Alsace, oh no, Prince Nicholas was silent for a while.
In fact, Prince Nicholas is kind-hearted in nature. If there is a glimmer of hope, he certainly is not willing to massacre the city.
"How sure are you?"
Bai Xiaowen thought for a while and could only shake his head honestly: "It's hard to say. However, regardless of success or failure, I believe that this terrible plague should be studied carefully. Only by understanding it can we defeat it."
"Well, I'll give you this chance for redemption," Prince Nicholas said. "You don't need to report to the Black Rock Defense Line for the time being. In addition, in the name of the Imperial Crown Prince, I grant you temporary authority to manage Red Leaf City. During this period,
You must continue to pursue the clues of the undead plague and eradicate other hidden spreaders of the undead plague."
Bai Xiaowen lightly punched his left chest with his right fist, bowed and said: "Your Highness's kindness shines on all the people of Hongye City."
"I haven't finished speaking yet," Prince Nicholas said, "If you can develop an antidote to the undead plague, I will give you an extremely generous reward together with the credit for investigating the truth about the undead plague. If you fail,
If so, I will arrange you to the most dangerous forward position of the Black Rock Defense Line to fight against the most elite remnant army!"
After a pause, Prince Nicholas continued: "And if it is because of your dereliction of duty that the undead are flooding out of control in Hongye City, I will deprive you of your title and cut off your territory. Do you agree?"
Bai Xiaowen nodded without any pressure: "Agree."
His neat attitude actually moved the two knights, Job and Ferdinand. How important are noble titles and hereditary territories to a lord? And the lord in front of him was actually willing to do anything for the people of a city he had never met before.
It's really rare to bet something so important.
But they didn't know that Bai Xiaowen was not originally from the world of Kane. Even if he didn't agree, he would eventually give up the territory here. In this case, why not give it a try.
Prince Nicholas nodded: "I leave this communication runestone to you. I will use the communication runestone to share some of the research progress on the undead plague in Black Rock Fortress with the scholar in Red Leaf City. I hope you can succeed."
Then, the image of Prince Nicholas disappeared.
Job and Ferdinand handed the communication rune stone to Bai Xiaowen. Spiritual world rules prompt information:
"You have obtained a special prop: the communication runestone. This item can be activated with other bound communication runestones to simultaneously transmit some important image data. This item cannot be taken out of the world of Kane's plane."
"[Heroic Side Mission Step 2: Fighting the Plague] is started."
"Mission objective a: Develop an antidote to the undead plague."
"Mission objective b: Destroy all undead creatures transformed by the undead plague in northern Xinjiang."
"Task difficulty: s."
"Task reward: unknown."
"Mission period: Equivalent to the remaining time you can stay in the world of Kane's plane."
The two knights, Job and Ferdinand, hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice: "Ian and... Jericho, did they leave any relics before they died?"
Bai Xiaowen took out [Ian's Diary] and [Jericho's Diary] and handed them to Job and the others: "Since they are your comrades, I will leave their logs to you for safekeeping."
"…Thank you very much."
Bai Xiaowen received a reminder from the spiritual world, and Job and Ferdinand's favorability towards him increased.
Job handed Bai Xiaowen a neatly folded map: "We have been secretly investigating the undead plague and learned about some secret strongholds. Ferdinand and I have no skills at all. Among them, the strongholds close to the Red Leaf Territory will be left to you to remove.
Drop it."
Bai Xiaowen took the map and nodded his thanks.
In fact, Job did this to give some credit to Bai Xiaowen as a thank you. With the level 6 strength of their two leaders, it was not difficult to remove the undead plague stronghold. The most difficult thing was to investigate the location of the hidden stronghold.
In the S-class hero mission "Fighting the Plague", Bai Xiaowen's own participation level is directly related to the final evaluation of the mission, that is, the level of merit in the eyes of Prince Nicholas. Therefore, the secret stronghold of the Undead Plague on this map is also
It was a big help to Bai Xiaowen.
After seeing off the two knights and their men, Bai Xiaowen returned to the city surrounded by the residents of Hongye City.
Originally, the residents of Hongye City were still very resistant to Bai Xiaowen and the Bandit Guards under his command, but after what happened today and word of mouth, their attitude towards the Bandit Guards has greatly improved.
Regarding Bai Xiaowen's request to gather together residents with severe infection and obvious symptoms and establish an isolation area, Hongye City residents' backlash was much smaller. Although there are still some dissatisfied protests, they have no longer become a phenomenon.
Bai Xiaowen, Li Shuyi, and Bonita, after the order in Hongye City stabilized, followed the map's guidance and went out to pull out the undead plague stronghold.
These secret strongholds are very small, with at most one or two mid-level elites resisting, and they do not pose much of a threat. All the items and information seized were sent to Dr. Zombie’s underground research institute.
It is worth mentioning that Bai Xiaowen's [Summon Claws] and [Deterrence] skills have finally reached level 3.
In fact, after the Battle of Hongye City, his proficiency in these two skills was already close to full. This kind of high-intensity battle significantly improved his skill proficiency.
The two skills that were upgraded to level 3, with the blessing of the title of "The Strongest Academic Master", both reached level 4, and enjoyed the strengthening effect of upgrading the skills to lv4 in advance, but they only need to be extracted.
In one of the secret strongholds of the Undead Plague, Bai Xiaowen chose to extract the lv4 strengthening effect of [Summoning Raging Claws].
In front of Bai Xiaowen, a roulette wheel appeared, which was divided into four areas, with "ordinary", "excellent", "excellent" and "perfect" respectively written on it. It was like a lottery roulette wheel for popularity on the earth plane.
Similarly, the general area is the largest, accounting for 40%, followed by 30%, 20% and 10%.
"These should be different strengthening effects. The rarer the strengthening effects, the more powerful they are." Li Shuyi said.
Bai Xiaowen was very open-minded: "The strengthening effect of ordinary level may not be weak, everything depends on whether it is consistent..." He thought of the old demon's [Flash] skill, because the strengthening effects of lv4 and lv7 are very compatible.
, causing this mediocre skill to rise to the level of a control skill with extremely high tactical status.
Bai Xiaowen turned the roulette wheel, and the pointer spun rapidly, then slowly slowed down.
On the last lap, the pointer was as slow as a snail. After crawling through the ordinary area, it struggled to cross the 30% excellent area, and finally settled in the 20% excellent area.