Chapter 399: Undead: The Strange Soldiers from Heaven (VII)
Miaobishenghua felt something was wrong and asked in the team channel: "Have you taken medicine and found the armory? What's the situation with the armory in this map?"
The guy who led the team to search the armory, Give Me Medicine, quickly started cursing : "We found it, but we are so poor, there is not much stuff at all!"
Seeing this, Mingfeng Chunpu, who was standing nearby, also quickly began to ask his relatives and friends who led the team to search for resources... Judging from the replies from Chenmi Xuexi, Lahong Ge, and Huanling, the benefits were not much better.
There was nothing that could be done about it - the Kenyan garrison in the No. 4 mining area was originally used to suppress slave laborers, and to drive away the Krenniburg guerrillas who had become insignificant and incapable of causing any major trouble due to the shock and deterrence. It was impossible for them to store much military supplies.
Not to mention the food and fodder that made up the bulk of the military supplies, and the alchemical cannons and boxes of shells that had great lethality to the crowd. In the eyes of the players, they were just "background boards" and were not taken seriously at all...
People like Give Me Medicine and Indulge in Studying were wondering if they had gone online in the wrong way today or were just unlucky, which was why they couldn't find the loot they had imagined; when they heard that there might be a bug in the battlefield map and fewer monsters were spawned, they were so angry that they started cursing.
"No wonder there are so few monsters in such a big monster nest!"
"That's right. There are even fewer monsters and fewer resources than in the previous battlefield map. It's unreasonable to be so poor!"
"A bug actually occurred at a time like this. If the system doesn't issue compensation, this matter will never be resolved!"
After getting feedback from my friends, I feel that the three dog-headed military strategist type players, Miao Bi Sheng Hua, Entropy But Zeng and Ming Feng Chun Pu, feel that they are particularly outrageous.
"This game actually has bugs?" En Bu Zeng couldn't believe it.
"Could it be that the production team has transferred everyone to work on the new project 'Otherworld' and ignored 'Otherworld'?" Ming Feng Chunpu was puzzled. "Damn, is the production team crazy? 'Otherworld' is your flagship product. The main game has a lot of bugs, and you still expect the sub-game to have a good response?"
"It shouldn't be..." Miaobishenghua, one of the three veterans of the closed beta test, has deep feelings for "Another World" and has always found it hard to believe that this game would have such a stupid bug - she has played many non-horror games on the market and seen all kinds of monsters; and since the launch of "Another World", the most difficult to avoid clipping bug in all games has never appeared.
"Wait, could there be an extra plot in this battlefield?!"
An idea suddenly flashed in his mind, and he quickly called over the players who had played in this battlefield, and asked them in detail about the types of monsters they encountered when they played this map in the morning.
"There is a heavy cavalry team, a light cavalry team with guns and bows, and a major elite monster?!" Miaobishenghua quickly asked the missing information she wanted, "I see, that's the problem!"
“…What the hell?” This time, not to mention Ming Feng’s simplicity, even Entropy does not increase and he did not understand the idea behind his brilliant writing.
"When we broke in just now, we didn't see any cavalry monsters. The monsters we bumped into at the door were all infantry. The monsters we encountered after we came in were also all infantry!" Miaobishenghua said excitedly, "There are also red-named NPCs. Everyone still remembers, the highest-ranking one is only the second lieutenant monster we bumped into on the wall!"
——Because the Kenyan officers were wearing uniforms, the player’s identification skills could not scan the names and positions of the unfamiliar red-named NPCs, but it was still easy to identify their military ranks.
"So what?" Ming Feng Chunpu asked in confusion.
En Bu Zeng suddenly thought of something, exclaimed "Ah", and turned his gaze towards the direction of the base gate.
Miaobishenghua was very happy that Enbuteng had finally thought of the same thing as her. She pointed in the direction of Enbuteng's sight with a smile on her face: "This is the second clue, the big yellow-named NPC camp outside!"
Ming Feng Chunpu finally reacted at this point, and suddenly realized, clenching his fist and clapping: "So that's how it is!"
"Is that so? What on earth are you talking about? Can you be more direct and clear and say it in a way that everyone can understand?" Qin Guan, who had been listening to these three guys talking in a riddle for a long time, had almost lost his patience.
"The monsters here are not rare, they are just going to perform some kind of mission." Ming Feng said with confidence, "It is broad daylight in the game now, and this map is a mining area map that anyone with eyes can see, so why are all those yellow-named miners outside gathered in the camp instead of mining? There is only one reason, this battlefield map may have a hidden BOSS, and this BOSS affects the mining of the NPCs in this map."
"Those humanoid monsters that are not in the nest are probably fighting this hidden BOSS, or are going to perform some tasks related to destroying this hidden BOSS, so they left." Entropy added, "We happened to break in when this nest was empty, so we encountered few red-named NPCs and not many resources."
Qin Guan didn't pay any attention to what they were saying. He only heard the four syllables of "hidden BOSS". He was immediately ecstatic: "There is a hidden BOSS in this map?! Is it true?? Then let's go and push it!"
"No rush. According to the conventional routine, if we don't destroy the red-named NPC's lair, we won't be able to collect clues about the hidden BOSS. It's just like when we were fighting in the past, we couldn't see the hidden BOSS if we couldn't defeat the first three BOSSes." Miaobishenghua rubbed his hands and said, "Now the battlefield map is open for less than half an hour. Let's quickly clear the monsters that escaped. We should have enough time."
Ming Feng Chunpu nodded and said, "That's right. Even if we don't defeat the hidden BOSS this time, at least we can accumulate some experience, and it will be much easier to randomly encounter this battlefield map next time."
The three dog-headed military strategists... brainpower players, although the direction of their thinking and the process of their speculation were far from the facts, they overlapped subtly with reality in an outrageous way -
The No. 4 mining area was forced to stop working because of problems in the mine; the two teams of fully armed soldiers that the players encountered under the city gate when they arrived were prepared to be sent to the mine to check the situation.
The main force in the garrison was indeed not "not spawning monsters", but was pulled to the east and deployed in the direction of Kru City - who was it because when the players appeared near the garrison a day ago (in the other world time), they first intercepted the team delivering coal to the mine in a place further east, and then discovered that there was an NPC garrison nearby?
Soon, several teams of players rushed out of the base and spread out in all directions, looking for the elite monsters that had left their lair.
The main force, led by the highest commander of the garrison and deployed in the east, hurried back after hearing the explosion of the alchemical cannon in the rear, and soon ran into players who came out to look for monsters.
After searching the base for a while and finding no decent resources, the players cheered and rushed out of the base, rushing towards the isolated and defenseless main force...
Without artillery fire cover and no defense line to hold, the predicament of this main force of the Kenyan garrison can be imagined. After struggling to resist for more than ten minutes, they were trapped in the vast ocean of 20,000 undead troops.
The guerrillas who followed the undead army out of the city to investigate the situation brought the news back to the rear base, where One-Eyed Jasmine was organizing young and strong slaves to transport food.
One-Eyed Jasmine acted decisively and ordered half of the people to continue organizing the young and strong slaves who were willing to follow the guerrillas to move food, and took the other half to rush out of the base and rush to the direction where the undead army was fighting with the main force of the Kenyan base.
When One-Eyed Jasmine, Burka Men and others arrived at the scene... the undead were already cleaning up the battlefield.
Tens of thousands of undead surrounded more than 2,000 to less than 3,000 Kenyan soldiers to "disarm". This scene was so beautiful that the people of Krenniburg watched with great interest...
When the undead took away the Kenyans' belongings and were happily preparing to leave, Burka Men immediately pulled One-Eyed Jasmine along, and the two of them went to meet them together.
Burka Men's intelligence on the Tarantan Undead was seriously lagging behind, but at least he knew the characteristics of these undead - these undead were very interested in hunting monsters, and they once enthusiastically helped a city called Port Moses solve the vampire crisis.
As the gold medal bounty hunter in Middle-earth, Burka Men is naturally well aware of how difficult vampires are to deal with. This kind of high-level monster knows humans very well and can disguise themselves as their own kind extremely skillfully to blend in with them, making it difficult for even the high-ranking priests of the Orthodox Church to deal with them - they even have the patience to track and kill vampires. The enthusiasm of the Tarantan Undead for hunting monsters can no longer be simply described as enthusiasm.
And this was what Burka Men had carefully considered and was preparing to use as a bargaining chip to establish friendship with these undead... The reason for the suspension of work in the No. 4 mining area was something he happened to know when he ran around here a week ago to find a place to hide the monster skin teleportation array!
Mustering up the courage to stop the undead army that was about to retreat to their base to look for clues about the hidden BOSS, Burka Men didn't waste any words. He took out a sheet of clues about monsters in the mining area that he had compiled from his pocket and handed it over silently.
The client, the young Brook, once told him that although humans who had not sworn allegiance to the black magician Yang could not communicate with the undead, if they could gain the friendship of the undead (at least they would not be regarded as enemies by the undead right from the start), they could communicate with the undead through writing - the Tarantan undead could understand the common language (relying on the magical translation function of the mental matrix)!
The three brainy players who had not found any clues about the hidden BOSS in the Elite Major monster were at a loss and were planning to go back to the monster's lair (station) to try their luck again. Unexpectedly, the two yellow-named NPCs who had been following the undead army all the way came over on their own initiative. The only one with a name (the young Brook knew Burka's name, so he had a name in the identification technique) even handed something over.
"Let me do it--!" Miaobishenghua and Mingfengchunpu shouted at the same time, pushed away the players blocking their way, and jumped out to take the paper.
She glanced at the clues about the monsters in the mining area that the gold medal hunter had personally collected and sorted according to the habits of the night watchman, then turned the paper over to look at the hand-drawn topographic map on the back. She burst into laughter on the spot, "Ahahaha! I told you, after clearing the monsters, you'll definitely get clues about the hidden BOSS! I'm really the smartest!"
Players have encountered the situation where they are only provided with quest clues but the quest pop-up window is not triggered. Anyway, as long as there is a BOSS to fight, various materials will be dropped and there will be reputation. It doesn't matter whether there is a quest or not!
No one doubted the intention of the NPC "Bulka Men" to provide a hidden BOSS, and everyone cheered and ran towards the majestic Disro Mountains.
Burka retreated to the side and secretly wiped the cold sweat that was dripping down his temples due to nervousness. He said to the one-eyed Jasmine who had goose bumps all over her body due to close contact with tens of thousands of undead troops: "It seems that the undead are very satisfied with our gifts."
One-Eyed Jasmine nodded gratefully, and immediately called on the team members to finish off the prisoners that the undead didn't want, and took away the most respected major, preparing to exchange him with Kru City for the guerrillas' captured companions...
Like other mines in the Disro Mountains, Mine No. 4 suffers countless casualties every year; these slaves include locals, as well as a large number of foreigners and even out-of-tribe people abducted by Kenyans from other places.
Places where abnormal deaths occur frequently are likely to attract not only scavengers, but also... monsters attracted by the soul fragments released after the death of a living person.
In the past, when similar situations occurred in the mining area, the Kenyans usually sent soldiers to investigate the area where the monsters were hiding, and then submitted a request to the headquarters, and the Church of the Fiery Sun sent high-level priests on airships to resolve the issue.
This time, the Kenyan garrison here encountered an airborne army of undead before they had time to investigate the situation. They could hardly protect themselves, let alone ask for assistance from the Fiery Sun Priest.
With the detailed information provided by the gold medal hunter Burka Men, the players found the huge soul-eating monster, which was three times the size of the demonized clam, not long after entering the mountains.
A normal Soul Eater should be human-sized. It is unknown how long this Soul Eater, which was born in the No. 4 mining area, had been hiding and how many soul fragments it had swallowed before it expanded to this size.
If this powerful monster, which is close to level 6, appeared in the city, it must be a disaster-level monster that even the night watchmen dared not approach easily; but for the players, it was just a rare and super-rare golden BOSS, a self-propelled collection of rare materials. When the identification spell scanned this monster, 20,000 players cheered and rushed into the canyon where the BOSS was hiding...
After spending more than two hours and killing thousands of players, the Undead army finally defeated the BOSS with the human wave tactics, and was delighted by the explosion of materials - Soul Eater would drop magic residues and soul crystals. This mutated Soul Eater had been lurking in the No. 4 mining area for several years and had swallowed a large number of soul fragments. Naturally, it dropped a considerable number of magic crystals and soul crystals.
Players defeated the BOSS, completed the auction, and those who were offline logged off, while those who were online continued to rush to the next random battlefield map.
By the time Kru City received the news from the escaped garrison scouts and assembled its forces overnight, it hurried to the No. 4 mining area...there was no living Kenyans in the mining area (all killed or taken away by the guerrillas), more than 40% of the young and middle-aged men in the slave labor camp had escaped, and the food in the garrison, along with the alchemical cannons and shells, had been taken away.
