Chapter 43
After returning to the Rose Garden, I finally found out why the two "cloud heads" took so long to show up after reading a few pages of information handed to me by the fairy cat. It turned out that before coming to us, they had obviously "visited" several places.
"Luoxing, Kuanglan Pavilion, Red Cross and Bingfeng, a third-level city and three mid-level towns in the western territory of the Northern Alliance, a total of four territories, were completely demolished by Shengjie and his 35,000 'Liuyun' within three hours." The fairy cat leisurely sipped the green-brewed flower tea and simply summarized the general meaning of the papers.
"As far as I know, he and the crappy chef who was traveling with him probably don't even know who the owners of the four territories are, right? So, let alone any conflicts between the two sides." I lowered my head and thought about it, and raised a question, "Also, I noticed that the word used in the intelligence was 'destroy' instead of 'occupy', which means that after the 'visit' of those Liuyuns, there should not be even a brick left in those four territories. It is estimated that they have basically become history. What exactly do they want to do? Plunder? Liuyun is not short of money recently, right?"
"So I need to check out the news from your side. It will be clearer if we compare them." Fairy Cat rolled her eyes at me, then waved to Qing who was standing beside us, "Hey, Qing, your tea is really great. Can you give us another cup?"
"There should be better tea on the table in the study. I've drunk it before, so use that." I casually instructed while writing the secret letter. The obedient Qing tilted his head to consider for a moment, seemed a little hesitant, but still walked into the study obediently.
Since the Rose Group's intelligence work is usually mainly handled by Fairy Cat and I, in order to ensure the timeliness and accuracy of the intelligence, we each have our own intelligence sources, and my intelligence mainly comes from Ripples. Therefore, I quickly contacted the little fox. For such a large-scale sneak attack as the Flowing Cloud Group, the pervasive intelligence network of Pretty Fruit should be able to smell something. However, after the contact, I unexpectedly got a more comprehensive "good news",
The little fox wrote in the letter that just this afternoon, the twelve great lords of the Divine Power Prison, including the Holy Lord, sent out sneak attack troops of varying numbers, targeting the entire western territory of the Northern Alliance. However, she was not very clear about the specific attack targets of these Divine Power lords and the current results of the sneak attack.
I quickly copied a copy and destroyed the secret letter. At the same time, I couldn't help but sigh inwardly. I roughly estimated the result of those people's sneak attack. Judging from the Flowing Cloud Knights who turned to Rose halfway, those who were not doing their job could conquer our four territories. How bad would the other lords be? I'm afraid that at least half of the alliance's territory in the west has been destroyed by others.
"The intelligence is confirmed, but I have even better news. This time, it's not just Liuyun, but the twelve Divine Might Territories that are simultaneously raiding the western territory of the alliance. If the Alliance Parliament doesn't quickly declare an alliance war, our central territory will soon border the Divine Might Prison." I flicked the information I copied onto the table and leaned back in my chair. "It seems that our neighbors are very dissatisfied with their current sphere of influence."
Unlike ordinary group battles, the alliance war is a long-term war between two knight alliances. After the declaration of war, both parties have 24 hours to prepare. Once the war begins, unless both parties agree to make peace or one party is eliminated, the hostility will continue. In the alliance war, the knights and their members of both parties have the legal right to PK against the other party. Simply put, the rules are the same as those in the group war. As long as you meet, you can fight each other, and you don’t have to worry about your red name, but there is no time limit. There is an ongoing alliance war in "Magic Flag". Chunjianghui and Guanghui Alliance are a well-known pair of old enemies. They have been fighting for more than four months. Now they are still fighting fiercely and full of energy. Both sides have the taste of a protracted war.
"Haha, this is really good news. The idiots in the Alliance Parliament must have very complicated expressions now. There is no need to worry about what ifs, although declaring war is the only way to make up for the loss. But we have not received any declaration of war until now. It seems that our allies in the west are in trouble." The Fairy Cat shook her head. During the preparation period after the announcement of the alliance war, the two sides cannot attack each other for the time being.
"By the way, how did you get the information about Liuyun?" I asked the Fairy Cat, pointing to the papers she gave me.
"Oh, that little girl Ye Liuli gave it to me when A Zi was chasing you guys." Fairy Cat answered as she took the teacup from Qing. After taking a sip, she raised her eyebrows. "It smells good, but it tastes a bit weird. Is this a new tea?"
"How could it be her?" I was moved when I heard it was Ye Liuli. Even the little fox didn't know such detailed things, but how did know so much? Haha, interesting, really interesting.
"I'm back." The wind chimes on the living room door rang, and the princess walked in with a tired look on her face. "Oh, fairy, you're here too."
"Have you sent away all those 'cans'?" I smiled at her after taking a sip of tea. It seemed that thanking those knights for their help had exhausted her. "Why don't you go offline and rest for a while, I'll take care of the rest, but there shouldn't be anything to do now."
"I'm fine. I think Jianjia is the one who's really tired. Haha, it seems she's still in your sister's bedroom." The princess greeted me and the fairy cat and walked towards the study. "Azi is really interesting today. This is the first time I've seen her like this."
"You will get used to it slowly. People in love are always strange. Even the most intelligent people will be confused. Hey! Love is really great!" I sighed with my head raised. At the same time, I thought to myself with self-mockery, isn't a certain serious fool the same?
Boom! With a muffled sound, the fairy cat sitting opposite me suddenly tilted her head and fell to the ground with the chair. What happened to her? Although sitting is not as good as lying, I don’t think the cold floor is more comfortable than a soft camel hair chair. I stood up in confusion and was about to help her, but I felt a strange dizziness in my head. I quickly held the table and barely stood up.
"Serious! Have you seen the tarsal arsenopyrite I put on the study table? I just made it yesterday, how come I can't find it today? " Just when I was puzzled, the princess' voice came from the study door.
Tarsal arsenopyrite! What the hell is that? Although I don't understand what she's talking about, I know from the name that it's not something that can prolong life. On the table in the study? I turned to look at Qing, pointed at the teacup, and asked silently. The smart and beautiful servant blinked first, then looked at me innocently, and quickly repeated a sentence that made me smile bitterly, "There should be better tea on the table in the study. I've drunk it before, so let's use that."
"My dear princess, I think what you are looking for should already be in my and the fairy's stomach. If you don't mind, we are very eager to taste the antidote of that thing now, otherwise, you will soon understand how successful your work is." I smiled at the surprised princess and directly "prostrated myself" in front of the beauty. Before fainting, I secretly swore in my heart that I must carefully check the things Qing brought in the future before tasting them! Damn! This pet beauty really has the potential to be a killer! Maybe she will be a good player after training.
In the following days, the game was bustling with activity. The two new enemies, the Northern Alliance and the Divine Might Prison, attacked each other fiercely in the forum and in the game, using various tactics, both civil and military. Due to the slow response of the Alliance Council at the beginning, as many as 53 towns in the Western Territory were destroyed by sneak attacks, and the remaining 78 territories defected or merged out of anger and self-protection. Therefore, it took only three days for the Divine Might Prison to swallow up the entire Western Territory. Although the Northern Alliance launched a fierce counterattack afterwards , facing a well-prepared opponent, the alliance forces achieved very few results.
Although the Northern Alliance suffered a disastrous defeat in the alliance war, the Rose Territory, as a member of the alliance, received a surprise. The messy group battle between us and the Golden and Silver Oak Leaves was actually recorded by the GMs and edited into a demonstration advertisement for "Magic Flag". The giant catapult that was put into actual combat for the first time, the knight group charging like a white wave, the beautiful Rose Mages and archers firing smoothly, the ten-minute video perfectly demonstrated the charm of the group battle of "Magic Flag". My sister used her experience as the spokesperson for "Magic Flag" and forced the GMs to turn Rose Garden into a second-level city in the name of so-called "film remuneration". The more solid city walls and the dense bomb traps, more than 2,000 NPC guards and the currently unique giant catapult basically made any attack of less than 10,000 people a complete suicide act. I believe that, at least for a considerable period of time, Rose Garden is indestructible.
The hometown is stable now, but what worries us now is the newly merged Tianpeng Territory. Although the defense of the Thumb Mountain Village is unique, it is precisely this strange terrain that limits its upgrade and the installation of giant catapults. Moreover, we recently discovered that the beautiful tree wall is actually a big hidden danger. Once it is ignited during a group battle, the whole village may become a flaming mountain. What's more terrible now is that the Memory City to the west of Tianpeng Territory is the front line of the alliance war. From time to time, the Shenwei troops bypass the Memory City and run to this "tourist resort" for sneak attacks. If it weren't for a certain unscrupulous leader who pulled the leg among them, I'm afraid this "new resort village" of Rose would have been destroyed long ago. It's not a solution to always rely on other people's "internal conflicts". We must come up with a plan to completely solve this problem, right?
When things came to a head, our wise master hammer came up with a solution that was not a solution: relocate the entire mountain village to flat land for upgrading. Only in this way can we give full play to our technological advantages. And the theoretical basis for his "packaging" of a village was a special item in "Magic Flag" - the Art of Moving Mountains.
This thing is said to be very similar to the Marquis Order, except that the Marquis Order is golden, while the Moving Mountains Technique is white, and its specific use is also a supplement to the Marquis Order. The function of the Marquis Order is to obtain a territory and a primary village, while the function of the Moving Mountains Technique is to arbitrarily change the location of the primary village in the obtained territory.
This thing is not only more difficult to get than the Marquis Order, but its restrictions are also quite unethical. In addition to being a disposable item, it also limits the objects of use. First of all, the user of the Move Mountain Technique must be a Taoist priest above level 40. Secondly, the target to be moved must also be a primary village. As long as your village is upgraded to a mid-level village, this shit Move Mountain Technique can't even move the door. Think about it, who would move houses all the time for fun? Unless you are extremely unlucky and the new village is next to a nest of fierce monsters, otherwise you are unlikely to use this item. And then again, even if you are really possessed by the God of Unlucky and the above situation occurs, the time it takes for you to get the Move Mountain Technique with great difficulty is enough for those monsters to demolish your village eight times. Therefore, this useless item has almost become a "legend". If it weren't for that fanatical architect Tie Da, we wouldn't even know about it.
But now, a new problem has come. Mr. Tiechui only knows that he can get the Move Mountain Art on Devil Island, but he doesn't know what kind of monsters will appear. Oh my God! There are about twenty kinds of monsters on Devil Island, from big bosses to mutant flies. How can we find them? But we have no better way except Tiechui's idea. The first territory we merged was demolished by someone. This kind of thing is as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly alive. So, we had to decide to simply send a few people each time, and everyone took turns to study the "ecological structure" of Devil Island, and by the way, see which monster brother has that damn sign.
Devil's Island is a purely tropical island covered with dense rainforests. The lowest level monsters on the island are the mutated flies of level 34 active on the periphery. The closer you get to the center, the more "vigorous" the monsters become, especially in the swamp in the middle of the island. There are level 59 butterfly demons, level 65 Warcraft soldiers, level 66 big-mouthed crocodiles, level 70 giant rhinos, and level 71 gargoyles. There are all kinds of poisonous creatures flying in the sky, running on the ground, and swimming in the water. When they see the players who come to "sightsee", they will all "enthusiastically" give a three-dimensional "farewell" and kick the people back to the dock for resurrection. Therefore, people who do not have enough confidence and strength usually do not approach there.
Today, Jianjia Cangcang, Princess and I were free, so we brought the good stuff to Devil's Island. After our "heart-to-heart talk" a while ago, we were basically sure that the monsters outside Devil's Island would not drop the Move Mountain Art, so this time the three of us decided to take the risk and go to the misty swamp in the middle of the island to try.
As usual, I was the fastest, so I was scouting and attracting monsters about ten meters ahead, while the princess followed behind with Qing protecting Jianjia Cangcang. We fought and stopped along the way, and the three of us gradually approached the perverted swamp. After walking a few meters, I suddenly heard a faint sound of fighting in the woods ahead. After using the secret channel to remind the princess behind me, I began to approach the source of the sound carefully and covertly.
Just as I approached, the sounds of fierce fighting suddenly disappeared, as if they were cut off by someone. I immediately jumped under a tree alertly and used the invisibility spell, then looked around habitually. It didn't matter that I looked around, but unexpectedly I saw an "acquaintance" hanging on the tree above my head.
I saw an elf archer holding his honorary archery bow firmly in his mouth on a banyan tree three meters away from me, his feet tightly hooked on a thick branch, his body hanging as flat as possible in the air, at a 90-degree angle to the tree trunk, his arms stretched out like flying, and the most interesting thing was his hands, which were actually very charmingly pinching a pair of orchid fingers. Oh, My God! Suddenly seeing this scene almost made my jaw drop to the ground, it was too exciting.
It can be seen that this graceful posture is not very comfortable for this drowning fish, especially when he saw that my assassination folding crossbow was pointed at his head. The elf handsome guy who was still pretending to be a branch immediately broke out in cold sweat on the tip of his nose and kept winking at me. Hiding in the tree, this life-saving skill is OK to deceive monsters. He doesn't think that a high-level thief can't tell the difference between a branch and a living person, right? Although his current shape is quite difficult!
Following the strange "flirting eyes" of the drowning fish, I finally found another man pretending to be dead on the ground not far ahead. Ragged armor, broad sword, haha, it's true that we meet everywhere. Although his name has turned white, I am still very impressed by this dragon-like knight who is naked and holding the battle flag tightly.
It seems that the two who were fighting just now were most likely the two in front of me, because the knight lying on the ground pretending to be dead had a long green arrow firmly stuck in his hip. It was obvious that the arrow must have come from the beautiful archery bow in the mouth of the handsome man on the branch. But how could they use their life-saving skills at the same time?
A slight rustling sound suddenly caught my attention. I turned around and saw that it was a colorful long stick slowly emerging from the bushes above the Dragon Knight's head.
That's it! When I was surprised to figure out what it was, the footsteps of the princess and Jianjia Cangcang came from behind.
