"My lord, why are the corpses of these winter wolves that were caught in the lamb rib trap left here? Didn't it mean that the habit of demonic wolves is cannibalism?" North finally asked.
The scene in front of me was really shocking. On the wilderness trampled to pieces by the tide of monsters, there were all kinds of dead winter wolves crouching quietly. Hundreds of winter wolf corpses stretched all the way to the distance. All the dead winter wolves grinned their teeth, seemingly in extreme pain, but there was no trace of scars on their bodies. Those who don't know will only feel that the scene in front of them is particularly strange, and there is a feeling of scalp numbness.
However, all the people who followed Lorist out of the city knew that these magical beasts had fallen into the lamb rib trap, and they just lamented that this humble lamb rib circle trap has such a great effect. There were hundreds of corpses of winter wolves in front of them. If they were alive, it would be extremely dangerous for these people who left the city, and the entire army might be wiped out.
"Demonic wolves are actually very intelligent monsters. Some experts have determined that demonic wolves have the intelligence of a five- or six-year-old human child. They are the population of monsters that know how to divide labor and cooperate best. It is helpless for wolves to cannibalize each other, because demons The larger the population of wolves, the easier it is to catch prey, but the larger the population, the more prey they need. Therefore, in the days when there is no food, even if it is the corpse of the same kind, they will not let it go. It is necessary to maintain the population. That's how development has to be.
Wolves are intelligent but also suspicious. During the tide of demonic beasts, they were not short of food, and so many of their kind died suddenly for no reason, the remaining surviving demonic wolves would just leave this area in fright. Just like a group of us humans are rushing on the road, if one or two people die suddenly, we will stop to investigate. But if half of the people suddenly died one by one, the rest of the people would have to leave the area first. At this point, human nature and wolf nature are the same. " Lorist explained.
"Okay, let's get moving, throw the corpses of these demon wolves into the cart and bring them back. If the fur dealers come to see so many intact furs of demon wolves, I don't know how happy they will be." Pat shouted to the guard soldiers who were driving the cart. arrive.
After being busy for a long time, North came to report: "My lord, there are seven hundred and forty-five winter wolf corpses in total. Shall we go back to the city now?"
Lorist frowned: "No, we threw more than 2,000 lamb rib circle traps in total, which is too little. Joe. Take someone to patrol around and see if there is anything else to gain. Be careful on the road point… "
Josk led people to search the surrounding area, and found hundreds of corpses of various carnivorous monsters. The corpses of monsters like leopard clouded leopard were actually hung on the tree, and fierce beasts like ligers were also dead. He fell into the lamb rib trap and fell hard on the hill. Finally, along the traces, I found a big guy.
This is a huge iron-haired wild boar, which weighs two thousand catties. This huge monster may have been driven mad by the pain caused by the stretching of the sheep's ribs in its belly. It went on a rampage all the way, trees fell and rocks were broken, and finally it was carried into a snow ditch and died.
The broken trees and rocks along the way made everyone stunned. Even Lorist was sweating, doubting whether the throwing spear in the hands of such a beast would be effective if he encountered such a beast. The corpse of the giant beast is like a toothpick in comparison.
Erzema came to Lorist's side, and while watching the soldiers tying up the corpse of the giant beast, about to use a dozen horses to drag this guy out of the snow ditch, he asked Lorist, "Lock, what shall we do next?" Do you want to continue chasing the tide of monsters and rush to the central towns in several other regions?"
Lorist shook his head: "We can't catch up. The wave of monsters had just dispersed when we set off from Fenglin Villa, so we still have room to bypass the entire wave of monsters and rush to the front. Now the wave of monsters has fanned out, covering We have nowhere to go around. If you look at the ground, the tide of monsters has turned into mud. Our skis are useless and useless. Now we can only resign ourselves to fate and wait for the monsters The tide goes out and spring comes."
"Lock, don't worry. With the report from Berunek and Yuri, I believe that the tide of monsters will not cause us much loss. In fact, no one here is afraid of the tide of monsters. " Al comforted.
"El, I'm terrified. Because we're going to visit the four villages ahead. I'm really terrified of the tragic end. These people followed our northbound convoy to the family estate with difficulty. , They thought they could settle down and start a new life, but no one expected that a wave of monsters would usher in. I am the one who is sorry for them, and I feel really sad..." Lorist's body was trembling.
"Locke, it's not your fault, none of us want such a result. But since it happened, we have to face it bravely. Let's go, we should go back to the city, you see, the soldiers are already Drive the horses and pull that big guy up..." El patted Lorist's shoulder: "Brother, don't forget that no matter what happens, I will stand with you."
In fact, to the surprise of Lorist and others, everyone thought that the four villages that had already suffered misfortune were not as tragic as imagined. At the critical moment of life and death in the face of the tide of monsters, the people in these four villages had their own tricks. Struggling for his own survival.
The fourth settlement village was established on a small hill. The silver swordsman stationed in this village is Lorist's old acquaintance Paul Binns. He is currently a small captain of the scout light cavalry. He was ordered to lead a small team of scout light cavalry before winter came. He assisted in the defense of this small village, and when the tide of monsters came, he surrounded the whole village with ice and snow, and like Lorist, he used water to freeze the ice and snow on the hills, making it difficult for the monsters to climb, and saved the lives of the people in the village.
But after the herbivorous monsters passed by, the village was attacked by more than a dozen snow leopard monsters, and more than a dozen people were killed or injured, even Paul Bins was injured, but the snow leopards were finally driven away, and the village was safe and sound. Faced with such a result, Lorist was overjoyed and promoted Paul Binns to become a family knight on the spot, fulfilling his long-cherished wish.
The third village was not so lucky. The casualties were extremely serious. Most of the old and weak women and children escaped by hiding in the cellar. Led by him, he fought with a group of big-horned bulls who attacked the village, and the whole army was wiped out...
The second village for reclamation gave Lorist and others another surprise. Apart from the fact that the village was trampled to the ground, all personnel and materials were not lost. This is mainly because the village is set up on the hillside of a stone mountain, next to a big stone cave. When the tide of monsters was discovered, all the people, food and other materials in the village were transferred to the big stone cave, and the entrance of the cave was closed, successfully escaping the catastrophe.
The worst was the first reclamation village, where only 17 people survived out of more than 3,000 people. It was midnight when the wave of monsters arrived here. The members of the garrison guard on the city wall thought it was a small group of monsters coming to spoil the newly reclaimed fields, so they shot arrows down from the city wall and threw torches to drive them away. to attack. The surviving seventeen people hid in the gaps in the collapsed wooden house and hid in the ruins to survive to the end...
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March 18th, it was a rainy spring day. In the hall of the Rock Castle, there was a crowd of people. All the knights and civil servants of the Norton family listened seriously to Fatty Shi's report and summary of the winter wave of monsters. .
"... This winter wave of monsters caused the family to lose nearly 10,000 citizens and more than a thousand heroic family soldiers, as well as seven silver swordsmen and three family knights. I am the one who is most responsible, and I am the one who did not fully understand In the case of the family territory, the wasteland development plan was hastily launched without a detailed investigation, so that the family suffered heavy losses when the wave of monsters came.
Especially when I received the notification from the messenger sent by the adults, I still didn't care about the wave of monsters, and I didn't even take it seriously. I also set up a blocking position near the central town of the third district, and gathered the family's force to eliminate the wave of monsters. . If it weren't for the Lord sending Knight Berunek and others to bring the idea of pouring water into the city and building an ice wall, I would have almost wiped out my family's armed forces in the wave of monsters. In these few matters, my responsibility cannot be shirked, and I ask my lord to punish me... "
Lorist's face sank, he never dreamed that Fatty Shi would act like a model pig teammate when the winter tide of monsters approached, after Jim and the four of them spent two days and one night rushing to Rock Castle to report the winter monsters Fatty Shi didn't take the news of Chao Chao seriously. He thought that the so-called monsters were herbivorous monsters like demon sheep and deer, but there were more of them. He also brazenly told Bodfinger that the arrival of these monsters can just supplement our family's food consumption.
It took seven days for Fatty Shi and Bodfinger to set off as a team, and it took more than ten days to reach the third district due to the heavy snow blocking the road, just in time to run into Berunek and others who came to convey the order to water and build the city. Then Fatty Shi ignored the objections of Bodfinger and Beirunec, and ordered 20,000 family soldiers to pile up snow to build walls, build blocking positions, and prepare to eliminate the wave of monsters.
When Lorist heard the news, he could only smile wryly. Fatty Shi saw the tide of monsters as human enemies, thinking that they were equally vulnerable, and he underestimated the enemy to such an extent, but he didn't want to think about the longbows and There are only a few crossbows that can cause effective damage to those large monsters.
When the wave of monsters swept to the third area, they ran into the blocking position set up by Fatty Shi and others. At first, the longbows of the family soldiers could cause damage to small herbivorous monsters. Everyone was stunned when Mi Gao's mammoth golem appeared. Fortunately, Bodfinger made a decisive decision and directly ordered all the soldiers to immediately retreat to the central town of the third area. They poured water desperately to build an ice city, and only then did they escape the chasing wave of monsters and save the family armed forces of more than 20,000 people.
Then the 20,000-odd family armed force that Lorist placed high hopes on was trapped in the central town of the third district for more than a month, not only exhausting the food reserves in the central town of the third district, but also suffering from hunger. After several days, it was not until the wave of monsters receded that they went out of the city to fight some monsters to fill their stomachs, and returned to Rock Castle with no morale...
"I announce that I will remove the Shredder Knight Fengleyuan as the development manager, and at the same time remove the Shredder Knight family's chief knight status, and downgrade it to an ordinary family knight. The position of the Fengleyuan development director will be temporarily represented by Sodkamp." Luo said. Rist stood up and announced his punishment of Fatty Shi.
"In the family territory, many of us have never heard of the coming of the wave of monsters in winter, and we have never seen it, but have we lost confidence in developing Fengleyuan because of this? The wave of monsters is not terrible, and we can't stop bad things from happening. Happened, but we can try our best to turn bad things into good results." Lorist said.
Next, Lorist gave a detailed introduction of what he did in the central town of the sixth district, and even took out a lamb rib to demonstrate how to set a trap: "Facts show that as long as we have a strong city wall to protect us, The arrival of the tide of monsters has provided us with a good opportunity to hunt in winter. As long as we arrange it properly, we can even use the city walls as a trap for hunting monsters. Of course, we must also pay attention not to be in a place where there are those powerful large herbivorous monsters. Time to tease. At the right time, luring those small herbivorous monsters with low combat effectiveness into the city will not only enable us to obtain a large amount of fresh meat and fur, but also make the new residents fearless against the tide of monsters and full of hope for the future. confidence."
Lorist also introduced the situation of the four villages: "From the circumstances of these four villages in the wave of monsters, it shows that even the settlement villages can also avoid the hordes of monsters. First, they have excellent defense facilities, and second, they have reliable retreat, such as caves or cellars, you can survive the winter wave of monsters safely."
"So, the new year has begun. This year, our family's focus is on building the city walls and civil facilities in the central towns and villages from the second district to the seventh district. We must make the new residents feel at ease and safe. Currently Although the wave of monsters has retreated, there are still a large number of monsters stranded in Fengleyuan. Starting tomorrow, the family armed forces will do their best to wipe out the monsters in the entire wasteland. The general public will have no worries.”
"Sedkamp, the focus of your work this year is to build the six central towns. I will ask Miss Teresy to arrange for the designers of the original city construction headquarters to come up with the design plans for the six central towns as soon as possible and build them according to the drawings. The other Reclamation villages also need to build defensive walls and arrange reliable escape routes. As for reclaiming wasteland, we can arrange planting potatoes and the like to supplement food consumption, and the family will also purchase a large amount of food from outside for storage.”
"In addition, the sixteen silver swordsmen who contributed to the crisis of the winter wave of monsters will be promoted to family knights. Is there any good way to stop the tide of monsters from destroying the family territory, everyone can write their own ideas in the letter and tell us, the prosperity and development of the family territory cannot be separated from the joint efforts of all of us. Please everyone."
After the meeting ended, Lorist left Fatty Shi behind. Although Fatty Shi was deprived of the post of development manager, it does not mean that Fatty Shi should be kept in cold storage.
"Brother Shi, I will hand over Rock Castle and Mountain City to you. These two places have not been harmed by the wave of monsters, so you are in charge. One is the construction of the Mountain City and the development of fields, and the other is the planning and construction of the back city of Rock Castle and Reclamation and distribution of the surrounding wasteland. When Fengleyuan has no way to avoid the harm of the tide of monsters, the food produced in these two places in the future will be related to the survival of the family territory. In addition, I am going to be here, that is, the Blade's Edge Mountains and Morgan At this location where the hills cross, build a new town. The residents of this town will be the families of all miners and blacksmiths. This is our family's industrial city, and this will become our family's weapons production base. You understand the meaning of this place Is it important?"
Fatty Shi nodded: "Lock, brother, thank you, please rest assured, as a brother, I will not let you down again."
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