Chapter 173: Monster Tide

The clouds are dense, dark and dreary, which makes people feel extremely depressed. This reminded Lorist of the Tang poem he memorized when he was a child in his previous life: Black clouds overwhelm the city and want to urge ......

The goose-feathered snow is flying all over the sky, and the mountains and rivers have long been covered with thick white coats......

The sky was dark, and although he couldn't see the distance clearly, Lorist could still keenly hear the roar of the demonic beasts in the distance and the rustling footsteps of the demonic beasts crossing the field and stepping on the snow......

I don't know how long it took, the black crow's group of demonic beasts spread like a rising tide across the clearing below the Maple Forest Villa, and then spread in the direction of Fengle Plain......

"My lord, we were negligent in forgetting that every winter, the hordes of demonic beasts in the wilderness cross the Demon Dragon Mountains to forage in the family territory......" Belunek and Pachco pleaded Lorliste in both directions.

Lorlist's face turned pale, but he still waved his hand: "It's none of your business, we didn't do a good job of investigating, so we hastily arranged the development plan......"

Having said that, Lorist is still anxious, this is the first winter of the implementation of the Fengle Yuan development plan, and about 300,000 people have been arranged to live in Fengle Yuanwo Dong, they are distributed in eighty-three villages and seven towns, although they have all built preliminary village fortresses and other defense facilities, but what if these demonic beasts go crazy and have to attack the village?

These are all demonic beasts from the wild wasteland that humans have never set foot in, and they are particularly aggressive in themselves. They have never seen a human and do not understand the horror of humans, so as long as humans touch the territorial boundaries of their consciousness, these magical beasts will often take the initiative to attack. Or even undead......

Family records say. These hordes of demonic beasts from the barbarian plains crossed the Demon Dragon Mountains. From our family's manor, Maple Grove Lodge, we wandered from north to south in search of food. Herbivorous beasts dig through the snow and nibble on snow-submerged weeds and lichen moss. Carnivorous beasts haunt the periphery of these herbivorous beasts, looking for and preying on lone monsters and the sick and weak among them...... Every winter, the wave of Warcraft sweeps through the family territory, and it is estimated that there are no less than one million......

As for why these groups of demonic beasts come to the family territory every winter, the ancestors of the family have done research and investigation. It is believed that our family territory is close to the sea, although it is separated by the Blade Mountains, but it can't stop the sea breeze from bringing the breath of the sea, so that the thick lichen moss growing on these wastelands has a faint salt smell, and the monster herd is attracted by these lichen moss.

In order to prove this point, the ancestors of the family also did experiments, they put the feed and the lichen moss together, and found that the domestic animals first gnawed the lichen moss, and then went to eat the feed. Then the ancestors went to catch some herbivore monsters and got three piles of feed. The first pile was hay, but sprinkled with some powdered salt. The second pile is lichen moss, which was brought directly from the wild. The third pile is the normal feed for livestock. It turned out that salt-powdered hay was the most popular among herbivorous beasts, followed by lichen moss, and finally feed.

Therefore, the ancestors of the family believed that the annual winter Warcraft Tide came to the family territory to replenish the salt powder, which had formed a deep-rooted consciousness in those barbarian Warcraft groups, unless the nearly a million herbivorous Warcraft were eliminated, it would be difficult to stop the arrival of the Winter Warcraft Tide. This is also one of the reasons why it has been difficult for the family to set up Tunken villages and towns for two or three hundred years.

Fortunately, that wasteland is enough for these monster groups to toss, and the monsters left in the wasteland after the tide of monsters recedes every year have become the best objects and fur providers for family hunting, and the family used to hold hunting conferences in the wasteland, so that the family can obtain a lot of meat and fur, but sometimes there are many carnivorous monsters left in the wasteland, which brings great danger to the family's hunting activities.

According to the family records, when Kitano Town was established, it was often attacked by the Winter Warcraft Group, and it was not until most of the surrounding land was developed into fields that the traces of those herbivorous Warcraft groups gradually disappeared. However, the fields developed in the first ten years were often destroyed by herbivorous beasts, so that the family often had famines during that time......"

It was Miss Theresti who recited the family accounts, and this time she also traveled with Lorist to Maple Grove for the winter, mainly to see what the Norton family had known about the land over the centuries. She was wrapped in a thick leather jacket, revealing a small face, but standing on the top of the castle, her face was still red from the cold.

Lorist wanted to cry without tears, everyone worked hard for a year, and finally arranged everything before November, stockpiled food and sufficient fuel for all the villages in Tun Ken, built the wooden fence and wooden houses in the village, and cultivated a lot of fields.

But no one ever mentioned that there would be such a large group of demonic beasts that would sweep the entire wasteland in winter, and they either forgot about it or didn't think about it at all. At the banquet held to celebrate the arrival of the first heavy snow, an invited disabled old family soldier looked at the sky where the snow was flying and said: "When the second heavy snow comes, the Warcraft tide will also come......"

It was only then that the elders of the family realized that they had neglected this important situation, and Lorist was shocked to realize that the situation was not good. Speaking of which, it was the first time for Lorist to spend the winter in the family territory, and last year he ran to welcome the arrival of the northbound convoy, so he had no idea about the tide of Warcraft that plagued the family. It wasn't until he asked the elders in the family and looked up all the family written records about the Winter Warcraft Tide that Lorist found that the seriousness of the matter had far exceeded his expectations.

Heavy snow closes the road, and it is as thick as a foot, and no one can do anything to get out in such a situation. Lorist thought about it, took out the snowboard, a sharp weapon for snow walking, and just asked the carpenters in the mountain villa to make a few pairs, and even Lorist himself had not mastered how to use skis, the second heavy snow came, and the tide of Warcraft also followed.

"Mountaineering Antelope, Bighorn Sheep, Ironhorn Devil Rhino. One-Horned Demon Sheep. Zebra mustang. Blue-eyed bison, red-backed wolf..."Lorist silently thought about the types of monsters that passed by below the villa. The knowledge of Warcraft that he had studied at Dawn Academy had finally come in handy at this moment, and Lorist never dreamed that the protagonists of the colorful illustrations that used to be drawn in books would line up in front of his eyes......

"Why would these monsters pass under the villa so quietly, instead of attacking the villa?" El, who was standing beside Lorist, asked curiously.

"According to family records, in the first ten years before the first ancestor of the Norton family established the family manor castle here, he was attacked by the wave of Warcraft every winter, but the Warcraft did not succeed every time. On the contrary, there were heavy casualties. Only once did a large number of winter wolves attack the manor along the rocky slopes of the back mountain and kill a large number of domestic animals. After that time, the ancestors of the family deliberately cut the rocky slope under the entire manor castle into straight walls with a lot of manpower, and such a thing never happened again. The demonic beasts on the mountain road in front of them could not capture the castle, and over time, they ignored the location of the castle and only passed below. Before Berunek could reply, Miss Theresti, who was leaning on Lorliste's arms, opened her mouth and recited another passage, answering El's question well.

Belunik had no choice but to shrug his shoulders and express his admiration for Miss Theresdy's strong reputation.

Lorist hugged Miss Tristi tighter. Affectionately rubbed the fur hat on her head with her face......

"Oh my God, what's that?" Joske, the arrow on the other side, was the most eye-catching of all the people on the top of the castle. He was the first to spot the group of big guys coming in the distance.

Lorist looked up and immediately scolded: "My day, mammoth demon, how can there be such a thing!"

The dozens of big guys who walked slowly in the distance were almost five or six meters tall, and the leading guy at the front was even taller than his peers, with long black hair all over his body, a long and strong nose, and two huge and curved fangs sticking out of the corners of his mouth, which were still shining in the wind and snow......

These big guys seemed to move slowly, but their gait was huge, and it wasn't much slower than the demon antelope jumping next to them. A small mammoth demon elephant, which was obviously still more than four meters tall and was still above the mountain road, suddenly raised its nose and let out a long howl, as if it was provocative. It wasn't until a huge mammoth behind it slapped its ass with its nose that the little mammoth reluctantly followed the army away......

Lorist slammed his fist on the jagged mouth of the city wall, as if he saw the wooden fence walls scattered in the villages of Fengle Plain being smashed and shattered like paper paste in front of these huge monsters, and then those hordes of monsters poured into the village, what a miserable scene was that Hui......

Miss Teresti thought about it and said, "The family records have not found the shadow of the mammoth in the Warcraft Tide for more than ten years, and it used to appear only once every few years, I don't know why they appeared in the Warcraft Tide again this year, and every time they appear, they will cause particularly great damage to the orchard and farm." And what they don't like the most is what we humans build, and the family records record that once a stone mill built in the wilderness was demolished by them, and the huts in the woods that were built in the past or sheltered from the rain and sun by the roadside were destroyed......

Mammoth, omnivorous beast. In the knowledge of Warcraft, it is listed as a Warcraft with the same name as the fierce beast, especially if they are still social Warcraft, provoking one is equivalent to attracting a large group, and it is also particularly grudgeful, and the sex is fierce, even those carnivorous beasts do not dare to provoke the Mammoth Demon, once they provoke the Mammoth Demon, it is the end of the endless death.

One of the most famous records in the history of Gelintya's expedition is that a famous mercenary group once accepted a mercenary assignment to hunt a few mammoth mosks, and they ambushed a small group of a dozen mammoth elephants on the edge of the wilderness, and successfully completed the mercenary mission. After a lapse of seven years, this mercenary group received another mission to come to the border area of the barbarian plain, but when they camped at night, they were suddenly attacked by nearly a hundred mammoth elephants, and the mercenary group of more than 200 people only escaped back to a dozen lucky people with dexterous legs.

According to the analysis and judgment of those experts and scholars after the fact, it is very likely that the mercenary group did not dispose of the abandoned items and household garbage when completing the task of which mammoth tusk, leaving a breath for the mammoth demon herd that came later, and as a result, seven years later, when they came to the old place again and were smelled by the mammoth demons, they gathered nearly a hundred heads to retaliate, and the tragedy of this mercenary group was born.

"How many days will it take for such a wave of demonic beasts to pass through Maple Grove Villa?" asked Josk.

"The family records say that if it is a tide of nearly a million Great Demonic Beasts, it will take about fifteen days, and less than or greater than this number can be judged according to this number of days. Miss Theresti said.

"Locke, don't worry, in fact, the development plan we formulated for Fengle Yuan this year is less than a quarter of the area of the entire wasteland, and after entering the wasteland, these demonic beasts will gradually disperse, and they will dig up and eat the lichen moss in one area before moving to the next area, and the speed is not very fast. According to the family records, these beasts would spend more than a month wandering from the northern end of the wasteland to the southern end, and then retreat back to the barbarian plains before spring came......" Miss Theresty knew the anxiety in her lover's heart, and began to whisper comfort.

"Does the family record say the approximate extent of the wasteland that the monster tide passes through every time?" Lorist asked his lover in a low voice.

Miss Theresti thought carefully before replying, "No, it is very dangerous to track the tide of Warcraft in winter, but you can roughly calculate the range of the tide of Warcraft. We divided the wasteland into seven areas, the first district, the mountain town, which was the Morgen Hills, where the tide of monsters had not reached. Beiye Town, the seventh district, has been developed for many years, and there are very few lichen mosses that Warcraft need, except for a few Warcraft that will wander there, there is basically nothing. The main area is the sixth to second districts, and the Warcraft tide will pass through these five areas. ”

"Locke, we have made full preparations for this winter, don't forget that we have arranged a small team of regular family soldiers in each tunken village, and we have also arranged a silver-level swordsman to sit in charge, even if there is a group of demonic beasts attacking the tunken village in the short term, it should be able to support it. You have to trust your soldiers that they will be safe and sound if they can protect the village. ”

Lorist shook his head: "I'm not worried about this, if the village can't survive the Warcraft Tide this time, then everyone will lose the motivation and confidence to develop this wasteland." Even if this winter can be survived, what about next year, the next year's Warcraft tide will come. We must find a way to stop the arrival of the Monster tide once and for all. This is a war between us and the Demon Beast for the family territory, for the survival and peace and contentment of more than 500,000 people, we must win this war!"

Lorist turned around and said to everyone who was standing on the top of the castle watching the Warcraft Tide: "There are still ten days before the Warcraft Tide will pass, and during this time, all the family knights and silver-rank swordsmen must be proficient in the use and skills of skis. Once the monster tide is over, regardless of whether the snow has stopped or not, we will head to the wasteland to ensure the safety of every village. ”

Everyone stood in solemnity: "Yes, my lord." (To be continued.) )

PS: In the past few days, I have been insisting on code words, but I always feel that the level of writing has dropped in the past few days, which is not satisfactory, please forgive me.

About the map, yesterday I listened to an author's words to dig treasure to find a professional cartographer and illustrator, listened to my request and said that such a set of maps to draw at least 5,000, this is something I can't afford, please wait patiently for a while, I will slowly draw these maps on the paper and then upload, so that everyone has a deeper understanding of the world of Guelintea. Thank you.