Chapter Seventy-Six: The Declining Family
The next day.
As the captain of the nightingale, she found that Chen Mo was still waiting at the meeting place early before her, and noticed the sweat stains on his forehead.
"Are you still exercising in the morning?"
"Hmm."
Chen Mo responded without explaining too much.
Whenever he watched the rising sun, he felt that Tongzigong was getting better and better, and the energy of Yuanyang was becoming more and more vigorous, this kind of fulfilling happiness was really wonderful, and his life seemed to be filled with positive energy and full of energy.
Opposite.
If he is lazy one day, he will feel extremely empty.
When Nightingale heard this, he shook his head and said: "It's not that this kind of exercise is completely useless, it's just that compared to the exercise improvement when we perform our daily tasks, the improvement effect of this morning exercise is almost negligible, and it is only suitable for the academy period, more like exercise." ”
Chen Mo naturally knew what she was talking about.
Although he didn't want to elaborate on it just because he practiced Tongzigong, he didn't agree with the other party's philosophy.
Especially after in-depth contact with Xuanzong, combined with his own life experience, Chen Mo's concept has undergone some changes.
A tall building begins with a foundation.
Although the improvement of basic skills will not allow natural disasters to obtain essential improvements, if they ignore basic skills, they will one day be bound by basic skills and restrict the play of the upper limit.
Generally speaking, after the basic skills of the Scourge reach Lv35 and meet most of the skill requirements and equipment requirements, they will not deliberately pursue it again.
But those who are really strong often have the persistence of excellence and will not fall behind the basic skills.
The process of improving basic skills has always maintained two characteristics.
One is that there is no upper limit, and the basic skills of some of the legendary Great Guardians even exceed Lv100.
The second is that if you don't advance, you will retreat, once you don't practice the basic skills for a long time, then it will gradually degenerate, especially as the proficiency level of the basic skills becomes higher and higher, and it is not eternal.
Gradually.
Everyone else also completed the assembly at the agreed time.
The journey from the Schumacher family to the Howell family takes about a day to arrive, and this time it takes two days to go back and forth, and the amount of sulfur powder and rations that everyone needs to prepare is naturally rising.
Neither of these things can fit into storage.
After preparing the sulfur powder and rations they needed for a week, the six of them left the Schumacher family castle as instructed on the map, following the adventurers who had gone out.
The group of six soon disappeared into the fog under the watchful eyes of the castle guards.
The initial battle plan of the six people can be described as very simple.
The castles of the major families are surrounded by farmland, which is also one of the main sources of income for the castle's wealth.
However, at night, the creatures of the forest sometimes cross the fog and enter the farmland, and the fragile farmers are naturally unable to protect against these dangers, so every morning, the castle guards are tasked with patrolling the fields to drive away the invasive creatures.
Although the farmland is not 100% safe even after the guards patrol it, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce the probability of farmers being attacked.
Compared to the physique of the peasants, the guards were naturally much stronger
And the initial plan of the surprise team is to sneak attack these guards of the Howell family to test the strength and reaction of the Howell family.
Otherwise, if you break into the castle by force, with the strength of the team, you will naturally be dead.
After all, the area of farmland around the castle is not small, it has a range of several kilometers, and even if a hundred guards are scattered in such a vast farmland, it will not be able to make any waves, enough for everyone to break them one by one.
Moreover, even if the leaders in the castle discover the anomaly, it will be difficult to support them in a short period of time, and the dangerous fog will be a natural shelter for the six people.
After a day's journey, the six finally arrived near the castle of the Howell family before nightfall.
Behind him is the Misty Forest.
Standing on the edge of the mist, the six men looked at the castle deep in the wheat field, making a preliminary assessment of the mission.
Many adventurers will choose to enter the castle at this time to rest and replenish, and sell some of the harvest they carry to the castle.
Adventurers do not have a clear place of origin, they do not live in a fixed area, most of the time, they wander in the fog looking for opportunities, only when necessary, will rest in the nearby castle, as for the city of glory that they are proud of, it is the home of the vast majority of adventurers who will always remain in the spirit world.
"It is indeed full of decay, a family that is in decline."
The setting sun shone on the cracked walls, and only the few adventurers were willing to stay here, all confirming the intelligence they had gathered among the adventurers, a Twilight family far inferior to the Schumacher family.
It was getting dark.
Although it was a sneak attack, there was no need to worry about safety because the location of the group was on the edge of a wheat field and a forest, and the attack had not yet been officially launched.
The next day.
As the first person in the camp to get up, Chen Mo walked into the wheat field alone, striding in the cold dew, quietly waiting for the first ray of sunrise light to come, until the moment when the purple qi came from the east, he had a subtle reaction with the Yuanyang qi in his body, and felt the warmth of the dantian in his lower abdomen, he showed a satisfied smile.
"Whew."
Exhaling the turbidity in his chest, Chen Mo looked at the rising sun at the end of the horizon, thoughtful.
The practice of Tong Zi Gong requires the help of the sun.
But as far as he knows, in fact, most of the martial arts exercises more or less need some special auxiliary methods, such as with the help of the power of Yuehua, such as the need for food and drink, such as the need to be down-to-earth, and so on.
However, the conditions for a world of calamity are very limited.
Therefore, in some ways, the process of cultivating in another world is actually an invisible plundering process, after all, once you die, everything you have will be recovered by the disaster world, and naturally it also includes some of the hidden energy you have absorbed in the process of cultivation.
After dawn, Nightingale and others also woke up.
Hiding themselves at the edge of the mist, they looked out at the gates of the Howell family's castle.
Thousands of years of experience have taught farmers living in this world that they must wait until the sun rises and the guards patrol the fields before they come out to plow.
And the disobedient farmers have become corpses.
As the gates of the castle slowly opened, a team of guards began to patrol the area according to the plan, driving away the poisonous insects and strange beasts that might be hiding in the farmland, and expelling them into the mist.
The farther away from the castle and the closer you get to the fog, the more dangerous the patrol will be, and the more careful the guards will be.
The cat's eye creeping on the mound, the crosshair of the rifle, locked onto the badge on the chest of one of the Howell guards.
The coat of arms is an owl with wings outstretched and a blood-colored six-pointed star on its chest.
"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, ten people, there should be an elite squad leader inside."
After Maoyan makes a judgment, it passes on the information to others.
These ordinary guards and an elite squad leader are simply no match for a few.
However, the task of several people is not only to defeat them, but also to take away their family crest, so that they can obtain the second reward of Young Master Laqi.
As for what the reward content is, it is inevitable that people will be curious.
Therefore, the reconnaissance and attack on the Howell family now are only tentative, if the reward of Young Master Laqi is dispensable, everyone will naturally not smash this family again, after all, according to the task prompt, no matter what way, as long as you get enough points in this world, and killing those adventurers can also get points.
"Do it!"
As the nightingale gave the order, the six of them rose and attacked the nearest guard.
These guards, who were focused on driving away the wild beasts and poisonous insects in the fields, never expected to be ambushed by the enemy, and they couldn't help but panic instinctively.
"Who are you?"
A reprimanding question pointed out to everyone the goal of the elite captain.
As the gunshots rang out, the others were also menacing, and the squad leader said angrily: "This is the Howell family, you are killing yourself!" ”
In a battle of this level, there is naturally no need for Chen Mo and the rabbit to assist in healing.
Therefore, Chen Mo unleashed the telekinesis orb and launched an attack on the nearest castle guard, while the rabbit summoned a healing guard and rushed towards a stunned guard.
At this time, Chen Mo controlled the ordinary attack launched by the telekinesis ball, and the actual damage had reached an astonishing 64 points, and the fluctuating damage was basically between 56 points ~ 64 points, and the qi and blood value of these ordinary guards were generally only in the early hundreds, plus the defensive attributes, so they could basically be killed by two or three attacks.
Hint: You killed the Howell House Guard.
Hint: +1 point for your Disaster Contribution Points.
"Cat's Eye, see if there's any movement over there!"
Nightingale, who was cooperating with the woolly bear to attack the elite captain, said to the cat's eye.
"Roger!"
Compared with ordinary guards, this elite captain's qi and blood, attack, and defense have all improved, in addition, he also performed two combat skills, namely blocking counterattacks and jumping and slashing, although they both belong to the category of E-level skills, but Nightingale judged that this captain is likely to also have a D-level skill.
"Captain, there's no movement over there yet."
The cat's eye response made Nightingale nod.
"Hehe, is that all there is to it?"
After the squad leader's weapon landed on the woolly bear's chest, his pupils suddenly shrank in disbelief, and the hairy bear smiled hideously.
Seeing the death of his men and the strength of the enemy, the captain of the guard turned grim.
Seeing this, the woolly bear was not afraid, and also activated the skill.
Thorn Spike Lv4.
As the energy spikes flashed from the hairy bear's body, the captain of the guard held his sword in both hands, spun it quickly, and his movement speed was slightly improved, and launched a crazy attack towards the hairy bear.
Whirlwind slashes Lv2 in a row.
The dense sword wind continued to emanate from the spinning squad leader, and the hairy bear kept adding wounds to his body, but he didn't flinch at all, but became more excited.
It wasn't until the captain of the guard finished activating his skills that his body was weak, and he directly entered a near-death state, and passed out on the spot.
This was apparently caused by the thorn spikes of the woolly bear.
"Hehe, the damage control is just right!"
Seeing this, Mao Xiong smiled proudly, ignoring the injuries on his body at all, and did not kill the guard team leader, but looked at Chen Mo and the rabbit.
"You two, who will come first?"
He actually planned to give up the right to assign the death of this squad leader.
The rabbit seemed to have fully integrated into the surprise squad, jumping up and shouting excitedly, "I'll come first, I'll come first!" ”
Chen Mo naturally wouldn't argue with this little girl, and silently put away the badges of the two Howell family guards he had killed.
Yu Li was also collecting badges, and it seemed that no matter how small the income was, he couldn't help but show an excited expression on the corner of his mouth.
The nightingale and the cat's eye stood on the mound, looking in the direction of the castle, and the Howell family was completely unaware of the situation here, much to the surprise of the eager people.
"Has this family fallen to this point?"
Cat's eyes pouted, looking rather dissatisfied with this.