Quadruple split.

Chapter 243 The Return of Xia Lian
next day
Game time PM13:15
North Mesa County, Daggersheath Bridge

A rather large team is advancing slowly. More than a hundred paladins rode at the forefront of the team. Their armor was covered with blood, and some of them were still obviously injured. Still as straight as a javelin, but including those paladins walking on foot at the end of the team, each of them had a trace of unconcealable fatigue on their faces.

This is the fifteenth day since they left Mida City with His Highness the Holy Maiden. For half a month, this team has been going through the process of "destroying mutants, rescuing civilians, escorting civilians, and destroying mutants". , They also liberated two cities that were transformed into a large number of mutants out of thin air like Mida City, and used those two places as their bases for several days. Under the leadership of Xia Lian, the knights continued to go out of the city to nearby places The villages and towns searched for survivors. Although in most cases what they finally found were ruins and a large number of corpses, they also saved hundreds of fresh lives and killed more than a thousand animals in the process. It is impossible to save them. monster.

They kept assigning manpower to escort the civilians, protect the city, and maintain order. There were less than half of the original [-]-strong army left. Among them, [-] paladins were stationed in Gelan City and New Sprout City. The threat there has never been lifted. After all, Xia Lian no longer had the energy to use high-level magic to create a land of gods like before, so she had to try her best to relieve the illness of those infected by the plague and leave some paladins just in case.

As for the remaining one hundred paladins, some of them were escorting civilians to the nearest city on the way, and some of them were maintaining the strongest local armed forces and blockades, villages and towns where there were suspected survivors, and rice Dacheng's contact, and the rest of them...

All died.

Although Xia Lian has a crushing level of combat power, it is difficult for this elf saintess with divine power to cast too many divine spells, so even if she can still kill seven or eight mutants in one cross, she can launch a fearless charge It can break a bloody path, but after all, it is just a powerful super soldier, and there will always be times when it can't be taken care of.

Seemingly powerful without any dead ends, but it is far from being comparable to her before.

You must know that even if Xia Lianzhuye in its heyday just threw out a light-focusing arrow, it would be enough to blow up at least two digits of mutants, and a single [Prayer of Mass Healing] could kill most of the soldiers in a short time. It is no exaggeration to say that even if the tens of thousands of mutants in Misha County are gathered together, as long as Xia Lian is given enough time, she can even wipe out those things all by herself.

But that was all based on the fact that she had never been bullied by the Goddess of Darkness...

However, the reality is that when Xia Lian is fine, there is only the plague, and when something happens to Xia Lian, the mutants will appear. No matter from which point of view, it is a very bad coincidence.

[Is it really just a coincidence?First, several sources of the plague disappeared inexplicably, and then the goddess of darkness came when I cast the great magic spell, and finally those mutants suddenly appeared when I was almost crippled. Is all this really just a coincidence...]

Xia Lian, who was walking in the middle of the line with dozens of refugees, tugged at her ears, thinking with some distress, she was holding the very heavy star-gold cross in one hand, and holding a watch in the other hand. There was a little elf girl in her twenties or thirties. There was a hideous wound on the latter's small hand. Although the bleeding had stopped, it still made the sleeping child groan frequently like a dream.

Xia Lian sighed, and cast a lay on hands technique that had almost no effect, trying to make the girl in her arms sleep more comfortably, and then continued her thinking...

No matter how she thought about it, she felt that this series of events was not simple.

Therefore, according to Her Majesty's thoughts, we can draw the following three conclusions:
First, Xia Lian is a very sensitive person.

Second, there are indeed many bad incidents brewed by accident in this world, and their severity is even worse than various planned, organized and premeditated vicious incidents.

Third, without a script, it would be difficult.

Closer to home...

A few minutes later, a female knight who was sent to investigate the situation half an hour ago returned to the team, got off her horse and quickly ran in front of Xia Lian, saying in a deep voice, "Your Highness, just like before, there is no one around here." Signs of mutant activity."

"Still not?" Xia Lian froze for a moment, and then couldn't help worrying. Their return team hadn't encountered half an enemy for more than half a day, and this result often meant that there was a large-scale gathering of mutants nearby. Phenomena, this is not good news. You must know that there are dozens of civilians who were rescued along the way in this team. Once encountering a large number of mutants, no one has the confidence to take care of everyone in every possible way.

But there is another possibility...

That's the nearby mutants attacking the city!

And the closest city to here is Mida City!
"I see." Xia Lian suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, and nodded to the female knight in front of her, "Let everyone increase the speed of marching a little, distribute the horses to the civilians who are weak, and we try our best to catch up before dark." Go back to Mida City, and organize some people to guard around the team, and report back immediately if you encounter enemies."

"Yes!"

The female knight saluted briefly, and then ran back to the front of the team to deliver orders.

And Xia Lian looked towards the direction of Mida City, silently praying for the people in the city and her disciples.

……

Game time PM14:10
Mida City, Holy Church United Chapel, Mo Tan's room

"Are you sure?"

Mo Tan propped his hands on the table and looked down at the map above, without raising his head, he asked, "Are you really sure?"

The feather warbler leaning against the window nodded solemnly: "I'm sure."

Mo Tan lightly knocked on the table, raised his head and confirmed more seriously: "Are you really sure?"

Yuying nodded more and more seriously: "I'm very sure."

Mo Tan's eyes widened: "You really really really..."

"Okay, you've confirmed it many times." Yu Chen who was standing across the table interrupted Mo Tan, spread his hands and said, "There should be no more mistakes."

The latter took a long breath, then picked up the quill at hand and drew a large circle on the top of the map, then sat down on the chair: "We succeeded."

"Strictly speaking, you should have succeeded." Yuying curled her lips, walked to Yuchen and looked down at the densely marked map of the north on the table, shrugged and said: "Successfully rescued in such a short period of time." Killed more than a thousand civilians, wiped out all the mutants centered on Mida City and Hofer City, north to the blockade of Dobird Town, east to Blackwater Lake, and west to Cold Ridge Village, and almost created a safe area. Come out of the area, you can completely pretend to be in front of us."

Mo Tan shook his head and smiled: "Didn't you already help me pretend, and this is not due to me alone, whether it is Yuchen and Luna who have been helping to treat those civilians, or responsible for talking to everyone. You are the one who contacted the player, you have not been busy during this time."

Yu Chen shrank his shoulders a little embarrassedly: "The main reason is that I'm useless in other places..."

Yu Ying nodded with peace of mind: "Well, I worked very hard, mainly because it was more difficult to teach people to fool those knights at the beginning, but later everyone became proficient in their business, and those paladins also adapted to 'Master Tai Luo' Arrangements, but not so worrying."

"But then again..."

Yu Chen twisted his fingers uneasily, and said in a low voice: "Isn't it a little bad for us to keep this from Mr. Tai Luo? He still thinks that the knights are just performing the same mission as before."

"Then there is no other way." Yuying rolled her eyes, and said with a dry smile: "It is already enough that I don't want to arrange those players to follow him, but if I let him know that Black Fan even uses those healthy civilians It's...hehe, it must be endless."

"But I didn't expect us to be able to hide it from Your Excellency Tai Luo for so long." Mo Tan smiled, and fiddled with the chess pieces on the table: "Whether it's the extra civilians and NPCs I arranged to enter, or changing the route without authorization, It’s unbelievable that these things about the reorganized personnel have not been discovered..."

Yuying chuckled: "Those knights are not big-mouthed, and other players have also said that it is a 'secret arrangement', as long as it is successful, no one will think too much, the paladins of this world will not be in the immediate After giving credit, take the initiative to find the leader to ask for credit, of course, the most important thing is that every time everyone returns, Her Majesty the Holy Maiden will ask Tai Luo to talk about life and belief, so until now, I haven’t given up on it~”

Mo Tan was taken aback: "Talking about life and faith?"

Yuchen smiled shallowly: "Try to draw attention, I think this should help."

"Okay, it's really a great help." Mo Tan gave a thumbs up, stretched on the spot and looked at the map in front of him again. He knocked a few times on the three gathered chess pieces, rushed Yu Ying asked: "How about the three teams going to the Dagger Sheath Bridge?"

The female assassin opened the friend bar and glanced at it, then spread her hands and said, "It's not a big problem, they sent me a message half an hour ago saying that they have met and started their return trip, and they haven't contacted each other since then, so it should be smooth."

"That's good." Mo Tan nodded slightly, picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, and said with a light smile: "This way the neighborhood should be considered completely safe, and I will count the low-level recruits from Hoover City later. Professionals and civilians, I plan to expand the security range in the south, but before that, we have to say hello to Mr. Tai Luo, otherwise it will be too unkind..."

Yu Ying's eyes widened: "Aren't you kind? You have done all the dirty work yourself and given the credit to others. In such a short period of time, you have almost wiped out the threat of the mutants in the north and saved so many people. Fate aside, the battle damage of the paladins has been completely controlled, how deep must Taro's brain be to think that you are not kind?"

"That's not what you said." Mo Tan shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "Besides, the north of Misha County is the safest place, and Yuchen and the others were nearby when they first arrived. There were few people, and most of the civilians who might turn into mutants were concentrated around the two cities of Hofer and Mida, and the city of Hofer was completely purified later, so there were not many small groups of monsters left. It is not difficult to achieve this level with the cheating communication ability of us players, the focus is on the central and southern regions, where Xia Lian and the others are located is the real danger zone..."

At this moment, Yu Ying, who was holding a small dagger and trying to cut her nails in the game, suddenly called softly: "Wait! The three teams in the south seem to have encountered something!"

"What's the situation?" Without saying a word, Mo Tan injected a ray of magic power into the three chess pieces in front of him, turning the hazy white light on them into deep red, and then quickly raised his head to look at Yuying: "Please tell me more about it." A little bit, what happened? It stands to reason that there should be no mutants on their way back. Could it be that they wandered from the south? How many are there?”

Yu Ying was stunned (communicating with a certain player) for about [-] seconds, then shook her head dumbfounded: "No, they didn't encounter mutants."

"Huh?" Mo Tan blinked his eyes and said in confusion, "Then what you just said is..."

"They met the saint." Yu Ying smacked her lips, and reached out to pat the three alchemy pieces in front of Mo Tan: "Xia Lianzhuye and more than a hundred paladins are back."

Yuchen opened his small mouth into an O shape in surprise: "Sister Saint is back?!"

Mo Tan was also taken aback: "So many people died!?"

"No more!" Yu Chen gave Mo Tan a serious look, and muttered, "You were not online when the holy knights from Sister Saintess came back last time. It’s in the city, well, I forgot to say later... I’m sorry.”

Mo Tan immediately shook his head: "It's nothing, it's nothing, I was just taken aback."

Boom boom boom!
Yu Ying patted the table: "I haven't finished yet!"

Mo Tan: "Huh?"

"The three paladins leading the team have basically told Saintess Xia Lian about the results of their recent battles." Yuying chuckled and said in a low voice, "Guess what?"

"What's the matter?"

"Her Majesty the Holy Maiden is very happy, and she is happily running towards the city right now, ready to praise and praise our Commander Tai Luo, do you think the latter, who has been being fooled by the alliance, will be very confused by then? what?"

"Fuck!!"

……

Ten minutes ago
North of Daggersheath Bridge, Nameless Plain

Xia Lian stared blankly at the female knight in front of her, and her whole body froze in place as if petrified.

After a while, Her Royal Highness' exclamation suddenly sounded.

"What are you talking about?! A team that is less than one-fifth of our size, composed of paladins, low-level professionals, and even civilians, is protecting more than a hundred refugees and returning to Mida City?! I #￥%@, which @#￥%&* came up with the idea! Quickly, double the alert area, let’s hurry up and join those %#s!!”

Chapter Two Hundred and Fortieth: The End
(End of this chapter)