Chapter 30: The Dark Jungle
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Based on this, Li Yun has always kept in touch with Dinah even during his time in the Great Abyss.
Dinah and Kane Fergos's tour went well. The subjects have resettled down, but there are some practical problems that are difficult to solve, and the situation is serious, such as the approaching spring ploughing.
In the later stages of the Evil Erosion Event, the loss of production tools such as oxen, ploughs, and shovels was more serious, not to mention tenant farmers, and even homesteaders could not afford to purchase these utensils. The lack of farm tools will inevitably affect the normal progress of spring ploughing, seeing that there is not much time left in February, Dinah and a group of nobles, as well as professionals who know farmers, are mainly discussing solutions to the problem.
Of course, it is not just on paper, in fact a series of emergency measures have been introduced.
For example, the purpose of strengthening cooperation between nobles is to ensure that the existing tools can maximize their value.
Another example is to concentrate the strength of the workshop and jointly manufacture agricultural tools. In this regard, there is Li Yun's guidance. Under the guidance of Li Yun, Dinah asked the workshops to unite and carry out assembly operations, citing the emergency government affairs after the disaster. Li Yun also used the deduction of credit points for faith loans as an incentive measure, encouraging craftsmen to abandon their self-cherishing work habits and improve efficiency, reduce costs and save raw materials through joint manufacturing.
This has indeed greatly improved Mann Collar's tool-making capabilities, and even the Norton family in the Knife Gap has been enthusiastic, and sent craftsmen from their own manufacturing workshop to participate in joint manufacturing, mainly to learn and master the essence of assembly line operations.
Li Yun also lit a fire, and the expedition team he sent to the Lonely Mountain Dungeon City, in the course of the first round of exploration, used soul runes to collect the souls of more than a dozen wandering hill dwarves inside the dungeon, including craftsmen who are skilled in smelting and forging, as well as machinery and tool making, and these dwarves are currently working for him to obtain shelter. There is also a commitment to thoroughly investigate the truth of the tragedy in the Lonely Mountain Dungeon.
Hill dwarves, to be precise, should be called mountain dwarves, and hill dwarves are cousins, but there are differences.
The metallurgy and forging of the hill dwarves are also top-notch in the entire Salanno world, such as the Boulder Clan, which cooperates with the Anvenska family, is a metal weaponry-making group that is familiar to the Netherels.
They also like to dig mountains, but the goal is often to find a powerful semi-dormant volcano, or a more active volcano, specifically the population, ability, and courage of the hill dwarf clan.
They photographed such volcanoes in order to make natural smelting furnaces and forges. They have a very mature melting pot system, which is said to be the memory given by Moradin.
The mountain dwarves, on the other hand, are more focused on the study of stone and architecture, and they choose mountains, which really depends on the color and texture of the rocks, as well as the shape, topography, geographical location and so on.
Like the Lonely Mountain, it is among the many mountains in the upper reaches of the rushing river, and it does not look very prominent on the surface. Neither the tallest nor the most majestic, but rather independent because it is the 'point of exclamation'.
But in fact, this lonely mountain is definitely an inner show. Its majesty and exaltation are mainly reflected in the lower parts. It can be said that that part of the ground is just the tip of the iceberg, and the dry goods are below.
This is also the reason why the mountain dwarves dare to open up the Titan Hall in the lonely mountain, the texture of the mountain stone is good and complete, and it is large enough, and the excavation and construction will get twice the result with half the effort, on the contrary, if the span is a mud roof or a mixture of rock and soil, even if you find a way to hold it, it will be a problem in the later stage, what down, seepage, collapse......
The mountain dwarves were very helpless to give up this magnificent dungeon built over hundreds of years, which finally turned into a commission and pressed on Li Yun.
Originally, Li Yun planned to settle down here in the Great Abyss, so he personally explored the dungeon.
In addition to solving the mystery of the year, it is also to get more souls of mountain dwarves. These dwarves have stonemasons, craftsmen, and all those who can survive to this day are souls with strong wills and obsessions, and they are the objects of solicitation. Even if they are poorly capable, they can come and talk to their bones and use them as a stepping stone to friendship with the relocated mountain dwarves. Dwarves have a lot of problems, but they are more powerful as allies.
What Li Yun values most about dwarves is not loyalty and simplicity, these things are all changing with the evolution of the times and society, and between countries and populations, the first thing is always interests, and it cannot be anything else. What he values dwarves is that dwarves also belong to the farming people, and have the characteristics of industrious and creative values. That's the most valuable.
In comparison, although the technology of the high elves is stronger, they have fallen into the strange circle of pleasure, they are not the enterprising race of ancient times, most of them have forgotten why they were chosen by the titan gods who established the order, and indulge in flashy categories all day long, and restore the splendor of the ancestral period, and the technical aspect has been unadvanced for thousands of years.
The dwarves are not, and although their gods have not answered their call for thousands of years, the dwarves are still striving for technological innovation with undiminished enthusiasm. Of course, it is also an indisputable fact that they are too biased, so that the overall industrial structure and social structure are deformed. Even the internal division of the dwarves is essentially due to this, but in comparison, an alliance with the dwarves, especially a friendship with a certain dwarven clan, is still relatively cost-effective.
This time, Mann led the workshop union, and he sent two dwarves with expertise in this area to participate. For this reason, he also deliberately used the mode of divine agency to create a dark body for the two dwarves, this body is similar to the body of a blood warrior, but more particular, the body is not flowing with energy blood, but closer to the dark blood of the living, with dark creatures such as Mysteria and Losmon as the main food, if it is food on the ground, it is necessary to replenish some dark energy from time to time, otherwise the body will have problems, just like people don't eat salt.
This is characteristic of the most authentic dark creatures, and werewolves and the like are half-breed amphibians.
After the implementation of the workshop union, the production capacity has indeed skyrocketed. But to fill the gap, it is still not enough. For example, in the battle of the Blue Night Fort, the evil minions harmed many agricultural animals, and the shortage of animal power is not something that the workshop can solve.
Dinah's solution was to go out and buy it. The Fergos took the lead and took out almost all the gold and silver in their hands, and then the Wolf tribe added furs to purchase cattle or horses from Heerlens and other inland provinces.
The lead team for this big purchase has already set off, and as soon as the feasible news is returned, a caravan will be formed here to make the purchase.
Li Yun, on his part, planted a moon locust tree in Lanka, intending to tame the wild beasts in the mountains with its pods and cultivate them. For example, bighorn deer, forest elves have a tradition of domesticating bighorn deer since ancient times, and after years of domestication, they have become familiar animals such as cattle and sheep. It's like the result of a human getting a lion mount from a wild elf.
But with the moon locust tree pods, this problem can probably be solved. The only thing to consider is that this domestication can not be scaled up, these domesticated animals give birth to the next generation, even if they cannot be considered wild, but they cannot be driven, only after eating the pods, maybe after dozens of generations, it can be transformed a little bit, but at least in the short term, it can not be controlled without eating the pods, which is the limitation of this technology.
Originally, everything was fine, and recently Li Yun was discussing ore mining in the Great Abyss with Dinah. Since the establishment of the Blue Night Fort Workshop Union, the production capacity has been rapidly increased in the familiar new model and personnel running-in, and the shortage of raw materials has become severe. But all of this was dismantled by the sudden news from Lanka's side that the evil legion had appeared and headed south.
Now the only way to do this is to defend against the invaders first.
Mann was still organizing the troops, and Li Yun had already taken the Moon Shadow Clan to the battlefield, and he didn't want to miss an excellent blocking battlefield, the Spider Forest.
This undead army marching south, like the armies of other intelligent beings, has vanguard troops, and a large number of scouts. After the pioneer troops crossed the Rushing River first, they set up camp at the northern end of the Spider Forest, and then the main engineering battalion repaired the Stone Bridge over the Rushing River. Since this bridge was destroyed by goblins, it has always been improvised, and the baggage of the undead army has a hard need for the condition of the bridge, so even if it is not good at repairing bridges and paving roads, it can only be hard-headed.
Less than two hours after the Moonshadow arrived, the vanguard had been sending out scouts, and a band of immortals was advancing along the road, intending to establish an outpost at the southern end of the forest.
In the process of marching, Li Yun had already formulated a battle strategy with the commanders of the battle group, and when the war group arrived at the battlefield, it did not advance along the road, but divided into more than 20 groups of ten people and entered the spider forest on multiple lines.
Between the role of the Silver Howling Wolf of the Running Wolf tribe in the wilderness, Li Yun also created dozens of bone hounds, which are good at tracking and warning in the jungle and wilderness, especially in the Black Forest, and the environmental bonus makes them even better.
In the dark, damp forest, the dark creatures on both sides acted separately, and the scouts on the side of the undead army were a trio of people who looked close to the human wanderer attire, with compact armor and hoods, and their faces were hidden inside, even if the light was good enough, they could not see it, only two flaming orange-red lights, which were the light of their eyes.
When they move, they move stiffly, but they are fast and sharp, like beasts that survive in the jungle all year round.
The poisonous insects and beasts in the jungle can detect their dark aura, and few of them take the initiative to seek trouble, but those who are shocked by them will also be fierce and return the color, and they are indifferent and let the bite bite. After traveling for a while, the poisonous insects on their bodies have even become another means of protection for them, and when they encounter sunlight creatures, these poisonous little things are likely to cause harm to them.
The battle squad of the Moon Shadow Warband was moving at a constant pace, slippery and thorny, thorny, and leaf-rotting deep in the depths of the forest, which seemed to them to be a smooth road.
Dark Wilderness Identity. Both the Bone Warrior and the Blood Warrior have this ability. Because of the Bone Hound Search, the team did not advance in the form of a dragnet, stopping from time to time to observe, but followed a predetermined route, and in terms of overall speed, it was a little faster than the scout group of the undead army.
The two sides encountered in the northerner area of the Spider Forest, and the Bone Hound was the first to discover each other, and immediately bowed down and roared, and the blood warriors who led the team understood and commanded some of the white bone warriors to make a detour, while he took the rest and killed them straight to the target location.
Soon after, the scouts of the undead army spotted the rapidly approaching group of blood warriors, and since they were also dark undead, their first reaction was to communicate in the undead language.
Necro language is a primitive language that includes a small amount of telepathy and body language, mainly in the form of friction and touch. However, scouts are elite level and can be negotiated telepathically.
The Blood Warrior simply ignored it and swung his weapon to pounce on him.
Seeing that the communication was ineffective, the undead scouts also immediately confronted it.
At this time, the difference between the two sides was seen. Not to mention that the Moon Shadow Legion armor is fully armed, all of them are enabled, and the undead scouts are simple clothes, but even so, their speed and strength are still inferior to the Bone Warriors, let alone the Blood Warriors. As soon as they fought, the white bone warrior was the instinctive way of fighting of the wild soul, seeing the opportunity, and suddenly launched, the first blow was strong and skillful, and there was no concept of protection, so he attacked with all his might, and cut the scout into two parts with the weapon with a single knife.
Because they are undead, even if half of their bodies are cut, the undead scouts are still fighting stubbornly, their attacks are still very threatening, the weapons are shining with orange light, and if you hit, the armor of the white bone warrior will be dull, and ordinary adults may not be able to have such an effect if they slash with their swords more than ten times.
However, the attack of the undead scout is also sharp in the first blow, the energy storage time is long enough, and the culling action is skillful, and the combination of the two constitutes a powerful power, and the latter has the characteristics of Wang Baquan.
Two of them died in front of each other, and the remaining undead scouts tried to escape, but their speed and explosiveness were not as good as here, and they were surrounded by roundabout bone warriors, and they quickly hated the spot.
Li Yun, who was sitting in the rear, could understand the situation on the front line through the war paints. After an encounter, he quickly reminded the Blood Warriors of each squad that the opponent was a saboteur with strong offensive capabilities, especially paying attention to the first blow.
The Blood Warrior who led the team immediately adjusted his tactics. The Bone Warrior is not smart enough, but he is obedient, like a tame warhorse, and can grasp simple commands. For example, it is understandable to shake the opponent and then attack.
Since the Moon Shadow Warband can communicate with each other instantly, the web composed of all the more than twenty groups can be said to be sparse but not leaky, like a comb, steadily pushing forward from south to north, and all the undead scouts encountered were killed.
And Li Yun asked each team to clean up the battlefield after the battle, and the blood warriors could open the blood channel, which was like a small puddle, dark red liquid energy, and the corpses and artifacts could be thrown directly into it. It's a divine art, and it doesn't lead to the Bloodmoon Wilderness or the Dead Hills, but to a vast sac built into the Shadow Plane. The sac is like the root nodules of a tree, and the Blood Warrior is like the end of the roots, which can be used not only to devour the souls of corpses, clean up the battlefield, but also to escape.
The undead scout who went deep into the forest was killed, but Li Yun, who was advancing along the road, chose to let it go for the time being, and Feiying had already reported the situation of the Rushing River Bridge, and he planned to attack halfway.
The vanguard of the undead army soon received a report that the outpost had been established, that there were no enemies, no anomalies.
At the same time, the scouts scattered into the jungle were not heard from, like stones sinking into the sea.
In the pioneer camp, the Dark Knight Harris Valen crossed his arms and stared at the magic sandbox, in which the main road of the Spider Forest was clearly visible, but the detection radius on both sides of the road was less than 100 meters, and no matter how far it was, it was gray mist.
"It's been 1 hour since the time limit for intelligence feedback, and it seems that all the scouts who went deep into the Spider Forest have had an accident. "It was another Dark Knight, thin and withered, like a monkey.
"You don't need to summarize the obvious facts, and say something valuable. "The rough voice comes from the big man on Harris's left hand, who is two meters two tall and strong like a bear, but he is wearing a mage's robe, giving people an extremely awkward sense.
"Okay. The Thin Monkey Dark Knight said with a bit of teasing: "I suggest that Master Olaston visit the Lower Maggot Fryer, they are all dark mages and have a common language. ”
The big man immediately glared and said, "Dark mages have a common language, why don't you visit the Knights of the Dark Sword of the Holy See and let those guys work for us?"
Harris glanced at the big man and interjected, "Olaston, do you think it's Flair's ghost?"
Dahan nodded: "I think it's at least sixty percent likely." ”
Harris asked, "Does his beast guard have the power to wipe out our thorns?"
"Maybe not anywhere else, but it's hard to say about Spider Forest. God knows how many traps there are in the depths of the forest, and besides, his evil beast guards are not bad, and it is said that he is also unique in the cultivation of evil spirits, which Servis has praised. Although most of the orcs are not very good, they are also a group that can give birth to a sword saint, and there are still strong ones, so I can't guarantee that Fryer has such a hole card in his hand. ”
Harris frowned, and after a while, asked, "Can you talk?"
"Yes. Olaston replied in the affirmative, and then explained: "This guy is notoriously open-minded, but he is also known for paying first and treacherously. ”
After much thought, Harris said, "Joyce, you go and report to General Hobson, and say that the Spider Forest is in our hands. I'm going to meet this Flair myself. If he refuses to sell us his way, then I will take his life. ”
Joyce, the skinny monkey, said, "My lord, what are we bribing Fryer?"
Olaston said, "Flair is known as a lich without a life box, it is very difficult to kill, and it will be a big trouble to anger the other party completely. ”
"I've decided. Harris said, "If Flair insists on going against us, I will ask the Destruction Mage Regiment to completely explode the entire Spider Forest!"
Joyce and Olaston looked at each other, but neither said anything more.
Joyce reports to the Headquarters, while Olaston is instructed to repair and widen the roads in the Spider Forest. In recent years, this road has been rarely walked, and the plants have expanded and grown up the road, and the road has become much narrower. If there are a small number of people and horses, it is nothing, and the ground is extremely wet due to the rainy season, it is easy to step on the pulp, if not treated, let alone chariots and horses, people will fall into the mud pit.
Harris ordered three squadrons of soldiers to be guarded, thought about it, and brought his guards with him, and then thought about the southwestern part of the Spider Forest.
Unlike the skeleton soldiers of the Grand Army, Harris's vanguard troops, the grassroots soldiers are black corpses. Black Corpse belongs to the Zombie series, but it is more expensive to manufacture, and it requires converting the graveyard into a filthy earth graveyard, and then supplementing it with various materials to raise the Black Corpse.
The black corpse is shriveled, but the skin is smooth and shiny, and the muscles have a certain elasticity, which looks like a dried corpse soaked in oil.
Such a body allows them to accumulate more dark energy and march during the day. Of course, on a sunny day, the consumption will increase exponentially. Therefore, the immortal army chose to go south in the winter rainy season this time, in order to take advantage of the climatic characteristics of the winter rainy season, which is cloudy and sunless, and can march day and night, and the soldiers are noble and fast.
With the black corpse as a soldier instead of a skeleton, there is also an advantage that the commander of the grassroots can be a dark warrior, if it is a skeleton, it can only be led by the corpse witch, and the dark occurrence is the squadron leader.
In the eyes of many people, a soldier who is only good at white-knuckle combat under the command of a mage is not perfect after all, and it is not as good as a war-type fighter who is also good at white-knuckle combat himself.
Harris is also a staunch supporter of this theory, and this time he deliberately asked for favors and spent a lot of resources to have this black corpse forward group.
Under the command of the Dark Warrior, the black corpse soldier who walked in front waved a machete with a tooth cone in his hand to open the way, and the branches thick with his forearm were often cut off with a single sword.
The trees were chaotic and numerous, and Harris, who was walking in the middle of the group, could not see the opening of the road ahead even if he had night vision, but he could see the broken branches and rotten leaves along the way. He secretly thought in his heart: "The strength of the black corpse is good, but a failing IQ is still a hard injury." In terms of the opening path in front of him, many cuts are simply unnecessary, but the black corpse does not understand, and the dead brain cuts there, which makes the management of the dark warrior much more difficult. ”
Then he thought of the evil soul technology that Servis and Fryer had mastered, and thought to himself, "If the black corpse can carry the evil spirit, the IQ can be greatly improved." Difficulty spawning evil spirits naturally. But if a living person is starved to death with a cursed cage, his cursed soul can barely be concocted by evil spirits......"
He thought of the people of Mann Territory, and when the time came, killing a few thousand would be enough to meet the needs of his forward group. That would be his starting capital.
Thinking of this, Harris couldn't help but feel hot in his heart, and at the same time felt that he was really an excellent person with a degree of choice, not greedy at all, such a big military operation, paying so much, only a few thousand lives of the spoils.
As he walked and thought, the buzzing sound of insects came into his ears, becoming clearer and clearer, he frowned, and said in his heart: "Vampire poisonous insects, or plague flies?"
Both were common insects in the twisted dark jungle of the Spider Forest, and he had heard that Dead Maggot Fryer was especially adept at raising and repelling plague flies. So he estimated the plague flies.
But when he met the bugs, Harris realized that he had guessed wrong. Neither of the two that came, but dragon-blooded flying ants. These flying ants were attracted by the sap of the dragon's blood tree, and a considerable number of them went straight to the black corpse that was stained with the sap of the dragon's blood tree.
Harris didn't take this to heart, the black corpse was not afraid of ordinary poisonous insects.
With the appearance of flying ants, more poisonous insects appeared, most of these poisonous insects, are running for ant feces, the metabolism of flying ants is very rapid, and ant feces have substances needed by other poisonous insects, especially ant feces discharged from eating the sap of the dragon's blood tree.
These poisonous insects joined, and the marching team had no chance of being quiet. There are flying insects everywhere, buzzing noisy people are upset, and the smell is pungent and unpleasant, and these smells are enough to make people's sense of smell temporarily fail.
Harris realizes that this is the result of a rough opening. He regretted not letting Olaston come along. He can also cast spells to dispel poisonous insects, but the effect and range are far from comparable to those of the legal profession. Several times he urged the energy wave and killed several batches of poisonous insects, but the poisonous insects not only did not decrease, but increased.
After some thought, he decided to retreat to the camp first, although the poisonous insects were only a worry about scabies, but considering that the relationship with the friend and foe of the dead maggot Fryer was unknown, it was better to be careful.
But when the rear team changed to the front team and planned to return the same way, he found that the road was gone, and the surroundings didn't know when it started, it became dark and dull, and this darkness was strengthening little by little, even if he had night vision, it was still affected.
With a stir in his heart, Harris exclaimed, "I'm Harris Valen, and I'm here to negotiate with you on behalf of the Shadow Council. ”
Somewhere in the dark, Flair smiled and said to Li Yun: "How is it, my 'dusk to dark' is more brilliant than Benedictine's illusion, right?"
Li Yun nodded: "It's really good." Changed!"
So the two of them each took out a gem, sealed the relevant knowledge into it, and then exchanged.
After reading the technology given by Li Yun, Fryer smiled, feeling that he had earned it. Exoskeletons can not only be used as armor, but also as soul carriers, and can also be used as golems, which is really a few.
Li Yun valued the idea of the spell 'Dusk to Dark', and soon after, he developed a series of spells, quasi-spells, and items from it, such as the Dusk to Dark Cage Technique, Shadow Dive, and Dusk Cloak...... This makes the Flying Shadow to the Moon Shadow Warband have a step-by-step level improvement in terms of concealment and lurking. The sharpest of these is the Cloak of Dusk, which can be reversed into the Cloak of Dawn, which greatly reduces the energy consumption of his Dark Power during daylight activities, and even has an advanced version that can use sunlight.
It is no coincidence that the two can be together at this time, but Flair took the initiative to contact the door. He was all over the Spider Forest, and after seeing the battle between the Moon Shadow and the Scouts, he felt very impressed, especially optimistic about the Bone Warrior's exoskeleton armor, and finally had this deal.
Seeing that Fryer didn't care about him at all, Harris said in a different way: "Fryer, I'm here to send you technology, the technology of the destruction system is known for its ferocity, if your evil beast guard can use this technology, even if it is a head-on battle against the corrosive army of Servis, it is not inferior." ”
Fryer said to Li Yun: "The opportunity is rare, I really want to take advantage of both sides." But I don't want to sign any contract with Harris. The Shadow Council, that's the guy who eats people without spitting out bones. ”
Li Yun smiled: "How are your torture techniques?"
Fryer shook his head: "Not very well. And then he added, "However, I have heard that Harris Varun is the same kind of person as us, who betrayed his country and his faith in search of power. ”
"Well, that's a breakthrough. Let's see if he is a smart man or if he is full of greed. ”...... (To be continued.) )