Chapter 883: What the Scout Team Saw (1)
Brooke is a seasoned adventurer, having helped a noblewoman find a cat, an elderly man who lives alone repairs a house, a herdsman who chases away pesky wolves, and of course, he has also swept down nezumi lairs with his friends, saved villages from ogres, defeated terrifying and powerful level 5 monsters, and even participated in dragon slaying organized by the Sword and Glory Mercenary Guild - though they were eventually driven out of their caves by the fiery dragon who woke them up.
In any case, Brooke, who is in his forties, is far from being comparable to those boys and girls who look vigorous and pretend to be old, but in fact have no hair. Not to mention anything else, at least this uncle has been married to a woman and has a lovely daughter.
Generally speaking, adventurers will choose to quit at Brooke's age, use the income from adventures in the early years, find a job and live a peaceful life from now on. The people of the Mercenary Guild can use their experience to guide novices, and the strong ones who have reached level 4 strength can maintain their peak state for a long time, but most of the ordinary adventurers who need to face various dangers all the time will basically take the initiative to retire for the sake of insurance, after all, they are already old.
Obviously, Uncle Brooke is not an exception who refuses to accept old age, but because he has the strength of a level 4 warrior.
After discovering the Ming Empire's jaw-dropping surprise in hindsight, Alicia hurriedly sent Leonard to send a large team of adventurers to the battle area to reconnoitre, and Brooke's team was one of them. The uncle was very excited about this. Because he took a fancy to a telescope provided in the store of the special supply system promoted by the Alliance, but that thing was generally for the army, and the price of selling it to the outside world was naturally very high; Earning more merit points is the only way to do this.
"Damn, I still don't get it. A handsome young man who followed Brooke, who was in charge of clearing the way ahead, couldn't help but wonder, "Do you want the telescope so much, what's so good about it?"
The young man, Pirka, has a lot of talent, and Brooke is ready to train him to be his successor. Seeing that he didn't seem to understand very well, the uncle immediately turned around and raised his index finger and gently shook his lips and said, "Tut-tut." Pirka, you're still too tender. I ask you, what exactly does a telescope do?"
"Of course, it is to present the distant scenery that cannot be seen clearly by normal shili to the user's eyes through the principle of optics. This results in a similar effect to Eagle Eye. Pirka immediately replied without hesitation, "Since there are no restrictions on the use of this handy item, and anyone can use it, so countries used to spend a lot of money to equip their armies to improve the efficiency of reconnaissance, but now it seems to have been replaced by a large instrument mounted on a warship in the air and a more rapid and convenient reconnaissance aircraft." ”
"Where did you come from, and when you meet someone who is reminiscent of the dull wooden of a textbook, the crazy, desperate, deep-sighted, four-eyed super-schooler!?" Brooke pulled out a large paper fan and slapped it on Pilka's head. "What's the fuss about this serious 800 explanation that seems to have been copied from the library of everything!?"
Pierre Carton blinked with big, shiny eyes and an extremely aggrieved expression on his face. Combined with his handsome face, it makes people feel all kinds of reluctance to look at it. If it weren't for the authentic men's dress on Ya's body, if she changed to women's clothes, it would definitely make all kinds of strange uncles, perverts, and good friends squirt nosebleeds.
"Sell your sister's cuteness!" Brooke couldn't help but sweat profusely when he saw this, and slapped the other party again with a smile, "Be serious, don't you see that the boys in the back are discussing how to trick you into picking up soap at night? All in all, you have a very serious misunderstanding about the purpose of telescopes. I'll correct you now!"
Pirka immediately changed to listen attentively, and several other team members behind him, including the only magician girl in the team, also gathered around him with curiosity on his face.
"I heard it all. Little souls. Brooke stopped and looked at the team members, raised his right hand and clenched it into a fist and said solemnly, "The real purpose of the telescope is to use it to spy on girls in open baths such as open-air baths from a distance that are not easy to be detected! Yes, that's right, Pirka, after we have saved up enough merit points to exchange for binoculars, you can peek at Marilyn taking a bath without worrying about being kicked by her!"
The girl who was stunned by the name of her name flashed countless complicated expressions on her face, but Zuihou didn't say anything, just lightly turned her gaze to Pirka, and the latter hurriedly raised her hands and shook her hands in denial: "No, no, no, Marilyn, I would never do that!"
"In a sense, your reaction will hurt the hearts of other girls even more. Brooke sighed in an old-fashioned tone, "So Pirca, you should have said, 'I'm going to keep you from seeing when I'm peeping.'" ”
The mage girl who was called Marilyn finally couldn't hold it back, and coldly squinted at the team leader with very contemptuous eyes and said, "Uncle Brooke, you are an authentic sexual harassment. Believe it or not, I'll complain to my sister-in-law when I go back?"
"It doesn't matter, even if you complain to her, I will conquer her in bed that night and forget about it. ”
What a sharp statement, and Pirka gave Brooke a thumbs up with adoration on his face!
But it turns out that a cute girl who can still calmly complain in the face of meat jokes can't be easily leveled like this, so Marilyn, who didn't change her face and didn't beat her heart, pursed the corners of her mouth lightly and continued: "Yes? Then I'll tell Uncle your daughter that her father is actually ......."
"That's the only one, please don't!" Brooke, who was full of cows, immediately bowed to Marilyn's feet in a fairly standard ORZ position.
Obviously, similar routines were played out in this squad quite often, and it didn't take long for everyone to regain their mood. Continue to follow behind Brooke and start on his way.
Since the alliance did not prepare any ships, many adventurer squads could not bypass the demon's defense line by water like the Ming Empire, so Brooke and the others had to choose to walk along the river bank. At this time, everyone saw several warships of the Ming Empire escorting many simple wooden ships full of soldiers or weapons, which were obviously improvised and full of soldiers or weapons, to the distance. I guess I'm going to reinforce it.
Although the lack of a naval army is a fairly advantageous situation, the remnants of the Ming Empire's fleet are not capable of transporting all the ground troops at once, so the legendary sail wooden ships come in handy. It can be said that in order to be able to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to completely destroy the demon's portal, the Ming Empire has already used all its liliang.
A large group of low-level monsters hiding in the woods soon spotted the large targets on the river, and swarmed out of the woods with a howl, scrambling to pounce on them.
"Don't move!" Seeing this, Brooke immediately raised his hand and pressed it twice to signal everyone to stay calm, "Let the Ming army deal with those hunters." Their battleships have great firepower. If we had been in the past, we would have been implicated. ”
As he spoke, the heavy artillery on the battleship was already spewing bright firelight, and an earth-shattering roar erupted, and clouds of smoke or water immediately rose up on the river bank and the water, causing the low-level monsters who rushed into the water with strange screams suddenly turned on their backs. However, demons are also a race that can learn and grow in battle. Although these hunting crawlers were large in number and seemed densely packed, they were not crowded together like canned sardines, but scattered sparsely, avoiding the fate of being killed and injured by artillery fire.
It is a legendary skirmish line that is very irregular on the blue star.
The reason why the demon's warship did not stay in the Eastern Continent. On the one hand, the alliance is pressed too hard, and on the other hand, most of their various cannon fodder can swim or even dive. Crossing a river or something is completely trivial, and there is no need for a boat. These blue-gray low-level monsters jumped into the water and increased their speed faster than they did on land, drawing a large number of waves on the surface of the river, and rushing towards the fleet like dense small torpedoes.
"The distance between the two sides is too close, and the naval artillery has no time to use it. Brooke, who was hiding in the woods with his teammates, observed the battle situation and analyzed, "If this continues, the monsters will climb onto the battleship!"
"What to do, sir?" asked Pirka worriedly, "there are so many of them that even if we went up to help, it would be a drop in the bucket." Can you find a way to distract the monster?"
"For example?"
"Ugh. Jumping out of a picture of a stunningly beautiful blonde girl that I've treasured for a long time, running around and shouting 'Long live Queen Elysia' or something?"
A slender white jade hand decisively pressed Pirka's shoulder from behind, causing the handsome young man to immediately hang down countless black lines from the top of his head in a cold sweat. It was Marilyn with a bad face: "Wait a minute, Pirka." You Weishenme will have a picture of Queen Bixia for now, what is the matter with the behavior that she is going to carry out as if she is a brainless fan? Are you sure you didn't deliberately show off the lower limit of our Western Continent Alliance in front of the lowest-ranking demon troops?"
"Well, that's a bit ugly, Marilyn. Pirka immediately raised his index finger and pulled the corners of his mouth and explained with a smile, "I do admire Queen Bixia, but I'm definitely not a brain-dead fan. Isn't it because Bixia's reputation is so loud that the demons can't help but be frightened by it......?
"I think it's more likely that they'll come and bite you to pieces. The girl, who was not even as beautiful as the young man in front of her, pouted her lips expressionlessly, "And Pirka, your eyes drifted to the side." ”
Brooke couldn't help but cough hard and interrupted, "Stop, now is not the time for you two to flirt." We have just seen the blocking force of the Ming army and the army of demons in the valley in the rear, but these reinforcements on the river did not land nearby but rushed forward, where exactly are they going? In addition, since the demon army is blocked in the valley, where did this group of cannon fodder come from? There are still a lot of questions waiting for us to discover, and I want to throw a glitter and love flashbang for me to go back and get it again. ”
Although Pirka wanted to roar so loudly, he remembered Marilyn's flying feet on weekdays. Zuihou still decisively chose to remain silent.
The battle on the river continues. Despite the strong current, the monsters were not affected much, but as they approached the fleet, a large black human head suddenly appeared on the side of the wooden boat. Picking up the musket in his hand, crawling towards the hunt in the swimming is a fierce shot that splits the head and covers the face.
Compared to the bulky naval guns, the dense muskets were the most deadly. Countless small white waves instantly rose on the surface of the river, and the monster that was hit also let out a painful and terrible roar, waving its limbs indiscriminately and was immediately swept away by the turbulence.
"It turns out that there is still this hand. Seeing this, Brooke couldn't help but praise, "If it's an alliance, I'm afraid I have to prepare for close combat, I didn't expect the Ming army's muskets to be so sharp." It's just ......"
Looking at the soldiers who were caught up by a monster that had successfully climbed onto the side of the ship in the rain of bullets, the adventurers couldn't help but be speechless for a while.
Their melee abilities are almost none!
No matter what. This group of miscellaneous soldiers who came out of nowhere did not cause much trouble for the fleet. Brooke ignored the few monsters that had survived the battle, and bypassed them and continued to quietly advance deeper into the battlefield. Finally, at around three o'clock in the afternoon, this adventurer team found the temporary base of the Ming army's portal raiders.
Say it's the base. In fact, it is just a camp that has been randomly piled up and set up around it. From time to time, troops and weapons were sent to the front line, and from time to time, troops who looked embarrassed were sent down, which seemed to be very lively.
"Okay boss, what now?" asked Pierka, poking Brooke in the back. "Do you want to go over and ring the doorbell?"
"Don't talk nonsense. The uncle shook his head solemnly and said. "We are not currently allied with the Ming Empire, and it is impossible for the other party to allow us to enter their military bases in the open. It is better to say that the Ming army, which has already turned a blind eye to us, which has already been exposed, has already given face to the alliance. Take a break here, we'll go to the front later......"
Marilyn suddenly took out the crystal ball for long-distance communication from the package she was carrying, and this beautiful little thing was now constantly emitting a bright light: "Uncle, there is communication." ”
"Lord Leonard looks like he can't wait. Brooke smiled and took the Crystal Ball, "Well, no wonder. The Ming Empire's actions did not have any warning, and the battle situation ahead was blackened. The people above will naturally be in a hurry. Okay, everybody, all smile. We're going to see the big guys later. ”
With that, Brooke activated the crystal ball, which was revealed from the magical image...... Is it a scene of many boys and girls jumping in the camp tent?
"Don't worry about the details or anything. Leonard, in the center of the video, clenched his fists and coughed with a straight face, "Uncle Brooke, you're fine." I didn't hear from you at three o'clock, and I thought there was an accident, so did I encounter some urgent emergency?"
"Ah, I'm sorry to grow up. Brooke hurriedly sneered and scratched his head, "We just found the forward base of the Ming army, and we accidentally forgot about it because we were so engrossed." ”
"You have found the forward base of the Ming army!?" With a sweet voice like halva slowly melting, a blonde girl with a peerless beauty suddenly squeezed into the camera, making Leonard suddenly scramble, "How are their numbers, equipment, and morale, and how many troops do the demons have?"
"Female, Queen Bixia, please be careful. The camera shook violently, but it stabilized as soon as Leonard reached out to either side, as if the crystal ball had been held steady, "And does it really matter if you rush in directly?
"Little Ellie, don't escape!"
A vigorous figure jumped out from behind the blonde girl with the momentum of a tiger descending the mountain, but the girl's reaction was obviously faster, and she swept a thunderbolt with blind dog eyes with her backhand and knocked the other party away; ”
No, no, no, you definitely used magic to send someone flying, right!?Brooke tried his best to be in a messy mood, and respectfully bowed his head to the girl in the image and said, "Honor, Honorable Queen Bixia, it's an honor to meet you." ”
"It's me, it's me!" Pirka suddenly exclaimed with great excitement, desperately trying to squeeze Uncle Brooke to the side, "It's the first time I've been at such a close distance...... Woooooooooooo
The face of the man, who was so handsome that she almost mistook her gender for Alicia, suddenly changed drastically, and she collapsed from the camera foaming at the mouth in pain, replaced by an ordinary magician girl with a nonchalant face.
"That's, it's ...... just now," the little queen smirked stiffly with black lines on her lips.
"Please don't care, Queen Bixia. Maintaining her nonchalant expression, Marilyn explained, "That's just your brain." ”
In a sense, the daily life on both sides is not inferior at all! (To be continued......