The Truth of Magic

Chapter 592: Turbulence and preparation, the beginning of death

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"All militia reserves are on emergency standby, and other reserve personnel quickly arrange for the elderly and children to go to the garrison area in the central area."

The soldier Lu Tie on the stage shouted decisively, and with his powerful voice, everyone in the audience could hear clearly.

Even the Arthur area, which has been cultivated by civilized races for many years, cannot guarantee the complete safety of the wilderness in that area.

Even in a place like Mystra, where there are as many legends as dogs, there are still countless dark and underground forces hiding around.

And the "wild and dead land" itself is even more obvious.

In the early days, countless earth travelers who wanted to explore the outside world on their own feet encountered difficulties and returned home just after leaving the gathering area. Those who could still survive.

As for those who are fully prepared and head towards a far away target, if there are no camps along the way to take refuge, they will basically die.

There are limited people in the wild, but unlimited monsters. This is the cruelest truth in the wilderness.

Even Zhao Xu and others relied on the overall migration in their previous life and cooperated with the Earth Travelers to accumulate enough strength as a whole, and then they dared to set off.

At this moment, in the wild and dead land, without the protection of players, it is basically a dead end.

Fortunately, in the first two weeks since the establishment of this camp, there were many harassments from outside monsters. Similar "emergency drills" were performed with real guns and live ammunition. The children did not panic too much and just followed the nearby instructors. .

The remaining adults who returned from their rotation also ran to the nearby weapons warehouse and found the "short spear", a one-handed melee weapon recently made by cutting down trees and polishing stone and iron tools.

The spear itself is the simplest weapon, and the short spear is an even simpler version.

Even in urban areas, the price is not more than one gold coin. It is widely loved by ordinary militiamen. At the same time, short spears can also be arranged into spear formations to resist charges, so it has become the standard weapon in countless camps at the moment.

After Zhao Xu looked at the situation at the scene, he felt relieved silently.

Over the past two weeks, this camp has undergone many practical drills, and basically the entire escape plan can be executed in an orderly manner.

However, the people in the rear were able to escape safely because there were people in the front holding firewood and making fire for them.

The young people who were on duty every day and needed to go into battle had a somewhat panicked expression on their faces, and many of their parents even warned them with tears in their eyes, as if they were parting from life or death.

This is also the most realistic portrayal of the wilderness and death land at this moment. The temporary wooden fences erected around the camp can only stop ordinary beasts, but cannot stop the advancing tide of the undead at all.

Each major camp can only shrink its own personnel formation, abandon most of the buildings, huddle all personnel together for protection, and then set up spear arrays in all directions to counter the advance.

Players and elite militia troops roam the battlefield to carry out targeted attacks.

On the first night in Yanan City, Zhao Xu issued this plan to resist the undead tide, so he was not worried at all about the undead waves that Yanan would encounter regularly in the "Wild Dead Land".

On the contrary, he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to re-observe the action of the undead wave at close range and see if he could discover something that he had not noticed when he was a warrior in his previous life.

In other words, find the reason why the undead wave takes shape.

He believed that Wang Ningwei and others in the previous life must have found the cause and eliminated it, but he was in a humble position and had no way of knowing such high-level secrets.

The "wave of the undead" is a phenomenon of restless undead creatures that regularly breaks out in the wild dead land.

Generally speaking, the most common undead creatures in the dead land are "ghouls", "skeletons" and "zombies".

Other sequences of undead creatures—ghosts (3), wraiths (3), mummies (3), shadows (3), corpses (3), vampire spawns (4), spirits (5), ghosts (7) ), Boda Corpse (8), Demon Soul Corpse (8), Skeleton Naga (11), Soul Prisoner Demon (11), Lich (13), Resentment Binding Ghost (16), Banshee (17), Corpse Grave Demon (19), Hungry Spirit (19), Winged Night Shadow (14), Fu Xing Night Shadow (16), Giant Insect Night Shadow (18), etc. It all depends on luck.

But when the "death wave" breaks out, it seems that the negative energy core deep in the earth's veins will erupt with energy that can excite undead creatures.

At this time, the above-mentioned undead creatures other than ghouls, skeletons, and zombies, which are rarely seen on ordinary days, will spurt out like waves, just like he once encountered in the wall corridor of the demiplane of Death. Same as arrived.

Sometimes, a few powerful undead creatures can even easily destroy a camp with tens of thousands of people.

This is especially true when they have the ability to "infect".

Therefore, whether a camp can survive depends more on "luck."

This is also the reason why Zhao Xu and others left the wilderness and joined other forces after much deliberation in their previous lives.

Slowly, distant noises came, accompanied by cries, and the initially orderly retreat began to become chaotic.

"Run, the monster is coming, it's too scary."

"You have to run fast, this time is too scary."

"Those are no ordinary skeletons and zombies!"

Zhao Xu's stacked listening skills allowed him to hear the noise ahead faster than anyone else. It was obvious that the outermost defense line collapsed without even being able to withstand it for a moment.

"How many troops are patrolling and guarding your perimeter?" Zhao Xu immediately pulled Lu Tie, who was directing the flow of people on the stage, and asked.

As for the young man chasing the wind, if he was disturbed in such an emergency situation, his instinct was to curse.

But what he saw was Zhao Xu, who had just shown off an attack power of level 30 or above, which could be called the "Sword God" level. He also restrained his temper and patiently explained: "There are at least five hundred patrol militiamen in the outer layer. They are not Shao has started to be promoted to a level 1 mercenary, and the number of players on alert outside is no less than a few dozen warriors."

At this time, in the wild and dead land, in basically all camps, the most important things are just like in ancient times, "farming" and "war".

Even the big star singers before time travel began to take the "minstrel" route.

Higher-level talents are assigned to management and vocational training, while the rest are assigned to the garrison department. The rest are assigned to production and engaged in the production of daily necessities in the camp, and will be allocated according to "tickets" when the time comes.

As for the last and largest number of people who really have no skills in the current situation, they are assigned to open up wasteland and farm.

Therefore, a large camp could arrange hundreds of people just to guard the gates. Zhao Xu was not surprised at all, but he was defeated too quickly.

In an instant, Lu Tie also understood what Zhao Xu meant. His expression immediately changed, and he understood that this "attack" was not on the scale of a beast like before.

He immediately shouted: "Level 1 alert, Level 1 alert, speed up the retreat, no matter the cost, give up material recovery!"

Hearing these words, several militiamen with fragile hearts almost burst into tears, but when everyone clenched their weapons and prepared to move forward, they could only shed tears back into their stomachs.

Zhao Xu immediately checked the buff spells on his body.

After the battle, he had to see what else he needed to add to deal with the undead tide.

After possessing potential points, he burned spells that he usually didn't think were so important without caring.

For example, he cast the spell "Relic Explorer's Wealth" four times in a row, which increased the luck bonus equal to the charm adjustment for the three major saving throws of Fortitude, Reflex, and Will, as well as the health value. Also improved.

At the same time, there are several famous spell combinations in Arthur's spell system. Once you have more than one combination of spells at the same time, it can produce "co-effects", such as "Unicorn Combination", "Original Combination" and so on.

After the final check was correct, he waved his hand to Lu Tie and said, "Shrink the defense line. This attack is far beyond your imagination."

What is more unfortunate is that this camp is very unlucky to encounter a "powerful" level of "undead disaster".

But luckily, he happened to be here to participate in the negotiations.

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"I'm sorry, but we cannot accept your conditions. Although we players admire Mr. Zhongxia and believe that Yanan will grow into a towering tree in the future, at this moment, we believe that our own hands can create a better future for ourselves. s future."

On the long table, a poet player said, before that, he had already started a eloquent debate.

What he said just now is also his final concluding statement.

"Although your Yanan is now huge, our camp has also grown in size, and there are a lot of players. Your nominal federation, in fact, after our merger, we don't even have much autonomy at all." Another person said. A middle-aged man in charge of the production organization said that in his previous life, he was the vice president of a Fortune 500 company and was responsible for the production line. Although he did not have a professional level, he quickly obtained a key position in the new organization based on his ability.

This transition from business to politics also allowed him to enter doors that were previously difficult to reach.

Therefore, even if the conditions were difficult, he was still struggling day and night during this period. If he rashly defected to the past at this time, he would definitely not be able to maintain his original position.

Even if he didn't face it directly, just by hearing it, he was very wary of the "management echelon" that Yanan had formed.

"Yes, in the past two weeks, we have worked hard to stabilize the current situation in the camp from scratch, and then we got it right, and you Yanan are here to pick peaches?" Another warrior player responsible for training the militia objected .

At this time, the top management of the camp in the room, players and non-players, has changed from the initial 50-50 to 73-30, and this gap will become wider and wider.

Especially players with high intelligence and high charisma, it is easy to find that they are more suitable for "management" work and can do a good job.

The discussion atmosphere in the room was very sharp, as if no one agreed to join.

The negotiators sitting on the Yanan side below had ugly expressions, especially the person in charge was extremely gloomy.

He knew that Yanan had sent no less than twenty negotiation teams to various major camps at this moment.

Just the selection of camp areas has already caused a huge debate within Yanan. The senior officials all hope to include their hometown areas in the negotiation scope. The initial negotiation targets for the twenty major camps were discussed for a long time before Wang Ningwei made the final decision. Down.

How could they have thought that "incorporation", a move that they, Yanan, considered to be a favor, would one day be rejected

However, he also understands that the smaller the camp, the harder it is to maintain itself. A small fluctuation can destroy the small camp, so naturally he is eager to merge.

But the camp in front of us seems to be able to sustain itself for a period of time without Yanan, which is also the opponent's confidence.

But isn't this too strange

When did they, Yanan, become so hopeless

His final boss, Zhongxia, is now called the savior of the people on earth.

After thinking about it in surprise, the person in charge of the negotiation also came to his senses and couldn't help but smile.

The room was too stuffy, making him a little sluggish due to lack of oxygen.

With Yanan's prestige, the senior camp officials at the opposite table would not resist this negotiation, otherwise they would not even be able to rush to the gate.

And how could a high-level organization be monolithic and not have an independent voice

The fact that the other party acted so unanimously was actually just a matter of discussion in advance.

The actions that are so controversial now are just asking for high prices and paying them back on the spot.

Since this would be easier to handle, Yanan's negotiator thought about the measures on the "list" and prepared to talk about one of them first.

"boom!"

Suddenly, there was a lot of noise.

"What happened? There was an attack?" The supreme leader of the camp suddenly stood up and asked.

At this time, a panting militiaman ran in panting, "Something bad has happened, there are many undead creatures, they have rushed into the camp, and hundreds of people have died on the outermost edge."

Suddenly, the expressions of the senior officials who had been deducing the defense of the camp every night changed drastically. They knew what this meant far better than the people outside.

This short period of time, which is so short that normal signals have no time to transmit, can only mean one thing -

This time the enemy can destroy the entire camp.

The person in charge of the Yanan side who was in charge of the negotiation smiled and closed his lips. It seemed that the autonomy conditions prepared above went without saying.

(End of chapter)