I quietly approached Bingtis, and then suddenly remembered that it was unnecessary to do so when there was a spiritual connection, so I directly opened the public channel in my mind and started discussing with her: "**? What is it?
"
"It looks like it should be an ancient book left behind before the first Dark Moon War," Bingtis replied while pretending to admire the scenery on the roadside, while connecting mentally, "I asked the first batch of louse spirits to arrive in the imperial capital to focus on
After searching places like churches and palaces, one of them accidentally discovered 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 their mentality was. Anyway,
It is a great help to us."
"Maybe it's to protect the intangible cultural heritage," I smiled to the sky. Fortunately, this action was not seen by the Iron Knight trio, otherwise this kind of silly smile to the sky without saying anything would definitely be regarded as crazy, "**
Did you find any clues?"
"We are sifting through it. The valuable ones should be books about the customs and customs, history and culture before the first war. The remaining things about agriculture, product geography and so on can be put aside for now," Bingtis said in blood red.
There are dots of golden light in her eyes that are moving slowly. It is obvious that she is keeping pace with those louse spirits. I am very curious about what it is like to see the world from the perspective of a flying louse, 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, we can study them together: the pre-war history is more exciting than we imagined. It was really not that harmonious back then.
"
I said oh. Look at the sky: the sun has basically set one-third of the way down the mountain, but the teleportation station mentioned by the Iron Knight Trio has not been seen yet. I am too lazy to use up my mental energy to scan the surroundings for any.
The space was a bit collapsed, so I just followed it anyway. In the end, I focused my interest on the louse demons released by Bingtis: "What about the other two groups? There are secrets in the Earth-Moon Bridge and the North Fortress?"
"Well, it is certain that the Earth-Moon Bridge is a large-scale portal. It is very clever, but it is not a divine technology. It is most likely an interstellar exploration facility left by the civilization of the previous season in this world, but its core is temporarily closed.
"Look, the lice can't get in. We can go and see for ourselves when the time comes," Bingtis nodded, "There isn't much worth noting about the North Fortress itself. It's just a military stronghold, but there are already endless areas around the North Fortress.
More than a dozen new bases have been established. It seems that the Gondor Empire is really willing to go 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: “…Pope?”
Bingtis showed a playful expression: "Hmm. 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 first, so I thought he should stay in a safe place and watch under such circumstances.
The whole world is fighting desperately, and then waiting for the goddess to come to consolidate his church rule, but he came directly to the North Fortress. And now he lives in the fortress as the frontline commander of the church army. If this is not a joke, then it can only
Said...perhaps there are still some aspects that have been overlooked in our speculations about the Goddess Cult."
I didn't continue, but an even more bizarre guess came to my mind: There is another possibility, that is, the Dark Moon War might really be a show 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
Coming to the North Fortress for garrison naturally makes sense. Of course, this speculation is also based on the church conspiracy theory. I think Bingtis can also think of this.
It’s no wonder that we take church conspiracy theories to heart. The main reason is that there are too many doubts about the Dark Moon War and the Goddess Sect. Now I feel more and more that Dark Moon and the Goddess have some kind of ambiguous "co-in-sync" in rhythm.
Under such circumstances, no one can help themselves to associate the people of the church with conspiracies. How does that saying go? When you meet a pope who exercises human rights rule over the world in the name of theocracy, you have to follow
Just be on guard against him just like you are on guard against Anli...
It would be great if I brought Lilina here. 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 ahead!"
Joseph's loud voice interrupted my thoughts. I looked up and found that there was indeed a stone building that looked like a sentry tower beside the official road in the distance. It was already dark, but the "sentry tower" was floating in the sky.
There is a huge ball of light, like a small sun, making the surroundings of the sentry tower as bright as day, and making the tower look as eye-catching as a lighthouse on land.
The silly guy was silent all the way. After leaving the village, he felt a little depressed. When he saw the tall tower with a mysterious atmosphere, he finally smiled broadly: "Hey, I saw that when I was wandering outside before.
Plant something and send people to a very far place in no time! I know that the ball of light above is used to drive away wild beasts!"
"Not only can it drive away wild beasts," Joseph waved his hand to signal us to speed up, because when he saw the teleportation station, his mood seemed to be rising. "It can also drive away the Dark Moon people. The light ball on the tower is made of the church's holy relics.
What comes out contains the power of the goddess. This power controls the teleportation array on the base of the tower, so that the Dark Moon people cannot use the teleportation stations of the people on the ground. Otherwise, wouldn't it be bad if they use these small stations to directly attack the fortress?
"
While we were talking, we quickly arrived in front of the tall tower. Only then did I realize that this stone building was quite big. It was made of gray-white rocks and looked like a round arrow tower. It was about twenty meters high.
There is a metal structure like a crown on the top. I guess it is the so-called "church relic" because it is emitting a soft halo, providing energy supplement for the light ball at the top of the tower. The base under the tower is
After careful leveling, there were a series of deep circular scratches on the ground, which should be the teleportation array mentioned by Joseph: It turns out that these things were arranged outside the tower. But I don’t know anything about magic, so I just took a look.
However, Qianqian observed the carvings seriously for a while, then nodded like an expert: "Yeah. It's quite round."
At this time, a small door under the tower opened, and two knights dressed similarly to Joseph and the other two soldiers came out of the armor and wore grass-green shirts. One of them waved to the visitor: "Go to the fortress."
Huh? Horses cannot teleport, and they have entered a control period at noon."
After hearing this, Anna took off the silly big bag from her horse and handed it to its original owner. Pandora and Viska also jumped down nimbly, and then the trio of Iron Knights carried their bags and weapons to the ground.
On his own body, Qiao hung the dagger on his belt and asked: "Why did you suddenly enter the control? Didn't you say you have to wait a few days?"
"The rear has temporarily deployed a group of monks to the front line. The flow of people in the past two days has been too heavy, so we have temporarily restricted it. The teleportation stations in various places now only allow people to pass. Livestock and horses are allowed to move by themselves," the soldiers at the teleportation station inspected
Joseph handed over the roster and something similar to a pass. He looked at it and nodded, "Oh, these are free mercenaries. Can you guarantee them? Okay, there happens to be a shortage of people in front."
Joseph retrieved the pass that was marked with some kind of mark. He patted the neck of his war horse and said a temporary farewell to his old friend. Before the soldiers at the teleportation station activated the magic circle, he suddenly remembered something and said to the two soldiers: "By the way, horse
I haven’t fed them since I’ve been running for a long time. Could you please help me add 30 Bronze Eagle coins to each of them with zero feed. I’ll give those red horses a brush. They have monthly cards on their necks. Just two brothers, please check them.”
The two teleportation station soldiers waved their hands and led the horse away from the teleportation array: "I know, I know, by the way, the price of No. 0 fodder has increased recently. It just went up at 1:30 in the afternoon. Brushing horses is still free for the time being."
As soon as Joseph opened his mouth to say something, the circular magic circle under our feet quickly became brighter. Half of his words were lost in the light.
The transmission was completed a second later, and the half-sentence that Joseph yelled out of inertia rang in my ears: "...Why did it just go up last month and then go up again this month...Oh, we're here."
I recovered from the momentary feeling of weightlessness, and after a little positioning, I confirmed that the teleportation distance was actually not that far. The distance between the North Fortress and Pine Forest Village seemed to be only forty or fifty miles. However, the surrounding scenery
But there has been a big change: we have completely left the forest area and are now on a gravel beach. In front of us is the majestic Changqiao Mountains, with sparse vegetation and rugged rocks cutting the sky like a barrier. The North Fortress is majestic.
The ground spreads out in front of us along the mountain. It is a dusty military fortress. It is not built on flat ground, but is distributed vertically along the entire mountain. Almost all rock buildings are half-buried in the rocks. It looks amazing.
It is as if this stone fortress was carved out of the mountain. Although it cannot be compared with the imperial facilities that often block out the sky and the sun, just think about it. It was built by an indigenous civilization in a feudal state that relied on manpower and wisdom to transform nature.
The fortress still makes me sigh. In the direction facing the north fortress, there is a vast plain. There are not many undulating terrains in sight, and even the mountains and forests stop abruptly in the 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 indigenous armies of this world. But I don’t know how this convenience of terrain will affect the legendary Dark Moon Demons who can fly into the sky and into the earth.
Doesn't matter if it works or not.
The landing point of our teleportation is also a "teleportation station" similar to the one just now: the main body is a high stone tower, on the high tower is an "artificial small sun" used to drive away the Dark Moon people, and under the high tower are engraved with magic patterns.
On the rock base, it seems that this sentry tower-like teleportation station is a "standard facility." Bingtis raised his head and looked at the tower, and suddenly thought thoughtfully: "The energy operation of these teleportation stations does not seem to be very smooth.
How long has it been since maintenance?"
Joseph was teaching the stupid guy how to take deep breaths to relieve teleportation dizziness. Hearing this, he looked up and said, "As expected of a magician, are you also interested in the teleportation station? It is said that this site has not been repaired for twenty-five years.
, Originally, the teleportation stations in various places were relics left before the Third Dark Moon War, and the construction technology was also from before. After the three wars, no one knew how to build new teleportation stations. After the fifth war, they simply
Even the magic stone core has become a rare thing. I heard that the teleportation stations everywhere on the earth can only be maintained with the cores left before the five wars. If they can be used day by day, if they cannot be used...then maybe future generations can only use them.
Running on the ground fighting the seventh war."
I silently recorded another new situation: the technology of people on earth is gradually becoming obsolete!
When I saw the teleportation station just now, I was still curious about why people on earth even have such a space-time military station. But they couldn't figure out the nature of the Tiandi Bridge. The result is this: the teleportation gate does exist. But it is three times.
They are old antiques left before the war. With the Dark Moon Wars one after another, these technologies are gradually being lost. The teleportation towers still operating on the earth today are all operating beyond their age, such as the one in front of us - Ice
Thies could tell at a glance that its energy circuit was in a worrying state. The locals and even ordinary soldiers knew this, but they just didn't have new parts to repair the tower.
Neither Qian Qian nor Lin Xue expressed any opinions. This kind of thing has become commonplace for us. A long war does not always bring about technological progress. In many cases, it will destroy the foundation of a civilization, especially Dark Moon.
In a cyclical world war like this, no civilization can thrive enough to withstand five cuts in half and continue to do so for generations. People on the earth can still use weapons, armor, and magic to fight against the Dark Moon people, and they can also use ancient facilities such as teleportation stations.
, actually it’s not bad: if we don’t come, sooner or later they will rush towards the Dark Moon Demons with their sticks.
"Those camps over there don't look like regular troops, do they?" Qian Qian looked at the foot of the Changqiao Mountains in the distance. In the night, you can see the lights stretching far 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 the free mercenary?"
"They are not all free mercenaries," Joseph waved for us to follow. He explained from the front, "Because only the National Knights and the Imperial Order are stationed in the fortress, so in addition to the second-level corps, there are also church armed forces from various places.
They also camped outside the fortress. Those planned regular camps 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. Apart from the fact that they can issue free tasks to them, they are almost a mess.
, so you can camp freely. As long as it does not affect the operations of the regular army. You can follow us to register inside the fortress 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 you can receive more supplies at that time."
"We have..." I leaked a few words casually, and then looked at Bingtis hesitantly, "Still not?"
There is no way, the lice demons are all controlled by Bingtis. This female gangster is the one who knows the local situation best among us. With the ability of those lice to penetrate every hole, I suspect that Bingtis is already half a local...
"Okay, okay," Bingtis waved to Joseph, "I know how to register as a free mercenary. Just report your name to show that you have been here. You don't have to worry about the rest. We don't have to worry about it.
Having traveled around the world and being able to take care of yourself - just report as a team."
Joseph nodded and handed over a small oval metal sign: "Oh, then we will register you as a team-type free mercenary. You camp outside by yourself. Remember to put this sign in your main tent.
I know your location so I can find you tomorrow morning. Also, does your team have a name? I have to report it."
Bingtis took the magic GPS tracker and rolled her eyes and thought about it. She saw the Pandora sisters who were competing to see who could make a rounder fireball. She also made a big fireball and seemed to suddenly make up her mind.
: "These two and I are both fireball makers. The three of us are collectively called the Doomsday Great Red Lotus Flame Judgment Spell Group. What we believe in is fiery, fire, flame. You can call me fff chief judge..."
I:"……"
Joseph was dizzy as he listened to Bingtis popping up a bunch of strange terms, but he finally noticed some details, so he pointed at me, Qian Qian and Lin Xue: "Then are the three of them the same as the three of you?
Not together?"
"We are together, but they betrayed our Doomsday Great Red Lotus Flame Judgment Spell Group, so they are the heretics responsible for being judged. If you keep complaining, I will hit your face with a big fireball."
Joseph, Anna and Joe shrank their necks at the same time, finally completely convinced that Bingtis was a middle-aged girl, and then Joe pulled the silent big man: "Big man, come with us, you are considered a recruit recruited by the knights, so you have to
Report to the fortress."
The stupid guy subconsciously followed for a few steps, and then he noticed that none of us had followed him. He pointed at us and asked the Iron Knight trio in a slow response: "Are my friends just spending the night outside like this?
"
Joseph patiently explained to the stupid man again: "They are free mercenaries. They camp directly outside. Just register with the person in charge of the mercenary station tomorrow."
Qian Qian and I waved vigorously to the silly big guy to let him leave peacefully. Qian Qian also made a very serious promise: "You silly big guy, don't worry, we will go to the fortress to find you tomorrow."
That idiot finally left without looking back.
Watching the group of four people and a cat disappear into the huge city gate of the North Fortress, Bingtis breathed a long sigh of relief: "Okay, now we are the only ones left. Chen, you choose a Feng Shui treasure place."
Let’s set up camp.”
I looked around this huge gravel plain, looking for the tents of the free mercenaries far away from the regular army camp in the large open space outside the fortress, and then easily discovered a relatively large group among them.
According to Joseph's reminder, although the location of the free mercenaries is arbitrary, there are also requirements, that is, it cannot intersect with the regular army activity area (this is to prevent disturbing order), so the place where the free mercenaries gather must meet the requirements.
It looks like we are going to spend the night there tonight, and Qianqian is quite excited: This girl seems to be quite interested in camping in the wild!
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