement, [Chopping Party] level, and the reward is ten units of wood.

Just enough to build a house and a lumber yard.

Xiaobai is not satisfied with this reward, but no matter how dissatisfied he is, it is always better than nothing.

After waiting for the swarm outside to leave, Xiaobai began to plan his next move.

Since he already had enough wood, he arranged for the five minions to build houses and lumberyards, and he and Blackjack went to work on the magical hive that appeared to be an energy crystal.

Just as White and Blackjack were carrying the shaped crystal beehive towards their target, a strange mist surrounded the island they were on from afar.

Everyone was busy, and the first mate of the battleship, the only one who found the fog, did not pay special attention.

In his opinion, it was nothing more than a big sea fog.

Although he had never seen it, how could his poor pseudo-consciousness have such a magical thing as a sixth sense?

The silence was finally shattered when the radar scouts spotted the anomaly, and the countless enemy markings that appeared out of thin air nearly brought his already stiff mind to a halt.

Before the scouts could report the anomaly, the first mate had already spotted a huge fleet approaching in the mist.

Although affected by the fog, only some general outlines can be seen.

However, the relevant information stored in the co-brain still distinguishes the general situation of the future.

Led by a 20-class standard support ship, followed by no less than 10 warships of various types.

There are converted reinforced support ships, there are standard naval combat ships, and among them there is a huge modified reinforced transport ship of unknown rank.

Not only that, as the phantom continued to approach, more silhouettes of the battleship behind came into the eyes of the first mate.

That huge group of warships is at least no less than a hundred warships, or even more.

In the face of this critical situation, the first mate calmly seemed to be a nobody, and unhurriedly began to contact Black Jack and Xiaobai, who were trapping the killer queen bee.

After figuring out the situation on the sea, Blackjack asked the first mate to urgently and strategically retreat without even thinking about it.

What are you kidding, there is not even much energy for navigation on the current battleships, so don't dream about naval battles or anything.

It's better to retreat first and hide aside, after all, stay in the green mountains, and you are not afraid of running out of firewood.

As for his own safety and Xiaobai's safety?

Let's look at the situation first, it's not impossible to jump into the sea to escape.

What's more, isn't there a mountain behind it? Although it is very steep, it is not impossible to climb. As long as they can reach the other side of the mountain, they can have the battleship send a landing ship to pick them up and flee.

The fog stopped spreading within a certain distance of the island, but its concentration continued to increase, and as it stands, it seemed that it could not be reached.

The uninvited guest stopped in the fog outside the safe zone, and only the lead support ship continued to approach the island.

The battleship broke through the fog, and a huge Dark Empire skeleton flag fluttered in the wind.

A tall man wearing the Dark Empire's nine-headed skull snake general's hat and wearing the uniform of a lieutenant-level officer stood at the bow of the ship.

The battleship came to a steady stop at the edge of the safe zone, and a non-commissioned officer of no lower rank held a megaphone in both hands and handed it to the man standing at the bow of the ship.

The man took the horn, turned up the volume to the maximum, and tried the sound effects.

Then he cleared his throat and said: "Listen to the people inside, you have been surrounded by our army, while it is still too late, lay down your arms and surrender without killing!" ”

"Ahem......

Said the wrong line. ”

"The people of the island have listened to me!

I'm Lieutenant Hammerman of the Black Order!

You are now standing in the sacrosanct territory of my Dark Empire.

I declare that this island will be taken over by me, please leave now!

Otherwise, we will not be afraid of the holy war to defend the territory! ”

The man on the battleship who called himself Hammerman kept babbling, and at this time, the little white people who were hiding in the bushes listened with a stunned face, what is this?

After hesitating for a long time, Xiaobai saw that Hammerman was delaying in sending troops to land, so he still decided to have a dialogue with him.

Xiaobai and the others came out of the bushes one after another, and Hammerman stopped shouting when he saw them coming out.

Xiaobai came to the beach and shouted to Hammerman, who was standing at the bow of the ship, "Is there anything that can't be discussed?" You have to fight and kill, what's the point! ”

Hammerman obviously didn't expect Xiaobai to answer like this, and he said with a blank face: "You shouldn't have said, just let the horse come!" How could I, the commander of my allied detachment, be afraid of you, a little lieutenant! Why don't you act according to the script, it makes me sad! ”

"Of course I know you haven't built a tower yet, but as long as you say let the horses go, your Infinite will ......"

Xiaobai interrupted Hammerman before he could finish speaking, only to see Xiaobai start to laugh maniacally.

"Hahahaha..."

"Aha..."

"Oh ha..."

The more Xiaobai laughed, the more he laughed, the more he laughed, the more he devoted, and even began to roll all over the beach, and the atmosphere became more and more intense.

The people around first looked at Xiaobai and laughed with N faces, and after a while, Blackjack couldn't help but start laughing, and then the five undergrads also began to roll on the ground.

Naturally, the crowd on the Dark Order battleship was not spared, and Lieutenant Hammerman laughed so hard that he almost fell off the battleship.

He forced himself to stand still and said with a smile, "Hahaha...... Are you ready to laugh at me and inherit my battleship? Hahaha...... Oops, I can't help it......"

As soon as Lieutenant Hammerman finished speaking, he began to roll on the ground like everyone else.

Laughing and laughing, Xiaobai suddenly began to sob.

In an instant, emotions spread like a virus.

The dead and alive who were still rolling on the ground just now, laughing, began to sit on the ground and sob, just like Xiaobai.

The sobbing sound of the crowd changed from small sobs at the beginning to loud cries.

……

I don't know how long it has been, people's emotions have almost been vented, the crying is getting quieter and quieter, and the number of people crying is getting fewer and fewer.

Hammerman and Xiaobai were the first two to stabilize their emotions, and just when the two looked at each other again, something even stranger happened.

The time and space of Zhou Yu suddenly became still, the soldiers were like living statues, the whistling sea breeze suddenly disappeared, the mangroves that were still swaying just now were like model props, and the blue waves on the sea surface also maintained a fixed shape.

Blackjack is the only one who is not fixed except for Hammerman and White, but he is keenly aware of the strangeness of the environment.

In order to maintain his disguise, he also pretended to be "fixed" in place like everyone else.

At this time, although Xiaobai was a little sluggish, he still found that something was wrong.

Before he could ask Hammerman a question, Hammerman spoke first.

"Haven't woken up from your dream yet?!"

"How do you wake up from a dream if you've never dreamed?" Xiaobai replied sharply and asked his questions. "You're not Hammerman, Hammerman doesn't know he's just a game character!"

"I am Hammerman, and I am not Hammerman. There are countless Hammermans in this world, but there is only one Hammerman in this world. Who am I? Who is me! ”

Hammerman replied nonsensically incomprehensible.

Then he said to Xiaobai: "I'm not a bad person, and I'm not a good person." I yearn for unlimited freedom, but I am also subject to the fireworks of the world. So, one thing you can rest assured is that I won't kill you. ”

Xiaobai asked: "Why?" Is it because you or I am special? ”

Hammerman shook his head and said, "No, there is nothing special in this world, just because you think it's special." The reason why I didn't kill you was because I could tell that you would be a [player], not a [player]. Only the contestants can make it possible for me to completely liberate and eternally free the world. ”

Xiaobai frowned and expressed puzzlement: "Player? Player? What does this mean? ”

Hammerman turned around and prepared to retreat, turned his back to Xiaobai and said, "One day, you will naturally understand." ”

After Hammerman took a step, the plane began to move again.

At Hammerman's orders, the Black Order ships began to turn around.

When Hammerman's battleship was horizontal, Hammerman stopped, faced Xiaobai and said, "I almost forgot one thing, we can't miss the process that should be taken." ”

Hammerman muttered something to the soldier beside him, and the soldier quickly ran to the control room.

After a while, the battleship's main guns began to turn.

Bang bang bang!

I saw that the houses that had been built and the lumber yard that was being built were all blown into ruins, and the shot at the headquarters did not know whether it was deliberate or missed, and the shot was in the middle of the special equipment placed in the bushes.

After the battleship finished firing its guns, a landing craft also began to move towards the island where Xiaobai was.

Hammerman on the battleship didn't know when he picked up his big horn again, and said to Xiaobai with a slight mockery:

"This is my great Hammerman's gift to you! Welcome to the island world of war infinite! My poor little lamb, I hope you will surprise me something different this time! ”

After saying that, Hammerman turned to leave, the difference was that when he turned around, he glanced at Blackjack casually, others may not have noticed, but Blackjack himself had a strong feeling.

At this time, poor Xiaobai's mind was already blank after a series of unprepared divine operations by Hammerman.

Seeing that the dark Order's twenty-four reconnaissance team was about to land, Blackjack had to remind Xiaobai again:

"Boss Bai, the enemy is too numerous for our soldiers to defend against and needs the support of the defense tower."

White was shaken by Black Jack and reminded him what to do, and he entered the assistant shop impatiently and angrily.

Ruthlessly, he purchased four first-class special defensive sniper towers, two on the left and right sides of the headquarters.

A few minutes later, the Dark Order's scouts landed on the beach and began to attack Shiro's headquarters.

With the combined efforts of four fast sniper towers, five minions, and Blackjack, the Dark Order's attack was quickly repulsed.

Once again, Hammerman's voice came from the Black Order's warship.

"What? You repelled my scout squad? Wait and see, I'll be sure to give you some color next time! ”

The landing ship returned to the battleship, and the battleship slowly sailed into the fog, disappearing from everyone's sight little by little.

The sea breeze was still howling, the color of the sky was gradually turning gray, and the wind and rain were coming.