Chapter 51: Carthage - The Great Chapter Asks for Votes
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Chubby angrily wanted to scold people, this damn Pompey, actually pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, obviously having such a powerful divine power at sea, actually fled in the wilderness, leading himself and others to take the bait.
For a while, the calm seabed flew sand and rocks, and the violent breath was like the end of the world.
Kirk was hit in the head by a stone, and he was stunned by the agitation???
Kirk hadn't dreamed in a long time.
In the dream, he returned home again, and his mother bought a table of good dishes, all of which he loved to eat.
I was chewing on the chicken leg for a while, but I found that the chicken leg was very salty, and my mouth was very dry, and I looked for water everywhere, but I couldn't find it, and my mother didn't know where the road went.
He opened his eyes, only to see the scorching sun shining on his head, the hot sea soaking his body, and the blazing sea breeze blowing people's lips dry. He paddled hard, but found that all five fingers were soaked and swollen.
"Where am I?" Kirk was a little dizzy.
"We are in the sea," Chubby's voice sounded on the side.
Kirk was speechless for a moment, and looked there, only to find that Chubby and Sheva were both struggling to push forward, with two ropes tied to their waists, swimming with them for a while.
"Where are we?" Kirk only felt thirsty.
Fatty threw over a bottle of mineral water, no matter what level this guy rises, he has to carry food and water in the spatial imprint, this habit seems to be very peasant in normal times, but now this water is comparable to the existence of golden plot equipment.
Kirk poured it. I finally feel a lot clearer.
Chubby was still faithfully taking on the role of a carriage in the sea, swimming hard: "Didn't we get dressed as pigs and eat tigers by Pompey last night, the ship sank, we escaped, but we were chased and killed by Pompey." Once again, you were hit in the head by a large rock and fell unconscious, so Sister Han had to take us and take Volonos and Plo to swim into the rocks. After not seeing our trace for a long time, the Pompey battleship was helpless. I had to leave in a huff. Then we swam out of the whirlpool. According to Sister Han's calculations, we are much closer to Africa than back to Greece, so we will drag you all the way with ropes. ”
Kirk saw Warrenos and Plo swimming in the distance: "What about Wang Han?" ”
"She's underwater, using magic to determine the direction of ocean currents. Study the nearest land direction. ”
Kirk was moved. It's a critical moment. It's still the teammates who are reliable.
Wang Han got out of the sea, and his beautiful long hair was wet and draped over his shoulders: "We are going to continue to swim south, and now the continental shelf is very close to us." The direction of the ocean current is also right, and it is estimated that we will be able to see the land of Africa as soon as this evening. ”
Kirk and the others swam all the way, saying that swimming in the sea was a chore. Fortunately, these people are all spatially digitized bodies, and as long as there is air and water, they can swim far in the sea with their super physical strength. Even Volonos and Plo were disarmed in the sea. Later, Wang Han came up with the idea of using magic to splice several floating planks into a rudimentary windsurfing board, so that the two mortal warriors would climb up to rest when they were tired, and the others would carry the windsurf board forward with ropes.
Under the rest, Kirk's "Life of Pi" team, under the action of ocean currents, slowly drifts towards the unknown and mysterious African continent.
According to Wang Han's most observant observation, Pompey's battleship should have sailed in the direction of Egypt according to the plot, but their drifting direction was in the opposite direction, drifting with the tide to distant North Africa.
On the way, they were also harassed by a group of sharks, but Wang Han's dark magic soon turned these blind creatures from predators into prey, and were eaten by the vegetarian Volonos and Plo (the Romans believed that sharks were aphrodisiacs), as well as the big stomach king Chubby.
Finally, in the dawn of dawn, Kirk saw the familiar land.
Several people were shaken and bravely swam to the land. Although it is possible to fight and live at sea, there is no doubt that the solid land makes the contractor feel more secure.
At the end of a few days of wandering, Kirk and the others were down-to-earth, but there was a sense of unreality.
"Now the question is," Kirk said, "first of all, where are we?" ”
Warrenos glanced at the oasis in the distance and hesitated, "It seems that we are in the province of Africa???"
"What! Carthage! Kirk was taken aback. After the Roman conquest of Carthage, it was renamed the province of Africa.
Kirk immediately remembered that on top of his head, he also carried a [Queen Dido's Love] that could be upgraded to gold plot equipment, which needed to be unlocked at the Carthaginian ruins.
"We were in the Aegean Sea, how could we drift with the ocean currents to the Tunisian region of North Africa?" Wang Han was also taken aback: "This is a thousand nautical miles away. ”
Plo swaggered: "If you come, you will be safe, since there is a Roman city ahead, let's go and find out." ”
This guy deserves to be a real man who "plays all over the Mediterranean", and along the way skillfully followed all the female animals from the 80 old woman to the 10-year-old Lori flirting and inquiring about the news, and soon figured out the situation, sure enough, this is the Roman province of Africa.
After the Third Punic War, the famous Roman general Sippia captured the city of Carthage and razed the great city of BC to the ground, killing or selling its entire inhabitants into slavery. As Rome's main rival for the Mediterranean world, Carthage's bravery impressed the Romans in the three Punic Wars and caused this catastrophe.
But the Romans did not abandon Carthage. As early as when Queen Dido established Carthage, she took a fancy to the beautiful mountains and rivers, abundant water, and green trees, (more than 3,000 years ago, North Africa was not as barren as it is now, and the environment was very beautiful) and choked Spain in the north, controlled the African continent in the south, and connected the entire Mediterranean Sea from east to west, with convenient transportation. Carthage, founded on trade, has grown into one of the hegemons of the Mediterranean in just a few hundred years.
On the ruins of Carthage, the Romans founded the province of Africa. This is also the origin of the name of Africa in later generations.
Kirk and the others were now near the city of Africa, which they had founded on the ruins of Carthage, and following Plo's lead, they entered the city of Africa.
At this time, Kirk's silver plot equipment [Queen Dido's Love] suddenly began to heat up, and a voice came into Kirk's mind: "Contract No. 04444, your [Queen Dido's Love] has done the third unlocking task, and you have successfully arrived at the Roman era of Carthaginian Ruins/Afrikatan Province." Unlock Mission 4 is currently open. ”
"I'm rubbing, there's actually a fourth step." Kirk had already made up his mind to hear a spatial prompt telling him to make exaggerated demands such as recovering the fallen kingdom of Carthage. Immediately cut off the idea of unlocking the Silver Story Helmet.
"You need to find the ruins of the altar in the city of Carthage. And put this national treasure handed down by Queen Dido on the altar, and it will restore the true appearance of the national treasure in the heyday of Carthage, and it will be used for you. The space prompt sounded.
Kirk assessed it, and it didn't seem like a high order. And it was originally next to the ruins of the city of Carthage. Take a look tomorrow. Try to complete this task. [Queen Dido's Love] can make all skill levels +1, and if unlocked, it should be at least all attributes +2. That's pretty tough already.
In particular, Kirk's current melee skills are generally upgraded to level 15, and he can only wait until the naked attribute exceeds 50 to complete the reincarnation promotion task, and in the case of extremely high level upgrade costs, all attributes +2 are very powerful.
Fortunately, the gold coin Auray is equally powerful, both in Rome and in overseas colonies. They found an inn for the time being and settled down.
"Jack-of-all-trades" Plo is in charge of finding out the news. Others began to hurry up and clean up, treat their wounds, and rest in time.
An hour later, Plo returned to the inn with the latest news.
The first news was that Pompey had successfully returned to Egypt and had not been assassinated. This news shocked Kirk and other contractors, but it makes sense to think that Pompey was not human and almost invulnerable. If someone is moved by Caesar's high bounty and tries to beat Pompey's idea, the end is only terrible.
In the second news, Caesar announced that he would personally conquer Egypt, capture Pompey, and go to Rome for trial.
These two pieces of news worried Kirk and the others. Pompey was not dead, and would soon conquer the resistance of Egypt, and once he got there, it would be even more difficult to kill him. Now the top priority is to complete the task as quickly as possible, to rush to Egypt, and eradicate Pompey.
In the afternoon, they set off for the ruins of the city of Carthage.
Since the enemy Pompey was thousands of kilometers away, Kirk and his party were very relaxed, and rode a camel on the desert without noticing that there was a pair of eyes watching behind them???
"This is the ruins of Carthage?" Chubby exclaimed in disbelief, "Is this a desert here!" ”
Wang Han looked at the ruins in front of him that had gradually been hidden between the sand dunes and wild grasses, and he was also speechless for a while.
The vastness of history played a big joke with the ancients here. A hundred years ago, the magnificent giant city, Palembang, the green oasis, the endless flow of ships and camel caravans, the goods coming and going from the north to the south, the rattling of gold coins, and a great conqueror, one of the most respected gods of war in the history of Western strategy - Hannibal, have all disappeared in the long river of history, leaving only broken walls and weeds.
"But since the space prompts us to come here to worship, we must find a way to enter." Kirk said calmly, "Let's look around." ”
"There's only one place you can go, Romans!" A cold voice rang out: "That's the grave!" ”
Kirk hurriedly looked up, and the three spears were already whistling in front of him!
His reaction was extremely fast, one rolled over, dodging two, but the third hit him in the chest!
The spear thrower was so powerful that he could shoot the spear with such might that Kirk was pierced by the sudden spear and flew to the ground.
He glanced at the battle record, and actually only knocked out 56 of his own health!
If you follow the experience of fighting on the banks of the Tiber, Kirk feels like he will lose more than 150 health. The huge difference in the middle is naturally the difference between the indestructible 300 points of defense of the [Forged of the Fire God] that I just started and the 120 points of defense of the [Canglong Guardian].
It seems that this piece of equipment has indeed greatly strengthened Kirk's survivability, otherwise Kirk would have been seriously injured this time.
Kirk jumped. The enemy has arrived in front of him, and his team is unaware of it, which in addition to showing that the team was careless just now, the enemy is very familiar with the terrain and can avoid the reconnaissance of the line of sight is also one of the reasons.
Wang Han was set on fire by four spears at the same time, but fortunately, she had three layers of magic shields, which was able to hold out, but then a spear pierced her towering chest again!
Wang Han screamed, used the [portal] to escape, and then knelt behind the wall in the distance. Shout out in the team channel: "Be careful. Poison on the spear! ”
Kirk looked down, and sure enough, his chest had begun to turn blue and black, and a foul smell was disgusting.
Volonos and Plo were the focus of enemy attacks. Fortunately, the two are the protagonists. Use the wall to hide left and right in the hail of bullets. No serious injuries were sustained.
"Romans!"
"Coward!"
"Come out and die!"
The attackers tumbled and jumped between the walls, occasionally drawing their spears to take advantage of the terrain and shoot at Kirk and the others.
"It's a Numidian!" Warren North yelled. He knocked down a wall of earth with a single punch, overwhelming the barbarians behind the wall at the same time, and with a swing of his short sword, a black human head flew up.
On the periphery of the battle, a group of Numidians galloped at high speed, jumping from one horse to another, letting out wild roars, and charging several times in a row. They are all dark-skinned and wear shorts and sleeveless tunics. A strong and swift North African pony that can be masterfully controlled without a halter, with only a short rein, or by shouting and roaring.
Of course, if it is a formal battle, they should have infantry support behind them to provide cover in the event of a retreat.
These Numidians were very powerful, and their spears were very powerful, and Fat used his speed and the three-headed Cerberus to try to break out, but a volley came down, and all three Cerberus were pierced into the ground, and he also escaped with serious injuries.
Kirk's gaze fell on a graceful figure in the distance, the Numidians never fought with a woman, who stood out in the middle of a group of shortly dressed Numidian cavalry.
"This woman has been following us since we left the city of Africa," Wang Han's weak voice came, "I have never forgotten the people I have met. This woman's figure seems familiar to me. ”
Kirk smiled coldly: "She will regret following and attacking today." ”
In order to save money on the battle, Kirk decided not to summon the [Warrior's Soul] this time. Sheva was the first to attack, and he used his mimicry cloak to burst the eyes of five Numidian cavalrymen with five sniper bullets in a row. These guys have been tested, and the health templates are all very high, and the sniper rifle bullets from the eyes and into the brain can't kill them.
But there is no doubt that these cavalrymen, who fell off their horses and howled loudly, also demoralized the enemy.
Immediately after Wang Han's chain lightning, she drank the life full potion, and launched several chain lightning in a row, paralyzing a group of Numidians. Kirk sprinted over and used Wolverine's Claw to deal a devastating blow to the paralyzed enemy!
The North African pony is not tall, and Kirk can often pull out the intestines of the Numidians with a single claw, tearing the enemy to shreds in the screams of the opponent. In the midst of the flying flesh, Kirk roared.
Chubby finally got the opportunity, and also seized the opportunity of Wang Han's lightning to paralyze the enemy, and stabbed to recover his health.
The woman snorted coldly, waved her hands, and the little fat who was flying up and down in the cavalry group was concentrated by two silver rays of light, and flew out of the palace screaming.
This is not the end, Xiao Fat, who lost his balance in the air, was immediately hit again by two silver lights that flew back from the upside down, causing double damage and falling to the ground.
The silver light swirled back into the woman's hand, and in the sunlight, there were indeed two silver boomerangs. With a slight shake, she swung the eerie boomerang again.
This time, the target was Puro, who was impaled in the arm by a Numidian knight and angrily pulled him off his horse, breaking his neck.
It was too late, and two silver rays of light had already pierced Pulo's eyes.
Plo stood up and blocked one of them with a shield, but the other one pierced his arm, and the self-proclaimed "invincible in close combat" Plo became a one-armed hero, and the calamitous arm was basically scrapped.
The woman struck twice, both of which were extraordinary, inflicting heavy damage on Chubby and wounding Plo, and the Numidian cavalry was demoralized, throwing spears and swishing, and began to run wildly again.
Kirk smiled bitterly and summoned several witches, Pearl, Meg, Nightblade, Dream, and Charm. If it weren't for high-intensity battles, he would generally not let the two A-level masters, Spartacus and Catherine, play, but give the B-rank players some training opportunities. Meg has already touched the edge of A-class strength, and so is the seductive beauty of Pearl.
After several witches who were known for their speed appeared, the resistance of the Numidian cavalry was quickly broken.
Meiwa rolled up the long whip of flames, and a black cavalryman fell off his horse with a scream, and Little Fat pounced on him and quickly eliminated him.
A cavalryman had just thrown his spear, only to find that he had two more black daggers around his neck. Nightblade grinned, and his head was cut off. Nightblade Huo disappeared on his warhorse, and the headless corpse slowly fell.
Meg summoned the demons of hell one by one, and the flaming demons frightened the horses, and the Numidians began to flee in confusion.
But they found that there seemed to be something wrong with the direction of the escape, and the wind was so strong that even the most experienced desert rider could not discern the direction. This is a dream of using his illusion specialty.
It wasn't until a beautiful and elegant lady stayed in their sight that they realized that they had been killed.
Pearl licks her mouth, these enemies on A+ difficulty, the blood is really much more delicious than the trash fish on B+ difficulty. (To be continued......)