Because the fall of the Black Flame Pass was too sudden, and the scale of the campaign was so large that most players entered the process of "waiting for resurrection", the Valley of Shadows was much quieter than before.

The surviving veterans were tasked with taking up missions from Maxim to defend and defend Fort Courage on flying mounts, and the newcomers were also tasked with escorting a large number of soldiers from the Black Flame Pass back to the Maginot Line.

Captain Paula's three airships flew almost one by one, and they couldn't be idle at all.

According to Murphy's orders, they must send these tired soldiers to the rear to rest in the shortest possible time, in the hope that they will quickly recover their morale, in order to do this, Murphy even gave the "capitalist" Lao Huo and Mao Mao Rabbit the task, asking the entertainment facilities in Treasure Bay to be ready to receive the soldiers.

It just so happened that the Treasure Bay Casino, which was very popular before, had a lot of customer traffic due to the wartime system, and this wave was also a "promotional event".

This wave is a crooked hit, after all, you can't expect any elegant hobbies from the Bing buddies with their heads pinned to the waistband of their trousers. For example, the favorite place for the soldiers of the Plantagenet Pioneer Battalion to go on vacation is Treasure Bay, and if the cunning Zealanders like it, then the Blood Alliance will definitely like it too.

And it was also an effective way to pull the economy of Translanca in wartime.

Lao Huo even came up with a reduced version of the "army supporting services" schedule to the Scarlet Archon, roughly referring to the development model of some special areas in the real world, which can be regarded as a sword going sideways, Miriam is a little numb to this wild economic development plan, mainly because this plan involves some very vulgar things, which may conflict with some concepts of players with a strong sense of justice.

But after thinking about it, she decided to conduct a pilot in Treasure Bay.

After all, with Translasia either going bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy in a bad economy, finding new sources of profit growth is already imminent, and if this schedule proves to be useful, Miriam, who has now taken the completely pragmatic route, does not mind pushing down the path of Treasure Bay's development.

Murphy didn't meddle in any of this, leaving it all to the Crimson Archon and the Executive Players, and dealing with the threat of war remains his top priority.

Not only Murphy, but Lao Qin and Happy Stick, who had given the commanders a few hours earlier, also made a special trip back to Wolf Castle before going offline, where they found several leaders of the Brotherhood of Stonemasons.

"Yo, Lao Chen, why are you still injured?"

Qin Ye walked into a room in the Wolf Castle, and happened to see the old Chen Tou sitting on the chair with his arms hanging and a long sigh on his face, the old military leader felt surprised, and stepped forward to ask:

"Aren't you a non-combatant?"

"Don't mention it, I and a few boys also participated in the previous battle of the dead space against the undead warriors, but after all, I am old, and my skills are not as good as before, and I was slashed by the other party, but Lao Tzu quickly returned the color with a gun!"

Old Chen said with a sigh on his face:

"The plot of this game has advanced to the present, and we administrative players really can't go to the battlefield, and the intensity of the battle is too high.

I'm all done, and the gray men will all be offline.

It's not for me to say, how can these young people become like this? ”

"How can you compare to being old and strong?"

The brick movers, who were waiting for Lao Chen, complained:

"Besides, didn't the Ash Man accidentally get killed by the undead to protect your retreat?"

"Ahem"

Professor Chen, who couldn't hold back his face, glared at his rebel fiercely, and let the brick mover leave the room with a smile, and went to the door to chat with Brother Bang and brag.

He obviously guessed that Lao Qin and Lao Chen must have something to say.

"Tell me, what are you doing here with such a busy man?"

Professor Chen still had a few stacks of unfinished design drawings in his hand, and he hung his arms and said to Lao Qin, who was sitting opposite:

"I guess it has something to do with the next war plan?"

"Yes, I want you to produce a blueprint."

Lao Qin adhered to the professional demeanor, did not waste time in greetings, and said straight to the point:

"The main specification requirement is a set of defense line planning that can be used for tunnel operations, with the Shadow Valley as the starting point and the filthy swamp as the end point, during which this narrow area of almost 150 kilometers is the main body, and a set of transportation networks will be set up according to the complex structures below the Black Flame Pass position.

It needs to be large enough to accommodate all current players and a subset of NPCs who are good at stealth actions to walk through the battle.

You know, the terrain of the Shadow Valley is not suitable for positional warfare, and I came up with this crooked idea after thinking about it, in order to buy enough time for the follow-up battle, I have to adopt some unusual battle plans. ”

"Tunnel warfare!"

Old Chen Tou frowned, and he said:

"I won't mention the specific design indicators, how are you going to do it with the man-hours and manpower for laying so many tunnels in such a large area? When I was evacuating from the front line, I heard Miss Phimis say that the huge amount of filthy energy that fell from the astral tear in the Black Flame Pass would dissipate in half a month to twenty days at most.

That is, we will not be left with more than twenty days to prepare.

Even with psionic help, the time is too rushed. ”

"The Silver Dwarves will help."

Lao Qin shook his head and said:

"I visited the High Lord of the Silver Dwarves before I came, and the skinny old dwarf was repenting of the fall of the shrine of the Mother Goddess of Gaia, and after hearing about our thoughts, he said that he would mobilize a large number of earth priests to come to his aid.

Moreover, he emphasized that if the mere shaping of the network of underground passages did not involve the reinforcement of the earth rituals and the creation of fortresses, then the earth priests could have the means to complete such a plan in twenty days.

Besides, I don't want all the tunnels to be dug all at once, we can come one by one, and first complete the network of tunnels near the Shadow Valley, and give the gnolls a next dismount.

You can build the latter ones slowly, but I have a few hard requirements.

First of all, you have to find a way to design the planned tunnel to have enough hiding stations and safe nodes for players to rest and go offline, once this tactic is carried out, we will have to walk underground on a large scale for a long time, and stealth operation is a very important criterion.

Secondly, it is necessary to leave a certain amount of leeway for pit fighting.

Once the gnolls find out that we are hiding underground, they will definitely send a huge number of kobolds to fight us in the tunnels, and the opponent's numerical advantage will be negated in that terrain, but it also means that we need to fight frequently.

Therefore, the structure is more complicated, and it is best to do the asana.

Finally, connect the exit of this tunnel with the Bafengte Great Palace, and once the front line is lost, we can retreat into that natural labyrinth and continue the battle.

Lord Murphy arranged for an NPC to help us explore the superstructure of the Bafengte Terrapoly, but the Jackals couldn't figure out the details of it for a short time, and the best case scenario was for them to form a grudge against the Bafengte cultists hiding in it. ”

"Sounds complicated."

Old Chen shook his head and said:

"In reality, there are basically no samples that can be referenced"

"Yes!"

Lao Qin showed a subtle smile, and he said softly:

"Give me your contact information, and I'll send you some real-life and still using the structure of the large-scale combat tunnel in a moment, and you can modify it accordingly.

If it weren't for the fact that professionals were required to do so, this kind of information would not be given according to the regulations.

Just watch it for yourself, don't spread it everywhere. ”

Lao Qin's strange smile made Lao Chen's heart suddenly, he coughed, and said:

"But even if the tunnel can be designed, the dwarves can complete the excavation on time, but the command of this kind of decentralized multi-point combat is a big problem, I think, with the current combat quality of the players, it may not be able to do it."

"You don't have to worry about this, I'll find some professionals in this area to come in, and the places have been applied. And I've always thought that the Compute Orb is a very wonderful otherworldly thing, and it only needs to be modified to form a fairly convenient node-based command system. ”

Lao Qin played with the expert adventure assistant fixed on his arm, and he said:

"You know, I've been trying to get players to learn how to fight regularly, but with little success.

After so many battles, I realized that the most suitable for them was actually the guerrilla warfare method, which was the stage where individual heroism could be best played, and under the framework of collectivism, I believe that they could always make their own bad moves, ahem, I mean strange moves, to complete some unthinkable tasks unexpectedly.

In short, the design of the tunnel is up to you.

Time is tight and the task is heavy, is three days enough? ”

"If the information you give is really powerful, three days is definitely enough, after all, it's just to modify the terrain and not start from scratch."

Old Chen pondered for a moment and said:

"It's not hard for me to get my students together and do a big graduation project."

"Okay, that's it, wait for your good news."

After speaking, Lao Qin stood up and said goodbye.

After he left, Professor Chen went offline and waited for more than ten minutes, and then there were friend applications and some more information in the mailbox.

Boy.

This kind of top-secret level of information is just given casually?

You really don't pretend to be good, but you've only heard about it before, but you didn't expect that in this real world, there really is such a huge underground tunnel network that covers an entire area and is still in use?

Tsk, today is an eye-opener.

——

After Qin Ye arranged tasks for Happy Stick and several other commanders, he also went offline in the Shadow Valley.

The moment he took off his helmet, he moved his body, pushed his wheelchair out of the study and chatted with his wife who was listening to the opera.

Lao Qin couldn't explain to his wife how exciting and energetic things were over there, so he could only say angrily what he wanted to eat today, and then went to the balcony alone to light a cigarette, took out his mobile phone and flipped through the address book, and then dialed a number to go out.

"Yo, Master Qin, why did you think of calling me like a busy man?"

The response from the other side was a rather bold voice.

It sounds like a middle-aged man, in the army, a place that likes to discuss seniority, it should belong to Qin Ye's juniors.

In their set of black words, it is the soldiers brought out by Lao Qin, and this kind of "own people" always speak much brighter, so Qin Ye is not polite, and the lion opened his mouth and said:

"Isn't this asking you for help, are there any of the boys over there who are talented? Lend me a few, I'll be useful, don't think about it, it's a serious task here in my department, and it's a secondment. ”

"Huh? Gifted? What are you referring to? ”

The voice on the other side immediately became serious, he asked, and Lao Qin explained:

"In terms of command, to be precise, staff officers are professional, assisting in the formulation of operational plans and responsible for implementation, because of the work requirements to set up a simple staff department, the form of work is relatively special, and I am not good at finding people on active duty, so the students on your side are very suitable.

I want fifteen people.

Don't ask about the content of the task, don't ask about the goal, don't ask for details, you find people for me, I will give them a temporary preparation, and there will be special people to contact them. ”

"Is it so mysterious?"

The voice on the other side was a little puzzled, and he complained:

"Can you just look for me like this? Recently, the students have been on vacation, and the pandemic has caused panic, and I'm idle now, and I've heard that you're choosing people over there, and it's very mysterious.

I'm still wondering, am I not your favorite soldier?

Am I falling out of favor? ”

"You? Forget it. ”

Lao Qin pouted and said:

"You can't keep up with the times. But since you're going to use your students, it's not good not to let you get involved, okay, I'll send you an application, fill it out well, and then wait for the news, and I'll send you the operational requirements later.

Get vaccinated in advance, it will look magical, but you just need to take it for real.

In addition, it is emphasized that this is a national task!

Don't talk around with a big mouth, you know the discipline of secrecy.

Gather the hands within three days to understand, and wait for the rest to be talked about after the launch.

Oh, it's okay to turn over the information of the tunnel war and the tunnel war for a review these days, and use it for the task. ”

"Huh?"

This explanation was not rectified by the other party, but Qin Ye didn't explain much, and hung up the phone after a few greetings.

There was already a fragrance wafting out of the kitchen, Lao Qin rubbed his stomach, pushed the wheelchair and prepared to go, but soon there was a message on his mobile phone, and he raised his eyebrows when he looked down.

That's a code word.

It represents the end of a field operation in his department, and an important person is on his way home.

"I'm going to go out again."

Qin Ye sighed.

He doesn't know how long he can last with his old arms and legs, and he can't help but sigh when he thinks that he can jump and jump when he was in Transia and return to the way he was young.

This reality is really a bad game.

A few hours later, Brother Zhong, who had just returned home from work and was drinking the soup made by the yellow-faced woman, received a phone call, he sighed, and got up to get dressed after a few sips of soup.

This surprised his wife and son.

It's all at this point, and you still want to go out?

"Mission, don't ask, I'm not coming back tonight."

The loyal brother who wore a mask hugged his wife, who usually complained, but still cared about his wife at the critical moment, and opened the door and went downstairs after a few words of advice to his son.

After waiting at the gate of the community for ten minutes, a car came, and as soon as the door opened, several King Kongs under his command were on it, and everyone's faces revealed a boredom and helplessness for temporary overtime, but there was no way, and he had to shoulder the responsibility after doing this business.

What's more, this time things are different.

"Let's talk to my family these days, we are going to stay at the site of the 'operation and maintenance team' for a few days."

The loyal brother and the prodigal brother sitting in the back seat and the tall mustard idiot crowded together, and while he took out his cigarettes and distributed them to his subordinates, he said:

"Qin Ye wants to come over to see the situation in person, don't be caught by his work mistakes and then trained, it's not good."

"Yo, the big boss came here in person, is this considered a netizen offline base?"

Mr. Ziwei, who was driving, grinned, making several people in the car laugh out loud.

Well, with the state of them playing the same game now, this wave is really offline.

The nanny van with four big men sped through the almost empty city streets, quietly entering the airport in the night, where some of the best guys from the brother department were busy at the airport, which was closed by the pandemic and was crowded.

In a short time, a stretcher that had been escorted was pushed into the hall.

Brother Loyal stepped forward quickly, glanced at the girl who was lying on the stretcher and had lost her weight, he reached out and patted the sleeping other party's cheek gently.

Waiting for the other party with a breathing mask to open his eyes blankly, he greeted softly:

"Welcome home, cement."

"Hmm"

Hearing the greetings in this familiar native language, Sister Cement, who had been bad for the old sin for a while, couldn't hold back all of a sudden, her eyes were red, and tears couldn't stop flowing out.

"Don't cry, don't cry, it's all over, it's okay."

This cry made Brother Zhong unable to fix it, and he hurriedly wiped her tears but was scolded a few times by the nurse sister who accompanied her, which meant that this special patient was too weak to have too many mood swings.

But it doesn't matter.

Although it was a bumpy ride, the result was good, and everything was fine.

(End of chapter)