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The distance was about 20 kilometers, and Ye Xiao didn't see the specific strength of these knights in Suotan City for a while.

But he had a feeling that the combat effectiveness of these majestic knights would definitely not be low there, and just looking at it gave him the illusion that they would be trampled into mud by the iron hooves of the war horses.

"In the end, it is the elite, I didn't expect the speed of the march to be so fast. Ye Xiao calculated, a distance of 20 kilometers is not an obstacle at all for these knights, and it won't be long before they appear in front of the fortress.

If you ambush and eat this knight legion, it is not impossible, even the more than 10,000 speedworms brought by you may suffer heavy losses, which are a lot of resources.

However, if even one knight with extremely high mobility escapes, the secrets of his Zerg will be exposed, and the next time he wants to carry out such an easy large-scale invasion, it is estimated that it will not be so easy.

In addition, the hundreds of thousands of troops in Sotan City should be behind these knights, and if they can't eat this cavalry in a quick battle, they will have to face the army of Sotan City.

With his current strength, unless he puts all the insect soldiers into the war, it will definitely not be so easy to win the army of Sotan City.

"In the final analysis, it's because of their own strength is not strong enough. Although Ye Xiao was a little unwilling, she was soon relieved.

Anyway, Mithril is already in hand, and if there is another meaningless battle, it will be more than worth the loss, and even if it wins, it will not be cost-effective at all.

"You can't let yourself lose money, the resources of the Zerg are not for nothing. ”

Ye Xiao immediately glanced around, the armor worn by the human soldiers was like an iron bucket, compared with the exquisite and close-fitting craftsmanship of the elf clan, it was simply a world of difference, and it was estimated that the price on the market would not be worth much.

What's more, a Mithril Mine Fortress was bloodily slaughtered, and it is estimated that no black market dares to collect this batch of arms.

"The whole army retreats quickly! Take away the corpses of the Zerg who died in battle, and don't want the rest of the things. ”

Ye Xiao gave the order to stop the search for the fortress, and then threw out a wormhole egg and led Qinglong into the wormhole first.

The rest of the insect soldiers were also evacuated in an orderly manner under the command of Lexa.

So far, not a single rat has been left in the entire fortress, even in the underground mine.

Dwayne Johnson, the swift insect king outside the fortress, also dropped a wormhole egg at this time and led the remaining troops to quickly evacuate.

The entire Zerg army was like a black plague that swept over, and after sweeping through the entire fortress, it did not leave any superfluous traces except for a large number of bloody corpses.

Of course, Ye Xiao knew the importance of Mithril, and the Mithril he had obtained now was only about 30 catties, but it was the total output of this Mithril Mine for almost a month, and this vast human empire had no more than ten Mithril mines in total.

So, in order to make it easier for me to visit next time, a swift bug carried a wormhole egg and burrowed deep into the deepest part of the mine.

And into a dormant state, as long as a creature approaches, the velocider will wake up, and then will choose to hunt or continue to go deeper into the ground.

As long as this Mithril mine starts working again, he can pass through the wormhole at any time and come to pick up the goods again.

After returning to the main base of the Zerg again, Ye Xiao began to count the losses in this battle.

This time, because it was a sudden attack, the casualties of the Zerg troops were not too large.

Among them, 354 swift worms were killed and 785 were injured, 17 stinging snakes were killed and 56 were injured, and 20 poisonous sandflies were used.

At such a price, in a narrow environment, the total annihilation of 2,000 defenders of the opponent's Mithril Mine Fortress, as well as 100 mages and 300 Mithril miners, can be said to be a very good battle result.

The key is to obtain Mithril, which weighs almost 30 catties and has 500 Zerg units, which is really a huge gain.

So far, Ye Xiao has just restored the strength of the velocrat to 100,000, and this time there are 354 less, and he currently has 99,646 velociraptor bugs.

These are all second-generation velocrats that have been modulated, full of combat effectiveness, Ye Xiao plans to maintain the strength of velociraptors at 100,000 at present, such a force is currently enough.

After that, the excess energy and resources will be accumulated and used for other special troops, which have been upgraded to the Zerg base.

Only by consolidating the current foundation can we have more room for development, otherwise it will be top-heavy and easily lead to the collapse of the family business that we have worked so hard to accumulate.

In addition to the velociraptor insects, the growth of the stinging snake for so long has not been very much, except for those who died in battle, there are now about 5,000, which is Ye Xiao's current long-range main combat power.

The number of dragons has increased from 183 to 450. Although the consumption of poisonous sandflies was relatively large before, the resources required for hatching were relatively small, and now 200 have been hatched as explosive packs.

The number of Death Worms has not increased, and there are still 20 per base, but the number of Tyrannosaurus leeches has expanded from 300 to 500, and the river channel occupied has also expanded from 1 km to 3 km.

Other than that, the rest of the troops didn't get much increase in the past few days.

You must know that with the current destructive resource mining, each base can produce 100,000 ordinary energy points in about a whole day, if it hatches into the second generation of stinging snakes, it is about 440, hatching wyverns is about 400, and if it is a bone splitter and a parasitic turret, there are only 100.

Therefore, the seemingly high ordinary energy, under the current consumption of supplementary war, after treating the injured Zerg, modulating the Bug Soldiers, repairing the Northern Zerg base, and hatching the elite Bug General Lexa, there is not much left at all.

In addition, now Ye Xiao still wants to reserve a lot of resources, ready to further upgrade the Zerg base and open up new development space.

After careful calculation, the current output is simply not enough to use, which is also what Ye Xiao is most worried about at present.

Moreover, destructive exploitation of resources will bring a series of negative consequences and problems to the surrounding environment.

The forest is dense, but it will be harvested one day. Without the forest, the demonic beasts that provide themselves with special energy will not survive in this vicinity at all, and without the concealment of the forest, their own Zerg base will soon be exposed to the eyes of the enemy.

There is no danger to defend, there is nowhere to hide, and it is a very terrible problem to be exposed to the enemy in this way.

This is also what Ye Xiao is most worried about and worried about at present.

The army of the elves will definitely attack, the humans are developing the Haigl Forest, and they have just ransacked their Mithril mine, and sooner or later they will find themselves in the Zerg base where they are now.

Therefore, if we do not open up new areas of development, do not turn destructive mining into conservation mining, and do not hatch more previous resource gathering facilities and new bugs, it will be difficult for us to gain a foothold in this world, and even our survival will be in danger.

Ye Xiao thought that the Rock Giant Valley he had seen before was quite good, it was definitely a good place to hide and suitable for development.

But in order to capture there, more preparation is needed, such as upgrading the Zerg base to level 3.

In addition, if you want to hatch more resource gathering facilities or bugs, such as using geothermal energy, using nuclear energy, using stellar energy, etc., you need to upgrade the Zerg base to a higher level.

And after they hatch the scientific research zerg, these scientific research zergs can also provide themselves with the analysis of biological genes, so that their own zerg can get more reinforcements, and even create their own new zerg.

But the root of all this is to get more resources, occupy more areas, and upgrade the Zerg base to a higher level.

"It seems that the current top priority is to upgrade the Zerg main base to level 3. Ye Xiao decided that he couldn't work hard and was born in sorrow and died in peace, and now it seems that it is really not a lie.

After dealing with some trivial matters after the war, Ye Xiao handed over the Zerg army to Lexa for rectification and recovery, and he took the Qinglong and the Swift Worm King Johnson, as well as the Zerg elite guards, and stepped into the wormhole again.

This time the destination is Linxi Town, the courtyard of the town lord Henry, of course, this place can also be renamed Ye Xiao's courtyard.

Before going to find Brown, Ye Xiao had been here once, and the thousand sets of elven equipment were all transported by Ye Xiao to the sedge plain in front of the town with swift worms, which was still a little far from the town and would not attract people's attention.

After that, he asked the town lord Henry to find five carriages and personally go to pull the goods back. Ye Xiao believes that if you want to make a deal of black goods in this world, it is estimated that it will be very difficult without going through some relationships, and no one may dare to accept even if there are good things.

So he needs this Henry to run errands for him, and now he looks at the sky and is probably coming back soon.

Ye Xiao leaned back on the sofa in the hall, enjoying the morning tea made by the old servant Connor, and the breakfast made with cheese, wheat bread, fried chicken thighs and raspberry sauce.

These servants were very grateful to Ye Xiao for freeing them from the abyss of aristocratic oppression. Although they are still a servant under Ye Xiao, they are really much happier than their previous lives.

At least Ye Xiao was willing to spend a few copper coins on each of them to make a new set of clothes, which Henry was absolutely reluctant to do.

Therefore, Ye Xiao was admired by every slave, and everyone was doing their best to serve him, even the little thing of breakfast, old Connor would spend his best to match him, which was also something that Henry, the original owner, could not enjoy.

Of course, Henry, the town owner, is already a slave and will never enjoy it in his life.

Just when Dongfang had just revealed the whiteness of the fish belly and Ye Xiao was enjoying the delicious breakfast, Henry rushed in.

"Are you here, sir?"

Henry rushed all the way into the hall, and when he saw Ye Xiao, he immediately said with some trepidation: "My lord, do you know? The Mithril Mine Fortress I mentioned to you before was slaughtered by someone last night!"

"The cavalry captains of Sotan City have already brought people to the town to search!"