After seeing the flag signal from the Imperial Armada blocking the road ahead, General Valentine, the commander of the Black Ark Fleet, cursed fiercely:
"A bunch of damn warmongers! They actually arrogantly designated this unknown sea as their territorial waters. How can it be so easy!"
Pandaren monk Chen Stormstout, who was standing behind General Valentine, was also a little angry. Of course, it was not because of the empire's arrogant behavior. Old Chen was more worried about his niece Lili. He knew that Lili
Rei is on the southeastern coast of Pandaria, and it only takes another 30 minutes to get there, but now the way forward is blocked by that fleet, and he can't get there at all.
"The bastards of the Empire have extended their hatred of the Dark Blade to us. They are forcing us..."
General Valentine's eyes were shining with blood-red light. He turned back to the herald behind him and said:
"Turn on the fleet communication radio, notify each battleship of the Imperial Fleet's actions, and let the captain prepare for battle. Black Ark is indeed not as powerful as the Armada, but this is not the reason for us to retreat! Faced with the provocation of war, the Federation people also
I won’t be afraid to move forward because of this!”
"Flagship! Keep moving forward! Ignore the damn warning!"
"etc!"
Old Chen held Valentin's wrist, and the Pandaren monk asked in a deep voice:
"Do we have to go to war? Can't we talk about it? You are all human beings, there is no deep hatred!"
"This is not a matter of discussion! Mr. Chen!"
Valentine looked back at the Pandaren monk, and the vampire general said softly:
"You have witnessed all this. Now it's not that we don't want to talk, but that the empire doesn't give us a chance to talk at all. The only language that the warmongers on the opposite side can understand now is war... so we can only respond with war.
them."
"Think about your niece, Lao Chen. She is now staying with the Grand Speaker's daughter, and there are several more sensitive people around her. The empire doesn't know this yet, but if they know...
Do you think they will let us go to Pandaria easily? No! Those warmongers will only try their best to capture them and use them as bargaining chips to blackmail us!"
General Valentine gritted his teeth and said:
"Let me tell you this, as long as any of those children are harmed by the Empire...then it is not a matter of one or two naval battles. Do you understand? Our current war posture is actually to maintain the world.
Peace that comes from hard times... Although this may sound like crazy talk, please believe me, I am absolutely not lying."
Old Chen was silent. He was a traveler who roamed the world. During his journey, he had also seen real wars, and he had also seen those in high positions losing their minds for various reasons. Frankly speaking, facing the present
In this terrible situation, a simple-minded monk like Lao Chen didn't know what to choose. However, Valentine did not force Lao Chen to join the battle. On the contrary, he gave Lao Chen another task.
"We will attract the attention of the Armada."
General Valentine looked warily at the invincible fleet in front of him that was slowly forming a battle formation. He lowered his voice and said to Lao Chen:
"While we are holding them back, I would like to ask you to go to the coast of Pandaria as quickly as possible to find your niece and other children. You do not need to escort them back to the Federation. You only need to escort the "Scarlet Rose"
Merchant ships leave the remaining fog of Pandaria, or protect them until the fog completely clears the sea."
General Valentine looked around and lowered his voice:
"If nothing can be done... then leave the ship alone and just protect the children! This matter is related to the future of the Federation. Can I trust you?"
A trace of worry flashed in Lao Chen's eyes. He didn't mind taking risks, but this fleet seemed to be inferior to the opposite Armada in terms of quantity and quality...
"Don't worry about us, Mr. Chen."
Valentine seemed to see Lao Chen's hesitation, a smile appeared on his cold face, and he said softly:
"All soldiers of the Federation are not afraid of death... Because death is on our side, that is just the beginning of a new journey. Go, I will send the best soldiers to go with you. Please protect the children!
Please!"
———————————————————————
"It's a fight! It's a fight!"
Yuna, the little ghost riding behind Arceus, screamed and rushed out of the dead world. There was no fear on this little ghost's face at all. Instead, it was filled with a kind of excitement. This guy is probably currently trapped in Pandali.
Of all the people on the Asian coastline, the one least worried about the future is.
The layer of fog gradually disappearing on the sea outside the continent blocked the door of the Elemental Opening. Dornan's astral teleportation could not send everyone on the Scarlet Rose back to the Federation, but the layer of dissipating fog could not stop it.
The passage to the dead world was opened, and the previous letter asking for help was sent back to the Federation by Yuna. The little ghost also went to find the big lord and his wife along the way.
The Blood Matron wanted to rush over immediately to protect her children, but was dissuaded by the great lord, because the continent of Pandaria hid some secrets, and it did not have its own guardians, such as Alleria.
Undead souls of this level, or undead souls like the Great Lord, rashly entering that dusty continent could easily cause a series of problems.
After all, judging from the documents they have collected so far about Pandaria, there are indeed some powers beyond the ordinary on this continent.
Coupled with Vanessa's reasons, after the Great Lord met with Speaker Van Cleef, they decided to let the federal military do its job first, while taking a look at the capabilities of the federal army, and then carried out the surprise "rescue" of Dark Blade.
As a last resort, Yuna's request for help was fruitless. Under Alleria's order, two teams of blood maids were added to the children's "guards."
"Who was fighting with whom?"
Anduin rolled up his trouser legs and stood on the rocks on the coast. He was imitating the sailors who used wooden sticks to stick fish. He raised his head and looked at Yuna curiously. The latter pointed at the mist on the sea in the distance and said to the others:
"The federal fleet and the imperial fleet are fighting in the open sea. The people in the empire will not let the federal fleet enter the coastline. Anyway, the fight is very lively!"
"This is bad."
Vanessa stood up worriedly, and said to the children around her:
"The Black Ark Fleet is only a new fleet that has been established for less than five years. It is definitely not a match for the Empire's invincible fleet."
"But the fog has not completely dispersed, and astral teleportation still cannot be used..."
Dornan gritted his teeth and looked at the pale mist on the outer sea with dissatisfaction. If the astral teleportation could be used, they would have returned to the federal territory long ago, and the Black Ark Fleet would not need to come.
To save them, there is absolutely no need to fight this battle with the imperial fleet.
"Don't blame yourself, ladies."
Seeing the nervous and sad expressions on the faces of several children, Cordana, the blood maid who accompanied Dornan and a level 8 agent of the Dark Blade Intelligence Agency, comforted her in a low voice:
"The cause of this naval battle actually has nothing to do with you. Even if you are not here, the federal officials cannot let the imperial fleet occupy the coastline of this continent. That means that this continent will become the basis for the empire's future attack on the Eastern Continent.
Therefore, as long as the top leaders of the Federation are not crazy, sending a fleet to bring this sea area into their own sphere of influence in advance is what must be done."
"So even without you, these two fleets will still fight in another place and at another time. This is inevitable."
"Ms. Cordana is absolutely right!"
Taelia, who had been silent for the whole time, put her arm around the shoulders of Dornan and Vanessa. This resolute warrior girl said in a deep voice:
"What we can do now is to find a way to leave the coastline and return to the federal territory as soon as possible. Once the imperial fleet knows that we are here, they will probably immediately separate other forces to carry out landing operations. Vanessa and Dornan's
Their status determines that they will inevitably become the focus of the imperial fleet, and we must leave this coastline immediately... This place is too close to the naval battle battlefield!"
"Shh! There's a sound!"
Cordana suddenly made a gesture. The moment she took out her weapon, the remaining blood maids jumped into the shadows one after another. The senior agent looked back at the Merchant Ship Scarlet Rose that was stranded on the coastline.
The ship ran aground on the beach at night, and Captain Anthony Ironhorn led the crew to survey the nearby terrain more than ten minutes ago.
"Alert! Something is coming!"
Weird screams passed into Cordana's ears. In her keen perception, another large group of running creatures were passing through the woods by the beach, and the direction they were heading seemed to be exactly this merchant ship.
location.
Under Cordana's command, several children subconsciously drew their weapons and assumed fighting postures. Even the red panda Lili grabbed a freshly broken bamboo and assumed a fighting posture as a monk.
They all saw the wildly swaying woods not far away, as if thousands of troops were about to rush out of the woods.
The atmosphere was stagnant for a while, until a few seconds later, the first intruder came into view. Anduin, who was holding the sword and shield, widened his eyes, and he couldn't help shouting.
One sound:
"It's a monkey!"
Yes, it was a weird monkey with gray mane all over its body, but it was more than twice the size of the monkeys in the Eastern Continent. It was also wearing a simple leather armor and holding a handful of blood-stained monkeys.
Throwing a gun, it seems that the crew members who just followed Captain Anthony to investigate in the woods are probably in danger.
"No! It's not a monkey, it's a hozen!"
When the red panda Lili saw the weird monkey, she immediately let out a desperate scream:
"Don't fight them. They can think. Hozens live in groups. Run!"
The moment Lili finished speaking, a humane evil smile flashed across the face of the grinning, chirping monkey, and behind him, densely packed hozens holding weapons soon appeared at the edge of the forest.
, and the number is still increasing crazily.
"Kids stand back! Sailors step forward!"
When Cordana saw the number of hozens, she immediately narrowed her eyes and shouted to the children around her and the sailors who were holding onto their weapons:
"It looks like there are almost 200 monkeys! They are simply unworthy opponents! Get ready to fight..."
————————————————————————————
As the fog suddenly dissipated, in less than two days, the stormy clouds on the Pandaria coastline had alarmed the natives living on this continent.
The group of hozens chasing the children was just one of the many creatures on this land. While the children were fighting the hozens, in the elder room of the Tianchanyuan, the largest military institution in the Emerald Forest, several people who were very similar to Lao Chen
Similar, chubby pandaren elders wearing various clothes are having urgent discussions here.
Obviously, these chubby panda people also felt the coming storm.
"Two more outsider fleets have appeared on the sea near the Emerald Forest. They are confronting each other. This group of outsiders is obviously very unfriendly."
Elder Yunpu of Tianchanyuan was holding a cup of fragrant tea, sipping the tea, and said in a deep voice:
"We don't know why the fog cleared, but now it seems that there are more important things waiting for us to do than thinking about this matter. Some scattered outsider pirates emerged from the night after the fog cleared.
They have been constantly harassing our villages near the sea, and although they were all driven away by the Xianglong Knights of Qinglong Temple, it is foreseeable that they will not stop there."
"Don't worry, Elder Yunpu."
A female pandaren wearing leather armor said sternly:
"All the monks in Qinglong Temple have been dispatched. From Shuiyue Manor to Baimu Garden, from Podong Village to Mifeng Orchard, there are our patrols everywhere. It is impossible for those evil-minded outsiders to disturb the Emerald Forest.
Order! Of course, what I would like to suggest to you is that it seems that the monks from Tianchanyuan should also be dispatched, as the defenses of Shanglila Village and Linfeng Island have always been very loose!"
"Well, I will consider it."
Elder Yunpu put down the teacup in his hand and said helplessly:
"The high-ranking monks from Tianchanyuan went on a tour two months ago. Now I only have a group of recruits here. Do you want me to send the recruits out to resist those greedy foreigners? Those pirates are very fierce, and they will not care about children.
They are all novices and let them go. In fact, what I am thinking about now is another thing..."
"boom"
As soon as the elder finished speaking, a loud bang sounded in the sky outside Tianchanyuan. Several elders were shocked and ran out of the room. They saw a downed reconnaissance airship shrouded in flames thousands of meters away.
, carrying the black smoke staggering towards the coastline not far from Tianchanyuan.
On the farther sea, perhaps due to the fierce naval battle, the pale mist is dissipating at a faster speed, and when the mist dissipates, it can be seen that two huge fleets are approaching from the Emerald Forest.
The not-so-distant outer sea was pouring cannonballs crazily towards each other. Amidst the splashing water, the cruel gunpowder smoke was just like the fog before, even covering the entire sea surface.
That kind of offensive that was about to ignite the sea made several elders look pale. When had Pandaria, which had been at peace for ten thousand years, ever seen such a barbaric and crazy war?
"boom"
There was another loud noise, and the airship that crashed on the edge of the coastline exploded. For a moment, flames shot into the sky, and then streams of black smoke rushed into the peaceful sky of the Emerald Forest.
"Bang"
Elder Yunpu punched the railing in front of him. The old monk became extremely angry. He turned around and shouted to the disciple standing behind him:
"Go to Shado Zen Monastery immediately!"
"Invite the masters of the Shado-Pan and Master Zhu to come over...these cruel outsiders have gone too far!"
