Chapter 292 Black Armor Knight
Ye Jiu's heart skipped a beat.
Of course he knew how the previous owners of "Shafa" died.
The reason why the "killing" weapon equipment is called "killing" is because this set of equipment contains an extremely strong desire to kill. Every time he puts on this armor and holds these two weapons, Ye Jiu can't help but feel the urge to kill. He had the urge to kill every living thing in sight.
Especially when he puts on the mask, he will even have a brief feeling of "forgetting himself".
In that state, he was no longer Ye Jiu, a qualified candidate for "killing" with a trick weapon, but a member of the group of black armor knights who fought bloody battles more than a thousand years ago.
But the reason why Ye Jiu became the best-performing among the previous qualified candidates of "Shafa" was not because of the extremely high synchronization rate between him and "Shafa", but because he could always maintain his true intentions. , not to be controlled by that murderous intention.
Those who were once qualified for "Killing", without exception, were gradually eroded physically and mentally by the desire to kill in battle after battle. The thrill of chopping flesh and blood and breaking bones is as exciting as illegal drugs. Addictive... Not only that, the golden ghost face covering the face will continue to amplify this pleasure, making those who are qualified to kill addicted to it.
When the qualified person is completely reduced to the puppet of Killing, that is the moment when Killing can exert its greatest power.
Strictly speaking, the qualified person cannot be regarded as the controller of the killing, nor can it be said to be the "living CPU" of the killing... but is closer to the effect of a "limiter".
Use human will to counter the "instinct" of artifacts and equipment.
The process of using this trick equipment is to unlock the limiter bit by bit, and use the ever-reducing constraints to exchange for the powerful power of the trick equipment.
Experienced and qualified people can grasp the "degree" that unlocks the restrictions - that is, they can maximize the original power of the trick equipment without completely losing control.
But no matter how experienced and qualified the person is, there will be a day when he stumbles.
As the power of the equipment is released again and again, the threshold on the edge of control and loss of control will slowly slide to one side...and the self-awareness of the qualified person will also use what is not his own again and again. When it comes to strength, it is gradually assimilated by the magic weapons and equipment.
Ye Jiu heard a saying - for most of the magic equipment, qualified people can only be regarded as a "consumable".
But Ye Jiu is an anomaly.
After summing up the experiences and lessons of his predecessors, and then combining it with his own experience, he came up with a way to inhibit this erosion.
Instead of constantly hinting at things like justice, responsibility or feelings for family and country, Ye Jiu found that sand sculptures and abstract attitudes towards life could perfectly restrain the tempting desire to kill.
Ye Jiu was rarely affected by killings. Even when he just chopped up the two infected special service operators like melons and vegetables, he didn't feel anything strange.
Ye Jiu carefully read the files of the previous qualified candidates of "Slaying". According to their self-descriptions and psychological test reports, all those who became the puppets of "Slaying" or had to be released from the qualifications due to various reasons Before becoming a qualified person, their thinking logic and psychological state will undergo obvious changes... Ye Jiu not only does similar tests once a week, he also does it before and after each mission, but he never No anomalies were detected.
"In that case, why did this happen... Is this an illusion or something?"
Ye Jiu pulled the reins tightly, puzzled.
At this moment, the row of black armored cavalry charging side by side in front suddenly dispersed. The gap between each cavalry expanded from less than one meter to about five meters. The width of the front end of the entire military formation suddenly increased. The sub is extended four or five times.
"Diffusion? Why spread?" Ye Jiu was a little confused.
Although there are almost zero combat records about the Black Armor Cavalry, there is no doubt that this is a standard heavy cavalry unit.
As a senior gamer, Ye Jiu has played not only 100 but also 80 cold weapon war games. At the same time, he has also read many documents and military books describing cavalry battles. As for the cavalry tactics in the cold weapon era, he has nothing to say about them. Experts, at least they can be regarded as knowledgeable.
The simplest and most effective heavy cavalry tactic is to charge in groups, relying on their own weight and the inertia after charging to tear apart the enemy's formation.
The tactics of the black armored cavalry in front of us are more like the spread of the light cavalry and then outflanking them from the left and right, and then weaving in and out... But this tactic not only completely abandons the advantage of the heavy cavalry's armor and sharp spears, but also puts itself at risk. Shortcomings such as poor endurance, inflexible steering, and sudden drop in combat effectiveness after stalling were actively exposed to the enemy.
Could it be that...the general commanding this black armored cavalry is a mediocre person?
Are you kidding me? Emperor Zhenguan would let a mediocre person lead the Black Armored Knights?
But soon, Ye Jiu understood the reason why the black armor knights in the front row dispersed.
I saw the black-armored cavalry in the back row raising their powerful crossbows hanging on their saddles, and countless crossbow bolts shot out from the gaps between the cavalry in the front row, pinning the strange things that rushed forward to the ground... And The Black Armor Knight in the back row is Equipped with hard longbows that are taller than a person, the method of archery they adopt is not flat shooting, but throwing. As the bowstrings continue to explode like thunderbolts, waves of arrows rain down on those people. The place where the monsters are most concentrated.
"Does the Black Armor Knight actually have such a strong long-range strike capability?" Ye Jiu was completely stunned - although the Black Armor Knight a hundred years later will also be equipped with some crossbows, they are basically palm-sized hand crossbows or crossbows. It is a short bow less than one meter long. This kind of weapon can be used to deal with unarmored targets. However, if the enemy is equipped with a shield or armor, the lethality of this kind of weapon is very limited.
But the strong bows and crossbows among the black armor knights in front of me can even shoot directly through the shields and plate armor of heavy infantry. When facing these humanoid monsters, which at most only have leather armor and chain armor for protection, they can shoot and kill them. It's as easy as mowing the lawn.
"Is it true that all the equipment of the later Black Armor Knights are castrated versions?" Ye Jiu lowered his head and looked at his saddle. Sure enough, there was also a powerful crossbow hanging on the right side of the saddle - the crossbow had been strung up and stuck in the saddle. The heavy iron box above the bow arm is filled with crossbow bolts forged from homogeneous iron.
This is even a semi-automatic repeating crossbow!
"Is this the long-lost Zhuge Liannu?" Ye Jiu took off the Liannu in surprise. He suddenly discovered that on the side of the trigger, there was actually a safety similar to that of a modern firearm!
"I'm a good boy..." Ye Jiu turned on the safety, held up the repeating crossbow on horseback, pointed at a strange thing nearly a hundred steps away, and quickly pulled the trigger.
A crossbow bolt roared out, crossing the distance of nearly a hundred steps in an instant, and engulfed the strange creature's body by its roots. At the same time, the next crossbow bolt in the iron box fell naturally and got stuck into the launch slot of the crossbow machine. With a complex sound of the machine's clatter, the bowstring that bounced back to its original position was tightened again, and it was ready. Preparing for the next shot.
"This thing works just as well as a gun!" Ye Jiu glanced at the repeating crossbow in his hand with some envy, "It would be great if 'Killing' also included such a repeating crossbow..."
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Unconsciously, Ye Jiu seemed to no longer worry about why he was thrown on this battlefield - in his opinion, this might be a test for himself by "killing", but he didn't understand. How to pass this "test".
Not participating in the battle may be a wise choice, but for "killing", this is obviously not the right answer.
If Ye Jiu doesn't kill a monster, it means that he is completely unsuitable for "killing". From then on, the synchronization rate between the two may drop off a cliff...
And participating in the battle... Although the Black Armor Knight and the monster have not yet fought together, Ye Jiu can already see that this is an extremely tragic battle. If he wants to survive in such a battle, he must not kill Hongyan. It's simply not possible.
But if I really get jealous...
Wouldn't that mean he would become a puppet of the desire to kill?
Is this a trap?
"Zhafa" saw that he hadn't fallen for so long, so he took the opportunity to set a trap for himself and forced himself to jump in?
Either give up "killing" or give up on yourself... Ye Jiu can only make a choice between the two.
"Damn it, you don't follow martial ethics." Ye Jiu patted the breastplate on his chest in displeasure, and the breastplate immediately responded with a clanging sound.
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"Then is there a third option..." For some reason, Ye Jiu subconsciously thought of Sun Hang.
If Sun Hang were in his current position, what choice would he make?
Ye Jiu suddenly realized that he couldn't guess the answer at all.
Although he had been with Sun Hang for a long time and thought he knew Sun Hang well... But when he thought about it carefully, he found that he was extremely unfamiliar with this person. Everything about him was so unpredictable... In human terms, It's "that guy never plays his cards according to common sense."
But sometimes, just when you think he won't play according to common sense, he just plays a pair of three according to the rules.
"Damn, at this critical moment, what do I want that bastard to do?" Ye Jiu shook his head hard.
He thought of a third option.
That is to maintain the clarity of one's heart amidst the crazy killing.
"Can I do it...?" Ye Jiu glanced at the repeating crossbow in his hand, and then at the large group of strange creatures that were less than thirty steps away from the Black Armor Knight in the front row, and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
However, the battlefield did not leave him any more time to think. The group of black armor knights rushing in the front row let out bursts of whistling sounds from under their masks. They threw iron ropes one after another at their comrades around them, and used These iron ropes connected a whole row of war horses together.
These iron ropes were covered with barbed iron caltrops, and when the front row Black Armor Cavalry crashed into the group of strange objects, these iron chains also knocked down a large number of strange objects that had nowhere to hide!
The black armor knights in the second row immediately followed up. The iron hooves of the war horses instantly trampled the downed monsters into flesh, and those who slipped through the net were dealt with by the cavalry carrying long halberds - they The halberd in his hand was covered with purple-black fire. After penetrating the body of the monster, in just a few seconds, the flames of the same color that spread to the monster's body would burn those monsters to ashes.
"Thousands of people with the right equipment and equipment... Even in modern times, they are a very terrifying force." Ye Jiu lay on the horse and whispered to himself, "Why did Emperor Zhenguan form such a force?" A force... And where did their enemies come from... Could it be that as early as the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there was a period when monsters were active on a large scale? "
During the last period when monsters were active on a large scale, 99% of human civilization was destroyed, leaving only the ancient civilization of Xiazhou Continent to survive... And during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Emperor Zhenguan only relied on a The Black Armored Knights, who supported thousands of people, suppressed a period of great activity of strange creatures?
How could this be possible with the technological level at the time?
"No... it shouldn't be a period of great activity on a global scale... maybe it's just activity in local areas." Ye Jiu continued to patch up his conjecture, "Just like Eternal Night, it has happened several times in history. But at that time, the imperial court chose to let the people in the disaster-stricken areas fend for themselves, and rarely set up a special army to eliminate the strange things that appeared in the Yongye area... Thinking about it this way, it seems to make sense. "
It is obviously impossible for an emperor like Emperor Zhenguan to tolerate rampant monsters under his rule, so it is reasonable to form a team of black armor knights to deal with monsters regardless of the cost.
The only thing that Ye Jiu couldn't understand was how on earth did the Black Armored Cavalry obtain so many strange weapons and equipment and then find so many qualified people? According to the level of research on treacherous objects during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that it is impossible to even measure the synchronization rate between the treacherous equipment and the qualified person, right?
"Wait... trick equipment? Mass production? Match the qualified ones..." Ye Jiu couldn't help but widen his eyes.
He thought of something.
The red square crystal that guy Sun Hang found in the underground palace.
According to Sun Hang, that thing can produce artifacts like artifacts, and can even tailor the adaptability of the artifacts according to the user's wishes... In other words, that thing can be used to mass-produce artifacts. Equipment and qualified people, thereby forming an army composed entirely of qualified people?
In this way, Sun Hang's "mass production plan" that almost shocked him... Emperor Zhenguan had completed it more than a thousand years ago?
While thinking, the military formation of the Xuanjia Xiaoqi had already collided with most of the monsters. Countless monsters were knocked away by the Xuanjia Xiaoqi, which weighed nearly a thousand kilograms with both men and horses, but there were also many monsters at the same time. The mysterious knight was pulled off his horse by the strange thing, and was torn to pieces in the blink of an eye.
The charge did not stop, but the number of black armor knights around Ye Jiu continued to decrease at a speed that could be detected by the naked eye.
There are too many strange things...
(End of chapter)