Chapter 42
Thirty-five thousand people! This number is almost one-third of the entire Flowing Cloud Knights. So many people were mobilized at once, and they were all members of the Flowing Cloud Knights, without a single mercenary unit. Obviously, a mobilization of this scale could not be prepared within a few hours. Since it was premeditated, there must be a lot of stories behind this terrifying number of people.
"It's serious. They need at least two to three days to prepare to send out so many people at once." The princess is no stranger to large-scale PK. Although she can see that I have a special relationship with the two guys pretending to be stupid in front of me, she still gave me a reference in secret language, "Thirty-five thousand people can easily capture any second-level city even if the defender is well prepared."
"I never thought that a small Tianpeng Territory would be so valued by the two captains. It's really a big deal. You two, I'm afraid you are not interested in this, right?" I tilted my head and squinted at the two innocent "men" over there. "Don't tell me that the benefits of your Liuyun are too good and you are going to have a group tour this time."
"Haha, I knew you had a keen sense of smell. Indeed, the marshal's territory was just a passing visit this time." The fourth brother smiled and spread his hands, indicating that he was honest. "But don't worry, we will never harm your beautiful rose."
"So where is your target? Who is so unlucky to be 'targeted' by you?" I asked them with full of curiosity. One of the habits that thieves develop is that they are always very sensitive to all kinds of gossip.
After hearing what I said, Holiness and Painkillers looked at each other, then turned around naturally, ran to the princess with one mind, and began to show their affection to her with saliva flying. They very cleanly and thoroughly threw the curious thief aside.
I sighed, knowing that I couldn't get anything useful out of these two guys. Looking at the two bastards surrounding other people's beautiful wives and exposing other people's husbands' secrets, I also "naturally" took out the folding crossbow, aimed at their "handsome" buttocks, slowly stringed it, put the arrow on it, and then put a strong poison spell on it. In the breeze, two miserable "wolf howls" resounded in the green forest.
Tianpeng Territory is a little small, but it is very "well-proportioned", with green mountains and clear waters, birds singing and flowers blooming. It is indeed a beautiful place. The "capital" of this territory is also the only primary village. It is naturally built with unique advantages, surrounded by mountains and rivers, like a resort.
From afar, the stacked villages are dotted on a round hill like terraces. The whole village seems to be shrouded in lush greenery. Next to the tallest tree on the top of the mountain stands the core of this territory - the lord's mansion.
At the edge of the mountain village, unlike the fences of ordinary primary villages, a green wall is creatively formed by several rows of trees of different heights. This not only makes the wall beautiful in appearance, but also enhances its defensive power.
The most interesting thing is that outside the tree wall, there is a small river several meters wide, which acts like a natural barrier and just surrounds this hill village. The clear river water reflects the flowers, plants and trees on the shore, and from time to time a few fat fish jump out of the water. It is really a pastoral scenery.
"Hey, look at that strange river. The fish in it are so fat. I think the fish soup made from it must taste great!" Mr. Painkillers, the wizard and chef, stared at the "specialties" in the river with an "amazing" look on his face. He must be thinking about the eight ways to eat river fish in his head.
"Yes, yes, but I guess the fish may think so now." Although it was a bit far away, I still recognized the ingredients of the fresh fish soup. The nearly two-meter-long body of the 48-level spiny fish in the river was obviously a challenge for a passionate chef. It was hard to say who would taste whom in the end.
"This village is very well built, and the geographical advantages are fully utilized. The person who chose the site and designed it is a genius." The princess looked at the "tourist resort" in the distance with admiration and said very pertinently. "The defense capability of this place is no less than that of the Rose Garden without the thunder array."
"Yes, a primary village actually has the same defensive power as a third-level city. Haha, it is indeed very unique." Shengjie stroked his chin and agreed. "At least, the 'village protection river' and the 'aquatic products' in it are unique."
"That's true, but I don't think this place can withstand our continuous attack for 30 minutes." The great wizard who had been staring at the fish said this in a very arrogant way. Damn, what nonsense is he talking about? Liuyun has sent out so many people that they can attack the sealed gate, but now they are using them to deal with a primary village for 30 minutes? If the marshal is not prepared, this place will become a ruin in 10 minutes. This is simply bullying...
"Everyone..." I was about to ridicule him, but suddenly I noticed a few uninvited guests in the woods on both sides. I quickly gestured to the other three people and said casually, "Think about it, the territory is called Tianpeng, the lord is Yipinzhu, then what would this village be called?"
"It might be a very 'popular' name, right?" As expected of my wife, the princess was the first to react. A smile appeared on her beautiful lips as she moved the Elf War Song to a position where she could pull it out the fastest. "I think it's more likely to be called Gao Laozhuang."
"Haha, in fact, the most common name should be pigsty." Shengjie then smiled strangely and protected the giant shield of judgment in his hand to his chest, pulled out the hot-blooded song, faced left and stood in front of the painkiller.
"You're the only one who calls it that vulgar. From our chef's point of view, such a great location should be called Green Restaurant, specializing in butchering dishes." The painkiller man called himself a chef, but the beautiful staff in his right hand was not a wok, and the complicated handprints in his left hand also showed that he didn't want to cook delicious dishes.
"The name of the village is Muzhi Mountain, named after the place. It is not as 'unique' as you think." Seeing that we were discovered, a fat Taoist priest came out from behind a tree on our left with a wry smile, followed by four people who were also Taoist priests by the looks of their clothes.
"Tsk tsk, isn't this my Lord? Are you personally leading the vanguard?" I looked at him jokingly. I guess this Marshal has already "inspected" Liuyun's troops behind us. Otherwise, he would definitely use the sword in his hand to greet the four "top-notch" people who were happily chatting at his doorstep.
"Don't be surprised. I have no intention of declaring war." Yipinzhu shrugged at me. "Although I knew you would come sooner or later, I didn't expect Miss A Zi to think so highly of me that she actually mobilized a five-digit army. I admit defeat. You can do whatever you want."
"To put it more clearly, everyone must surrender, right?" The princess looked at the Taoist priest in confusion and asked cautiously.
"If you think so, then so be it. I won't object." Yipinzhu shrugged, looking casual about killing. "However, as this is an internal dispute of the Northern Alliance, I will only lay down my arms to the Order of the Rose." He added cunningly.
After hearing what he said, the princess and I couldn't help but look at each other. We had thought of all kinds of possibilities, but we didn't expect that he would just surrender unconditionally. This was probably the first time in "The Magic Flag". Is there really someone who would give up his territory without any resistance?
"Fuck! You're surrendering so easily? Forget it! What internal disputes? That's all bullshit!" After hearing what Yipinzhu said, someone quickly thought of the meaning behind surrender, "Whatever you say, I'm going to tear down your pigsty today!"
Tianpeng Territory surrendered to Qiangwei Territory, which in practice meant giving up its dominance and merging into Qiangwei. Obviously, in a sense, the First-Rank Marshal seemed to be one step closer to his "goal", right? No wonder a certain captain was so jealous.
Just when the mad soldier was about to demonstrate how “pork is sold on the market”, with a cold snort, the guests from the woods on the right came out one after another.
"How impressive! The Holy Lord of the Seventh Territory of Divine Power!" Sister A Zi slowly walked over from the shade of the tree, holding Zi Xia in her arms, and looked coldly at the soldier who was frozen there, "Your Excellency seems to have forgotten that this is the central territory of the Northern Alliance? Do you think you are advancing alone?"
"I, I..." Mr. Shengjie held up the "pig-killing knife" and stared blankly at the angel in his heart, unable to say anything. Alas, this is the strange thing about my second brother. He is a genius with an IQ of 170, and he is a free and easy person everywhere, but when he sees my beautiful sister, he immediately becomes a fool who just fell in love, and always looks so, well, "green and stupid".
As the saying goes, if you interfere with someone's love, you will be kicked to death by the Beast God. So, based on the friendship between brothers and to create a good opportunity for the respected Holy Lord, Mr. Painkillers and I quietly drove all the idlers into the woods.
There was a strange pattern between the two people outside who met in "The Magic Flag". Either my sister ran away with a red face or my second brother was struck away with screams, but then, without exception, the people around them would "suffer".
My sister's problem is to hold people around her and keep talking about inexplicable things, such as which pan is better for frying eggs, the difference between baked sweet potatoes and baked yams, the similarities between bats and mice, etc., and she can talk for more than an hour. According to Mr. Painkillers, the leader of the Liuyun Group who met Miss A Zi is simply a psychopath. Every time he goes crazy, the Liuyun Group will usher in a series of retaliatory group battles from others. Therefore, more than half of the people in the Liuyun Group have been trained to become PK masters. God knows why these two babies will have such a strange effect after meeting.
"Xiao Wu, I'll take the people back first. I estimate that Brother Fei may . I have to find a place to hide." Painkillers said with a "heavy" face, "By the way, the brothers are all working all night today. Come and find me if you have any problems." After saying that, he glanced at the first-rank lord meaningfully, and when I nodded to show that I understood, he ran away.
I helplessly watched the wizard running away like a rabbit, and looked back, and as expected, I found that none of the old members of the Rose Group had come with me today. Except for me, all the Rose cadres in this forest were new elves. Now, this group of people were watching the two sources of "disaster" outside the forest with great interest, and they had no idea what the consequences would be.
"How did you throw those statues out?" I was bored and asked our deputy leader Miss Jianjia curiously. I had been thinking about this question for a long time.
"It's very simple. We temporarily built two giant catapults." Jianjia Cangcang answered absentmindedly. Her focus now was on the other half of the team leader's sister.
"Trebuckle? When will we build that thing?" For girls, reading other people's gossip is obviously more attractive than answering questions. I had no choice but to change the person I asked.
"It could have been built a long time ago. Remember those brothers of Iron Hammer? We were desperately looking for an architect, but unexpectedly we contacted a brother of Iron Hammer, who happened to be a mechanic." Bai Yu finally patiently explained it to me in detail, "Mechanic is an advanced profession of candle maker and blacksmith. His ability is to make war machinery. If the operator of the catapult had not been a thief above level 35, we could have killed those guys just by throwing things out."
"Oh, I see." I couldn't help but ask again. "Then do you know who cast the statue of Athena?"
"It seems to be Ye Liuli." I knew that the strange accuracy was so cold.
"It seems that the two men have finished talking. But what is that warrior going to do?" The puzzled Lord Tianpeng looked at the warrior with his hands stretched out, holding high his shield and long sword, and rushing into his "village moat" in three steps, shouting "love and passion" and so on, and mingling with a group of strange spiny fish in the waist-deep water.
And Miss Jianjia, who was very interested in gossip, heard the two people finish talking and very "recklessly" stepped forward and hugged her sister with rosy cheeks. Then, the two of them started talking about irrelevant things at the same time.
"Is that handsome guy your boyfriend? How long have you known each other? He..."
"You know, a barrel skirt is easier to make than a culottes, but a culottes is less likely to be exposed than a barrel skirt..."
"I know that. What I want to ask is that handsome guy this year..."
"But I like the dress more. You know, the dress looks..."
"You haven't followed..."
"The pattern of the dress is very..."
“…”
I looked at Jianjia Cangcang's increasingly confused face, and I almost laughed to my heart's content. Then I looked at the dull expressions of the other people in the forest, and I knew that they would have a very "pleasant" experience.
