Chapter 46: The Invisible Threat

It's been three days since the Wrath of the God of War legion left Lornia, eradicating the sporadic undead creatures along the way, and rushing towards the Mordor region.

The closer you get to Mordor, the darker the sky becomes, and the more you move forward, the thicker the veil becomes, and finally it turns into a time of daylight, but it is pitch black in front of you, and the visual distance is only a few hundred meters at most.

Only then did Chang Hao understand why he had heard that there were many strong minotaur warriors in the Wrath of the God of War Legion before, but he didn't see any of them this time, most of them were gray wolf warriors, bear warriors and centaur archers. It turns out that the battlefield environment in Mordor is so harsh, and the Minotaur warriors are born night blind, and coming here is basically no different from sending them to death.

Soon, the legion had reached the dividing line between the orc kingdom and the Mordor region.

Anna rode a horse to Chang Hao's side, and saw that he was holding a copy of the "Mordor Region March Combat Manual" and reading it with relish, and said unceremoniously: "I didn't expect that the elves would also take the initiative to stick their hot faces to the cold butts of the orcs, today is an eye-opener." ”

"Knowing each other and knowing oneself is the only way to win a hundred battles, haven't you heard this sentence?" Chang Hao took his eyes off the manual, and also unceremoniously glanced at Anna's long legs under the tight leather coat as a salute.

I haven't heard of this before, but it sounds... Seems to make a lot of sense. Anna chewed on this sentence repeatedly, and found that the more she chewed, the more she could appreciate the essence of it.

Chang Hao chuckled, Anna has a bad temper, but she is not bad, on the contrary, she is quite smart, and she can draw inferences with a little dialing. It's a pity that this woman's mouth is really neat, and it feels like squeezing him has become her daily task.

This combat manual was not easy to come by, and he had obtained it from the Commander of the Legion of the Wrath of the God of War with a three-inch tongue. The corps commander didn't intend to deal with him at first, but he couldn't stand his hard work, so he was forced to give him a copy of this combat manual, which could barely be regarded as a military secret.

"Legolas, sometimes I really wonder if you're an elf. Anna sat straight with the reins in her hands, her chest rising and falling with the jolting of the horse's back, "Your behavior is quite different from the elves in the temple records, but there is one thing that will overturn all doubts about you, and that is your conversation." ”

Anna looked directly into Chang Hao's eyes, "No one has ever said such concise and profound philosophical words, even if it is the main priest of Dante, it is difficult to do it..."

Chang Hao maintained an unmoved demeanor on his face, and he had already smiled in his heart, saying that my Chinese cultural accumulation has been inherited for thousands of years, all of which are the efforts of the ancestors, and what you have heard now is just the tip of the iceberg.

As if to detect the enemy's situation, the legion began to form a formation to meet the enemy, and a scout ran towards them, a kobold, he saluted and said: "Lord Anna, the movement of the undead army has been found five kilometers ahead, and the legion commander has ordered to take the initiative to meet and attract attention, and you should divide your troops here in two ways." ”

The rescue team left the legion under the guidance of the kobold scout, who returned after pointing out the direction for Chang Hao. About half an hour later, a terrifying battle erupted from where they had left, and it was clear that the Wrath of the God of War Legion had been struck together with the army of the undead.

The mission of the Wrath of the God of War is only a feint, and it will not fight the army of the undead for long, and they must hurry up and get far enough within the time of the feint.

Anna stabilized her mind, spread out the map she was carrying, and her slender fingers crossed a semicircle on the map, "According to the intelligence, the Terran mission was imprisoned behind the undead army after being captured, and we need to avoid the middle area where there are more wandering undead, and make a detour about a hundred kilometers to the left, and then make a plan." ”

"Curious to ask, where did you get this information?" Chang Hao was a little strange, thinking that the temple should not have the ability to spread the intelligence net to other people's hometowns, right?

"The temple is confidential, no comment. Anna rolled her eyes at Chang Hao.

"Did the overseers who failed in their previous missions send messages back to the temple before they die?" Chang Hao said as he noticed the change in Anna's expression, and when he saw her face darken, he knew that his crow's mouth had guessed it again.

"Of those Overseers... Have your sisters?" Chang Hao asked tentatively.

"Wrath of the god of war is falling all the time, and it's time for us to hurry. Anna took a deep breath and turned her head to forget about the past, avoiding the topic.

The barren land of the Mordor region, coupled with the fact that the sun is not visible all year round, makes the vegetation here extremely scarce, and most of the plants that can survive are drought-tolerant thorns, ravines and rocky streams as far as the eye can see, plus the night-like sky and the wandering spirits of the dead in the wasteland, making people feel as if they are in hell.

Chang Hao and his party shuttled through the wilderness of Mordor, and everyone was asked to keep their bodies as low as possible. The others were fine, but this made it difficult for the tall soldiers in the team to carry heavy loads on their backs, and it was almost impossible to travel a hundred kilometers while bending down.

After sneaking for about two hours, Chang Hao, who was walking in the front, suddenly had a cloudy face, he immediately raised his arms and clenched his fists, and all the team members behind him immediately stopped and guarded the surroundings, which was a gesture signal that Chang Hao had agreed with them before to represent the situation.

"Are you going to tell me that we're actually following the same path as the previous rescue teams?" Chang Hao pointed to the remnants of supplies in a gravel stream, which had the insignia of the Lonia City Guards on their bags, just like the ones they were carrying.

"Yes, this is the optimal route given by the military department, and there is no reason why we should not choose this path. Anna raised her head, she didn't understand why Chang Hao suddenly got angry.

"It's just nonsense!" Chang Hao's lowered tone was filled with unconcealable anger, "It's not a day or two for the demons to live here in Mordor, you have failed to rescue several times in a row, and no matter how stupid the demon clan leaders are, they will also know how your rescue team infiltrated the territory of Mordor." This rescue route has been 100 percent exposed, and as long as they set up an ambush in the right place, we will become a piece of meat on someone else's chopping block!

Anna woke up in a dream, her pretty face turned pale, why didn't she think of this? If the situation is really as Chang Hao said, this route may have been exposed since the failure of the first rescue, resulting in the next few rescues completely turned into a sheep's mouth!

There is another point that Chang Hao can't bear to hit her, that is, the previous groups of rescue team members, why does the temple think that they must all be glorious? Since the demon clan can capture the human envoy alive, there is no reason why it can't capture a few team members who have traveled a long way, right?

Chang Hao even suspected that the overseers who failed to carry out the mission in Anna's mouth may not have really died, but were captured alive by the demons and used torture to pry their mouths open, sending misleading information back to the temple.

The most important thing in intelligence is accuracy, authenticity, and timeliness, and now almost all of these three points are untenable, and the situation is instantly confusing.

Although Xiong Ba and Mamos heard it in a fog, no matter how dull they were, it was not difficult to guess from Chang Hao's constricted brows that they seemed to be in a very unfavorable situation now.

"Lord Legolas, what are we going to do now?" Lucoco leaned a little closer to Chang Hao's side. Mordor's eerie environment is like the jackals of the Folded Ears cat group in their hometown, making them instinctively fearful.

"The first people who carried out the mission were all the elite of the military department?" Chang Hao asked Anna while touching the top of the folded ear cat lady's head to comfort her.

After receiving Anna's affirmative reply, Chang Hao squatted down and picked up the corner of the supply bag, and said with a slight squint in the corner of his eyes: "It's only two hours away to start replenishing?

Chang Hao was cut off by himself halfway through his words, because he saw the bloodshot in the eyes of several tall orcs who didn't know when to climb up.

"Hell!" Chang Hao snorted and rushed to Xiong Ba's side, so fast that Anna's eyes widened and she couldn't catch his movement clearly.

At this time, Chang Hao found that the several orcs in the team who were moving forward with heavy loads were not breathing heavily, their eyes were bloodshot, and they were sweating profusely, as if they were poisoned. But Xiong Ba thought it was just weakness, and out of face concerns and the dignity of the warrior, they chose to resist hard instead of telling Chang Hao as soon as possible.

"There are too many toxic particles in the air in the Mordor area, and a small amount of inhalation is not tight, but if it is inhaled in large quantities, it will lead to poisoning and even hallucinations!" Chang Hao used his spiritual power to test the air around them, and his face was so gloomy that he could wring out water.

On the bright side, it is not dangerous, it is good to avoid it, but it is this invisible threat that is the most hurtful blunt knife.

Grandpa told him that the blood of the true dragon is the most masculine and rigid thing in the world, even if it is placed in other high-level planes, it is enough to rank among the top three. The poisonous particles in the air in the Mordor region entered his body, and they would be incinerated into nothingness by the true dragon's blood in an instant, so he was not able to detect the existence of the poisonous particles in the first place.

The lung capacity of the bear man and the mammoth warrior is amazingly large, and a deep breath can withstand others dozens of times, who is poisoned if they are not poisoned?

Chang Hao didn't care much now, the storage ring on his ring finger flickered, and a pile of miscellaneous items appeared out of thin air, including charcoal, lime, wood chips left over from the construction of the ship, coconut velvet weaving, and other things. On the desert island, there will be a shortage of materials, and things are reluctant to throw away even if they are useful or not, Chang Hao didn't expect that they would be used one day.

"Space magic?" exclaimed Anna.

Chang Hao ignored Anna and asked Lu Coco and the others to help him.

In the past, when I was in high school, the school had an extracurricular activity for crisis response, and the teacher required each student to make a simple gas mask by hand from the prepared materials. He deserted at the time and didn't listen to the lecture, and in the end, he still had to grind hard and let the old sister cheat on his behalf.

If time could come back, Chang Hao really wanted to make up for that lesson.

A military kettle of the city defense of Lonia, the bottom of the kettle is full of fine holes, the side of the kettle is opened to stuff the mouth and nose into, and the exhalation port is opened below, and the outer side of the exhalation port is wrapped in layers of coconut velvet, and then the weaving, coconut velvet, charcoal, lime, sawdust and other things that can filter the air are put into the bottom of the pot and then separated, and a simple gas mask is completed.

As for the headband tied to their heads, Lucoco and the others took the thorns that grew in the wilderness, and cut off the spikes that went up and bent them with a few strokes.

Chang Hao was glad that the water bottles given to them by the Lonia City Guards were all extra-large sizes, otherwise with Xiongba's face size, no small size would have been able to fit into his mouth.

It took a lot of effort, and everyone put on gas masks. I don't know if I don't wear this gas mask, I am shocked when I wear it, and after the air quality in my mouth has a sharp before and after comparison, the big guy can't put down the gas mask, and the situation of Xiong Ba and Mamos has also improved greatly.

Anna showed a strong curiosity about this artifact that did not belong to this era, and she was a little excited, if such a thing as a gas mask could be equipped with the army, it could play a crucial role in the future war with the demons.

Just when she wanted to discuss with Chang Hao whether she could submit the invention of the gas mask to the temple afterwards, she found that the "elf inventor" seemed to have started to make new moves, and no one dared to disturb him.

"Platinum, how is your eyesight?" Chang Hao asked Centaur Archer Platinum to take off her coat as he smeared grass juice and thorns around it.

"Rest assured, captain, my night vision is very good, and in an environment like Mordor, I can lock on to an enemy three hundred meters away, and I can't see it any further. "The tall Platinum has long snow-white hair hanging down from his waist, and there is not a trace of fat on his arms and thighs, and his fair skin is a testament to the excellent blood of the Centaurs.

Platinum is the last woman on the team other than Anna and the three Folded Ear Cats. She has execution far beyond Chang Hao's expectations, and when she asked her to take off her clothes, she didn't ask why, she took it off and handed it to him without hesitation, which was very decisive and neat.

Chang Hao smacked his lips, a full three hundred meters!

Even he can only do this when he lights up the golden pupils, the old saying is really good, there are people outside the world, there are mountains outside the world, and the heroes of the world cannot be underestimated.

"The sight distance of 300 meters is true, but with this light willow bow in my hand, the maximum range is actually only a little more than 200 meters, and no matter how far it is, it is beyond the reach of the dust. ”

Shirokane rubbed the willow bow that never left his hand for a moment. If it was a balsa arrow, she had the confidence to increase the range to three hundred. But her quiver was filled with silver-plated heavy arrows specially made for the operation, and only silver-plated weapons could cause visible damage to the undead. The silver-plated heavy arrows are particularly tested for accuracy and calculation of advance, and even the veteran Centaur archers in the Wrath of the God of War Legion dare not pat their chests to ensure the hit rate.

"Where are you going?" Chang Hao smiled and pasted the last thorn.

"Wherever you want. Platinum nodded without thinking.

"Then why didn't you join the army?"

Platinum's face was a rare red, and the white ponytail with the same name as her back swayed slightly: "I applied for the exam before, but the officer in the enlistment office rejected me on the grounds that it was inconvenient for women to move in the army, even though my grades were among the best." ”

"Then I've found a treasure. ”

Chang Hao draped the coat that had turned dark brown over Bai Jin, "This is a camouflage suit that allows you to blend in with your surroundings. After putting it on, as long as you move properly, you can greatly reduce the probability of being discovered by those undead. You keep your camouflage and wander about a hundred and fifty meters around our team. But any undead who approach or may expose us are your prey. ”

The team members approached with some disbelief to take a closer look, and soon they were shocked to find that if someone was actually lying on the ground a little farther away in this camouflage uniform, it would be really difficult for them to detect that it would be a person.

"I've entrusted you with the safety of your team. Chang Hao patted her on the shoulder.

Platinum accepted the order, rubbing the camouflage suit on his body in a daze, and this feeling of being trusted was warm.

Chang Hao took the map and pointed his finger at the central hinterland of Mordor.

He doesn't plan to take a detour, he wants to go straight to the Yellow Dragon!