Chapter 1042: Waited and Waited
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Probably because from his point of view, I gave him a practical handling of the matter of the Holy Maiden Peak, so this time this kid didn't delay any time, kept his promise, and quickly sent someone to deliver the message.
Next, I had a brief conversation with Xiao Yi, the main purpose of which was to find out from the side whether there was anything similar in other locations in the Qinhuai Mountains besides the situation of this Holy Maiden Peak.
This is to confirm my previous suspicion that there should be more than this group of semi-infected people in Dongkou Province planted by the people of Taoyuan Island.
The results were indeed moving in the direction I expected, and Xiao Yi said that in addition to the Holy Maiden Peak, there had been similar attacks from several other nearby hills in recent days, but the casualty rate was very small, so they did not pay enough attention to it.
I nodded, not saying much, but secretly knowing that the attackers in these other places must also be related to the people of Taoyuan Island.
Then I asked them if there was any loss of semi-infected people under their management, Xiao Yi actually said that the number of those semi-infected people was too much, and the specific number was actually not very clear to them, and it was no wonder that there were so many semi-infected people who secretly left without anyone noticing, obviously because these wanderers in Dongkou Province were too confident and thought that these semi-infected people would definitely not survive if they left their territory.
Xiao Yi's hospitality to us can be described as extreme, they almost brought all the food in the camp to us to share, after all, with Liu Yong and Qin Yao here, they didn't dare to have any neglect.
And we don't need to be polite to them and put all this food in our stomachs.
Qin Yao parted ways with us after dinner, and I noticed that she had gone with her personal guard to communicate with the other wanderers, presumably to discuss the upcoming joint operation, which I was not interested in, and now it was just the right time for us to exchange information with each other about the other people who had been in the camp while no one was paying attention.
He Yunsong said that he found that the people in the entire Xiaoyi camp were actually not particularly frightened of the upcoming defensive battle, as if they were ready to win nine times out of ten, which I think is unlikely, not so much that these people are fearless, but that they are heartless, after all, these wanderers are originally rogues and are not sensitive to danger.
Amy also said that the people in the camp did not look like they were ready for war, and some of them even looked a little excited, as if they were looking forward to the coming war.
This is a bit unexpected to me, I thought that these loitering people would have negative emotions after experiencing the consecutive defeats in the front, but now it seems that I think too much, these guys are not only not cowardly, but they are even more warlike, think about it carefully, it seems that the people in Qin Yao's life No. 2 stronghold are also in the same situation, these loitering people seem to have a great desire to fight for a head-to-head duel with voodoo.
I was worried that the Wanderers would be vulnerable to the onslaught of the voodoo, but now it seems that they should be much stronger than I thought, which is actually a good thing for me, at least in terms of balance.
Chenxi also found that he was different from the others, he did not stay in the camp when we went to the Holy Maiden Peak, but ran to the vicinity of the nearby camp to check the situation, and those wanderers did not stop him because of Qin Yao's face.
Chenxi's Chinese is now at a level where she can communicate with us normally, and although some of the words and sentences are not very coherent, at least I can understand what he means. Dawn said that the wanderer's camp was actually full of animal tracks, and that it felt like there should be a place similar to a breeding farm nearby, and that a large number of domestic livestock had passed through this place not long ago.
This information may not sound remarkable at first glance, but it proves that the logistical supply of these wanderers has reached a level far beyond our imagination, and that their combat readiness is probably much higher than we expected.
That night, we stayed in a stone house in the middle of the camp under Xiao Yi's arrangement, which was very well equipped and even had a bathtub......
I know very well what these people think, they put us inside the camp to prevent us from making any other small moves, and I guess we will be watched when we go out in the middle of the night.
But now that we're in someone else's territory, we can't say much and we can only let them go, and we keep the same way we do things under the watchful eye of these guys, which can further reduce our own suspicion.
The only thing that is not very convenient is the human skin mask on our own face, this thing is very poor in breathability due to the factor of the material of the production, and it is really sinful to wear it all the time.
But in order not to leak anything, we can only endure it.
Fortunately, early the next morning, the person sent out by Xiao Yi to deliver the letter replied, and the person told us that the command was urging us to go to the rendezvous as soon as possible to negotiate, because they were now lacking a backbone like Liu Yong, and with our joining, their chances of winning would inevitably improve a lot.
Qin Yao didn't show any surprise, it seemed that she had already calculated all this, and the progress was completely in line with her own expectations, and then Xiao Yi specially sent a team of ten loitering elites to escort us to the location of the headquarters.
The ten men were on the one hand there to keep us safe, but more often than not, they were on the road to communicate and explain to us and the other wanderer sentries who were interrogating.
In addition, the messenger also brought back a special black brown paper, with instructions similar to a pass order, and a special signature allowed "Liu Yong brothers and his escorts" to freely enter and exit the Qinhuai Mountain Command Headquarters.
Liu Yong put the pass in his pocket, and we began to follow the guide who led the way to the deeper part of the mountain.
Having said that, these loiters' means of communication are still very backward, although they have the ability to restore a certain degree of power supply, but there is no way to establish a smooth signal station in the mountains, and even short-distance walkie-talkies cannot be used, so many times they can only rely on manpower to convey on foot, which is actually very fatal to the future system operations, because in this way, the role of the command is infinitely reduced, imagine that the longer an order is issued to the hands of front-line combatants, the more serious the delay for fighters。
However, these things are not within my scope of concern, and it depends on how the people on the command side solve them.
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I thought that this time I would encounter more and more difficult terrain to go to the deeper part of the mountain range, but it turned out that on the contrary, the wanderers have opened up a lot of roads with a width of two cars parallel in the mountains, although they are only dirt roads, but they are already very smooth for ordinary vehicles to travel back and forth, not to mention that they have even used the existing holes in the mountains to carry out some changes on the route, so that in some places there are even cases where the upper and lower roads are used at the same time like "overpasses".
In addition, there are really too many sentry posts and small outposts in the mountain range to count, and it seems that almost the entire Qinhuai Mountain Range has been occupied by wanderers, except for a very small number of "forbidden areas" similar to the Holy Maiden Peak, other areas are covered by the sentinel's sight.
And listening to the tone of the wanderers nearby, who have also begun to conduct thorough searches of the areas where "magical events" have occurred in recent days, I can't help but start to worry about the semi-infected who are lurking here, although they are very capable individually, but they still have no advantage when it comes to loitering in groups, not to mention their population is already very small.
Although the trail was early, it still took us nearly a day to reach the outer area of the headquarters, which was at the foot of the second highest peak in the mountain range, and a large warehouse and barracks had been set up nearby.
That's right, it's the barracks, and the loiterers now finally understand that their men have always been in a state of disintegration, so the loiters have selected a group of people with normal thinking and strong physique from among their own people to train them into outright combatants, and these selected people are not engaged in productive labor, but only responsible for practicing the skills of killing the enemy.
Qin Yao said that there are many more barracks like this in the mountain range, at least more than ten, and such training places are still increasing.
I said in my heart that although these places look decent, but unfortunately these guys started a little late, and I am afraid that this group of temporary wanderers may not be able to make any real progress.
Compared to the barracks, the construction of warehouses is much more complete, at first glance it looks like the lots that have been arranged a long time ago, most of these warehouses are located in ventilated areas, and there are personnel guarding them inside and outside, and I noticed that a considerable part of the materials in them belong to meat and grain, and these things cannot be obtained by plunder alone, this must be the product of their self-sufficiency.
In addition, the defense under the foot of this headquarters is also very strong, and I saw two large turrets that are more than ten meters high, each with more than ten powerful earthen cannons, in short, an enlarged version of those earthen guns.
Qin Yao told me not to underestimate the defensive strength of these earthen cannons, if those voodoo sects dared to rashly attack the direction of the headquarters, these earthen cannons alone would be able to block them outside the defensive range for more than half a day, plus the loiterers' own other defense systems, it would not be a problem to defeat the attackers.
Listening to Qin Yao's meaning, if it weren't for the lack of preparation for battle in the border area of Dongkou Province, which allowed the Fudu Sect to gain the advantage of "blitzkrieg", they might not have been defeated to this point.
From the foot of the hill, we were not allowed to go any further, even if we had a passage, and the sentry here told us to wait where we were, and they would send someone to inform the alliance leader and decide the time to meet us.
I think it's a little ridiculous in my heart, isn't it just a bunch of bandits? It's quite formal.
But I didn't dare to talk nonsense now, but continued to pretend to be Liu Yong's follower with the other people and quietly observe the movements around me.
Qin Yao's expression is also very serious now, she, like us, is also forbidden to enter, which means that her identity has not yet reached the permission to enter and leave the core area at will, but I noticed that the sentry officers of those wanderers are very respectful to Qin Yao, even a little more polite than Liu Yong.
We were temporarily invited to wait in a thatched hut, and one of the wanderers actually made us a few teas.
I have to admit that these wanderers have indeed taken this foot in Dongkou Province, and if they are given some more time, they are likely to completely establish Dongkou Province into their own large base area.
It's a pity that these wanderers are not good men and women, and letting them occupy this treasure land can only be exchanged for more killing and blood, from this point of view, the voodoo attack this time is still very timely.
Originally, we waited for the start of noon, thinking that it would be almost enough to wait for an hour or two, but who knew that this breath would wait directly until about eight or nine o'clock in the evening.
The wanderers, though they also provided us with a sumptuous dinner, were different from the freedom of the camp in that we were only allowed to move around the inside and outside of the thatched hut, and other places, including the area on the edge of the warehouse, were off-limits.
We are all very annoyed, because the time is quite tight now, which is completely equivalent to doing useless work, but because Qin Yao is by his side, it is not easy for us to have a seizure.
In addition, I also noticed that the people from the pro-guard team who came with Qin Yao also seemed to be slightly dissatisfied, and their mouths kept scolding and scolding, saying that the wanderers here did not take them seriously, and when the matter of voodoo was resolved, they would have to theorize about these things.
Qin Yao also turned a blind eye to the complaints of her subordinates, it seems that she also has this kind of grievance, and she also acquiesces in the appearance of contradictions.
From this, as well as the words of those wanderers in Xiao Yi's camp before, it can be seen that the cohesion of these wanderers is still very poor, to put it bluntly, they are only temporarily united by the confrontation against voodoo.
It is estimated that in the early stage of entering Dongkou Province, these groups of wanderers who did not get along with each other should have had bloody conflicts with each other, and the possibility of large-scale firefighting could not even be ruled out.
They treat even their own people like this, so the attitude towards the semi-infected is not surprising.
The location of the headquarters is built on the halfway of the second peak, and there are some stone caves that have been processed and transformed along the inside and outside of the cliff, and there are more stone chambers in the caves.
Such a huge and complicated project was certainly not built by the wanderers alone, and eighty percent of it was also made use of the existing fortifications that existed in Dongkou Province before.