Otherworldly Skeleton

"You mean, you can build a strong city wall with soil and water?" A bone rider questioned in a tone full of contempt, anger, sarcasm and disdain.

Lu Yan smiled and said: "Build the earth wall first, and then pour water to freeze it. You can build a city wall that can barely withstand the charge of cannon fodder in a short period of time. There is no way to cause harm to this kind of ice wall, and between his hesitation and temptation, we will step up to build a real city wall behind this ice wall, so that we can be sure to build a wall against the enemy."

The knights still wanted to refute, but Bernardi stopped them. Bernardi defended the city. Of course, he will soon see the feasibility of this tactic. He said to Lu Yan: "I will build the wall." I will consider it, and if it succeeds, I will apply for an award for you after going to Blackwater City."

Lu Yan did not hesitate, thanked him, left the meeting, and went to the north of Baimu Forest to perform the task of scouting.

Before leaving, Lu Yan left Aye and Gurunt in the Baimulin camp, and at the same time gave Gurunt a secret mission, which was to pay close attention to the stubble-faced man and his companions. A little puzzled, but promised that he would keep an eye on the other party.

Regarding Aye's infidelity, Lu Yan did not tell Grunt, so as not to cause the old cow's displeasure. After all, Aye is a human being, and it is inevitable that he has some thoughts of protecting his companions. How to deal with him, Lu Yan wants to observe for a while Besides.

Walking 5 kilometers to the north, Lu Yan saw Binger's team... A piece of broken bone, Lu Yan saw a piece of red rag sandwiched in it, and the leader's battle bone failed to escape.

Several war bones climbed out from the dug underground tunnel, and nodded to Lu Yan. After Lu Yan asked them, after confirming that none of the skeletons in this small search team had escaped, Lu Yan led his men to continue heading north. .

Fortunately, there is a mountain range parallel to Guzajian Mountain in the north of Baimu Forest. This mountain range is said to have once been the largest soul gap on the Skull Continent. Later, the fierce battle caused the terrain to change and the soul gap to close , extruded a giant dragon-like mountain range, and the first-level city built around Soul Gap was also buried in the huge mountain body. Until more than ten years ago, there were still an endless stream of adventurers who went to the mountain to find the remnants of the collar bones.

These stories were told by Ke Erwen to Lu Yan, and the old fox even lamented that all the good things on that mountain were searched by the former skeletons.

Since the destroyed city was named "Mingbei City", this mountain is also called Mingbei Mountain.

The snow-covered Mingbei Mountain is very difficult to climb, but Lu Yan regards it as an excellent opportunity for military training. He ordered his men to advance in a cross-flower formation. After finding the enemy, immediately light the white wood and flee in the opposite direction of the large army.

The rotten soil under the feet was indeed mixed with a lot of broken bones, and there were also rotten rotten wood and rotten iron, shapeless bricks and white rocks arched deep in the ground, and then covered with a thin layer of rotten soil , forming a very peculiar geology, a mountain of relics.

The messy terrain brought great obstacles to Lu Yan's climbing, but it also made him feel a lot more at ease, because this kind of obstacle will be imposed on any sneak attacker without reservation, coupled with the snow on the mountain, if you want to It is almost impossible to sneak up without being detected.

After spending more than a day, Lu Yan finally climbed a small mountain, and he had a panoramic view of the north of Mingbei Mountain. It was a white plain stretching as far as the eye could see, and nearly half a meter of snow covered the rotten soil stretching to the horizon. , There is no large soul gap, no white wood forest, it looks like a huge white tablecloth, and Mingbei Mountain at the foot of Lu Yan is the folds of this tablecloth, and he and his red bones are the food residues in the folds.

After feeling the wonder of the Creator, Lu Yan began to arrange tasks. On both sides of him, along the trend of Mingbei Mountain, there are some higher mountains. He selected the most determined Red Bones from his subordinates and ordered them to go to Beacon towers are arranged on those commanding heights. Beacon towers are an alarm system taught by Lenzait. They bury white wood and white wood oil at the bottom, and pile up a lot of damp rotten wood, shredded cardboard and broken bones on it. They will be ignited as soon as the enemy is detected. , there will be flames and thick smoke, which can call the police for the companions.

"It's very cold on the mountain, even if you dig the dark canopy, it can't completely prevent you from freezing to death." Lu Yan taught the 40 red bones who will be assigned: "So you need to keep moving, although our bones are not as good as human physique That's special, but it also produces a weak heat during exercise, which doesn't make you feel comfortable, but it can keep you alive."

Satisfied with the determined soldiers, Lu Yan continued: "And this kind of training against the cold is very useful, it will increase the hardness of your bones, just like Lord Deva, He was even able to be frozen at a high altitude covered in ice strips, but still his leg bones were not broken when he fell to the ground. When your mission is over, I hope that everyone will no longer be afraid of the cold."

All the red bones responded in unison, and then they carried the dry white wood stakes wrapped in oilcloth on their backs, and carried the white wood oil and water bags prepared in advance, said goodbye to Lu Yan one after another, and climbed to the designated target area.

In the next two days, Lu Yan took 60 red bones close to him to constantly patrol the sentry points he set up, replacing those who were stunned by the cold wind on the top of the mountain, and encouraging and praising those subordinates who quickly adapted to the severe cold. Mingbei Mountain used it as its own city wall and watchtower, defending it well.

Bernardi, who sent soul-inducing water and white wood supplies, arrived in the early morning of the third day. He brought good news. Bernardi repaired the Gundam in just one night according to the method of watering and building the city provided by Lu Yan. The five-meter earth wall made Fenrir's generals at a loss. He tried to collapse the seemingly soft ice-earth wall, but failed. He lost 3 knights and 10,000+ lower skeletons under the wall. The corpse retreated hastily. Lord Bernardi has already started to forge a real solid city wall. It can be said that the fortification strategy has been successful.

This is good news, but Lu Yan has another layer of worry. The blacksmith who was recognized by Ah Ye, did he take any action? That expression doesn't look like it's okay at all.

It's a pity that Karen Val was not there, otherwise he would be able to see through the other party's intentions at a glance. Lu Yan sent the messenger away, took the soul-inducing water to each sentry point, and applied the soul-inducing water to his subordinates to heal their frostbite in the past three days.

Andelina is much better at doing this than Lu Yan. She has become the most popular red bone. Whenever her distinctive throat trembles, the red bones will immediately become elated, and the little girl will also be happy. Taking pleasure in bringing soul-inducing water to shuttle between the sentry points, Lu Yan was naturally happy to be the hands-off shopkeeper.

However, Lu Yan is not as comfortable as it appears on the surface. He always has a hunch that things are not so simple. Bernardi's city wall has been built. Why is Fenrir's bone still not removed? Could it be that... he was What are you waiting for?

Will the battle to defend the city really be so simple this time?

Just 9 hours after the messenger left, just as night fell, Lu Yan felt a burst of restlessness for no reason, and he crawled out from the dark tent.

"My lord, you just came back from inspection just now, don't you want to take a rest?" Standing guard for Lu Yan was the red bone with jagged legs. He felt that something was wrong with Lu Yan, so he hurried forward to ask.

Lu Yan shook his head: "Anyway, our skeletons don't need to sleep, so we'll do another round of patrolling, as exercise."

"Yes!" Red Bones with sawtooth legs shook off the snow on his shoulders, loudly calling for other Red Bones who had just entered the dark canopy to gather together, and Andelina also stood behind Lu Yan worriedly, not knowing why he was doing this. Things are anxious.

Lu Yan stared at the mountain top to the west. In the last remaining twilight, the silhouette of the highest mountain top to the west was like a giant black beast, waiting to devour those prey.

After thinking for a while, Lu Yan said to Anderina: "Anderina, don't go with us, you go down the mountain immediately, and if you see a fire burning on the top of the mountain, report it to Lord Bernardi immediately There are enemy attacks from the north."

"My lord, are the enemies coming?" Anderina said in surprise, and the other red bones were also shocked.

Lu Yan said: "No, I just have this premonition, I'm not sure, if you still haven't seen the fire after waiting for two hours, then you should go back to Baimulin and ask your brother if there is any movement. What is it, you can ask your brother and you will know."

"Yes." After Andelina agreed, she glanced at Lu Yan worriedly, and then quickly went down the mountain in the dark.

Lu Yan looked at Andelina's back and felt relieved, then he looked towards the sentry point to the west: "Go, see if I'm too sensitive."

After passing three checkpoints, the red bones on duty were all safe and sound, and the connection with the other red bones was not broken. Lu Yan gradually felt that maybe he was really too nervous, but since he had come , and detected the westernmost sentry point, and asked the red bone at the farthest sentry point to be more vigilant through soul words, and then led his men to climb westward in the snow-covered mountains.

Sure enough, as Karen Val said, after doing more training, the resistance to the cold is gradually increasing, and climbing in the snow gradually becomes less difficult. Seeing that the west side sentry point is getting closer and closer .

All of a sudden, a strange whining sound appeared, which sounded like the sound of counting cables being dragged across the snow, a little rough and a little slippery. Lu Yan's spirit suddenly became tense, and he stopped in his tracks. He buried his right hand in the snow to prevent the white bee's light from revealing his existence. Dozens of red bones behind him also received the order from the soul words, and all squatted down one after another, holding weapons in their hands.

"West No. 5, is there something wrong?" Lu Yan asked the westernmost sentry through his soul words, but he didn't answer. He felt that the two sentries had lost contact with him.

beast?Enemy attack?

Lu Yan immediately ordered all the red bones to lie on the ground, and covered themselves with a thin layer of snow. Within a few minutes, the snow in the sky almost wiped away their traces, and occasionally exposed The bones are also considered to be the remains abandoned on Mingbei Mountain.

Half of Lu Yan's head was exposed outside the snow, waiting quietly, waiting for the enemy to show up in front of him.

Finally, the sound of ropes being dragged across the snow came from behind his head again. Lu Yan felt his bones trembling nervously, but he couldn't move, so he could only control himself not to tremble. He found that his subordinates The reactions of the red bones were not too big, and they secretly praised the psychological quality of the human-shaped red bones in their hearts.

A group of black curved bones almost slid across Lu Yan's skull, and that mysterious thing finally revealed its true face—a bone snake.