Ark, please stop getting mad at the host's operators

"It's okay, you guys go and rest first, there are more than just us here... there are more coming later."

Li Ji patted Apple's shoulder and comforted her.

"But didn't you say there was no team behind?"

"Well, it's true that there are no other teams, but there are still people from my team who haven't arrived yet."

Li Ji pointed to the arch bridge over the moat behind him.

Apple looked from a distance and only saw the vague silhouettes of four people appearing in the shadows.

Chapter 86: Four Cornerstones

In the shadow of the city wall, four 'people' appeared.

"What kind of combination is this...is there no Yan people?"

The one on the far left is a dark-skinned man with black hair. He is wearing a beige coat, simple yet elegant. The coat is soft and sways gently with his steps. In his hand, he holds a knife, the blade is sharp and flashes with cold light.

But what is more striking is that there seems to be a pipe behind the knife connecting to the backpack on his back, as if there is something else in it.

Next to her was a white-haired woman in armor. The huge hammer was carried on the shoulder of a woman who looked only about 1.6 meters tall. Every step she took seemed to cause the bridge to tremble slightly.

The third one is a woman with long dark blue hair. She has a sturdy body and well-defined muscles, showing her strength and tenacity.

She held an electric saw tightly in her hand, the saw blade flashing with a cold metallic light, and the weapon alone was almost as tall as her.

And the fourth one, wait…

It would be fine if the others were foreigners.

How the hell is there such a big furry?

Apple rubbed his eyes and looked at the far right of the four figures again. That was a white tiger orc with white hair?

Is this the summoned creature of one of the three of them?

But none of these three look like summoners! Whose summoner holds a sword, a hammer, and a chainsaw?!

But this is not the most important thing, because there is another person next door who made a very realistic sad frog puppet costume as a combat costume...

As for why Apple was so impressed, it was naturally because the man not only wore it during battles, but also wore the dark green sad frog clothes in every group photo, making him very conspicuous in the photo among a group of normal people.

Although he really hopes that all operators can dress like human beings during combat, he can't say anything to others. After all, it is their freedom to wear whatever they want...

The most important thing is, Li Ji wouldn’t have only asked these four people to come, right?

What the hell was that Li Ji saying with such confidence just now!

Apple thought that Li Ji could find a lot of people, but isn’t this still less than half of the staff on their side?

"Let me introduce you. Lord Thorn, Unyielding Mudstone, Striker Huang, and Fighter Shan."

When Li Ji introduced them to everyone, each person whose name was called gestured to everyone present to prove the code name they corresponded to.

"Are these the only four people who arrived later?"

"Yes, these four are enough to defend. If they are not enough, I have other operators here. I can fill in later."

"It sounds like you're planning to use just the four of them to fight. This isn't a crack where you can farm materials. You can't suppress others to create the greatest value!"

Seeing Li Ji's as-a-matter-of-course answer, Apple looked around in confusion, "Tian Sheng, is he really your temporary commander? Does he really know what kind of enemies are spawned here?"

Apple obviously knew Tian Sheng. He looked at the unreliable Li Ji in front of him and asked Tian Sheng with some doubt.

"He is indeed our temporary commander." Tian Sheng nodded affirmatively, "But does he know what kind of monster has been refreshed? I..."

Tian Sheng said this while looking at Li Ji who was standing beside him. Li Ji also said to the two of them sincerely:

"I do not know."

"..."

Apple covered her face, not knowing how to describe this weird team. First, they didn't send enough people, and the team had a completely unfamiliar person as the captain. Not only did he not know how to spawn monsters, he also liked to play the game of bullying...

The team sent to support us is too unreliable!

How could he trust the defense to such a person?

"Alas, the enemies that spawn here are not just trash. There are Spell Master Airplanes, Smash Assault Team Leaders, Special Tactics Team Leaders, Formation Breaker Team Leaders, Explosive Pigeons, Revenge Seekers, Ghosts... and their spawning frequency in the later stages is very irregular. The pressure these enemies can bring is not something that the twenty or so of you can withstand."

Apple sighed, feeling that his future was bleak. He looked at his exhausted teammates, then at the people from Rhodes Island and Qingfeng, and said helplessly:

"Take a look at the map and the enemy spawn distribution first. I'll ask some of my men to retreat and rest. We're not iron men, and we need to rest, too."

He called out to the people around him and asked the most tired guards and heavy-armored soldiers to evacuate first.

"But you won't be able to hold out without so many people on your defense line. I'll leave some ranged troops behind the battlefield to rest. When the most difficult wave comes, we'll help block it together."

This is the best Apple can do right now.

If the defense line is breached, he will be the one to conduct the counter-mopping-up in the end. He can only let some people take a short rest before launching the most difficult wave of battle.

At least this way of taking turns won’t involve too much risk.

But Li Ji looked at Apple's tired yet worried expression and patted Apple on the back lightly.

"It's okay, just go and rest assured, leave this to us."

In order to prevent Apple from getting worried, they even specifically told Apple: "If you are worried, you can rest in the back first. If we really can't stand it anymore, we will tell you in advance."

Apple listened to Li Ji's confident tone with a look of doubt on her face.

There are only two types of people who can come here.

There are teams with foreign operators and teams that are not very elite.

Li Ji's team obviously belongs to the first type.

Even if the foreign operators in his team are all elite, there is no way they can make up for such a huge difference in numbers, right?

"I'm still a little worried. How about this..." Apple hesitated for a moment and said to Li Ji, "I'll stay here first and let my people go to the back to rest. If there's any problem, I can call them in time."

Rather than meaningless trust, he now trusts his own judgment more.

Seeing Apple's insistence, Li Ji stopped trying to persuade her and just agreed with a smile.

He didn't feel much pressure at the West Pass, especially after listening to Apple's introduction to the enemy's distribution.

Isn’t this the combination of Longmen city and Longmen outer ring?

He also took a quick look at the Western Pass Tactical Map that Apple handed over.

Currently, the routes they need to defend are one main road and three small roads, and only the main road in the middle will refresh airplanes, crush assault team leaders and Avengers. The other routes are all ground enemies.

Even people who have only played Arknights for a few days know how to play this route.

To put it bluntly, this West Pass was designed to allow him to place four cornerstones here, so it was deliberately grown into the shape of four roads.

This is purely a delivery to Rhode Island!

Besides, this time, in addition to the mace, Ines and reeds, Li Ji also brought two mysterious and powerful weapons with him.

With the four cornerstones, there is no reason why we cannot defeat this kind of annihilation.

……

Apple organized his team to retreat in an orderly manner and watched Li Ji setting up a defense line not far away.

But for some reason, Li Ji only placed the Thorn in the front middle position, and then... then nothing else, no other operators were deployed.

"What is this for?"

The pressure that will be faced next must be enormous. Just let one person fight first?

Is it a rotation?

This was the first time Apple had seen such advanced command, but since it was just a spectator, it was not convenient for it to participate in the discussion of the command.

After all, there was no objection in the other team, so it was naturally difficult for him to raise any questions.

The other three lanes were arranged according to the normal formation, except that the Mudrock Lane, which was the Unyielding, did not have any medical operators or other ground units.

"You are so confident in yourself, but you plan to handle it all by yourself?"

Apple actually felt a little confused when looking at Li Ji's position.

"Is there any new command idea in the safe zone now?"

He even began to doubt whether there was something wrong with his command thinking.

But as a classic player who likes to kill and hang up, Li Ji naturally wouldn't think so much. What he needs to consider is how to minimize the trouble.

If it weren't for the plane, he wouldn't even want to use Thorns... because he had to use the skill twice, which was a general sense of AFK, not enough to relieve himself!

And even though this is the real world, it does not require energy (cost) to deploy operators like in the rifts, and there is no need to find fixed locations to place operators.

You can even turn around and adjust the direction at will, achieving a true 180-degree attack without blind spots.

But there are also many restrictions.

For example, some operators with permanent or 'pseudo-permanent' skills will be subject to greater restrictions.

Like self-recovery operators and attack-recovery operators, they can absorb energy from the surroundings or enemies and then release skills.

But it’s different for the Perpetual Operators…

The reason why they can be sustainable in reality is that their skill set comes with a fixed range similar to a field. After the operator releases the skill, the field will fall within a certain radius and collect energy.

After the collection is full, the energy from the cracks will continue to overflow and supply the skill caster.

This allows the operator's skills to be maintained at all times, achieving a permanent effect.

If several players move out of range, the energy field will disappear and sustainable skills will become ineffective, requiring the release of skills to fill the energy field again.

Otherwise, in reality, if you can keep using continuous skills, move freely and keep going...

Li Ji simply flew a helicopter with SilverAsh, Typhon, Big Brother and a group of Surturs surrounded by the nanny, and circled around the enemy.

Not only is it an air unit, but it also has both physical and magical damage, can counter stealth and anti-air... and most importantly, it has the 3D surround sound damage of Big Brother.

Invincible!

But it is also worth noting that "pseudo" skills such as Shan's Sweeping Stance and Yinhui's Snow Survival Rules, which are state-switching skills, will also be counted as one of them.

However, since the skill bar only requires five points and can be switched even by moving two steps, the impact is actually not that big.

This is also a unique point.

……

The enemies have gradually appeared in the field of vision. Even though Apple and his team have been blocking them here for more than ten hours, the enemies in the cracks seem to be endless.

But this time, compared with the 48-member Apple team, Li Ji's side seemed a lot more shabby.

There were only ten people standing on the battlefield, and even Apple in the back felt a little confused about what Li Ji was thinking.

"Just yell when you need us later."

Not only was the apple at the back incomprehensible, even Tian Sheng was a little confused about Li Ji's method of setting up the formation.

But unlike Apple, she still trusts Li Ji more, and he must have his reasons for doing this.

Since you have chosen to be on the same team with him, just trust him.

"It's okay. It's not your turn yet. If we can still hold on later, we can just have about ten people guarding it."

According to the information provided by Apple, the refresh time of low-quality enemies in the front will not change, but the spawning of monsters in the back will be very irregular.

As a result, the axes of their skills don't align at all, and they have to take the fight even if they don't have any skills. In the end, they get more and more tired and enter a vicious cycle.

But this is not a problem that the perpetual free-hand-free AFK player needs to consider. All Li Ji needs to consider is how to arrange it in the easiest way.

……

With the arrival of the first wave of enemies, Li Ji also started fighting.

Apple kept its eyes fixed on the most stressful road in the middle. After all, there was only Thorn on that road.

But although there are many enemies, they are just low-quality soldiers after all.