Volume 18, Chapter 212: The Snipe and the Clam Fight
Chapter 212 The snipe and the clam fight
Seeing the group of Russians approaching the camp, I quickly stopped my plan to sneak into the cave.
Although I had never met them before, I guessed the identity of this group of people immediately. Needless to say, these guys must be the second echelon led by Joseph that Mage and Cook mentioned. Judging from the looks of them, they should have taken care of the group of monsters that Cook had led to before, but the price they paid for it seemed a bit high.
I heard from the Master and Big Bear before that although the team led by Joseph is not as large as theirs, it should have more than three or four hundred people. However, the team I found now has less than 200 people left. It looks like there are still many wounded in the team. In general games, unless you are fighting, you rarely see the wounded. After all, there are healing spells, and you may not be able to treat them in time due to various reasons during the battle. After the war, you must have cured all those who can. Under normal circumstances, if there are wounded people in a team that breaks away from the battle, there are only a few situations. Either the mage who knows healing spells has died and the medicine has been exhausted, otherwise the mage must have insufficient mana.
Cook had led the monsters to the second echelon before, so they must have gone through a fierce battle that left everyone injured. However, seeing as there are many healing professions in their team, the first possibility does not exist. I judged that they were probably because of the second possibility - the mage did not have enough mana, and they were worried that it would take too long to catch up with the first echelon, so they only gave everyone simple treatment to ensure that the wounds would not worsen.
After the personnel in "Zero" lose blood in battle, they will not slowly recover blood no matter what the situation like in other games, but it will depend on the degree of injury. If the injury is minor, even without treatment, the wound will disappear automatically as time goes by, and the health points will be quickly restored to full. If the injury is moderate, the injured person's wound will not recover, but the health will slowly recover at a very slow rate. The recovery rate will not reach the level until the health is restored to meet the minor injury standard. normal levels, and the wound will begin to heal. Of course, using healing spells to restore moderate injuries to minor injuries can speed up recovery. Finally, if the injury is serious, the situation is more serious. In this state, not only will the character not automatically regain health, but it will continue to lose health due to bleeding from the wound, and may even die in the end. If you don't receive treatment in this situation, you will basically have to wait to die.
The people in the second echelon who had just arrived were obviously all treated to a state of minor injuries, but they were not fully cured because the healing mage did not have enough mana.
Although they looked a little embarrassed when they ran over without healing their injuries, the efforts of this second echelon were not in vain. At least they got here before the first echelon entered the underground passage. But I can't guess what they plan to do next, but one thing is for sure, that is, it is absolutely impossible for me to use the second echelon to attack the first echelon.
Judging from what the mage and Big Bear had discussed before, Joseph, the leader of the second echelon, should be a very wise man. Although he really wants to get some benefits from this mission, he understands the priorities of the matter very well. Therefore, if I come out to cooperate with them now, the biggest possibility is not that I and the second echelon attack the first echelon together, but The two teams ganged up on me. And if I don't meet with the people in the second echelon, there is a greater chance that they will fall out among themselves. In this case, I would be an idiot if I stood up.
Now that the second echelon has appeared, I simply stopped planning to go into the cave to study it. Since they want to enter, let them enter. If they can bypass the first team and successfully sneak into the cave, then I will follow them down to see what their mission is. It would be better if they were discovered. Then I could take advantage of the conflict between the two teams and sneak in to explore the situation in the cave. In short, the best way now is to stand still and wait for Joseph to take action first. I will see the effect before deciding on the next move.
In fact, Joseph didn't let me wait long. His people quickly reached the first echelon, and then started to approach the cave entrance cautiously like thieves. When he was close to the point where he could no longer get closer without being discovered, a mage in the second echelon suddenly began to move to the side of the hillside, and then he carefully climbed behind a large stone. When I was wondering what this guy wanted to do, he suddenly took out a packet of powder from his body and placed it under the stone, and then carefully ignited the powder with a miniature fireball technique.
The powder was obviously specially processed. It did not deflagrate after being ignited. Instead, it burned slowly like mosquito coils and released a large amount of light blue smoke. Although the pile of powder was placed behind the rock, the smoke was not blocked by a rock. It quickly followed the airflow and flowed around the rock towards the first echelon camp below.
Although I don't know what the guy lit, but looking at the posture, the smoke is very likely to have hypnotic and anesthetic effects. Sure enough, as soon as I thought about the effect of the smoke, the guards on the outside of the first echelon began to shake. They realized that something was wrong with themselves and wanted to turn around and call someone, but they fell down one after another before they could even shout out as they stood up from the ground. The guards located in other directions of the camp had their backs to the inside of the camp, so no one noticed that the guards here had been knocked down. By the time the other guards noticed something was wrong, they had no time to call the police, and soon the entire camp was covered in smoke.
After seeing all the guards fall, the smoking mage came out from behind the stone and waved to the others. Then the people in the second echelon ran out of their hiding places and tiptoed through the camp carefully. 'Touch' around that hole. Judging from their actions, these guys' 80% potency of the smoke was not very strong, so they did not dare to make any move even after the other party was stunned.
After seeing all the more than 100 people in the second echelon entering the cave, I also flew up from the hillside where I was hiding. The Russians in the second echelon never imagined that the smoke they released would help me a lot. Since everyone in the camp was fascinated, I didn't even need to sneak, and just flew invisibly to the entrance of the cave. Although my invisibility ability will have flaws while moving, everyone here is now obsessed. Even if I don't turn on my invisibility, no one will notice me. It's just a precaution.
I heard that the second echelon of people in the cave had already gone very far, so I followed them in carefully. I want to see what is in here. They actually let the Russians use their large forces to attract our attention, but instead sent two small teams to do the task.