Chapter 286: Unripe (I)
Just as Luo Ming was giving orders, a string of horses' hooves suddenly approached.
The rider turned over and dismounted when he was twenty paces away from Romming, and then ran to a stop three meters in front of him.
This is the system formulated by Luo Ming, not that he, a swordsman, will be afraid of people plotting or anything, but he will definitely have many civil and military officials under his command in the future, whose personal strength is not so strong.
If there is an assassin, even if it is only successful once, Luo Ming will feel distressed, after all, it is a talent in his pocket.
Starting from now on, shaping a relatively safe regulation will be able to form a universal norm in the future, and there will be a lot less unnecessary trouble.
And this messenger brought good news for Lockin - an immature nest had been discovered.
"Take me there...... Wait a minute. Luo Ming called another person, "You go and tell them to surround that there first, and don't act rashly, and I will bring people to you later." ”
The nest was halfway through its development, growing in size, and a part of it was spotted on the ground. And it is not yet fully mature, and it is difficult to breed powerful monsters. This period may only be for a day or two, which is really precious.
Probably many nobles would not have thought of this—besides, how many people had read through monsters and their abominable births like Aya? According to her, it was a huge tome of nearly a thousand pages, and the weight of a book could crush a man.
For modern earthlings, this is definitely not less.
It is very troublesome for such a book to be disseminated, not to mention the cost of manual copying, the cost of parchment alone is enough to empty Luo Ming's entire belongings today.
Considering the failure rate, it would take thousands of sheep enough parchment to make up enough parchment, and in order to preserve such a valuable and expensive book for a long time, each page would have to be soaked in a magic potion, and the final cost would be about the same as that of the same volume of gold.
There are probably no more than twenty complete versions on the entire continent - Granty also said that the experts in dealing with monsters within the Knights of the Radiant Blade seem to have only read the lite version, after all, half of the monsters are unlikely to be touched at all, or are considered extinct.
People like him who know that the nest has such a semi-mature period, when it is just easy to be discovered but not dangerous, there may not be a single one in these dozen counties.
It's just an immature nest, of course Luo Ming himself can solve this kind of small trouble, and even a group of civilians throw some firewood and set a fire over there, that thing can't run away without long legs, and most of them will be taken care of.
But since there is such a good opportunity, why not take advantage of it?
Aya showed Romin pictures of the Mother of the Swamp and her monster offspring, all of whom had abominable bodies, distorted shapes, and some of them emitted a rancid stench comparable to sludge.
Suddenly facing such a disgusting monster, even elite soldiers will hesitate. The sudden onset of physical disgust and fear of the unknown is not something that can be overcome immediately.
Then, it is better to open the eyes of the soldiers this time, disgust once in advance, and meet monsters again in the future, so that they will be more mentally prepared.
Just like the modern training soldiers of the earth tend to fire with real machine guns when they are crawling forward, and let the bullets pass over their heads, although it is slightly dangerous, it is a hundred times better than just sending them to battle.
If you get used to it in advance on less dangerous occasions, you don't have to get used to it on the battlefield - the former basically only needs to sweat, and the latter will definitely lose a lot of lives before you get used to it.
If Luo Ming was in the troubled times of the ancient Celestial Empire, it would be fine, and he would basically encounter the trouble of overpopulation, and it would be nothing if the elimination rate was a little higher.
But in this time and space, the speed of population reproduction is quite slow, and even if you want to take in the homeless, you can't find too much - the lord firmly controls the land, and binds the people to the land, even if they starve to death, they can't run away casually, and once they are caught, they will be tortured to death.
Although Luo Ming's behavior greatly increased the yield per mu and allowed the people to dare to have more children and raise more, it would take at least sixteen years from making children to joining the army.
Until then, the availability of troops was invaluable.
The immature nest, the outcropping part of the ground, was the size of a cow, it looked like a plant rhizome growing out of the mud, and it looked like the blackened entrails of a slowly pulsing animal, and it also emitted a fishy smell like a fish that had been left for a long time, and it could be smelled from about ten meters away.
The surrounding dirt also bulged, and all that could be seen was the tip of the iceberg, and the part below the surface was probably even larger.
However, now this lair is not able to produce monsters, and according to Aya, it is immature and has no ability to defend itself, so it only has the function of disgusting people.
And disgusting this thing can always be adapted.
Luo Ming gave the order for everyone to come close and stab them with spears one by one.
This thing is actually quite rough and thick, and if ordinary people don't go all out, the tip of the spear can only be stabbed into it by an inch, but now it has no power to fight back, and everyone is bold.
Dark-colored blood flowed from the wounds as if it had pierced some tumor, and thick water gushed out, and the nest seemed to feel the pain and squirm more violently...... But now it still doesn't hurt anyone.
Although the scene became more disgusting, on the contrary, in the hearts of everyone, the fear of unknown monsters gradually dissipated.
After this, Luo Ming asked everyone to retreat and ordered the militia to push a "Meiquan Type 1 Mountain Cannon", and then a special artillery was responsible for the preparation.
After a little more than a minute, the preparation was complete.
After all, it is a target that is motionless in front of it and is as big as a cow, saving a lot of time for aiming.
With Luo Ming's order, the cannon sounded.
It was like a rolling thunder on the ground, and although they had heard it several times in previous training, the soldiers still trembled.
However, compared to the beginning, some people simply kneel on the ground and beg for mercy, and some people have begun to beg the gods for their blessings, and the situation is much stronger than that when it becomes a pot of porridge.
Thankfully, Romin had the foresight to use Ariana's credibility as a priest to appease them, and she also cast a spell of calming the gods, otherwise she might have scared a few crazy.
The iron ball weighing 5.4 kilograms and measuring 11 centimeters in diameter flew out of the barrel of the cannon at an initial velocity of nearly 200 meters per second, and a gust of wind rolled up and bombarded the center of the ugly lair!