Chapter 124: The Race Between Life and Death, Turin and Captive

The next day.

Pei Ze got up early, and after eating some food he brought with him, he pushed open the stone door and walked out.

Su Ya and Peng Yan were already waiting outside, and when they saw Pei Ze coming out, they immediately bowed and saluted.

"We will have a long time together in the future, so we don't have to be so restrained."

Pei Ze waved his hand and turned to go down the mountain.

"Let's go, let's go to the mission hall."

Su Ya and Peng Yan hurriedly followed.

Although it was still early in the morning, the square was already crowded.

The gates of the exchange and the mission hall are full of people shuttling and bustling.

A number of weary wizards hurried from outside and walked towards the mission hall, followed by followers with an obvious bloody aura, apparently having just experienced a fierce battle.

More wizards walked out of the mission hall with solemn expressions and dispersed in all directions.

They took the task and went to fight the Turinetes.

The entire Red Maple City is like a twenty-four-hour machine, eating away at this plane little by little every moment until it is completely turned into an appendage of wizarding civilization.

Pei Ze strode through the gate of the mission hall, followed by Su Ya and Peng Yan.

The hall is spacious and bright, no smaller than the exchange, and the whole is in the shape of a ring, and the half facing the gate is lined with dense counters, and many people are registering tasks in front of the counters.

On the wall to the right of the gate, lines of colorful text flashed, and it was a task.

'Mission: Kill the Turin Patrol Chariot'

'Mission target: subject to the recording of the ring image'

'Mission reward: 20 merit points for each fully staffed vehicle, calculated based on the actual number of vehicles that are not fully staffed'

'Mission Content: Remove Sentinels'

'Mission target: subject to the recording of the ring image'

'Mission reward: 30~50 merit points, depending on the strength of the personnel stationed at the outpost'

'Note: Recipients of quests can receive a free battlefield map'

'Content: Destroy the Turinese Fortifications'

'Mission target: subject to the recording of the ring image'

'Reward: 300~1000 merit points, depending on the strength of the defenders stationed in the fortifications'

'Note: Recipients of quests can receive a free battlefield map'

Pei Ze directly skipped the task of killing the Turin patrol chariot and uprooting the sentinel point, and looked straight to the end.

Both of these tasks are time-consuming, laborious, and low-paying.

Especially for the former, the reward is not even enough to exchange for a bottle of Resonance Elixir.

He didn't want to waste his time on that.

Pei Ze looked at the task of destroying the fortifications.

There is not just one, but thousands, of these missions, corresponding to the thousands of Turin fortifications that Red Maple City has discovered so far.

As long as these fortifications can be completely destroyed, without logistical supplies, the scouts of the Turin people will not be able to move deep into the buffer zone, and the vision of war will be greatly reduced.

As a result, the buffer zone between the two sides will become a smooth road, and Red Maple City will be ready to wave down at any time and attack the Turin coalition forces all the way unhindered.

Therefore, before the outbreak of the Great War, the capture and destruction of each other's fortifications became the focus of the confrontation between the two sides.

It can also be seen from the task payout, a mission to destroy a fortification has a minimum of 300 merit points, which is enough to exchange for a bottle of unicorn essence blood.

You can even get up to 1000 merit points, which is enough to exchange for Holy Spirit Buds.

Pei Ze did not think about it for too long, and soon decided to take on the task of destroying the fortifications.

He stepped to the wall on the left side of the gate, on which countless light patterns crisscrossed and outlined, outlining a lifelike three-dimensional pattern, which was a battlefield map of the buffer zone.

It was marked with a dense network of points of light, which were the various sentinels and fortifications of the Turinees.

Some of the light spots are also marked with the approximate enemy garrison for reference.

The map is constantly changing in real time, with points of light disappearing every once in a while, meaning that a sentinel has been uprooted or a fortification has been destroyed.

But at the same time, new points of light have emerged.

It's like a real-time monitoring of the battlefield thumbnail.

Pei Ze looked at it intently for a while, and soon had a plan, and whispered a few words to Su Ya.

Su Ya nodded immediately after hearing this, turned around and walked towards the counter.

Not long after, she walked back, still holding a roll of parchment in her hand.

"My lord, according to your orders, the task of destroying fortifications No. 89 has been completed, and a magic map has been returned." Su Ya came to Pei Ze's side and said.

The surrounding wizards turned their heads when they heard this, and their eyes kept looking at Pei Ze and the three of them, both surprised and curious, as well as disdain and contempt.

Among the many missions offered by Red Maple City, the difficulty of destroying the fortifications is definitely in the upper middle range.

Even a wizard in the first-level liquefaction stage didn't dare to take it casually.

The wizards who dare to take on this task are either very confident in their own strength, or they are new to the city and don't know anything.

What kind of person will this excessively young man in front of him be?

Not caring about the surrounding sight, Pei Ze took the magic map and put it into the space ring, turned around and walked outside.

In the crowd, a wizard with dark red eyes watched Pei Ze's figure disappear behind the gate, and snorted coldly: "Guy who can't help himself, a wizard who has just been promoted for less than two months dares to take on this kind of task, I really don't know how to write dead words?" ”

An obese wizard next to him glanced at him and said with a smile: "I heard that Pei Ze is a wizard who has advanced with the top-level meditation method, the strength of this kind of person cannot be judged by the standards of ordinary wizards, maybe he is confident that his strength is enough to cope with the task." ”

The other black-haired wizard shook his head: "Even if Pei Ze is a genius, it is impossible for him to break through to the liquefaction stage in less than two months, and a wizard in the first-level gasification stage is no different from looking for death when he takes on this kind of task." ”

The fat wizard didn't argue, squinted and smiled: "According to what you said, Pei Ze really died in the mission, that would also be good news for us in Red Lotus City, presumably Xu Bo and them will also be happy." ”

"That's right." The red-eyed wizard bowed slightly, a mocking smile on his face, "Then I'll wait and see." ”

The battlefield is vast, and if you go deep into it to carry out tasks, you naturally can't rush on your legs.

It's also not realistic to use spells, wasting precious mental power in vain.

Therefore, a means of transportation is a must, and it must also be a means of transportation with the ability to fly.

"My lord, I inquired yesterday, there is a place near the gate of Red Maple City that specializes in selling and leasing giant eagles, maybe we can buy a few giant eagles there." Su Ya said.

Pei Ze glanced at Su Ya appreciatively and nodded.

"Then drop by and buy the Giant Eagle."

Without delay, Pei Ze took the two of them straight to the gate of Red Maple City.

Due to the geographical environment and planning, Red Maple City occupies an extremely large area, even more extensive than Dawn City.

Even if you rely on flying, it takes a lot of time to get there.

Therefore, a large number of teleportation points have been set up in the city to facilitate the rush of people.

It's just that the cost is a little more expensive.

The cost of a single transmission of a magic stone coin may not be high, but one trip has to pass through seven or eight teleportation points, and three people will have to spend more than ten or twenty magic stone coins at a time.

For some wizards who are not rich enough, this is already a lot of money.

Many wizards would rather spend more time and ride the giant eagle than waste magic stone coins.

Pei Ze didn't plan to waste time on the road, and with a wave of his hand, he directly used the teleportation point for all members.

Four or five minutes later, the three of them came to the gate of Red Maple City and bought three giant eagles for 150 magic stone coins.

The giant eagle stands up to nearly three meters tall, with a wingspan of more than ten meters, and its broad back is more than enough for a person.

Su Ya originally had the idea of being careful and sharing a giant eagle with Pei Ze, which was called saving expenses, but before she could implement it, she was broken by Peng Yan's voice "Boss, we want to buy three giant eagles".

She was so angry that she glared at Peng Yan.

Poor Peng Yan didn't know about this, and was stunned by her.

Climb on the back of the giant eagle, and with a whistling sound, three giant eagles soar into the sky.

The towering walls of Red Maple City quickly became smaller and smaller in view, and gradually faded away.

In the blink of an eye, the three of them had come to an altitude of thousands of meters.

The wind was whistling in the sky, but the three of them were all legendary knights, and they were not afraid of the power of the elements.

Pei Ze sat down cross-legged, took out the magic map and put it between his knees, and watched intently.

All information on the Magic Map is real-time, and will be displayed in real time as soon as a sentinel or fortification is destroyed or newly built.

And the destination of their trip, Fortification 89, was about four hundred and sixty-two kilometers away from Red Maple City in a straight line.

At the speed of the Giant Eagle, it takes about two hours to arrive.

There will be many sentinel points along the way, and Pei Ze plans to push it all the way.

On the one hand, in order to avoid revealing their whereabouts, the intelligence was conveyed back in advance by those outposts, which led to the Turin army at fortification No. 89 to take precautions in advance.

On the other hand, it is also for merit points.

Red Maple City does not require freelance wizards to take on quests in order to be paid.

If you encounter a patrolling Turinse chariot or sentinel on the battlefield, you will also receive merit points if you can show proof of kill, such as recording a ring image.

"Although these two kinds of merit points are a little less, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, and the accumulation of small amounts is not a small number."

Pei Ze withdrew his gaze from the magic map and looked down.

The wilderness is so bare that there are hardly any plants, let alone animals, except for loess and rocks.

Perhaps this field was a fertile plain where grass grows and warblers fly not long ago, but after repeated wars, it can no longer find the original state.

While passing a river, Pei Ze also saw a ruined ruin.

It was supposed to be a town, but now all that remains is ruins, and you can still see half-collapsed and half-standing temples in the ruins.

Although there is no worship of believers, the mottled exterior walls depict murals full of majesty. But it is still telling the sacredness and glory of the past.

Pei Ze looked at this scene with a calm face, and did not sympathize with the plight of those Turin people because of this.

To put it bluntly, dimensional conquest is a war between intelligent beings of different origins for the top of the 'food chain', and compassion at the center of this life-and-death struggle for the survival of the species is no different from suicide.

Su Ya and Peng Yan also discovered the ruins below, lamenting the cruelty of the war, and while guarding the surroundings more and more carefully.

After all, this is a battlefield, and no one can say when an enemy will appear.

Be careful at all times and in all places, otherwise one of them will lose his life.

I flew hundreds of kilometers all the way and didn't find anything.

Just when Pei Ze thought that there would be no accidents until he arrived at the next outpost, a team of hundreds of people suddenly broke into his field of vision in the distance.

It was a group of warriors dressed in uniform armor and armed with battle axes and greatswords.

They rode on a horse-like beast with scaly limbs, and chatted and laughed as they looked around alertly, loose on the outside and tight on the inside.

Behind them, there were hundreds of infantry warriors in leather armor, also heavily armed.

In the middle of this group of infantry were dozens of captives with their hands tied and covered in bruises, all with expressions of despair and grief on their faces.

"It's a Turine!" Su Ya soon discovered the team, and her expression was suddenly solemn.

"Those captives are from Red Maple City?" Peng Yan frowned suspiciously, "The people of Turin will also capture prisoners?" ”

"What's so strange about that." Su Ya said abruptly, "The plane civilization of the feudal aristocracy like the Turin people must be prevalent in the slave trade, and we knights are valuable commodities to the Turin people. ”

Peng Yan was dumbfounded.

Pei Ze smiled slightly, and said: "Su Ya is right, we want to exchange the lives of the Turin people for merit points, and the Turin people want to capture us as slaves, and the two sides are hunters and prey for each other." ”

"This is the essence of dimensional warfare!"

"Morality and justice are all illusory, and the only criterion is the law of the jungle!"

"So don't have extra compassion."

Peng Yan was silent, his expression gradually became firm, and his gaze at the people of Turin below became cold.

As for Su Ya, she had already realized it from the beginning, and she never wavered from beginning to end.

At the same time, the people of Turin in the wilderness also noticed the giant eagle in the sky.

There was a commotion among the infantry in the ranks, and many prisoners shouted for help one after another, and the scene was suddenly chaotic.

The leader of a middle-aged knight with a long beard did not hesitate to draw his sword and turn around, slash the head of a captive, and decisively suppress the captives with bloody means, and then scolded the infantry a few times, and the scene quieted down.

Amid the roar of the bearded knights, the infantry drew their weapons and surrounded the captives in the middle to prevent them from escaping, while forming a formation and looking into the sky as if they were facing a great enemy.

As for the knights in armor, they spontaneously and quickly formed an array as soon as they spotted the enemy, showing the composure and ability of the veterans to the fullest.

"It's pretty elite."

A smile appeared at the corner of Pei Ze's mouth and patted the giant eagle's back.

The giant eagle chirped and swooped downward.

(End of chapter)