Chapter 2 Retirement
The next day, the sky was cloudy, and the drizzle was like a light veil, quietly drifting in the wilderness. More than 1,000 mercenaries, as well as the townsfolk who had been helped by the mercenaries, all spontaneously sent out of the city to see off One-Eye, while the soldiers maintained order on the spot.
When he looked back at the familiar faces and looked at the small town where he had lived for several years, the old mercenary realized that his career of more than 30 years was finally forced to end, and his life as a mercenary came to an end.
This will inevitably lead to a bit of loss and melancholy.
However, the old mercenary has no regrets.
Because a person, the youngest years, the strongest period, the most passionate youth, all poured into the vision of love, all spent in love life, what a happy thing!
People live for a lifetime, just for decades!
The old mercenary is no longer strong, and after thirty years, in exchange for a body of pain, he has no regrets or regrets in his heart, because someone will relay his dreams and beliefs and continue to walk. Now that you are old, it is time to retreat from the rapids and enjoy yourself.
Mercenary is a high-risk profession, and how many people can retire as peacefully as he does?
One-eyed sat firmly, opened his voice and shouted: "Okay! That's it! Don't be like a! Lao Tzu went back to his hometown to ask his wife to enjoy Qingfu, what's wrong? Don't make it like a funeral! Lao Tzu still wants to live a few more years!"
The brave and fierce men all had red-eyed eyes.
"Remember!"
"Don't disgrace my one-eyed face!"
"Don't lose the face of the snow wolf mercenary!"
"Get out!"
"Get back to work!"
One-eyed has been managing Baisong Town for some years, although the personality is rude, but there are fine in the rough, the mercenary industry is well organized, and one-eyed is extremely righteous, in the past few years, the mercenaries have worked under him, and they have never suffered losses.
A lewd mercenary coaxed: "One-eyed boss, remember to go back to your hometown and make a few more people!"
The other laughed and said, "Yes, add some new blood to the snow wolf mercenaries!"
"Take it easy, be careful of the people who die!"
"Hahaha......"
Everyone waved goodbye, and when the whistle sounded, the machinery began to work, steam gushed out, and the car drifted away along the avenue with a clattering sound.
Mu Ying'er secretly wiped a handful of tears, and said with red eyes: "Uncle One-eyed has a loud and rude voice, but he is a good person, will we see each other again?"
Mu Yun pressed Ying'er's shoulder and said: "Don't be sad, one-eyed is a lot older, it is indeed not suitable to be a mercenary, retirement is also a good thing for him! ”
Mu Ying'er nodded.
Wang Jian died, Lin Bairong died, the Du family was destroyed, the Li family was gone, and even One-Eye left.
All the influential people in White Pine Town are no longer there.
Whether it is the military or the mercenaries, they are now subject to Mu Yun's arrangement, and they can only obey Mu Yun's arrangement.
Mu Yun said goodbye to One-Eye, and when he returned to the town, suddenly an officer ran over in a panic: "Lord Mu Yun, something is wrong! A snow sheep village in the south was attacked, and it must have been done by the wolf cavalry evacuated by the orcs!"
Mu Yun said with a solemn expression: "Let the search camp prepare, let's go and see!"
Snow Sheep Village is less than 30 miles!
The fact that the village was attacked so closely, and that it was to the south, meant that the orcs had not gone far at all, and had no intention of evacuating, and this wolf cavalry was hovering in the territory of the Terrans, and there was a possibility that they would turn around and attack the town at any time.
There is no cavalry team in White Pine Town, and the mobile search team is the only rapid reaction team. This army is well-equipped and even equipped with vehicles, mostly snowmobiles and snowmobiles, all of which meet military standards and are at a decent speed. If you encounter wolf cavalry, you still have the ability to escape.
The technology of making modern mechanical tools generally comes from pre-civilization.
After the destruction of mechanical civilization, there were about 20,000 years of faults, and advanced technology was destroyed. After the opening of the Shuwu civilization, people barely found some remnants of the previous civilization in some relics and secret realms, and produced some simple and crude mechanical tools.
The situation on the mainland of Zhongzhou is not very clear.
The machinery and technology of the northern continent are very backward, and the weapons are mainly semi-automatic firearms filled with gunpowder and steel balls, and the tools are also very crude, and the assembly lines of large factories are generally semi-manual, and the labor force cannot be liberated.
Now the distribution of technology is very uneven, some private forces have the ability to dig up ancient technology from the ruins and produce more powerful weapons, but they are only in their own hands and never sell them to the outside world, and some forces must have the ability to produce advanced fully automatic firearms, however, it is very rare, and White Pine Town definitely has no equipment.
After about 20 minutes, the mobile team stopped in a place with a wide field of vision, and black smoke rose faintly in front of it, which was the location of the village.
The soldiers took out muskets, bows, crossbows and other weapons and distributed them around.
"The orcs may have an ambush, so send a search team to reconnoiter the front first. ”
"Yes!"
Ten capable searchers entered the woods, while the others stood guard in place, with a wide view of the attachments, which did not meet the conditions for a sneak attack, and if the half-orc wolf cavalry appeared, the soldiers would also have a chance to react.
Three flares were fired into the sky, green, green, and black.
The signal indicated that there was no danger, but there was no more life in the village.
Village, a total of more than 800 people.
They mainly live by hunting and planting, and are basically self-sufficient, and the excess fur and meat can be sold to merchants in exchange for some necessities of life. In the early morning, there was a small trader who wanted to go to the village to buy supplies as before, but now the town is affected by the orcs, and the price of food has skyrocketed by three or four percent, which is profitable.
As a result, the scene they saw when they entered the village scared them out.
Miserable!
It's miserable!
The entire village of 861 people was washed in blood and slaughtered, not a single one of them was alive, and every corpse had long been gnawed to pieces by the murderous wolf, and the picture was horrible to see, regardless of men, women, and children! The whole village had been set on fire, and now there were only some charred wooden house frames.
A blood-stained banner tied to a tree in front of the village, fluttering silently in the cold wind, was patterned with a skull emblem split by a tomahawk - the banner of Hellsong!
It must be an orc!
Only orcs would do such a thing!
Orcs are too much!
All disappear, the whole village is wiped out, and the killing is clean!
Yaks and snow sheep were all taken away, and the grain was snatched up!
The soldiers' faces were all pale!
It's unforgivable!
The officer ran to Mu Yun and said, "My lord, there is a row of blood characters here!"
The bark of the tree was stripped off a piece, and the orcs wrote some words on it with blood. These characters are pictographic, similar to the Terran script, but with simple strokes, which are distinctly ancient and primitive.
The orcs lived in a tribal form, and the period of great unification was short, and it was impossible to establish a unified script. Different tribes, different scripts, countless orc tribes, countless types of writing, the best linguists in the world dare not say that they know every kind of half-orc script.
“...... The Ancestral Heroic Spirit will accompany me on my journey, and the filthy blood of the Terrans will be sacrificed to the King of the Hammer Road, and the glory of the Song of Hell will be restored......"
This text is the text of the Hell Song clan, and the Song of Hell has established a highly glorious orc empire in history, and it is relatively widespread, so Mu Yun can recognize it.
"What do orcs write?"
Mu Yun pretended not to know, shook his head and said: "These barbarians have been preparing for several years, but their plans have failed, so they have to vent their anger by washing a small village in blood, and leave a few cruel words before leaving, just to demonstrate." ”
The officer didn't ask much, and so did he think.
"Be careful, beware of the orcs coming back. Bury the victim well, and don't report the news for the time being. The attack on White Pine Town was sensational enough, and now that a large number of villagers were slaughtered by orcs, White City would definitely be in chaos. ”
"Yes!"
Mu Yun's gaze swept over the village that had become ruins, and his gaze gradually became solemn, that passage must have been left by a half-orc warrior named Gehr, and this person must be a descendant of Gruru.
A short message is by no means a simple demonstration.
The current orc race has a low status and it has become difficult to survive, but this person dreams of becoming the king of the hammer, which is really rare.
Mu Yun could feel it. This is a brave man with great ambitions, dreaming of relaying the glory of his ancestors and recreating the pride of the Hellsong clan. Reading between the lines, you can feel that the other party is a person with a steely fanatical faith. This enemy is tenacious and very intractable, and even if it is not strong now, it will become a great disaster in the near future.
These 500 wolf cavalry attacked the village and grabbed a sum of food, and they would not worry about food for a short time, and they would wander around, and the town of White Pine and the nearby villages would all be in a dangerous environment.
Be prepared!
Mu Yun made a decision and began to refine the corpse and refine a high-level corpse witch!
In fact, no matter what type of zombie, the early steps are similar, all of them are embalmed, and if necessary, soaked in living sclerosing liquid to harden muscles and strengthen bones.
This process takes 10 days, there is no technical content, just let the mercenaries do it for you. Mu Yun is mainly responsible for spell processing, such as engraving the magic circle, importing energy, and so on. The most important step is to ignite the soul fire, as long as the soul fire is ignited, the undead can be crafted.
Normal zombies can wake up in 15 days.
Of course, the production of corpse witches will be much more complicated than ordinary, but Liu Rufeng is a 40-ring great magician, once Mu Yun is successfully made, he will definitely be able to create a great magician-level bodyguard, and it will be difficult for ordinary people to hurt Mu Yun again.
Mu Yun needs to activate the shell with a ritual to restore the zombie's ability to cast spells. It is also necessary to buy a large number of precious magical substances to be used to mix special potions, soak corpses, stabilize and enhance mana.
Of course, the hardest step is to ignite the soul fire!
Mu Yun's current mana is too weak, and it is definitely a very challenging thing to ignite the soul fire of a high-level corpse witch! However, Mu Yun doesn't have time to think about it, even if he knows that it will be very difficult, he has to give it a try!
In troubled times, survival is difficult, and no one knows what will happen tomorrow!
Maybe today's Snow Sheep Village is the tomorrow of White Pine Town!