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Chapter 14 Ambush!
Fang Senyan had just obtained a lot of information from the Blue Light team, so he was repeatedly thinking, analyzing, and deducing: for example, the information that killing an enemy's ordinary soldier would yield one point of contribution.
Although it sounded like a casual sentence, thinking deeper, one could infer many things from the exchange ratio:
One had to kill five ordinary enemy soldiers to exchange for one orc. And what were orcs? Merely cannon fodder. No matter how many orc corpses there were, they could not fill the Minas Tirith's abnormal seven-layered city walls! They could be said to be the cheapest type of soldier.
And now, it was a city defense battle!
Even if one was as strong as Fang Senyan, it would definitely not be an easy task to kill five ordinary human soldiers protected by city walls, let alone other contractors! Was it so difficult to even exchange for a cannon fodder unit like an orc? Was this battle a war between ranged contractors? Of course, that was impossible!
Therefore, from these details, Fang Senyan deduced that the people inside Minas Tirith might not only defend! It was very likely that there would be very fierce melee combat, and this would be the main theme of the war.
The best defense was offense. The best way to defend Minas Tirith was not to build how many trebuchets head-on, but to directly rush out and destroy all the enemy's siege equipment! In this way, both sides would naturally have the opportunity to engage in face-to-face melee combat!
From a small exchange, one could infer the specific tactics the enemy commander would take...
Therefore, it wasn't too difficult to "observe a falling leaf and know the coming of autumn" if one observed carefully.
To put it bluntly, Fang Senyan carefully chewed and studied every piece of information, analyzing its advantages, disadvantages, gains, and losses, success and failure.
And now, these suddenly appearing pieces of information flooded in, really like cramming for an exam, making Fang Senyan feel like his head was about to burst.
He shook his head with a wry smile, closed his eyes, took a swig of vodka, forced his mind to go blank, savored the fiery taste in his mouth, and his thoughts gradually calmed down. His brain also began to return to a clear and peaceful state.
Suddenly, Fang Senyan's nose caught an indescribable scent, a mixture of sweat, body odor, and decay, which slammed into his nose.
Even with Fang Senyan's composure, he uttered a "gurgle" from his throat, waving his hands wildly in the air, and scrambled a few meters away in a panic. Only then did he realize that there was an Uruk-hai (a stronger orc) where he had been standing.
This Uruk-hai was very fierce and tall, wearing very precise and heavy armor. Its nostrils twitched non-stop, and its eyes showed a greedy look at Fang Senyan's wine bottle, obviously with malicious intentions.
But after it saw Fang Senyan's face clearly, it immediately became very frustrated. Obviously, this guy's original intention was to rob. However, later, deterred by Fang Senyan's terrifying 3 Legend Points, it dispelled this idea.
Fang Senyan looked at Ronnie resentfully. Why didn't this guy remind him? He was needlessly fumigated by the poisonous gas!
Ronnie could only shrug and make a helpless expression. After all, this was orc territory. This guy looked like an elite orc. What could he do if he came to maintain order?
Fang Senyan took a few deep breaths, then walked over with the endless vodka and chatted with this elite Uruk-hai, but did not obtain any useful information. The only thing he knew was that this guy was a more powerful creature than the Uruk-hai elite, called an Uruk-hai Roarer, with amazing strength. Of course, in Fang Senyan's mind, he could not assess how amazing this strength was, because he did not get its specific combat data.
A person next to him looked at Fang Senyan's actions and couldn't help but sneer:
"Trying to buy information with a few bottles of wine? Are you kidding me?"
Ronnie immediately jumped up when he heard this sentence, glaring fiercely, with a bit of a "a subject dies for the sake of his lord" attitude.
Fang Senyan didn't feel ridiculed when he heard this guy's words, but felt that there was a lot to it, so he directly traded a little contribution, and said with great interest:
"What, has someone already tried it?"
This person was stunned. After all, no one hits a smiling face. Seeing the contribution, he patiently said:
"Our boss studied the habits and recipes of orcs and Uruk-hai before entering. He exchanged for hundreds of things that they liked from the space. And our boss's charm value has exceeded one hundred. Even so, he only obtained seven useful pieces of information. You want to get information with a bottle of mere vodka, it's really a bit rash."
Fang Senyan's heart moved. He knew that there were hidden dragons and crouching tigers in this space after all. It could be said that it was quite difficult to break one hundred points of charm value, because there were not many equipment that increased charm value in the first place. Judging from this, their boss's unequipped charm value should be at least above forty points before changing to a colonist!
At this time, Sanzai also rushed over. Fang Senyan saw that the expression on his face was a little nervous, so he couldn't help but ask him to sit down and tell him carefully. Sanzai walked over, sat next to Fang Senyan, and said in a low voice:
"Brother Yan, I may have discovered a big secret of the space!"
Fang Senyan said calmly in the team channel:
"Well, I know. Tell me slowly, don't leave out any details."
Sanzai said:
"I just suddenly received a related mission. It is a special mission given to the selected person. The content of this mission is already very harsh. The mission says that when the Nazgûl (Ringwraiths) ride Fellbeasts into battle, Gandalf will summon the Great Eagles that grow on the snow-capped mountains near Isengard to fight. And three of these Great Eagles are pregnant and about to lay eggs. My mission is to obtain the eggs from the Great Eagles' bellies and tame them into riding beasts."
"Only these Great Eagles in the bloody battlefield jointly opened up by multiple spaces may have innate abilities when they grow to a high level. They can form a self-sufficient shield on the body surface, and can persist in flying for thirty seconds in any environment. In this way, when our Noah C space travels through the space-time turbulence and is injured, I can ride the Great Eagles to transport some supplies to replenish and repair the space."
Fang Senyan listened carefully and attentively, then suddenly said:
"This mission is very important!! If possible, we will do our best to help you complete this goal. The more you help the space, the more reluctant it will be to let you die, and the more it can help you within its own authority! This is a big deal! Even if it is an inclination within the scope of authority, it is good news for us."
Sanzai nodded, then said seriously:
"The doubt I discovered is at the beginning of this mission - the beginning of the mission is written as, confidential document: Zhi Lie Era (Space 139 Era ~ Space 142 Era) Selected Person No. 6513a."
Listening to this series of information that Sanzai said, Fang Senyan gradually outlined a silhouette in his mind, and the original doubt was also explained.
Fang Senyan had been thinking before, does Noah Space C only have these contractors participating in the Lord of the Rings war at this time? Why didn't those stronger people send to help?
It was difficult to explain with just a level barrier. It was difficult to explain clearly with just the statement "why should outstanding people be restrained instead."
"The words Lie Era are very worthy of study." After thinking for a while, Fang Senyan first said:
"The word Lie usually means that it is difficult to combine with the era, but in ancient China, when building large granaries, the eight characters of heaven, earth, black, yellow, universe, and prehistoric were also used to organize the granaries. For example, Tian Zi Granary represents Warehouse No. 1, and Huang Zi Granary represents Warehouse No. 8."
At this time, Zi also rushed over and said in surprise:
"Then what you mean is that Lie is actually a number, then the following explanation refers to the specific period of the Lie Era?"
Ardalys suddenly said:
"In my real world, there is a very famous basketball player named Kobe Bryant. He joined the NBA league through the draft in 1996 AD. In the same year, many famous superstar basketball players came out, so later, people called the basketball players who appeared in this year the Golden Generation (96). This should be similar to the Lie Era."
Sanzai said with a wry smile:
"After hearing this statement, what I thought of was that when we were studying, we were reading grade by grade, for example, when I graduated from junior high school, it was the class of 2000. A description will be added later (1997~2000)."
"Then that's right." Fang Senyan said seriously:
"At this time, it is almost possible to determine the principle of how the space allocates contractors to fight. Then it should be that most of the people fighting against us are Lie Era contractors in the same period as us! Then the strength barrier will be considered - it's like forming a national football team. The first consideration is the age group of 20~35, and then consider whether to draw people from the Chinese Super League or League One. In this way, it can maximize the guarantee that contractors in the same period will not be pulled too far."
"Then at least in our current stage, contractors between various eras should not be able to run around randomly. The cardinal who forced us to be very embarrassed before should be the first batch of people to enter the Lie Era, and we should be in the late Lie Era when we entered."
Zi suddenly said:
"Then, what will happen when our group reaches the peak of the Lie Era?"
Fang Senyan smiled:
"Of course, it's graduation, further education. After junior high school, you have to go to high school and enter the era before the Lie Era. But I guess we will definitely have extra preferential treatment, just like the promoted team from League One to the Chinese Super League, it will always be taken care of."
Next, Fang Senyan and the others talked about this mission related to Sanzai. At this time, the group of people were strong and powerful, and they felt that this mission might be difficult, but it was absolutely impossible to say that there was no chance at all.
While they were discussing and communicating, Fang Senyan and the others also received related missions:
Contractor No. 1018, you and your team have obtained an advanced mission: Destroy the Country.
Mission Briefing: Destroy the symbol of Minas Tirith: the White Tower!
Mission Tip: The city of Minas Tirith is built in a unique way. The city is divided into seven layers, each with walls and entrances, but these entrances are not in a straight line. This special landscape is partly natural mountains and partly ingenious craftsmanship of ancient craftsmen.
You must break through the terrifying seven city walls and seven city gates to come to the Holy Spring Garden in front of the Executive Hall and the White Tower. The towering and simple White Tower goes straight into the sky for one hundred and fifty feet, and the Regent's banner overlooks the great plain thousands of feet below. Destroying the White Tower is the symbol of the fall of Minas Tirith!
Description: This mission is an advanced mission. After executing the option of the advanced mission, you will not be able to return to the Nightmare Space even if you enter the Hall of the Dark Source. However, this mission will be promoted to a Gold Mainline Mission without increasing the difficulty!
Warning: You must make a choice within 24 hours after entering this world, otherwise, the option to advance the mission will disappear.
Warning: If the Hall of the Dark Source is captured, all friendly contractors still existing in this world will die.
Hint: You can obtain the following milestones in this world (including this world and extended worlds).
Legendary Bane: You participated in the battle to kill any two of Gandalf/Aragorn/Gimli/Legolas.
Title Reward: 1 Legend Point.
Enemy of the City Gate lv1: You have destroyed at least one city gate of Minas Tirith. This milestone can be upgraded. For each additional city gate destroyed, the title reward will also increase accordingly. Theoretically, you can destroy up to seven.
Title Reward: Damage to buildings increased by 100~700 (increased to the highest level)
Hedgehog: You have been shot by story characters a total of five thousand times (the arrows must hit and deduct blood), currently 0/5000.
Title Reward: You will be exempt from 90% of the damage from story characters' ranged attacks
Cook lv1: Currently, due to the creation of siege equipment, the orcs' diet has a big problem. They cannot find enough firewood to cook food, so please help at least five orcs on the stove cook the food, currently already helped (0/5). This milestone refreshes every 12 hours and can be completed up to 3 times.
Title Reward: Fire damage increased by 5/Cook lv3 Reward: Spell damage increased by 15.
Coolie lv1: To capture Minas Tirith, it is far impossible to use only stones and blood, so the current transportation power has become a big problem. Assist the orcs in transporting ten copies of various wood and stones back from the camp on the Anduin River. This milestone refreshes every 12 hours and can be completed up to 3 times.
Title Reward: Movement speed increased by 1/Coolie lv3 Reward: Movement speed increased by 4
Rich and Generous: The total contribution you have exchanged exceeds 10,000 points.
Title Reward: You can get the privilege of free exchange for any creature/item/equipment worth less than 1000 contribution points in this world, and you will always get a 15% discount when trading.
Looking at this series of milestones, Fang Senyan first set his sights on "Hedgehog"! Exempting 90% of the damage from story characters' ranged attacks is indeed a great temptation for MT! Especially with Fang Senyan's talent ability support, it is very likely that those arrow attacks will only forcibly deal one point of damage and cannot break the defense, which can be said to be uniquely blessed.
For all magic contractors, the Cook title must be obtained, and the Coolie title is a good thing for all ages. No one will dislike running faster when escaping or chasing.
At this time, the Hall of the Dark Source finally became much free. Fang Senyan had previously obtained a method to check the contribution, so he deliberately waited until now, walked directly to the Eye of Sauron in the center of the hall, saw that no one around was paying attention, and then asked the team to surround him, and put his hand on the crystal ball.
A sharp and evil voice suddenly sounded in Fang Senyan's mind:
"My powerful warrior, my dark equipment, my powerful secret medicine accumulated for thousands of years, cannot be directly distributed to a waste, so you must pass my test... Ah!!! A powerful soul! I like a powerful warrior like you, um? And such extraordinary legendary experience... Um, very good, you have gained my approval and can issue the full amount of contribution to you."
Fang Senyan immediately understood Sauron's intention. He estimated that he would get a lot of contribution, but at this time, the contribution he got was not obtained through war, and this contribution could be exchanged for Sauron's warriors and secret treasures for real money, so Sauron wanted to personally test it to avoid wasting his efforts.
This is like a young man in his twenties suddenly being parachuted to a high position at the department or bureau level. The direct leader will inevitably be drumming in his heart. He must first interview before daring to delegate power.
"Contractor No. 1018, because of the current camp, I must regretfully inform you that your servant: Muge. Sunstrider and its related forces cannot be summoned and enter this world. Therefore, according to your various special experiences in the previous Lord of the Rings world, you will receive an additional contribution reward of 871 points."
"You have passed the baptism of the Eye of Sauron, and an additional contribution reward of 871 points will be fully issued!"
"871 points!!" Fang Senyan's heart also shook. A ridiculously powerful ogre that requires members of the Fellowship of the Ring to deal with only needs 380 additional contribution points. If converted, this is almost enough to let him have two ogres as soon as he comes out!
Although the two ogres currently seem to be of little help to the siege, according to Fang Senyan's deduction, there will definitely be melee combat, so such a strong preferential treatment is really similar to having a powerful AMP land mech at the beginning of the Pandora world.
But at this time, there were suddenly extremely intense explosions outside!!!
When Fang Senyan and the others rushed out, they saw seven or eight craters with a diameter of two or three meters around the camp. The craters were very shallow, but they were the kind of scattered incendiary bombs after landing. The area within a few hundred meters had become a sea of fire. Many orc huts were ignited, emitting thick black smoke, and there were also many orcs with fire on their bodies.
However, even under these circumstances, the several orc sub-camps that were attacked were well-organized. The orcs who were on fire and ran away in panic were quickly knocked down and splashed with water by the other orcs. As for the flames that burned, several orc wizards caught a few toads as spell media, and soon a large number of viscous, stinky, white foams appeared in their spellcasting that seemed like a jumping shaman, and quickly extinguished the flames...
More importantly, after realizing that the enemy possessed such ranged abilities, Gothmog ordered that the entire camp, which was not very dense, be expanded again and become sparser!
At this time, the participating contractors were all hidden dragons and crouching tigers. Soon someone determined that this range of incendiary rocket attacks was launched using self-propelled rocket artillery vehicles. The launch cost was estimated to be at least 2,000 general points, but at most six or seven orcs were directly killed by the impact point. If used during the siege, it could be said that the harvest should be at least ten times as much, which is a big loss!
This probing attack quickly stopped, but it definitely did not mean that peace had temporarily descended.
With thick clouds piled up in the sky, the sky quickly darkened, only about four o'clock in the afternoon.
The wind was blowing messily on the plain, but Fang Senyan comfortably wiped a handful of sweat in the wind, then kicked the mountain of wheel carts next to him and shouted to the Uruk-hai officer Sistko. Dog-ear who was in charge of counting:
"Hey! Idiot, count it clearly for me, a total of three portions of stone and two portions of wood! 25 contribution points, I'll skin you if you're missing a point!"
This Uruk-hai, who was usually arrogant, was timid and cowardly, which was contrary to his usual behavior when he heard Fang Senyan's rude threat:
"Yes, sir."
On the eve of the war, the most important thing was logistics. Whether it was the besieger or the defender, they would never dislike wood and stones, so they gave a high price of five contribution points for each portion of stone/firewood that could be exchanged.
However, the Gondorians defending the city were not fools. The wood and stones near Minas Tirith, or even the entire plain, had long been cleared, so they had to trek at least seven or eight kilometers to reach a place where stones and wood were produced.
Perhaps feeling that there were not enough people, the Gondorians could only sit idly by as the orcs supplemented their strategic materials, but the opposing contractors, who had a superior number, definitely did not think so. Therefore, before the main story forces on both sides had taken the initiative to attack, tragic small-scale battles had already broken out in the distant Rosarnach valley!
"We should be able to make a few more trips. The entire team's contribution can quickly break through 1200 points."
Reef said excitedly:
With Sistko. Dog-ear's nod, 25 contribution points flowed into the team's account again. Compared with Fang Senyan's one-time acquisition of more than 800 contribution points, the contribution points obtained by the rest of the team were much less, totaling only about 1100 points.
But now, although there is no way to go into battle and kill people, it is not bad for the entire team to work hard together.
Ardalys couldn't help but say:
"There are about ten teams that have gone to cut wood and stones. Eight teams have been attacked, and even the Beast team that started later than us has been attacked once. I just can't stand the way those guys are beaming... Why can't we pick up the slack?"
Fang Senyan smiled gently and said:
"Although the Beast team just had a complete victory, the team also lost two people. Of course, it doesn't matter to their team of 20 people. Maybe the dead are still marginal people, but this is just the beginning of the battle... More importantly, among the eight teams that were attacked, there was also a team that was wiped out! The number of opposing contractors is several times ours, so we have to take a long-term view now. Don't be afraid that no one will kill, I'm just afraid that the enemies won't be killed in the end, that's the most棘手."
Ardalys seemed to want to say something, but when he saw Zi looking at him coldly, he immediately closed his mouth.
Speaking of guys like Ardalys who are unruly and capable, not many team leaders can use him well, but in the ace team, there are two people who can suppress him, and he is still willing to stay...
Fang Senyan signaled the four orc coolies to drag the giant wooden wheel cart that had become empty again, and then signaled to continue walking towards the Rosarnach valley.
On the way through the camp, Fang Senyan saw the orcs in the shacks lighting fires to cook - the so-called cooking is to throw all the things that the orcs think they can eat into the big pot, such as chaff, bread, fur, meat, wild vegetables, leaves, rotten internal organs, foul blood, etc., and then make a pot of "delicious, fragrant, and flavorful" delicacies, and each orc drinks it "sippingly" with his own basin.
Seeing this scene, Fang Senyan suddenly asked:
"Zi, Ardalys, have you completed your cook milestone?"
Zi and Ardalys both nodded. The team had specially given two hours to act separately to complete these milestones that were obviously given away for free. The group of people continued to walk towards the valley while talking, looking very relaxed.
But, just five minutes later,
Just on the road where you can see the black smoke coming out of the orc camp's cooking when you turn your head!
Just four or five kilometers away from the orc camp,
The entire Ace Squad was suddenly ambushed!!
Extremely fierce ambush!!
The last time the Ace Squad was ambushed was in the 2012 World Destruction world. That battle was extremely tragic. Mogansha died! Reef, Zi, and Sanzai were almost all beaten into near death. If it weren't for luck, even团灭 would be normal!
This time they face a premeditated ambush again, what kind of response will they make?