Chapter 1194 1176. ‘Meat Capacity’
From the moment Lan En lifted his hood, he was equivalent to declaring the force he had at his disposal.
That is the deterrence of being killed alive on a battlefield like a meat grinder.
Siward knew this very clearly, and expressed his incomparable understanding of the Archduke of Cintra's urgent obedience.
The Ember Knights naturally serve as nodes in Lan En's command system.
Everything happened very smoothly, and they already had a tacit cooperation.
"In order to maintain basic combat effectiveness, I will not confiscate the weapons of the White Rose Knight, is that okay?"
Lan En said to Lincoln beside him without looking back.
The young scribe smiled at this moment and looked at the knights gathered around Siward, but they had already sheathed their swords.
"Let them try, sir." The young secretary said nonchalantly, "It's best to give them a try. I'm still a little curious about their quality."
The witcher shook his head.
The Ember Knights are cautious in doing things, but inadvertently show their pride. I don’t know who they learned it from.
"My lord, what is our primary goal?"
Another Ember Knight asked from the side.
Lan En pointed around: "Just evacuate as quickly as possible."
There is actually no room for detailed command now, because the primary purpose is to get this group of people to withdraw from the Pontal Valley.
The Scoia'tael destroyed many carriages and killed many livestock.
This greatly reduces the carrying capacity and operational efficiency of the convoy.
This is also the main evidence that Lan En believes that the other party actually wants to delay time.
The car is destroyed. If you are reluctant to part with the things on the car, then the remaining cars will have to be overloaded and move slower.
What Lan En and the Ember Knights could do was actually forcefully order and supervise these people to abandon their baggage, throw away all unnecessary things, and start moving quickly outside.
The Ember Knights began to take over the management of the entire team under the leadership of Lincoln, and Lincoln himself began to pick up the notepad that could be carried on one shoulder like a large satchel and began to become the general secretary.
Triss did not step forward to Lan En until the Ember Knights began to perform their duties.
“What exactly do you want to understand?”
The sorceress crossed her arms, supporting the weight of her chest.
She didn't connect the tiny clues together in her mind like Lan En did.
Actually, when she was removing the arrow inserted into Buchter's right arm, she found that the Scoia'tael's arrow was the same as the one found at that time, so she went to find Lan En.
So although Triss has been standing behind Lan En to show her support, she is not very clear in her mind.
Lan En pursed his lips and kicked the remains of a carriage with a broken axle down into the mountain stream beside the mountain road.
"The thing we are investigating can indeed be seduced, Triss."
Lan En turned to look at the sorceress.
“Have you never thought that there was not a single living creature in the area it passed through? What did it do to those living creatures?”
Lan En’s eyes are very beautiful, Triss always loved looking into those eyes when the two of them were kissing each other and getting deep into each other.
But now, these eyes were looking at her, but the associations in the words made her feel cold from her bones.
"What do you mean?" Triss said a little stiffly, refusing to believe it. "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is: those living creatures, those 'flesh'."
Lan considered his tone when he said the last word.
“For monsters, aren’t they usually used for food?”
“.” Triss blinked, as if she didn’t understand this sentence. "For eating?"
She repeated: "For eating? Lan En, do you know how large the range that that thing passed through? How many creatures are there in it?"
"Counting from the time it first appeared, it has passed through one-fifth of the Mahakam Mountains!"
Mahakam is a long north-south mountain range, Triss The word 'through' in the mouth does not mean crossing, but emerging from the middle of the mountains, until now approaching the Pontal Valley.
This distance is indeed close to one-fifth of the length of the Mahakam Mountains!
If all the creatures in this area were eaten.
The pile of meat could block the mountain stream at their feet!
Turned into a bloody flesh dam!
This is also the reason why this conjecture has not been raised before.
This amount of meat. In the small northern countries, the amount of meat eaten in many countries in a year cannot reach this level!
What could eat up one-fifth of the creatures in the Mahakam Mountains in just over a month?
“But this is a highly probable conjecture.” Lan En said calmly.
"It can be seen from the initial trajectory of this thing that it is a brainless and crazy creature. After often going in one direction, it will turn around at will." "It eats too much and too much. So it often buries its head in one direction. After eating, seeing more and closer meat in the other direction, they will turn without planning or thinking. "
"The Scoia'tael Party lives and guerrillas in the mountains. A piece of the breastplate of an Aedian officer was probably part of the large pile of flesh and blood they used to lure the thing away."
"All the people sent by Aedian should have died long ago, except for the corpses. It's just been reused."
"But now" Lan En turned around and said towards the mountain road that was still scattered and tattered after cleaning it for a long time, "They only have to hold people back and wait. It’s enough for that thing to reach the Pontal Valley”
"That's why we don't need to plan carefully when we attack, and we don't pursue victory with one blow. After all, the purpose is just to delay time."
Triss held her forehead with her slender fingers, and for a moment she felt the impact of having her world view reshaped. .
After all, she spent too little time with Lan En, and she didn’t know what kind of monsters and monsters he had faced.
It takes more than a month to eat something equivalent to the amount of flesh and blood of a large river dam. To be honest, this thing is still within the scope of Lan En's imagination.
If it was Tissaya who was next to Lan En at this time, she would accept it quickly.
And after Margarita was re-taught by Tisaya in the field of 'theology' and urged her to review the deeds of ancient wizards, her receptive ability was also getting closer to her teacher.
Triss's mouth opened and closed, but at least she accepted the impact of the worldview after taking a few deep breaths.
She still held her forehead with her fingers: "But if you say so, something that can eat one-fifth of the living creatures in the Mahakam Mountains, if it reaches the Pontal Valley."
< br>The sorceress’s expression was ugly.
After looking at the problem from this perspective, the dangerous thing now is not the convoy of several hundred people brought out from the Principality of Elland.
In the entire narrow Pontal Valley, even the Haji Fortress, which is the largest military stronghold, cannot fight against this kind of thing alone.
Although it is still unclear how that thing has such a high eating efficiency and how it eats.
But it is undoubtedly beyond the capabilities of mortal soldiers.
"Although it is pessimistic, you are right."
Lan nodded and acknowledged Triss's concerns.
"So asking the people in this convoy to escape quickly is actually just to reduce the number of dead people, just like what I told Siward."
On the other hand, the entire Pontal How many people are there in the valley?
Anyway, it is at least the size of two small cities.
“Wait!” Triss nodded lowly at first, and then looked up at Lan En as if she suddenly noticed something. "What do you want to do?!"
Lan raised an eyebrow after seeing Triss's expression and chuckled: "Hey, don't think I am so impulsive."
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After laughing, the witcher became serious again.
"I really want to stop that thing before it comes. But until now, I still don't know what it is. It's too passive."
Lan En's hand reaches behind He took out the cone-shaped crystal from the alchemical leather bag on his waist and handed it to Triss's hand.
“Get them out of here, Triss.”
“I’ll need help later.”
Triss looked at the cone-shaped crystal placed in her hand and nodded.
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Under the supervision of the Ember Knight, although many people in the convoy looked at the baggage and equipment scattered on the ground, some of their eyes gleamed.
After all, as long as these things can be taken out and sold, they will definitely get a good price.
But in the end, everything was ordered to be left behind, everyone packed lightly and evacuated outside the Pontal Valley without any delay.
"You've only been walking for half a day and you're retreating because you were raided by the Scoia'tael once?"
Although the right arm was inserted into the right arm by a special arrow made by the Scoia'tael, when Triss pulled it out A few muscle fibers were also pulled out, but Buchter frowned on the way out because of his decision to retreat.
This bull-like man had no choice but to lie on the cart and talk forward.
“Come on, Buchter.” Yarpan said without looking back while controlling the reins carefully. "This Scoia'tael raid is different from their previous tactics. There must be something wrong. Didn't I tell you?"
As he said that, the dwarf scratched his beard and moved toward his side. The Ember Knight on horseback showed a big smile.
"Team Supervisor, don't worry, he is just not smart, just complain."
Before setting off, the Ember Knights took over the command from Siward and the Knights of the White Rose in full view of the public. When they came over, though the group didn't understand what was going on.
But they have understood very quickly who to listen to now.
And there are many knowledgeable people among them, who have already made associations through Lincoln's re-hanging of the gun flag.
“I don’t care.”
The Ember Knight, who no longer concealed himself, looked at them calmly.
"As long as you don't slow down, I don't care what you say."
The Ember Knights showed control on horseback that befitted their current reputation. The team of hundreds of people was temporarily taken over by ten of them, but now there was no trouble that affected the speed.
(End of this chapter)