Chapter 547 Good News and Bad News

Cavemen are commonly known as blind people.

A simple and clear summary: these guys can't see anything even if you stand in front of them.

However, being blind doesn't mean they can't do anything. In a dark place like the underground city, most underground creatures don't use their eyes to find enemies.

In addition, these blind people have another very important feature, which is that, like the big-eared monsters in the base, their number is exaggerated to an astonishing degree.

As long as Moriel is willing to invest millions of blind people, she can find out all the underground passages clearly.

The underground world is also dangerous. Not to mention the natural traps everywhere, even underground creatures are often easily trapped without pathfinding.

The second is wild monsters, whose alert range is 100 meters.

Because of the special environment of the underground city, most underground creatures can't find wild monsters outside the range of 100 meters.

Including Xu Lai, let alone his dark vision, even if the underground is brightly lit, he still can't find it.

Because you may turn a hole and directly encounter the group of wild monsters.

However, if someone explores the way ahead, the threat of wild monsters can still be avoided.

But this group of cavemen is impossible, because they are used to explore the way.

With the physical fitness of cavemen, as long as the wild monsters are not the same cavemen, they can basically bully them.

Therefore, if no one leads the team, just send cavemen out, be prepared for heavy losses.

Cavemen are different from big-eared monsters. Big-eared monsters can also be used as food reserves for orcs after they die.

Cavemen are underground mushroom growers. Without cavemen, there will not be so many mushrooms, and there will be no way to feed too many underground creatures, and even carnivorous scorpions and dragons will starve to death.

Just like the imperial camp, civilians have basically no combat power, but they are the most important foundation of such a large empire.

Muriel is a woman, and a particularly petty woman.

After suffering such a big loss at the hands of Xu Lai, she would never give up.

Xu Lai was also mentally prepared to be found by the other party, but according to his plan, he originally planned to kill Aini in one go.

Giving Aini a chance to recuperate will inevitably increase the difficulty of future sieges.

In this situation, Aini should not be able to abandon the castle and run away, and Xu Lai will not be given the opportunity to take a city with a small number of troops.

Fortunately, Xu Lai did not impulsively attack the city this month.

Instead, he spent a very long time and cost, first of all, land policies and tax policies to stabilize the people's hearts and merchants.

Secondly, he took advantage of the bounty event to reshuffle the entire city, and cleaned up the mercenaries, thieves, assassins and dignitaries who were capable of resisting and creating chaos.

After this action, in addition to the more than 15,000 people Jimmy currently commanded, the new legion will soon be expanded to 20,000 people.

Xu Lai also left a security team in the city, as well as a castle guard composed of recruited soldiers under the management of Lin Qiu.

The security team is responsible for suppressing people's livelihood, and the castle guard is responsible for guarding and monitoring the servants left in the castle.

Xu Lai also replaced the leaders of all the villages and towns outside the city, and cleaned up the troops of the original village chiefs.

Xu Lai didn't dare to say that he only promised a little benefit to those heroes who fell from the sky, and they would definitely be loyal to him.

But at least, Xu Lai really gave them benefits, and their current status was snatched from Aini.

If Aini wanted to bribe them, he would have to pay a much higher price than Xu Lai.

Even so, those heroes who fell from the sky would have doubts in their hearts.

They had been in contact with Aini for some time. Now that he was willing to give benefits, he didn't know how to deal with these traitors in the future.

So, although he failed to stabilize the rear as he had imagined, he could attack the entire grassland with peace of mind.

But his work in this month should also be effective, and at worst, Aini should not be able to recapture Conaston Castle.

Of course, if he and his Qingfeng City were destroyed by Moril, then the heroes who had followed Xu Lai in the rebellion before, such as Mohan, Hancock, etc., would probably not have a good end.

But at that time, Xu Lai himself would be gone, so how could he care about their lives.

The teleportation array was connected, and it was easy for Xu Lai to return to Qingfeng City.

However, the teleportation array of Qingfeng City had just been set up, and the teleportation array of Mingyue City was definitely not set up in time.

For such a large teleportation array, Xu Lai did not provide an assistant for the mage.

Ordinary mages were not valued by others, and space mages were really hard to find.

Mages also need to rest, especially for such a large teleportation array project, which was done alone.

The consumption of physical strength, energy, and even mana was extremely huge. If you don't take a good rest for a while, be careful of sudden death on the teleportation array of Mingyue City.

Secondly, Mingyue City, Xu Lai still wants to keep it secret for the time being, after all, this magician was invited by the people of the Aini family.

Xu Lai still needs to continue to observe and continue to win over.

Besides, Mingyue City is not far from Qingfeng City.

A few miles out of the city is the underground passage, and with the speed of Xu Lai and others' fast horses, it will only take 3 or 4 minutes.

After going down the underground passage, you have to walk a longer distance, and the underground environment is not good, so it will take more time even with navigation skills.

But it was just a few minutes of extra walking, which was nothing at all.

For such a short distance, it really didn't make much difference whether there was a teleportation array or not.

After hurriedly greeting Su Ya and the others, Xu Lai didn't even bother to take a look at the luxurious auction house that was about to be completed, and the new trading market outside the city.

The main frame of the auction house had been built long ago, but the interior decoration alone took a full month, and only most of it has been completed so far.

The construction workers in Qingfeng City only helped to build the house, such as gardening with plant pruning, carving marble sculptures, and so on.

The decoration from the outside to the inside was handled by the so-called masters invited by Wei Yihong and the merchants who had invested.

It is said that the decoration is very luxurious, at least it is much more comfortable than the castle built entirely of huge stones.

Xu Lai was quite interested, but he didn't have the time.

After greeting, Xu Lai only instructed two things.

The first was to ask Su Ya and others to help place the spoils brought back from Conaston.

Among them are the God-given body and the spoils looted from the Aini family castle. The valuable ones all returned with Xu Lai on the teleportation array.

The rest will follow the Qingfeng City transport team that transports stones and wood, and return under the protection of the Qingfeng City caravan guards and mercenaries.

Things like gold coins and rare resources should be stored in the warehouse and used.

And treasures like the God-given body were placed in the Griffin Fortress.

Xu Lai's angels are very powerful, but the number is a little unsatisfactory.

What he is worried about now is not Earl Aini and his noble subordinates, but the orcs who have always coveted the grassland stronghold.

The orcs still have a flying legion.

Even if that legion cannot be moved, they can still use the power of the entire wilderness to quickly replenish new flying troops.

At that time, he will be outnumbered, and no matter how strong his angels are, they will be dragged to death by the orcs.

Therefore, Xu Lai needs to increase the number of flying troops, even if he is a scapegoat for the angels, there must be enough to support it.

The second thing is to let Jian Yuan summon all the scouts and cartographers who have the ability to draw maps to collect the boxes of underground city maps that Xu Lai brought from Conaston.

There must be many duplicates in these boxes of maps.

But before collecting these maps, Xu Lai had already checked them once, and there were definitely no maps that were exactly the same.

Moreover, these maps may not be accurate, especially some small maps. If there are no important cities and unique landmarks, no one can be sure where they are.

However, with these large boxes of maps, plus the ones collected by Jian Yuan, Su Ya and others in Qingfeng City, there must be some clues.

Although this work does not require physical effort, it is particularly mentally demanding, and a large amount of relevant information must be consulted to verify the maps.

Therefore, this is not a job that can be completed in a short period of time.

The good news is that as the reputation of Qingfeng City spreads, there are more and more talents in Qingfeng City now.

Not only are there many learned mages, but there are also well-informed scholars, as well as special talents such as cartographers.

With these people, this job is difficult, but it can always be completed.

After explaining these two things, Xu Lai took Elvy and Giselle to the underground city together.

If Muriel wants to attack Qingfeng City, then Mingyue City is inevitable.

If Xu Lai wants to deploy defenses and fight with Muriel, Mingyue City must be more suitable.

There are no civilian buildings there. Even if the entire city is destroyed, as long as he wins, Xu Lai will only lose some materials and supplies.

These things can be bought with money.

Unlike Qingfeng City, the population, commerce, and agriculture here have been accumulated slowly over nearly a year.

If there are losses due to the war, the losses will be immeasurable.

It is not enough to bring only his own guards and the two groups of phantom shooters that Giselle has trained hard. Even if the city is exposed, Xu Lai can only let Reina drive the Qingfeng Legion into the underground.

In addition to the troops, after Xu Lai entered the underground city, he also asked Bello to stop transporting stones to Qingfeng City.

For the time being, all the ore resources must be transported to Mingyue City, one as a reserve material for repairing the city wall, and the other to make stone bullets and prepare ammunition for catapults.

"What is the situation now?"

Xu Lai hurried, and he had to explain to the leaders and responsible persons at all levels of the two cities.

When he arrived at the underground city, it was already afternoon.

Compared with the intelligence he obtained in the morning, more than half a day had passed.

"One good news, one bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" Yu Lan blinked and asked playfully.

During this month, Su Ya had to manage Qingfeng City, and Giselle would occasionally come to accompany her at night.

Yu Lan and others have been stationed in this dark Mingyue City for a long time, which is really boring.

But seeing that she is still in the mood to joke, I think the situation is not particularly bad.

Xu Lai couldn't bear to ruin Yu Lan's mood, and asked cooperatively: "Listen to the bad news first, so that I can be mentally prepared."

Yu Lan pouted, and although she was not very satisfied, she still replied: "The bad news is that through the Eye of Investigation, we found a huge number of cavemen, at least tens of thousands.

This is just a rough guess. There are too many things, and the tunnels are not like the city where magic lights can be arranged. We really can't count them, so we can only make a rough estimate.

With such a large number, Reina, Dill and others all agree that the existence of Mingyue City will inevitably be discovered by these cavemen."

"This is an inevitable war, and I have been mentally prepared for it, so it is not bad news."

Xu Lai didn't care too much after hearing this, but smiled and comforted a few people.

Sure enough, after Xu Lai finished speaking, Reina, who had been tense, relaxed a little.

She stood up and saluted, saying, "This is my fault. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have offended Muriel.

You have such a beautiful and excellent city. I shouldn't have encouraged you to offend Muriel for my personal grudge."

Reina was somewhat regretful. She and Muriel were of course mortal enemies, and Xu Lai had to pay an appropriate price to gain her true loyalty.

But because of this, Qingfeng City, a thriving city, was implicated, where countless civilians who had lost their land and living materials were reborn.

Reina always regretted and felt guilty, and was a little bit uneasy about Xu Lai getting angry.

Xu Lai smiled and shook his head at Lena, saying, "No, it's not your fault.

If you had concealed something from me and caused the current consequences, I might have thought it was your fault.

But you told me both the good and bad situations, and didn't hide anything.

So, this is the decision I made after careful consideration, and it has nothing to do with you."

After that, Xu Lai didn't give Lena a chance to continue speaking, and said to Yu Lan, "Then what's the good news?"

Yu Lan blinked and smiled, "The good news is that we have calculated the speed at which the Detection Eye discovered those cavemen.

It will take at least a week for these cavemen to discover Mingyue City. If If we go slowly, it may take more than a month.

After all, there are so many forks in the middle, and many of them are not explored by you at the beginning. "

"One week to more than a month? That's plenty of time, which is good news."

Xu Lai nodded and continued: "Since this battle is inevitable, we should go all out for this battle. Moriel is not an easy opponent to deal with.

As the saying goes, knowing yourself and the enemy will ensure victory in every battle. The first thing we need to know is Moriel's specific information.

Including her level, expertise, treasures, abilities, troops, etc. "

After that, Xu Lai turned his eyes to Reina.

Among the people present, Reina was the most familiar with Moriel, although she was familiar with Moriel more than 50 years ago. (End of this chapter)