Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Unavoidable War (Part II)

- Even if you rummaged through every house by the sea with torches, you could not find a single stranger to slaughter and plunder......

After seeing that they had pounced, these black robbers, who were originally eager to try, were greatly depressed and confused for a while.

Since they didn't know what to do next, some of them began to check the food, fish and vegetables piled up in the house, and prepared to bring some food back. Others waved their swords furiously, as if to vent their anger and cut down the walls of these houses, and then they were even more shocked - at first, they thought that those seemingly thin "mushroom houses" were all wooden houses, but who knew that when they slashed at them, the bone short knives in their hands were cracked and curled, as if they had chopped a stone.

Because of the damage to the weapons, some people cursed and tried to set fires, but even if they burned the torches on these walls, there was no reaction. When these curious black men approached with torches and took a closer look, they couldn't help but gasp: these light, colorful "mushroom huts" were all made of some kind of extremely thin metal plate

Oh my God, build a house out of metal? What was this concept in ancient societies before the Industrial Revolution?

- Before the Industrial Revolution, due to the limitations of the level of technology, the world's metal production was pitifully low, both in the East and in the West. For example, during the Northern Song Dynasty, China's annual steel output was about 50,000 tons, which was already the world's first, and it is said to be close to the steel output of the rest of the world's civilized countries combined. But in later generations, it will not be enough to build a giant oil tanker - by the beginning of the 21st century, China's annual steel production exceeded 700 million tons, which is still the world's first...... Compared with the Northern Song Dynasty a thousand years ago, the output has increased by 14,000 times.

Even in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, many peasants were still too poor to afford kitchen knives, and even the little iron on their hoes was a lot of wealth for them. Pig iron bars in many remote places can be used instead of currency, and they are also very popular......

This is still the situation after entering the Iron Age, and today this iron smelting technology has not yet spread from the Hittite Empire on a large scale, and the vast majority of the world's civilized countries are still in the 14th century BC of the Bronze Age. In the current "Four Ancient Civilizations" area, it is difficult for even the richest civilized armies to equip each soldier with a bronze weapon, and the surrounding poor and backward tribes can only pitifully use stone spears and bone knives to fight

Today, about a third of the black rogue who attacked Cyrenaica had bronze swords and battle axes in their hands, and they also had a Hittite iron sword that they had accidentally obtained, which was already a luxury equipment in the desert. Even if you fight the regular armies of Egypt and Minoa, you don't have to be weak-minded - many of Egypt's second-rate soldiers can only fight with stone spears. So they are quite proud.

Who knew that when I got here, I saw that people are really more popular than people, and I don't even have enough metal for forging weapons, and I'm actually using it to build a house here?

In short, in the eyes of these poor black people, this kind of iron mushroom house, which can only be placed in a children's park as a landscape in the future to withstand the sun and rain and rust off the paint, is simply like a golden palace in the eyes of modern people, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand times more luxurious than any marble villa or Egyptian pyramid, not to mention that the metal houses that appear on this seashore are not one or two, but dozens or hundreds

In addition, the few steel hoes and shovels found in these mushroom houses also amazed every black robber - in this day and age, the use of steel "more expensive than gold" to make farm tools can no longer be described as luxury in the eyes of ordinary people, but pure waste and wealth. You know, even the Egyptian farmers on the banks of the Nile are still plowing the land with wooden plows and harvesting with stone sickles

In short, the above situation in this settlement not only aroused the greed of these dark-skinned robbers, but also made them involuntarily feel a little frightened - what kind of people would be the people who possessed all this wealth but discarded it at will without care?

However, now, they can't find anyone to answer this question.

- The houses and fields shrouded in night were all empty, and the docks by the sea were equally empty (the merchant ships of Crete had long since left), and the whining wind whistled in the ears made one feel like they were in a ghost town, surrounded by hovering ghosts......

Only above them, behind the empty towns, on the steep cliffs dotted with Mediterranean cypress trees and bushes, stood a majestic highland lighthouse, which was radiating a bright light, which finally dispelled the depth and terror of the night a little.

Looking up at the staggeringly bright lighthouse on the mountain, the black leader frowned and hesitated for a moment, but finally pulled out the short sword at his waist, pointed at the lighthouse on the top of the mountain, and gave an order to his subordinates: "...... Go up and see if there's someone in there."

What the black leader didn't know was that it was because of this order that they lost their last chance to get out......

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Although the cliff behind the port of Cyrenaica with its lighthouse is steep from a distance, it is not at all strenuous to climb even in the dark of night, for the builders of it have carved a straight staircase into the hill that leads from the foot of the mountain to the top. And tonight is the full moon again, and the bright moonlight and the light of the lighthouse itself shine brightly on every step, and there is no danger of falling into the air.

But the problem is that these black robbers with murder weapons only had time to climb halfway up the mountain, when they suddenly heard an earth-shattering loud noise from behind them, and even the earth seemed to be shaken. Immediately, someone was so frightened that his legs weakened, and he stepped into the air, and suddenly rolled down the stairs...... The rest looked back in horror and saw a flaming mushroom cloud rising from the distant desert, like a blooming flower of flames, instantly lighting up the night sky, and clusters of flames splashed everywhere, dragging the burning trail from the sky like a rain of fire

“…… Great gods, what the hell is going on? It's horrible."

Faced with this fiery scene, which was completely more common-sense, many black fighters were so frightened that they fell to their knees and prayed to their gods.

In fact, the explosion was entirely their own work – while the Negro led most of his warriors towards the "mushroom house" by the sea, the minions who stayed in the oil fields were also rummaging around in the concrete houses of the refinery, carrying torches, trying to collect some loot...... Somehow, the gang started an oil well fire, turning a tank full of oil into a huge flare, which looked like a soda or champagne that had been shaken and then opened

In an instant, hundreds of thousands of liters of oil were thrown into the air dozens of meters away, forming a spectacular fountain of flames, and then splashed all around like incendiary bombs...... Several unlucky blacks, who were immediately doused with a large amount of burning oil, let out a scream, and then made no sound, and after a few struggles, became a lump of burnt and oily roast meat. The few remaining uninjured blacks were also frightened by the terrifying flames, as if they saw the end of the world coming, and ran almost reflexively.

At this time, the main force of the black bandit group located on the mountain road finally revealed its whereabouts: obviously, in such an earth-shattering explosion, I am afraid that even the dead will be frightened to jump - when the black people who stopped on the stone steps halfway up the mountainside were still staring blankly at the pillar of fire rising into the sky in the distance, muttering to themselves praying to the gods, from the lighthouse on the top of the mountain, a fat man in strange costumes suddenly ran out.

It seemed that the fat man was probably alarmed by the distant firelight and the sound of explosions, so he ran out to see what was going on, and then the guy was stunned to see the black warriors huddled together on the steps, their faces painted with horrific oil, and all kinds of strange weapons in their hands.

Under the sudden encounter, because the thinking did not turn for a while, the two sides actually confronted each other for a moment with wide eyes, and finally the fat man on the top of the mountain let out a panicked howl, turned around and fled. And the black leader, who reacted, also quickly stood up again, raised his iron sword, and took the lead in running towards the top of the mountain, still shouting loudly, "...... Catch up and catch that coward."

However, before they could continue running a few steps to the top of the mountain, they heard a sharp, piercing and strange sound, like the roar of a demon, as if coming from all directions, piercing everyone's eardrums (in fact, sounding the air raid sirens in later generations)...... Under the influence of all these strange things tonight, most of the black robbers involuntarily slowed down to see what was going on, and there was only one stupid big man who was proud of his bravery, still shirtless and brandishing a bronze battle axe, screaming and rushing to the front alone, and pulling away from the others for a long distance.

- Five, four, three, two steps Seeing this screaming reckless fellow, it seemed as if he was about to rush to the end of the stairs, and let the tomahawk in his hand drink blood, and the black warriors who followed behind cheered......

However, the warrior's final sprint came to an abrupt end at the end of this long ladder.

Accompanied by a snowy knife light, and a headless corpse that fell down, a heroic purple royal sister appeared on the top of the mountain:

“…… The descendants of the Poison Island Stream, the Poison Island Zi Ginseng and other gallless rats, still don't accept their lives? ”

Immediately afterwards, the fat man who had turned and fled just now appeared on the top of the mountain with an automatic rifle loaded with many bits and pieces, and pulled the trigger with a cruel smile at the black robbers gathered in the narrow mountain road, and shot out strings of fire from the muzzle of the gun, pouring out a deadly rain of bullets:

“…… Hehehe, little thieves, taste the power of your Uncle Toda Hirano, my new gun that has just been modified can finally be opened."

At the same time, Doraemon and Wang Qiu, who were drinking happily in the temple of Amun in Thebes, Egypt, and were already drunk and hazy, received a panicked distress message from Cyrenaica via the guò radio intercom, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and even woke up seven or eight minutes from alcohol:

“…… It's a shame, our settlement has been attacked by an unknown enemy, and we are currently fighting, please hurry up and think of a way."

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