Chapter 25: Follow the clues
At this time, Crespo's feeling when he saw the colonizer being killed was like a bubble that was poked by a needle and then shattered silently, with a kind of dead calm.
Like a moth flying into the fire, or like a mayfly falling into the water...
But, that is a hunter! Back in the real world, a hunter can kill thousands of people at will!
He died so silently that he couldn't even reveal a trump card!
If this person had a spirit in heaven, I don’t know how frustrated he would be!
It was at this moment that Crespo was completely convinced and determined to stay in the legendary team.
***
Because the fierce battle here makes a lot of noise, it will attract some scavenging "vultures".
They are those contractors who like to come and seek benefits from the endgame. These guys are very difficult to deal with, and they can leave in one blow. It is almost difficult to get any benefits from them, so the group of people are not in a hurry to open the bloody key, but Start checking out the clues here.
It saves a lot of trouble at this time, because these guys wanted to go their own way and leave others with no way to go, so they were destroying the scene, so the group of people just went directly to the place they planned to destroy.
Soon, all kinds of information were gathered from the team members who were working separately:
"...among the fresh signs of damage here, there are also ice shards, indicating that there was a large amount of hail here at that time."
"Look at the marks on the rocks nearby. These are not naturally generated, but more like they were made by a weapon? Could it be the legendary sword energy?"
"There seems to be blood here. Those bastards are planning to blow it up, huh? The blood looks weird. Is it poisoned or something? It turns green?"
"I found the battlefield where the two of them fought. It was so powerful that a large area of vegetation was affected."
"..."
After collecting enough information, Fang Linyan asked Rubes to go forward and smell the blood, and then activated the "Niebelung" scent tracking system.
Immediately, you can see that there are many stars and dots of light appearing in the sky. Some of these lights are dark red, and some are light green, forming a strange fog belt that spreads in a winding direction into the distance. go.
After seeing this scene, Fang Linyan said simply:
"Now it is almost certain that there was no weather change here. The lightning, thunder, wind and rain that night were probably man-made. Let's go and have a look."
A group of people chased the path of the smell that Rubes smelled. These light fog bands were probably due to the long time interval. The color bands presented by the smell were obviously intermittent, and most of them were based on rocks and trees. keeping it.
Fortunately, there are still arcane embers in the sky overlooking them, so they can always be found in time.
Soon, Fang Linyan and the others stopped at a cliff, because a village suddenly appeared in front of them.
On the rock next to the cliff, there was also a vague handprint exuding smelly mist. It was obvious that the injured man had blood on his hands, and then he pressed on the rock with force, and then headed towards the cliff.
Jumped down.
Obviously, he couldn't bear it when he got here, so he fled into the village ahead.
More importantly, this village is still controlled by Liu Beijun, and it is much larger than a place like Shangxi Village. Rather than describing it as a village, it is more accurate to say it is a heavily defended stockade.
Fang Linyan walked to the bottom of the cliff and looked around, and found that it was about ten meters high, but the slope was not steep, showing a 70-80 degree angle, and there were some shrubs growing on it, so any normal adult could climb it.
Then Fang Linyan turned his attention to the stockade in the distance. It can be seen that it has been carefully arranged. The four corners of the stockade and the entrance to the stockade gate actually spent a lot of money to build towering archery towers. At intervals, there are
Hanging is an angry wind lantern.
Fortunately, the archers on duty on the archery tower looked quite lazy. They were all leaning against the wall next to them, taking casual glances at them, and occasionally yawning loudly.
There are several groups of villagers patrolling outside the village wall. Judging from their movements, it is obvious that they have undergone a certain degree of training.
Fortunately, the patrolling villagers were in groups of three, so it was not very difficult to ambush them.
This is also the customary military system at this time, which emphasizes the company of three people. For example, the most typical one is the word "zhong", which is composed of three human characters, which is simple and clear.
The same is true for the most basic military organizations. Three people form a squad, nine people form a squadron, and five squadrons form a capital.
Each one also has "five people including the guard officer, the team leader, the deputy team leader, and the left and right bannermen" as officers, which adds up to exactly fifty people.
Both together make a hundred generals.
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Seeing the heavily guarded scene in the village, the vulture took the initiative and said:
"I'll go check it out first."
Then I saw him sitting cross-legged, and his shadow slipped directly into the darkness next to him. In the current environment, the shadow of the vulture can really be described as a fish in water.
While waiting for the results of Vulture's investigation, Fang Linyan and others directly opened the two bloody keys.
The first one to open was the bloody key of the very angry boxer.
The most valuable harvest is a bottle of comprehensive recovery potion (large),
Then another metal box came out that looked a little weird. It looked about the size of a basketball and was bronze in color. The pattern on the surface looked similar to the Quintessence box.
So after getting this thing, Fang Linyan was very interested and looked at it over and over.
However, just as he was playing with the stuff, the surface of the box suddenly slipped, and then a big mouth with a lot of sharp teeth was revealed, and he bit Fang Linyan fiercely!
Such a change was really unexpected and caught him off guard!
Fang Linyan counterattacked instinctively, threw the box out without thinking, and then slashed it down with a dragon cough!
If it hadn't been for the rain and they had moved to another place to wait for the vulture's detection results, this dragon flash would have attracted the attention of the guards inside the village.
As a result, when the electricity was turned off, the box let out a scream, and then...then it was gone! You could see some mercury-like liquid flowing from underneath it. When I looked up, it was really dead.
!
Faced with this unexpected incident, everyone was a little confused. Fang Linyan checked the battle record and found that it read:
"Your Dragon Cough flash caused 38 points of damage to the Tusk Ore Eater."
"The Tusker Oreeater is dead."
Looking at this prompt, Fang Linyan had no choice but to share this information. However, after seeing the six keywords of Tusker Ore-Eating Beast, Blood Knight Crespo pondered for a moment and said:
"Wait! I seem to have seen its information somewhere."
Then he took out a thick book from his arms. The book looked very old, similar to a tome from the 16th and 17th centuries. The areas on the cover that were prone to wear and tear were still covered.
Metal shell.
Then Crespo bit his finger and wrote the words "Tusker Ore-Eating Beast" on the cover of the book. Then he saw the blood seep into it quickly, and then the pages of the book were turned "shuishish".
Got up.
Crespo began to pour some strange liquid on the book again, and soon saw writing appearing on the page, which was information related to the Tusk Ore-Eating Beast:
Tasker Ore-Eating Beast: This is a very unique selenium-based creature. Most of the time it exists in the form of a cube or cuboid, but some creatures can exist in a mimic form. According to statistics, the most favorite thing to imitate is rocks.
This is a very rare creature, which can be understood as a mutant among selenium-based creatures. They feed on radioactive substances such as uranium ores, and they also like to eat all kinds of strange ores, mutated crystals, unknown substances, etc.
Tusker ore-eating beasts have amazing digestive abilities, and they almost never end up with a bad stomach. What they cannot digest will be excreted in the form of secretions, and these secretions contain mysterious power.
Sold to space as an unknown curiosity.
They look very harmless, but in fact they are. They may show hostility to strangers, but they will not cause real harm.
Seeing this, Fang Linyan realized that he seemed to have killed a money tree... The bite of this thing was really hard, as if he was going to bite off his own finger. Where was it?
It’s harmless!
And why is this bastard so intolerant of beatings? He died with just one electric shock. He was dead!
After feeling sorry for himself, Fang Linyan let out a long sigh and still couldn't help but want to slap his hand. Why couldn't he control it? Why did he just patch it up?
Fortunately, at this time, the goat walked over and turned over the Tusk ore-eating beast, and found that it was like a broken rock, split into several pieces. The key is that each piece looked like an unknown and strange thing.
Things!
So I hurriedly called Fang Linyan over to check, and after taking a look, I immediately found that this was indeed the case.
Fang Linyan checked it and found that the smallest piece could be sold for 3 merit points, the largest one could be sold for 8 points, and the corpse fragments could be sold for a total of 22 merit points, which finally gave him some comfort in his injured heart.
As the saying goes, kill the chicken to get the eggs. At this time, Fang Linyan did something similar to this. Fortunately, the chicken that was finally killed could be given as a consolation prize...
At this time, because Crespo claimed to be the European Emperor, he tried his luck by giving him the bloody key dropped by the colonist.
Before opening the box, this guy actually took out a pair of white gloves in a ceremonial manner and put on a tuxedo. He looked as elegant as a violinist...
Immediately afterwards, Crespo slowly put his hand into the box, and... well, the first draw was empty.
This undoubtedly made everyone laugh at the same time.
Crespo waved his hand pretending to be calm, and then said:
"You don't understand, the great General Rommel said that every failure is to accumulate strength for the next outbreak."
Fang Linyan sighed and said:
"Li Er said, misfortunes never come alone."
Then Fang Linyan's crow's mouth successfully hit again, and Crespo's second extraction failed.
This time Crespo finally became a little uneasy. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and suddenly looked at the vulture and said:
"Lipper, why don't you come?"
The vulture Lipe resolutely rejected Crespo's attempt to shirk the blame:
"No! I believe you have already accumulated enough power."
Crespo looked around and found that no one was willing to make eye contact with him. He could only grit his teeth and put his hand in again. Then his face showed a look of ecstasy, because this time something actually appeared from the box.
What comes is dark green light:
"YES! I told you a long time ago that I am the European Emperor, but you don't believe it! Hahahaha!"
What Crespo pulled out this time was actually a suit!
This piece of equipment seems to be made of metal wire, covered with a layer of gray-white fur, and the manufacturing process is more similar to rattan weaving.
Its metal wire is silvery white, its shape looks like a helmet, and it looks a bit ugly...
Name:Arctic Fur(1/3)
Part: Helmet
Quality: dark green (set)
Material: Ice Bear Skin, Infused Crystal, Mithril,
Conditions of use: Agility 30 points/Perception 30 points
Equipment effect: Bear's Strength (passive), increases the wearer's health by 80 points
Equipment effect: Bear's Sniffing (passive), increases the wearer's perception by 8 points.
Equipment: Gaze of the Far North (active). On the ice fields of the Far North, the living environment is extremely harsh. Ice bears have super tracking abilities, so once they encounter prey, they can bite it and hold on to it, so they can stay here.
Live like a fish in water.
After activating this ability, the remnant soul of the ice bear stationed in the helmet can be summoned to track the enemy.
The tracked enemy will get a mark that can only be seen by the wearer/friendly forces. Under this mark, even if the enemy is behind an obstacle, its outline will appear directly on your retina.
When the tracked enemy is attacked by you, the critical hit rate will be increased by an additional 5%.
The tracking mark takes effect within a range of 200 meters and lasts for fifteen minutes.
Activating this ability requires 500 general points, and the cooling time is five minutes!
There is a chance of marking failure when tracking marks. The probability of failure has a great relationship with perception and has a certain relationship with the identity of the space being tracked (i.e. Trialist/Contractor/Colonizer).
Suit skill:???(activated after you collect two Arctic suits)
Suit Skill:???(activated when you collect all three pieces of the Arctic Suit)
Looking at the properties of this thing, Crespo's smile froze on his face.
He originally thought he could get something good, but in the end he was making wedding clothes for others, and this kind of equipment with very clear attributes was obviously given to those in need without any dispute, unless the other party voluntarily gave up...
..
But how is that possible!!!
Looking at the vulture smiling so hard that his face suddenly bloomed with chrysanthemums, you can tell that he obviously doesn't know how to carry forward his style.
***
Obviously, this sudden appearance of equipment greatly distracted the vulture, so after almost half an hour, the shadow clone began to send a lot of information one after another.
It turns out that this place is called Fengshou Village. The leader of the village is named Fan. It was just a middle-class family more than six years ago, but somehow it became prosperous and got involved with a big shot in the officialdom, so it didn't take two years.
In a short period of time, he occupied all the good fields near Zhuangzi.
Fortunately, although the Fan family has become rich, they have not forgotten their roots. The rent given to tenants is always 10% less than other families. They usually do things very generously, so they have become the leader among them.
The walls of the village, the villagers, etc. were all managed by the Fan family.
Behind the Fan family are actually the chess pieces laid out by Liu Bei's two important officials, Mi Zhu/Mi Fang!!
In the historical materials Fang Linyan read, Mi Zhu/Mi Fang did not have a high opinion of them, probably because they did not have the ability to lead troops, and it was also related to the fact that there was a long period of light businessmen in Chinese history.
But Fang Linyan definitely doesn't think so. These two people have extremely vicious vision and very powerful business methods! It can even be said that if they are more lucky, they can even reach the level of Lu Buwei of Shu!
Lu Buwei invested in Qin's hostage Yiren, and then sacrificed Zhu Ji. Later, Zhu Ji became the queen of Qin, and Lu Buwei became the prime minister of the country. Qin Shihuang even called him "Zhongfu", and his power was overwhelming.
Mi Zhu/Mi Fang invested in Liu Bei, and then dedicated their own sister to Liu Bei. However, she was unlucky and Mrs. Mi died early without giving birth to a child, which directly led to the loss of luck in the future. In this case, she could still become a high-ranking official in the Shu Kingdom.
Let me ask, if Mrs. Mi successfully gave birth to a son, controlled the harem internally, and had the support of his brothers externally, and Liu Bei was lucky enough to revive the Han Dynasty, it would not be an unattainable dream for the two brothers to replicate Lu Buwei's success.
Not only that, the investment target Lu Buwei chose at that time was also the legitimate son of the monarch of Qin!
Mi Zhu/Mi Fang bet on Liu Bei in 194. Who was Liu Bei at that time? He was a straw sandal seller and the magistrate of Pingyuan County! It was during the Belt Edict incident in 199 that Liu Bei received the title of Emperor's Uncle.
At this time, Mi Zhu was already a Biejia of Xuzhou. As an assistant to the governor, he was an official in charge of the prime minister and other affairs in the state government.
The administrative area of Xuzhou in the Han Dynasty was very large. It was divided into six counties: Pengcheng, Xiapi, Donghai, Langya, Dongguan, and Guangling. It governed more than 50 counties. It was one of the nine ancient states!
In today's terms, the powers of the Xuzhou governor are equivalent to the current provincial senior officials + senior officials, so Mi Zhu is the secretary-general of the provincial government + director of the provincial government general office + half of the senior officials' powers.
Under such circumstances, the two brothers of the Mi family could look at Liu Bei, a mere county magistrate, in a different light, directly invest in him, and directly invite him to take over Xuzhou! They even went bankrupt to directly support him.
This kind of courage, privately I think it is much stronger than Lu Buwei's vision.
Chapter completed!