Chapter 331 Ambush and Outflanking
The second-level ranger players pull monsters, find monsters, and watch monsters. These are their jobs. They rely on this skill to join the big group. Qin Guan gave an order, and the surviving ranger players turned back one after another...
"Shit, the monster is gone! I just ran a short distance and when I came back, it was gone!"
"Is this true... Hey, I can't see any monsters here either!"
"What's going on? The monsters that spawn in this dynamic plot disappear when the whole group leaves the battle?!"
"Impossible! Damn it! How can such a thing be so outrageous?"
The four second-level ranger players who survived, including Jialuo, and Qin Guan who was holding the Book of the Dead, were all confused by the location where the team was wiped out...
This is probably a rare misconception among players that is influenced by the concept of "game" - in the players' concept, monsters that appear in the "combat area" should stay where they are and wait for waves of players to challenge them before they are pushed away or captured by the players.
After all, no matter whether we were fighting the Cult of the Fiery Sun, the city of Innadli, or running to the eastern part of the territory of Odysseus to help the Queen fight, the enemies were always so obedient and honest !
Even if you are exploring the wilderness and killing roaming monsters, there is no such thing as not being able to find them if you look back a few minutes after you missed your target!
While these veteran players were anxiously searching for the elite monsters around the battle site, on the other side, the Kenyan investigation team, which had shaken off the Undead's eyes and headed west, saw the mining camp from afar.
Yang Qiu arranged this outdoor spawning site where no living people but only zombie NPCs and players would come very casually. To put it simply, the whole camp was just an earthen enclosure surrounded by waist-high earthen walls. Inside the walls, he built a few simple huts shaped by earth magic, which were used to place semi-permanent teleportation points and store materials, and that was it. It was even easier than the Gadgetzan in Tanaris in World of Warcraft.
After all, it is a transitional map for low-level players to make money by themselves. Most players earn enough game coins to buy their first set of basic equipment here and then go to other places to find a team. There is no need to be too particular...
It was already late at night in the other world, but for the Chinese people on the other side of the space-time rift, it was just noon.
During the lunch break on weekdays, there are many players who take time out to play games like Teacher Yuchi. Most people take a nap at noon anyway, so why not use this hour to play games and experience double the rest time?
In addition, the high-level NPCs in Exile Town do not issue quests at night, and only the quests given by the zombie NPCs can be completed. Therefore, there will be quite a lot of third-test players running to the mining area map to play...
This ordinary, low-level monster spawning point during a peak period of player activity, was viewed by the Kenyan investigation team in a completely different light.
In an abandoned village in the wilderness under the night sky, hundreds of ghosts walked among the desolate and dilapidated earthen houses, moving around and talking in groups of three or two just like the living.
There were even more undead, at least thousands of them, carrying long and short weapons and scattered in the endless desert outside the village, as if they were hunting something, or wandering aimlessly.
These undead wandering in the desert seemed to be much more dangerous than those in the abandoned village. Groups of undead were chasing and killing each other, while the surrounding undead turned a blind eye and continued to search for something among the gravel...
Ross, who thought he was mentally prepared, witnessed this bizarre scene and felt a chill rising from the bottom of his heart to the top of his head.
Gejier, who had discussed the origins of the Tarantan Undead with Ross, could not help but let out a slight gasp...
While in Inadilli, the Kenyan investigation team had seen the ghost of Tarantan.
These ghosts do not appear in the city very often, but they can be seen every few days - either flying over the roofs of buildings on the side of St. Joseph Street, or appearing in the streets near the New Wind District and the bar district.
The number of undead that can be seen in the city varies. Sometimes there are dozens of them, and sometimes there are only two or three.
It was not until now that the Kenyan investigation team witnessed the scenery that Walton's cult had once seen - when thousands of undead appeared in the field of vision at the same time, the shock was truly indescribable!
As this group of people stared blankly at the players' monster spawning points from a distance... in the overpopulated sandworm desert, there were too many people and no monsters to spawn, so the newbies in the third test who were bored noticed this group of "wild monsters".
"...Huh?" The newbie in the third test rubbed his eyes subconsciously when he discovered the group of living people behind the bushes in the distance. His finger bones hit his dark eye sockets before he realized something was wrong and quickly used the identification skill.
"Suspicious Evil God Apostle"
"LV:???"
"This person may be the apostle of the evil god of unknown origin that Stephen Bernie had a premonition about."
"What the hell?!" An identification spell scanned out eleven big red elite monsters. The newbie in the third test was shocked at the time and shouted at the people around him with all his might, "Look over there! Over there!!"
There were quite a few people among this batch of newbies in the third test who had already reached 40 potential points or were born with a potential value of level one. Immediately, countless identification techniques were thrown at the Kenyan investigation team who thought they were hiding very well.
By the time Ross and the others realized something was wrong and were about to leave, thousands of newbies were already running towards them...
The average level of this bunch of newbies was less than level one. Except for a few RMB fighters, most of them didn't even have the complete set of equipment. What was worse was that there were no big players on the scene who could organize attacks and arrange tactics. Although there were enough people, it was obviously unlikely that the investigation team would be able to stay. After barely struggling for a while and killing hundreds of people one-sidedly, they looked at the monsters' receding backs with regret.
The group of veteran players who were still waiting for the "quest monster" to refresh didn't receive the news until several minutes later. Qin Guan was so angry that he almost vomited blood: "Are you kidding me! Why is the activity range of a quest monster so large?! What if I miss the quest, won't it be over?!"
"Did the newbies who were farming monsters in the mining area see which direction those monsters were moving in?" Miaobishenghua, who was temporarily called online and was still in Exile Town and had not been teleported here, asked in the team channel.
"Wait, let me ask my apprentice." Girl Gala, who was the first to receive the news from the newbie, replied, and then quickly went to ask her apprentice for details.
Less than ten seconds later, Jialuo said in confusion in the team channel: "My apprentice said that the monsters were running towards Exile Town. He followed them for a short distance, but he didn't dare to follow until his friends were killed."
A bunch of old players: “???”
"The mission monster is heading to our hometown? Sending it to our resurrection point?" Qin Guan said in confusion.
Miaobishenghua also thought it was ridiculous. He suddenly realized what was going on and quickly shouted in the team channel: "Wait, I know what this mission is about! We can't let those monsters enter the Exiled Town. The mission requires us to stop the 'Apostle of the Evil God'. If we let the monsters enter the Exiled Town, the mission might fail!"
"What the hell?!" Qin Guan almost jumped up on the spot, "How cunning! I was saying that this crappy game is humane this time and allows us to fight the BOSS right next to the resurrection point! If you haven't teleported to the mining area, don't teleport over here quickly. Gather with Huahua at the town gate and take the initiative to stop the monster!"
"Ah? What should we do if the message has already been transmitted to the mining area?" a player in a large group asked anxiously.
"Don't panic if the message comes over. We will be here soon. Join us and go after the quest monsters from behind!" Qin Guan said.
Soon, the group of veteran players, which had already grown to over 500 people, started to move in two directions...
When Yang Ying, Give Me Medicine, Teacher Yuchi and others who were offline in the first round of fighting barely survived the death CD and came online, the ranger players sent out by Miaobishenghua, who was responsible for intercepting the enemy in Exile Town and active around the town, had already discovered the traces of the "elite monster group" approaching Exile Town...
Rhodes and his companions, who have served as investigators for many years, are actually very good at concealing their tracks and carrying out secret missions. They can even boast that they can come and go freely in the war-torn countries of Middle-earth; but...what they are facing this time is not the elite scouts of a certain country or army, but an army of undead whose senses are not disturbed by the darkness and each of them has an identification spell - the CD of this identification spell is only 30 seconds.
Just as they found the valley where the Exile Town was located, Ross was still confused as there was still no road for transport vehicles to pass through, and no facilities like large factories were found, when hundreds of armored and sharp-armored players with an average level of three and rich team battle experience jumped out of the bushes...
As the two sides started fighting, Ross realized something was wrong - this group of undead were completely different from the previous group of undead that suddenly rushed over to attack them!
The mission of the investigation team was to obtain intelligence, not to engage in combat. Ross immediately ordered everyone to retreat, intending to get rid of these guys first... But when he turned around, he found that two or three hundred undead had surrounded them from behind, outflanking them and cutting off their retreat.
Ross: “——?”
They even knew how to use ambush and outflanking tactics. Were the first two waves of undead that attacked them randomly intended to confuse them? !
With half an hour left before the players' lunch break ended, the eleven members of the Kenyan investigation team, who had taken the initiative to be escorted to the gate of Exile Town, saving the players the trouble of escorting them, were tied up and sent to the town hall.
Yang Qiu calmly paid the "ransom" for the eleven captives and twenty-two lizard horses - a total of more than two thousand points of territory reputation and several hundred copper coins.
The players had no objection to the stingy mission rewards... After handing in the mission, they happily went to find an open area to auction the equipment parts and costume appearances seized from the "Apostles of the Evil God".
After sending away the players who would not be hurt as long as they did not talk about the "floating wealth" on the captives, Yang Qiu turned around and smiled cordially at the investigators who were only in their underwear. He spread his hands warmly and slightly exaggeratedly: "I didn't expect that such a remote place like Tarantan could welcome so many distinguished guests. It's really an honor. Good night, distinguished guests, I hope you can spend a pleasant time in Tarantan."
Ross, Gejier and others who were tied up and unable to move: "..."
"You are all respected Night Watchmen. I don't want to restrict your freedom in an impolite way." Yang Qiu ignored the investigators' gnashing of teeth and said enthusiastically, "Although you have had some minor conflicts with our undead friends, I think you 'should' have fought with my undead only because of some 'misunderstanding'. You 'must' have no ill intentions, right?"
Ross: “…”
He really wanted to say that his investigation team had no intention of fighting the undead and that they were attacked by the undead... but they did approach the Tarantan undead lair in the middle of the night with the purpose of investigation, so he really couldn't bring himself to make this excuse.
Yang Qiu deliberately waited for a while, and seeing that these night watchmen who at least had the dignity to save face did not say anything, he became more friendly and said to the members of the investigation team in a negotiating tone: "Since it was just a 'misunderstanding' that caused the friction, then I think as long as you are willing to show kindness to our undead friends, for example, help our undead friends a little, do some small work... As long as the damaged relationship can be repaired, you don't have to be troubled by it. This is a good thing that everyone is happy about. What do you think?"
Ross said nothing. He knew that this black magician was extremely good at bewitching people. Being captured was a foregone conclusion anyway, so he just had to wait until the Holy Land came to rescue him. There was no need to risk too much contact with this man.
Yang Qiu waited patiently for a while but received no response. He said regretfully, "Since you are so unwilling to repair your relationship with the undead... considering that you have indeed hurt our undead friends, I can only reluctantly send you to the prisoner road repair team to serve your sentences."
"Serving a sentence?!" Rhodes, who had made up his mind not to cooperate with any prisoner policy, looked up in surprise.
"Yes, wounding others is punishable by law. This is a law of nature in every country's constitution, right?" Yang Qiu said calmly, "Oh, by the way, there are ladies among you. Ladies don't have to repair the road. They can just go to the station town to open up wasteland."
The female warrior, whose coat and boots were taken away and who was left with only a small vest and trousers, was dumbfounded... She was going to become one of those female prisoners who were pioneering? ! What a joke! !
Gejier also panicked. He turned his head nervously and with great effort to look at Rhodes - he couldn't imagine himself being like those male prisoners, building railways for another country under the supervision of a group of Sokri people!
The corner of Ross' mouth twitched. After struggling for a while, he had to lower his head and spoke through his back teeth: "What do you want us to do... How do we repair our relationship with the Tarantan Undead?"
"Very easy." Yang Qiu clapped his hands happily. "After all, you are guests who have come from afar. We Tarantans can't be too harsh on you."
