Chapter 457: Undead Supervisory Team
Players as a group can sometimes be very moral - for example, they can spontaneously organize themselves to queue up when completing tasks after a major game version update. Or, if a game contains scumbag men and women who touch the moral bottom line, they will be unanimously condemned by all players on the server.
Players as a group can be very shameless - even if they are repeatedly told to keep something confidential, many players will still "leak" the information if they are asked about it in private messages by their relatives or friends.
Upon hearing that Mingfeng Chunpu and Huanling were in Exile Town doing quests, and discovering that Lahongge, the showy local boss, had disappeared from public view for more than half an hour, Miaobishenghua and Enbuteng immediately mobilized the players in the Blood Alliance to find other familiar Blood Alliance players and their friends to ask for information.
Soon, hundreds of players who were already squatting on the battlefield of Taplin Highlands in the western border of the Shiga Principality betrayed the Lahongge Blood Alliance...
"We mobilized all the players in the alliance to complete the main quest for the entire server, and they secretly went to start the battlefield activity?! And they deliberately did it behind our backs. Is this bastard still a human being?" Qin Guan was extremely angry and cursed in the Blood Alliance.
While he was denouncing Brother La Hong for being selfish on the surface, Qin Guan was not idle in private either… He immediately took advantage of his status as a star player and frantically started poaching Brother La Hong’s players.
The teleportation point that is only open to player teams with tasks seems to be monopolized by the player group that completes the task first, but it is not the case - as long as you can secretly pull in a player who has got the task, let someone start a group and form a group with people from the Qin Guan Blood Alliance, then the people in the task player team can also be teleported there.
There is a lot of room for this operation. The large group led by Brother Lahong has tens of thousands of players participating. With so many people, it is inevitable that some people will need to go online or offline. Just find a buddy who is willing to secretly be a "traitor", let him pretend to have an urgent matter and need to log off the group, and secretly form a group with players on Qin Guan's side, so that your own people have the opportunity to teleport to the activity map and take on the task with the NPC, and everything will be done.
Or, Qin Guan could arrange for a single player who is not in the Blood Alliance to join La Hongge's group, take on battlefield activity tasks, find an excuse to quit the group, and return to Qin Guan's group to temporarily take over as the group leader, and then the whole group could be teleported over...
As long as players are willing to study, there are plenty of loopholes that can be exploited.
Of course, Mingfeng Chunpu, the military strategist player on Lahongge's Blood Alliance side, would definitely be on guard against this.
When Qin Guan launched the "relatives and friends offensive" to gather intelligence, Mingfeng Chunpu received the signal.
Ming Feng Chunpu, who held the team command, did not delay at all. He immediately used the team leader's authority to post a message in the battlefield group: "Please note to all participating players that from now on until the end of the battlefield activity, no one is allowed to leave the group. Even if you have to log off for something, you must stay in the team! Let me see your ID display box when you log off!"
"Any player who quits the group without permission will be regarded as betraying the interests of all players in the group, regardless of the reason, and will be hunted down by the entire server!"
While the battlefield group was flashing warnings, Mingfeng Chunpu quickly arranged a group of 100 people to squat next to the teleportation point tent and the NPC Rowell who issued battlefield missions, staring at the players coming and going; anyone who dared to quit the group, whose ID changed from blue name (teammates and group members' IDs are displayed in blue letters) to green name (friendly camp), regardless of whether they approached Rowell or tried to form a group to teleport, would be hacked to death on the spot...
In the large group on the battlefield, a few players who were found by Qin Guan and were thinking about "doing good deeds" suddenly did not dare to act rashly.
It's not a big deal to do a favor for the vanilla boss, or to get some benefits to help out. Anyway, you won't get much benefit from following along. But if you are hunted down by the whole server, the game experience will become very bad...
Qin Guan spent a lot of time talking to a few people, but he didn't expect Mingfeng Chunpu to ban people from leaving the group and to kill them. The people who were originally wavering didn't dare to reply to his private chat, and they were so angry that they cursed in the Blood Alliance again: "Is this idiot Afeng suffering from a chuunibyou? He's so old and still talking about being hunted by the whole server!"
"Don't worry, it's only nine o'clock now, there's still time." Miaobishenghua calmly comforted, "Sister Ying's group and the medicine-taking group have already reported back to Exile Town. Now we are looking for clues to the battlefield activities and missions that Afeng and his team have done."
The difficulty of tasks that have already been "opened up" by others will be much lower; for example, the Exile Town worldview task that players have previously completed can be taken over by later players, and many difficult puzzle parts will be simplified into pure plot dialogues.
Qin Guan knew that it was useless to be impatient at this moment, so he had to suppress his anger. On the one hand, he cheered for the two groups returning to Exile Town, and on the other hand, he reminded the online players in the Blood Alliance not to log off easily, lest they be unable to get back on the battlefield map when they could be teleported later - unlimited resurrection was only valid in maps open to battlefield activities, and there would still be a death penalty if they died in other places.
At 3:20 pm in the other world time, which is 9:10 pm on Earth time, two teams and successfully triggered the mission pointing to the battlefield activity map "Taplin Heights".
The triggering threshold for this task is players within the top 100 in the Chamber of Commerce's reputation. There are many players in the Qinguan Blood Alliance who love to increase their reputation, and 20% of the top 100 players are in this blood alliance.
After successfully triggering the mission, Miaobishenghua and Entropy Buzeng split up and took two groups of 100 people who didn't need to hide their whereabouts to work hard on the pre-processing...
On the other hand, Qin Guan, who was still squatting in the northern map of Tachia Territory, was not idle either. After confirming that his people had triggered the task, he immediately started the socializing mode and contacted the online player alliances and individual groups "left over" by Lahongge's alliance one by one.
As I said, the player community today is no longer the same as the time when they couldn't even take down the city of Innadli because of unwillingness to cooperate. With a total number of online players exceeding 28,000 during the evening peak period, as long as there are infinite resurrections and teleportation points, let alone fighting on two fronts, they can easily start a war on three fronts and attack from all sides.
Brother Lahong has assembled a large group of tens of thousands of people and is showing an attitude of monopolizing the battlefield activity map. Qin Guan must have an equal or even larger group of people to fight against the other side.
"Brother! That bastard Lahong secretly went to the battlefield to carry out activities without telling us!"
"We worked so hard to finish the main quest for the server, and we were desperately looking for that wandering boss to open the big map, but in the end, he ran off to brush the battlefield! Brother, do you think this is tolerable?!"
"Come join my group. Those bastards are not human beings. Let's not be polite to them. Let's rob them!"
"Put aside the main quest for now and get those bastards offline first!"
After a few eloquent speeches, the online player group leaders and player alliance leaders all threw themselves into his arms, and the number of players in the large group Qin Guan pulled out also swelled up like a balloon...
It was 9:30 pm on Earth, and 4 pm in the other world.
Taplin Heights, the border garrison of the Principality of Shiga.
The border soldiers, who had gradually adapted to the coming and going of large numbers of undead, watched numbly as another group of undead carried dozens of Barnes Alliance soldiers, who had been stripped to their underwear, and ran to the front of the camp in a bustling manner, handing them over to Brother Lowell.
Brother Lowell paid some Undead Coins which seemed to be worthy of praise only in terms of workmanship but definitely did not contain copper (yes, the Undead Coins are now pure alloys). The Undead seemed very satisfied and left their captives behind.
"Carry it in ."
After sending the undead away, Lowell sat still, only raised his chin and gave orders.
The garrison officer waved his hand numbly, and a group of soldiers came forward, carrying the trembling, angry-looking enemy prisoners into the camp and detaining them in a prisoner area surrounded by fences.
It was only two hours (in the other world's time) since the Undead Army arrived at the front line of Taplin Heights, and no major results were achieved, but hundreds of prisoners had been captured.
Even dozens of their war horses were brought back...
Although all the captured prisoners were stripped naked, and the armor, weapons and even inner clothing of the Barnes coalition forces that could prove their identities had been taken away by the undead, the garrison officers would certainly not think that the undead were "taking credit for capturing innocent people" - due to years of friction on the border, the indigenous people of Taplin Highlands had long since moved inland, and there were no people living within a hundred miles, so the garrison's supplies had to be transported from border cities more than a hundred miles away.
After instructing his subordinates to carry away the prisoners, the garrison officer couldn't help but take a few steps forward and look at the lonely tent set up in the front side of the camp, from which the undead walked out from time to time.
The tent was pitched by a soldier of the garrison. He knew, of course, that there was nothing unusual about the tent itself. What could summon the undead was actually a round iron plate buried under the tent by Brother Lowell.
When the garrison officer looked towards the teleportation tent, another group of undead came out of the tent, their jaws trembling and making "KABAKABA" sounds, as if they were gesticulating to each other excitedly. They didn't even glance at the defenders in the camp, and ran stubbornly towards the direction of the enemy camp.
When the undead came out of the tent, the group of undead squatting outside the tent who did not participate in the battle all turned their heads to look over, but did not make any additional movements. They just watched the undead leave one after another in silence.
The garrison officer had been curious about these hundreds of undead who did not participate in the battle but just squatted outside the camp and looked around for a long time. However, seeing that Brother Lowell had no intention of explaining, he did not dare to ask - there was a foreign spellcaster with blond hair and black eyes beside the monk, and the garrison officer did not want to show weakness in front of outsiders.
"When the Undead army is fighting, do they also have a supervisory team?" The garrison officer pondered silently. The more he thought about it, the more he found it difficult to understand. "-- Do these Undead need supervisors to fight?"
It is difficult for people who cannot see the player ID to tell which undead are which. If Brother Lowell, who knows the undead well, had not explained that the undead killed on the battlefield would be resurrected in the tent with the iron plates, the defending soldiers and the priests who came to help would have misjudged the number of the undead army and created unnecessary panic - the psychological pressure brought by countless undead that are enough to overwhelm the country is different from the undead that are immortal but limited in number.
It is precisely because they know that these undead will be "killed in battle" and need to be resurrected in a specific area under specific conditions after death that the garrison officers have the leisure to pay attention to the tactical arrangements of the undead army... He saw with his own eyes that as soon as these undead were resurrected from the tent, they would return to the battlefield as soon as possible, without any signs of cowardice. It is indeed difficult to understand why the commander of the undead army would arrange a "supervision team."
What was even more difficult for the garrison officers to understand was that the targets closely monitored by the "supervision team" also included Brother Lowell.
Whenever an undead approached Lowell, the undead "supervisory team" squatting outside the camp would look at him with sharp eyes.
"What are they doing?" The garrison officer was full of questions. "It's understandable that they want to protect the Resurrection Land, but why are they also targeting the monks... and the target of their attack may even be one of their own people?"
The garrison officer, who had been warned by Brother Lowell not to take part in the battle, was just idle and thinking about random things. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a large group of undead pouring out of the teleportation tent.
Because the appearance of the undead is no different to normal people, the garrison officers did not notice anything wrong. They thought that the undead had suffered a defeat on the battlefield ahead and lost too many of their companions at one time.
This thought did not last long, as the garrison officer saw that the undead "supervisory team" who were just squatting idly outside the camp suddenly jumped up, making extremely excited, high-frequency "KABAKABA" sounds, and waving their weapons and blades to charge towards the group of undead who had just come out of the tent.
Garrison officer: “?!”
The group of undead who had just come out of the tent were also very excited. Each of them held a weapon, and in the blink of an eye they were engaged in a melee with the "supervision team".
Garrison officers, garrison soldiers, and priests: "???"
