Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

Because of the status of the shield guards, it would be much easier for everyone to enter Aikang Town than for the people inside to come out. The former is almost open to all comers, while the latter must consider its identity to ensure that it is not a person from Aikang Town who has been labeled as a "bloody remnant". In fact, there are only a few organizations that have obtained charters from the United City and have this qualification.

However, Tech Hunter is one of them.

"But..." Someone asked at this time, "If the coalition really wants to destroy Aikang Town and cleanse everyone here, why not simply take down all the defenses and hand over the city to the beak-billed beasts?"

Aikang Town stands on the wasteland of bones, and it is also subject to the looting and impact of animal disasters again and again. Although the shield guards are unable to resist foreign enemies, they live on the line of the city wall, as well as the internal watchtowers, fortresses, and the city... In order to protect themselves from being killed by giraffes, they objectively weakened the impact of every animal disaster.

Even Kone of the Farstrider clan escaped disaster by hiding in a fortress controlled by the Mourn Mine Shield Guards the last time he went south for trade.

The shield guards' daily necessities depend almost entirely on transportation and trade from the outside world. A small social form is formed along the city wall. What is digested and leaked out after a layer of circulation also feeds many outer cities to a certain extent. of wild people.

Although it sounds cruel to say it - if they were solely relied on to maintain the purge of the people in Aikang Town, it might not be as efficient as dismantling this organization directly.

There were different opinions around the bonfire for a while. Some people said that this was the bad taste of the nobles of the United City. They turned the entire city-state into the largest colosseum. Others said that this showed that they were not crazy enough yet, and maybe they were. Because of his determination to rebuild Aikang Town, the organization was left behind... Speculations arose for a while, and there was a tendency to quarrel.

"If there is something that is in line with the coalition's goals, but they fail to do it - it must not be because they don't want to, but because they are unable to do it." At this time, Lu Meng spoke, "Or, there is still the inability to do it. The greater good of giving up.”

"Have you seen the map I gave you before?"

Everyone looked at him and nodded.

It was a copied map of Aikang Town. Aikang Town was once the imperial capital. Countless people had calculated its geographical surroundings. It was combined with the information about the Blood Rebellion that Bo had, Chad's life, and the adventure experiences of Ji Hailujin and others. ...Finally, it was produced under the revision of Lu Meng.

Lu Meng used the firelight to spread out his portion and showed it to everyone.

The outermost perimeter of this square city-state is the internal defense line guarded by the shield guards, followed by the area where the wild people live in the city. The southwest direction is dyed a large area of ​​blue with ink.

That is the scope of Kaidun City's control now.

As for their own location, it is just a newly marked red dot.

However, this is not what Lu Meng wants to show everyone. His fingers continue to move inward, past the living area of ​​​​the wild people.

Next, there is a blank.

There are no routes, patterns, or signs marking any force.

Not that there is none.

But it cannot be detected, there are no clues.

Everyone understands.

That was the core of Ai Mining Town, a truly prosperous place in the mining capital in the past, compared to where they are now just a suburban slum.

It was also after experiencing drastic changes.

The ones that are declining the fastest and changing their appearance the most.

So much so that the previous maps cannot be used at all.

"The people living inside are mountain people and city people... We were all warned not to have contact with them in the past," Chad said, "But to be honest, we rarely see them here."

Moreover, even the outermost wild people have such a difficult life, let alone those in the mining areas and urban areas.

How many are still alive?

It's all unknown.

"But look," Lu Dai, who had been eating melon, came to Lu Meng's side and pointed at the boundary between the wild people and the empty space in the city. "If the shield guard is used to prevent the wild people from attacking and escaping, then Doesn’t it seem like the wild people themselves are also guarding against them?”

silence.

"Uh, I'm sorry I was just talking nonsense..." The apprentice mechanic retracted his head angrily.

"No, it's possible." Lu Meng continued, "But to say that 'preparation' is a bit too much, they are more like a buffer."

Use shield guards to trap the wild people.

Then use them to wrap up the empty inner city.

"Whether the coalition forces had the intention to rebuild and control Aikang Town is no longer testable..." Lu Meng said, "But they definitely didn't want to give up here completely."

At that time, the Southern Union City was in a period of prosperity. In addition to the current Kaidun, Wandering End and other places participating in the war, there were actually more city-states.

It's just a pity that they perished before the Aikang Town that they besieged.

For example, the farmhouse is constantly being eroded by the burning forest.

Such as the old prison city further south.

Even Tianxin Risheng, who is now famous in the south, could not be called a pawn at that time, but he was just a hooded guard of the Tianxin family in Kaidun City. He may not be able to participate in the upper-level strategy of suppressing the bloody rebellion and blocking the mourning mine. Come.

Lu Meng thought.

I'm afraid that the current opponent is also very confused as to the original intention of the coalition forces' arrangement.

This time Kaidun City has settled in, and it seems that it has controlled nearly 80% of the sphere of influence. It is impossible to compete with them - but this is only limited to known areas.

More cities and mining areas.

It is still blank.

This is where everyone is silent.

According to their thinking, if they want to control Ai Mine Town this time, no matter what kind of speculation and quarrels there are, there is at least one consensus: use the settings originally left by the coalition forces to control Ai Mine Town.

After entering the city, many warriors from Shandi realized the gap: even if it has been abandoned, the depth of an Ai Mine Town is several times greater than that of the White Eyebrow Valley, and even the settlement of the largest tribe on the grassland cannot compare with them.

The area range is even more impossible to measure.

If we must compare, I am afraid that only the Shan City, which is still in the planning and future, can be comparable to it.

It is impossible to control such a city-state without using the existing organization, so everyone is so concerned about the existing pattern in the discussion.

However, the Shield Guard is an organization left by the United City, and Kaiton City has "preconceived" and seized the opportunity. Whether in terms of strength, tendency or timing, they have no advantage.

If not, Ai Mine Town cannot be said to be handed over to Kaiton City.

In fact, many people are a little discouraged.

Now, the Red King has pointed out a clear path.

However, if the shield guard was really set up out of necessity, even the coalition forces that suppressed the bloody rebellion were unable to do what they wanted to do, leaving such a large blank.

How could I do it myself?

"The same reason applies to Kaiton City." Lu Meng smiled, "This means that they are facing the same dilemma as us, and the mastery of the shield guard is very likely not to help Tian Xinli Zheng much."

This is the same starting line.

No...

He looked at Chad and Bo.

The rugged and deep mine veins, the prosperous urban areas that have undergone changes... The places that the coalition forces could not explore are different for another group of people.

- The rebel army of the bloody rebellion itself.

The anti-slavery ash, that is the orthodox 'bloody remnant', an old man who has lived from the previous generation to the present.

Although he couldn't come in person this time, Bo was here. She had been entrusted by the Hive Prince to help Lu Meng with all her strength, but she didn't expect that the other party turned to the depression lagoon halfway - although it was necessary in retrospect, it objectively helped her to untie the knot in her heart.

Chad said that they were wild people, and according to tradition, they were warned not to touch the inner city, but in fact, because of Ji Hai and Lu Jin's relationship, they were the ones who really went deep into it.

It was even because of this reason.

Ji Hai fell into that strange root of disease.

In fact, it was not a disease.

It was the skyrocketing animal taming ability that in turn distorted the transformation of the human body itself - to communicate with animals, animal tamers could not be the same as ordinary people, and the so-called animal taming ability would not only be passed down in the Shandi tribe in a way similar to clan blood.

Lu Meng promised Ji Hai that she could help him with treatment, but what she really needed to do was to help him improve his strength and better fill the gap between his animal taming talent and actual strength - every time the young man got sick, it was after overusing his animal taming ability, which was an example.

After finding the root cause, not only did the number of attacks decrease, but the talent for taming animals was further stabilized and controlled, and it could almost replace Lu Meng's original work in this area, which was a blessing in disguise.

If you want to continue to improve your ability to tame animals, you can't avoid starting with animals that you are more friendly to - it's okay if they are of the same category, but if they are alien creatures, it will even affect the brain structure of the tamer himself, making them transform towards the creatures they tamed to gain stronger affinity.

Thinking will also change accordingly.

How long it will take to cross the critical point, no one knows.

Ji Hai is already lucky.

It's still in the category of normal taming genius.

Putting him back in Ai Kuang Town, why and where did he start to have such a mutation, and Chad's subsequent investigation written in cipher text... These information are tools to help Lu Meng go deeper into Ai Kuang Town.

Lu Dai was a little happy that she was recognized for her first speech. She continued to stare at the map, and when she glanced at Lu Meng's profile under the firelight, she suddenly remembered some rumors about this unknown person.

So he quietly approached and said:

"Tell me the truth... do you really not know the way inside?"

"In Aikuang Town, what exactly is there..."

"What are you talking about?"

Lu Meng glanced at her with a hint of doubt in his eyes: "Isn't this my first time here?"

"Oh oh." Lu Dai reacted, realized that he had asked a stupid question, and closed his mouth.

"However, even in the periphery, there should be people who have been active in the inner city before, right?" After determining the strategy of continuing to go deeper instead of competing with Kaidun City outside, someone asked.

"Yes," Chad nodded, "That is another organization besides the Shield Guards, and they are also recruited from the wild people."

"Wild Blood Hunter."

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Izumi's heart was pounding, she was breathing heavily, and she looked behind her from time to time.

She felt a pain in her lower abdomen.

It was like she had a stitch in the side.

No wonder, she was not only running eagerly, but also eating while running - the bread around her waist was now only half left.

Izumi felt even more distressed when she saw this.

This was the food that was missing for several days.

But it was not her fault. If she had not replenished some energy temporarily, she would not have had the strength to run to this point and escape the fate of being captured in her original weak state.

She might have fainted halfway.

That was no different from death.

Fortunately, in the end, I brought back a few loaves of bread, which was a gain.

Izumi tried not to think about the long circle left in the same place. If every mistake was so worrying, life would be full of despair.

How painful it would be to live.

After confirming that no one was following, Izumi followed the dim light in her sight and groped forward, and finally found her own hut - a collapsed attic.

The girl pushed open the window and went in.

"Pah!"

What came was a slap in the face. Izumi was hit and flew out. Her skinny limbs fell heavily to the ground, and she felt even more pain than when she hit the man just now.

So much so that her eyes were blurred and she couldn't get up.

"Why did you come back so late?" A man in a tattered cloak, who was probably just in his early thirties but already covered with wrinkles, raised his right hand, but he finished beating before asking, "I thought you had grown wings and finally wanted to fly away."

"I won't leave," Izumi finally regained consciousness, lowered his head and said: "... Dad, I won't leave."

As if she remembered something, she pretended to reach for her waist, but the man had already seen the bread in the belt and the bag, his eyes lit up, and he grabbed it directly: "Good stuff."

But he frowned again: "Why is it so little?"

"You were out most of the night, and you only brought me four loaves of bread?"

There were five loaves, and there were two pieces that she broke off and hid in her sleeves. They were broken but still edible... But Izumi didn't say it out loud.

She knew her father didn't want to hear it.

He couldn't remember the number.

As for the fact that there were more gains, but she met a weird person on the way, and even almost couldn't come back... There was no need to mention it, it would only lead to scolding.

As Izumi expected, the man cursed, but even if there were only four loaves of bread left, it was still a very good harvest among the savages. The corners of his mouth lifted up with a satisfied smile.

This made the girl slightly relieved.

But the next moment.

Her heart was immediately clenched.

The father took out a loaf of bread from the cloth bag, and the satisfied expression on his face disappeared instantly, replaced by a cold and solidified look.

"Izumi." He squatted down and handed the bread to his daughter.

"Are you very hungry?"

On the cut of the half-cut bread, there were tiny teeth marks of the little girl.

Izumi's body trembled instantly.

Even when she was facing the threat of life and death just now, her reaction was not so intense.

"It's okay, tell dad..." The man pulled up his lips, "You are..."

"Are you really that hungry!"

At night in Aikuang Town, there were people talking and plotting by the campfire, some people were sharpening their swords like practicing Zen, there were prayers, there were screams from the scattered arrows that pierced the walls, there were bloody bites in the moonlight... and there were people crying quietly.

In the end, everything disappeared in the wind.