The counter-offensive of the locals has a great degree of tentativeness, after all, they have been pressed and beaten like dogs by synths for so many years, and there will definitely be a little bit of psychological shadowing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAnd even if there is no such factor, normally speaking, no one will casually throw all the power in their hands when they are not sure that they have an advantage, so they have to do reconnaissance to test the enemy's combat power before the large army is dispatched.

However, no matter what era or place, there will never be a shortage of careerists, and what should have been a small-scale tentative counteroffensive has now even been dispatched by the Sky Knights. It is not known exactly what happened, but it is at least certain that someone in the top echelons of the local military is planning to defeat the synth in one fell swoop and reclaim a large amount of land so that he can get a huge credit, and that guy is completely oblivious to the danger of the monsters.

Well, the above analysis is all shared by Emilina, otherwise I wouldn't have realized how complicated the situation is. But what's more complicated is that the abyss is probably going to want to join in the fun today, they are already lurking near the city, and if you just watch the battle, the distance is inevitably too close.

The information about the abyss was provided by a 17-year-old monster, and Emilina and I didn't find any trace of the enemy when we were outside the city, maybe the other party hadn't arrived at that time?

As the partner of the blonde girl, I naturally wanted to help, so I took out the lollipop and handed it to the old monster, and then I was decisively beaten on the head.

After saying hello to the owner of the inn and saying that they were going out to play in a group, Emilina led her friends into a remote alley where no one was around, and then Lord Zi gently waved the folding fan to "hide" everyone outside the city with a look of not taking away a cloud - me and Maoqiu were exceptions, and we could only use our own ability to barely catch up.

When I teleported to join the crowd, I was shocked to find that a 17-year-old had disappeared.

"Sister Zi's words, after bringing us here, she dropped a sentence of 'I will continue to monitor the abyss' and left on her own. Seeing me looking around, Emilina knew what I was looking for and took the initiative to explain, "Obviously she can't wait to start watching the fun, let's hurry up." Everybody put this on. ”

As she spoke, the girl took out a large pile of plain gray cloaks, which allowed one to envelop the whole body along with the head, and was almost standard equipment for travelers. But how could the thing taken out by Her Royal Highness the Princess be just a tabula rasa, it must have some kind of special ability.

"Uh-huh, isn't this the legendary cloak of invisibility?" I said excitedly, my eyes shining through my nostrils, staring at the cloak in Emilina's hand, "It blocks light, isolates breath and energy fluctuations, and even smells can't spread......"

"If you really want to do that, you won't be able to see anything, and you'll die of suffocation from lack of oxygen in a few minutes. Emilina glared at me angrily and interrupted, "If you block the light, you won't be able to see the outside scene either, and if you block the air, you will be in an unventilated confined space, don't you even understand such a simple truth?"

My tearful face was messy in the wind, so I almost found a piece of tofu and slapped it on my head: "To be reasonable, why do you like to explain things in a scientific way when you are obviously a person on the magic side!?"

"Because you don't know anything about magic, and you can't understand what you say. ”

This answer makes sense, and I can't argue with it at all!

Emilina, who had successfully sunk herself, turned her head to look at the friends around her who had long been familiar with their daily life and said, "This cloak is naturally not as magical as Zhou Yi said, and it can't help you become optically invisible, but it can still be done by reducing the fluctuation of breath and energy." To put it simply, you can just think of this thing as the stealth paint on a fighter jet. Although it doesn't have much effect on the strong, it is enough to deal with miscellaneous soldiers. ”

As the fallen king, it is said that the special effect I have is of course to be resurrected with full blood in the next turn after being sunk, so Her Royal Highness the princess here said that I would take the initiative to jump up: "Bridge bean sack, since you have this kind of equipment, why didn't you take it out and use it yesterday? Maybe those monsters chose to hide because they felt your terrifying and powerful aura?"

The blonde girl immediately raised her hand and patted me lightly on the shoulder: "Zhou Yi, to be honest, I deliberately restrained my breath at the beginning, and the only one who really exudes the unique aura of human beings is you who don't know how to hide yourself at all." ”

"Uh, that's, that'......"

"That's right, I'm going to use you as bait. It's a pity that the other party didn't take the bait. ”

This girl's belly is black, and it's really terrifying!

I was silent for a long time, and Emilina was able to distribute the cloaks to everyone, and then summoned the chocobos and began to hurry. Of course, it is not possible for us to move near the troops who have left the city, after all, the other side will send scouts around to be on the safe side, so it is better not to contact them for now.

Emilina, feeling the breath of the soldiers, led the group to follow the army far away, completely out of sight, and unless the locals had the habit of asking the troops in charge of protecting the chrysanthemums to send someone to reconnoiter the places they had already walked, they would not be able to detect us.

It's just that doing so has caused someone's displeasure.

"Lord Shomiya, I can't see the local army at all. Lu Yin wriggled her body from side to side on the back of the chocobo, looking very restless, and even tried to stand up on her feet and look into the distance, which provoked the always docile chocobo to can't help but blow up and look back at the thing she was carrying, "Can you get closer?"

"No way, if you are restless, the chocobo will tear you down, do you know?" Emilina kindly reminded the double ponytail and said, "If only a small number of troops are out of the city, maybe the synthetic beasts that are hiding and preparing to ambush can really wipe out this army, but today it is the main force of the locals who are out of the city, plus so many steam mechas, it is not impossible to fight, and it is really difficult to say who will win and who will lose in the end." What we need to worry about most now is that the Abyss jumps out at a critical moment to reap the benefits, because neither of the two warring forces in this plane knows about the existence of the Abyss. ”

After all, the majesty of the legendary main palace still seemed to exist, and Lu Yin quickly sat back obediently, and the chocobo she was riding immediately regained its calm. After helping the bird straighten out the fur, the double ponytail tilted his head and asked seriously, "So, what is your plan?"

"Let the locals fight the synths without interfering, and surprise them when the abyss can't help but jump out. Obviously, the blonde girl had made up her mind to play the role of Yellow Sparrow, and slowly pouted her lips and said indifferently, "This is one of the reasons why I brought you out, if Stephanie is here, it may not be safe for you to hide in the city, it is better to follow the neighborhood so that I can protect it in time." ”

I can't help but feel a pain when I think of that black-haired girl's full-map attack, it's just too buggy. But there was one more important thing that I had to ask Emilina about before that, though I could already guess what she would say.

"That, Your Royal Highness the Princess. Should we continue to stand by in the event that the local army is defeated by the Synth in battle?"

"How is it possible, of course I have to go over to save the scene. I want to think about it, let Zhou Yi transform into a horse monkey soju Mei Lulu and make a shining debut, anyway, that's what I planned to do. ”

Is it still the case in the end......

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After following the army for a long time, the vigilant ambush never happened, and in addition to all kinds of flowers and trees, there were only a small number of wild animals looking curiously at the group of heavily armed humans in the distance.

It feels like an outing, except that instead of mobile phone DV snacks, these guys are holding powerful weapons.

"Something doesn't seem right. Emilina suddenly frowned and grabbed the reins to make the chocobo stop, "Everyone stop first, Zhou Yi, you come with me to take a look." Shiruf was in charge of taking care of the others, and I always felt as if something big was going to happen. ”

I think the girl made a bit of a fuss: "Isn't it just an ambush by monsters, how big of a thing could it be?"

"No, it's worse than that. It's far beyond an ambush, I don't know how to explain it, but if it does, it's going to be pretty scary. Emilina paused as she spoke, and then said with an unusually serious look, "I felt the breath of the synthetic, a very strong aura, almost covering the entire land in front of me, but even so, I still haven't seen a single monster, don't you think this situation is a little weird?"

I can't feel the breath, but I believe the blonde girl, and she says yes, then there must be, in other words, the local forces have entered the ambush circle of the synths. OK, that's the crux of the matter - we're in a serious wilderness, flat terrain, and even though there are a lot of weeds, we can't hide the huge little monsters.

But we haven't seen a monster yet. Is the other party hiding underground? No, if the synth was going to play tunnel warfare, with his familiarity with plants, Shiruf must have already discovered the weeds used to camouflage the entrance of the pit all over the ground, but the half-elves and the elven soldiers in the local army never reacted, and they didn't look like it.

"Mia?"

Just as I was about to open my mouth to answer, the hairball on my shoulder suddenly let out a puzzled cry. The little thing seemed to have noticed something strange, and jumped straight out to the head of the chocobo I was riding, and then, as if it had been discussed with the furball in advance, the chocobo took the initiative to bend its neck and put its head close to the ground, and the little thing also stared desperately at the other person's head with shiny eyes staring at the ground, presumably looking for something?

Do you two want to be so tacit, or are all the furry and cute things in this world destined to have some kind of common language in some way?

But until then, let's figure out what the furballs are doing. I leaned over to look at the ground with the little thing, and asked aloud, "What's wrong, what did you find with the furball?"

"Beep!"

"Beep?" At first, I wondered why the furball made such an inexplicable sound, but soon realized that it was not the cry of a small thing, but that of a chocobo. At the same time, the bird beneath me swayed violently to the sound of its call, almost catching me off guard.

I didn't know what was going on, and what was worse was that there were other chocobos and other people screaming nearby, who must have been in the same situation as me.

Pale blue lightning whistled and swept softly across their eyes, and the chocobos quickly fell silent, just pewing their ankles as if there was something there.

It's a cluster of electrocuted ...... Weed?

"Stand back, everyone back at once!" Emilina said loudly as she put away her right hand, which was still flashing with arcs, "It's really a big deal, but fortunately we haven't gone much deeper, so to speak, it's on the border, and we still have time to exit." Shiruf, do you see any difference between those and normal plants?"

The half-elf shook his head as he let the chocobo follow the blonde girl's movements, and replied, "No, they were normal plants in my eyes before it attacked. Emilina, do you mean the whole wilderness ahead......"

"That's right, it's all this kind of!" Emilina urged the landing bird to quickly rush out in the direction it came, "No wonder Zhou Yi and I didn't find anything yesterday, it's all because those monsters gave up the bodies of the various animals they were staying in, and then disguised themselves as plants! Our opponents are not low-level monsters created by demons, but germs, and it makes no difference whether they live in animals or plants!"

The person who had fully understood was suddenly completely shocked: "Horse, Masaka, ......"

"Yes, the whole wilderness ahead is full of a large number of parasitic germs in plants. And they're trying to eat away at their hosts and mutate them so that they can turn into monsters to attack humans!"