Chapter 444 Noisy Atmosphere Group
The territory of Tachia covers an area of more than 12,000 square kilometers, which is approximately the size of a prefecture-level city in China.
The permanent population is the largest among the five territories of the Rhine Kingdom (excluding the royal capital), approaching three million, and the population density is not low; but the distribution between the north and the south is extremely different, with more than 80% of the total population living in the north and less than 20% in the south.
The reason for this situation is that the south is mostly mountainous, while the north has a vast plain - Milkan, the largest plain in the Eastern Kingdom, has a quarter of its area located in the northern part of the Taqiya Territory.
The vast plains and abundant water resources (in the Barcelo River Basin) together form a standard template for a grain-producing area; and successive lords of Tachia have not wasted the inherent advantages of this land. Every summer and autumn, the endless waves of wheat are the most vivid impression of many people about the Tachia Territory.
Of course, it is only spring now, and the beautiful scenery of rolling wheat waves cannot be seen for the time being.
After running for more than two hours, climbing over mountains and cutting through thorns, (…) the army of undead coming out of the mountains was greeted by a very idyllic spring planting scene:
There are interconnected wheat fields, interlaced water networks, and villages scattered among the countryside.
There are naughty children playing in the river, and village women washing clothes on the shore; caravans loaded with fresh fodder are going back and forth on the narrow dirt road, and women with water jugs are resting by the fields, chatting with farmers who are driving oxen and horses to plow the fields.
It was a very beautiful and warm scene...but obviously, this tranquility was broken by the dead souls that emerged one after another from the dense jungle outside the mountain area.
“Oh my God!”
“Oh my god——!”
Panicked screams rang out one after another. No matter if it was the farmer working in the fields, the woman washing clothes, the little kid playing in the water with his bare bottom, or the driver driving the caravan delivering hay to the farm, they all started running for their lives like headless flies.
The players who were already used to the "atmosphere group" didn't care about these frightened civilians at all. They looked at the new map which was very different in style from the "Lars City Map" and began to discuss where to go next.
The large group of players coming out of the mountain from this road is the team of Lahong Ge's Blood Alliance.
Brother Lahong has long occupied the position of player mayor of Exile Town. Relying on the privilege of the player mayor to approve "private land" and monopolize the "private" teleportation points on the wild map to organize monster spawning, the Blood Alliance has developed quite well.
There are six large elite groups of a hundred people who can squat in the depths of the Tarantan Wasteland to open up new land without being easily wiped out, and there are also eight second-tier groups (with only half of the members fixed, plus temporary members) - that's right, Lahong's blood alliance is of a higher level than Qin Guan's, and has more people than that side.
During this non-online peak period in the morning (Earth time), Brother Lahong’s Blood Alliance can form a large group of 600 people... It is no exaggeration to say that it is the strongest in the entire game.
At this time, Brother Lahong himself was not online, and the one who organized the task was the deputy leader Mingfeng Chunpu.
After gathering the six online team leaders to discuss for a few minutes, Mingfeng Chunpu proposed: "The main quest for this new map development mission is to capture Creek City, and the side quest is to eliminate the evil cult in the northern part of Tachia. I suggest doing the side quest first, and the main quest can be done after the side quests are cleared. What do you think?"
The girl who was obsessed with studying and led the elite group immediately raised her hand to support her friend: "I agree. Anyway, the main quest must be completed by all the players in the server to form a super battlefield group. We won't get much benefit if we rush in now. It's better to rush to complete the side quest before the battlefield group starts in the evening."
Another leader of an elite group, a Ranger player with the ID Nine Lives Cat, also nodded and said, "I support Afeng too. The main quest is shared by all servers, and how much benefit you can get depends on luck. The side quests depend on your ability, and if you get them, they are ours, which is more cost-effective."
"What are you talking about? Let's go do the side quests!" The knight player who leads the second-line group immediately urged you, "Let's go, the vanilla side may have already started, let's not waste time here."
"That's fine." Mingfeng Chunpu immediately spread out the map that Lao Yang had given him when he received the mission in Lars City, pointed to the simple terrain route on the map and said, "This new map is also quite large. It would be a waste if we all walked along the same route. Let's divide the route. Xue, your group will go from the ten o'clock direction, Jiuming, your group will go from the eleven o'clock direction. Your two groups are close to each other, so if you encounter a large monster nest, call each other."
"Tui Mao, your group will go at the twelve o'clock direction, and I will go at the one o'clock direction. Your group should also pay attention and cooperate with me..."
"Let's start from six directions. No matter if we have found anything or not, don't go too far and don't get left alone. Some monster nests have a lot of monsters. A group of 100 people may not be able to catch them all. If the monsters run away, it will be a big loss."
"Let's try to finish this generation of the new map before 5pm (Earth time), disband and go offline for dinner, and go online before 7pm to prepare for the main siege. Is everyone okay with this?"
"No!" the five team leaders said in unison.
"Don't worry, Afeng. If my mom asks me to go shopping with her again, I will call Huanling to take my place and lead the group first. I won't let you down." Chenmi Xuexi patted his chest and promised.
"Okay, let's go!" Mingfeng Chunpu made the decision.
The six hundred or so players who had just emerged from the mountainous area were divided into six groups and dispersed noisily in six directions...
Similar situations also occurred in the Qin Guan Blood Alliance, which entered the northern part of Tachia Territory one after another, and other large and small player blood alliances and individual groups.
Due to the particularity of the player group, even if Yang Qiu holds multiple positions as the dog planner, the resurrection instructor of the undead race, the president of the wizard guild, and the behind-the-scenes boss of the undead chamber of commerce, he cannot force this group of idiots to follow orders and gather at a certain place after receiving the mission, accept mobilization, and then set off together...
If they really did this, the players who were capable of doing anything would definitely destroy the gathering place to the point where not a blade of grass could grow, and would also greet Yang Qiu's ancestors in a polite and easy-going manner.
Yang Qiu simply saved both parties some trouble by allowing these players to accept quests at any time and set out at any time and anywhere. When releasing quests, he would just make an "announcement" to the entire server and that was it. Anyway, as long as the announcement stated that this quest was a one-time, out-of-print, epic quest that could not be triggered a second time after completing it, these players would actively participate, fearing that they would fall behind...
It is also because of the players' unorganized and undisciplined loose action style that the time, place, and number of the Undead army's "invasion" of the northern territory of Tarantan are extremely difficult to predict - Yang Qiu himself can't even tell which route , so how can others take targeted defensive measures!
During the time when the Tarantan Undead were sweeping across the southern mountainous areas, many well-informed cultists managed to escape before the Undead could find their lair.
These fleeing believers brought the news to the north, causing an uproar.
The upper echelons of Lars City who had fled to the north had only heard the news that the Nightmare Butcher's skeleton ship was coming, but they did not say that the undead would attack the non-orthodox sects so quickly - the "Eternal Sleeper" sect in Dutata City was wiped out more than half a year after the "fall" of Adler Territory!
While the capital city of Creek was still dragging its feet and arguing over whether to surrender or resist, the cult sects with a stronger sense of crisis had already taken action - on the road from Lars City to Creek City, while Agent Stanford and Captain Mace were still struggling to track down clues about the "Whisperer", countless cultists were already operating in secret.
The small towns and villages along the highway are all hard-hit areas where cultists set up traps to kill people.
In the town of Robe, which is outside the mountains and only ten kilometers away from the only road in the country, the core members of three sects gathered in the seemingly peaceful and tranquil town, no different from usual.
When Mingfeng Chunpu and six other players each led a group of a hundred people and openly dispersed into the countryside under the jurisdiction of Rob Town to "look for wild monsters", in Rob Town, three cult leaders from different sects, each with their followers, were having a secret meeting in a private house in the town.
"There's no need to waste time talking nonsense. Everyone is clear about the current situation. If we don't teach those Adlers a lesson and allow them to indulge the undead, the fate of the Eternal Sleepers will be our fate in the future."
A cult leader, who was wearing an expensive spider silk robe, had a plump figure and looked more like a businessman than a cult member, said viciously.
"You don't need us to tell you about this. We know it very well." Another old man with a hooked nose and age spots all over his face sneered grimly, "Didn't the Nightmare Butcher claim that his undead were friendly to humans? This time we just want to see how friendly these dirty skeletons can be to humans."
The last cult leader was a skinny middle-aged woman. She didn't seem as optimistic as the other two. She frowned and asked, "What is the attitude of those people in the city who believe in the Whisperers?"
"Who cares about them?" The wealthy businessman said unhappily, "We can't rely on those rubbish anyway."
The "Fallen Whisperers" sect is the default "official" sect in the underground world of Taqiya Territory; the high-level members of the sect are almost all Taqiya nobles, who have abundant funds for activities and monopolize a large number of believers. They are not at peace with the "wild" sects active among the people.
The hook-nosed old man sneered again and said, "Those guys are all hiding in the city now. If we can attract the attention of the Adler people, it will be a great help to us."
Three sect leaders were secretly criticizing the useless "Whisperer" sect when a sect member suddenly ran in, sweating profusely.
"The undead, the undead are coming!"
The wealthy businessman perked up and quickly stood up and asked, "Did you fall into the trap?!"
"No, no!" The believer who came to report the news screamed in horror, "They didn't come from the road at all, they came out from the mountains! Now they have scattered to various villages!"
"What?!" The hook-nosed old man and the middle-aged woman screamed at the same time.
At the same time... in a small village less than twenty miles away from Rob Town, Ming Feng Chunpu, who came here according to the assigned route, was looking at the village with a rustic style with appreciation.
"The details of this game are really amazing. Look, this kind of bricks made of mud mixed with straw. When I was a child, I went to the countryside with my father to visit the graves. I saw my uncle's pigpen built with this kind of bricks."
Patting the earthen brick wall of the villager's house, Ming Fengchun said to his friend next to him with a nostalgic look on his face.
"It's quite detailed." The player who was traveling with the group nodded. "Even in this NPC village where no players would come, the modeling of the farmers' houses has things like granaries and cow sheds. There are also vegetables and radishes drying in the yards, and chickens raised. It's just like there are real people living there."
"It's just that the atmosphere group is too noisy." Another player picked the empty ear holes on the bald skull head, "There are a bunch of NPCs screaming everywhere, and there is no way to lower the ambient sound."
This group of players strolled through other people's villages like taking a walk, surrounded by villagers who were stumbling around and screaming in fear...
The Mingfeng Chunpu team, who had no sense of causing trouble to others, would definitely come in and take a look at this small village in the new map that was much more luxurious than the mountain village in the "Lars City Map" to see if they could gain anything - this was the experience accumulated by players when they were brushing wild monsters in the Lars map. In NPC gathering places such as towns, the probability of brushing "wild monsters" was higher than in places where there were no NPC activities.
And this time, their luck was obviously good.
When Ming Fengchun was leading his men around the village in a serious manner looking for wild monsters, several players in his team fell behind and chatted casually.
There are many players who like to kill monsters, but there are definitely not many players who like to find monsters. These slacking players are too impatient to do such a troublesome thing; if their blood alliance did not have a tool like Qin Guan that could pull people in, and they had to run back across the map by themselves after hanging up, these slacking players might have left the group and worked on their own.
One of the bored players who were following behind accidentally saw a dozen NPCs carrying packages and riding donkeys on a distant path across several NPC houses, running hurriedly out of the village.
The players who spotted this group of people were stunned for a moment, then they reacted and shouted excitedly, "Over there! There's a suspicious NPC over there!"
It is common to see the "atmosphere group" running away in panic wherever the undead go.
But the direction of escape was not towards his home or nearby buildings or alleys, but outside the NPC settlement, and he was carrying luggage... Players didn't even need to use identification skills to see that it was suspicious.
