Lingwu: I am the only immortal

Chapter 200 Looking West at the Mountains
Zhou Yi sometimes lamented the breadth and depth of Chinese culture.

For example, idioms are not only concise and concise in language, but the allusions behind them are also thought-provoking.

As he started to explore further north into the green vine hills, he remembered an idiom: beyond the reach of a whip.

He began to feel uncomfortable moving around the area.

Specifically, take the search and rescue of survivors as an example. The escort distance is too far and a lot of time is spent on the road.

This hasn’t even gotten into the Green Vine Hills yet.

The Green Vine Hills are notoriously winding, with rocky mountains and crisscrossing valleys. If you just keep traveling on the ridges, it's easy to miss important things.

In general, Zhou Yi found that his power had a clear radiation margin. Beyond this margin, he would feel uncomfortable everywhere and start to become reluctant.

Of course, he is not a person who cannot bear hardships, but he cares more about efficiency. If efficiency is low, he will not be happy if he cannot achieve results despite hardships.

Of course, he also thought about setting up a base nearby in Green Vine Hills.

But when it comes to actually doing it and analyzing the current situation, it feels a bit painful.

If we set up a stronghold in the Green Vine Hills, we would be isolated and out of reach.

Not to mention the long journey, the key point is that Waterfly Swamp is not as safe as it seems.

If nothing else, the Ancient Romans could intervene at any time and enter this area from the Oriental Swamp further east.

And this kind of entry is difficult to detect in time.There are no barriers, and there are no passes. Love is walking, love is rowing, and hundreds of routes lead to this area.

Also, although the official road is relatively easy to walk, it is also extremely eye-catching. When transporting troops on this road, the possibility of being intercepted and blocked is very high. If the surrounding environmental conditions permit, even if it is just harassment, it can also have a good effect. Effects such as lag and morale blow.

Thinking about it this way, repairing official channels seems to do more harm than good.

At least until his military strength is strong enough to send out branch war groups to act alone, the Waterfly Swamp becomes a real quagmire, which is conducive to blocking the invasion of the army.

He only needs to rely on the Taiyin Sanctuary to form a few tactical squads or even small groups armed with advanced tactical concepts, and engage in guerrilla warfare, mine warfare, and beheading warfare, so that the enemy army can't be beaten, regardless of the distortion of the protoss. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the legion, the lending legion of the True God Religion, or the barbarian legion of the ancient Romans.

"Oh, I accidentally made a mistake and it took me thirteen days to clear the road. The result was that the enemy's army marched straight in. How many survivors will it benefit?"

The more Zhou Yi thought about it, the more he felt that he had made a bad move.

Even with that, I don't want to continue to open the map of Green Vine Hills.

After all, he had a blank look in his eyes earlier, and at the same time, he was still taking a chance. He felt that Gaoyang City and its surrounding areas were too few to contribute one or two thousand survivors?In that case, Maogongdu can barely fill up.

The current 400 people are still too few, the atmosphere is watery and watery, and many places are empty and unused.

The result was stunned by reality.

The protoss was more vicious than he thought. They attacked the wilderness totems and caused wild creatures to mutate. The originally peaceful and safe areas have now become dangerous places, especially for lone humans. They are extremely unfriendly. Green vine hills, water The Fly Swamp has become a man-eating monster, and very few people can get out alive after entering.

Moreover, I had not considered the existence of the True God Religion before.

No matter how evil this sect is, it can still show its holiness and have useful information.

Catastrophic disasters revived the religion, and people rushed to seek medical treatment when they were sick. Coupled with the True God Sect's ability to "take two steps for nothing", people knew that there were risks, but still jumped into the trap until they were trapped in the mud.

Yes, burning life and gaining extraordinary power can solve the current problem of lack of power.

If your life span is reduced by one, you still have 30 to [-] years to live. But if you don't have enough strength, you may die suddenly. This account is not difficult to calculate at all.

But the problem is, some things only happen zero times or countless times.

I have been on crutches for a long time, and I am still lame.There are no two or three decades, but two or three years, which can be considered relatively restrained and good at management.

This True God Religion is so deceptive. Many people who have already lost their fortunes have become completely devastated and have turned into a rotten person with no conscience. They are not safe even after they die.

With the protoss' mutated beasts tactic of intercepting fish that slip through the net, and the True God Cult intercepting desperate people, where else would they find one or two thousand survivors?Not even one or two hundred.

Wang Youcai only rested for one day at Maogongdu, and then came to say goodbye to Zhou Yi. He was going to take his son to work.

Zhou Yi gave him an exquisite pocket lantern with the main body the size of a toothpick tube.

There is a green flame as big as a soybean in the lamp, which is not affected by shaking and always stays on.

"You are a living person and need adequate rest. In areas where there are wild and evil spirits, your consciousness is susceptible to adverse effects. This lamp has a calming effect, especially at night, and it does not cause the same effects as other light sources. It's eye-catching at night. You can hang it around your waist as a purse for protection."

Wang Youcai left with great gratitude.

In fact, the Book of Changes did not say half a sentence. This pocket lantern has the ability to attract souls. Wherever the king has money, if there are any ghosts, they will be taken in and dealt with in the future.

Although Zhou Yi does not plan to continue exploring the Green Vine Hills for the time being, there is nothing wrong with paving the road for intelligence first.

The Star Spirits and the Blood God Cult are fighting there, so it is necessary to pay them some attention.

On the same day, good news came from Gaocai. A rich saltpeter mine had been discovered on the Hongyun Platform.

Saltpeter has been used for a long time. The ancients called it fire saltpeter and flame saltpeter. In addition to being used by alchemists to make alchemy, people also used it to make ice.

When Zhou Yi heard its name, he first thought of gunpowder.

Due to the activation of rock on the Hongyun Platform and the rise of underground fires, there is a controllable magma lake, and sulfur has become one of the raw materials that can be supplied for a long time.

Now that saltpeter is available, wouldn't gunpowder be available after preparing charcoal?
Then of course there are muskets and artillery.

Although the protoss also developed muskets and artillery for the people of the Lan Kingdom during the period of change, it was unorthodox and its main kinetic energy was evil energy.

Zhou Yi analyzed that the Xingling had two purposes in allowing the people of the Lan Kingdom to possess evil-powered firecrackers and artillery.

The first is to grow evil crystals reasonably and legally.

Evil crystals must also have a process of practicing planting, summarizing planting experience, and then promoting and expanding the scale until it becomes a climate.

So, is there any better reason than military supplies, national defense and economic development?A self-propelled fel energy vehicle similar to a steam locomotive was launched, along with relatively primitive fel energy-powered mechanical manufacturing and processing equipment.

Who can stop the transformation of the Lan Kingdom’s civil and martial arts?
Secondly, if you want to destroy it, you must first make it crazy.

Armed with evil energy guns and cannons, the people of the Lan Kingdom immediately became evil neighbors to other countries and forces.

Especially after evil crystals are planted, the consequences of fertile soil turning into barren land will of course be suffered by others the most.As Wei Keqing said, isolation zones are now being established in plateau areas to hinder the southward invasion of nomads.

It’s difficult to control the details of this kind of thing. It might have been an isolation zone at first, but then it turned someone’s lush pasture into wasteland, and then...

The most evil plan is to cut off food and turn the soil into waste. This is a strategy more ruthless than spreading salt on the farmland to cut off descendants.Immediately everyone was the enemy.Other countries are also afraid that Lan Country will play this to them.

Kelan country has guns and artillery, which can make opponents cry like ghosts and wolves, and they no longer care about the feelings and opinions of other countries.

To put it another way, it is tantamount to forcing yourself into a dead end.

It is estimated that at that time, the emperor of Lan Kingdom was just thinking about how awesome he was to achieve Qianqiu hegemony.

Back to the firecrackers, the artillery.

Zhou Yi also saw the evil energy weapons developed by the Star Spirits.What Wei Keqing used was a finely crafted version of the evil fire gun. It could be said to be an energy weapon that used life as the base fire.

This is not the same thing as the muskets and artillery of the earthlings. The firearms of the earthlings are kinetic energy weapons. Their essence is the same as crossbows. They both deliver high-quality matter. The main difference lies in the delivery method.

Fel firearms are not. Fel fireguns can be understood as long-range electric shocks, while fel artillery can be understood as shooting a ball of lightning.So this is an energy weapon.

Who is better and who is worse, Zhouyi is too lazy to judge.

It is indeed difficult to judge. We must not only refer to power and principles, but also to technical level, external environment, difficulty in achieving mass production, etc.

He just wanted to say that in his hands, the firearm technology of the people on earth can be said to be very mature.

Because he lacks a complete industrial system and qualified industrial personnel in this world, let alone Metal Storm, he cannot afford semi-automatic rifles like AK.

But those famous guns of World War II level, Mauser 98K, Lee Enfield, M1 Garand, Mosin Nagant... these are enough.

As for the gun, the M75 1897MM artillery known as Miss France or Miss 75 will suffice.

In short, they are the two types he showed Wang Xiu at Yunwu Villa, the raised gun and the tiger cannon.

Because he was worried that the extraordinary beings in this world were thick-skinned and thick-skinned, and ordinary rifles would not be powerful enough, so he used a sniper cannon.

Anyway, with Yin Bing's physical condition, he can completely bear it.

Adding mortars for intermediate firepower and grenades for close combat damage is almost enough.

Although heavy artillery with a range of more than ten kilometers or even dozens of kilometers is impressive, it has high requirements for manufacturing technology, gunnery level, and even maneuverability (road), so it is not easy to aim too high.

Zhou Yi also had some erotic dreams about his arrangements: "The enemy thought that my Youyang army was squishy, ​​just like the archers and the people who control the trebuchet. Once they get in the way, they can be slaughtered at will, but they didn't know that my soldiers were zombies." To advance to the next level, everyone has rough skin and thick flesh with strange strength, and can smash people into pissing cow balls with a stick, and the enemy's expression must be very exciting at that time..."

The discovery of the saltpeter mine made Zhou Yi feel a lot better.

Started to explore the country.

Looking north is the Green Vine Hills for the time being.

Where can Nan Gu explore?
To the south of Hongyun Terrace, there is actually no reputation.

There is only one place name, called Ten Thousand Snakes Valley.

Just hearing the name, it sounds like a small place, and it's a bit chilling.

The atmosphere also has a name, Longji Mountains.

This mountain range is more than 1000 kilometers long and forms a wide-angle bend in the southeast corner of Hongyun Platform.It extends to the northeast for more than 300 kilometers, like a sword piercing the eastern swamp.

On the south side of Hongyun Terrace, it is in an east-west direction, and it is not the end until it is directly south corresponding to the southwest corner of the Green Sea.

The Luowan Mountains just west and south of Glory Castle are an extension of the Dragon's Back Mountains. Some people say that the entire mountainous area looks like a dragon's head, and what continues to the west is actually a dragon's claw sticking out.

All in all, the Dragon's Back Mountain Range got its name because, firstly, it is as long as a giant python, and secondly, because the central mountains are towering and continuous, almost all above the snow line. When viewed from a high altitude, they look like spines connected in series.

The Ten Thousand Snakes Valley is just a long and narrow valley between the mountains.The secret room where Zhou Yi was teleported was somewhere in these mountains.

The average north-south width of the Dragon's Back Mountain Range is between [-] kilometers, which successfully blocks the moist atmosphere of the Green Sea to the north of the mountains, while to the south is the Scourge Desert.

Zhou Yi's disdain was palpable when he heard such a second-tier name for the first time.Xin said: "People here really dare to boast that a name like Heaven's Punishment can also be named by humans? How long can they live? They can even determine the intentions of Heaven."

However, after learning about the existence of big names such as the Star Spirit, Ancient God, and True God, it is not easy to determine the origin of this name. What if it was named by an ancient existence?What if it was a battlefield of gods and a wasteland?

Of course, these are all too far away. To put it simply, unless he suddenly longs for the desert style, the current conditions are really not suitable for traveling over mountains and ridges to eat sand.

Furthermore, he has no interest in occupying the Valley of Ten Thousand Snakes. It is simply a hot spot where the wind and energy can be hidden because of the terrain. Otherwise, there would not be so many cold-blooded snakes.

This place is not as good as Yu County. Yu County is the hinterland of Dayong’s Central Plains. Most of the area has been developed. There are only corners or mountains and forests left. There are not so many complicated land disputes or clan interests, so the entire villa is the starting point. .

The sky is vast and the land is vast, especially after the destruction of the Lan Kingdom, a large area of ​​unclaimed land is left unoccupied, and the entire mountain nest is in embarrassment?It's not like he's suffering from persecutory delusions.

To develop and grow, you need territory, you need to go out, and you need roads. Hongyun Terrace is occupied, and it is still somewhat remote. The major forces will not care about taking advantage of this small profit area for a while. It is suitable for dormant growth, which is good.

After looking south, let’s look to the west.

To the west of Hongyun Terrace, the upper half is water and the lower half is mountain.

The water is the green sea, and the mountains are the Luowan Mountain District.

This mountainous area is not a mountainous area when the mountains are rising from the ground in front of you, but it starts to go uphill significantly. The terrain and soil are consistent with the characteristics of a mountainous area, and you enter a mountainous area.

This is the case at the border between Luowan Mountain District and Hongyun Terrace.

The platform itself is already much higher than sea level, and the Luowan mountain area has obviously begun to climb on this basis.

The specific division between Luowan Mountain District and Hongyun Platform is called Wanquan River.

The source of this river is in the Longji Mountains. Whether it is spring water or snow water may be different. In short, it converges at one place and flows into the Green Sea. There is almost no dry season.

For this reason, the Lan Kingdom built a very serious stone bridge on the river. It was designed by a famous designer and can be maintained for hundreds of years without any problems. It is called Wanquan Bridge.

Wanquan Bridge on Wanquan River is easy to remember.Anyway, I can remember the Book of Changes in one go.

But the bridge is now destroyed.

The person who committed such evil deeds was named Yuan Cai. He had three brothers, Yuan Lang, Yuan Hu, and Yuan Bao, who were known as Jackals, Tigers and Leopards.

The four of them were once junior officers of the Glory Army, and Yuan Cai had the highest position, reaching the rank of general manager.

But these four brothers are not law-abiding people. They usually live in wild ways and have many friends, including smugglers.

The guards of Fort Glory had warned them and punished them, but they had good connections and were willing to spend money. The superiors of the guards actually came forward to intercede on their behalf.

After analysis, at that time, these four brothers should have already connected with the Star Spirits.

This also became the main reason why they later destroyed the Glory Castle.

Zhou Yi discovered that Xingling liked to use villains to do things.

Not only because villains are bold, have low limits, are easily moved by interests, and have good execution ability, but also because such people tend to have a high degree of compatibility with evil forces.

When Zhou Yi learned about the situation around Glory Castle from Zhou Zhuo, he already knew about the bad reputation of jackals, tigers and leopards.

Although the name is very cliché and feels similar to the Five Tigers of the Peng Family and the Three Monsters of Dongting in the martial arts world, Zhou Yi did not take it lightly.

In his eyes, this jackal, tiger, and leopard is a newcomer, and it is best not to touch it when you are new to it.

There are several main reasons.

First, local snakes. This kind of people have been hanging around in this area for many years. They are involved in both black and white. Their planning and utilization of various resources are not comparable to those who are new to the area.

Second, human rape, Zhou Yi knows, the most harmful thing to human beings is always human beings themselves.

He knows you thoroughly, understands your thinking patterns, and understands what your key points are. He sincerely helps you, and can make you feel sour and unbalanced every time.

Third, the hero may not be that heroic, but the elite level is definitely detected.Putting aside moral corruption, no lower limits, and even distorted preferences and greed, this kind of person dares to think and act, has vision, and is not lacking in brains.

The reason why I didn’t take off was because my background was not good, I didn’t read enough books, and I chose a poor path.

Of course, this also depends on the current situation.

As the saying goes, times make heroes, and troubled times bring many heroes.Those who play violence are either guns or dogs in peaceful times, and are used and ordered around, but in troubled times, sleeping in a dragon bed is nothing.

As for Zhou Yigao's glance at the four Jackal, Tiger and Leopard brothers, it was mainly because these guys were able to play tricks with the star spirits and not listen to the announcement.

According to Zhou Zhuo, after Jackal, Tiger and Leopard burned down the Glory Castle, he went to Luowan Mountains and set up card charges to become a robber.

The mountain road there has eighteen bends, and there are also some relics of fortresses left by ancient kingdoms. It is very convenient to dominate the mountain as the king.

In Zhou Yi's view, there are more than just jackals, tigers and leopards.

To listen to the tune rather than to listen to the announcement is to put it bluntly, it favors an employment relationship. You pay me and I work hard. This is called listening to the tune.You want to announce me to the palace, bow and kowtow three times, and then put me under house arrest and force me to become your grandson. That won't work.I will not go to see you, whether you are in heaven or in the 33rd Heaven Dojo.

And to maintain this independence, how can we do it without two brushes?
The protoss will definitely be calculating the economic accounts behind their backs. They will try to eliminate potential vassal towns that are based on petty calculations. At what cost, should they tolerate it for a while, or should they exterminate them immediately to serve as a warning to others.

As for the Brotherhood of Jackals, Tigers and Leopards, now that the flagpole has been erected, it is said that the Star Spirit has made the decision to tolerate it first.

Zhou Yi believes that based on the urinary behavior shown by Jackal, Tiger and Leopard when he took over the military job, he did not try his best when he destroyed the Glory Castle.

For example, the protoss gave three hundred kilograms of explosives to blow up the Fort of Glory into rubble, but they only used a hundred kilograms to perform surgical operations, destroy the surface, and then set off the smoke from the fire to make the whole thing miserable. , even if the explanation has been passed.

In this way, he not only withheld two hundred kilograms of explosives, but also left himself room for operation. In the future, it could be whether he wanted to fight back and plunder people, or he could regain the bridgehead that was the radiation red cloud platform.

These four brothers must have played similar tricks a lot, otherwise how would they build their own team?

Moreover, he probably has his own way of using evil crystals.

Because if you follow the protoss completely, they are basically cannon fodder without self, or a puppet whose vital part is held.

Only by going your own way, lowering the level of control, and not losing much in combat power, even stronger than the ordinary aberration monster battle group, can you gain a certain right to speak.

There is another thing, and that is reason.The stars created by the people of the Lan Kingdom are not just aberrations without the ability to think normally.

Don’t forget, not long after the Lan Kingdom changed, it reached an agreement with the ancient Luo people to grow special psychedelic fruits on a large scale.

Zhou Yi believes that a certain kind of drug based on the psychedelic fruit is the key for the protoss to control the high-level aberrations with the ability to think, or in other words, the officer corps.

He analyzed that this drug is not a hallucinogen and will make you high after taking it.On the contrary, it is a sedative that soothes the mind and makes people feel peaceful and relaxed.

What really tortures people is the evil formula created by the stars.

Speaking from the root, taking the path of evil cultivation is inherently costly, and what the Star Spirit arranged for the people of the Lan Kingdom is a typical attempt to encourage people to succeed. This results in a very high cost, or side effects, and sequelae, which are so great that if they are not dealt with, , 99% will be driven crazy.

This does not meet the needs of the protoss.

The protoss is an evil order camp, a bunch of lunatics who get sick at any time, a typical chaos camp. How can they establish a Taoist army with forbidden laws?
Therefore, the star spirit has a life-saving medicine in hand. Although it is necessary to drink poison to quench the thirst, if it is not used, it will not be able to overcome the obstacles in front of it.

In this way, the controlled person can only rely on the drugs regularly distributed by the protoss, and this is caught.

Jackal, Tiger and Leopard jumped out of this pit in time. Not only was the timing good, but there was definitely a technical solution. Maybe it was a matter of passing on the problem, but there must be a way to get past it.

Ambitious, smart, decisive, capable, and not bad at luck, local snakes have formed a force... Such a gang, Zhou Yi asked himself, why should he spy on others?

Yes, he can use decapitation tactics, rely on his intelligence not being leaked, sneak into the opponent's lair, and then kill Yuan Cai, the one who is responsible for thinking among the four brothers...

But doing so is not only high risk but also low return.

The high risk is that the protoss must hate subordinates like Jackals, Tigers and Leopards who enrich their own pockets and fool around with their jobs. They are very bad leaders. If they are not dealt with in time, more imitators will appear.

So, have you never thought about the whole idea of ​​judges and executioners being assassinated?

Even if they haven't thought about it, Jackals, Tigers and Leopards probably don't dare to gamble, and there must be targeted arrangements.

Those who can deal with the high-end combat power of the Star Spirit series can probably deal with him.

A foundation-building monk doesn't have a ceiling in terms of combat power. What's more, when he first arrived here, he didn't even have extraordinary strength, not to mention the magic weapon. If he appeared to have a high horse and a short stirrup, and no blue bottles, it wasn't a matter of losing face. .

In return, the best situation to defeat Yuan Cai is nothing more than internal strife among the other three brothers.And whether he continues to stand on his own feet or goes to the Star Spirits to admit his mistake and his father, what good will it do to him?

If you can't take in the people of the Brotherhood, you can't occupy the land of the Brotherhood.To put it more unpleasantly, so what if I take advantage of it? Can I continue to set up a card to charge?

Most of the people in the Lan Kingdom are dead. Who is still taking the eighteen bends on the mountain road? It is obviously a sunset industry.

Jackal, tiger and leopard, Jie Dao, only caught Dingkou shortly after the disaster. Now he must have transformed. Does he have to have multiple brain axes to take on this game?
Therefore, based on comprehensive considerations, some time before the Book of Changes, it was assumed that the Brotherhood did not exist.

In fact, the Brotherhood sent people to probe and pay attention to the situation here.

The Glory Castle was renovated and renovated, and the whole thing had some magical effects, mainly for these gangsters to see.

Use the construction speed and extraordinary effects to intimidate Xiao Xiao.

The Brotherhood has sent several spies, and even among the original survivors of the Fort of Glory, there were two or five people arranged by the Brotherhood to lurk.

None escaped.

Zhou Yi has a strong spiritual sense and a cunning emperor pattern. With a glance, he can detect whether the other party is open-minded or has shady secrets, whether he is deep-minded or open-minded and sincere.

Therefore, the person with the problem has already been secretly watched.

Erwuzi left in a boat, trying to report the news, but was caught red-handed.

And those who think they have two stealth moves.The sect's ax works in the territory of Hongyun Terrace where there are no other living people wandering around at all. The light emanating from his soul is like a bonfire at night in the eyes of the Yin soldiers and generals, which can be seen from ten miles away.

Seeing the people sent by the Brotherhood, they all disappeared when they crossed the river, and there was no news of it. After several times, they finally confirmed that this side had a good method and no longer sent heads.

But time has passed, and now Zhou Yi has a reason to attack them - he wants to harvest the ghosts of the ancient country that have been destroyed in the Luowan Mountains, but the Brotherhood is in the way.

(End of this chapter)