Chapter 1312 Rear

Regarding the wasteland of Gondor in the south, Gawain prepared a lot of backup plans, backup plans of backup plans, and backup plans of backup plans—he even had so many plans that sometimes both Hetty and Rebecca It feels completely unnecessary, but he'll still keep adding "weight" to the wasteland whenever he gets the chance.

The first reason is that Gawain Cecil left a strong impression in his memory seven hundred years ago, allowing Gawain to maintain the highest degree of respect for the endless wandering monsters in the wasteland at all times. Be vigilant, and the second is based on Gao Wen's own judgment - ever since the ancients of this world used a wall to lock up a deadly natural disaster in a wasteland, he felt that this matter was not very reliable, after all, in his previous life His countless experiences told him that the disaster covered up must be exploded, and the wall used to block monsters must collapse. What is the purpose of erecting such a barrier like a world wonder on the border? Isn't that just to make it bigger when the CG is released!

So ever since the day he unveiled the coffin, he has been preparing for the day when the walls of the wasteland will completely collapse—now it can only be said that this day has finally come.

He rubbed the space between his brows, raised his head from the documents on his desk, and slowly scanned the huge room. There were many senior government officials including Hetty sitting in the room, and many of them were projecting holographic images. The magic net terminal, one by one, real or virtual figures gathered here, some were waiting to report the updated situation, and some were waiting for the next order.

"At present, our soldiers have stabilized the line of defense," Philip's figure floated in front of Gawain's eyes over a Magic Net terminal not far away, and the background behind this young imperial commander was the busy frontline command post, " After the green forest barrier was raised, the main vanguard of the enemy army fell into the predation area and was completely wiped out. We then used superior firepower to cut off the advance route of the aberrations—the enemy's follow-up troops have temporarily retreated to the depths of the wasteland, and we have already We took the opportunity to push the main force into the wasteland, and established several temporary strongholds in the south of the former site of the Great Wall. Now we are waiting for the purification device to take effect, and continue to send reconnaissance units to collect enemy movements."

Gao Wen nodded slightly, and then turned his gaze to another holographic projection on the opposite side, where a special figure was standing quietly.

That was Beltira——in the holographic projection directly connected through nerve conduction, she mimicked herself as she was when she was still a human, and half of the background behind her was the giant Sorin tree standing on the plain and bathed in sunlight , and half of it is a vast forest standing upright on the edge of the wasteland and incarnate as a green forest barrier. After noticing Gao Wen's gaze, she nodded immediately and said, "I'm in good condition here, and the distal limbs have survived smoothly. Now I'm transforming the biomass I prey on during the day, and it may take some time."

"Okay, don't worry there, you must first ensure that you can take root stably - now there has been a big irreparable hole in the majestic wall in the northern region, and you are the most important barrier there." Gawain exhaled, unusually said solemnly.

While saying that,

He also sighed in his heart that his bold decision at the beginning was really correct, and letting the giant tree of Thorin spread towards the wasteland was probably the most successful one of the many plans he set up.

This grand and risky plan cannot be realized overnight. Of course, it is impossible for Beltira, who is far away in the Holy Spirit Plain, to transfer part of his limbs to the front line in the southern part of the Dark Mountains. The "spread plan" was actually launched a long time ago. It was decided by him and Bertila in secret—they had discussed the possibility of making the Sorin giant tree grow in one direction, and discussed using a synthetic brain to solve the difficulty of controlling the giant tree's distal limbs during the process. , Using the biomass factories along the way to solve the root nutrition deficiency in the "spreading period".

He took this as a hole card, even within the empire, only a limited number of high-level executives and some executors directly involved in the plan knew the existence of the plan, and in the past year or so, Bertila's The roots have been spreading in the depths of the earth without anyone knowing - it took her more than half a year to spread from the east of the Holy Spirit Plain to the southern border, and then spread from the southern border to the dark mountains, and it took her another two months to pass through the dark mountains The rock formations with complex structures, underground caves, and mountain cavities, then secretly grew in the plains near the magnificent wall. Relying on the nutrition provided by the large number of biomass factories set up along the way by the advancing troops, a large-scale "predatory organ" was bred underground. "...

Of course, this large-scale "spread" is not completely untraceable. Although Bertila has tried her best to let her roots move deep in the earth, she still needs some "nodes" close to the surface to replenish nutrients or Communicate with the local operators responsible for cooperation, so in the past year, in Pompeii, Cecil, the South Gate Fortress, the advance base and other "spreading areas" from time to time, some people have discovered some wonderful phenomena.

These wonderful phenomena include but are not limited to extremely lush forests, lush vegetation in winter, clean flowers blooming in polluted areas... These things can be regarded as what Beltira accidentally dropped during the growth process "Detritus", and these "detritus" that cannot be explained by common sense have left rumors like urban legends and wild folk tales in many places...

Fortunately, the rumors are just rumors, and this secret plan has been carried out smoothly to this day, but it is a pity... Originally, Gawain did not intend to let Beltira be exposed so soon. In his initial plan, Beltira will always be a "dark front" spreading deep in the earth. When the advancing troops on the ground launch a frontal attack, she will secretly spread underground until the army advances to the ground. In the depths of the wasteland, when the battle with the enemy reaches a critical point, the "living forest" will rush out of the ground, bloom in the core area of ​​the wasteland, and give a note to those who like to mess around secretly. Punch in the face.

It's a pity that this can only be something in his imagination-who would have expected that the magnificent wall would break a big hole at this juncture?

"I'm sorry, Brother Gawain." Probably noticing the change of expression on Gawain's face, Beltira said suddenly without waiting for Gawain to speak, "Drilling out of the ground was my act—I exposed your most important A card."

"It's not your fault. If you waited for my order to act in that situation, I'm afraid the front line has already fallen, and even the Typhon defense line next to it will be completely torn apart. At that time, no matter what cards we have It's meaningless." Gao Wen waved his hand, "I gave you the authority to make decisions on your own in an emergency, just to deal with this sudden situation."

At this point, he paused, and changed the topic: "The situation is already like this, we have to look forward—how is the current situation under the wasteland? Can you continue to move forward?"

"I have already started to encounter resistance," Beltira said immediately, "Just as I expected, those cultists also relied on building a network of nerves and roots underground to establish a command system. This is a unique technical means of the Death of All Things Society , and now they are aware of my existence, this root network... is turning into an active defense state."

She narrowed her eyes slightly, as if she was perceiving the state of some nerve nodes in the distance, opened her eyes after a while and continued: "Now the enemy has concentrated the power of their root system network to the northern region, and my roots are growing. There was stubborn resistance in the middle—now we can only break through head-on, and it is impossible to go around.”

Gawain looked seriously at the former dark patriarch who was attacking the wasteland alone on a battlefield invisible to ordinary people: "Do you currently have the advantage?"

Speaking of this, Bertila's expression suddenly showed a hint of pride: "You can rest assured that although their root network resists tenaciously, they are by no means my opponents—they never thought that they would encounter an attack spreading underground. And I've been preparing for this for a long time. It's just that it will take some time, I have to find the defect of their 'subterranean immune barrier' first..."

Listening to Beltira's description, Gawain couldn't help imagining what it would be like - the roots of the giant tree of Thorin kept growing and attacking at the edge of the wasteland, and another hostile dark root network built a huge To counter the Great Wall, in the depths of the soil and rocks that ordinary people cannot see, the living roots are entangled and attack each other, using toxins and parasitic spores as weapons, using underground caves and dark rivers as camp barriers, day and night, but silent silent……

This is already a "battle" beyond the comprehension of the world. I am afraid that even the most outstanding strategists in the world will not be able to find their place in this battle. Even Gao Wen himself... can't make any suggestions at this moment.

"Be careful," he can only say, "don't underestimate the enemy - although your existence is beyond their expectations, those dark cultists have also developed in the wasteland for many years, and no one knows that they are still setting up in the depths of the old empire What kind of trap cards did you use. Your 'attack' underground is going alone, and it is difficult for our ground troops to provide you with effective support, so you must be extra cautious in the process of going deep into the enemy's territory."

"Yes, I understand." Bertila said solemnly.

Gao Wen spoke again after a short thought: "Next, let's discuss the...discipline displayed by those mutant monsters during their attack."

"Yes, the discipline is obvious, there is a command structure behind those monsters," Bertila responded immediately, "During the brief contact with the enemy's vanguard...I mean, during the 'eating' process, I also At the same time, I touched the spiritual connection behind them. Those monsters themselves have limited intelligence, but their spirits are connected together and accept the command of some higher nodes. I also recognized one of the most obvious nodes, his name is Perrelet Mu, is one of the 'patriarchs' of the Wasteland branch of the End of All Things Society..."

"It sounds like a 'psychic command network' structure similar to that of the Crystal Cluster Legion back then," Gao Wen said thoughtfully, rubbing his chin, "but the scale is larger and the efficiency is obviously higher—the Crystal Cluster Legion back then The cluster legion does not have such an astonishing number, and there are not so many strange mutant individuals in the crystal cluster legion..."

"The mind command technology we used at the beginning is in the same line as the branch in the wasteland," Bertila said in a strange tone, but soon continued with his usual expression, "Part of it comes from The Eternal Sleeper, part of which belongs to the nerve pulse technology of the Dark Druids, but obviously, the branch of the End of Everything in the wasteland did not share all the information with us 'citizens' outside, they kept it Some of the key information has been refined over the years...and that refinement has likely been done very recently."

As soon as her words fell, Hetty beside her couldn't help asking curiously: "It was completed recently? How did you judge this?"

"I briefly invaded Bertram's spiritual world—he only thought I was torturing his will, and he didn't notice the intrusion," Bertera explained. "During the intrusion, I glimpsed A part of the flow of consciousness in their huge command system, although I couldn't intervene at the time, I can still see that it is a thing that has just been born and is still slowly growing and perfecting."

Hetty nodded lightly after listening: "That's right, if those cultists had established this system and successfully controlled the aberrations in the entire wasteland, they wouldn't have waited until now to act. Armies, they could have swept the world years ago."

Gao Wen then asked, "This is important information - is there any loophole in their command system that can be exploited?"

"It's hard to say, I need more information," Bertila shook his head, "It's best to capture a few high-level nodes for me to try... Let me analyze it, maybe I can learn from their mutated nervous system. find a way to further intrude or disrupt that chain of command."

"...As the battle situation develops, we will find an opportunity," Gawain said with a slight nod, and then looked at Beltira with a strange expression, "But having said that, this time you are in a hurry...'eat' I killed a lot of monsters that came out of the wasteland, is it really okay?"

"...Frankly speaking, it's not very tasty, not even as good as the stones in the Dark Mountains," Beltira's expression became weirder than Gawain's, "but there was really no other way at that time, those monsters were dirty and poisonous, I had to get rid of them as soon as possible The pollution left after their death - throwing it into the biomass splitting pool is the fastest and most effective method. But you don't have to worry about me, the dirty bodies of those monsters have been completely digested in the splitting pool, and their toxins are also for me It can be transformed and absorbed, but..."

Bertila paused, as if trying to suppress the urge to gag, and then continued after a while: "It's just...it's really bad, it's really bad, it's better to eat dirt."

If the resentment in Bertila's words had any substance, the people at the scene didn't know how to express it. The life form and way of looking at the world of this tree lady have always been fresh and refined, and there is no way for others to comfort or echo her. As for Gao Wen...a strange idea could not help but appear in Gao Wen's mind. He always felt that he might see a new book circulated in the empire soon, "Gourmet Encyclopedia-How to Eat in the Empire" edited by Bertila earth"……

Fortunately, he didn't let this weird idea stay in his head for too long, because soon, an urgent message from the front line was sent to him.

The once-extinguished sentinel towers on the frontier of the wasteland... have restarted.

(It's time to push the book. This time I recommend Tianrui Shuofu's "We Live in Nanjing", a science fiction category, a story about saving the world in the end. The author's last book is "Death on Mars", you should be familiar with it. Now this new book has just started not long ago, it is a real seedling, but you can collect it first and start!)

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