Chapter 1273 The Devil’s Plan

Ten hours ago, it received a report that there was an abnormal noise and a huge fireball in the direction of the wolf's heart, and a supply force suffered heavy losses. At that time, it was still in a city in the west of Everwinter, accepting the allegiance of the human lord.

To be honest, Hackzord didn't want to pay attention to such a trivial matter. If the reporter hadn't repeatedly mentioned the strangeness and unusual destructive power of the explosion, it would not have planned to come in person.

Dealing with humans is enough to annoy it, but it is the only one on the entire Western Front that can do that. Not every subordinate is as smart as Ersluk, and they always learn something useful or useless - most of the promoted people regard humans as bugs, let alone learn their language.

Its generals are no exception. They are all loyal and have undoubted abilities, but they are limited to fighting. If you let these guys negotiate with humans, they will violently tear each other into pieces in less than half a day.

However, human beings are creatures that are extremely easy to tame. Although this group has a weak personality, their brains are very good. In the early stages of development, they can take over the work of many inferior beings. It is not in the interest of the group to eliminate them all.

Ultimately, this is all Vakiris's fault.

It was originally the king who was the best at this, but now it is still soaking in the mayfly pond. Hykezord always feels that his patience is getting closer to the bottom line.

But when it flew over Fang City, it immediately realized that something was wrong.

The floating water in the city seemed very thin, as if it had been cleaned up by something. The city was in a mess, with washed-out houses and charred wooden frames everywhere.

After the team descended, Hykezord found that the ground was exuding warmth, and a pungent smell hit his face.

It quickly found the source of the flavor.

A group of weird-looking inferior beings were curled up and frozen on the street. Their skin had turned black and fallen off, and they were obviously burned to death by the fire. But the strange thing is that there are no obvious fire starters around the inferior bodies. Apart from masonry and mud, it is difficult to imagine how the flames burned them.

And there is more than one such scene.

"Totorok, you and your men will each take ten people to search for the movements of the human army. If you find anything, report it to me immediately."

"Obey my master."

"Siasis, investigate what is going on and find out if there are any guys alive."

"Yes, sir."

The promoted person quickly took the order and left, while Hykezord walked slowly along the long street towards the North District, the most severely damaged area of ​​the city.

According to the report, what was attacked was a supply team of inferior bodies. These poor people who could never be promoted were at the bottom of the group and were equivalent to laborers or slaves among humans. They were responsible for transporting a batch of obsidian stones and secondary ephemera ponds into Fang City in order to build a camp here for newly ascended bodies or advanced people to rest.

This can also be seen from the wreckage at the site. Cut and impregnated obsidian is scattered everywhere, and some inferior bodies even still maintain the appearance of when they were transported. The lack of signs of fighting meant that humans did not have direct contact with the supply team. The battle broke out very suddenly and ended extremely quickly.

Therefore, it is reasonable to infer that the other party has set a trap here, rather than gathering an army under the nose of the Boglewing Beast. Totorok's search is likely to yield nothing.

But the more this happened, the more frightened the Lord of the Sky was. It would rather enemies come in groups, that way it would at least be easier to detect. Hykezord doesn't care about the life and death of the inferiors, but there is no room for error in the Western Front campaign. If a trap like this is hit by the main force, the consequences will be unimaginable.

There is no doubt that the enemy used "fire" as a means of attack - Hykezord is no stranger to fire. In the past battles of divine will, they also used flames to capture human cities. It's just that life mayflies don't like high temperatures, so they are rarely seen in the community.

This was the first time it had seen the flames that could burn inferior beings to death from a distance.

Unless the whole city is turned into a giant furnace.

But how is this possible?

If humans have such means, they must let the king know that the Western Front is in danger.

Wait...fire?

A picture suddenly flashed through Hykezord's mind - it was the scene he saw when searching for Kabradabi's memory in the consciousness world. An extremely bright fireball suddenly opened up, just like the rising sun. Same.

Could it be that... what Kabradabi saw at that time was exactly this kind of flame weapon?

It couldn't help but feel a chill arise spontaneously.

Just as the Lord of the Sky was in shock and confusion, Siasis's voice suddenly interrupted its thoughts, "Sir, the basic situation has been ascertained. There are a total of 350 inferior bodies in this supply team, and there are also ten A protozoan has come to provide protection for it. No survivors have been found yet, but I think I have figured out the methods of those bugs."

"Oh? Tell me."

"plz follow me."

Hykezord followed Siasis and flew near the northern city wall. Some protozoans were digging for something. Around them, there were a pile of dark metal fragments scattered around. Farther away, several siege vehicles were lying on the side of the road. Since the successful cultivation of more powerful and flexible symbiotes, these old-fashioned war machines have become specialized transportation tools.

"Look," Siasis stretched out his tentacles and grabbed a fragment from the ground. There were obvious signs of melting at the fracture. "If you put them together, they should be a container. And such things are lined up along the edge of the city. There are almost hundreds of them. I think the bugs probably filled them with snow powder and combustibles, intending to cut off the supply team's back route, and then take advantage of the chaos to launch an attack."

Since fighting against humans, the weapons they use are no longer unfamiliar. In the process of chasing each other, Hykezord also captured a lot. Whether it is "Fire Branch" or "Fire Crossbow", they all use explosive materials such as snow powder as primers. Compared with magic-driven weapons, it is obviously much more complicated. Because of this, most of the structures of those weapons are very exquisite, which is a skill that was not seen four hundred years ago.

"How could it cause so much damage if it was just an ordinary flame?"

"Sir, I'm afraid this flame is not ordinary. At least the temperature is much higher than ordinary flowing fire. But even so, it cannot kill all inferior beings from a distance. I think the key point may be those siege vehicles."

"What do you mean?" Hykezord asked. Siasis is a psychic, and most of the promoted people who evolved from this branch have keen observation skills. This is why the Lord of the Sky sent it to investigate the battlefield.

"When the snow powder was detonated, it probably affected the siege engines that were passing through the city gate at that time - the latter are usually used to transport heavy objects, either in mayfly ponds or storage tanks. The high temperature caused them to deflagrate and further intensified the It caused the disintegration of the life mayflies here." The other party's rapidly swinging tentacles kept hissing, "You know, when the temperature reaches a certain level, anything can be ignited, including us."

Siasis' explanation made Hykezord relax a little. Regardless of whether the big explosion was a coincidence, at least the huge iron bucket fragments made it feel at ease. The need to bury a large number of traps in advance and being able to project them at any time are completely different concepts. As long as strict precautions are taken later, this kind of trap will hardly pose a threat to large forces in the wild.

Of course, it also knows that it is not easy to quickly inspect a human city - prohibiting the close transportation and stacking of mayfly ponds and storage tanks cannot completely eliminate this threat. It does not believe that simple-minded protozoa alone can This can be done with inferior bodies.

The most effective method is to use humans themselves.

"Sir, what should we do next?"

"Slow down the speed of entering the city and let humans check it for us," Hykezord quickly made a decision. "There is no way to send more inferior bodies from other places for the time being. For this loss, let Xueying Castle come to In addition, I think Earl Marvin will be happy to serve me."

"In addition, didn't we capture some enemy weapons?" The Lord of the Sky paused, "There are many nobles who seem to hate the people of Graycastle, so let's leave it to them to try."