Cavemen are commonly known as blind men.
To put it simply and clearly, if you stand in front of these guys, they can’t see anything.
However, being blind does not mean that they can't do anything. In places like underground cities where the environment is inherently dark, most underground creatures do not use their eyes to find enemies.
In addition, these blind men also have a very important characteristic, that is, just like the big-eared monsters in the stronghold, their numbers are astonishingly exaggerated.
As long as Moriel is willing to spend money and invest millions of blind people, you can clearly explore all the underground passages.
Even the underground world is equally dangerous. Not to mention the natural traps everywhere, without pathfinding skills, even underground creatures are often easily trapped.
The second is wild monsters. The warning range of wild monsters is 100 meters.
Due to the special environment of the dungeon, most underground creatures cannot detect wild monsters within 100 meters.
Including Xu Lai, not to mention that he has dark vision, even if the lights on the ground are brightly lit, he can't be discovered even if he shouldn't be.
Because you are likely to turn around a hole and encounter the group of wild monsters directly.
However, if someone explores the path in advance, the threat of wild monsters can still be avoided.
It’s just impossible for this group of cavemen, because they are used to explore the road.
With the physical quality of cavemen, as long as the wild monsters are not the same cavemen, they can basically bully them.
So, if there is no one to lead the team and you just scatter the cavemen, you must be prepared to suffer heavy losses.
The caveman is different from the big-eared monster. Even if the big-eared monster dies, it can also be used as a food reserve for the orcs.
The cavemen are the growers of underground mushrooms. Without the cavemen, there would not be so many mushrooms, and it would not be able to support many underground creatures. Even the carnivorous manticores and giant dragons would starve to death.
Just like the imperial camp, civilians basically have no fighting capacity, but they are the most important foundation of such a huge empire.
Moriel is a woman, and a very petty woman.
After suffering such a big loss at the hands of Xu Lai, it was impossible for her to just give up.
Xu Lai had also been mentally prepared to be found by the other party, but according to his plan, he originally planned to kill Aini directly in one go.
Giving Aini a chance to recuperate will inevitably make future sieges more difficult.
In this situation, it should be impossible for Aini to leave the castle and run out again, and would not give Xu Lai the chance to capture a city with a small number of troops.
Fortunately, Xu Lai did not impulsively attack the city this month.
On the contrary, he spent a lot of time and money, first with land policy and tax policy, to stabilize people's hearts and merchants.
Secondly, through the bounty incident, the entire city was shuffled, and the mercenaries, thieves, assassins and dignitaries who were capable of resisting and causing chaos were cleared first.
After such actions, in addition to the more than 15,000 men currently commanded by Jimmy, a new legion will soon be expanded to 20,000.
Xu Lai also left a security team in the city, as well as a castle guard composed of recruited soldiers, in charge of Lin Qiu.
The security team is responsible for suppressing people's livelihood, and the castle guards are responsible for guarding and monitoring the servants left in the castle.
In the villages and towns outside the city, Xu Lai also changed all their leaders, and by the way, he cleaned up the troops of the original village and town chiefs.
Xu Lai didn't dare to say that he just promised some benefits to those heroes who came from heaven, and they would definitely be loyal to him.
But at the very least, Xu Lai actually gave them benefits, and their current status was snatched from Aini.
If Aini wants to bribe them, he must at least pay a much higher price than Xu Lai.
Even so, those heroes who descended from the sky still murmured in their hearts.
They have been in contact with Aini for a while. They are willing to give benefits now, but they may not be able to deal with these traitors in the future.
So, although he failed to follow his vision, after stabilizing the rear, he could conquer the entire grassland with peace of mind.
But his work this month should be effective, and even if it doesn't work well, it should not be possible for Aini to recapture Fort Kaunaston.
Of course, if he and his Qingfeng City were destroyed by Moriel, then the heroes who followed Xu Lai in the rebellion, Mohan, Hancock and others, would probably not end well either.
But at that time, Xu Lai himself was gone, so how could he care about their life and death.
With the teleportation array through, it will be easy for Xu Lai to return to Qingfeng City.
However, Qingfeng City's teleportation array has just been set up, and Mingyue City's teleportation array will definitely not have time to set up.
For such a large teleportation array, Xu Lai did not provide any assistants for the mage.
Ordinary mages are simply looked down upon, and space-based mages are really hard to find.
Mages also need to rest, especially for this large-scale teleportation array project, which is still done alone.
The consumption of physical strength, energy, and even mana is extremely huge. If you don't take a good rest for a while, you may die suddenly in the teleportation array of Mingyue City.
The second one is Mingyue City. Xu Lai wants to keep it a secret for the time being. After all, this magister was invited by someone from the Aini family.
Xu Lai still needs to continue to observe and win over.
Besides, Moon City is really not far from Qingfeng City.
A few miles out of the city is the underground passage. With the speed of Xu Lai and others' horses, it only takes 3 or 4 minutes.
After getting off the underground passage, you have to walk a little longer, and the underground environment is not good. Even with pathfinding skills, it will take a little more time.
But just walking for a few extra minutes is nothing.
For such a short distance, there really is not much difference whether there is a teleportation array or not.
After hurriedly greeting Su Ya and the others, Xu Lai didn't even bother to take a look at the soon-to-be-completed luxury auction house and the new trading market outside the city.
The main frame of the auction house has been built long ago, but the internal decoration alone took a full month, and only most of it has been completed so far.
The construction workers in Qingfeng City can at most help build the house, such as plant pruning and gardening, marble sculpture carving, and so on.
The decoration from the outside to the inside was handled by the so-called masters invited by Wei Yihong and the businessmen who invested in it.
It is said that the decoration is very luxurious, at least it is much more comfortable than a castle made entirely of huge rocks.
Xu Lai is quite interested, but he just doesn’t have the time.
After saying hello, Xu Lai only gave two instructions.
The first is to bring the trophies brought back from Conaston and ask Su Ya and others to help arrange them.
Including the God-given body and the trophies plundered from the Aini family castle, the valuable batch came back with Xu Lai in the teleportation formation.
The remaining ones will return with the Qingfeng City transportation team transporting stone and wood, under the protection of Qingfeng City's caravan guards and mercenaries.
Such as gold coins and rare resources, put them in the warehouse and use them.
Treasures like the God-given body were placed in the Griffin Fortress. Xu Lai's angels are very powerful in combat, but their numbers are somewhat unsatisfactory.
What he is worried about now is not Count Aini and his noble men. What he is worried about is the orcs who have been coveting the grassland.
There is still a flying legion on the orc side.
Even if that legion cannot move, it can still use the entire strength of the wilderness to quickly replenish new flying troops.
When the time comes, he will be beaten to death by the orcs. No matter how strong his angel is, he will still be dragged to death by the orcs.
Therefore, it is necessary for Xu Lai to increase the number of flying troops. Even if they are to serve as scapegoats for the angels, there must be enough numbers to support them.
The second thing is to ask Jian Yuan to summon all the scouts and cartographers with map drawing ability to put together the several boxes of dungeon maps that Xu Lai brought from Conaston.
There must be many duplicates among these boxes of maps.
But before collecting these maps, Xu Lai had already checked them. There were definitely no identical maps.
And these maps may not be accurate, especially some small maps. Without important cities and unique landmarks, no one can be sure where they are.
However, with these large boxes of maps, plus those collected by Jian Yuan, Su Ya and the others in Qingfeng City, there must be some clues.
Although this work is not physically demanding, it is particularly mentally demanding. You have to consult a large amount of relevant information to verify the map.
Therefore, this is not a task that can be completed in the short term.
The good news is that as the reputation of Qingfeng City spreads, there are more and more talents in Qingfeng City.
Not only have there been many erudite mages, but also knowledgeable scholars, as well as special talents such as draftsmen.
With these people, although this job is difficult, it can still be completed.
After explaining these two things, Xu Lai took Elvie, Giselle and the others to the underground city together.
If Moriel wants to attack Qingfeng City, she cannot get around Mingyue City no matter what.
Xu Lai wants to set up defenses. If he wants to fight Moriel, Mingyue City must be more suitable.
There are no livelihood buildings there. Even if the entire city is destroyed, as long as he wins, Xu Lai will only lose some materials and supplies.
These things can be bought with money.
Unlike Qingfeng City, the population, commerce, and agriculture here all took nearly a year to slowly accumulate.
If there were losses due to the war, the losses would be immeasurable.
Only bringing his own bodyguards and the two batches of phantom shooters trained hard by Giselle were not enough. Even if the city was exposed, Xu Lai could only let Reina drive the Qingfeng Legion underground.
In addition to the troops, after Xu Lai entered the underground city, he also asked Bello to stop transporting stones to Qingfeng City.
All the ore resources for the time being must be transported to Mingyue City. Firstly, they will be used as reserve materials for repairing the city wall. Secondly, they will be used to make stone bullets and prepare ammunition for catapults.
“How are things going now?”
Xu Lai hurriedly hurriedly, he had to explain to the leaders and persons in charge at all levels in the two cities.
By the time he arrived at the dungeon, it was already afternoon.
Compared with the information he obtained in the morning, more than half a day has passed.
"A good news or a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" Yu Lan blinked and asked playfully.
In this month, Su Ya has to manage Qingfeng City, so in the evenings, Giselle will occasionally come over to accompany her.
Yu Lan and others have been stationed in the dark Mingyue City for a long time, and it is really boring.
But seeing that she was still in the mood to joke, I guess the situation wasn't particularly bad.
Xu Lai couldn't bear to ruin Yu Lan's mood and asked cooperatively: "Let's hear the bad news first so that I can be mentally prepared."
Yu Lan pouted, although Not very satisfied, but still replied: "The bad news is that through the eyes of investigation, we discovered a huge number of cavemen, at least tens of thousands.
This is just a rough guess, those things are too There are many, and it’s not like there are magic lamps arranged in the tunnels in the city. We really can’t count them, we can only make an estimate.
With such a huge number, Reina, Dill and I all agreed that the existence of Mingyue City would inevitably be discovered by these cavemen. "
"This is an inevitable war, and I have been mentally prepared for it, so it is not bad news. "
After hearing this, Xu Lai didn't pay too much attention. Instead, he smiled and comforted a few people.
Sure enough, after Xu Lai finished speaking, Reina, who had been looking tense, Then her expression relaxed a little.
She stood up and saluted: "This is my fault. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have offended Moriel.
You have such a beautiful and excellent city. I should not encourage you to offend Moriel because of my personal grudge. ”
Leina regrets a little. Of course she and Moriel are at odds with each other, and Xu Lai must pay an appropriate price to gain her sincere loyalty.
But As a result, Qingfeng City, a prosperous city where countless civilians who lost their land and living supplies gained a new life, was always regretful and guilty, and was also a little afraid of Xu Lai's anger. Uneasy.
Xu Lai smiled and shook his head at Reina: "No, this is not your fault.
If you had concealed something from me and had the consequences now, then I might think it was your fault.
But you told me both the good and the bad, and you didn’t hide anything.
So, this is the decision I made after careful consideration, and it has nothing to do with you. "
After that, Xu Lai didn't give Leina a chance to continue talking, and said to Yu Lan: "Then what's the good news? "
Yu Lan blinked her eyes and said with a smile: "The good news is that we have made calculations based on the speed at which those cavemen were discovered by our investigative eyes.
It would take these cavemen a week at the earliest to discover Mingyue City. If they were slower, it might take more than a month.
After all, there are so many forks in the middle, many of which you have never explored before. ”
“A week to more than a month? There was indeed plenty of time at that time, which was good news. "
After Xu Lai nodded, he continued: "Since this battle is inevitable, then we should go all out for this battle. Moriel is not an easy opponent to deal with.
As the saying goes, know yourself and your enemy and you will be victorious in any battle. The first thing we need to know is the specific information about Moriel.
Including her level, specialization, treasures, abilities, troops, etc. ”
After that, Xu Lai turned his attention to Reina.
Among everyone present, Reina was the most familiar with Mollie, although she was familiar with Mollie more than 50 years ago. Er. (End of this chapter)