Seeing Suldak leave, a shop assistant carrying a rusty single-edged ax immediately approached the leatherworker boss Mullen and asked him in a low voice:
"Brother-in-law, have you reached an agreement with Commander Suldak? Has he relented?"
The expression on his face showed no respect for the boss.
Boss Mullen didn't seem to care about this at all, and muttered in a gloomy voice:
"No, Commander Surdak seems to be very interested in those hard armors. I don't think we should hide this matter. How can we hide this kind of thing! He will know sooner or later."
The store clerk chuckled, with a cunning look in his eyes, and said to Boss Mullen: "Brother-in-law, as long as this thing is successful, you can take your whole family and leave this ghost place in advance. The other side is already in Wilcox."
Find a good relationship with the Noctian leather shop in Wilkes City. In addition to getting a considerable amount of gold coins, you can also work in the largest leather shop in Wilkes City. It is better than opening your own leather shop.
It’s better to not make any money all day long!”
"The hard skin of the ghost-striped soldier ants has been soaked in the acid pool for enough time. If you drag it down, the hard skin will really melt away." Boss Malen touched the hard skin on the chopping board with his hand.
, said with some worry: "By then... I think this business will really go to waste."
The shop assistant's face suddenly became a little ugly. He immediately wiped his hands, nailed the one-handed ax to a wooden stake nearby, and said decisively: "I will go find my friends in the city defense brigade..."
Boss Mullen hesitated to speak: "..."
…
After leaving the work shed, Surdak originally planned to patrol the city wall, but he always felt that something was wrong, so he put on the cotton mask used in the deserted land to prevent inhalation of volcanic ash, and walked back to the place where the ghost-striped soldier ants were piled.
Pit.
Not too far from here, a group of migrant workers are digging a second large pit.
After the first pit is filled, the ghost-striped soldier ants transported from the work shed will be thrown into the second pit. Surdak saw many aborigines among the migrant workers.
Aung San was also among them. It seemed that he should be the small foreman in charge of communication. He was holding a pickaxe in his hand and was circling the area of digging the hole.
Standing at the edge of the pit, the soldiers following Surdak all covered their mouths and noses.
No one can stand the pungent stench.
Surdak picked up a two-meter-long wooden stick next to the pit and poked the ghost-striped soldier ant floating in the acid pool. Some viscous liquid dripped out of the ghost-striped soldier ant's hard shell.
, like some melted butter, very disgusting.
He stood silently next to the pit, and the soldiers behind him did not dare to leave without permission.
Not far away on the Yong Road, soldiers kept throwing the headless corpses of ghost-patterned soldier ants into pits.
Some bubbles emerged from the center of the pit.
In viscous liquids, when these bubbles emerge, they will form a large semicircle.
Until the semicircular bubble bursts, emitting a series of wave sounds.
Some bubbles actually lifted up the hard carapace of the ghost-striped red ants floating in the center of the pit, opening and closing continuously on the surface of the pool...
Surdak discovered something that he had not noticed before. The hard shells of the ghost-patterned soldier ants in the center of the pit that had been soaked in the acid pool for too long had actually become limp.
The wooden stick in his hand could not reach the hard armor of the ghost-patterned soldier ants in the center of the pit. The ghost-patterned soldier ants at the edge were all thrown in not long ago. He poked hard, except that the flesh and blood in the shell melted away.
The carapace covered with spikes is still very hard.
He asked the soldiers around him to find a five-meter-long knight's spear, and then picked up a soft and soft carapace of a ghost-patterned soldier ant in the center of the pit filled with acidic liquid.
The ghost-patterned soldier ant carapace hangs on the tip of the spear, like a dark green kelp dripping with sea water.
After the soldiers picked the carapace out of the pit, Suldak asked someone to bring over two buckets of water and wash away the acid rot on it.
He planned to use his true eyes to see what kind of changes had taken place in the hard carapace of this ghost-patterned soldier ant.
But it looks pretty bad now, because the soldier holding the knight's spear has poked a big hole in the hard armor of the ghost-patterned soldier ants. This hard armor should have lost its original toughness...
…
Surdak was about to further study the hard armor when he saw two businessmen with thick scarves on their heads and several followers walking to the pit from a distance and carefully examining the ground.
The situation inside the pit.
He put down the wooden stick in his hand, stepped on the slightly soft carapace of the ghost-patterned soldier ants, and walked towards the businessmen.
"You want to buy these ghost-patterned soldier ant hard armors?" Surdak stared at the two businessmen.
The two businessmen hid their faces in their scarves and shook their heads. One of the businessmen explained to Suldak: "There is no market for this kind of hard armor. It is better to buy some magic cores. We are not prepared to buy it."
Seeing that the two businessmen denied it, Suldak did not continue to ask any more questions.
He nodded and then said:
"Now there is a big gap in arrows and kerosene on the garrison side, so you merchants need to raise more arrows from the towns around Wilkes City. Of course, if you can find kerosene and fire scale bombs,
That would be better."
"The garrison can use the Warcraft materials in the warehouse to exchange for arrows, and it is guaranteed to leave enough profit margin for you."
When the businessman heard what Surdak said, he immediately promised:
"We will try our best to mobilize some urgently needed military supplies. There are more than a dozen large and small workshops specializing in making arrows around Wilkes City. Now we have sent people to purchase large quantities..."
Before the businessman finished speaking, he saw a city defense guard running over, gave a military salute to Suldak, and said hurriedly:
"Sir Commander, Captain Andrew has made new discoveries on the city wall! If you have time, it is best to go there."
Surdak looked up at the city wall and found that there was no melee on the city. He felt a little more relaxed and responded: "I'll be there right away."
The two businessmen still wanted to continue talking with Surdak, but unexpectedly Surdak had already hurriedly climbed to the top of the city. They couldn't help but look at each other, and they both saw a hint of helplessness in the other's eyes.
The two businessmen and several followers walked out of the pit of acid rot and came to the gate of the city defense brigade.
Nearly ten businessmen gathered at the entrance of the brigade, and everyone got into a magic caravan.
All the businessmen's eyes fell on the two businessmen. One of them, a businessman with a gray beard, asked with a worried look: "Have you seen Commander Surdak?"
The two businessmen nodded silently, and the atmosphere in the carriage was a bit dull.
The gray-bearded businessman asked the two businessmen: "Have you reached an agreement?"
One of the businessmen shook his head in frustration and said helplessly:
"Before we could discuss it further, we went to the city to handle matters."
Another businessman also asked: "President, is there any progress on Ms. Selena's side?"
The gray-bearded businessman sighed and said: "We simply stopped the negotiations with the Ghost Pattern Soldier Ants and are only selling the low-level Warcraft leathers in the warehouse, and they don't have heads yet!"
Other businessmen sitting in the magic caravan also began to discuss:
"This business is really tortuous."
"If you ask me, it would be better to tell the truth directly. If we keep it secret like this, even if we make this big deal, we will just take a piece of meat from the person's mouth. In the end, we will completely offend the commander."
"That's right, I heard that this commander's background is not simple."
"I guess Commander Surdak must have noticed it, so he decisively stopped the trade of ghost-patterned soldier ants here."
"There should be no problem. Baron Josh Golding of the trading house has a very deep conflict with the commander. We have already communicated with him in advance, and he should not tell this matter. Part 1
Isn't it the same when there's a beast wave?"
"Hey, you haven't seen how many headless ghost-patterned soldier ants are in the pit. As long as we make this order, we can take the business group to the southern town to do business. We only need to wait four days
Year, once the defense changes, this town will have a new batch of military and political officials."
"..."
…
Surdak climbed the city wall.
Andrew stood behind the wall, enduring the steaming heat wave below the city, looking at the open space between the canyons outside the city, scraping the stubble on his face with his fingers, his face a little solemn.
The outside of the north city wall is almost crowded with ghost-striped red ants. If a catapult throws a flint, a large number of ghost-striped worker ants will be killed.
Countless ghost-patterned worker ants were still swarming up on both sides of the city wall. The heavy armored infantry on the city wall held tower shields, and behind them was a row of heavy armored infantry holding Paglio spears. They thrust out the spears in their hands through the shields.
The main attacker will pierce the chin of the ghost-marked soldier ants and seal the mouths of the ghost-marked soldier ants to prevent them from spitting. The remaining spearmen will thrust their spears into the ghost-marked soldier ants that just emerged on the city wall.
The soldier ant was stuck in the gap between its head and chest, and then an axeman would behead it.
The main attacking spearmen and axemen are veterans with first-level strength in the team. Only they can pierce the hard armor of the ghostly patterned soldier ants cleanly.
And those large numbers of ghost-patterned worker ants were shot down from the mountain wall by the defenders on the city wall with repeating crossbows before they even climbed to the top of the city...
He fell to the pile of corpses with thick smoke at the foot of the mountain.
The heavy armored infantry and city defenders have become very skilled in this kind of city defense battle. Even if there are some mistakes in a certain link, they all know how to make up for it later.
Another wave of attacks by ghost-striped red ants was repelled.
Surdak endured the heat wave, stood next to Andrew, and looked outside between the gaps in the wall.
Andrew pointed his finger into the canyon. In mid-air nearly 700 to 800 meters away from the north city wall, there was a huge red ant covered in red blood. Visual inspection showed that this red ant with wings was about the size of an adult ice-horned rhinoceros.
big.
Just below its body, hundreds of red ants with ghost stripes are clustered. These red ants with ghost stripes are several times taller than other red ants with stripes of ghost stripes. One of their legs can even reach the length of the worker ant. They look like
Tanks, surrounding the queen ant.
Many ghost-striped soldier ants are surrounding the left and right, and the outermost circle is the ghost-striped worker ants. At a glance, you can tell that they are clearly ranked.
Andrew licked his lips and said: "This big fly was discovered this morning. One was suspended in the air in the valley. Did you feel it..."
"Is it the sense of oppression on the high-level Warcraft?" Suldak said.
"Well, I estimate that the monsters that can oppress us should be at least level three monsters." Andrew said, his eyes fixed on the big fly.
Surdak leaned against the wall, avoiding the heat wave coming from under the city wall, and said: "This big fly with wings should be their new queen, and it is also the kind of queen who completes mating."
"How do you know it's an unmated queen?" Andrew asked with a surprised look on his face.
Surdak chuckled and said: "When the new queen ant finds a safe habitat, builds a brand new ant nest, and completes mating, its wings will fall off on its own."
"Really?" Andrew asked even more surprised.
"Of course, those under it should be a group of ghost-striped male ants. They are probably the bodyguards of this new queen." Suldak said firmly: "Look at how brightly red its body is."
After Suldak finished speaking, Andrew actually stuck his head out and took a look again.
"After it arrived at Duodan Canyon, the ghost-striped red ants here became much more orderly. Even though both sides of the city wall are so stable now, I guess they are paralyzing us!"
After Andrew finished speaking, he led Suldak to the corpse of a huge ghost-patterned soldier ant that was more than four meters long. This ghost-patterned soldier ant was larger than those ordinary ghost-patterned soldier ants, and the color of its body patterns was also different.
Deeper, there are some raised stripes with different concavities and convexities on the carapace, and the sharpest points of these stripes have a series of blunt spines.
The dark red carapace on his body also appears harder. There are three giant crossbow arrows stuck on his back and one on his head.
"At that time, a total of eight bed crossbows hit it, and four of the giant crossbow arrows hit it but were blocked by the armor... Look here, here, here... oh and here." Andrew said that the ghost-patterned soldier ants appeared on the body.
The cracks were pointed out to Suldak one by one.
The giant crossbow arrows in these places failed to penetrate the armor, but cracked it.
Andrew pulled out the four giant crossbow arrows inserted into the body of the ghost-marked soldier ants, raised his head and asked Suldak:
"The strength of this ghost-patterned soldier ant has reached the level of a second-level monster. Do you want to see what's inside its skull?"
Suldak nodded.
Without saying a word, he used the butcher's ax in his hand to split open the dark red head of the ghost-patterned soldier ant with its huge pincers. Suddenly, juice splashed across the city, and a demon the size of a baby's fist was buried in the light green brain.
nuclear.
Andrew held the magic core in his hand and weighed it before saying:
"Such a big magic core, it is a second-level magic beast. This kind of ghost-patterned soldier ants are much stronger than ordinary soldier ants. It seems that we have to be careful. It's okay during the day. If we are crawled by this kind of soldier ants at night,
Come up, it will probably be very troublesome."
"Adams and the others who are on duty at night will have to bear even more pressure. They have to make those ghost-striped red ants in the city be more honest." After saying that, Surdak turned to Samira who was standing on the crossbow control console and shouted:
"Samira, what is the maximum range of these bed crossbows?"
Samira replied casually: "It can shoot out eight hundred meters on the city wall..."
"Can you shoot that big fly?" Surdak pointed at the queen ant suspended in the sky in the distance and asked.
Samira stood on the bed crossbow control platform, stretched out her hand and gestured to the queen ant, and then said: "It's too far, we have to get closer to make it possible."