The next day, Lin Xiao took the official document and went to the meeting with Artoria. It was said that the meeting was a small fortress specially designed to guard against enemies.
I was riding in a bumpy carriage when the horse pulling the carriage suddenly stopped walking on the road. Then the driver driving the carriage said that the horse seemed to have a bad stomach.
Is there such a thing? But the coachman explained it. It turns out that the horses in this world are not ordinary horses, but hybrids with some kind of monsters called sweat-blooded beasts. They can travel thousands of miles in a day... but they just eat
It's a bit too much...and if you eat something wrong, you will have diarrhea and won't leave...
The coachman also said that there is a cave nearby called Shuiliandong, which is very comfortable and can just rest for a day.
In desperation, Lin Xiao could only do this...it was impossible to walk there without transportation...
At night, the moon was dim and stars were dim, and Artoria fell asleep, but Lin Xiao walked out of the Water Curtain Cave, sat at the entrance of the cave and looked up at the night sky.
He thought of his parents and friends in the world before he traveled... He wondered if they were okay... And where would he go in this world?
Obviously, to survive in this world, you must have special skills, otherwise you will be reduced to the bottom of society...
It can be seen from the fact that in this world women are superior to men, men without strength can only do odd jobs as soldiers.
The big shots are all women, and they have intelligence. The intelligence means that they can use various imitation special skills through deduction.
Of course, the power can only be maintained up to the parallel level for the time being. If you want to exceed the parallel level, reach the strong level or even higher, it is not impossible, but the number of uses is limited, and it will cause a burden on Lin Xiao's body...
"Zhi Nao, if I want to become stronger, how should I use it?" Lin Xiao whispered.
"Well, the power system of this world is special. If you want to become stronger...it is impossible to obtain the power of this world. The super-dimensional intelligence brain will continue to deduce and improve, and will let you master step by step to obtain the power of this world.
Equally powerful, even surpassing them."
"In other words, I can only wait for you to slowly deduce it?"
"That's true in theory."
"Theoretically, yes. Well, unless there is some chance encounter, this is the only way." Lin Xiao sighed leisurely. In this world, strength is valued at first glance. Without strength, you will definitely encounter problems that cannot be solved in the future.
matter.
At this time, Lin Xiao heard a strange sound, which was the sound of a lake in the woods not far away.
It's so late, what is it? Lin Xiao walked over in confusion.
When I looked over, I saw a girl with long red hair, playing in the lake, smiling happily.
With smooth skin and long fiery red hair, she has a face as beautiful as a goddess. Under the night sky and in the faint moonlight, she exudes strange beauty and incredible beauty.
Then at this time, the girl was getting ready to take a bath, walked out of the lake, and was already getting ready to put on her clothes. Just as she was getting dressed, Lin Xiao saw a poisonous snake appear on the big tree where she put her clothes.
The venomous snake attacked fiercely, and the girl was bitten off guard. Then, while the girl screamed, the venomous snake was burned to death by the flames.
The girl felt dizzy and fell to the ground unable to stand. At this time, she heard a sound and then saw a man walking over.
She was so frightened that she wanted to speak, but she couldn't. Then she saw a man coming over in a daze, checking the injuries on her body. After a moment's hesitation, the man bit the wound and sucked out the toxin inside.
come out.
Needless to say, this was of course Lin Xiao. Lin Xiao was also helpless. He found a beautiful woman taking a bath in the middle of the night, and then found that the woman was bitten by a snake. The situation was urgent, so she had to save her first.
After everything was settled, the girl was already unconscious... Lin Xiao thought about it and took off his coat and put it on the girl's body.
In order to avoid trouble, he slipped away to the appointment after confirming that the horse was fine while it was still dawn tomorrow.
At breakfast the next day, the carriage finally arrived for the appointment... This is a small fortress city, not very lively, and there are not many pedestrians on the street.
But even so, the population was still quite large, and Lin Xiao came to the garrison's residence.
It was just an ordinary mansion, with a plaque on it saying "Garrison Mansion"
Lin Xiao walked into the mansion and saw a middle-aged man sitting in the lobby of the mansion. This middle-aged man was tall and muscular. He was wearing a battle-hardened leather armor and had a knife at his waist.
, he saluted immediately after seeing Lin Xiao. Maybe he had learned the news early... Lin Xiao handed over the letter of appointment. The middle-aged man smiled boldly and said: "I have long heard that the resident officer is a man.
, I am lucky to meet Sansheng today... My name is Li Bai, he is the adjutant stationed here... Sir, I can give you any orders... All documents and information, money, food, horses and other information are available.
It’s ready in the office study room.”
Lin Xiao nodded to show that he understood. He also had a good impression of Li Bai at the moment. Although he looked rough and rough, he was still very careful. He probably received the notice early in the morning.
"Well, Li Bai did a good job. You can go down first. I will call you if anything happens."
Li Bai clasped his fists and walked away.
Lin Xiao walked into the study room and saw that it was full of documents. It seemed that the garrison officer in this place had resigned for some time.
After sorting out the study, Lin Xiao looked at the documents. Most of them were about some military affairs of the fortress, such as soldiers' salaries and recruitment of soldiers.
After reading the documents a few times, Lin Xiao felt that he was not qualified for this job, so after thinking about it, he recruited Li Bai.
"General Li Bai, you have worked hard these days."
Li Bai smiled and said: "It's not hard work, it's all my subordinates should do."
"I'm new to your place, and I still don't understand anything, so I plan to get familiar with it, and I'll leave these matters to you."
"Isn't this appropriate?" Li Bai wondered.
"I said it's appropriate..." After patting Li Bai on the shoulder, Lin Xiao acted as a hands-off shopkeeper.
Later, Lin Xiao asked Li Bai again about his residence.
After asking around, I found that the house was not far behind the mansion, with a living room, a kitchen and a bedroom.
It was a pretty good bungalow. I asked the coachman to help put food and some daily necessities into the house. Lin Xiao took Arturia and packed everything together.
Artoria was very motivated, and all daily necessities and food were prepared by Yatogami Tohka, the city lord.
It can be said that the city lord is really good at his subordinates, and he even gave Lin Xiao a month's salary in advance.
"Oh, it's finally done..." Lin Xiao said, wiping his sweat.
"This will be our home from now on." Artoria shouted happily.
"Well, it's almost noon, and it's almost time to eat... Arthur, go and cook the food."
"Okay!" Artoria was so excited that she went to work.
Lin Xiao planned to go out to buy some vegetables and fruits. He just had money, so of course his life couldn't be too monotonous.
"I'm going out to buy some vegetables and fruits. You've prepared the meal at home."
Artoria nodded and said obediently: "Yes, I will definitely do it."
After leaving the house, Lin Xiao went directly to the market. No matter what era it was, the market was always so lively.
However, this city is still much worse than the big city of Lord City Lord.
There are stalls everywhere, about dozens of stalls, selling vegetables, meat, fruits, steamed buns, and tofu.
However, the strange thing is that all of them are men, and there are basically no women.
It seems that the style of this world is like this, but this is normal, strength determines everything.
It had been a long time since she came to this world to eat fruit, so Lin Xiao went to the fruit stall first.
The stall owner was an uncle dressed as a hawker, but Lin Xiao took a look at the fruit stall and found that the fruits sold were all new to him.
Now I was curious: "What are these fruits?"
The uncle glanced at Lin Xiao, and perhaps saw his clothes. The clothes on his body were the uniforms of a garrison officer, and he looked like he was an official.
The uncle said enthusiastically: "These are all imported by us from outside, pineapple fruits, cow fruits, sacred fruits..." He pointed to the fruits with no color or six colors.
Lin Xiao took a look at the sacred fruit. This one was slightly longer than the apples he had seen before, and immediately said, "Bring a few kilograms of the sacred fruit."
At this time, another customer came. This customer was a girl. As soon as she came, she shouted to the boss: "I want all the sacred fruits."
Lin Xiao was very unhappy when he heard this, looked at the girl, and then froze.
She is a beautiful girl with brown eyes and red twin tails, but her appearance is delicate and cute. She is holding a lollipop in her mouth. She is the girl Lin Xiao met taking a bath in the lake.
The uncle said: "It's Miss Wuhe. Well, this customer also wants to buy a few kilograms."
Wuhe Qinli glanced at Lin Xiao, and then said: "How about it, I want these apples. If you want other fruits, I can give them to you."
Seeing that she didn't recognize him, Lin Xiao secretly lamented how small the world is. Then he smiled and said, "Okay, thank you very much. Just give me that cow fruit.",
Itsuka Kotori nodded, then took out the money and asked the boss to give it to Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao took the fruit, held it in his hand to thank him, and prepared to leave, only a few steps away.
At this moment, the girl with ponytails suddenly spoke: "Wait, have we met somewhere?"
Lin Xiao turned around, with a gentle smile on his face and said: "Second Miss Wuhe, you must have remembered wrongly. I am the garrison officer who just came from Zhenmi today."
Itsuka Kotori thought for a while and then said: "I just came today."
Then she said: "Oh, that's it. I heard that there is a water curtain cave on the way here. It's warm in winter and cool in summer. It's a good place to rest."
"Yeah, it's really good..." As soon as Lin Xiao finished speaking, he felt something was wrong and let it slip.
"As expected, it's you, you bastard!" Wuhe Kotori said angrily, and then a flame burst out of her body, scaring the fruit uncle speechlessly.
Immediately afterwards, Lin Xiao saw a flaming ax appearing in her right hand, holding it in her hand.
The power was terrifying, and Lin Xiao, who immediately realized that something was wrong, threw the sacred fruit in his hand towards Wuhe Qinli, and ran away immediately after throwing it.
He said to Zhinao in his heart: "Hurry up and strengthen my running ability."
"receive."
The sacred fruit that was smashed over was turned into ashes by Wuhe Kotori and slashed with an axe. Lin Xiao also took advantage of this shortcoming, strengthened it, and ran away immediately.
Itsuka Kotori only saw an afterimage of the other party left behind, and he had already run very far away. I was so angry that Ohkawa Kotori was ready to chase after him, and he must kill this bastard.
At this time, a soft voice sounded: "Sister, you are not allowed to use special skills in the city."
The voice was as sweet as a lark. After hearing the words, the flames on Kotori's body were extinguished and the burning ax disappeared.
She said softly: "Sister Shizhi, why are you here?"
Wuhe Shiori hugged Kotori tenderly, then stretched out his hand to stroke her hair and said, "Who made you angry and used special skills in the city?"
In Wuhe Qinli, he put his ear into Shizhi's ear and told him the whole story of the future.
Shizhi frowned and said, "There is still such a thing. It doesn't matter. I will take you to find the garrison officer in person later. I will give you an explanation then. But after all, he is an official who accepts the fate of the city lord. We also
You can't hurt him directly."
Kotori said: "He also saved my life...it's just..."
Shizhi said: "....But I was a little surprised when he escaped just now. Sure enough, there are rumors that there are men with special skills. This really opened my eyes."
"Sister... you still say good things to that prodigal son, I must let him know how powerful I am." Itsuka Kotori said unhappy.
"Don't worry, I'm here, sister." Shizhi said fondly.
Back home, Lin Xiao felt a little regretful. This was obviously a misunderstanding. He had saved her. It was so troublesome just after he took office. It was true.
At this time, a voice came from the door: "The new garrison officer Lin Xiao lives here?"
Lin Xiao walked out and saw the girl with twin tails and a short-haired blue-haired girl next to her.
Wuhe Qinli saw Lin Xiao and said unhappily: "Sister, it's him."
The blue-haired girl stepped forward and said: "My name is Itsuka Shiori, she is Itsuka Kotori and she is my sister. I am looking for the resident officer to clarify something."
Lin Xiao smiled bitterly, these people came to the door, but luckily he took out the ax before they came up.
"Boy, I wonder what's going on..." Lin Xiao said.
Shi Zhi told the story about the lake, and Lin Xiao did not hide anything. He said sincerely: "I was resting in the water curtain cave. Who knew that I heard something moving in the lake, and I happened to see your sister changing clothes and met her again.
I saw a venomous snake and was bitten by it... I went over to save her at that time... I was afraid of causing misunderstanding and left immediately."
"What misunderstanding? You must have been peeking at me!" Itsuka Kotori said angrily.
"...I was unintentional and happened to save the young lady's life." Lin Xiao said.
"If this is the case, there is indeed something wrong." Shi Zhi said.
"Sister, you can't go around him." Qin Li said.
"Okay, sister, let's go back." Shi Zhi said.
After sending the two sisters away, Lin Xiao breathed a sigh of relief... Fortunately, someone was reasonable.
I thought I could live a peaceful life, but I didn't expect that Lin Xiao was still sleeping that day, but it was Li Bai who came to call him in person, and hurriedly explained the situation: "Sir, there is urgent military information, and the horse is coming to report the sudden attack of the Orc army.
We have made an appointment, and now there are only an hour before the troops arrive at the city. The leader of the troops is Xia Hou, the general of the beast tribe, with an army of four thousand. "
Lin Xiao wondered: "What is this beast tribe?"
Li Bai replied: "The beast tribe is tyrannical and entrenched in the northern valley. They live in caves and are dominated by tribes. I don't know how a capable person has appeared. He seems to have unified the beast tribe. They have been ready to make a move. I don't want this time.
Targeted at us."
"What a cruel method..." Lin Xiao said.
"Three lights... kill them all, burn them all, rob them all, it's scary to hear them all."
Knowing that the situation was urgent, Lin Xiao immediately dressed up and said: "This time we can only defend the city and wait for rescue. You should send someone to inform the Lord of the City to rescue him as soon as possible."
"I have summoned all the troops in the city, and the Wuhe family has also organized a large number of people to guard... and the gentry in the city said they would join the battle..."
Li Bai said.
"I see, let's arrange it like this. Leave the east, west, and north gates to them, and we will guard the south gate."
Lin Xiao stopped immediately.
Sure enough, an hour later, the 4W orc army camped 500 meters away. Perhaps it was because they had just arrived and did not rush to attack. But after noon, the orc army formed a formation.
Lin Xiao had already climbed up the tower, and Li Bai was standing beside him. The soldiers guarding the tower were all very nervous and dignified.
Lin Xiao was also a little shocked when he saw the orc army. These monsters were just like the orcs in those movies and games. Each of them looked muscular and extremely fierce.
Lion-headed people, tiger-headed people, wolf-headed people... all kinds of races, they look really scary.
But even so, he could not give up. Lin Xiao immediately encouraged his morale and said: "Soldiers, if these monsters are allowed to board the city gate and step into the city, I am afraid that they will not leave any chickens or dogs behind... In order to
All the relatives, friends, and people who protect this city! We must not take a step back! We cannot retreat even if we die. I ask you if you are willing to fight and die here with me!"
"I am willing to follow the general and never regret it!" Li Bai shouted loudly, and the loud voice reached every soldier on the tower.
Then the soldiers all shouted, and their voices echoed through the sky.
Lin Xiao is very pleased that morale is available...
The orcs in the distance formed a formation and began to move forward... The black shadow slowly approached, the ground roared, and Lin Xiao felt that his footing was shaking.
As a low and lengthy sound of a trumpet sounded throughout the battlefield, and the thumping sound of powerful war drums struck the hearts of the soldiers on the city wall.
The orc army rushed over in an orderly manner, and Lin Xiao ordered: "Archers, prepare."
All the archers opened their arrows, and time passed bit by bit. For the current soldiers, it may be the precious time they have left, because after a while, they may die.
The faces of the soldiers on the city wall were solemn. Everyone calmed down and tightened their grip on the bows, crossbows, swords and halberds in their hands. They knew that there would be a fierce battle that was about life and death.
And their only way is to hold the survival weapon in their hands tighter, and then defeat the enemy again and again, so that they can continue to survive in the battle.
Soon the huge black shadow on the horizon in the distance revealed his fangs. The orc army, standing in a square formation, walked neatly and orderly towards Shangyong. This group of huge enemies held bright weapons in their hands.
There were soldiers carrying swords, spears and halberds, and some were carrying several ladders, and some were pushing strange-looking carts, which were trench-filling carts. They were filled with earth and rocks, which were used to fill in the ditches and traps around the city. And this group of enemy soldiers
Behind them is a group of tough orc tiger-headed men with bright swords in their hands. These are the supervising team during the siege.
The so-called black clouds were overwhelming the city and it was about to be destroyed. Lin Xiao on the city wall took a deep breath. He had imagined countless times the most brutal city attack and defense battle in the Cold War, but he never thought it would be so suffocating.
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The advancing orc army felt oppressive, and the orderly and heavy footsteps, horns, and war drums were mixed together. Even though they were still so far away from reaching the top of Shangyong City, they could feel a murderous intention coming towards them, which made them feel uncomfortable.
The person trembled involuntarily, as if an evil beast was standing in front of him with a grin on his face, ready to open his bloody mouth at any time and swallow up this small city in just a moment.
Uneasiness and panic flashed in the eyes of the soldiers on the city wall. The huge pressure made people breathless. Lin Xiao took a deep breath to relieve his own pressure. When he saw that the morale of the soldiers had become low due to the enemy's momentum, he immediately shouted
: "The rescue from the Lord of the City will arrive immediately, defend the city to the death!"
When the soldiers heard what Lin Xiao said, a lot of fear and uneasiness disappeared from their eyes. Then Li Bai pulled out his sword and raised it to encourage morale and said: "Listen to your orders and defend the city. Let the Cao thieves see how powerful I am, Yong Erlang."
After hearing this, the soldiers in the tower became more courageous, and they all shouted: "Defend the city!" Finally, with this momentum, they forced the fear they felt just now into their hearts.
However, the pace of the war is still proceeding in an orderly manner and will not stop at all.
The soldiers on the city wall were silent. They were all staring at Wei Bing. Their heartbeats were getting faster and faster with the pace of Wei Bing. Even if there was interference from the sound of horns and war drums, everyone still felt the beating sound very clear.
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Finally, with the crazy roar of the orc army, the roar of the beast was terrifying and weird.
This group of fearless beasts rushed towards the city, and the offensive and defensive battle officially began.
At the same time, when he saw that the distance was almost the same, Li Bai yelled: "Fire the arrows!" As Li Bai gave the order, the crossbowmen on the city wall fired arrows wildly downwards. In this kind of war, there is no need to aim at all.
If you shoot, that's a good shot.
Poof, an orc soldier's throat was penetrated, and he fell to the ground with a dead look. Around him, many of his friends who had been talking to him not long ago had fallen.
In their dilated pupils, there may have been unfulfilled wishes, but now they have all disappeared.
War is so cruel and ruthless, and everyone is equal. Numbness and indifference to life may have become one of the habits and talents of the soldiers.
In the eyes of the cruel orc race, dying in battle is an honor and killing enemies is instinctive. The more you kill, the more heroic you become...
They did not waver and stepped firmly over the corpses of their companions. There was another wave of arrows on the city wall. The next moment someone fell down, and they paid the price with their lives for becoming human shields. The vanguard of the orcs was almost here.
Under the city, but this is just the beginning.
Standing on the city wall, Lin Xiao witnessed all this and felt firsthand how insignificant life was on the battlefield. The passing of their lives was so simple that not many people would even remember their names.
But whether it's taking away life or killing others, the value of life is meaningless in the face of battle. Just like there is a saying, am I wrong? Yes, are you wrong? Yes... Yes, this is it
war!
And now no one on the city wall has flinched, maybe because they dare not, but this cannot help praising their strength and bravery, because they all work hard to live and live better.
of light.
Such a scene made Lin Xiao realize that the world he had come to was not a fairy tale at all. There were soldiers firing red arrows on the city walls, and crazy orcs... The blood and roars told him this fact. (To be continued.