Chapter 44: The Death Fork
"Herrington, where is that female companion of yours now!" A voice as clear as an undeveloped teenager came from the front of the line.
The person who spoke was a female reincarnation, this woman was wearing a set of pure black tight-fitting leather clothes, the limbs wrapped in the leather clothes were toned and slender, the goose-oval face was quite delicate, the high nose bridge, the small mouth, and the bright big eyes. However, the woman's flat chest, narrow but straight sword eyebrows, and cheeks carved with knives and axes made her face feel a kind of heroic spirit and a kind of beauty of the surname.
Unlike the Roman daggers held by the soldiers behind her, the woman held two Western-style swords in her hands, the blades were narrow and narrow, with blades on both sides, reflecting a sharp light like clear water in the sunlight, the sword was like a man, and a man was like a sword.
"Lord Elise, that companion of mine is carrying the wounded twenty-three gladiators on the plain about five kilometers ahead. They were about to reach Scafati, and when they got there, she would contact the gladiator team that had come out of Pompeii. When they meet, we can speed up to catch up with them! Herrington looked at Elise in awe.
"Helrington, is that old k really as good as you say?" Elise suddenly thought of something, and raised her eyebrows.
"My lord, I just followed him until the uprising was successful, and then he sent me to Vesuvius to contact Spartacus. The rest of the message was from my companion, and I don't know very well. However, I believe that my companion is not exaggerating! Herrington's eyes flashed and he said with a wry smile.
"Hehe, rumors will always be exaggerated, but as long as that old K is half as smart as your companion said, when the time comes, it's not that you can't spare his life, as long as he is willing to join our team!" Elise smiled.
"My lord, this is not what you said before...... Yes, my lord, I see! Upon hearing Elise's words, Herington was shocked.
Since he betrayed Xu Mo, he didn't want Xu Mo to join Elise's team alive in the end, and if things turned out like that, it would not be good news for him. However, halfway through the words, he saw the cold light in Elise's eyes, and couldn't help lowering his head in a cold sweat, secretly regretting it in his heart.
In fact, by the time Helrington arrived at Vesuvius, Vesuvius had become a large military camp. During the months of the Spartacus uprising, many slaves, gladiators, bankrupt peasants, and poor retired soldiers from the Campanian plain came to Vesuvius to join the Spartacus uprising. In just a few months, the number of rebels has exceeded 20,000.
Of the 20,000 men, less than 10,000 were capable of fighting the rebels, and the rest had to undergo a long period of training before they could go to war. In fact, whether or not the Hemmers sent Hairington up the mountain, Spartacus would have to go down the mountain, because the area around Vesuvius could no longer support the huge rebel army.
Hairington didn't see Spartacus, and the gladiator who led the way took him directly to Elise. In fact, this is Elise's order, due to the special surname of the Spartan world, Elise, like Shepbys, has spent a lot of thought in this world, and has entered and exited this Spartan world with many special treasures many times.
It's just that her luck is not good, and her starting point is much worse than Shepis, and she was guided by the superstring space to the weakest Spartacus rebel army among the major forces. At the beginning of their exploration of the Spartan world in that space, Elise's strength was not strong, and she did not have Xu Mo's perverted wisdom, so she was powerless to change her plot power.
And Elise's surname is so strong, she believes that even if she is in the weakest plot force, she will not lose to other reincarnators. Of course, compared with other forces, the Spartacus rebel army was not without any benefits.
In the rebel army, the reincarnation can cultivate its own armed forces, while among other national forces, it is not so easy to cultivate its own armed forces. At most, he could only use the situation to assist some of the great Roman nobles like Shelpis, and then use these people to help him complete his task.
Although Elise lost to Shepis in the home world competition, the power she cultivated remained. In the rebel army, Elise was the most influential leader besides Spartacus and several other gladiator leaders.
Now, however, Elise doesn't want to retain her influence anymore, but turns it into a real force. Although Elise's behavior will cause dissatisfaction among Spartacus and the other leaders, Elise doesn't care, because since Spartan World has become the home world of rivals, it doesn't matter whether the plot forces in Spartan World are insignificant.
In addition to co-opting the armed forces in the existing rebel army, Elise also instructed her henchmen to bring the new defectors to her eyes, and select fighters with combat effectiveness from among them to supplement her armed forces.
After meeting Herrington, Elise immediately realized that he was a reincarnation in the nascent superstring space. Not only did she not kill Helrington, but she also used some equipment items that the team didn't need in exchange for Helrington's intelligence. Initially, Elise just wanted to learn something about the situation in the nascent superstring space, so that she could pave the way for herself to enter the nascent space.
But I didn't expect that the profit-hungry Helrington actually revealed the information of Xu Mo and others, just in exchange for some more benefits. This information includes what Helington saw and heard about Xu Mo in the King of Fighters world, as well as Xu Mo's combat performance during the uprising.
After receiving this information, the shrewd Elise immediately realized that Xu Mo was very likely to be a first-order transfer, and might even have an official title. In a nascent superstring space, this already means that Xu Mo has stood at the apex of the spatial food chain, and will be one of the most powerful contenders after Elise enters the nascent superstring space.
Upon realizing this, Elise was overjoyed, and she was called Black Widow by the other reincarnators, not only because she didn't have a man to look at, but also because Elise was as ruthless as Black Widow. Elise immediately bribed Hairington with a lot of money, asking him to quit Xu Mo's temporary team and join his own team, in fact, asking Hairington to betray Xu Mo and the others.
Facing Elise, who was one order higher than Xu Mo's strength, one order higher than her knighthood, and had a stable team, Herrington felt that happiness came so suddenly, and immediately left Xu Mo's team without hesitation and became a member of Elise's team. At the same time, Hairington also told Jeanne not to quit Xu Mo's team and continue to lurk in it.
Originally, Elise's plan was to determine the location of Xu Mo and the others through Jeanne when Xu Mo and the others were about to arrive at Vesuvius, and then wipe out Xu Mo and the others. However, things did not go according to Elise's plan, and the opponent gave up meeting with the Spartacus rebels, and led the small army, which was no more than a hundred men, to cross the sea south to Greece.
However, after thinking about it carefully, Elise was frustrated to find that Xu Mo's choice was not wrong, and the rebel army of more than 100 people was indeed not eye-catching at all. Before the huge revolt of Spartacus was completely wiped out, the Romans did not care about Xu Mo and them, and it was a wise choice to cross the sea south to Greece.
Just when Elise thought that the plan had failed, Jeanne sent another message. Xu Mo asked her to return to Vesuvius and lead the wounded gladiators in a valley at the foot of the mountain to join the main army. This message once again gave Elise a glimmer of hope for the elimination of her rivals, and she immediately ordered her rebel forces to set off for Skafati.
Elise's decision caused her to completely turn against Spartacus and the others, and in the end she took 1,800 rebel soldiers with her, embarked on the road south, and followed Jeanne towards Skafati, and the Spartacus rebel army also encountered the first split in advance.
At this time, Jeanne had already arrived at the plain outside the town of Skafati and sent a message to Xu Mo and the others to ask for information.
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OSS, Jeanne has a message coming, she's asking for our exact location. Because Max is the nominal leader of the organization team, the information in the team communication is basically conveyed by him.
"Well, I see, is there any news from Serna and Dinah?" Xu Mo nodded and stood up holding on to the tree trunk next to him.
The current position of Xu Mo and the others was in a small forest almost ten miles away from Skafati, and more than a hundred gladiators were all sitting on the grass of the woods to rest at this time. Xu Mo ordered them to take off all the armor that reflected the sunlight, and did not allow them to light fires and make noise, and at the same time hid the carriage, put muzzles on the horses, and wrapped the horse's hooves with strips of linen cloth to prevent people from afar from discovering the abnormalities in the woods.
"Serna had already observed the team behind Jeanne, and the Black Widow had followed, and it seemed that she had been taken again
OSS, you're expecting it, Hairington and Jeanne have betrayed us. Their current position is about five miles behind Jeanne, probably ...... The location! Max used a tree branch on the ground to draw a sketch of the geographical location with Skafati as the central coordinates.
"Where's Dinah?" Xu Mo glanced at the sketch and asked Max.
"Miss Dinah, I have also seen the army coming from the direction of Pompeii, and it seems that Sherpis persuaded the Roman envoy to lead the army of Pompeii to chase us, and it is probably in the ...... The location! Max nodded at the sketch and couldn't help but ask, "
OSS, how did you guess that Shepis hadn't given up yet! ”
"Calculate the time, by the time we left the city, the Roman envoy was almost in Pompeii. Shepis suffered such a big loss, and if he had to swallow his anger and be a turtle with a shrunken head, then I really have to wonder how much water is mixed with his status as an earl. Xu Mo pursed his lips.
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OSS, what if something goes wrong with this plan? For example, the Roman envoy was delayed on the way, or there was a big time gap between the arrival of the Black Widow and Shepis! Max respectfully asked Xu Mo for advice.
"Remember, Max, no plan is perfect, it's man-made, and it's up to us to perfect what is not enough. If the Roman envoy is delayed, we will make some movement along the way, so that Shelpis can follow the trail we have deliberately left behind, and as for the Black Widow, we will only have to tell Jeanne another rendezvous point.
Of course, this may arouse their suspicions, but as long as the time difference between the two is less than two days, they will not abandon their plans. After two days, they were pretty much sure it was a trap, and in that case, we would have to disappear and not fight them! Xu Mo smiled indifferently.
"Maes, tell Jeanne that we are thirty miles west of Scafati, that is, ...... Over here! Xu Mo picked up a small branch on the ground and dotted it on the sketch.
If you look closely at the sketch, the location Xu Mo refers to is exactly twenty miles in front of the Roman legion, and the location of the Black Widow is about twenty miles away from that position, three points, two lines, forming a dead fork .......