The weather is clear in winter, and the sun shines on the streets of the small town. From the current perspective, Xiangquan City is just a county town. The ground is a bit cold in the morning, which cannot hinder the enthusiasm of people from all directions to go to the market.
Ye Qing walked onto the street, stopped for a moment and looked back, with a smile on his face. He felt very emotional in his heart. Counting from the time of departure from Hope Port, this was the third day that Ye Qing inspected the territory. It can be said that it was rain or shine, and he was not perfunctory.
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Every time he went to a certain village or town, he would go around in a circle, and Sichuan Lin Notes would automatically record the geographical information of the surrounding ten miles. When he came back, he would meet with the boss and chat about life. Most of the time, he would listen to the demands instead of making rash changes.
Everyone saw this attitude, and when they looked at Ye Qing, their eyes were a little different. Most of them didn't know Ye Qing's true identity. They only knew that he was the new lord who came to support from China. Qingmai has always believed in his sincerity or not.
It's easy to tell.
However, there are no results yet, and it is still early to say that there will be real changes. The only person who really has confidence in Ye Qing right now is Liniang, who came knocking on the door early in the morning.
At this time, both of them were speechless, just looking at the flow of people. Straight out of the East Gate Pavilion, Liniang said: "Zhenjun, as planned, we are going to the Tea Castle today... But last night, Xiagu Village reported that this village was going to the Tea Castle.
An official road was cut off again. The resident magician went to repair the spiritual tree, but he never returned. We lost contact with this village this morning. We may have been attacked, and we are not sure about the size of the enemy."
After saying that, Liniang looked at Ye Qing with her bright black eyes, waiting for his decision.
Ye Qing came back to his senses and moved: "Between Xiagu Village and Tea Castle, that should be within our territory..."
Ye Qing was not in a hurry to make a decision. He recalled the location on the map, but he knew that the place was vast and sparsely populated, and the territory was marked by false signs, lacking military deployment. He asked: "Who are the enemies that have appeared in our territory recently?"
"There is a foreign city-state in the east that overlaps with our territory, but the tea castle is resisting and guarding, and the enemy's large-scale troops cannot enter. Generally, no one will be sent to enter.
"But we can't rule out this possibility... In the first ten days of the month, the forest hunting team found the footprints of the savages in the east, and sent out magicians to patrol, but no savage nests were found... We can't rule out the possibility of exiled savage tribes," Liniang introduced.
He reviewed the recent enemy situation and handed over reports on conflicts in the past few years.
Ye Qing glanced at it but didn't reply. He leaned against the carriage and looked at the official road without saying a word. Looking from afar, outside the city, there were withered and yellow grass, and groups of wild birds rising and falling. Farther away, there was a deserted land.
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After a long time, he flipped through the pages and saw that they were all small-scale conflicts. To him who was used to big battles, they felt a bit like village-level armed fights. The scale was less than one, but the quality of combat power was pretty good. The ratio of magicians was very high. There were many young people here.
The Maixian Sect strongly intervened in local military affairs and was very active.
Then there is the time characteristic. Many of the attacks in the first half of the year are by wild beasts. In early spring, some wild beasts wake up from hibernation and are hungry for food. There will be a large-scale beast tide. However, in the second half of the year, there are only isolated wild beast attacks. The weather becomes worse.
The colder, the more frequently the savages and aliens launch attacks.
"There is no need to change the itinerary to the tea castle. Let's check out the situation on the way." Ye Qing replied. Considering that paper reports alone are not enough, even if the attack is just a prelude at the moment, it is better to take advantage of the relatively safe opportunity to grasp first-hand information for
Prepare for the next war.
Not long after, more than ten green rays of light rose up and headed eastward.
When you leave the city and look in mid-air, you will see a vast forest, an emerald green ocean, dotted with five-color mist, which looks like waves on the ocean, but they are all poisonous. Occasionally, you can see a large clearing cleared by aura, with crops planted on the outside, and villages or towns built on the inner circle.
small town.
These colonial strongholds are large and small. What they all have in common are high walls, towering protection, isolated islands on the sea, oases in the desert, and torches of civilization in the dark. They are all surrounded by dense primeval forests and are slightly apart on the ground.
Further away, traffic is basically cut off, making it impossible to maintain smooth roads for a long time.
In order to quickly support the colonial strongholds, the Donghai Xianmen teamed up to plant spiritual trees at every node of the earth line, artificially built magic circles, and connected the nodes one by one to form a network dedicated to magicians, which is what Liniang calls the Green Road.
This is the method Ye Qing is using now. At this time, a group of cyan light-escape sharks are cruising, passing through the spiritual mountains and ridges, jumping to the intersecting mountains, valleys, and rivers.
There is a spiritual tree at each light-escape transition, and the spiritual vein node is like the Luoyang Xiantao, which provides specific functions - here it is not as powerful as the Xiantao, it just speeds up the escape twice, and it looks like a pinball passing between the springs.
, or light is refracted between mirrors.
Ye Qing has used the Dragon Palace Waterway. In comparison, the mechanism of the Qing Vein Network is different. The advantage is that it is not limited to water veins but spreads over a wider range.
But there are many shortcomings. One is that the speed is much slower, there is no ability to carry out small-scale and extremely fast operations on waterways, and there is also the weakness of the spiritual tree being destroyed. The biggest shortcoming is that only magicians are qualified to join the maneuver.
The soldiers can only protect the village, let alone ordinary soldiers.
For Ye Qing, who is used to stacking troops and pushing flatly, this is undoubtedly a big waste in terms of power projection.
The bigger disadvantage is that this is actually extracting the spiritual power of the earth, which will turn the earth into desert and impoverished for a long time. This is completely unsustainable and will bring trouble to the world - this may be one of the reasons why Qingde's colonization did not go smoothly.
"Senior, are you not used to Qinglu?" Liniang looked at Ye Qing's face and asked cautiously.
"You have limited resources, so it's great that you can do this."
Ye Qing smiled and said that this was his sincerity. He did not answer whether it was a habit, because now that he is here, this traffic restriction will soon change.
Not long after, we arrived at Xiagu Village, which we had lost contact with.
Fireworks could be seen ten miles away, and there were faint shouts of death even closer, and gray shadows were jumping among the jungle. After a quick estimate, there were about two hundred people.
"It's a savage." Liniang is a native girl from Dongzhou, and she can identify the enemy at a glance.
Ye Qing looked up and saw some people wearing furs, charging ahead with big sticks, or carrying huge logs and crashing against the village wall.
"Boom boom" the log hit the wall, and the wooden wall swayed.
"Huh?" There is obviously a faint spiritual light on the wooden wall, but this kind of log can penetrate through simple wood magic circles, and some use crude projectile weapons in the forest to attack the village - the projectile weapons are simple and crude,
It looks like it's not much more advanced than a child's slingshot, but the stone it projects is an unstable spiritual stone, and the light color flickers erratically. Once it hits the light green magic circle shield, a small halo of light erupts, like raindrops.
It was so dense that the ground was shaking.
Ye Qing's consciousness swept away and he was a little surprised, because this thing is simply a natural leaf fire thunder...if you look closely, the power is far different, it is not on the same level at all.
The amount of crystals contained in the Artificial Leaf Fire Thunder is too high, and its safe storage life is up to three years. It cannot exist for a long time in nature. These small stones are very weak in power and seem to be difficult to activate. Ye Qing noticed that some of them hit the ground.
It doesn't explode, it's just like an ordinary stone. It only reacts when it conflicts with the spiritual power of the magic circle.
Knowing that this thing had limited value, Ye Qing paid no attention to it and turned his attention to the gray shadow.
Each of them looks similar to the humans in this area. The ones rushing in front are basically male savages wearing rough animal skins. They are lean and lean, not too strong, but very agile and energetic, and can dodge the big guns shot in the village.
Some arrows can only be hit by a few sharpshooters who have the experience to predict in advance. They often retreat into the woods without being injured but not dead.
The ones in the forest who were attacking the village from a long distance were some females. They were obviously petite in size. Compared with the males, they had a sallow complexion and thin muscles. The female curves on their bodies were not obvious. They were probably too thin and lacked fat.
"These are the enemies?"
Ye Qing was a little strange. He thought he was a tall giant, but he didn't look much stronger than an adult man. Logically speaking, one or two high-level magicians would appear in the village at this time, and they would use group spells to clean up large areas and enter the pursuit stage.
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"Zhenjun, please don't underestimate them." Liniang saw her thoughts and explained in a low voice: "These savages are not very powerful, but have a very special constitution. They have some resistance to spells and are blessed by primitive shaman totem poles.
, the magician’s group spells have no effect at all, they can only kill and kill one by one. If there are too many, it will be a waste of mana. The resident magician who reported to repair the node spirit tree may have accidentally bumped into it and died of exhaustion of mana."
"There are no Taoist soldiers to protect the magicians..." Ye Qing asked, realizing that it was impossible to travel long distances without passing through the dense forest here, and frowned a little: "I finally understand your situation, it is difficult to sustain it and still make progress...
Are they all caused by human lives?"
Liniang's eyes flashed for a while, and she nodded: "This place is essentially on the enemy's territory, and we are the invaders. We don't have the advantage of the right time and place, so we only have humanity... This savage's tactics, Taoist resistance is vitality
Powerfully revealed, the miasma in the forest is poison to us and nourishment to them. It can quickly recover from injuries, so it is very wild, and everyone dares to risk their lives..."
"These savages attack the village to steal food. Even if the losers are not killed on the spot, they will have no way to survive after being robbed of food and exiled into the woods."
"The direct killing effects of magicians in each village are limited. If they cannot get timely real-person support, then they can only use the home buildings to offset the enemy's favorable timing and location, and fight them with human lives... The winning rate is 50-50, let's see who can fight to the death better, who
Just survive.”
The plain description of probability makes people understand the struggle for survival, a person's right to survive, and a group's right to survive. This is the naked law of the jungle. There is only life and death. There is no right or wrong. No wonder so many people who admire the strong have been cultivated.
And war, a green-veined monk who is not elegant at all.
Ye Qing was silent for a moment. Not only Liniang, but everyone around him looked back, waiting for orders.
"Go immediately to support."
Just a small team of magicians. They are not efficient in killing the savages. Once the real people led by Liniang join the battlefield, the group damage spell will be a real thunder. After a few blasts, the savages' roars with unclear semantics will weaken.
But the atmosphere on the battlefield became more and more intense. Many warriors with strong spell resistance, led by a strong warrior wearing a feather crown, rushed behind Liniang fiercely to fight back against the devil who had killed a large number of their tribesmen.
Liniang was still in the stage of collecting spells and did not dodge at all. She only used the magic shield to resist the stick blows again and again, and stretched out her hand to continue casting spells.
"boom--"
A red light ball flew out of the forest, knocking back and interrupting her spellcasting. An old savage raised the totem pole in his hand, shouted, and the red light lit up again.