The first mission of Surdak's Thirteenth Patrol Team was to stay on duty at the watchtower on the east side of Blue Bridge Fortress. It was not the patrol that Andrew had been looking forward to for a long time.
This kind of night watch does not require everyone in the patrol team to stand on the guard tower for the whole night.
There are seven members in the team including Surdak, and only two teams need to be guarded on the observation deck.
Samira and Gary Decker were assigned to the first group by Suldak, and they were on duty until midnight so that they could sleep in the duty room all night after standing guard.
Andrew and the new constructed swordsman Musta who joined the team were assigned to the second group. This group was more difficult because they were woken up just after they fell asleep. Then at about three o'clock in the morning, the third group would be with
They handed over and returned to the guard room where they could only sleep.
Gulitem and another constructed swordsman, Deans, are the third group. Ogre and Deans need to greet the dawn on the watchtower. Although they have to get up early, it is better than Andrew's group.
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As the captain of the Thirteenth Patrol Team, Surdak only needs to get up twice at night to patrol.
He and his team members have to stay in the duty room on the lower floor of the watchtower. This duty room is an octagonal room. There are six wooden beds placed very thoughtfully against the wall, and they are also covered with felt and leather.
Team members on night duty on the sentry tower can sleep in the duty room on the lower floor of the sentry post.
However, Suldak put Samira and Gary Decker into a team, which neither Andrew nor Gulitem expected.
Although the half-elf archer Samira rarely wears a hood to cover her face after entering the battlefield, her delicate face has become accustomed to being expressionless.
On the other hand, after Carrie Decker put on the heavy magic pattern structure, her long black hair was tied up into a high ponytail. With her height of nearly 1.9 meters, she was actually half a head taller than Andrew. She was tall and tall.
Her figure made her stand by the wall at the door, feeling a slight sense of oppression, but there was a slight smile on her face.
This can be regarded as the first time the Surdak patrol team is on duty. Gary Decker is still complacent about leaving the patrol team of the Constructed Knights in Ababa Province and joining the patrol team of Surdak. There is a feeling
A sudden sense of relief.
In the patrol team in Ababa Province, Gary Decker has been serving as the captain.
She still clearly remembers how hard she worked to gain the approval of her team members when she first entered the battlefield.
In the Green Empire, we have always adhered to this saying:
'Ma'am, stay away from the battlefield!'
Generally speaking, the Lord's Army rarely recruits female warriors. After graduating from the academy, many female warriors can only join some adventure groups or mercenary groups. Carrie Decker also walked through this step by step and became a
An excellent second-turn constructed knight.
In order to prove herself, she worked hard to improve herself almost all the time, for fear that others would say that Carrie Decker was just a flower vase.
Becoming the team leader was also a helpless move for Carrie Decker. Whether she was in the adventure group or entered the patrol team after entering the battlefield, she would almost always receive some kind of hint from some captains or senior team members, such as
Said that as long as you are willing to lie down, you can get a lot of special care...
When she finally changed from immature to experienced, and had a team that she had formed by herself, no one else knew what she was thinking, and she actually insisted on joining Surdak's patrol team...
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Samira barely communicates with Gary Decker.
On the other hand, Carrie Decker would occasionally talk to Samira, and although she would always get no response, Samira would do some things according to her words.
For example, Gary Decker reminded Samira to bring a cloak to keep out the cold, and if you have gloves, you should also bring them. The top of the Blue Bridge Fortress Watchtower was very cold at night.
After patrolling around the Surdak Watchtower, he walked down the watchtower and was about to leave along the gentle stairs when he saw Bart walking out from the balcony opposite, looking tired.
Bart rested his elbows on the low wall of the terrace and waved to Suldak opposite.
It was already very dark, and the windows inside shone soft light outside. The wind blowing into the valley looked very cold, and Suldak tightened his collar.
Bart took out a silver flask from his arms, took a sip from the spout, and shook it at Suldak.
Surdak waved down Bart's invitation for a drink.
"I heard that the demon warriors in the demon army are war criminals who are about to be punished. They lost the exit of the hell passage on the Kenda plane. They were originally demon warriors who were going to be executed..." Bart said with some frustration.
Surdak asked in surprise: "Is there actually a hell passage on the Kenda plane?"
He always felt that the demons seemed to be infinitely far away from the empire. Later, he learned that the hell demons could only enter the Roland continent after winning the entire battlefield, breaking through the King Kong Gate, and conquering the Silver City. But this was at least the same as hell.
There is still a gap between the demons.
Now that he heard that there was actually a hell passage in one plane, Surdak discovered that the people of the empire were not too far away from the hell demons.
Bart nodded and said: "Well, that passage is in the deepest part of the Vala Valley. It has always been guarded by the empire's strongest construct knights, but recently it seems that the South Wind Legion and the North Wind Legion have joined forces to guard it.
The exit was effectively sealed, and a demon warlord was sacrificed with blood at that time. I heard that the leader of the North Wind Legion, Duke Ellie, was also seriously injured..."
"Although I have never been there, I heard that half of the valley there is covered with demonic plants. It is said that it is the burial ground of countless demonic warriors!"
"Even if these demon warriors had not come here, they would have been executed by Duriel, but now they have inexplicably come to the battlefield and successfully sneaked into the hinterland of the war zone, becoming the trophies of Mosang Fortress."
Surdak did not expect that the Green Empire still had such a powerful army stationed there all year round.
"Now that the hell passage is sealed, where are the Constructed Knights stationed in that valley?" Surdak asked curiously. He was extremely lacking in information on the Green Empire's army, but now that he has entered
In a big battlefield, there are some things that you must try to understand.
Bart raised his head, took a sip of wine from the flask, and said casually:
"It is said that half of the army is still stationed in the valley, and the other half of the army has been freed. It is estimated that they will enter other planes to conquer the dark legions in those planes."
Surdak finally saw that the Green Empire was actively dealing with the Dark Army of the Abyss. It was obvious that the methods this time were powerful after all, but he did not expect that they would dispatch frontier troops.
After all, the topic had to come back to the situation in the defense area of the battlefield. Suldak thought that Old Heyman had said that there was a group of intelligence dealers who made a living selling information over there in the Chaos Fortress. However, until there is no conclusive evidence of this kind of thing, it is difficult to say the truth.
who did it.
...Or maybe these two things are purely coincidental, which is also possible.
Surdak asked Bart again: "I heard that a team of construct knights here was also attacked by the demon army?"
"Um!"
Bart's voice was a little dull, and it seemed that he was extremely dissatisfied with this matter.
"What do you think of this matter?" Suldak asked Bart.
After all, Bart is a close confidant of Commander Adolphus. It is estimated that part of Bart's views are what Commander Adolphus said he saw in his eyes.
Bart closed the lid of the wine pot, shrugged his shoulders, his yellow eyebrows were almost squeezed into a ball, and said with a bitter face: "I don't have any opinion, and although you don't need to remind me, I still want to remind you very solemnly.
You, the team, be careful when you go out on patrol!"
"knew!"
After Surdak finished speaking, he waved to Bart, turned around, and followed the rotating outer stairs into the bottom of the observation tower.
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Andrew sharpened his butcher's ax with a whetstone every night and smeared both sides of the blade with lard to prevent rust.
He would put the ax on the bed as a pillow, and he could only sleep peacefully with the weapon on his head every day. Andrew carefully wrapped the ax blade in linen and placed it on the wooden bed.
This wooden bed looks very crude, not to mention the workmanship is rough. It must have been used for a long time. The entire head of the bed is actually covered with a thick layer of pulp, and it is also full of scratches.
The wooden bed was covered with a layer of felt, and the felt was also covered with a piece of cowhide that was tightly stretched on the wooden bed. It looked hard, and if you got closer, you could smell the rancid oil smell from it.
Of course, the Nanai indigenous warriors and ogres would not care too much about this.
Gulitmu sat leaning against the stone wall at the door. The wooden bed was a bit small for him. He was worried that it would collapse. He would also eat something at night, as if he could only hold it in his hand.
Only when you are eating food can you calm him down.
And Naohua'er will lean her head against the stone wall and meditate with her eyes closed...
It is said that two-headed ogres are the best scouts, because when they are on duty at night, they can keep one head awake and the other sleeping. In this way, they can stay on the sentry post for several days and nights without any problem, provided that
Prepare enough food for them.
"Tou, you're back..."
Sometimes even if he eats, it's hard to stop Gulitem's mouth.
Andrew was already lying on the wooden bed with his body curled up, and the other two constructed swordsmen were also sitting quietly on the bed. When they faced Suldak, they seemed a little reserved, but after all, they were all Level 2 experts.
, have long been accustomed to the life here. One of them was wiping the magic pattern structure, and the other squatted by the fireplace, actually lit a fire, and placed a piece of cold bread beside the stove, and hung a
A dark kettle, boiling some water.
Surdak knew that the constructed swordsman who made fire and boiled water was called Deans. He turned around and saw Surdak walking into the duty room. He stood up and said to Surdak: "Captain, do you want to
Want some toast?"
"It's time to have dinner..." Suldak said as he sat on the empty bed next to Andrew.
Gulitem, who was sitting at the door, moved slightly, turned to Deans and said with a smile: "Toast? Give me some!"
Deans immediately cut a large piece from the hard whole-wheat bread, and then dug out a small jar of butter and a piece of dry cheese from the bag. He first spread the butter on the toasted bread,
The cheese was cut into slices and spread on top, and then he took out a red sausage from somewhere, sandwiched it between two pieces of bread, and then handed it to Gulitem.
The rich fragrance immediately woke up the meditating brain flower.
"Gulitem, what are you eating secretly?"
Good brother Naohuaer shouted angrily.
"Hey, this is the midnight snack I prepared for the two of us. Seeing that you are still sleeping, I originally planned to only have a bite..." Gulitem's old face turned red and he immediately said to Naohua'er.
"I believe you, you idiot!" Naohua'er said viciously.
Gulitem made a prompt decision and divided the hot dog into two portions, putting one portion into the hands of his good brother Naohuaer.
Naohua'er took a sip, and the anger on his face disappeared. He immediately said with joy, "There is actually butter in this... I said, brother, why didn't we eat like this before?"
"It would be great if I could get to know Deans earlier!" Gulitem said to his good brother while chewing bread.
After saying that, the two-headed ogre immediately stretched out a big hand and said to Deans: "Let's get to know each other again. I am Gulitem, and he is my good brother Naohuaer! I'm glad you can join us.
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Deans and Musta were in a daze. They never imagined that all they needed to gain the ogre's friendship was a decent late-night snack.
Deans quickly said politely: "Hello, Gulitem, hello, Brainflower!"
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Samira stood on the roof of the watchtower. She could see far away in the dark night.
There seemed to be some vague figures on the top of the mountain in the distance, but Samira knew that they were definitely not imperial soldiers, and everyone would hide in the fortress at night.
So it might be a demon...
Seeing Samira looking at the plank road on the opposite cliff, Gary Decker asked curiously: "Can you see it?"
"Those are demons?" Samira asked.
Carrie Decker looked over there seriously. In the vast darkness, she could only vaguely see the outline of the mountain.
"Um!"
Gary Decker answered, and then said: "I can't see it, but I know that every night there will be demons sneaking in. They run in at night and try to hunt down those who stay outside the fortress at night.
Lonely."
"How dare they come here?" Samira asked again.
"They will hide in rock crevices during the day to avoid being hunted by patrols, and they will come out at night..."
Gary Decker seems familiar with these.
"That means if you patrol at night, you might gain more?" Samira thought about the heads of those demon warriors and licked her lips.
Andrew told her that Surdak spent two hundred gold on the heads of those demon warriors...
"Perhaps we will be their harvest..."
Gary Decker added something later, but his eyes became obviously brighter.