Otherworldly Skeleton

Building a city is a huge and spectacular operation. On a land of hundreds of square kilometers, tens of millions of densely packed skeletons act like ants. Each skeleton carries more or less building materials and garbage. Run, carefully staggering with your companions to avoid breaking bones in the frigid temperatures.

On the edge of the soul gap, five bone riders commanded their millions of men to climb down the two sides of the soul gap to remove the soul-moving rats hidden in the cracks on the side of the soul gap. These guys who will eventually shrink the soul gap must be eliminated.Skeletons continued to fall into the soul gap due to broken claw bones, but the skeleton riders didn't care about it at all. The casualties of building the city were nothing compared to fighting.

Hundreds of huge spherical mud stoves are distributed in the open space according to the standard vertical and horizontal arrangement, and white logs taller than the mud stoves are piled up next to them. Human craftsmen direct the skeletons to throw a lot of scrap iron and a small amount of ore into them, Then the bellows are continuously pulled to ensure the continuous fire temperature in the clay oven. After the molten iron is poured out, it is molded on the spot to become the grid baffle needed to cover the soul gap.

The mud stoves are all placed in the middle of the road. In addition to ironmaking, another important function is to increase the temperature to prevent the skeletons from being frozen by the falling snow. Sometimes the mud stoves that are rushing to work will collapse, and the molten iron inside will A large number of skeletons were burned to death and even a pile of wood piled on the side was set on fire, but this kind of accident could not even cause other skeletons to take a second look. In the face of the rush of work, any death is acceptable.

On the northern shore of the southernmost lake, a ditch 15 meters wide and [-] meters deep was dug in just one day, and several huge iron steamers were sandwiched on top of it. The ditch was filled with burning white logs.

The dense red bones mix the excavated mulch with the boiled white wood root slurry, and then mix it with the ashes left after the white wood is burned, and put it into a special iron bone steamer to form pieces half a meter long. Square adobe bricks half a meter wide and half a meter high, and then put the steamer on the iron pan to steam and then bake.The large square bricks that have been baked dry are the main materials for building the city.

In addition, there were those who dug pits, set traps, felled trees, cleaned up bone ants, and repaired the bone cultivation department in the city. Not a single skeleton was idle, and all of Bernardi's subordinates were crazily busy.

A Ye was in charge of the management of five iron-making clay furnaces. Lu Yan brought Hong Gu to his side to assist him. He found that the bodies of himself and his subordinates, Hong Gu, had become much lighter. Their fingers were nimble and strong, and they could walk, carry, and jump easily. There is an indescribable lightness.He guessed that this was the effect of Bernardi's bone halo.

The red bone shows language, the war bone shows the soul words, the strong bone shows the truth of the bone, the riding bone shows the fusion of riding, and the characteristic of the general bone is to get the general ring.

According to the records of Bone Encyclopedia, the general ring is only available when the skeleton has advanced to the bone general stage. Its effect is similar to some large-scale magic, but it does not contain elemental fluctuations. The principle should be related to the ubiquitous soul force of the skeletons. , or it may be something like pheromone, emitted from the bones, stimulating the bone souls and bodies of the subordinate skeletons to undergo corresponding changes.

There are many types of general rings, such as increasing the action speed of the entire army, improving the defense or attack power of subordinates, improving reaction sensitivity, increasing the speed of absorbing rotten souls, etc. The effect of the general ring often determines the characteristics of a general leader, such as being able to Generals with a 20% increase in marching speed are more suitable for long-distance raids, while generals like Bernardi who can increase the sensitivity of their men by 20% are more suitable for fortification or street fighting.

Lu Yan didn't really participate in the battle in Guzama Mountain at the beginning, so he didn't experience the light of the general ring. Now he followed Bernardi general bone to fight in the field for the first time, and he finally felt it. The scary thing is that this kind of aura that can affect tens of millions of skeletons may not have obvious individual effects, but when it is enlarged to the entire army, it will show incredible power.

At the same time, Lu Yan was also gradually thinking about a problem. There are so many skeletons, and the skills and attack power are actually quite good, but why it has been so long since they can't attack the Nuo Ding Lun continent? Even a small Vama Grassland Are you uneven?

Bernardi's fortification plan was harassed a day and a half later, and Fenrir also sent a general.

At the cost of two cavaliers, the opponent destroyed almost all of Bernardi's wall foundations on the south side. Although Bernardi suffered no casualties, he wasted a day and a half in building the city and lost countless supplies. .

At the same time, another bad news also came, the back of Bai Mulin encountered a search team sent by Binger.

Binger's collar is further north of Fenrir and Kuluji, and there has been no war with Zexis before, but in this cold winter that will last for three months, it is not necessarily so. Strictly speaking, this The white wood forest is closer to Binger's leader's territory, and Binger is more qualified to occupy it.

Bernardi discussed with the riders for a long time, and finally made a decision to install some sentry towers in the west and north directions. If the remnants of Binger's collarbone and Yuyaoji will not hit Baimulin, it is the best idea. , but if the two of them send troops secretly, they must be aware of it as soon as possible, so as not to be flanked by them and Fenrir.

Due to Lu Yan's nimble and small body and relatively high combat effectiveness in the battle bones, he was sent to the front line in the north to set up secret sentries. It was just like what Karen Val said, the more capable he is, the easier it is to obtain dangerous tasks. The principle of completing tasks and avoiding becoming cannon fodder may not necessarily work in real battles.

However, Lu Yan didn't complain about this. He knew very well that in order to grow rapidly, he had to face one by one arduous tasks, and the kind of skeletons that soaked up on the edge of the soul gap would never have fighting power.

What really worried Lu Yan was Bernardi's defensive ability. Just as Lu Yan was about to set off, Fenrir's general attacked again, and the steaming brick pit arranged by Bernardi was also buried. The iron steamer was broken or robbed, and the progress of building the city came to a complete standstill.

If the city cannot be built, Bernardi will face the enemy in an open field, and his aura is dexterity, which is not suitable for open battles, and the opponent is obviously good at harassing. Bernardi's retreat is almost expected, and Lu Yan does not want himself When lurking in the north, the back road was suddenly cut off, so that the enemy did not need to deal with him, and the severe cold on the high mountain alone could kill him.

So, find a way to help Bernardi build the city.

How can we build the city wall under the constant harassment of the enemy? Lu Yan used the excuse of preparing materials to go to the south to check the terrain, trying to find a feasible way before leaving. Aye and Gurunt followed him, together Walk along a messy steamed earth pit.

There are broken rotten iron and broken bones everywhere, the smothered white wood is hiding under the rotten soil and spewing thick smoke, the skeletons who have lost their tools and the craftsmen are a little dazed and want to clean up the mess, but they are obviously at a loss. Know where to start.

Lu Yan looked at it and shook his head secretly. If this kind of sneak attack comes again two times, Bernardi should give up the plan of building the city completely, but if he doesn't build the city, it may be difficult for him to defend.

"Grunt, do you have any good ideas?" Lu Yan asked casually while thinking.

The tall bull-headed skeleton shook its head like a rattle: "Hmm... my lord, I don't know anything about this. Since I can't build a city, I might as well rush out and fight them. If you win, you will be happy. If you lose, just run away."

If you lose, I'm afraid you will die here. Depending on the speed of the opponent, maybe the general has a speed ring, and he probably won't be able to run.Lu Yan smiled slightly, and then asked Ah Ye: "A Ye, do you remember any good methods of building a city on the grassland?"

no answer.

Lu Yan looked back strangely, and saw that A Ye had pulled back two meters, and was looking at the group of cast iron craftsmen in the distance with some doubts. Bare-chested, revealing the iron-like upper body, he was pulling the bellows to burn the iron, and Ah Ye's eyes fell on the man.

"Aye, did you see someone you know?" Lu Yan felt that there was something wrong with Aye's gaze, so he walked up to him and asked.

Ah Ye suddenly trembled slightly, as if he had been frightened, then quickly recovered, and looked away from the man as if avoiding: "No, no... oh, humans on the grassland rarely build temporary cities, real big cities It was built over several years or even decades, and it is simply impossible to build a city overnight under the eyes of the enemy like this."

Ah Ye knew that man, and wanted to hide the existence of that man, there was something wrong here.Lu Yan kept it in his heart and didn't point it out on the spot. He smiled and said, "Is it impossible? But if we can't do this impossible thing, we might all have to die here."

Lu Yan continued to walk along the buried steam pits. The water flowing out of those broken steamers had already frozen, mixing rotten soil, rotten iron, and broken bones together, and it was hard and hard to step on. The ice is very harsh.

Suddenly, Lu Yan stopped. He squatted down, picked up a piece of frozen ice mixed with a lot of mud and sand with his slender and strong finger bones, and observed it carefully.

Aye and Grunt stood behind him. Aye's expression was cloudy and preoccupied, while Grunt looked at Lu Yan's back curiously, wondering what this smart boss was doing.

The snowflakes were much bigger than ten days ago. Lu Yan only squatted for a few minutes, and a thin layer of "white hair" fell on his back. Gulunte carefully stretched out his thick hand bones to help him wipe the snowflakes away. Lose.

In the distance, a stubble-faced man was burning molten iron in full swing, while occasionally scanning the surrounding skeletons with vigilant eyes. Under the iron-making clay furnace in front of him, the young Batar was desperately pulling the skeleton with suppressed anger. bellows.

Aye's gaze swept across the stubble-faced burly man, and every strong slave around him. Gradually, the surprise in Aye's eyes became more and more intense, and at the same time, his anticipation and hesitation became more and more intense.

Suddenly, Lu Yan stood up, clutching the silt-filled ice cube tightly in his hands, and said in a slightly excited tone: "I found a way to build a city overnight." Without turning back, he walked towards Bernardi's awning.