Chapter 57 Massacre by the River

The food was delivered to the soldiers in the temple at night and was quickly cooked as dinner at noon. Rose collected the money and led the team away from the army station, leaving only a few hundred scout mosquitoes squatting on nearby trees. . After a day's march, the army of the Temple of Light is now at the exit on the other side of the forest. There is a river in front of it and a forest in the back. The environment is quite good. Listening to the sound of gurgling water, the soldiers, who were tired after eating and drinking for a day, finally fell asleep.

The soldiers all slept, but the generals couldn't. In the leader's tent, a dozen priests and angel officers were discussing the next action arrangements.

The commander of the Angel Corps said very optimistically: "Now we have received food supplies. The food sent by the angelic lady is enough for tomorrow's day, and they will continue to supply us. This consumption of funds is harmful to us. There is nothing to worry about at all. In our current state, even if the enemy dares to attack us, we can deal with it calmly. As long as the separated main team can maintain the same marching speed as us, they can join us at most on the night of the 21st, that is, tomorrow night Let's join forces. As long as the armies are united, no one can touch us at all."

A priest came out and said: "I think..." The priest suddenly frowned, but quickly recovered and continued: "Although our condition is not bad, it is not safe for the army to be like this. The combination of arms in the team All...all..." His face suddenly turned ugly, and his brows were knitted together as if he was enduring some pain.

The angel next to him looked at him doubtfully. "What's wrong with you, High Priest Hermes?"

The color of the priest's face suddenly returned. "Ah, it's nothing. What I mean is that everyone's coordination is not comprehensive. If we are attacked by a sneak attack, the losses may be relatively large, so... so...!" He suddenly stuttered again.

"High Priest?" The angels looked at him and waited for him to finish.

The expression on the high priest's face was distorting and changing, and others didn't know what he was doing. Suddenly the high priest's brows relaxed and he said, "Fuck..." A long and melodious fart sound resounded throughout the handsome tent. For a moment, everyone in the handsome tent was stunned. "Wow! Poison gas!" An angel suddenly screamed and covered his nose at the same time. Then the entire handsome tent suddenly exploded. The commanders covered their noses and rushed out. Only the high priest himself covered his butt and rushed out. rush. As he ran, he made sounds like machine gun fire. The soldiers guarding outside all looked at their commander with stunned expressions. It was not until the high priest rushed out that they understood what was going on.

Even if the poor high priest doesn't die this time, he probably won't be able to see anyone when he goes back. But he can't care about that much now. What he cares about most now is to quickly find a place to go for convenience. The high priest rushed into a small deserted forest with a loud noise all the way, and then there was a loud noise in the sky. A soldier in a tent near the forest turned over and muttered: "Who is shooting off cannons so late at night? It's so immoral!"

Just as the generals were laughing knowingly among themselves, a soldier suddenly rolled up to the generals. "Lord Angel Quan, it's not good!"

"What are you so nervous about? Speak slowly."

The soldier said anxiously: "We seem to have been plotted against."

"What did you say?"

"Half an hour ago, someone started to have diarrhea in the mage camp. I didn't notice it before, thinking it was because the food was not clean, but then more and more people had diarrhea, and now the entire mage camp is in chaos. The chaplain of the army used divine magic to detect Everyone has been hit by the laxative, and it has penetrated deeply into the body and cannot be eliminated. It is impossible to recover until the effects of it pass!"

"How could this happen? Didn't they all use divine magic to detect it?" asked an archangel.

The soldier immediately said: "Largeatives are not poisonous medicines. Doctors sometimes use laxatives to treat some special diseases. They are not harmful. Our ordinary magic can only detect evil medicines." The food did not respond to the laxative. Because the food before was no problem, the priests relaxed their vigilance, so they did not use large-scale magic that could distinguish the type of medicine, and only used small-scale reconnaissance magic. That's why ...!"

"Are all the mages suffering from diarrhea?"

"All the mages are pulling, and the first few weak mages have begun to appear comatose. It seems that the dose of medicine is very heavy."

"So...?" The archangel suddenly realized something. But it was too late now, because he suddenly heard a huge grunt coming from the guards on both sides of the handsome tent. It seemed like someone's stomach was rumbling. The guard's face instantly turned green. He quickly raised his hand to ask for someone else to take over, while he held his stomach and rushed towards the forest.

Almost instantly, the whole camp began to make fart sounds one after another, and the camp was boiling. At this time, the guild leaders who were sitting inside Scouting Mosquito watching the live broadcast were all rolling on the ground in fear. The scene of 7.5 million people having diarrhea at the same time was so spectacular. Everyone squatting in the forest was making nauseating noises. the sound of. From time to time, a few weak people fainted in the woods.

Except for angels and mythical beasts that do not eat food, almost all of the 7.5 million army were affected. Even the high-level paladins could not withstand such a strong laxative. Many column commanders joined the ranks of diarrhea. Several angels were spinning around in circles. In fact, they don't have stomach discomfort, but they have good resistance and don't have as big a reaction as those humans.

The entire forest turned into a minefield overnight, with yellow filth everywhere. It really stunk for miles in the wind, and the last remaining high-level monsters in the forest that were not scared away by the giant dragon also stinked away. . Early the next morning. The army finally ended the night's struggle and reluctantly moved to the river. But there is no way to cross this river.

A paladin with a sallow face and sloppy steps reported to Archangel Quan: "Report to the Lord. I...our army of 7.5 million...except for the 300,000 angels who barely retain their basic combat effectiveness. All the remaining troops have lost their combat effectiveness. More than 300 frail mages died in the mage camp. The soldiers can hardly even stand up, and the officers with fighting spirit can only barely walk. General, we can no longer forcefully cross this river. , many people can only crawl, and if we force ourselves to cross the river, we don’t need enemies to attack us. Half of us will drown ourselves.”

"Then we can't wait to die here! The other party who took the laxative must know that we have no ability to resist now, and they will definitely attack us immediately, so we must find a way to get out of here."

Another angel said: "Sir, since the other party knows that we have lost the ability to move, they will definitely not let us go. Most of their troops are high-mobility ground and air cavalry. We can only run for a day in this state. It’s just an extra hour, so I don’t think there’s any point in running away.”

"Then you can't just sit and wait for death, right? How many of you can still fight?"

"I don't think it's better for us to form a defensive line where we are. Even if our soldiers' physical strength decreases and more than seven million people gather in a group, it won't be easy for them to eat them in one go. Even if we will suffer heavy losses, at least we won't. completely annihilated."

"The high priest is right, this is all we have!"

After a brief discussion, the Legion of Light began to regroup into a circular formation and try to reduce the area of ​​​​the team as much as possible. This way, they can rely on the advantage of numbers to generate a certain degree of defense. At least the crowd will not be scattered when they are crowded together. As the supreme commander of this part of the legion, Archangel Quan inspected the entire camp worriedly, but now he became more and more worried. The continuous hunger before getting the food consumed the soldiers too much energy, but they had a few full meals afterwards. But I took it all out last night, and now my stomach is still empty. In addition, diarrhea actually consumes not only food, but also water. People need water, and dehydration will occur if a large amount of water is lost in a short period of time. This situation is very dangerous and could kill someone if not done properly. Now more than half of the entire legion is slightly dehydrated, and almost all of them are in a dying state, let alone defense. He could fall down at any time just standing there.

In addition to the problems with the physical functions themselves, the soldiers' nerves were also put under considerable pressure. The first is tiredness. There is no flush toilet for you to use when going to the toilet in the wild. After squatting in the mabuti all night, these soldiers now have calf cramps standing there, and their whole bodies feel as if they are falling apart. In addition to tiredness, sleepiness is also a major threat. They had been squatting in the pit all night, and no one had a chance to sleep. The soldiers who had not slept for more than 24 hours were in a bad mental state. Many of them had blue eyelids and were breathing heavily. In this state. Defending against enemy attacks is basically nonsense.

Different from the Army of Light, our guild is preparing for an outing. Rose stood on the high platform and shouted with a loudspeaker crystal: "Members of our guild, as well as the volunteers of the Hot Blood Alliance, now you Now we can start celebrating. The Army of Light now has a forward force that has been separated from the main team. They have not had normal meals for three consecutive days, and we secretly gave them laxatives last night, and they were dragged together all night. Now everyone is tired, hungry and sleepy. Do you know what this means?"

"Experience!" A shocking throaty cry erupted from below.

"Correct answer." Rose said loudly: "There are a total of 7.5 million people in this legion. Except for the hundreds of thousands of angels who still maintain half of their usual combat effectiveness, the others are all soft-footed shrimps. But these soft-footed shrimps The level of the shrimp is still a high-level monster. The dual status of diarrhea and hunger has reduced their health to half of the usual, and their combat effectiveness is basically zero. You can defeat these five hundred and sixty-six with the power you usually need to kill a hundred level monsters. There are 100 or even 700 level enemies. I guarantee that you will all level up after today. Let me reiterate the precautions one last time. There are 7.5 million enemies and there are only more than 50,000 of us, so there is definitely enough for everyone to share, so don’t Grab monsters. If you encounter a high-level angel, everyone must cooperate with each other. We are traveling to gain experience, not letting people kill places, so we must ensure zero casualties. The experience points are everyone’s rewards. If you make money, it will also belong to you. But things like explosive equipment and magic pet eggs must be handed over. The guild should respect everyone in terms of welfare, and everyone should also be worthy of the guild at critical moments. Okay, that’s all, let’s set off now.”

At ten o'clock in the morning on the 21st, German time, which was the day when the Archangel of the Light Legion predicted that they would meet at night, they encountered another army. This is of course not the main force they hoped for, but the leveling team organized by our guild. Although their main force is not as miserable as them, they are still busy with their own affairs. Even if we don't come to kill them now, they won't be able to wait for this main force to join forces.

The players from the Hot Blood Alliance who came to support us in the war were all brought here. Including the players from our guild, there are a total of 50,000 people. But compared to the 7.5 million Army of Light, we are still too few. But at this time, no one cares about the large number of people on the other side. It is estimated that if there are 75 million enemies on the opposite side, everyone will be happier.

The angels soon discovered us and immediately stood in front of us, planning to make a final resistance against us. But what made them desperate was that they were not greeted by players, but by 100,000 elite air cavalry from heaven. There are many types of soldiers sold by Heavenly Court. In order to face the battle this time, the seven million newly purchased Heavenly Soldiers are relatively ordinary models. Together with two million high-level heavenly soldiers, the average strength is between angels and paladins. Under normal conditions, the strength of ordinary angels is the same as that of mid-to-high-level heavenly soldiers, and high-level angels are roughly on the same level as the highest-level heavenly soldiers or the lowest-level heavenly generals. However, the 100,000 air cavalry we have here are all the most advanced elite air cavalry. Isn’t it a piece of cake to deal with these dissatisfied angels?

A few face-to-face angels couldn't withstand it. In addition, we players were trying our best to shoot hidden arrows from time to time. One hundred thousand angels were quickly knocked down by one hundred thousand elite aerial cavalry. At the same time that the Angel Legion fell, a handful of griffins and other light beasts were also brought down by the heavenly generals and the giant dragons we brought. The rest are 7.4 million paladins and light mages who are more breathless than death. , priests of light and the like.

Follow my order. Everyone immediately rushed forward and started killing. The weak mages were all unconscious. The priests could only groan on the ground and twitch occasionally. The paladin was a little better and could barely stand up. Those who wield weapons are all high-level paladins who know how to fight. Occasionally, I encountered a ranger-level paladin who could still resist, but they were all surrounded and killed collectively. The remaining soldiers could only start to flee in vain. Oh no, escape is not accurate, it should be called escape and crawl. No one can escape here. He could only crawl away.

Rose first tried to persuade them to surrender according to the resource optimization plan, but found that the opponents were all loyal believers and had no choice but to kill them all. That night, on the lower reaches of the river flowing through the forest, players in a player city were surprised to find that the river water upstream had turned red, and the water also exuded a strong smell of blood. Many people saw many bloodthirsty monsters standing by the river and drinking river water along the way. Even some NPC vampires gave up hunting and started drinking river water instead.

A relatively young player looked at the river and asked the people around him: "Isn't this all blood?"

"Don't you think that those Warcraft have collectively undergone genetic mutations and can fill their stomachs just by drinking water?" The person who answered him was a middle-aged player.

"Oh my God! To dye all the water in such a river red. How many people's blood would be needed?"

"Judging from the flow of this river and the concentration of blood, at least five million people died at the same time somewhere upstream in a short period of time, and their blood flowed into this river."

Another person came in and said, "I heard that the Temple of Light is attacking the Frost Rose Alliance recently. Could it be that they are fighting upstream?"

The middle-aged player said: "It's probably them. Judging from this amount of blood, both sides have lost at least several million people. NPCs are all perverts, needless to say. But it's the Frost Rose Alliance. It's really a big deal. With so many people lost, an ordinary guild would probably be doomed."

Completely contrary to the speculations of these uninformed people. Those on our side were in a state of bestial excitement. Why do so many people like violent games like "Zero"? Just because of stress and violence. The pace of life of modern people is tense. The stress accumulated in work and life needs to be relieved, and venting it in games is the best way. and. Before we became the creatures in suits and ties we have today, we humans were also wrapped in animal skins and emerged from the wild forests. Human beings have suppressed part of their violent tendencies during development, but the instinct has not completely disappeared, so there are still some people who advocate violence and like blood.

Today's massacre has completely exposed human instinct. During the entire massacre, I stood on a nearby tree trunk and looked down. Apart from occasionally taking action to deal with powerful enemies that suddenly appeared, I basically did not participate in this bloody ceremony. I have witnessed with my own eyes the process of the following people degenerating from humans back to beasts. Killing and killing monsters have different meanings. When faced with enemies who cannot resist, everyone first thinks they have picked up something cheap and rushes in to kill them. Then the human nature breaks out, and many people It stopped, but as the blood flowed more and more, human nature began to be submerged, instinct took over the command, and everyone gradually returned to being a member of the wild beasts.

I don't have any contempt for the members of this guild, I just want to see the difference between humans and beasts. For a long time, because of the transformation Long Yuan made on me, I began to have doubts about the definition of "human". I needed to figure out what a human is and what counts as a human. In the midst of this carnage, I seemed to hold on to something, but in the end it slipped away. However, when a female member who was usually very quiet and well-behaved like a little princess suddenly appeared in front of me with blood all over her body and a smile on her face, I suddenly figured it out.

This little girl is a secretarial major. She is usually very well-behaved. She has been working with Rose in the guild. I am relatively familiar with her. She held up a staff that was still dripping with blood and asked me, who was standing on the tree: "President, why don't you go up a few levels?"

I smiled knowingly. "Such experience is not enough for me. I have a high level and need to kill high-level monsters. These levels are too low. If I kill them, I will lose experience, which is not cost-effective. You can just enjoy yourself."

"Oh." The little girl turned around and joined the beast again.

Before dark at night, everyone put on their armors and washed all the blood and internal organs in the river, and then the group teleported back to Tianyu City. I believe that after today these people will more or less change, not into criminals who kill without blinking an eye, but into more positive human beings, because human beings are creatures that strive to move forward in order to survive, and this has nothing to do with the body. Change, this is a spirit, a form. Under this analysis, I can at least be sure that I am a human being.

Anyway, after one afternoon of leveling, everyone improved their level by a lot. Group leveling can be divided into experience points. I watched from the side and all of them were upgraded by half a level all afternoon. It is really a terrifying total amount of experience. However, I am the president and have honor points. Other members cannot get so many points. However, they still have a lot of experience from the enemies they directly kill. The most unlucky ones have been promoted to at least fifty levels, which is a collective great leap forward. The most exaggerated players actually rose to more than 300 levels in one afternoon. I really don’t know how they practiced.

On the 22nd, that is, in the early morning of the next day, the cut-off rear guard of the Temple of Light finally belatedly arrived at the edge of the forest where the massacre had occurred. The entire army was stunned. They were harassed many times by the God of War along the way. At the huge cost of losing 1.5 million troops, the main army with the remaining 14 million troops arrived at the designated location half a day early. What met them was a piece of black land condensed by blood and water into an iron plate, and corpses scattered all over the mountains and plains on it.

"Who did this?" one of the two elders accompanying the army roared angrily.

The army commander ordered the army to rest where it was, and then crossed the river with a few main personnel and a small number of guards. The situation here is too tragic and cannot be seen by the follow-up troops, otherwise morale will fall to the bottom. In addition, what they hope more is to find some survivors. At least they want to know what methods the enemy used to attack these more than 7 million people. As an experienced commander, this angel knew at a glance that there were no traces of resistance at the scene, which meant that these seven million people did not die from a frontal defeat. Based on the characteristics of our guild's actions over the past few days, it was easy to Thinking that this team must have been subjected to some kind of conspiracy, otherwise there would be more than seven million people without even a single person being summoned.