ccnovels Chapter 208 Cannon fodder goes first
Chapter 208 Cannon fodder goes first
In the small courtyard, Xiao Jian's body was busy moving the flowerpots one by one to where they should be.
Although Xiao Jian, who has the "invisible hand", does not need to do it himself, he still needs to lift and put down the flowerpots "manually".
All along, when Xiao Jian appeared in front of others as a clone, he could "transform" cards, weapons, servants or any device out of thin air with just a raise of his hand.
However, behind such coolness, it was Xiao Jian's body that worked tirelessly to move and hand it over...
After all, the material communication between Xiao Jian and the clone can only be through the "belief link", and the belief link is limited to the main body and the clone.
So, in the "Windmill World", when the black and shiny raven stood proudly on a high place, being received by countless newly converted believers who knelt down and shouted "great"...
Xiao Jian's body was still busy working up and down.
The sound of flapping wings, the sound of flower pots rubbing against the fourth floor terrace...
Such repeated noises woke up Shao You who had just fallen asleep on the second floor.
He first wrapped himself in the quilt for a short while and found that the noise still showed no sign of stopping. Then he became a little more energetic, put on some clothes and walked out of the house.
Then, he met Xiao Jian face to face.
"I'm sorry to disturb you." Xiao Jian raised his head and looked at the sky. The bright moon was hanging in the middle of the sky...
"Ouch, ouch..."
"grass!"
Xiao Jian howled unconsciously and immediately took off the [Wolf Fang Necklace] that he had forgotten to take off.
"What are you?" Shao Youxian was slightly startled.
"Oh, it's a side effect of this relic..." Xiao Jian shook the [Wolf Fang Necklace] and talked a little about the origin of this thing.
"Is that so? It turns out it has side effects..." Shao You scratched his head first.
Although Shao Youxian had used this necklace before when he was testing the addition of attack power to gunpowder weapons, it was daytime, so he didn't feel anything strange.
"Almost all relics will have some kind of side effects. Of course there are exceptions, but they are very few." Xiao Jian replied.
"Oh..." Shao Youxian didn't do much research on relics. After all, the entire fortress town couldn't find a single relic.
However, he still knew about this magical item. After all, there were still several relics from the former Nanwu Fortress.
However, with the fall of Nanwu Fortress, those relics have long been missing.
"What are you doing?" Shao Youxian was a little curious about Xiao Jian's busyness in the middle of the night.
"It's a long story...let's find a place to sit and talk."
Xiao Jian took Shao You to the first floor first, lit a fire in the stove and boiled water, and then slowly told what he had just experienced.
During this time, the water boiled.
Xiao Jian made himself and Shao Youxian a cup of fake milk with creamer and sugar.
"It's actually like this!" Shao You scratched his head first, "It's a pity that I didn't see it with my own eyes."
"It's indeed spectacular, but that kind of parasite is really disgusting..." Xiao Jian had a headache.
"I suggest you pay more attention to the survivors. If they show signs of being parasitized, it means you need to upgrade your protection level." Shao You thought for a while and said.
"really."
"However, the information collected so far is still too little. Apart from knowing the name of the person, we know almost nothing about it... How is your translation work?" Shao Youxian asked with concern.
Xiao Jian had seized many scrolls before, and Shao Youxian already knew about this.
"Don't mention it, it's too much trouble." Xiao Jian's head hurt when he mentioned those scrolls.
And Shao Youxian was helpless.
"Speaking of which, what's going on with those zombies that suddenly spawned? Do you think it has something to do with that 'god'?"
Xiao Jian changed the topic, not wanting to think about those scrolls and documents - before, Xiao Jian also talked about the zombies that had started to refresh again.
"Well..." Shao You thought for a while, "It's hard to make a conclusion yet, what do you think?"
"I always feel that these zombies have little to do with the 'god'... but rather have something to do with the survivors."
Next, Xiao Jian expressed his speculation: "Perhaps, these sudden human survivors 'occupied' that world fragment in a sense, thus triggering some conditions that we don't know about..."
"You mean, their stay resets the monster spawn?" Shao Youxian asked.
"That's right! That's what it means!" Xiao Jian was afraid that the other party wouldn't understand. Since he had this concept, it would be easier to explain: "I got a piece of information from the scrolls of the Dragon Skull Clan, that is, the 'World Fragments' The master' is a very valuable offering."
"Before, I guessed that the so-called 'owners of world fragments' might be related to their indigenous people... But now that those survivors have prompted a certain mechanism to be refreshed, zombies that can only be found in newly generated world fragments have appeared..."
"So does it mean that those survivors have obtained the fragment of the world? Their identities have changed into the owners there?"
After listening to Xiao Jian's description and speculation, Shao You was silent for a long time.
Compared to Xiao Jian, he actually accumulated more information.
Even the long-dead "Lighthouse World", Shao Youxian and the others had led a team to study it, and with Xiao Jian's additions, all the information was basically correct.
First, the fog will quickly swallow up those ownerless, "dead" fragments of the world.
This has been confirmed in "Lighthouse World" and "Windmill World".
And then, after receiving the most basic safety and housing, the survivors in the "Windmill World" began to truly settle down...
In other words, although it is still unclear what elements are needed to "occupy" an ownerless world fragment, all changes only happened after Xiao Jian built a building for the survivors.
In other words, having at least a "home" is an inducement and even a necessary condition for "occupying" a fragment of the world.
"I personally agree with your judgment, but the final conclusion still needs to be discussed at a meeting..." Shao Youxian said very rigorously.
"Indeed." Xiao Jian nodded.
After a brief exchange, the two suddenly fell silent.
Xiao Jian picked up the cup and took a sip of the sweet creamer, and suddenly remembered something: "How are the results of your rune research? Have you made any new discoveries?"
"There are no new discoveries, but a lot of old rules have been summarized." Shao Youxian smiled slightly and began to explain his research results to Xiao Jian.
From the impact that the base material may have on the runes, to the different combinations of rune arrangement, size, and orientation...
The total number of runes is 33. Taking into account the different orientations of the runes, there are a total of 33x4=132 different individual runes...
"Then if you want to calculate the number of different permutations it has, you need to calculate the sum of all the combination numbers from C(132, 1) to C(132, 132). Substitute it into the formula and the solution is 2^1321... This is a very large number. numbers, so it is unrealistic to try to find all the permutations and combinations through exhaustive methods.”
"In this way, we need to summarize the rules through existing permutations and combinations and establish a deep learning model..."
"By verifying the results and adding the weight parameters, we can get..."
"..."
Gradually, Xiao Jian couldn't understand it anymore.
Anyway, all in all... in the end, the graphics card and Shao Youxian's hair were responsible for everything.
It was getting late, the charcoal fire in the stove had been extinguished, and the water glasses in their hands had long since gone cold.
After the two said good night to each other, they both yawned and went back to their rooms to rest.
Suddenly, the entire courtyard fell into silence again...
Only the occasional sound of "Makabaka" came faintly from a certain corner.
…
"Eh oh..."
Early the next morning, when Xiao Jian was stretching his limbs energetically, he suddenly found Dahuang yawning and passing by him.
"Why are you so tired?" Xiao Jian grabbed the fat cat by the back of the neck and picked it up and asked.
"...Meow?"
Dahuang was stunned for a while, then patted his two paws up and down...
The more Xiao Jian watched this action, the more strange it became, until it sang the whole song:
"Meow, meow, meow..."
Although due to physiological characteristics, Dahuang was unable to make sounds that could only be made with his lips... but this did not prevent Xiao Jian from understanding the rhythm.
"You...you actually watched Makabaka all night!?" Xiao Jian's eyes widened.
"Meow!"
Dahuang slapped his chest, as if he was very proud, and almost gave him a thumbs up.
"..."
Xiao Jian put the cat down, and it stretched itself, and then slowly climbed upstairs.
It seems that it should have gone to "have breakfast" at Xiangyanghua.
However, Xiao Jian looked at its plump back thoughtfully.
"Well……"
"Should we install an anti-addiction system? Logically speaking, Dahuang is only a few months old, so it should be considered a child, right?"
"Besides, it has been too idle recently, so I need to find something to do for it... Even if it learns Braille, it would be good."
Xiao Jian muttered to himself.
At this time, Rhubarb didn't know that its nightmare was about to come.
Just when Xiao Jian was thinking about adding some strength to Rhubarb, on the other hand...
…
City of Dragon Skull.
The blood-red floating island is slowly lowering its altitude.
The acting officiant stood on the high altar, looking down at the team preparing to go.
The strong wind blew the clothes of the green-skinned fanatics...
Their eyes are firm and fanatical, their bodies are tall and muscular. Like a statue carved from ancient mountain rocks, it is tough and rough.
The fanatics wore rough animal skins and hung from their waists a variety of primitive weapons - stone axes, hatchets, and the bleeding totems on each greenskin's face.
That's their belief.
It is also their glory.
Perhaps due to the blessing of faith, the morale of all greenskins is extremely high.
Although they are not even warriors, they don't even have 1 point of attack power...
Although in some cases the officiant has the ability to mobilize all soldiers except the dragon master.
However, the once powerful officiant was dead after all, and now the acting officiant, who had not even been appointed by the emperor, obviously did not have the power to directly command the army beyond the imperial power.
But even so, even if the organization is ordinary cannon fodder... the acting chief priest is still determined to personally launch a war at this inopportune time.
"..."
The Tin Woodman stood silently behind the acting chief priest, silently looking at the figure whose personality had changed drastically.
Although the war was originally the acting chief priest's plan...
However, how sophisticated the plan was before, now it seems so rough and hasty!
If the acting officiant was still conscious, this kind of thing should not have happened.
Although the acting chief priest did not show any signs of madness at this time, his eyes showed both firm belief and sufficient sobriety.
However, as the successor of the officiant...he should not have such a devout faith.
All this confused the heavily armored Tin Woodman.
On the altar, the acting chief priest was delivering a speech to the fanatical believers below:
"Warriors! Today we go out not only for glory, but also for faith! The enemies ahead are just tests on our road of faith. God will lead us forward! Every time you wield a weapon, you are fighting against us. A testimony of faith!”
"Remember, we are invincible! Move forward bravely and let the enemy tremble under the power of our faith! Warriors! Stand side by side with me and create a new legend with your blood!"
"For faith, for glory waaagh!"
Following the words of the acting officiant, his speech was like a torch, igniting the solemn atmosphere...
"WAAAAAGH!"
The green-skinned fanatic followers are shaking the sky!
Then, dense crowds of green-skinned fanatics began to move toward the edge of the mist.
In the distance, several giant dragons were cruising in the sky, observing the situation here from a distance.
Obviously, the emperor also knew about the church's actions...
After all, the acting chief priest had previously asked the emperor for command authority, but was rejected.
However, even the emperor did not expect that the acting chief priest would move so quickly, and in just one day, such a large number of cannon fodder for fanatical believers would be organized.
"Look! These are our warriors! They will tear the enemy into pieces! I promise!"
The acting chief priest said with high spirits, as if he had completely forgotten everything before.
The tin can standing behind the acting officiant frowned, and couldn't help but recall the previous conversation between him and the acting officiant:
"...Our strength is the weakest, so we can only act as an introduction. The main force in the early stage must be the Dragon Controller and its descending body."
"When the Dragon Controller and Advent Body are almost exhausted, we will encourage him to join the battle in person."
"If everything goes well, then after the God War, not only will the imperial power be restricted, but we will even be able to get rid of his constraints..."
“When that time comes, I want everyone to know that only our church is the most suitable leader!”
"..."
The words still ring in my ears, but today’s acting officiant is no longer the same person as yesterday.
However, Tin Can is just a slave and has no right to advise.
He could only stand silently behind the acting chief priest, watching helplessly as a divine war at the expense of the entire Dragon Skull clan was about to begin...
"..."