Chapter 384 The Leaky Room Meets the Continuous Night Rain
After everything that happened in the city hall ended, and after returning to the headquarters, Krasus couldn't help but remind him.
"Li De, Niebuhr is one of our column commanders. Although he is your student, is it inappropriate to dismiss him as mayor in such a public way?"
Li De smiled and thanked Crassus for reminding him, but then he said something that Crassus could not understand.
"Please believe me, removing Niebuhr from his position as mayor at this time is actually to protect him. The work of the army has taken up all his time, and he really has no time to take care of the work of the mayor."
Lothar saw it very clearly and patted Krasus on the shoulder.
"What was removed was only the mayor's position, not Niebuhr's military command. This is enough to show Li De's trust in Niebuhr. The relationship between the two of them is not a simple superior-subordinate relationship."
These words immediately awakened Crassus, who stopped interfering too much on the matter, and everyone returned their attention to the war.
"Priests of Shilomar and Kel'Thuzad have cracked the secrets of the Zerg, but it will take time to transform this knowledge into combat effectiveness. At the moment, I suggest that strategic defensive measures should be taken first."
Crassus' words were unanimously agreed by several other commanders, and then several commanders held a regular meeting.
After the meeting, Li De stood in front of the stairs and stopped. He had two choices: going downstairs and going upstairs. Going downstairs was to go to his office, and going upstairs was to go back to his dormitory.
After hesitating for a moment, Li De chose to go upstairs. After returning to the dormitory, he sat on his single bed and just took out a cigarette. Before he could light it up, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in."
After receiving permission, Van Cleef gently opened the door and walked in without making a single sound of footsteps.
During this investigation, Van Cleef found out some interesting things. Because he didn't know how far the situation had developed, he didn't meet Van Cleef in the office. The fact that he was staying in the dormitory meant that this was not a formal conversation.
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Li De pointed to the only chair in the dormitory and motioned for him to sit on it. After Van Cleef sat down, Li De struck a match and started to light a cigarette.
"I gave you three days to investigate before, and you gave me the results in one night. This time you take over as mayor of Zul'Farrak, so you can investigate slowly. I'll give you three months first, and you'll give me the results in one night."
Don’t be anxious and find out carefully what this ‘troll centrism’ is.”
"Yes, I promise to complete the task."
Van Cleef immediately stood up and stood at attention.
"Sit down and talk, sit down and talk. Don't forget, you also have another identity as the mayor of Zul'Farrak. In my opinion, this identity is more important. The geographical location of Zul'Farrak determines that it will become a new city in the future.
As a central city, we must not be careless.”
Van Cleef did not stand up this time, but sat on his chair and nodded seriously.
"Do a good job, I believe in your ability."
With words of encouragement, the two ended the conversation. After sending Van Cleef off, Li De did not rest. He was now in a very anxious mood.
Since the beginning of the war with the Zerg, the overall combat effectiveness shown by the Sentipal group in the Corruption Nest and the Great Rift Zerg group approaching Qingquan Plain is far inferior. But their commanders are very cunning.
Two operations destroyed Liusha Town and Logistics Trading Center respectively.
The enemy's purpose is very clear, which is to attack the Hanhai Protector's logistics supplies. Now that their goal has been achieved, the repair of the logistics route will take a week at the fastest, but now the Hanhai Protector's supplies are only enough to last three days.
Thinking of this, Li De really hated the Sentipal tribe and Devourer Solid.
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At the same time, within the Sentipal tribe, which was deeply hated by Li De, the Devourer Solid was having an exchange with the Nest Mother Sentipal.
The hive mother's huge body is destined to make it impossible to communicate with her face to face. Connected at the deepest part of the insect pillar is the hive mother's brain, which is a huge light-emitting organ, which is shaped like a grid like the compound eyes of an insect.
The different dots that light up represent the different thoughts of the nest mother.
Below this light-emitting organ, there are rows of holes, and various small Zerg species are constantly crawling in and out, embedding their heads in the holes, and passing all the external information they observe to the brain of the nest mother for processing.
After processing the battle report from the Shining Plains, Nest Mother Sentipal and Devourer Solid had some differences.
'The entire raiding force was wiped out, the purpose of destroying the logistics facilities was achieved, and the final battle was unnecessary.'
The light spots on his head flashed back and forth, which was the Hive Mother's evaluation of the outcome of the Battle of Shining Plains.
Solid made a rattling sound from his mouth, responding to the nest mother with words.
'In addition to achieving the goal, you can also obtain greater profits, and appropriate gambling is allowed.'
'But it is absolutely unacceptable for a living body to fall into the hands of a race with a backbone.'
'The vertebrate race cannot understand the thoughts of the Zerg.'
'Solid is denying the Nest Mother? No individual can defy the Nest Mother's will. Solid, the named individual is also a part of the Nest Mother, and the concept of 'I' must not be produced.'
Solid immediately leaned down and made a gesture of absolute surrender.
'Solid will always abide by the will of the hive mother, and all individuals are part of the hive mother.'
The whole brain of the nest mother went dark, and after a while, the light flashed again.
'Individual consciousness only belongs to the emperor's line, and any individual who tries to break through the iron law will be obliterated.'
Solid still bowed and surrendered, but the nest mother was still worried.
'Solid has not had brain connection for communication for a long time. Language was created to assist communication and cannot be used as a tool to hide true thoughts. Male insects are tools developed by the nest mother to help reproduce and should not hide thoughts.'
Solid tried very hard to restrain his body from trembling. It was now clearly filled with fear. It was afraid that it would be wiped out without hesitation like those male insects in the past.
For the insect swarm, intelligence is a double-edged sword. Male insects must have superior intelligence to better command the insect swarm. But once the male insect realizes the difference between itself and other insects, it will be painful.
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'Hive Mother, the logistics of destroying the spine race have been achieved, what should we do in the next stage?'
The cunning Solid discovered a secret that only belongs to the nest mother: the nest mother will habitually analyze only one thing.
Sure enough, after hearing Solid's question, the Nest Mother's attention shifted to the war with the Protector of the Vast Sea.
‘The Emperor’s order to destroy everything that Lid Victory values has destroyed the logistics that this man values most from a war perspective.
So far, we have not received a commendation order from the emperor, which means we have not done enough.
Through observation, we can see that humans, a race with vertebrates, attach great importance to their cubs. In the next stage, we can launch operations against their cubs.’
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Li De didn't know anything about Sentipal's plot, and he was worried about logistical problems. One day had passed, and Hanhai Protector's material reserves were only enough to last two days.
If you have enough time to purchase supplies from Ratchet City or Kezan, the markets in these two places are experiencing high prices and shortages of supplies. Food, raw meat and other supplies on the market are priced almost every hour. That's it.
Or it’s just the price but no real thing.
After learning this, Li De was itching with hatred. He understood that this was the group of plutocrats in Kezan taking revenge on him. The Hanhai Protectorate was in a difficult situation now, and those guys deliberately instigated speculators to hoard supplies and drive up prices.
Li De had no choice but to ask the Alliance for help again. The generous His Majesty Terenas agreed to allocate a batch of food to Li De. It can be said that in order to mobilize the food from East Wilder, he would have to travel for a week by land alone.
time.
How could Li De have waited so long for food from East Wilder? Reluctantly, he asked other leaders for help, but with little success.
Stromgarde, Alterac, and Dalaran are not food-producing areas, not to mention that the leaders of Alterac and Dalaran are by Li De's side.
The Kingdom of Stormwind is in dire straits, and the relationship between Gilneas and the Protector of the Vast Sea is somewhat delicate.
The most righteous one was Kul Tiras. After Li De asked for help through the teleportation array, Dailin immediately transferred a batch of grain from the warehouse in Boralus and shipped it to Tanaris on the spot.
But the ship from Kul Tiras will take a week to arrive at the earliest, and the Hanhai Protectorate can barely sustain itself by eating two or three meals of the existing supplies, but doing so in a state of war is very dangerous.
Just an hour ago, the insect swarm in Qingquan Plain launched another small-scale attack. The transferred third and fourth columns fought hard, and finally left more than 5,000 insect corpses on the position before repelling them.
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In this regard, Hiloma said that this was probably a tentative attack by the swarm, and no later than this time tomorrow, the swarm would officially launch a large-scale attack.
The situation is extremely critical. If there is no more good news, pessimism will inevitably spread. But at this time, I hope that bad news will come from Hong Kong again.
As expected, the negotiators sent by the Hanhai Protectorate to Kezan did not bring back any food. Instead, they brought back a terrible rumor. It was said that two trade kings were working on the idea of the Hanhai Protectorate!