The Truth of Magic

Chapter 591 Turmoil and preparation, the beginning of death

"All militia reserves are on emergency standby, and other reserve personnel hastened to 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 full-bodied voice, everyone in the audience could hear him clearly.

Even the Arthur area, which has been cultivated by civilized races for many years, cannot guarantee that the wilderness of that area is completely safe.

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

And the "wild dead land" that is inherently unsafe is even more obvious.

In the early days, countless earth traversals who wanted to explore the outside world with their feet could still survive.

As for those who are fully prepared and head towards a goal that is quite far away, if there is no camp along the way to go to, they will basically die.

The wilderness is limited, but the monsters are infinite, which is the cruelest truth in the wild and dead.

Even for Zhao Xu and the others, in their previous lives, they had relied on the overall migration and cooperated with the Earth traversers to accumulate enough strength before they dared to set off.

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

Fortunately, during the first two weeks when the camp was established, it was not uncommon to be harassed by monsters from outside. Similar "emergency drills" were staged with real guns and live ammunition. The children were not too panicked, but followed the nearby teachers to divert them one by one. .

The rest of the adults who came back from their shifts also ran to the nearby armory, and found the one-handed melee weapon "short spear" that was recently made by cutting down trees and combining them with polished stone and iron.

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

Even in the urban area, the price would not exceed one gold coin, and it was widely loved by ordinary militiamen. At the same time, short spears could also be deployed in spear arrays to resist charges, so it became the standard weapon of countless camps at the moment.

After Zhao Xu watched the scene, he was silently relieved.

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

But the people in the rear can escape with peace of mind, because someone in the front is making fire for them.

The young people who are on duty every day and need to go to battle have a somewhat flustered expression on their faces, and even many parents are telling them with tears, as if parting from life to death.

This is also the truest portrayal of the wild and dead place at this moment. The temporary wooden fence around the camp can only stop ordinary beasts, but cannot stop the tide of undead.

The major camps can only shrink their own personnel formations, abandon most of the buildings, hide all personnel together for protection, and then deploy spear formations in all directions to counter-advance.

Players and elite militia units are cruising on the battlefield to carry out fixed-point strikes.

On the first night in Yanan city, Zhao Xu issued this plan to resist the tide of undead, so he was not at all worried that Yanan would encounter the wave of undead that broke out regularly in the "wild dead land" at this moment.

On the contrary, he wants to take this opportunity to re-observe the wave of undead's function at a close distance, to see if he can find something that he didn't notice when he was a warrior in his previous life.

In other words, find the reason for the formation of the undead wave.

He believes that Wang Ningwei and others in his previous life must have found the cause and eliminated it, but he was in a humble position back then and could not know such high-level secrets at all.

The "wave of undead" is a phenomenon of restlessness of undead creatures that regularly erupts in the wild dead land.

Generally speaking, in the dead land, the most widespread undead creatures are the "ghouls", "skeletons" and "zombie" brigades.

Other undead sequences—ghosts (3), wraiths (3), mummies (3), shadows (3), wights (3), vampiric spawn (4), wraiths (5), ghosts ( 7), Bodak (8), Mohunji (8), Skeleton Naga (11), Soulbender (11), Lich (13), Wraithbound Ghost (16), Banshee (17), Corpse Grave Demon (19), Hungry Spirit (19), Flying Wing Night Shadow (14), Crouching Night Shadow (16), Giant Worm Night Shadow (18), etc., more depends on luck.

However, when the "death wave" erupts, it seems that the negative energy core deep in the earth 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 weekdays, will spew out like waves, just like he once encountered in the wall corridor of the demiplane of death. Arrived the same.

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

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

Therefore, deciding whether a camp can survive or not depends more on "luck".

This was also the reason why Zhao Xu and the others left the barren land and joined other forces after thinking about it in their previous lives.

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

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

"Run fast, this time is too scary."

"That's no ordinary skeleton and zombie!"

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

"What is the strength of your patrolling guards?" Zhao Xu immediately asked Lu Tie, who was directing the flow of people on the stage.

As for the chasing youth being disturbed in such an emergency situation, his instinct was to yell at him.

But what he saw was that Zhao Xu, who had just shown off an attack power above level 30 and was called the "Sword God", restrained his temper and explained patiently: "There are at least five hundred patrolling militiamen on the outer layer. It’s time to advance to level 1 mercenaries, and there are no less than a few dozen fighters in the outer guard.”

At this time, in the wild and dead land, basically in all the camps, the most important thing is "cultivation" and "war" just like in ancient times.

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

Higher-level talents are assigned to management and vocational training, the rest are assigned to the garrison department, and the rest are assigned to production, engaged in the production of daily necessities in the camp area, and will be distributed according to "tickets" at that time.

As for the last, and the largest number of people who really don't have any skills in the current situation, they will be assigned to open up wasteland and farm.

So Zhao Xu was not surprised that a large camp could arrange hundreds of people just for guarding the gate, but it took too long for him to be defeated.

In an instant, Lu Tie also understood what Zhao Xu meant, and his expression changed drastically, realizing that this "attack" was not just on the scale of the previous beast.

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

Hearing this sentence, a few militiamen who were weaker in heart almost cried out, but at the moment when everyone was holding their weapons tightly and preparing to step forward, they could only shed tears back to their stomachs.

Zhao Xu immediately inspected the buff spells on his body.

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

After having the potential points, he didn't care about the spells that he didn't think were so important.

Like the previous spell "The Wealth of the Relic Explorer", he cast it four times in a row, corresponding to the three major saving throws of Fortitude, Reflection, and Will respectively increasing the luck bonus equal to the Charisma adjustment, as well as the HP also improved.

At the same time, there are several well-known spell combinations in Arthur's spell system. Once he has more than one combined spell at the same time, it can produce "synergy", such as "unicorn combination" and "primitive combination".

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

Unfortunately, this camp was very unlucky to encounter a "powerful" level of "Undead Disaster".

But fortunately, he just came here to participate in the negotiations.

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

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

The passage just now was also his final concluding statement.

"Although you, Yanan, have a large scale now, our camp has also formed a large scale, and there are also a lot of players. In fact, your nominal federation, after our merger, doesn't even have much autonomy at all." Another 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. Although he was in charge of the production line without a professional level, he quickly obtained a key position in the new organization by relying on his ability.

This transformation from business to politics also allowed him to step into a door that was difficult to reach before.

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

Even if he didn't face him directly, just by hearing about him, he was very wary of Yanan's "management echelon" that had formed a system at the moment.

"Yeah, in the past two weeks, we managed to stabilize the situation in the current camp from scratch, and finally got it right. You Yanan came here to pick peaches?" Another soldier player in charge of training the militia objected. .

At this time, the upper echelons of the camp in the room, players and non-players, have changed from the initial 50-50 split to 70-30 split, 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 they can do it very well.

However, 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 an ugly face, especially the person in charge was extremely gloomy.

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

Just choosing the camp area has already caused a huge debate within Yanan. The high-level executives all hope to include the area of ​​their hometown in the scope of negotiations. The initial negotiating goals for the top 20 camp areas were also discussed for a long time before Wang Ningwei made a final decision. Down.

How could they have imagined that the "incorporation" that Yanan thought was a favor would one day be rejected?

However, he also understands that the smaller the camp, the more difficult it is to maintain itself, and a small fluctuation can destroy a small camp, so naturally he is eager to merge.

But in the camp in front of him, it seems that he can maintain himself for a period of time without Yanan, which is also the confidence of the other party.

But this is too strange, right?

When did Yanan become so shameless?

Zhong Xia, the final boss of his family, is known as the savior of the earth people at this moment.

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

The room was so stuffy that he was a little hypoxic and sluggish.

With Yanan's prestige, the top camp executives at the opposite table will not resist this negotiation, otherwise they will not even come to the gate in a hurry.

And how is it possible that a high-level organization is monolithic, and there is no independent voice.

The other party behaved so consistently, in fact, it was discussed first.

Now arguing about the red-faced actions on the ground is even more like asking for a lot of money and paying back the money on the spot.

Now that it was easy to handle, Yanan's negotiator was thinking about the measures on the "list" and was going to put one out for discussion first.

"boom!"

Suddenly, a lot of noise came.

"What's wrong? An attack?" The top leader of the camp immediately stood up and asked.

At this time, a panting militiaman ran in panting, "The big thing is bad, there are many undead creatures, they have all rushed into the camp, and hundreds of people have died in the outermost area."

Immediately, the faces of the high-level executives who were 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 that the normal signal did not have time to transmit can only explain 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 negotiations, closed his lips with a slight smile. It seems that the conditions for autonomy prepared by the above needless to say.