The mission is called Topographic Mapping: Northwest Mountains, and it is a brass-level mapping task.

There are quite a few of these tasks on the mission board, which is a series of tasks.

This kind of task is usually issued by the town's officials, who hire someone who is good at mapping to help them find out their surroundings and see if there is anything to look out for.

In general, this kind of task is very unpopular with professionals.

Because the topographic mapping task takes a very long time, but the reward is very small, such as the task that Xue Hua saw, the reward is only 50 points of combat merit, which does not seem to be a small amount, and compared to the time it consumes, this reward is simply a big deal.

Moreover, the requirements of this surveying and mapping task are to start from the town of Pointe-Noire, and the entire mountain range that radiates to the entire northwest region must be included in the scope of the surveying and mapping, which is very time-consuming, sometimes even consuming a month.

And most importantly, mapping maps requires a certain amount of expertise, although after you receive the task, you can use the mission badge to go to the town management office in the center of the town to get a topographic mapping ball to help you complete the task, but how to better use this mapping ball, this is not a simple problem.

Therefore, very few people usually take on surveying and mapping tasks, so much so that until now, the town of Pointe-Noire has not even fully explored the nearby terrain.

However, Xue Hua felt that this task was very good, and the group of professionals guarding the mining convoy that the inspector Wang Worm had found before were hiding in the nameless mountain range in the northwest, so he could take the opportunity of doing this task to investigate and see what tricks these guys were playing.

And with the badge of the surveying and mapping task on his body, if the other party is really some bait arranged by the professional, he also has a reason to be able to talk about it, so as not to be treated as a malicious guy by others.

As for the actual exploration map, is this kind of thing a thing for the swarm?

Long before he entered Blackhorn Town, the Overseer King Worm had already detected the mountain range in the Northwest Regions clearly.

Thinking of this, Xue Hua smiled slightly, took out his merit card and leaned lightly towards the task sequence, and a brass badge appeared in his hand.

After receiving this task, Xue Hua quickly rushed to the management office in the center of the town, received a fist-sized mapping ball under the slightly strange eyes of the staff, and then left Heijiao Town without stopping, heading towards the mountain range in the northwest.

......

At the same time, on the other side of the northwestern mountains, two black-cloaked Evil Covenanters were also hurrying towards the inner side of the mountains.

The two of them slept in the open air, not daring to slack off at all, and just wanted to eat the mining team that had been in hand as quickly as possible.

For them, time is really running out, and the plan of the Frontline Demon Lord will not be delayed because of their mistakes in the rear, if they have a problem behind them and affect the frontal battle situation, then the consequences will really not be something that their group can afford.

"Horn, do you think we can complete the mission before His Highness the Demon Lord's plan is launched?"

Duke, who was in charge of the town of Pointe-Noire, asked a little worriedly.

"It has to be done anyway, and even if there is a lack of a fleet, the plan has to be started on time, which is non-negotiable."

Horn replied coldly, without pausing at his feet.

Duke's second failure to plunder the convoy was a big blow to their plan, and for this plan, they mobilized almost all the resources they could use in the hinterland of the professionals to cover the Wing Demon forces that actually captured the convoy, and also distributed the raiding of the convoy around the three towns.

And that's not all.

In order not to arouse the suspicion of the professionals, they have almost exhausted all means to create smoke screens, concoct other events to attract attention, and even set up a small tribe of Fallen Demon clones that have been lurking in the rear for a long time.

All of this was done to cover their real attempt - to plunder the convoy of mines transporting lighthouse crystals.

For this plan, they prepared for nearly half a year, and very carefully separated the locations and sections of the plundering mining convoy, and finally managed to gather the current five mining convoys.

Before His Highness the Demon Lord's plan was about to be launched, they were confident that their assigned mission would succeed, and that confidence had been overshadowed by a failed raid not long ago.

Frankly, it's not that they can't accept defeat, they've even suffered defeat in the past when plundering the mine convoy in other towns, but it can't be at this time!

So the leader deployed one of the most elite winged demon squads to Duke, in the hope that he could complete the final elements of the plan in one fell swoop.

Results......

As soon as he thought about the possible consequences of this, Horn felt a chill in his heart, and at the same time, he didn't want to pay attention to the fool behind him.

Fortunately, this guy is not stupid yet, it was only the Winged Demon Group that came out to attack the convoy, and he didn't expose himself at all, otherwise, once the professional side knew that there was already a demon group led by the evil pact behind them, then their mission would probably be completely over!

Thinking of this, Horn sighed, glanced at his teammates behind him with cold eyes, and labeled him as a "pig teammate who can betray" in his heart.

Someone must bear the bitter consequences of failure, and if there are five teams, there is a loophole that must be filled.

Since this loophole is from Duke... Then, let him fill it with his life!

......

On the front line farther north in Pointe-Noire, a massive fortress made entirely of pitch-black boulders towers over a vast plain with a cold wind.

The dark twilight reflected the fortress's equally dark façade, making it look as terrifying as a terrifying beast crawling in the night.

On the high wall of the fortress, inside a command tent, the dim light shone through the small space, and it was obvious that the people in the tent were not sleeping.

A middle-aged man with silver hair, a scruffy beard, and a feather cloak of the same color as his hair sat at the table, holding a stack of letters in his hand and looking at it silently.

As he reads, he rubs the stubble on his chin with his left index finger, his eyes shining with a light that is sometimes bewildered and sometimes transparent.

After a long time, he pulled out a few of the stacks of letters in his hand, took out a stack of parchment from the inventory, placed them on the table, and began to compare them with a frown.

As he compared, the expression on his face began to slowly become colder and colder.

It wasn't until a few minutes later that the silver-haired man suddenly stood up from the table, his expression changed uncertainly, and then his whole body suddenly disappeared directly into the tent!

A bitter wind poured in from outside the tent, and the candle flame on the table could not withstand the devastation, and swayed twice before being extinguished.

Only it knew how many sleepless nights the owner of this table had spent in this little command tent for those letters.