“MMP…… I've finally come out!"

Humming and panting, the construction site boy wiped the sand and sweat on his face with bricks, looked at the mountains in front of him, and couldn't help but rush to his eyebrows with joy.

It's not just him.

The powerful players of the Death Corps couldn't help but cheer when they saw the desert border.

After pedaling all the way for three rounds, they are about to upgrade their pedals, and they can be regarded as seeing the mountains of the river valley province.

If it weren't for the distressed experience and hard-won equipment on their bodies, they would have used the "Mending Knife TP" Dafa to return to the city! Kakarot couldn't help but grumble.

"Damn, it's still a special Cen rat brother who is comfortable, and he just came back from a vacation in Ideal City and took over a big job."

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Sitting on the third wheel, the debt big eyes nodded thoughtfully

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"But that's 900 kilometers...... How is he going to get there?"

The construction site boy and the brick interjected and complained.

"What the hell knows, let's get on the three-wheeler and worry about people driving?"

Hearing the yin and yang weirdness of his teammates, Edge Paddle smiled embarrassedly and patted his mount on the shoulder. "Hey...... I'm sorry brother, I made you feel wronged. ”

The construction site boy rolled his eyes at the bricks.

"You just know that you can't live with Lao Tzu!"

Scolding the head of the regiment for not being a person is a basic exercise.

Most people are actually not so careful, and the conditions at the beginning of the service are more than the current cattle and horses. Now I have a tricycle.

At that time, even the bicycle was like a giant panda, even if it was a player of TO and T1, most of the time it was a two-legged running map.

In any case, although there were a lot of bumps along the way, they still broke through the encirclement network of the legion and completed the miracle of running and transferring thousands of miles.

There were smiles of joy on everyone's faces. Even the captured Piman and Antonite.

The two of them, who were tied up into rice dumplings and thrown on the tricycle, were almost dried up by the sun.

No matter what these people plan to do with themselves, this torture has finally begun.

"The map of this game is a real Nyima ......" Debt Eyes raised his binoculars and glanced to the north, but he still couldn't see the edge of the map, as if this kind of setting didn't exist in this game.

This is probably the first time that an Alliance player has set foot in the northern borders of the Riverdale Province.

Although it is also a plain area, the plains here have a completely different feeling from the south.

Instead of the verdant forests and grasslands that dot the mountains, there are bare yellow earth and sea buckthorn grass swaying on the edge of the Gobi Desert.

There was a forest nearby, but the straight pine trees were bare, and there was not a single leaf to be seen on the branches, and the vegetation was completely withered.

A piece of heavenly water seems to have divided the entire province into two completely different worlds.

If the modeling of the area around Qingquan City is gray-green tones, then it is more like a basin of yellow paint has been splashed here.

And that's not all.

The alien species that roam in the distance are also more beautiful, and the mutant hound with thick hair in the south has only a few hairs left in the head here.

However, on the other hand, the xenomorphs here are significantly more robust, not only are their bones larger, but their knotted muscles are even squeezed into their faces.

But it may be because of this that the twisted muscles compress their eyeballs, causing them to look less easily and provoke the wrong people.

More than thirty mutant hounds surrounded him, and their teeth let out a fierce roar.

Sitting on the edge of the construction site's back, paddling without panic, holding the machine gun and sweeping it over, the mutant hound that rushed up was half dead in an instant.

The other half of the rest was dealt with nervously by a few players who got off the car, with sapper shovels and bayonets, without any delay.

"Slightly more intense than mutant hyenas and nibbles...... There should be about five or six levels. ”

The edge stroked and shook the blood on the shovel, and suddenly noticed that there was still movement, so he gave his teammate next to him a look, put down the shovel and picked up the rifle hanging on his chest again.

The four of them leaned over cautiously, only to see a humanoid monster crouching on the ground with its back to them, its mud-stained hands scraping on the ground.

Its body was thin, its complexion was sickly gray, and its folded skin was covered with pus and sores, like a corpse soaked in a lake, as if it were rummaging for something in the dirt.

Finally, as if it had found it, it excitedly pulled something out of the dirt, shoved it into its mouth, and feasted greedily on it, with a creaking sound.

Edge paddling and the construction boy exchanged glances with the bricks, both of them looking a little confused, unsure of what it was.

As if noticing the movement behind him, the monster stopped what it was doing, glanced at the four of them alertly, and then stepped aside, and then ran into the forest in the distance.

Debt Eye raised his rifle to aim at its back, but in the end, it didn't waste the bullet and pressed the muzzle down.

“…… What's that?"

"I'm more curious about what he's eating......"

The construction site boy and the brick stepped forward curiously, but soon saw half of his brain buried in the soil. His face suddenly turned blue and white, and he stopped talking with a retching voice.

"Navy blue...... It's a military uniform," Edge Paddle went to take a look in the morning, and pulled it twice on the ground with a sapper shovel, his brow furrowed slightly, "It's the people of the legion." ”

And there is a high probability that it is a ten-captain!

For a moment, the edge paddling suddenly seemed to understand something, and glanced at the surrounding potholes, mud-filled wilderness.

This should have been a battlefield before!

It was here that the Legion's expeditionary force fought against the armies of the Great Rift Valley.

And the endless undulations and deep pits and slopes on the plain were all brought out by artillery fire......

Although curious about the xenomorph that he had never seen before, no player caught up with him.

The leafless forest is always a source of caution, and I don't know what weird things are hidden inside. They still have a task ahead of them, and it's best not to overdo it.

The group continued on their way, and soon came across a sizable survivor settlement.

When they saw a place where there was a crowd, the players' faces showed joyful expressions. Along the way, they were running out of supplies, and they were finally able to replenish them.

Motioning for the large group to wait nearby, the edge paddled with a few strange teammates and stopped a scavenger and asked. "What is this place?"

The scavenger glanced at his exoskeleton and then at his rifle, and said alarmingly.

"There's no name here, we call it this recycling bin."

"Recycle bin?" Debt Big Eyes interjected and asked curiously.

"Yes, do you see the plains nearby?" The man pointed to the muddy field that could not be seen nearby, "Over there are trenches dug by the Legion Expeditionary Force, and then they were beaten and discarded their armor, and they died, and they fled...... All the equipment was thrown there. ”

The edge paddled in the direction he was pointing, and he faintly saw two trenches in the crater stage.

"You're here to scavenge waste?"

"That's right," the man said, glancing at the camp behind him, and a clear voice said, "Everybody is here to pick up garbage, some to collect garbage, some to sell shovels...... Although the Legion didn't do much good, their corpses fed a lot of people. ”

Edge paddling nodded.

It seems that this is not a permanent camp, but a "nomadic herd" of scavengers.

Perhaps when the garbage in the distance is finished, the scavengers will move away one after another, and the camp will be moved to other places.

As for who is collecting this garbage, there is no need to think about it, there is no doubt that it is the people of the Free State of Bugra.

"Can we resupply here?"

"Why not? Just go to the camp and find the merchants, and they will sell anything, as long as you are willing to pay for it. But...... It's best not to make trouble, unless you're going to be hostile to everyone here. ”

The scavenger gave a faint reminder that he didn't waste any more time here, and picked up the sack and walked towards the muddy field.

Debt eyes look at the edge and paddle.

"How?"

Edge paddling thought for a moment, and quickly made a judgment. "Restock, then keep on your way."

"Why don't you camp here?" The construction site guy asked curiously.

"The identity of the captives is ordinary, and they are all people who do business with the Bugra Free State, so it's hard to guarantee that there is no eyeliner in them."

Edge paddled to glance at the scavenger's back and move his chin.

"Let's go."

"After replenishing supplies, we need to get on our way as soon as possible."

The exoskeleton was replaced.

Edge Paddle leads Big Eye and the construction guy into the camp known as the recycling station.

Although it looked tattered from the outside, there was silence inside the camp.

Traders with two cows set up stalls on both sides of the road, selling not only bottles and cans, but also some unusual high-tech.

These include security robots welded with iron tube rifles, and android coolies modified with picked up trash and smart cores.

There are even people who sell power armor.

However, when I paddled up to look at it, I found that there was no place on the whole body of the thing that could touch the power armor except for a fuel rod stuck in its chest, which was almost dead.

The construction site boy and the brick curiously went up to look at the label, and when they saw that it actually cost 600,000 Cr, their eyes suddenly widened.

"! Grab the money!"

If memory serves, the current exchange rate between Cr and Silver is 1:3, which is 1.8 million Silver Coins!

The merchant who was selling things glanced at him, and when he saw the poor and sour look that he had no knowledge, he didn't bother to pay attention to him.

"We're not here to buy gear." The edge paddled and patted the construction guy on the shoulder, pulling him back.

Most of the equipment here is DIY by scavengers, and the failure rate is quite touching.

He wasn't even interested in bargaining.

"Anyway, how much is the power armor that Lao Bai bought?" Debt Big Eyes suddenly asked.

Edge paddling thought about it and said.

"I remember...... Is it 1,000,000 silver coins?"

- Hearing that it only costs 1 million silver coins, all the players suddenly sighed.

Sure enough, it is still the conscience of the manager.

These wastelanders aren't particularly cunning!

After wandering around the bazaar, they finally found a merchant selling grain.

The old man who sold the goods was not young, about forty years old, and he looked like a person from Luoxia Province, where no matter what color his skin was, his eye sockets were very deep.

To the surprise of all players, this merchant actually collects coins!

According to the old man, he was going to go south on his next trip, so he wanted both dinars and silver coins. "4000 kg of dry bread, 300 kg of beef jerky...... I'll calculate, well, I'll have to charge you 10,000 silver coins. ”

Hearing the old man's offer, Big Eyes couldn't help but complain.

"Damn! It's so expensive!"

The construction site guy swallowed his spit.

—10,000 silver coins...... It's enough to buy a set of hussar exoskeletons. ”

Edge paddling smiled unconcernedly.

"If you think about it from another angle, you can use the price of a set of light cavalry exoskeletons to solve the supply of five hundred-man teams, anyway, I think it's already a good deal."

There is no war that costs nothing.

Problems that can be solved with money are not a problem, not to mention that logistics expenses are reimbursed by managers. He took out the banknotes from his pocket and counted 100 bills, which he handed to the old man.

"Deal."

The old man smiled and took the money, beckoned to the young men on the side, and helped to weigh the supplies and pack them for the guests to take outside the camp

The edge paddled to keep the site guy with them, while himself and Big Eye stayed in the camp.

When the construction site guy returned, the debtor suddenly thought of the corpse-like monster he had seen on the journey, so he looked at the old man and asked.

"Have you ever seen a ...... The skin looks like a monster that has been blistered, like a living corpse. "The blisters are rotten? Living corpses?" The old man thought for a moment, and a smile suddenly appeared on his wrinkled face

"You're supposed to be a ghoul."

Debt big eyes skimmed.

"Ghouls?"

"Well, there is a nuclear crater on the west side of the Great Rift Valley that stretches for hundreds of kilometers, and I guess it crawled out of there. They especially do not eat living things, but they do not eat dead things, and regard plague and decay as delicacies. ”

Picking up the ashes from his pipe, the old man squinted at the nearby scavengers, took a puff on his cigarette.

"-Leave those guys alone, just a bunch of poor people."

On the other side, in the far south of the province of Luoxia, under the twin peaks of the Djobar Mountains.

With the help of well-intentioned people, the news of the arrival of the legionnaires soon spread in the fortress of Petra.

However, to everyone's surprise, the news went out of shape as it spread, and it became more and more outrageous......

It's another day's dusk.

Old Boomer handed the ledger into the stone chair's hand, and was firm for a moment, but finally couldn't help but speak.

"Miss...... The fortress of Petra is running out, so you'd better head to the docks south and buy a boat while you still have time.

Looking at Boomer with a sad face, Zheng Chen, who took the account book, was stunned, and his expression couldn't help but be a little weird.

"You didn't mean...... Is it impossible for the fortress of Petra to fall?"

If memory serves, she should have heard this sentence three days ago.

"That's right, it's impossible for a fortress built by the gods to be captured by mortals, if it's a legion, no matter how many people they come, Petra Fortress will make them unable to eat and walk around......"

Old Boomer still had a determined expression, but as he spoke, his voice involuntarily became weak.

“.… But if it's an evil god, it's hard to say. ”

"Evil God?!" Tail's eyes widened in surprise, and when he saw that the silence was coming up, he asked excitedly, "What does he look like?"

"A collection of thousands of beauties, no one knows where he came from, it may be the sky, it may be the deep sea, the moment he descends, his body fills the entire river embankment, tens of thousands of tentacles tear apart the clouds in the sky, even the god of the sky is not his opponent."

The tail and the eyes are shining.

"Oh! Oversized tentacles!"

Old Buma's pupils were clouded with a layer of clarity, and he tried to describe in words what he had never seen at all.

But at present, it seems that only the tail dares to believe it, and even the flesh shakes his head when he listens to it.

“…… Such a large desert, the legion chose there, there is no doubt that they can't defeat us with their own strength, so they plan to use evil sacrifices to awaken the demons suppressed by the Sky Scepter. ”

"This desert is finished...... The twilight of the gods will come again, and this time, there is no god who can stop him. ”

The old man's mouth was broken and his pupils were filled with despair, and the muffled voice grew smaller and smaller until it was completely inaudible, blending into the distant twilight outside the window.

Holding a snoring cat in his arms, Sesame Paste quietly looked at the stone chair on the side and asked in a low voice.

"Is this part of the plan?"

The pensive stone chair shook his head.

"I just asked that mercenary to spread the word about the Lost Valley where the legion is stationed, but I didn't expect anyone here...... The brain hole is so big.

The legions stationed in the Lost Valley are performing an evil ritual in an attempt to awaken the evil god who has been sleeping for 200 years and use the power of demons to defeat the insurmountable Jung Chenxu......

The plan exceeded expectations, and even believers like Boomer Sr. were finally shaken.

Looking at the old face full of sorrow, Shi Yi couldn't help but feel a little worried.

Will you push yourself too hard......

And just as she was worried, there was a sudden knock at the door. Sesame Paste, who was standing by the door, heard it and walked up to open the door.

"I'm sorry, it's closed today—"

As soon as she was halfway through her words, the moment she saw the person at the door, she stopped on the spot.

I saw a group of guards standing at the door, about thirty of them.

They had submachine guns on their waists, and they were already in their hands.

The man at the head was the captain of the patrol.

Old Boomer recognized the face at a glance, and hurriedly stepped forward to say with a smile. "Captain Seandis? What do you command?"

Ignoring the old man, Seandis looked around the room with a blank expression, including the talking bear.

"Who's the boss here?"

Flesh was still determined and just wanted to raise her hand, but the tail next to her was a step faster than her.

However, before the tail's arm could be raised, it was pressed back by the stone chair standing nearby. 'Leave it to me'

Giving Tail a worried look, the stone chair walked over to the sesame paste.

Glancing at the mercenary who had been brought under control, she looked at the captain of the patrol and said calmly.

"It's me."

Seeing that she had no intention of violently resisting arrest, the patrol captain didn't talk nonsense and beckoned.

"Come with us."

A castle shrouded in twilight.

The court of the lord of the fortress of Petra was crowded with anxious-looking courtiers.

The man in rich clothes sat on the Sisi, looking down at the people under the steps with a blank face,

His right elbow propped up the cold armrest, and the index finger of his left hand tapped on the armrest, as if he were lost in thought, as if he were impatient.

His name was Theon, and he was the lord of the fortress of Petra here, and his family was a prominent family of the Hump Kingdom, who had guarded the northern borders of the kingdom for generations.

The Hump Kingdom declared war on the Falcon Kingdom a long time ago, but it was slow to send troops.

Although many people think that this is the strength of the royal family, he knows that it is not like that.

No one in this kingdom is more pious and cowardly than His Majesty.

How could that honorable lord be unambiguous, and the consequences of appeasement could only be exchanged for inches.

In fact, the royal family has always had the intention of gathering troops to rush north to help, but the city lords, including the Silver Moon City Lord, only want to give money, not people.

These mercenary businessmen are still counting on smashing the legion with money bags.

This is simply not a problem that money can solve. Thein, of course, was on the king's side.

The reason why Zheng Chenxu Fortress and his family have survived to this day is because of the royal family's grace.

They ate the food brought from the oasis and drank the water of the oasis, and were the most loyal garrisons, which were fundamentally different from those city-states where nobles and merchants relied on corruption.

However, he alone is not enough.

In this kingdom corrupted by money, cowards are everywhere and cowards are rare. This is true both in His Majesty's court and in his court......

“.…… We should negotiate with the Legion, and there is nothing to sit down and talk about that cannot be solved. ”

"The Lion Royal Family is too rude, if it weren't for them taking in the heirs of the Honey Badger Royal Family, they wouldn't have been targeted by the Falcon Kingdom!

"Actually, I think ...... It's not bad like the Falcon Kingdom, the Legion has given them a lot of assistance, and the reason why that oasis hasn't been abandoned is because the Legion's people have to help them. ”

"There is really nothing to say about this, although the Willant people have a bad temper and their attitude towards slaves is a little scary, but they still have nothing to say about their vassals, and they lack what to give."

"No matter what, don't fight. The soil of the fortress of Petra could not grow food, and once the war affected trade, the poor people would starve. ”

The courtiers in the court were full of discussions.

Including the nobles, wealthy merchants, and guests who had no real power.

It was proposed to negotiate with the Legion.

There are even more subtle hints that the Falcon Kingdom seems to be good, not only does the Falcon royal family sit on the throne well, but the national strength has increased several times compared to ten years ago.

Jiang is Enjin was very irritable in his heart, but he couldn't get angry with these people, and Bi A Pei took the test and opened peace.

He was about to wave his hand to chase them away, but just then, footsteps were heard at the door of the hall.

The heavy wooden door opened.

The captain of the guard stood in front of the door and gave a military salute. "My lord, I brought that person."

The ministers and nobles in the main hall stopped talking one after another and looked at the door curiously.

Sain beckoned, motioning for him to bring the man up.

The captain of the guard bowed down and walked out of the door cleanly. After not waiting a while, he brought a woman of an alien race.

Seeing this scene, everyone in the main hall whispered, curious about what the city lord was planning to do.

Ignoring the voice.

Sain, who was sitting on Siss, stared at the woman at the bottom of the stairs and looked at her twice.

"Do you know why I called you?"

Knowing that it was useless to pretend to be crazy and stupid, Shi Yi simply nodded and denied.

"Yes."

Seeing the unchanged expression on that face, a trace of appreciation appeared in Sai'an's eyes.

Those cowards who wanted to kneel like the legions should be ashamed of what they said, and there was no little girl who had the courage.

But—

Appreciate for appreciate.

Law is law.

Looking down at the man at the bottom of the steps, he said with a hint of coldness in his eyes, and said with a smile.

"In the kingdom of the hump, those who rumor and stir up trouble will have their tongues cut out."

"Those who deceive in the name of God will be punished with sanding, buried in yellow sand and exposed to the sun for ten days, and food and fresh water shall not be given by non-gods."

"Alms to the afflicted are exempt from the three-day penalty, and you can choose the order in which you are punished."

"Do you plead guilty?"

A solemn and cold voice echoed through the empty hall.

Everyone's eyes were focused on her, some were surprised, some were sure to be, and some were expressionless.

Unexpectedly, the boiling thing in the city turned out to be made by a little girl...... This may sound a bit bizarre.

But looking at the expression of the city lord, it doesn't seem like he's joking.

A look of interest gradually appeared in everyone's eyes.

Whether or not she had been pushed out to take the blame, they were curious to see what the xenomorph girl was going to do.

The stone chair was silent and did not speak.

She knew that whether she nodded or shook her head at this time, it would not end well.

After all, does almsgiving mean exchanging gold camel coins for those "scraps"?

She didn't think it was a handout, it was just a win-win deal.

However, the city lord's understanding of what was happening in the city was so well understood that she was a little surprised.

It seems that I still take it for granted that I underestimate the intelligence of NPCs.

At that time, after that incident, the mercenaries should have been given a sum of money and told them to get out of here quickly.

The only thing to be thankful for now is that he didn't implicate the rest of the Knights.

The lord of the city seemed to despise their little possessions, and may have disdained to plunder them in this way. The thoughts in Shi Chair's mind turned slowly after calming down, thinking about a way to break the game.

Admit that those rumors were made up by yourself?

It's a fact.

She really didn't make up the part about the gods, and those exaggerated rumors were born out of false rumors.

However, this kind of quibble is obviously useless, the other party will not play word games with her at all, as long as the mercenary confesses, it is meaningless to admit it.

As for moving out of the Union, that's even less advisable.

If the Hump Kingdom had seen itself as a spy under the command of the Alliance, the outcome would have been even more exciting.

Not to mention whether it will lose the favorability of the manager, if there is such an operation, it will turn the special case into a diplomatic dispute, and the Hump Kingdom, which declares no war, is swaying like a wall grass, and if something happens, it will fall directly to the opposite side.

Their faith was not so hesitant in the first place......

Wait, faith!

Grasping the clue to break the game in an instant, Zheng Chen's eyes lit up slightly, and his boiling brain quickly cooled down.

Remembering what she had read in the two books, she gathered her thoughts for a moment and looked up at the city lord who was sitting on top of Sis. "Dear Mr. City Lord, those rumors in the city are indeed related to me, but I don't consider myself guilty."

Whispers rang out from inside the hall.

The city lord narrowed his eyes slightly, and switched to his left arm to support his chin.

"Oh?"

Although this pale quibbling could not change her fate, he still wanted to hear what the man intended to say to exonerate himself. "Those rumors did come from me, but they weren't rumors."

She looked up.

She could feel the gaze of those pairs falling on her, most of them were ill-intentioned, and the remaining half were mostly in the mood to see the silence.

However, she did not have any timidity.

She was very vague in her heart, once she showed timidity at this time, even if she showed a trace of firmness, it would mean that all her previous achievements were lost.

The panicked expression didn't change in the slightest, and she raised her voice, her voice tinged with a hint of reverence—or rather a hint of condescension. That confidence doesn't just come from the fact that what she says is true.

And because of one—

"That's God's will."

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