Starting From Zero

Chapter 102 Taking Advantage of the Situation

After a busy day, everyone was a little overwhelmed, so I asked them to log off early. I'll stay and wait until past 12 o'clock! Of course, I can't just stand there and wait around. I will take this time to have a good chat with the acting army commander, mainly to ask about the way out!

The news I received from the legion commander made me quite disappointed! At first, I heard him say that besides the road we came in, there were two exits. I expected to bypass Nilan City and leave directly! Now when I asked in detail, I realized it was not as simple as I thought! The Death Mountain does have multiple exits, but among these roads, only three are relatively spacious and suitable for large groups to pass, and the others are very narrow! And except for the one we took when we came in, the other two roads all lead to other countries!

The shorter of these two roads can be 'inserted' directly into Switzerland, while the other road is dozens of kilometers long and leads all the way to France! If I give up the way I came, I can indeed bypass Nilan City, but why enter those two countries?

Switzerland is friendly to any country, but it is a landlocked country. Do you want me to take millions of troops to climb mountains in Switzerland? France is worse! Although France has a long coastline, the French and the Germans are mortal enemies. The French saw it last time when the Iron Cross fleet took us to Germany. This time we will definitely be immediately attacked when we suddenly appear in France. Arousing suspicion, it would be even worse if he started working with the French guilds!

I'm not afraid of the French! After all, I have several million troops with me. Although most of them are low-level skeletons, there are nearly 300,000 regular troops. These 100-level armies will definitely be one-sided against players, and there is no possibility of massive casualties. My main concern is the future. We have not really had a conflict with French players. Players from the two countries are still neutral to each other. The French react poorly to us now because we are together with their enemy the Germans! If we can avoid any friction with the French players during this trip to Europe and give them some benefits later, the relationship between the players of the two countries will be easily restored. The Iron Crusaders have been very enthusiastic and kind to us so far, but as the saying goes, you must not have the intention to harm others, and you must have the intention to guard against others! Relations on the European side cannot be hung on the tree of Germany. Bringing France in can help you find a way out! If we blindly rely on the Iron Crusaders, our future European operations will become quite troublesome if they are causing trouble behind our backs. Therefore, the French are still angry this time, so it would be better for us not to provoke them.

As for the few small roads, they are similar. One is relatively close to Austria, the other is farther to Italy, and there is actually one that leads to Slovenia. There is no second road to Germany at all!

After much deliberation, I couldn't go either way, which meant I had to go back the same way! The problem is that Nilan City of the Women's Federation is still blocked there, and I really don't want to give the tower to them!

"Master!" Ling came over and patted me on the shoulder. "It's past midnight!"

"Oh! Got it!" I stood up and walked to the nearby treasure warehouse. He opened the space door and placed it next to the treasure, then turned around and said to Ling: "Move them all in. Don't let the four giant dragons know about it. Just ask the Dark Iron Cavalry to help!"

"Don't worry, Master!" Ling turned around and ran to call someone back for help.

I came to the four giant dragons, and they were still playing with the treasures they had collected. When they saw me coming, they were so frightened that they quickly put their things away and turned around to run away! "All four of you, come here!" The four dragons were frozen in the air as they prepared to escape! "Come here, don't waste time!"

With a whoop, four dragons appeared in front of me instantly. "What are your orders, Master?"

"You four picked up a lot of things this morning, right?"

Upon hearing my words, the four dragons visibly trembled. "Just a little, just a little!" The four dragons shook their heads desperately and remained modest.

"I have two pieces of news to tell you, one good and one bad. Which one do you want to hear first?"

"Bad!" Lucky shouted out first.

Seeing that the other three dragons had no objection, I continued: "Okay! Let me tell you the bad news first! The bad news is that I need to check your treasures and may need to take back some of them!" Before the four dragons started to complain, I immediately continued: "The good news is that I have a lot of treasures to give you. The number is definitely more than what you have collected!"

The expressions of the four dragons kept changing as I spoke. It was cloudy when I was called together. After hearing the bad news, it immediately turned from cloudy to heavy rain. But as soon as the good news came out, the heavy rain stopped and turned to bright sunshine! Four misers!

Finally, under my coercion and inducement, the four dragons obediently handed over all the treasures they had in their bodies. I picked them up one by one and looked at them. There were quite a lot of them, and any equipment would be confiscated! But instead of having any objection, the dragons enthusiastically hoped that I would take more. The reason is that I promised them that I would pay them back ten times as much as I took now when I go back!

After I finished picking things, it was almost dawn, so I just had to go offline to have a meal before coming back up. Everyone was there when it came back online.

"Are we ready to go?" Rose asked me while counting the troops.

"Yes, yes, but there are some things that need to be decided first!"

"What's going on?"

I called everyone together and said: "I talked with the NPC leader here last night. Not only does the Death Mountain not only have one entrance as we thought at the beginning, but there are many entrances!"

"Isn't that just right? We can bypass Nilan City and go out somewhere else!"

"But the problem is that the other passages all lead to different countries. This is basically the connection point of many countries!"

Su Mei asked: "Which countries specifically?"

"Some trails are not suitable for so many of us to pass, mainly the two major roads mentioned yesterday. One of them leads to Switzerland, and the other leads to France."

Su Mei quickly replied: "Switzerland has no coastline, so it's useless to go in. If we go to France, it's better to break into Niland City for safety. We'd better return the way we came!"

"I agree with Su Mei's point of view!" Rose nodded.

"I agree too!" Qing Wu and Da Guofan shouted at the same time.

"Since we're already halfway through, there's no need to take a stand! Let's turn around and go back!" In the end, we still felt like turning around!

The way back was much easier, mainly because there was no interference from illusions. Nilan arrived soon, and saw plumes of black smoke rising from the city in the distance! This is the inevitable result of industrialization. Big industry brings high pollution! As he walked, the poisoner suddenly realized that something was wrong. "Boss, that doesn't seem to be a factory smoking!"

Shura Ziyi also said: "It looks like something is burning. If it is a factory, the smoke will be too big!"

"Could it be that Nilan was attacked?"

The big pot of rice shook his head and said: "Isn't Nilan known as the best in the world in terms of defense? Who could beat them so stupidly? Besides, they are girls and they can't do it! Oops! Why are you beating me ruthlessly?"

"Stop making trouble! You guys walk slowly behind, I'll go check on the situation first!"

"I want to go too!" The people behind shouted almost at the same time.

I hugged Su Mei from Xiu Luo Ziyi. "I'll just bring the negotiator with me!" Yeying stopped walking slowly after getting my instructions, raised his hooves and started running!

The two of us quickly arrived next to Nilan, which was still behind the city. There was no one around. Many large mining tools were still running on their own, but there was no one around. It was obvious that everyone was running in a hurry!

Bang! Woo...! boom! Something landed next to me with a sound of wind, and then suddenly exploded. I quickly protected Su Mei in my arms, and the shock wave lifted Ye Ying and me dozens of meters away. We flew into an unknown house, and then it felt like something had broken. The roof suddenly collapsed and buried us alive!

At this time, the battle on the other side of Nilan's city wall was in full swing. The female warrior, their president, was running up and down the city wall directing the battle! Outside the city is a huge army, an army of tens of thousands of people. These troops are constantly rushing towards the city wall. Behind the army, hundreds of giant trebuchets are attacking the city with the cooperation of nearly a thousand cannons. Intermittent strikes, the shells that fell next to me just now were obviously the shells of these cannons!

Countless cannonballs were flying above the city wall, and the players below the city were constantly turning into corpses and falling under the city wall, but the war became more and more intense!

Come back to me. An arm suddenly stretched out from the rubble, the bricks slid to both sides, and I stood up from the rubble. "Su Mei? Where are you?"

"Here! Bah! Bah! Oops! My mouth is full of dirt!" Su Mei's voice came from under a pile of rubble next to it!

"Don't worry, I'll get you out right away!" She ran over quickly and threw aside the rubble. Su Mei finally climbed out of the rubble.

I helped her pat the dirt off her body. "Are you okay?"

"Good job! Huh? Where is Ye Ying?"

"Ye Ying?" Then I remembered that Ye Ying was missing! Look around quickly. A pile of rubble not far from me suddenly exploded, and Yeying stood up from inside.

"Fortunately, everything is fine!" Sumei pointed to other buildings near us: "It seems like there is really a war!"

"I see it!"

"Shall we go to the front and take a look?"

"OK!"

Moving towards the front of the city with Su Mei, there were piles of collapsed rubble and burning buildings everywhere along the way. The entire city had basically turned into ruins. It looked like London during World War II in the documentary. It was everywhere. ruins!

The two of us were forced to dismount before we reached the front wall of the city. I sent Ye Ying to the rear of the city to wait for the troops behind to stop them from advancing, while I continued to advance with Su Mei. Because cannonballs and other random things kept falling around us, I had to hold the shield above my head while walking. This would protect us from being blown away by the cannonballs, and at least we could resist the random things flying around. shrapnel!

After finally reaching the bottom of the city wall, I found that the place was already in chaos. All kinds of weird weapons on the city wall were shooting at the outside. Many people below were pushing something similar to a millstone. I don't know what it was for! Seeing our arrival, although many players stared at us strangely, they did not stop. The battle continued, and time did not allow them to stop.

I recognized the female warrior on the top of the city wall at a glance. Her armor was rather strange, an asymmetrical design with only one shoulder pad! The two of us climbed up the city wall and walked directly towards the female warrior. She saw us with sharp eyes.

I saw she noticed us and ran over quickly, but halfway through I suddenly felt something was wrong! The mercury on my body suddenly appeared on my left side to form a shield, and then there was a bang, the shield shattered, and I flew out, but there was no loss of blood! The shock wave knocked me off the wall and directly into the city. Fortunately, I was blocked by a mercury shield!

I flapped my wings and flew up from under the city wall again. This shocked the female warrior. She had never seen anyone who was directly hit by a cannonball and escaped unhurt! I didn't care if she was surprised or not, I just walked over with Su Mei. "We're back! What's going on with you?"

"Huh? Oh! You can tell just by looking at it, someone is attacking the city!"

"Are there many people and trees? What kind of guild is it?"

"It's not a guild, but a guild alliance. There are 7 guilds in total! One guild alone can't have so many people!"

"It looks like your situation is tight!"

"I want you to tell me!"

"Do you need help?"

"You won't help us for free, right?"

"Of course!" I'm not a philanthropist! "If I help you destroy the enemy, don't ask me for that tower anymore!"

"Then we don't need your help! We can defend it ourselves, and at most the losses will be bigger!" The female warrior said angrily. It seemed that she knew that defense was difficult, but she was not willing to trade it with a tower!

If you want to hold on, I have no choice. "Okay! You fight slowly! My army is behind the city, and I will be here to watch you fight. If you figure it out at any time, you can call me at any time!" After saying that, I asked Su Mei to run back first. Let the army prepare at the back of the city, while I walked to the corner of the city wall to see how they fought!

The battle situation was indeed as I imagined, and problems soon began to arise. At first, the two sides still communicated with each other, but since a cannonball from the other side destroyed the big millstone under the city wall, the blue barrier in front of the city wall suddenly disappeared. Without that thing, the other side's infantry immediately disappeared. Climbing the city wall began, and a small number of the opponent's air force also began to attack the city. Enemies were sent into the city in droves!

It's not bad at all to be defeated like a mountain! The players brought into the city by the air force immediately began to attack the city wall in turn. This was completely chaotic. The women's alliance players on the city wall obviously had low combat effectiveness. Soon those giant defensive weapons stopped shooting because Their pilots are being attacked by the enemy!

I saw that the female warrior also joined the offensive and defensive battle at the top of the city. Her combat effectiveness was obviously good. Players outside could not do anything to her, but she alone could not defend the city wall!

Seeing that there are fewer and fewer female alliance players on the city wall, the female warriors are besieged by multiple players. She held her sword in front of her to block an enemy's attack, but more weapons came up, and seven or eight swords were pressed against her own. After all, she was a girl, and her strength was still a bit weak. People pushed me back step by step!

Look at the situation of the battle, it's time for me to do some business! He formed a loudspeaker with his hands and shouted at her: "Do you need help?"

She looked at me hard, then turned around and suddenly pushed all the swords away with great strength. What a brute force! The players who were pushed away leaned back one after another. She went up and killed an enemy, but the others immediately pushed up and forced her back again!

With a loud bang, the city gate finally turned into a pile of powder. A large number of players rushed in from the gate, and it seemed that the city could not be defended!

"Ah!" The female warrior was kicked up by someone else and fell heavily next to me with a bang.

Seeing her rolling on the ground in pain, I didn't help her. Instead, I bent down and looked at her: "Do you need help? Is there a good price?"

She raised her head and looked at me with unwilling eyes, and then looked at the burning city and the girls who were being hunted. The enemies on the wall in front rushed up again. The female warrior was no longer able to fight. As long as those people got here, she would be killed immediately. I could tell she was wavering, but the people in front were already there and she didn't seem to have much time to think.

Suddenly she shouted. "Help us!"

A long spear suddenly stood in mid-air, blocking these seven people in front of her. Of course, this spear was my magic dragon spear! "No problem helping you, but the price has changed!"

"you……?"

"The battle situation was different just now. My help was not in great demand. Now you are destined to lose. The situation is different! I don't ask for much. I will help you if you see that it will benefit you!"

"me……!"

Before she could say anything, the seven people stopped working, and one of them asked: "Which guild do you belong to?"

"Don't make any noise!"

"This kid is not from our guild!" A guy next to him suddenly shouted.

Another person shouted: "There are actually men in the women's union!"

This is the reason why I have stood on the battlefield for so long without fighting with anyone. The guilds outside the siege all know that the Women's League is composed entirely of female players. I am standing here as a man and they all think that I am one of their own. As for the Women's League members, Players, they are defensive. As long as I don't move, they will not attack. Besides, most of them have seen us traveling through the city, so many of them have seen me! Now that they were fighting at close range, they discovered that I was not from the siege party, and several people immediately prepared to attack me!

"Clone!" I swayed and two clones appeared immediately. "Help me stop some of them!"

"A side dish!" The warrior clone smiled, revealing a row of fangs. "Here you go! The game begins!" Shout! 7 people were cut in half without any response!

"Have you thought about it?" With the clones around me, I can concentrate on the negotiation.

"If you help us successfully defend, I am willing to merge the guild into your guild!" the female warrior said desperately.

This answer shocked me! I originally planned to get more benefits, but I didn't expect that she wanted the entire guild to join in! "Are you not mistaken? Being captured means that the guild is disbanded. What is the difference between incorporating the guild and being captured?"

"There is a difference! Our guild just hopes to have a relatively stable research environment, but our combat effectiveness is too low. If we can join a large guild like yours, we will not have these problems. In addition, our guild has many research results , you can continue to study these things after joining your guild, but if they are captured, half of these things will disappear automatically, and the rest will be divided up by others, and we will get nothing!"

"I understand now! Okay! Deal!" I pulled her up and contacted Rose via private message. "All troops attack!"

"clear!"

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