Although the extraordinary beings participating in this competition are all young, as the elite among the elite, they are not reckless people, let alone some losers. Therefore, after discovering that the current situation is not good, most people choose to retreat to the safety of the surrounding areas.
The local government seeks solutions to problems rather than head-on confrontation with well-defended and well-manned fortifications.
Soon, Lawrence and the others followed the traces left by some people on the trees and found a campground for contestants in a river valley more than 500 meters away from the kobold fortress.
In this valley, a large number of tents and shacks are lined up on the slopes on both sides of the valley. There are many traces of human activities in the open space under the jaw. And just at the entrance of the valley, the contestants use
A simple fortification was built with nearby stones, soil and wood, guarding the entrance to the valley like a checkpoint.
"Hi, Lawrence, is that you?" When they appeared in front of the checkpoint, a patrolling person on the checkpoint waved to Lawrence. "You guys are here too today!"
"Nice to meet you, Zhu Yan." After squinting his eyes and looking around, Lawrence immediately recognized that the person standing on the barrier and greeting him was Zhu Yan, the demon gunman of the New Island Republic whom he met a few days ago.
After confirming each other's identities, a woven rattan ladder was hung from the barrier for Lawrence and the others to climb up.
"What is going on in this camp?" After watching Zhu Yan hand over the task to an orc shaman who had just climbed up the fortification to change his shift, Lawrence asked him curiously. "Don't you want to set up a camp here?
Will he be discovered?"
"Don't get excited, let me answer these questions for you one by one." Zhu Yan smiled and motioned for Lawrence and the others to follow him towards the center of the camp, explaining as they walked. "This camp was established three days ago.
Everyone here wants to go inside the cave on the volcano."
Having said this, he glanced around to confirm that no one else was around and said, "The investigators we sent before found that the group of kobolds had a lot of jewelry made of precious metals and gems, so everyone hopes to kill those kobolds.
A group of kobolds gain wealth."
For extraordinary beings, precious metals and gems are not just symbols of wealth. These are indispensable raw materials in the production of many extraordinary-related items, and they can also assist the extraordinary ones in their practice. Therefore, they are regarded as
It is part of extraordinary resources. And for extraordinary people, the more extraordinary resources used in practice, the better.
The extraordinary people who appear here now are the top among young people, but they either belong to their own struggles and have great luck to get to where they are today, or they belong to the best new generation of a certain elite group. These two types of people have one thing in common.
The characteristic is that the resources on hand are not enough.
Because if they had worked hard on their own, they would have consumed a lot of resources to get to where they are today. At their age, it would be difficult for them to do this while accumulating enough resources. And the resources allocated to each person by each large organization are limited.
, every point must be used carefully to ensure maximum effect. It is basically impossible to have the opportunity to save resources.
Therefore, for most people in this camp who lack resources, this opportunity to obtain a large amount of resources at one time is really rare. Basically no one is willing to let this opportunity pass. But facing a military fortress now
It is basically impossible for these contestants to take advantage of each other alone, so everyone can only gather here to find a way.
Of course, not everyone here lacks resources. But no matter how many resources there are, if there is an opportunity to obtain more resources and points, not many people will refuse.
"As for the group of kobolds, of course they know we are here." What Zhu Yan said was not beyond Lawrence's expectation. As kobolds who are good at activities in the forest, if they didn't know about the camp of a large group of humans five or six hundred meters away,
That's strange.
However, according to what Zhu Yan said, the group of kobolds only did some reconnaissance and returned to their simple fortress. They did not try to attack here.
"It seems that these kobolds are more cunning than we thought." John said next to him, "They do not attack all enemies in their territory like wild beasts, but they know how to think and how to disobey those who are in their territory.
If you go head-to-head with an invincible enemy, such a monster will be even more difficult to deal with."
"You're right." Zhu Yan gave John a thumbs up after hearing what he said, "The extraordinary beings who are leaders in this camp and have military experience also think so. They
I think that the group of kobolds should not be regarded simply as monsters, but should be regarded as an army composed of wild creatures."
While they were talking, everyone came to the center of the valley. In the center of the valley was an open space the size of four basketball courts. Two people were now competing in this open space, and a group of people were surrounding the open space and cheering loudly.
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On the slope behind this open space, a platform more than half the size of a basketball court was also cleared, and a large tent stood on the platform.
"This is the competition platform. All contestants in this camp can choose this place to practice with others. Such a battle can be a team battle, or one member can be selected to represent the whole group."
"And the big tent above is the conference room of the camp, where everyone is currently discussing the method of attacking the kobold fortress. You came in time. If the team comes back after lunch today, it will be basically because of time.
It is impossible to participate in decision-making, and you can only choose to participate or not participate in the next actions.”
"That makes sense." Lawrence nodded. He saw nearly 300 people in this camp. It was not an easy task to integrate this group of guys who were good at fighting alone to attack a completely militarized kobold tribe.
It is necessary to take half a day to do a basic integration.
If someone comes too late, even if the plan proposed is better, no one will be able to adjust it. Because at that time, instead of making a so-called perfect plan that no one can execute smoothly, it is better to choose something with slight flaws but that everyone is prepared to execute.
plan.
Not everyone in Lawrence's team could enter the conference room. After negotiating with several people guarding the door at the tent door, Lawrence and John were allowed to enter the tent, while the other three were allowed to enter.
A guard led them to an open space to set up camp.
This is a common practice among extraordinary beings: if a group of extraordinary beings who are unfamiliar with each other prepare to do something collectively, then the commander of this operation will be from the casters, paladins, and those who have done it before.
Selected from extraordinary individuals serving as military officers.
Of course, spellcasters such as warlocks or druids often only reluctantly take over when no one else is qualified to command. The reason why Lawrence was allowed to enter this tent is because he is the captain, and after becoming an official
The reason why his strength as a super warlock is one of the best among the more than 300 extraordinary beings.
Walking into the tent, Lawrence found that the furnishings in the tent were very simple. There was only a map hanging at the front of the tent with information about the nearby terrain and monsters. The people in the tent were all standing there, with nothing to rest on.
There were tables and chairs. An extraordinary person from the New World Republic wearing an unmarked blue-gray military uniform was standing next to the map with a pole, pointing and saying something.
"——In short, this is the general layout of the six kobold camps surrounding the volcano. Although it is different from some of the information in the data, it does not affect our next move." When Lawrence came in,
The member of the New Zealand Republic delegation seemed to be about to finish his reporting work. He said quickly in French, "If anyone has discovered anything different, please tell us as soon as possible."