Chapter 692 Continue to Play (Additional Updates for Monthly Tickets of 1,300)
Gulu feels so hungry.
"Damn Bilbo, damn the halfling, Gollum! Gollum!" he vomited, throwing the indigestible moss to the ground. There is nothing to eat in the Shadow Mountains, only gray moss, moss that is more edible than charcoal and sand! "Meat! Bones! My baby..."
He bent down and used his hands and feet to quickly jump from one rock to the back of another. When he heard the movement, he lifted the stone with his slender gray fingers. A black scorpion made its home under the rock. Feeling threatened, it raised its pincers and tail stinger.
Gulu threw the rock hard and broke the scorpion's tail. He pinned the scorpion down with rocks to prevent it from escaping, and then began to think of ways to deal with the pincers. The hungry creature bit its lip and breathed rapidly, its nostrils opening and closing, its eyes filled with rage.
The scorpion that lost its pincers quickly disappeared into Gulu's mouth, not even a drop of juice remaining. At this moment, a strange sound of footsteps came from the distance.
Gulu immediately lowered his body, looked left and right nervously, and then put his ears to the ground. This time he heard it more clearly, not one but a group of creatures were surrounding him from all directions. They are extremely fast and can move quickly on rocks and dirt. A sense of panic hit him, and Gulu began to look for hiding places everywhere.
That scorpion just now! It was a small gap, and Gulu quickly opened it up with his hands. You can get in in a while, then cover it with rocks and hide!
But Jumping Dog's extraordinary speed, with its strong muscle groups and abundant energy supply cells, allowed them to approach Gollum quickly, completely exceeding its expectations. When the footsteps approached, the hole dug by Gulu was only big enough to put two legs in, and half of the body was still outside. There was no way to hide it!
He picked up the stone next to him, held it tightly in his hand and raised it above his head, gritting his six remaining teeth, ready to fight. It was only then that he saw clearly the appearance of the jumping dog: not to mention the sharp teeth, there were only two spear-like bone spurs on the back, which were much longer than his own arms. If a fight breaks out, the body will be pierced by the opponent before the stone in his hand has hit him.
The jumping dogs worked together as one, surrounded him and straightened their bone spurs, forming a ring of "gun forest", completely restricting Gulu's ability to move. Gulu's huge eyes stared at the sharp bone spurs that had reached under his neck. He breathed rapidly and suddenly burst into tears. The stone slipped from his hand, and it wanted to fall to the ground and try to escape.
The bone spurs didn't move at all, directly holding his neck, preparing to pierce his throat. Gulu clamped his legs tightly and quickly stood up again. He didn't dare to cry anymore because he already knew that crying was useless. This cunning guy is about to test the other party. If the spear moves away when he falls to the ground, it means that the other party cares about his life and death, and he has the capital to threaten him. But now it seems that the owners of these monsters have a need to capture themselves alive, but it is not indispensable.
"We will go with you, and we will be very good..." Gulu put on a flattering expression, and his big eyes kept blinking: "But we are very hungry, can you take us away?"
A jumping dog put away its bone spurs and stepped forward, lowering its body to let Gulu climb up. Springtails have many hard, spiny carapaces on their backs and are not suitable for riding. But Gulu didn't seem to care about these details, and his skin was unusually tough, as if there was a layer of calluses on the surface that couldn't be broken.
As long as you can keep tracking Gollum, catching him has never been difficult. Zhao Mai believes that Jumping Dog and the Chimera spacecraft can complete this job by themselves. What troubled him was the army of ghouls sent by the goblins, as well as the orc troops coming from north to south. The two will approach Zhao Mai's territory one after another, and Goblin and Sauron also cast their eyes over respectively.
In terms of the integrity of the ghoul's body, this huge group of guys is just a wave of consumables. The phenomenon of missing arms and legs is very common, and injuries to the chest, abdomen and jaw are common. These ghouls lack the ability to eat, so it is difficult to maintain the ghoul fever epidemic on their bodies. Their contagiousness is relatively weak, and their tactical value is also reduced. What's more, the undead will always have a negative impact on the living. Even the goblin's men will collapse if there are ghouls nearby for a long time. Plague and disease will cause them to collapse. So sooner or later the goblins would send out ghouls to "charge a wave", but Zhao Mai didn't expect there would be such a large number.
The orcs from the north are the first batch of strong orc warriors to return victoriously. They followed the commanders and war chiefs to attack, and they must have taken a lot of advantage from humans and elves. The watchdogs could see the carts carrying the loot in their ranks, driven and tended by countless slaves. These can stimulate more orcs to join the army and join the wave of conquest and plunder.
If Zhao Mai hadn't intervened, Gulu would have run into these two armies. Judging from the speed of advancement, the goblins are more likely to find Gollum. "Is this an arrangement of the world's will to let Gollum fall into the hands of the goblins?"
The surveillance bug reported that "Gulu has been arrested and is being escorted back", and the will of the dark world in Zhao Mai suddenly weakened a lot, indicating that his "importance" was decreasing. To put it another way, Zhao Mai is already prepared and "may die at any time" so that Gulu can continue on his original journey and fall into the control of the goblins "smoothly".
The will of the world itself will not kill people, whether it is a natural disaster or a killer. Even if Sauron suddenly appears in front of him now, it is still difficult to really kill Zhao Mai. Zhao Mai's only worry is that the will of the world will regard Xiaohua and the reserve grain as one with him. After all, these are considered "crew members", and even backtracking can be avoided together.
After sending jumping dogs to protect the food reserves, and having more than three surveillance bugs following him at any time and at any time, and prohibiting the two of them from leaving the sight, Zhao Mai could calm down and think about how to deal with the situation at hand. It is not too difficult for him to kill all the ghouls by himself, but this can no longer be explained by "rationality", and it will inevitably expose his own strength. Moreover, his current "full map" investigation ability is already extraordinary. Before the ghouls came, he led the orcs in formation to attack them. This was unreasonable.
"Before it's time to show your cards, the pig will continue to pretend." Zhao Mai rolled his eyes twice and immediately had an idea. "Order: Workers and worms start taking action immediately, dig underground fortifications on the west side of Blackfoot Fortress, and then use landslides to open the entrance. The style of the fortress is mainly humans, supplemented by dwarves, as long as they can deceive the orcs. It must be within two days It’ll be done within!”
For two days, the ghoul army kept moving day and night, and they were just able to reach the control boundary of the Blackfoot settlement. But there will be other settlements along the way, and it is impossible for the ghoul to ignore them. The monitoring bugs have been paying attention to their movements, and Zhao Mai can adjust the progress of the project at any time.
Use tunnel warfare methods to limit the enemy's ability to expand, concentrate forces, and create favorable terrain for fighting. The sudden appearance of the fortress due to a landslide can only mean that the Blackfoot tribe is lucky. As long as he survives the ghoul army and preserves his precious vitality, the situation in the south of Mordor will still be under Zhao Mai's control.