Chapter 243 Return of Xia Lian
The next day
Game time PM13:15
Northern Misha County, Dagger Sheath Bridge
A rather large team is approaching Marching slowly, more than a hundred Paladins rode at the front of the team. Their armors were covered with blood stains, and some of them still had obvious injuries. Although their bodies were still as straight as javelins, they included Including the Paladins walking on foot at the end of the team, each of them had a trace of unconcealable exhaustion on their faces.
This is the fifteenth day since they followed Her Majesty the Holy Lady to leave Mida City. For half a month, this team has been cycling through the process of 'annihilating mutants, rescuing civilians, escorting civilians, and annihilating mutants'. In addition, , 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 cities to After several days of activity for the stronghold, under the leadership of Xia Lian, the knights continued to go out of the city to find survivors in nearby villages and towns. Although in most cases what they found in the end were ruins and a large number of corpses, they also rescued several Hundreds of fresh lives, and in the process killed more than a thousand monsters that were completely impossible to save.
They continue to dedicate manpower to escort civilians, protect the city, and maintain order. The original force of more than 400 people is now less than half. Among them, there are 100 paladins stationed in Glen City and Sprout City, where The threat of the plague has not been eliminated. After all, Xia Lian no longer has the energy to use high-level magic to create a place of divine favor as before, so she had to try her best to alleviate the illness of those infected by the plague and leave some paladins behind just in case.
As for the remaining one hundred paladins, some of them are escorting civilians to the nearest city on the way, and some are maintaining the strongest local armed force and blockade. It is suspected that there are still The villages and towns where people survived and the city of Mida were connected, and the rest of the people...
all died in the battle.
Although Xia Lian has crushing combat power, it is difficult for this elf saint with the backlash of divine power to cast too many magical spells, so even if she is still able to kill seven or eight mutants with one cross Or, a fearless charge can create a bloody path, but after all, it is just a powerful super soldier, and there will always be times when it cannot be taken care of.
She seems to be powerful without any blind spots, but it is far from being comparable to her before.
You must know that in the heyday of Xialian Bamboo Leaf, even just throwing out a condensed light arrow was enough to blow up at least two digits of mutants. One [Group Healing Prayer pole] could blow up at least two digits of mutants 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 cure those things by herself. All the children were wiped out.
But that is all based on the fact that she has never been attacked by the Dark Goddess...
However, the reality is that when Xia Lian is fine, there is only the plague. When Xia Lian gets into trouble, those mutants It just came out of nowhere, and it was a pretty bad coincidence from any angle.
【Is it really just a coincidence? First, several sources of plague disappeared inexplicably, then the Dark Goddess came when I was using my great magic, and finally those mutants suddenly appeared when I was almost disabled. 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 and thought with some distress. She was holding the very weighty Star Gold Cross in one hand, and holding a watch in her other hand. The little elf girl who came up was about twenty or thirty years old. There was a hideous wound on the latter's little hand. Although the bleeding had been stopped, it still made the sleeping child moan frequently like she was dreaming.
Xia Lian sighed, and used a holy healing technique that had almost no effect to try to make the girl in her arms sleep more comfortably, and then continued her thinking...
No matter what Thinking about it, she felt that this series of events was not simple.
So, based on Her Royal Highness the Saint’s thoughts, we can draw the following three conclusions:
First, Xia Lian is a very keen person.
Second, there are indeed many bad events in this world that are caused by accidents, and their severity is even much worse than various planned, organized, and premeditated malignant events.
Third, it would be very uncomfortable without a script.
Back to business...
A few minutes later, a female knight who was sent out to investigate the situation half an hour ago returned to the team, dismounted and quickly ran to Xia Lian, saying in a deep voice Said: "Your Highness the Saint, as before, there are no signs of mutant activity around here."
"Still not?" Xia Lian was stunned for a moment, then Later, they couldn't help but worry. Their returning team had not encountered an enemy for more than half a day, and this result often meant that there was a large-scale gathering of mutants nearby. This is not good news. You know There are dozens of civilians who were rescued along the way in this team. Once they encounter a large number of mutants, no one is confident that they can take care of everyone in an all-round way.
But there is another possibility...
That is, the nearby mutants are attacking the city!
The closest city to here is Mida City!
"I understand." Xia Lian suppressed the uneasiness in her heart and nodded to the female knight in front of her: "Let everyone increase the speed a little and give the horses to civilians who are weak. We will do our best. We may rush back to Mida City before dark, and organize some more people to guard the team. If we encounter enemies, we will report back immediately.”
“Yes!”
The female knight gave a simple salute, and then ran back to the front of the team to deliver the order.
Xia Lian, on the other hand, looked towards the direction of Mida City and silently prayed for the people in the city and her disciples.
……
Game time PM14:10
Mida City, Holy Union Chapel, Motan’s room
"Are you sure?"
Mo Tan put his hands on the table and looked down at the map above, without raising his head and asked: "Are you really sure?"
Leaning against the window The Yuying nodded solemnly: "I'm sure."
Mo Tan knocked on the table lightly, raised his head and confirmed more seriously: "Are you really sure?"
Yu Ying nodded more seriously: "I'm very sure."
Mo Tan's eyes widened: "You really really really..."
"Okay, you have confirmed it many times." Yu Chen, who was standing across the table, interrupted Mo Tan and spread out his Xiaoshou said: "There should be no more mistakes."
The latter took a long breath, then picked up the quill at hand and drew a big circle on the top of the map, then sat down on the On the chair: "We succeeded."
"Strictly speaking, you should have succeeded." Yu Ying curled her lips, walked to Yuchen and looked down at the table with the northern part marked on it. With a densely packed map, he shrugged and said: "We successfully rescued more than a thousand civilians in such a short period of time, and cleared the blockade centered on Mida City and Hofer City, extending to Dodiao Town in the north, Blackwater Lake in the east, All the mutants in Cold Ridge Village have almost created a safe zone. You can pretend to be in front of us." Mo Tan shook his head and smiled: "You have already finished pretending for me. , and this is not my fault in the first place, whether it is Yu Chen and Luna who have been helping to treat those civilians, or you who are responsible for contacting all players, they have been busy during this time. "< br>
Yuchen shrank his shoulders in embarrassment: "The main reason is that I can't be of much use elsewhere..."
Yu Ying nodded with peace of mind: "Well, I worked very hard. , mainly teaching people at the beginning It was more difficult to fool those knights. Later, everyone became proficient in the business, and those paladins also adapted to the arrangement of 'Lord Taylor', and it became less worrying."
"But then again..."
Yuchen Wringing his fingers uneasily, he whispered: "Isn't it a little bad that we keep hiding this from Mr. Taylor? Until now, he still thinks that the knights are just performing the same mission as before."
"Then there's no other way Ah." Yu Ying rolled her eyes and laughed dryly: "It was already enough that he was unwilling to arrange for those players to follow him, but if he knew that Hei Fan was even using those healthy civilians... Haha, it would definitely be necessary. Endless.”
"But I didn't expect that we could hide it from Lord Taylor 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 go in, or the unauthorized changes to the route, It’s incredible that these things about the reorganized personnel were not discovered..."
Yu Ying chuckled: "Those knights are not big talkers, and other players also said that it was a 'secret arrangement'. As long as it succeeds, no one will think too much about it. The Paladins of this world You won’t take the initiative to ask for credit from your leaders after you have made a contribution. Of course, the most important thing is every time When everyone returns, Her Majesty the Holy Lady will ask Taylor to talk about life and faith, so they haven’t gotten involved until now~"
Mo Tan was stunned: "Talk about life and faith?"
Yuchen smiled lightly: "Try to draw attention as much as possible, I think this should help. "
"Okay, it really helped a lot." Mo Tan gave a thumbs up, stretched out and looked at the map in front of him again. He saw three chess pieces gathered together. He knocked a few times and asked Yuying: "How are the three teams going to the Dagger Sheath Bridge?"
The female assassin opened the friend list and took a look, then spread her hands and said, "It's not a big problem. They sent me a message half an hour ago saying that they had completed the rendezvous and started to return, and they haven't contacted me since then, so it should be smooth."
"That's good." Mo Tan nodded slightly, picked up the teacup on the table and took a few sips. He chuckled and said, "The area should be considered completely safe now. Let's go back and count the money collected from Hofer City. of low-level professionals and Civilians, next I plan to expand the security area in the south, but before that we have to say hello to Mr. Taylor, otherwise it will be a bit too unkind..."
Yu Ying's eyes widened. Eyes: "Aren't you kind? You did all the dirty work yourself and you gave up the credit to others. In such a short period of time, you almost eliminated the threat of mutants in the north and saved so many lives. The battle losses of the Paladins were also completely controlled. Come on, how deep does Taylor’s brain have to be to think you are unkind?”
“That’s not what you said.” Mo Tan shook his head and said with a bitter smile: “And the northern part of Misha County is originally there. It is the safest place. Yuchen and the others were nearby when they first arrived. At that time, many people came after hearing the news. Most of the civilians who were likely to transform into mutants were concentrated in Hofer and Mida. around the city, and the city of Hofer was later completely cleaned has been transformed, so there are not many small groups of monsters left. It is not difficult to achieve this level with the cheating communication capabilities of us players. The focus is on the middle and south. The place where Xia Lian and the others are is the real place. Danger zone..."
At this moment, Yuying, who was holding a small dagger and trying to cut her nails in the game, suddenly exclaimed: "Wait a minute! The three teams in the south seem to have encountered something. Children’s situation! ”
"What's going on?" Without saying a word, Mo Tan directly 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. Then he quickly raised his head to look at Yu Ying: "Please tell me the details. Come on, what happened? Logically speaking, there should be no mutants on their way back. Are they wandering from the south? "
Yu Ying was stunned (with a certain person). The players communicated for about one point and five seconds, and then shook their heads in confusion: "No, they didn't encounter mutants."
"Huh?" Mo Tan blinked and said in confusion. : "Then what you just said is..."
"They met the Saint." Yu Ying smacked her lips, reached out and patted the three alchemy chess pieces in front of Mo Tan: "Xia Lian Zhuye and more than a hundred holy knights are back."
Yu Chen opened his mouth in an O shape in surprise: "Sister Saint is back?"
Mo Tan was also shocked: "So many people died!?"
"No!" Yu Chen glared at Mo Tan nonchalantly and muttered: "Last time, the saint from Sister Saint's side You were not online when the knights came back. It is said that a hundred paladins were left in the two cities in the south. Well, I forgot to mention it later... I'm sorry."
Mo Tan immediately shook his head: " It’s okay, it’s okay, I was just shocked.”
Dong dong dong!
Yu Ying patted the table: "I haven't finished speaking yet!"
Mo Tan: "Huh?"
"The three holy knights who led the team have basically told Saint Xia Lian about the recent results of the battle." Yu Ying chuckled and lowered her voice: "Guess what?"
"What's the matter?"
"Her Royal Highness the Saint is very, very happy. She is running happily to the city now, ready to praise our Commander Taylor. You said you have been Will the latter be very confused when being fooled by the alliance? "
"Holy shit! "
...
Ten minutes ago
North of the Dagger Sheath Bridge, the nameless plain
Xia Lian stared blankly at the female knight in front of her, her whole body seemed to have been petrified He was frozen in place.
After a while, Her Royal Highness the Saint's exclamation suddenly sounded.
"What are you talking about?! A team composed of paladins, low-level professionals and even civilians, less than one-fifth of our size, is protecting more than a hundred refugees returning to Mida City?! My #￥%@, which @#￥%&a is it? mp;*’s idea! Quick, double the warning range, let’s go and join those %#!”
Chapter 240: End
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