Chapter 312: Undead Night Raid
For players whose mental strength generally reaches the quasi-professional level, the upper limit of the game character's health bar (upper limit of damage to withstand) has tripled compared to when they first entered the "game" - after all, the player level has gone up, and the equipment has also improved. If the upper limit of damage to withstand is not increased, it will inevitably be regarded as a BUG by players and they will curse the planners.
Anyway, these old bones dug out from the depths of the Tarantan Wasteland and infected by evil spirits for thousands of years are very strong and won’t be easily broken by being knocked around.
A level 0 player will not die even if they accidentally break the pieces, as they can still be alive and well when put back together. A level 3 player is certainly not afraid of being "disassembled"... In theory, as long as the game character (the bones of a thousand-year-old corpse) does not suffer an impact that exceeds the upper limit of the health bar (the upper limit of the damage it can withstand), players will not be killed when playing human bone jigsaw puzzles with each other.
The two girls worked together. After Jialuo stuffed her head out, Yang Ying handed out her skeleton piece by piece. Then Yang Ying took her own skull out of the door, and Jialuo lay on the ground and put her arm into the food delivery card slot to take out her parts...
If the skull could pass, there would be no problem with the rest of the skeleton. In comparison, it was the equipment on Yang Ying that took some time. The lining of her warrior breastplate had to be removed, and the outer armor had to be disassembled into components before it could be passed out from the bayonet.
After struggling for about half an hour, the two girls successfully "escaped from prison".
Next... the two girls strictly followed the mission requirements and conscientiously performed the reconnaissance mission - on the premise of ensuring that they were not exposed or discovered, they walked every street and alley in the valley (scouted the area) and used identification techniques on all larger buildings (to investigate the distribution of enemy forces).
If it were a player who plays games with his brain, who has the ability to write eloquently and does not increase entropy, he would not just be a scout and would have to do some fancy moves.
But if the people doing this task are Yang Ying and Jia Luo, then there is no such worry... These two are ordinary players who are too lazy to read the task text if it has too many words, and will be distracted to do other things if the game plot is too long. Exploring the map and discovering new plots are not a part of their minds at all.
Wouldn’t it be nice to just complete the task and get the reward? Why go through so much trouble?
What's even more interesting is that Yang Ying and Jialuo are the type of players who accidentally click on the skill point of Lurk Detection - these two girls are almost tired of playing monster spawning maps like the Spider's Lair, where you can easily add a lot of monsters and cause the team to be wiped out, and monster spawning points like the Poison Mist Swamp, where you can accidentally pull in one or two extra elite monsters and the team will be wiped out.
From time to time, casual players would organize parkour activities in Innadri City, which made Yang Ying and Jia Luo, who would join in the fun when they had time, particularly skilled at climbing over walls and roofs...
The identification skill, which only takes 30 seconds on CD, makes the two girls better at avoiding the enemy's sight in the dark than professional thieves - they can find out the direction and distance of people through the buildings, which is almost the same as turning on the perspective cheat; even though this human black market base is patrolled by thugs no matter how late it is to prevent slaves from escaping, it poses no threat to the two girls.
When a thousand-man brigade consisting of City Hall operators, Everlook Town militia, and Orc Militia made a long-distance raid into the southern wasteland of Adler Territory, the two girls had already run through all the streets and lanes in the valley town.
While Patton, who was in charge of the operation, was leading the large force towards the valley town according to the instructions from Yang Qiu through the imprint matrix, the two girls were also diligently continuing to do the second part of the "Deep into the Enemy Camp" mission: investigating the terrain and the light and dark sentry points inside and outside the valley.
When Barton saw the crater in the direction of the valley town from afar, the two girls had already completed the second ring. They ran out according to the task instructions and joined the "friendly forces" carrying the undead teleportation array...
It was four o'clock in the morning in the other world, and it was only three-thirty in the afternoon on Earth.
During this period of time, there were not many players online. For example, Entropy Bu Zeng, a good student who never skipped classes, had already logged off to attend classes.
But there are also 1,400 people including working people who happened to be on rotation leave, college students who happened to have no classes, freelancers, and some players who decisively asked for leave and skipped classes after knowing that there were battlefield missions.
Because of the big mouth of Jialuo live-broadcasting the progress of the mission, the players who had been waiting for a long time even formed a large group and squatted near the teleportation point waiting; as soon as the system announced that the world view breakthrough mission was completed and the dynamic battlefield mission was triggered, they all received the mission and teleported over...
At 4:20 in the morning of the alien world time, in the small town in the valley, the square used for business and also rented to foreign caravans for temporary camping was quiet.
Although it is quiet, it does not mean that there is no activity... After all, the caravans that come to this black market population base are not good people, and the valley will be on guard; even if the few caravans that rent the venue for the night have not shown any intention of causing trouble so far, there will be thugs on duty all night.
Near the entrance of the valley, under a two-story wooden building, several muscular men sat around a fire, monitoring the entire square.
Diagonally opposite this group of people, near the building complex of the valley town, there is also a wooden building of the same specifications, and several thugs are on duty downstairs.
These two wooden buildings are quite different from the regular buildings in the town. The first floor is not used for living, but for raising ground lizards. When slaves try to escape, or foreign caravans try to cause trouble in the valley, the guards grab their weapons and lead out the ground lizards. Most of the problems can be settled in less than half an hour.
On the south side of the square, backed by a rock wall carved out by humans and close to the entrance of the valley, is the site rented by the Tachia caravan.
More than twenty carriages and horses formed a circle, and all the caravan members set up tents inside the circle to rest.
Old Bert, who sold two undead bodies and the skills to capture them for 500 gold coins a few hours ago, stared with bloodshot eyes, worrying about gains and losses all night.
A windfall of five hundred gold coins is indeed not a small number, but it is still far below old Bert's psychological expectations... A soul is worth 100 gold coins, and the method of trapping the souls is bought out with only three hundred gold coins. Augusta, the black-hearted Adler slave trader, is really too much!
But old Bert really didn't have the courage to turn against Augusta. He was an old businessman and knew the background of Augusta, the Adler slave trader - he was a knight's man.
The so-called knight refers to a "short-term nobleman" who has obtained the title of baron but cannot pass the title to his descendants.
In aristocratic circles, a knight is just a title, which means that the person is qualified to deal with respectable people.
If it was in Tachia, the northern territory of the Rhine Kingdom, old Bert would not necessarily be afraid of a knight who had died a lifetime. A merchant like him who could run long-distance caravans could more or less have a relationship with the nobles; but in someone else's home turf , old Bert had no right to be tough.
"If I wasn't worried about Innadri's people coming after me, how could I let these bastards get away with it!"
Old Bert couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning. He simply sat up and thought bitterly, "Since these guys are so rude...then don't blame me for being rude too!"
During the time when Old Bert's caravan was active in Innadri, they saw with their own eyes the undead moving around in the Innadri City Hall, and interacting with those powerful operators with gestures.
Obviously, the various statements circulating in the outside world, such as that Charlie Rex is actually a puppet of the black magician, those undead are actually monitoring him, or those undead are just special alien mercenaries who serve those who pay, are not necessarily accurate - the relationship between the Tarantan undead and Innadri must be deeper than outsiders imagine.
It was precisely because of such concerns that Old Bert was in a hurry to bring the undead to the valley town to get rid of them - he had already planned to sell these two undead first and see the situation; if the Inadli people caught up with them, then the trouble would have been passed on and it would have nothing to do with him.
If the Innadri people didn't come after him, then Old Bert would either continue to do the business of capturing the undead or sell the method of capturing them.
I just didn't expect that these Adler slave traders would be so uncaring and want to get rid of old Bert with just 500 gold coins.
"There's no need to wait for the Innaderis to catch up. I 'll go back and report as soon as it gets light!" Old Bert took out a match, lit the lantern, and packed his luggage carefully.
"Two undead took our caravan's carriage to the southern wasteland of Adler for fun, but were kidnapped on the way... No, no, those undead may have a way to communicate with the Innadri people. This kind of excuse won't work..."
"Wait, just put it another way - our caravan stayed in the town here, and the Adler people were very curious about the undead who came with us, so they invited them to be their guests, but suddenly turned hostile and snatched them away, throwing down 500 gold coins, and saying nonsense that this was the price for buying the two undead!"
"That's right! The undead didn't respond to our words. They can only communicate with the Innaderites and can't understand the content of our conversation!"
"The packages of the two undead are still in my caravan, which proves what I said is correct!"
The more Old Bert thought about it, the more he thought it was feasible. He immediately stood up and went to a corner of the tent, picked up the two backpacks that were casually thrown there, and solemnly put them into a box, ready to use them as evidence when he "reported" Innaderil...
When the Tachia merchant was thinking about how to take revenge on the Adler slave trader and how to get himself out safely, he suddenly heard a faint "click, click" sound.
Old Bert suddenly felt the hairs on his body stand up and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
This special sound...is the footsteps of the undead!
Old Bert stood up and listened for a while, then cautiously pulled open a corner of the tent curtain and looked up following the sound.
Above the rough rock wall carved out by humans, on the steep mountain slope about four meters high, a skeleton figure flashed by among the overgrown raspberry vines, unknown weeds and sprawling bushes.
Old Bert quickly lowered the door curtain and retreated into the tent.
Before the frightened Tachia merchant could understand the situation he was facing, a roar of shock and anger came from the direction of the two-story building that monitored the square not far from the Tachia caravan camp: "Who is it——"
The warning sounded for only one and a half seconds before it abruptly stopped, interrupted by the muffled sound of weapons colliding and heavy objects hitting human bodies.
Next, there was a series of screams...
“Ahhhhhh!”
"Oh my god, it's the undead!"
Along with the screams, the "crackling" sounds that were only faintly audible before suddenly became more frequent...
The sounds of weapons colliding and objects colliding are also more numerous and more chaotic.
Old Bert heard people in his caravan's camp who were woken up cursing, and others asking questions in a sleepy voice.
These curses and questions turned into screams in a very short time, and the noise of hand-to-hand combat became louder and louder.
Old Bert swallowed his saliva, pulled out the long knife from under his sleeping bag, bravely opened the door curtain, stretched out half of his body, and looked towards the wooden building not far away.
Just one glance and old Bert was stunned.
The entrance to the valley has been flooded with undead, and only the top of the wooden building can be seen.
From the steep mountains on both sides of the valley entrance, large groups of undead rushed down continuously, rushed into the square, and rushed towards the caravan camps.
The Tachia caravan, which was fighting against the wooden building at the entrance, had also been half-surrounded by the undead... no, it had been infiltrated by the undead...
The thugs in the caravan were not all useless. Many of them tried to resist. However, such small-scale resistance was completely useless to the undead, who had fought against regular military formations several times before. The undead easily climbed over the circular defense line of trucks and carriages and jumped into the camp, capturing anyone they saw and snatching their weapons and any valuable items from them.
After robbing, they pinned the person down and tied his hands and feet with strange white strips...
Under the dumbfounded gaze of Old Bert, the caravan boss, the Tachia caravan he had painstakingly led quickly fell into the hands of the undead...
"Stop, stop! I'm not a bad person. I, I want to inform on others! I'm the one who's reporting it!"
Old Bert screamed and stumbled out of the tent in panic, trying to communicate with the undead that were wreaking havoc in his own camp.
Two undead who were tying up the leader of his caravan noticed Old Bert. One of the undead stood up and stretched out his bone claws towards Old Bert - snatched the long knife from his hand, and skillfully tied the nylon tie around Old Bert's wrist.
"Ms. Gold Coin, you can't do this! You can't do this--!"
Old Bert cried and yelled, but the undead didn't understand what he was saying. They tied him up and pushed him to the side of the thug leader. Then they ran into Old Bert's tent with great interest and searched it...
Players will only grab items that have a value that can be scanned by the appraisal technique (can be exchanged for reputation and game coins from Yang Qiu). Items that cannot be exchanged for reputation and game coins after appraisal are transparent to the players. Hundreds of players swept away the floating property carried by the members of the Tachia caravan like a whirlwind, left the captives where they were, and ran excitedly to the next caravan camp.
The fate of the other caravans in the square was similar to that of the Tachia caravan...
"Damn, it's already over in just a few minutes?" A player who was slower in climbing the mountain and fell behind finally rushed into the square, but after running through several camps, he saw only prisoners tied up and lying on the ground. He cursed angrily, "Are you guys passing locusts? Leave some behind!"
"This is my first time doing a battlefield mission, big brothers, please go easy on me!"
"Come inside! There are monsters inside!" a kind-hearted player reminded in the group team channel.
"Here we come!" The players, who almost didn't even get to drink their soup, quickly ran towards the building complex in the valley town.
When Patton led the militia into the valley, what he saw was... the square in front of the town, where people and horses were lying on the ground, the place was in a mess, and people were wailing everywhere.
The street area at the end of the square was in chaos and could be seen and heard from a long distance away.
Osirion Jinn, an orc warrior who had only witnessed the battle between the undead and the Solari with his own eyes while on a secret mission, was stunned.
The human and orc militiamen who saw this scene for the first time were completely stunned.
"How long has it been?" Osrian King looked at Patton in a daze.
When the undead were crossing the mountain, Osrian was personally leading the orc militia to clean up the light and dark sentry posts outside the valley one by one. The total time the two sides were separated was less than ten minutes.
A casual glance at the square in front of the town would reveal seven or eight caravan camps. Even if the thugs of these caravans were all pigs, they would not be taken down in just a few minutes, right? !
Barton looked calm, and gave Osrian a familiar smile: "So didn't I tell you to let the undead come... we just need to follow behind and clean up."
More than 1,400 undead with quasi-professional combat capabilities, who are fearless and can move freely in the dark, attacked a small town with a defense force that is at most the level of aristocratic private soldiers at night. Patton couldn't figure out how to lose.
