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war3.The Frozen Throne Chapter 5: Fishing for corpses with human bait, proficient in skills

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    The broad and winding river is like a long and narrow crystal mirror, extending beyond the horizontal boundary a hundred meters away. The clear and sparkling light turns into a long dividing line, dividing this land into two sides: civilization and wilderness.

    The northern end is a primitive wilderness covered with ice and snow; while the southern coast is a patch of plains with a mild climate and moist soil. Various races, most of them human beings, have naturally settled here. For hundreds of years, each pioneer point has been  Established one after another, forming an independent but intertwined network.

    "It's a pity that this last piece of pure land has also begun to fall.

    According to the plot of World of Warcraft, the Lich King Ner'zhul, who was resurrected by the Burning Legion, had already turned into a meteor and projected into the depths of the Arctic. It accumulated strength by resurrecting the bones accumulated in Northrend for many years, and first quietly destroyed an ancient spider monster.  The kingdom gradually turned the entire glacier ice cap into a fortress of natural disasters.  Then he sent his men to the eastern continent to spread natural disasters and plagues to the Kingdom of Lordaeron, and lured a young prince to come. In the end, the two of them would use conspiracy and revenge around a demonic giant sword in the ice and snow.  Have a fateful encounter.

    These magnificent epics and legends are too far away from Rorschach now. At this moment, he has no time to care about them and is focusing all his energy on another thing - fishing.

    When ordinary people fish, they use wooden fishing rods and use earthworms and insects as bait to catch live big fish.  But Rorschach is different.

    He was currently standing in the middle of a small bridge paved with logs. The bridge was not large in scale, with a width of three meters from left to right. Counting the wooden piles rooted in the soil at both ends, it was less than twenty meters away, but this was a square meter.  In ten miles, the only passage connecting the north and south ends is also his "fishing rod".

    With the fishing rod, there will naturally be no shortage of bait. He stood alone on the bridge, looking at the lush forest in the distance, leisurely and comfortably enjoying the unique scenery of the small bridge, flowing water, and pine and snowy mountains, without any panic caused by hunger.  and the anxiety of long waits.

    He has nothing in his hands, he is a single figure, and his skin is tender and tender, so he is the perfect candidate for "fishing bait".

    Suddenly, dull footsteps sounded in the distance, with bursts of "crack" sounds of bones loosening. Seven or eight black spots gradually appeared in the hills, like a team of mountain people who had been busy in the forest all morning, gathering to go home to rest.  However, as the distance approached, a rotten stench rushed towards the face, revealing the ferocious true appearance of the visitor.

    Two ghouls with rotten faces were half-crawling and half-hopping forward. Beside them, six skeleton cows and horses carrying broken logs on their backs were stumbling forward step by step.

    Luo Xia looked at the past from a distance. Not only did he not show any fear, but he smiled slightly.

    The fish is hooked.

    Unlike skeleton soldiers who rely on the induction of undead flames in their skulls to stay alive, ghouls are more similar to mutated living corpses in a sense. Although their vision is blurred and their hearing is weak, their sense of smell has been amazingly improved. Some types of ghouls  Ghosts can even use their sense of smell to break thieves' stealth and mage's invisibility spells.  (Refer to the level 45 dungeon "Stratholme" in "World of Warcraft".)

    Relying on this ability, these two monsters smelled Rorschach's living breath dozens of meters away. They were slightly stagnant for a moment, and then fell into a state of fanaticism. In the blink of an eye, they abandoned the skeletal servants who were struggling to move.  Rushing over like an arrow from a string.

    The ghouls of the Scourge are not like the sluggish zombies of Resident Evil. Their tendons were infected by the plague and mutated to become more elastic, allowing them to jump like apes and move faster than ordinary humans can jog.  And because there is no sense of fatigue or pain in the undead physique, before the tendons are broken by high-intensity exercise, they can maintain a uniform speed. Although it will not explode, it will not decrease, which is enough for a long chase with the prey.  game.

    The two slowly crawling monsters saw a living person standing on the bridge in front of them. They immediately let out whimpering gasps and rushed over with fishy saliva oozing out from their yellowed teeth. They just jumped up and down the edge of the wooden bridge.  At the corner, two intercepting black shadows suddenly flashed out from behind the wooden piles supporting the bridge.  The ghoul sniffed instinctively and immediately determined the identity of the "inferior food". Faced with the temptation of fresh human flesh on the other side, he continued to rush forward regardless.  However, in the next second, only two consecutive soft sounds of swords tearing through the air were heard, and two rotten heads rolled towards the sky with a flash of swords, and sank into the clear river with two pops.

    And until this moment, the skeletons who were carrying them in accordance with the established procedures were belatedly arrived. And these more fragile bone constructs, faced with two fierce and ruthless corpse queens, were completely destroyed within three to five seconds.  The suspense was wiped out.

    Luo Xia watched the development of the matter coldly. After all the undead were extinct, he lowered his head, opened his book of reincarnation, and muttered:

    “This is the eighth time, it’s almost done”

    He is not fanatical about killing all the undead.Knight, the reason why you spend time ambushing and designing these monsters is just because of the mission that suddenly popped up in the Book of Reincarnation just now.

    "Trigger side quests

    Title: Eliminating Evil

    content:

    Condition 1: Kill the logging ghoul team in the forest (9/9) (Completed).

    Condition 2: Burn the wood accumulated by the undead in the lumberyard to slow down the construction progress of their base (0/1)

    Condition 3: Kill the undead in the lumberyard and ensure the death of the Cursed Mage Apprentice ‘Schiller Cohen’ (0/1).

    Reward: For each completed item, 500 survival points will be awarded; for completed two items, an additional bronze low-level card will be awarded; for completed three items, you will receive the thanks of the "Freden Family".

    Failure penalty: For each failed item, 1,000 survival points will be deducted. If all fails, an additional 1,500 survival points will be punished.  "

    This side mission suddenly appeared when he was clearing out the logging team he discovered for the first time.  If he had not been clear about the use of survival points before, Luo Xia could have considered fighting and escaping, but now that he knew that this kind of thing was directly linked to his own life, no matter how much he thought about it, he had no choice but to give up relying on Corpse Girl for protection.  Go directly to the plan of going to the town and find a way to complete these tasks that suddenly pop up.

    What he didn’t know was that this difficult choice indirectly saved his life.

    Through the vague hints of the mission, the lumberyard on the original map has obviously fallen and has become a warehouse for the undead to store wood. The former lumberjacks were infected into ghouls after death and were divided into a group by the instigators behind the scenes.  A small team worked hard day and night. This was the origin of the mess in the forest that Rorschach saw from the mountainside.

    Rorschach is not a son of a plane protected by the protagonist's halo, so he will not be stupid enough to go deep into the enemy's lair and rush directly into the logging factory to defeat hordes of enemies.  Although the Corpse Girls have extraordinary skills, there are only two of them after all. Facing the erosion of the human sea tactics, even if they can fight one against ten, they are invincible, but the Rorschach behind them is just an ordinary human without any reinforcement. Once they are restrained,  I am afraid that a skeleton soldier who is not afraid of bullet penetration is enough to chase him all over the ground.  So after distant observation and repeated consideration, he adopted the strategy of "waiting and waiting".

    Since these undead, who are organized into small teams, are engaged in lumberjack activities as undead, it means that the undead forces need intact wood.  As we all know, wood, a resource, whether used for building houses or burning firewood, is very taboo against moisture and insects, and must be stored in a dry place.  As these monsters have to go to and from the lumberyard, it is naturally impossible to cross this spacious river directly, and they can only pass through this only small bridge.

    Moreover, although the efficiency of logging by ghouls is high, their stature after being infected with the virus is too small, their stiff arms cannot be bent, and they have the habit of walking on all fours, so they cannot carry a large amount of wood and trek.  Let the skeletons of animal bones cooperate.  The team is mostly composed of two ghouls and seven or eight pack skeletons, which also means that the maximum load it can bear will not exceed ten logs.

    In other words, even if the time spent walking on the road is included, every logging team will return to the logging camp once within forty or fifty minutes.

    Luo Xia took advantage of this time difference to stand alone on this small bridge and used himself as bait. He arranged for two corpse girls to hide behind the bridge pier to intercept the assassination. In the end, after waiting for less than forty minutes, the remaining corpses were killed.  Eight teams were slaughtered.  Not only is it fast and convenient, it also saves you the trouble of tracking dozens of messy routes into the mountains. What's more, several of the ghoul teams are not logging in the forest, but on their way back after storing the wood.  It took a long time to arrive. If the enemies in the logging camp noticed something was wrong and recalled all the troops to prepare for the attack, it would be another headache.

    "Eh is this?" Luo Xia unfolded the Book of Reincarnation and after confirming that the task of condition 1 was completed, he suddenly discovered that in addition to the 500 points rewarded, there was an additional gain of nearly 200 points. After a closer look, he found that  It is a sporadic reward after killing these monsters.  Each ghoul was given an individual reward of fifteen to twenty points, while the average skeleton was only five or six points. It seemed that the rewards were slightly different depending on the difference in strength.

    What surprised him was not the increase in points, but the three extra cards.

    "Skill Card (Black Iron Level Lower Level)

    Logging:

    It allows adventurers to directly obtain the logging skills equivalent to "Joe Frieden".

    Conditions for use: clear mind and sound limbs.  "

    The remaining two cards are similar, except that their names are "Teddy Frieden" and "Holly Frieden".

    "It seems that the so-called 'Frieden family' refers to the original owners of the lumber camp I didn't expect to kill them.Monsters also have a chance to acquire the skills they had when they were alive.  " Luo Xia nodded in understanding, with an ugly expression of lingering fear suddenly appearing on his face. Finally, he stared at the description of the conditions of use for a few seconds, and finally chose to use it as before.

    Perhaps the violent reaction last time was just because the bronze-level items were beyond the endurance limit of ordinary people, or the skill cards were originally more gentle than pure knowledge cards.  Rorschach could only see a ray of light, as shallow as the morning sun, blooming from his hand, and then soaking into his eyebrows like a spirit, and then some strange memories flashed in his mind, as if the past had been forgotten for a long time, and suddenly at this moment  Aroused by stimulation, there is a strange feeling of sudden enlightenment.

    After being immersed for a moment, he opened his eyes and came back to his senses. Countless fragments faintly appeared in his eyes, and finally they turned into instinctive and subtle memories and were engraved into his body.  He sighed leisurely, then pulled out the sword from his waist with a clang, turned around and walked to a tall cedar tree. He clumsily grasped the handle of the sword with both hands. The blade of the sword was slanted in the air, as if holding an ax horizontally.  Cut it down.

    “Bang-bang-bang——”

    The rough and tough bark of the tree was immediately struck by the blade, making a harsh and muffled sound. After three consecutive cuts, the fir tree trunk that was hugged by one person immediately split open, revealing shallow gouges of less than an inch.

    Seeing this scene, Luo Xia raised his eyebrows and moved his wrist, but he was quite satisfied.  The failure to cut the tree was not due to poor technique.  Firstly, all he gained was the experience of cutting wood with an axe, which was not suitable for the slender and thin sword; secondly, Azeroth is a magical world after all, and even the powerless civilians have physical qualities that exceed most of the real world.  In comparison, the special soldier's body is too weak, so even if he follows the fine wooden circular grains three times in a row, he cannot penetrate deep into the heart of the wood.

    The most important thing is that in these seemingly simple three cuts, the cuts are like overlapping lines, but the depth is different. This is actually the result of Rorschach using three different techniques.  The experience memory contained in skill cards is not a unified product on the assembly line, but varies according to the source of the original owner's abilities during his lifetime.  For example, "Joe Frieden" is born with brute force and has a rough style, but also has the worst skills; while "Teddy" has an agile mind and can cut more lightly and quickly. "Hole", as a direct descendant of the lumberyard, has mastered the details  Most skills.

    "This is simply the nemesis of all geniuses" Luo Xia suddenly sighed, somewhat impressed by the power of infinite space.  This ability to pass on other people's experiences and habits directly makes the gap created by the "talent" column that originally existed in reality become dispensable.  Even if an illiterate farmer obtains skill cards such as "Philosophy", "Mathematics", and "History", let alone the wisdom of application, he will be as good as others with more than ten years of experience based on knowledge and experience alone.  It's like a day's hard work has accumulated, but it's just that it can't bring forth the old and bring forth the new, reaching a level that the original owner has not yet reached.

    After he finished handling the scattered corpses and confirmed that nothing was missing, he led the two corpse girls directly towards the logging camp.  Although he is cautious and likes to make decisions before taking action, at critical moments, he prefers to solve problems head-on. This is exactly the principle of the art of war of "focusing on good and supplementing with surprise".  If you keep hiding behind your back and hatching conspiracies, you will eventually encounter challenges that you cannot avoid. When the time comes, you will be helpless. Should you just sit back and wait for death?

    Not to mention how many residents can there be in a remote logging camp?  Leaving aside the women, children and children who could not be transformed, he had killed a total of eighteen ghouls.  Even if the background of this world is similar to Western European culture, with the custom of multiple families living in the mountains and fields, the remaining monsters will never exceed the total number of people out.  After all, this is just a temporary warehouse for harvesting wood. The food resources in the mountains are limited and cannot support too many people.

    "But the ones left there should no longer be low-level characters like militiamen. At least the 'Schiller Cohen' mentioned in that mission may be a necromancer, but I don't know what his strength is.  Anyway, he shouldn't be very strong, otherwise he wouldn't be assigned to this place"

    Luo Yu thought like this and walked towards the faintly visible corner of the courtyard.

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