I approached Bingtis calmly, and then suddenly remembered that it seemed unnecessary to do so when I had a spiritual connection, so I opened the public channel in my mind and discussed with her: "Banned books? What?"
"It seems to be an ancient book left before the first Dark Moon War," Bingtis replied in a spiritual connection while pretending to watch the roadside scenery, "I asked the first batch of louse spirits who arrived in the imperial capital to pay attention to it." Searching places like churches and palaces, one of them stumbled across a library underground in the city. It seems that the people in the church did not completely destroy the ancient books before the First War. I don’t know what kind of mentality it was, anyway. It has been of great help to us.”
"Maybe it's for the protection of intangible cultural heritage." I looked up to the sky and smiled dryly. Fortunately, this action was not seen by the Iron Knight trio, otherwise this kind of silly smile at the sky and silent behavior would definitely be regarded as crazy. "In the forbidden book What clue did you find?"
"It's being sifted. The valuable ones should be books on customs, customs, history, and culture before the First War. The remaining things about agronomy and product geography can be put aside first," said Bingtis' blood-red There are dots of golden light moving slowly in the eyes, obviously she is keeping pace with those lice spirits, I am curious what the world looks like from the perspective of a flying lice, but Bingtis himself will definitely not answer this question, "Oh, I found some useful things, I asked Lice to copy those things and send them here. When we have time, let's get together and study together: the pre-war history is more exciting than we imagined. It really wasn't so harmonious back then. "
I groaned and looked at the sky: the sun has basically set one-third of the mountain, but the teleportation station mentioned by the Iron Knight trio has not yet been seen, and I am too lazy to use my mental strength to scan the surroundings The space has collapsed a bit, so just follow along anyway. In the end, I still focused my interest on the louse spirit released by Bingtis: "What about the other two groups? There are secrets in the Earth-Moon Connection Bridge and the North Fortress?"
"Well, the earth-moon connection bridge has been determined to be a large-scale portal. It is very ingenious, but it is not the technology of the Protoss. In all likelihood, it is an interstellar exploration facility left by the civilization of the last season of this world, but its core is temporarily closed. Well, the lice can’t get in, we can go and see for ourselves when the time comes,” Bingtis nodded, “There’s not much to note about the North Fortress itself, it’s a military stronghold, but there are endless lands around the North Fortress. More than a dozen new bases have been established. It seems that the Gondor Empire is really going all out, and their knights and generals are not cowards. The most interesting thing is... I saw the Pope of the Goddess Cult in the North Fortress."
Me: "...the Pope?"
Bingtis showed a playful expression: "Well, I didn't expect this character to come to the front line in person. I guessed this human being from the perspective of conspiracy at the beginning, so I think he should stay in a safe place under this situation. Watch The whole world desperately resisted the war, and then waited for the goddess to come to consolidate his church rule, but he came directly to the northern fortress, and now lives in the fortress as the frontline commander of the church army. Said... Maybe our speculation about the Goddess Cult has been overlooked."
I didn't continue, but I thought of an even more bizarre guess: there is another possibility, that is, the Dark Moon War is probably really a play controlled by the church. In this case, the pope naturally knows that he will not be in danger, and he personally leads the church army. It naturally makes sense to come to the North Fortress to garrison. Of course, this guess is also based on the teaching conspiracy theory, and I guess Bingtis can also think of this.
It’s no wonder that we take the teaching conspiracy theory to heart. The main reason is that there are too many doubts about the Dark Moon War and the Goddess Cult. Now I feel more and more that the Dark Moon and the Goddess have some kind of ambiguous "coordination" in terms of rhythm. , under such circumstances, no one can help themselves to associate the people of the church with conspiracies and tricks. What do you mean by that sentence, when you meet a pope who rules the world in the name of theocracy, you will You have to guard against him like you guard against Amway...
It would be great if I brought Lilina, I have full confidence in that girl, she can break into the church within a few days...
"Oh, here we are, the teleportation station is just ahead!"
Joseph's loud voice interrupted my thinking. I looked up and found a stone building that looked like a sentry tower beside the official road in the distance. At this time, the sky was already dark, but there was a huge ball of light floating above the "outpost tower", which made the surroundings of the outpost tower as bright as day like a small sun, and made the tower look as eye-catching as a lighthouse on land .
The silly big man was silent all the way, and after leaving the village, he was a little depressed. Now seeing the mysterious tower, he finally smiled: "Hey, I saw that tower when I was wandering outside. Planting something can send people far away in no time! I know that the ball of light above is used to disperse wild beasts!"
"Not only to disperse the wild beasts," Joseph waved his hand to signal us to speed up our pace, because seeing the teleportation station, his emotions seemed to rise, "It can also disperse the dark moon people, the light ball on the tower is made of church relics It came out with the power of the goddess inside. This power controls the teleportation array on the base of the tower, so that the people of the dark moon cannot use the teleportation stations of the people on the ground. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be bad for them to use these small stations to directly attack the fortress? "
During the conversation, we soon arrived in front of the high tower, and I realized that this stone building is quite large. It is made of gray-white rocks, like a round arrow tower, about 20 meters high. There is a metal structure like a crown on the top. I guess it is the so-called "ecclesiastical relic", because it is releasing a soft halo, providing energy for the light ball at the top of the tower. The base under the tower has been carefully leveled, and there are a series of deep circular notches on the ground, which should be the teleportation array Joseph mentioned: it turns out that these things were arranged outside the tower. However, I don't know anything about magic, so I just watched it as a novelty. I observed those scratches for a while, and then nodded like an expert: "Well, it's quite round."
At this time, a small door under the tower opened, and two knights who were dressed similarly to the three of Joseph, but with grass-green battle robes over their armor, came out. One of them waved to the visitors: "Go to the fortress!" Huh? Horses can’t be teleported, and it’s entering the control period at noon.”
Anna heard that she took the big and stupid bag from her war horse and handed it to its original owner. Pandora and Viska jumped off the ground dexterously, and then the trio of iron knights carried their army bag and weapons back to the place. On himself, Qiao asked while hanging the dagger on his belt: "Why did you suddenly enter the control? Didn't you say that you have to wait for a few days?"
"A group of monks has been temporarily added to the front line from the rear. The flow of people in the past two days has been too large, so it is temporarily restricted. The teleportation stations in various places are now only allowed to pass by people. Livestock and horses are allowed to go by themselves," the soldiers at the teleportation station inspected. Joseph handed over the roster and something similar to a pass, and nodded while looking at it, "Oh, these are free mercenaries, are you a guarantee? Okay, there is just a lack of people in front."
Joseph took back the passport that was marked with some kind of mark, and patted his horse's neck to bid farewell to the old man temporarily. Before the soldiers at the transfer station activated the magic circle, he suddenly remembered something, and said to the two soldiers: "By the way, horses I haven’t fed them after running for a long time, please help me to add 30 copper eagle coins for the zero-size fodder each, and give the red horses a brush, there are monthly cards on the horses’ necks, and the two old brothers can just check it.”
The two teleportation station soldiers waved their hands and led the horses away from the teleportation formation: "I know, I know, by the way, the price of fodder zero has increased recently. It just went up at 1:30 in the afternoon, and horse brushing is still free for the time being."
As soon as Joseph opened his mouth to say something, the circular magic circle under our feet suddenly lit up, half of his words dissipated in the light.
A second later, the transmission was completed, and the half-sentence that Joseph yelled out of inertia sounded in my ears: "... why did it go up just last month, and it went up again this month... Oh, here we are."
I recovered from the momentary sense of weightlessness, positioned myself a bit, and confirmed that the teleportation distance is not far, and the distance between North Fortress and Pine Forest Village seems to be only forty or fifty miles. However, the surrounding scenery has changed drastically: we have completely left the forest area and are now on a gravel beach. In front of us is the majestic Changqiao Mountain Range, with sparse vegetation and huge rocky mountains cutting the sky like a barrier. The North Fortress is spread out in front of us majesticly along the mountain. It is a dusty military fortress, not Built on flat ground, but vertically distributed along the entire mountain, almost all the rock buildings are half buried in the rocks, and it looks as if the mountain was carved out of this stone fortress on the spot. Although it cannot be compared with the imperial facilities that often cover the sky and the sun, just thinking that this is a fortress built by an indigenous civilization in a feudal state relying on manpower and wisdom to transform nature, it still makes me sigh. On the other hand, in the direction facing the North Fortress, there is a flat plain, with few undulating terrain in sight, and even the mountains and forests stop abruptly in a very far distance.
Judging from the terrain alone, the North Fortress is in a position that is easy to defend and difficult to attack—at least for the native army in this world, but I don’t know that this convenient terrain is still very important for the legendary Dark Moon Demons who can fly into the sky and into the earth. It doesn't matter.
The landing point of our teleportation is also a "transportation station" similar to the one just now: the main body is a high stone tower, on the high tower is an "artificial little sun" used to disperse the dark moon people, and under the high tower is a place full of magic patterns. The rock base, it seems that this sentry tower-like teleportation station is a "standard facility". Bingtis looked up at the tower, suddenly thoughtful: "The energy operation of these transmission stations does not seem to be very smooth, how long has it been maintained?"
Joseph was teaching the stupid man how to take a deep breath to relieve the dizziness of teleportation. Hearing this, he looked up and said, "As expected of a conjurer, you are also interested in the teleportation station? It is said that this station has not been repaired for twenty-five years Well, originally, the teleportation stations all over the place were relics left before the third Dark Moon War, and the construction technology was also before that. After the third war, no one knew how to build a new teleportation station. After the fifth war, simply Even the core of the magic stone has become a rare thing. I heard that the teleportation stations everywhere on the ground can only be maintained by the cores left before the five wars. Running on the ground to fight the seventh war."
I silently wrote down another new situation: the technology of the people on the ground is gradually breaking down!
When I saw the teleportation station just now, I was still wondering why the people on the ground even have this kind of hyperspace military station, but they can’t understand the nature of the Tiandiqiao. The result is this: the teleportation gate does exist, but it is three times The old antiques left before the war, with the dark moon wars again and again, these technologies are gradually being lost, and the teleportation towers that are still operating on the earth today are all running beyond their age, such as the one in front of us - Bingdi Si could tell at a glance that its power circuits were in a bad state, and the locals, even ordinary soldiers, knew this, but they just didn't have new parts to repair the tower.
Qianqian and Lin Xue didn't express any opinions. This kind of thing is common to us. Long wars don't always bring technological progress. In many cases, it will destroy the foundation of a civilization, especially Dark Moon. In the periodic world wars of war, no civilization can grow strong enough to withstand five cuts in half and continue to evolve. Now the people on the ground can still use weapons, armor and magic to fight against the Dark Moon Demons, and they can also use ancient facilities such as teleportation stations, which is actually not bad: if we don’t come, they will brandish sticks and charge towards the Dark Moon Demons sooner or later them.
"Those camps over there don't look like regular troops?" Qianqian looked at the foot of the Changqiao mountain range. In the night, he could see lights stretching far away on both sides of the North Fortress. If you look closely, you can see that they are all At the temporary camp, I remembered the information I had learned before, and couldn't help blurting out: "That's free mercenaries?"
"Not all free mercenaries," Joseph waved for us to follow, while explaining in front, "Because only the National Knights and the Imperial Order are stationed in the fortress, so other than the second-level corps, there are churches from all over the country. They also set up camps outside the fortress, and those regular camps with plans generally fall into these two categories. The camps of free mercenaries are around these regular camps, because they are not under the control of anyone, and apart from being able to issue free missions to them, they are almost a mess , so you can camp freely, as long as it doesn’t affect the regular army’s actions. You can follow us to the fortress to register and then find a place to camp outside. By the way, do you have a superior mercenary group? Or you can have a team name yourself , I can register you according to the team size, and then you can receive more supplies."
"We have..." I let out a few words casually, then looked at Bingtis hesitantly, "Or don't we?"
There is no way, the lice are controlled by Bingtis. This female hooligan is the one who knows the local situation best among us. With the pervasive ability of those lice, I suspect that Bingtis is already half a local...
"Okay, okay," Bingtis waved to Joseph, "I know how free mercenaries are registered, just report your name to indicate that you have been here, and you don't need to worry about the rest. Traveled the world and can take care of myself—you just report as a team."
Joseph nodded, and handed over a small oval metal sign: "Oh, then I will register you as team-type free mercenaries, and you will camp outside by yourself, remember to put this sign in your main tent, I want to know your location, and I will look for you tomorrow morning. Also, do you have a name for your team? I have to report it."
Bingtis took the magic GPS tracker, rolled her eyes and thought for a while, she saw the Pandora sisters who were competing to make a rounder fireball, and she also made a big fireball by herself, as if she suddenly made up her mind : "Both of me and I play fire balls. The three of us are collectively called the Doomsday Dahonglian Flame Judgment Spell Group. We believe in Fiery, fire, and flame. You can call me fff chief referee..."
I:"… "
Joseph was dizzy listening to Bingtis pop up a bunch of weird nouns, but he finally noticed some details, so he pointed at me, Qianqian and Lin Xue: "Then the three of them are the same as the three of you?" Not together?"
"They are together, but they betrayed my Doomsday Dahonglian Flame Judgment Spell Group, so they are heretics who are responsible for being judged. You have to babble again, my old lady hit your face with a big fireball."
Joseph Anna and Joe shrank their necks at the same time, and finally fully believed that Bingtis was a second-year girl, and then Qiao tugged at the silent big man: "Big man, come with us, you are a recruit recruited by the Knights, you have to Report to the fort."
The stupid big man subconsciously followed for a few steps, only to notice that none of us followed, he pointed at us unresponsively and asked the trio of Iron Knights: "Are my friends just spending the night outside like this? "
Joseph patiently explained to the stupid big man again: "They are free mercenaries, they camped directly outside, just register with the person in charge of the mercenary station tomorrow."
Qianqian and I waved vigorously at the stupid big man to let him leave with peace of mind, and Qianqian also promised very seriously: "Don't worry, stupid big man, we will go to the fortress to find you tomorrow."
That idiot finally left without turning around.
Watching the group of four people and a cat disappear into the huge gate hole of the North Fortress, Bingtis let out a long sigh of relief: "Okay, now we are finally left alone, Chen, you choose a place with a good geomantic omen Let's camp."
I looked around the huge gravel plain, looking for the tents of the free mercenaries who were far away from the regular army camps in the large open space outside the fortress, and then easily found a relatively large group of them.
According to Joseph's reminder, although free mercenaries are stationed randomly, there are also requirements, that is, they cannot intersect with the regular army's activity area (this is to prevent affecting order), and the places where free mercenaries gather must meet the requirements.
It seemed that she was going to spend the night there tonight, but Qianqian was very excited: this girl seems to be very interested in camping in the wild!
(I'm going to Guangzhou on the 13th... Do you think I'm asking for a few days off or what...) RS