Two hundred and twentieth chapters parted ways (five)
"What? Were you really ambushed? How is the situation?" A concerned question came from the other end of the private chat channel.
"It's okay~ I encountered a little trouble. The opponent was quite difficult. It was an elf scout group of assassins + archers + druids. The combat power in the forest was very strong. Fortunately, I killed the assassin when I came up.
Give them a chance to fight, and take advantage of the thick skin to eat the archers, and then kill the druid." The little assassin cleaned up the battlefield, collected the bottles of medicine that the opponent exploded into his belt, and said slowly, "
But I found a very difficult problem.”
"What's wrong?"
"This three-person team is all players who have not been reborn. A conservative estimate is that they are all above level 55. The archer is probably already level 60." The little assassin frowned and replied in a deep voice.
"Well, it's indeed a bit suspicious... but just meeting this group of people doesn't explain anything. In this way, Dagger, your current whereabouts will definitely be exposed anyway. Continue moving eastward, but you have to be careful next
One point, try to keep moving in a stealth state. If the other party has accomplices, they will definitely be looking for you everywhere at this time, and they may increase patrols. If you are caught, you will not have this good luck~
Then, after discovering the enemy, try to find out the details of the enemy and determine their approximate level. If it is normal, there is no need to report it until you find the main force of the enemy's army. But if all the people you encounter next are still
If it is a player who has not been reborn, report it immediately.
Do you understand?"
"Okay, how is the situation over there?"
"Just take care of yourself. Of course there is no problem with me here~ I left a few small skeletons near the evil temple to use as road signs, and the rest are gathering together and heading back.
If I find that I have entered the realm of the ghost tribe, I will wait at the border for a while, and after you give me another report, I will then enter the border to notify Liu Yun and the others, so that I can better determine the situation."
"Okay, don't worry, I will report back immediately after finding out the situation."
After cutting off the private chat, staring at the place where the body had disappeared, the little assassin let out an imperceptible sigh. Now, he felt a little bit of what Huang Quan was worried about. If he encountered this this time,
If the scouts are all "advanced players" who have not been reborn, then the whole thing this time will be more strange. Maybe the truth is far more than what it seems.
Could it be said that this is actually a huge conspiracy of the other party? But... how is it possible? Whether they went to the elves or were wanted by the system city lord with a high reward when they finally left the elves, everything is unknown.
Even they themselves know what will happen next, so how could someone have arranged everything and take the opportunity to lay out their own conspiracy?
Instinctively, the young assassin refused to believe such a fact, but now various doubts have emerged. If all the conjectures are really verified one by one, then the only result is... they fell into a trap.
In a huge conspiracy
This is really terrible~
The little assassin shivered and didn't want to think any more. He immediately sneaked and looked forward...
As expected, as Yu Huangquan expected, not long after walking, vague shadows began to appear in the woods. The little assassin relied on his character level and higher skill level to keep passing by each other.
This is used to judge the opponent's counter-reconnaissance capabilities.
After bypassing the scout team of a dozen or so sneaking assassins or thieves, the young assassin waited for a while, and then the rustling sound sounded again. Not long after, agile archers jumped over the branches one by one.
, all of them were on alert with their arrows on the string and their bows half-opened. Presumably, as long as there was the slightest disturbance, they would send out a hail of arrows.
"Damn~ I was actually told by that crow mouth from Huangquan that everyone here is a high-level player of level 50 or 60 who has not been reborn. It seems that the other party is really up to something..."
The little assassin huddled in the grass waited until the last group of druids passed by, and then muttered something in his heart.
Due to the rise of the rebirth wave, more and more players have entered the second-order era. Nowadays, there are still players who are willing to stay in the first-order state. But if they suddenly appear in batches in such an exaggerated manner, even a fool would be surprised.
I know there is a problem~
The only reason why I did not choose to be reborn was to make myself high enough to be able to wear high-end equipment and maintain considerable combat effectiveness. From this point of view, the opponent may have more high-level players ambushing the army...
..What on earth do they want to do?
Could it be that someone secretly gathered a large group of unreborn high-level players just to take this opportunity to wreak havoc on the border of the ghost clan? It's too strange...
Unable to figure it out for a moment, the little assassin simply stopped thinking about it. He calmed down his mind again and began to cautiously continue to explore the past.
After passing through a group of exploration teams of the opponent, the little assassin knew that he had begun to enter the opponent's control area. From here on, he had to be more careful, because no one knew in which corner there would be a stalker assassin ambushing him.
There. If you don't want to lose your life casually, it's best for the little assassin not to make any unnecessary moves.
In this way, the little assassin moved forward bit by bit. The further east he walked, the more alert players came and went around him. From the perspective of the little assassin, the entire outer circle was probably divided into
Three levels.
The outermost ones are the small scout groups that I broke through. They are divided into groups, with three or five people in each group patrolling the outer perimeter.
Behind them are the scout groups responsible for handling emergencies. Each group has about fifty people. They do not move easily. They should rush over to check after abnormal situations are reported from the front.
Finally, what the little assassin sees now is a large number of patrolling players, including high-level players and some who have been reborn. It seems that there are quite a lot of them, and they are most likely the last layer of protection around the large army.
As expected, the little assassin continued to move forward for more than two hours, and finally saw the edge of the opponent's large army.
Lying on the tree branch and looking forward, the little assassin was so shocked that he almost fell from the tree.
In the woods ahead, there are at least hundreds of thousands of players gathered densely. A quick glance can see a dense darkness, and through the occasional gaps between the treetops, you can see more people on the other side.
Standing on the heights of the City of Misery, it is not impossible to see hundreds of thousands of people bustling about. However, the city is a densely populated place after all, and it is well planned. No matter how many people there are, it always looks pretty good.
There is a sense of order. But now we are in the real wilderness. Looking over at this moment, the shocking feeling is completely different~ I just feel that the originally small crowd gathered together like an endless wave, squeezing the originally dense woods.
A full one.
Because there are so many people, no matter how good the management is, there is still a lot of noise. It may not be loud to hear each group separately, but now that countless teams are gathered together, it is really noisy.
It made people feel like their heads were about to burst. If there weren't a lot of order-keeping teams passing around the whole crowd, I'm afraid so many people would be fighting each other to the death just by being crowded together.
Although the situation was a bit unexpected, the little assassin felt more and more excited.
Because the opponent's team is too large, this gives the little assassin a lot of room to play. In addition, there is a lot of people here, and the little assassin's originally silent footsteps are better concealed. Now let alone the little assassin's cautious progress.
People will notice him. As long as he doesn't swing the big branches from side to side, even if he calls loudly, it won't be easily noticed.
A ghost assassin shuttles back and forth among countless elven players. This feeling is really exciting, especially when the number of opponents exceeds one hundred thousand. As long as the opponent is not careful and is discovered, then the little assassin will definitely
He will die without a burial place. This forces him to
He had to hide his body at all times, not only to be able to hear clear information, but also not to let himself be discovered. Various challenges came one after another. Later, the young assassin hardly regarded this place as a dangerous place.
It's not a place, but a playground to practice his stealth ability.
The little assassin was like an invisible loach, running through various teams of different sizes and quickly collected the information he wanted: It turned out that the opponent was really planning an extremely huge and terrifying plan.
Chasing Liu Yun is just an opportunity to launch a war. They will take advantage of this unexpected incident to push hundreds of thousands of elven player troops to the ghost border, and then launch a surprise attack to seize the system on the ghost border.
City ownership, if the plan goes well, they will use two or three medium-sized cities as the core to open up a small racial battlefield on the border of the ghost tribe.
Crazy, absolutely crazy
After roughly learning about the opponent's plan, this was the only thought in the little assassin's mind
Although the chatter of numerous players around him could not give the young assassin a very specific course of action, including purpose and goals, but even so, the information he knew was enough to surprise him.
Capturing system cities? This is almost equivalent to formally declaring war with the local NPC troops.
So far, the whole game has been running for four months, and the relationship between players and NPCs is still relatively "polite". I say polite, mainly because neither of them means to disturb the other, except for distribution and completing tasks.
In addition, there is very little intersection between the two.
In the eyes of the little assassin, there are very few players who have in-depth contact and understanding of NPCs like his elder brother Liuyun. Many times, most players will not look directly at the game characters compiled from these data, just like
Just like my old self.
But one thing cannot be denied. As of now, the power and in-game resources held by NPCs are definitely countless times that of players.
This view feels more real than ever after the little assassin experienced the melee in the City of Misery, the Warrior Cemetery copy, and the Elf "Civil War"
Compared to the NPCs who hold most of the cutting-edge power in the game, the player collective is nothing more than a group of children who are still growing~
To challenge the system city in this capacity is basically the same as hitting an egg against a stone~
But I don’t know what method the other party used to actually gather such a huge team now. If their target is small and medium-sized cities, if they fight better, they may actually be successful...
..
The complexity of the matter far exceeded the little assassin's imagination. After retreating a certain distance, he immediately contacted Yu Huangquan to spread the shocking news.
"Hey~ Dagger? Why does it take so long this time? I've been waiting for a long time. If you don't contact me again..."
"Listen to me." Due to the urgency of the matter, the young assassin rudely interrupted Huangquan before she could speak, and then began to report the intelligence he had collected regardless of the other party's frantic behavior.
"I...I...I'm speechless~ Are the people over there from the elves crazy? What are they thinking? Why do they want to fight the ghost clan's system city? What benefits do they want from this? They just want to fight against NPCs
Let’s fight to see who is more capable? Why don’t you just look for a fight? Isn’t this...” Yu Huangquan couldn’t recover for a long time after hearing the little assassin’s information, and muttered this to himself.
"It's hard to say, but what if their leader is a lord recognized by the system like Brother Yun? If that's the case, wouldn't he be able to rob a city after conquering it? It seems like he would be very rich if he did this~ At least better than us.
The profit is so great that I feel that robbing a hundred villages is not as satisfying as robbing a small city."
"Robbery? Is it that simple? Not necessarily... Moreover, if there is really a player lord, there are other problems. To be able to gather such a huge team, the manager must not be a
So what benefits can those people get? Others are really ready to help, so what benefits can these players have? These are all questions."
"Then... what should we do now? How about we repay first?" The little assassin naturally meant to repay Brother Yun and the others so that they could be prepared.
"Dagger, tell me the truth, is it dangerous for you to follow them around now? If it is, we will retreat immediately. Otherwise, if you are discovered, you will lose several levels if you fail once. I cannot bear this responsibility."
"What else?"
"Otherwise, if you are sure, you'd better talk to them for a while. We can't figure out their purpose and specific goals now, but it's best to figure out which system city so many of them are planning to attack. If we can know them in advance,
If we attack the target, we will have some room for buffer~ Now the ghost
There are also a large number of ghost players gathered on the border of the clan. As long as we can figure out their specific goals and spread the news, we can gather a large amount of manpower in a short time. Even if there is a difference, there will be no difference.
It’s too far, and coupled with the strength of the NPC defenders, I don’t think they can make much waves.”
"Well, what you said makes sense. Well, let me talk to them for a while. Don't worry. It's very noisy here. No one can hear me even if I'm hiding on the side singing. Just be careful and don't fight if it's dangerous.
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"That's fine. With you as our support, we won't be too passive. You can follow me first. I have to go over and report the situation quickly, and tell Liu Yun and the others about the situation at hand, so that everyone can have an idea first.
Be prepared. Once you figure out the other party's intentions, we can immediately move the crowd and prepare a timely defense."
After the two discussed it, the little assassin continued to quietly follow the large army of elven players, while Huangquan led the mercenary group to continue running north, trying to get in touch with Liu Yifei and others in the territory.
After a quick march, Yu Huangquan finally opened the familiar map of the ghost clan's power, and at this time her position also appeared on the border of the ghost clan.
Looking at the friend channel again, sure enough, Xue Lan has been shown as contactable, while the contact information of the little assassin has been blocked. But what makes Yu Huangquan feel strange is that Liu Yun can't be contacted either.
Where did this guy go when he was so important?
Without much care, Yu Huangquan could only contact Xue Lan first and immediately passed on the news.
And Gao Huangquan's decisiveness, judgment and careful analysis were also praised by Xue Lan, which made Gao Huangquan, who was tired after two days of work, feel a little proud.
However, she also learned from Xue Lan that the reason why Liu Yun could not be contacted was because he had just gone to some meeting with the Cantian Dao who had led them there. Compared to being in the private room of the tavern now,
In that case, it is indeed impossible to contact them directly.
However, the situation on the other side of the little assassin is also quite worrying. In the end, the two of them discussed it. Anyway, Xue Lan also remembered the location of Gao Huangquan, so Gao Huangquan would continue to lead the team and leave the border to wait for news about the little assassin. If there is anything
If something unexpected happens, come back and tell Xue Lan.
Although it was a bit harder, Yu Huangquan also felt that this arrangement was safer, especially since the evil temple here would always have to be cleaned up soon. It would be too dangerous for the mercenaries to be left alone, so she could only accompany them all the time.
Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time this time, the little assassin finally sent back a second piece of information, but this time the news was even more shocking than the last time.
I thought the little assassin discovered that the movement direction of the Elf player army had changed. They suddenly changed from moving north to moving northeast. According to the little assassin's judgment, if they continue to go in this direction, such a large number of people will
It's very possible to go somewhere else...
After hearing the news at first, Yu Huangquan was stunned for a moment, but after thinking about it for a moment, combined with the fact that many people were making trouble on the border, attracting countless people's attention and encirclement and suppression, Yu Huangquan suddenly hit him for no reason.
He trembled because he thought of the words "Build a plank road in the open and cross Chencang secretly"
And if this is the case, the intentions of the elves are too sinister...
Almost subconsciously, Yu Huangquan ordered all the mercenary troops to stay where they were, while she activated the explosive state alone and rushed all the way back. No matter what, this situation must be notified to Xue Lan as soon as possible and asked her to tell Liu Yun.
Huangquan only felt that the ghost clan might be in trouble this time...
