Chapter 139 The Calm Before the Storm
The focus of Qianye's attention is on the layers of old and new logos. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info that was a temporary supply point and scout post for the two camps, and with the change of the local war situation, such locations changed the fastest, and the information of different time periods almost coincided together.
However, Thousand Nights still found that if the Dark Race set out from the old site of the White Valve Fortress and headed for the central cave labyrinth, then it would have to pass through his defense zone.
It's not impossible to take a detour, but there are several new beast tide outbreak areas nearby, as well as a supply point that the eternal night and the empire repeatedly attack and defend to control. If Aiden hadn't foreseen a thousand nights, of course he would have chosen to cross that area.
So, Aiden is going to the central cave maze?
Judging from the information released by the Empire so far, the Central Cave has few resources, and it is very dangerous.
After the will of the Void Behemoth that shrouded the floating land was eliminated, the Empire had organized people to investigate deeply again, and found that the number of fierce beasts inhabiting the depths of the ground had increased by several in a short period of time, all of which had not been reported by the powerhouses who participated in the Void Essence Battle. The highest-ranking of them is a threat to lieutenant generals.
All in all, it's a worthless area other than its location in the middle of the floating land.
Qianye did not doubt the correctness of the information, because although the imperial family symbolically possessed the central cave, they did not invest troops in it. The empire still doesn't know how the native fierce beasts in the cave reproduce, and they can't kill them endlessly, and ordinary troops will enter the cave, and it won't take long for them to suffer heavy losses and be killed by the fierce beasts in batches.
However, the battle with Aiden showed that the dark race's understanding of the Void Floating Land was different from that of the Empire, and that it was more thorough in some mysterious realms. From another point of view, the Void Behemoth Chaos chose this floating land as the backhand of his own graveyard, and perhaps there are other unknown secrets here.
However, Qianye didn't think about it anymore, these were all his speculations, and he couldn't come up with any real evidence, and he didn't feel that he was suitable to discuss this issue with the people of the Li family.
At this time, the quartermaster had already completed the registration, and the review process was not complicated, and the Li family had its own system of supervision and warfare to evaluate the completion of such tasks, and some of the casualty records and special operation information were still from the Eternal Night side, and the accuracy of the verification was quite high, and there was rarely controversy.
The quartermaster checked the one-week performance evaluation manual for the defense area that the Li family had just issued, recorded a high grade under the name of Qianye, and said: "The military merits of the defense area guards have been registered, and it is currently a cycle. Do you have anything else that you need to redeem?"
"Other? Oh, no. Chiya shook her head. He had a shadow hymn in his hand, but a fool would exchange it for it.
"Oh, good luck!" said the quartermaster's expression was a little strange.
Qianye knew what he was thinking, and in the current situation, the dark race stationed in the Luoxia Fjord had obviously used the Misty Forest as a way to increase troops. Even if the defense zone of ordinary people is on the edge of the forest or on the outer edge, there will still be more or less fighting. If there is a battle, there will be gains, and the strong people who have completed the task of defending the defense area will more or less hand over some military merit certificates and trophies, and the more they hand, the more fierce the battle.
And Qianye's evaluation for this mission was excellent, but there was nothing in his hands, so naturally there was no dark army passing through him at all, and he easily got a good reward.
Qianye didn't bother to explain, and she didn't care if others misunderstood. If it weren't for the fact that he happened to meet Aiden and entangled the other party in the defense area, it would be difficult to say how many of the strong people in the Li family's several defensive areas near the central cave would have come back alive.
The person in charge of supervising the evaluation of the battle of the Li family may learn some inside information from the Eternal Night Fang in the future, and the person in charge of logistics and miscellaneous affairs such as the quartermaster will definitely not have access to the relevant information.
When he walked out of the exchange area, Qianye suddenly heard someone shouting not far away: "What are you talking about? The basic treatment of a bullshit tenth-level brigadier general is higher than that of Lao Tzu?
The man's voice was loud, the Force was strong, and the roar not only echoed through the hall, but also spread far away. Qianye's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and the words basic treatment and tenth-level brigadier general were spelled together, so it was basically certain that he was talking about him.
At the beginning, the conditions that Li Yanshou signed to him were indeed generous enough, in fact, the first batch of free powerhouses who joined the Li Family Defense Zone, including Du Li and Zhu Huan, received no low treatment.
However, since the launch of the military merit list, and after the reward for the top of the list with Jingshui Disheng and Tianfeng Yunyanzhu as the top rewards, the number of strong people who entered the Li Jiafang District has increased suddenly, and those who came later naturally could not get the treatment of the first batch.
The Li family played very well with this hand, they needed to recruit a large number of free and strong people, but they did not blindly increase individual treatment, but relied on incentive mechanisms. On the surface, it seems that the Li family has invested priceless bounty items, but if you count the number of new free powerhouses, the average figure is not so exaggerated. And if the Li family simply added these gold coins to everyone's remuneration, they might not be able to attract so many strong people.
However, the basic treatment of each person should be strictly confidential. Although there was a list of guests in the early days, Qianye's ranking was still a bit eye-catching, and Dooley's inexplicable provocation also stemmed from this. But now that the information of the strong man participating in the war is completely thick, and he has begun to divide the books according to different mission types, how could anyone come to make trouble against him at this time?
Qianye stopped, and for a moment there was an urge to look back, but then he shook his head again. He has no intention of dealing with this kind of reckless guy who has been instigated, and he will talk about it when the mastermind behind him can't help but jump out, since he chose to accept the recruitment of the Li family, he is not afraid of being troubled.
So Qianye continued to move towards the next target, the workshop area. After two fierce battles, the dragon has been damaged in many places, and the Force array has been damaged and must be repaired. In addition, the heart armor that Wei Potian gave him at the beginning was also stored in the Andua space after it was damaged, and those silk essence gold were also excellent materials.
The workshop area covers a wide area, with more than 10 large workshops connected to each other, each with its own division of labor. Two large power towers were needed to provide energy for this workshop area alone, which shows that the Li family has a long-term plan to develop this area into a self-sufficient permanent base, which is suitable for transforming into a provincial central city after the war.
Qianye walked into the armor and armor area, and someone greeted him. When the young man saw the general star of the brigadier general on the uniform of the Thousand Nights, he immediately greeted warmly: "What can I do for you?"
Qianye pointed to the one-meter-square alloy box he was carrying in his hand and said, "I have a broken armor that needs to be repaired. ”
"It's easy, please follow me. Today is the time to wish the master on duty, and your luck is really good. ”
The young man took Qianye to one of the workshops, knocked on the door, and said, "Master Zhu, there is a general's armor that needs to be repaired. ”
A rough and irritable voice came from behind the door: "You also came to me for this bit of about repairing the battle armor? Lao Tzu is busy! Send it to my apprentices to see if they have time." ”
The young man was stunned for a moment, and then he said, "Master, this is a general!
"Get out!" replied even more sharply this time.
Qianye was beside him, and then he said, "My armor is a little special, I'm afraid your apprentices can't handle it." ”
"There can be a special fart!" "The master of the door is obviously used to hearing this kind of rhetoric, and he does not give face.
Qianye didn't have time to understand the craftsmanship and materials of the dragon at the time, but he knew one of the ingredients, so he said, "This armor is made of blue steel." ”
"Blue steel?!"
There was a sudden "poof" from under the door frame, steam rose, mechanical tracks clicked, and the door slowly moved open. As soon as the door opened, the heat wave suddenly hit the face, and it also reflected the flickering firelight, which was like a melting pot.
In the workshop, the fire is blazing, and a small pot of molten metal rolls on the shelf, flashing colorful colors from time to time.
That Master Zhu was not tall, but he had broad shoulders and thick arms, and he was extremely thick, and at this moment he couldn't even care about the pot of molten metal, so he rushed out and asked repeatedly, "Where is that armor?"
Qianye's reaction to Master Zhu was not strange, but he was surprised that the other party called out the white valve.
"It's indeed from White Valve, but how do you know?"
Master Zhu said impatiently: "Nonsense! Blue steel is the first alloy invented by the white valve, although the formula has been made public now, but the largest production area of several key ingredients is in the hands of the white valve." For so many years, only the white valve has the most thorough understanding of the physical properties of blue steel. If the blue steel armor is not made by the white valve, it will be discounted. ”
Qianye handed over the armor box and said, "It's indeed made by the White Valve." ”
"Show me!" Master Zhu grabbed it, the heavy box didn't seem too difficult in his hand, he pulled open the front cover, took out the broken breastplate, his eyes swept over an engraved mark in the corner, and suddenly exclaimed: "White Pine Crane!"
Qianye had no impression of this name, and asked casually, but was glanced at by Master Zhu, and reprimanded: "Even Master Bai doesn't know, that's the real master of the battle armor realm! ”
Zhu Ruhuo took out the dragons one by one at the door, holding the scarred armor pieces like a treasure, and waited until he had seen the entire set of dragons, before he raised his head and gave Qianye a straight look, but the eyes were much softer.
Qianye asked, "Can this armor be repaired?"
Zhu Ruhuo carefully put the dragon back into the box, his eyes fixed on every line, every arc, and even every broken notch, as if these blackened, gray-painted, dark silver mottled nails in front of him were the most beautiful things in the world.
Qianye said it twice in a row, and Zhu Ruhuo came back to his senses and said, "Of course you can fix it, but it will take some time." ”
"How long?"
"Ten days, no, three months!"
The young man who brought Qianye over couldn't help but open his mouth, and without waiting for him to speak, Qianye also understood, obviously this Master Zhu didn't want to repair the battle armor, but wanted to figure out Bai Songhe's method of building a dragon.
Qianye was not angry, but said, "I only have one day." ”
"How can one day be enough! I haven't had time to look twice!"
Qianye's face was expressionless: "If you can't fix it, I can go to the white valve and find someone to fix it." ”
Zhu Ruhuo opened his mouth, didn't say anything for a long time, and after a while, he let out a breath, "At this level of loss, even if you take the white valve, you can only restore the Force Array to eighty." There's not enough time for you to go back and forth in a day. ”
Qianye smiled and said, "You mean the loaded load-reducing array? That's not important, just fix the defense part." ”
Zhu Ruhuo picked up the cuirass and looked at it carefully, and muttered: "The time of the day is a little tighter, no matter what the auxiliary superposition array is, it can be done." Come and pick it up this time tomorrow! Lucky boy, I just have two pieces of blue steel in stock. For the sake of this armor, only charge you a cost price, and forget about other odds and ends. But I have one condition, in the future, this armor of yours can only be sent to me for repair!"
This gave Qianye a small surprise, so she agreed to Zhu Ruhuo's conditions, put Qiu Long down, and left the workshop area.
The next day or so was fine, and it was rare to have a good night's sleep. The night was peaceful, and there was no follow-up to the roar in the exchange area during the day.
It's just as quiet before the storm.
The next morning, Qianye was still very leisurely, replenishing some field combat preparations, and then went to the military merit exchange area to see how the identification of the two shadow blades was.
Generally, when the Terrans get black titanium weapons, they rarely use them directly, and most of them find ways to separate the black titanium contained in them and then use them for various purposes, so identification and separation can be done at the same time.
There are a few more fresh faces in the military merit area, and it seems that the Li family's recruitment efforts have never been smaller. As the number of strong people who hear the news increases, the complexity of personnel also increases.
Qianye saw several squads of three or five, although the costumes were as ordinary and simple as possible, but the equipment and style could not be changed, if these people were really free and strong people who lived on bounties, they would have ghosts.
The exchange of military merit has always been very efficient, and Qianye was told that the converted value of the last war loot had been accounted for. He looked at the military exploits under his name and couldn't help frowning.
In the total column, there is a third-class merit rank, which is equivalent to killing a first-class viscount. The number of military exploits is a bit small, but it is also normal, Qianye fought with Aiden in two battles, hunted flawlessly at all, occasionally harvested a few unlucky ghosts who unfortunately crashed into their battlefield, and in the later stage, he couldn't even touch the shadow of the dark scout.
However, if you count the two Shadow Blades, it's a bit ridiculously small. Although Qianye didn't know the specific content of black titanium in the Shadow Blade, he still had a basic impression of purity, and he estimated that he could exchange it for at least one third-class military merit, and counting the additional rewards of special weapons, these two knives alone should be at least a third-class merit.
"Can you show me the breakdown? The military merit numbers are a bit wrong. ”
ps: This chapter has a little more words, so it's a little late, but it's finally catching up.