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"understood"

"But just in case, take everyone with you."

……

"when--"

"when--"

"when--"

John Wick was smoking in a tower above the vine shed. He was startled when he heard the alarm bell coming from the lower area.

Because the wealthy families in Green Valley Street are still sticking together, the armed forces have not been disbanded. Moreover, according to Lucas and Merry's approach, even if the original armed forces are disbanded, a separate joint defense team will be set up here. As a result, it is likely that they will still be controlled by the wealthy families here.

In addition, Lucas now controls the economic power of the neighborhood, so he did not reorganize the armed personnel here.

However, the necessary communication measures were also provided here, so after John Wick listened carefully to the rhythm of the bell for a while, he was surprised to recognize:

"Alarm bell? An intruder?"

"Who would invade this damn place now? Would it be Acting XI?"

In addition to John, there was also one of his colleagues in the tower.

John took a few long puffs and smoked the cigarette to the bottom, then dropped the butt on the floor of the tower, stamped it out with his foot, and turned it left and right.

"No, if it's a performance of XI, I think Merry Winter would have informed us in advance, and it wouldn't be a prank. I went to the church to see the settings there. Now there is a special bell keeper to look after the bell. Let's notify the boss first. There is a radio in the manor. Let's listen to what the radio says."

As soon as the two finished their discussion, they heard another hand-cranked alarm bell coming from below.

"Now it's confirmed that there really is an intruder. I'm quite curious about what kind of intruder it is."

"You stay here and watch. I'll go down and take a look first."

John lifted the floor board, revealing the wooden walkway underneath.

This tower was built on the roof of a building in the original manor after the cane shed was built. The passage was connected to a window in a loft. John was standing at the window of the passage and soon heard the alarm sound of hammering iron coming from somewhere in the manor under the shed.

After recognizing the rhythm in the sound, he climbed up the tower again, but did not go up. Instead, he lifted the wooden board separating the upper and lower parts and said to his colleague:

"Let's go down. The alarm has sounded and everyone is required to go to the ammunition depot to collect weapons and ammunition. We are going out too. Team 3 will stay behind."

"Oh, it looks like something serious has happened. We actually need to reissue weapons and ammunition."

……

As the alarm bells rang, the entire lower-middle class community soon became agitated.

Because the county bureau has "magic photovoltaic panels", contact persons wearing rechargeable walkie-talkies are spread across every block, and information can be transmitted more accurately and quickly than on Green Valley Street.

The official joint defense team members from each block quickly gathered together, changed into warm clothes, and lined up to go to the Green Valley Street defense zone.

A small number of team members were left behind to cooperate with the armed neighbors to take over the vacant defensive positions.

At this time, the construction teams in each block also temporarily switched to become transport teams. They collected some supplies and materials, such as blankets and quilts, from the residents in their respective blocks, loaded them on carts, and transported them to the defense line.

Weapon Workshop and Gunpowder Workshop are also organized

They gathered their own staff and, under the coordination of the county bureau, transported weapons and ammunition to the defense line.

The official joint defense team members added up to more than a thousand people, and Green Valley Street also had hundreds of regular armed forces, which added up to nearly two thousand people, which seemed to be the same number as the invaders who landed by spacecraft. However, the combatants on Guanying Mountain were all equipped with modern firearms, which could originally crush cold weapons.

And that doesn't include the armed civilians. If we include them, we can easily form a team of several thousand people.

The outermost part of Green Valley Street is a farm called Reyes. After being covered with [Steel Thorns] and vine greenhouses, there is now a three-meter-high [Steel Thorns] wall on the boundary of the farm.

This wall is about 2,000 meters long and lies in front of the Koved Forest. It is an excellent natural defense line. Between the defense line and the Koved Forest is a small flat area with a very wide view. There is no place to defend in this area.

The original design concept of [Iron Thorns] was defensive fortification. Under the current circumstances, its existence greatly enhances the advantage of the defending side.

The defenders only need to rely on this line of defense, using modern thermal weapons and the advantages of the defense line. Even if the invading pirate army increases tenfold, they can still easily defend against it.

Due to the adjustments made by the [Elves] and [Dryads], this outer wall is almost straight at right angles to the ground. In addition to the [Ancient Guardians] deployed at regular intervals on the top, there is also a half-person-high guardrail on the outer edge with shooting crenels on it.

There is no need to rebuild the bunker, it is naturally an excellent shooting fortification.

When the neighborhood defense team from the middle and lower class communities arrived at Green Valley Street, the local armed forces of Green Valley Street had already occupied this line of defense.

There are many retired soldiers in the Underwood family's guard team. These people are much more professional than the security defense team in setting up defense lines and firepower points.

There are few civilian houses here, but there are many warehouses used by wealthy households to store supplies, and there is also a large amount of straw. If we requisition a few of these warehouses and simply tidy them up, they can become good barracks.

The joint defense team did not compete with the armed forces on Green Valley Street for the defense line. Instead, they arranged barracks close to the front line and divided the area into several defense zones. The joint defense team in each defense zone acted as a reserve for the front defense line, and also dispatched troops to guard the exits on both sides.

Half of the video terminals in the county bureau were sent to the front line. At Underwood Manor, Merry and the wealthy families on Green Valley Street reported the situation. With the video as evidence, it was easy to explain the cause and effect.

At the same time, the intelligence provided by the video terminal can also provide convenience for battle commanders.

The Underwood family's security chief was the head of the armed forces on Green Valley Street, and when he learned that there were mortars in the lower-middle class communities, in addition to being terrified, he also set up two mortar positions in the center of Green Valley Street.

……

Lucas has been controlling the [Tree Spirit] to deal with the pirates in the mountainous area.

In addition to delaying the opponent's overall actions, they are also observing the weapons and equipment of these pirates and whether there are any extraordinary people.

After the initial pirate reconnaissance cavalry failed to achieve success, the ordinary pirate soldiers gathered and, together with the reconnaissance cavalry, engaged in a combat with the [Tree Monster].

[Tree Spirits] maintain the forests in the mountains and forests every day. They carry a wooden kettle made by themselves using natural magic, which contains some moon well water. When dealing with pirate armies, if they only use ordinary cold weapons, it is difficult for these pirates, who are only ordinary people, to hurt the [Tree Spirits].

However, they also had relatively primitive firearms, such as the flintlock rifles in "Pirates of the Caribbean" that could only fire one bullet at a time.

In the struggle with the [Tree Demon], these pirates often showed no martial ethics and would suddenly pull out their muskets and fire a shot. With a loud "bang", there was a lot of noise and fireworks, and the lethality was not small.

A dryad with 2 points of armor can lose more than 30 HP in one blow.

Although the ordinary [Tree Spirit] is a 4th level creature with a basic health of 420 points, the pirates cannot withstand too many of these "unfair" creatures, so Lucas's tactic to control the [Tree Spirit] is to fight and retreat. Moreover, they frequently take out the kettle to drink water to replenish blood, and when replenishing water in the [Moon Well], they do not hide anything and deliberately reveal the efficacy of the [Moon Well] to the pirates.

Later, the pirates concentrated their forces and occupied several "dark night camps" near the landing point, using their wounded to thoroughly demonstrate the efficacy of the moon well water.

Pirates who were weakened by poison (actually slowed down) or seriously injured by thrown spears will quickly recover and heal their injuries after drinking the water from this strange glowing pool. Pirates who were weakened by poison will also recover their strength after a period of time.

"There don't seem to be many extraordinary people?"

"But it's true. The news reported that the ancient kingdom in the Mist Realm space had fought back and forth with ordinary expedition teams... So it's just a slight transformation? Or even in the Mist Realm space, it's not that easy to break through the Transcendental?"

"Sure enough, they have begun to occupy the Moon Well..."

"With the Moon Well attracting their attention, they don't care that much about the Ancient Guardian and the Ancient Tree of Knowledge. The Moon Well water is also a good bait."

From around 6 o'clock when the alarm was sounded to now at 8 o'clock, Lucas used more than a dozen [Tree Spirits] to successfully confine the pirate army to within a few kilometers of the landing point.

But he switched to [Ancient Guardian

Observing from the perspective of the Guardian, it was discovered that this seemed to be the intention of those floating ships.

A dozen or so floating sailboats might be adjusting some magical devices inside. The buoyancy is no longer that strong, and now they only need a few cables to be fixed at a height close to the ground.

"There's only a sail on top, no airbags, so the boat itself has buoyancy?"

"The upper deck and the sails on both sides provide power and steering capabilities... Oh, there is also a primitive propeller at the stern... So, there are no large air currents on other floating land masses like Crown Eagle Mountain?"

"These guys are well prepared... They seem to be delayed here by the [Tree Demon], but are they actually changing into warm clothes?"

"I hope these guys have a unified command, and don't split up the troops and leave some ships to guard here..."

0061

Although everyone seemed to be unconcerned about the invading "pirates", everyone actually did care about them.

Lucas was a cautious man, and he had been sitting at his computer desk since dinner, while everyone else also stayed in the study.

Except for Emily, they did not keep an eye on the enemy's movements like Lucas did, but sat on the sofa nearby and talked in low voices.

Laurel and Zhuo Yisi took the time to go back to the dining room to clear the table, and made tea or coffee for everyone, and brought the cups to the study.

At nine o'clock, the pre-war preparations at the Crown Eagle Mountain Community had been completed. There was no point in carrying out harassment and delaying actions. Lucas controlled the [Tree Spirits] and slowly withdrew them all from the mountainous forest area.

It was only then that his attention turned to the study, where he discovered that everyone in the family was staying. The study had replaced the usual living room and became the new gathering place.

"If you are tired, go back to your room, or go to the living room and watch TV as usual. Don't worry too much about that robber."

"No, I think we should stay here," Claire replied immediately, holding the coffee cup in her hand.

"Me too," Hope raised his hand.

"Us too," said Laurel and Zoeyce.

Lucas shook his head. He understood their mentality. He thought these women would feel at ease only when they were with him.

Emily had been sitting next to him, and when he finished talking, he pulled the girl into his arms, their foreheads touching.

"Are you sleepy? Do you want to go back to your room and rest?"

Lucas asked softly.

Emily's charming eyes glanced towards the sofa, then turned back to look at him and whispered:

"I'm not sleepy, I just want to go back and rest, with you"

After saying that, he chuckled.

The two of them really get along well with each other. There is no need to say many things explicitly. They understand each other with just a glance. Under normal circumstances, this is indeed the time for the two of them to work out at night and sweat.

Lucas smiled as well, stroking his hands up and down the girl's arms and waist.

"I have something important to do."

"Um"

……

Silent all night.

No one went back to their room that night. All the women slept in the study with Lucas, wrapped in blankets on the sofa or carpet, hugging each other or huddled together.

The pirates didn't take any action, except for collecting water from the Moon Well. Lucas used the [Tree Spirit] to lure their reconnaissance cavalry and another type of pirate scouts to first find the ruins of an abandoned town above the Coved Forest. There was no need to do anything else after that, as there was an obvious road here.

Just going down the highway, they could easily find the current Crown Eagle Mountain community.

Lucas passed through the [Ancient Guardians] in various places and watched them deliver the news all the way back to the pirate camp.

In order to help them get accurate intelligence, he even used the intercom to inform Merry, asking her and Green Valley Street to deliberately send a few pirate scouts to sneak into the vine shed made of [Iron Thorns] to let them see the farms full of fruits and the barns full of wheat and grains.

With a mocking smile on his face, he watched them cheering in the camp, as if breaking into this strange human settlement and plundering its supplies, wealth, and even people was a foregone conclusion.

After the [Elves] and [Tree Spirits] all retreated to the flanks of the Crown Eagle Mountain Community, the pirates occupied the "Dark Night Camps" that were originally scattered throughout the mountains and forests. With the [Moon Well] as a conspicuous building, and with dead branches and leaves everywhere, they did not try to forcibly cut down the strange-looking trees disguised as [Ancient Guardians] and [Ancient Trees of Knowledge].

From their behavior, it seems that they are used to magical things.

As for magical things, XI was taken for granted. Most members looked ordinary, with only very few individuals appearing to be extraordinary. The fact that they could fly wooden sailing warships, apart from not having sufficient martial virtue, was also able to act like bandits with such stubbornness, was very telling.

Lucas thought about it, and it seemed to be the same as "If you stay in a room full of orchids for a long time, you will no longer be able to smell the fragrance of flowers". Because he had been in a magical environment for a long time, his body had adapted to it, so breaking through the extraordinary realm in the "Misty Realm Space" was not an easy task.

That's why this kind of pirate group appeared... or privateers or bandits allowed by the royal power. Anyway, in the history of the United Kingdom... the whole of Europe was actually similar. The regular navy of each kingdom was nothing more than pirates in uniform.

At dawn, the pirates sorted out some supplies.

The camp was in a mess, and it seemed that they were planning to re-board the ship, cross the more than 20 kilometers of mountainous areas, and launch a direct attack on the Guanyingshan community.

But their organization was too poor. Lucas watched from six o'clock to seven o'clock, but no pirate ship had managed to organize its supplies and crew.

……

At six o'clock, the women in the study woke up one after another.

It was a habit they had developed over the past few months, and except for Lucas who didn't sleep the night before, they all went to bed on time.

The environment in Lucas Villa was warm and comfortable in every room. They had brought pillows and quilts the day before and even changed into pajamas, so they didn't feel tired from not getting enough rest.

When it was time to wash up, they all returned to their respective rooms, cleaned the study, and restored all the furnishings to their original state.

It seemed that after this night of group training, they all calmed down a lot and started talking and laughing. When Laurel and Zoey went to prepare breakfast, Claire and Hope also went to help.

Lucas also took the opportunity to go back to the room with Emily to wash up.

"You haven't slept all night. Why don't you get some sleep? Didn't you say that everything would be fine?"

Emily said with concern as they came out of the bathroom after washing their faces.

"I've been up all night, it's going to take a while to fall asleep now..."