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- The sea has turned into mulberry fields, and the passage of time has completely changed all the landforms outside the Golden City. The original forests, grasslands, and mountains have now all turned into an endless sea of ??sand. In the past, because he had to deal with the Tomb Guards clan, the Undead Emperor did not bother to study the terrain outside the Golden City. However, after the Tomb Guards clan was defeated, the Undead Emperor, who returned to the Golden City victoriously, had to start worrying about formulating the next march route.
Although heroic spirits do not need to eat, they cannot wander around in the sea of ??sand like a headless fly, nor can they wipe out everything along the way like locusts crossing the border. The most important issue right now is to figure out where you are and how far you are from the nearest place where humans live.
The Undead Emperor Macedonia has a strong desire to conquer, but this does not mean that Macedonia will capture and conquer everything. At least the vast desert in front of them was of little interest to Macedonia.
After sending out thousands of scouts, Macedonia and his army of heroes stayed in the Golden City and waited, waiting quietly.
The royal palace in the Golden City became Macedonia’s temporary palace. In the palace, Macedonia saw the crystal coffin that Han Yu had mentioned to him, as well as the tunnel through which Han Yu and Ning Ping entered the underground mausoleum. Seeing all this, Macedonia was a little curious as to who placed this crystal coffin in his palace and dug a tunnel under the crystal coffin leading to the underground mausoleum. The answer is unknown. Macedonia does not know the future, and of course it is impossible to know this.
He ordered people to carry the valuable crystal coffin out of the palace, and ordered people to block the tunnel entrance. Macedonia was ready to take a rest. It will take some time before the scouts come back. At this time, Macedonia can be said to have nothing to do. But just when Macedonia wanted to rest, some soldiers came to report that a group of soldiers patrolling outside the Golden City captured a talking golden skeleton.
"Skeleton?" When Macedonia heard the word skeleton, he couldn't help but think of the black skeleton that Han Yu had mentioned before, but the skeleton caught by his soldiers was golden and could talk.
“Bring that skeleton to see me.” Macedonia was interested and ordered the soldiers who came to report.
"yes."
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Not long after, a golden skeleton tied with five flowers was pushed and pushed in front of Macedonia. Macedon looked at the golden skull and asked, "Does it have a name?"
"Curo." The golden skeleton stood up straight and replied.
"Wellwhat happened to you? How did you become like this?" Macedonia asked again.
When the Golden Skeleton heard Macedonia commenting that he looked like a ghost, he couldn't help but murmur to himself: "You are no better than me?" However, the Golden Skeleton did not dare to say this out loud, after a brief silence. The golden skeleton confessed: "I don't know how I became like this. I just woke up and found that I became like this."
"What are you doing here?"
“…This is my home.”
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"This is your home? Have you always lived here?" Macedonia looked at the golden skeleton in surprise and asked.
"……Yes."
Macedonia was silent for a while and said to the golden skeleton: "Where is your home?"
"It's right here."
“…Then this place has been temporarily requisitioned, please find another place to live.”
"……yes."
Seeing the golden skeleton walking out, Macedonia suddenly remembered a question, and quickly stopped the golden skeleton and asked: "Wait, you said you live here, do you know the terrain nearby?"
"understand a little bit."
"That's great. Don't leave yet. Tell me about the landforms nearby. If possible, it's best to tell us where there are people nearby. Of course, you will be rewarded."
"What kind of compensation do you think I need to be useful if I look like this?" The golden skeleton spread his hands. Ask Macedonia. Macedon was stunned when he was asked. After looking at the golden skeleton up and down, he found out sadly that it was exactly as the skeleton said. It seemed that money, beauty and other rewards were of no use to this skeleton.
Fortunately, the Golden Skeleton did not embarrass Macedonia. After reminding Macedonia, he began to talk to Macedonia about the things that Macedonia was most concerned about. Originally, Macedonia didn't have much hope for the golden skeleton, thinking that even if the skeleton knew the nearby terrain, it probably didn't know much. But during this conversation, I discovered that this skeleton was very eloquent and had a strong narrative ability. And what makes Macedonia even more satisfied is that this skeleton can actually draw. When introducing himself to the nearby terrain, he also used the paper and pen provided by Macedonia to draw a simple sketch of the nearby terrain.Easy picture.
Listening with ears is never more intuitive than seeing with eyes. Macedonia looked carefully at the topographic map drawn by the skeleton. He said to the golden skeleton without raising his head: "Don't leave, stay with me and serve me."
"Huh?" The golden skeleton was stunned when he heard this. Just as he was about to open his mouth to refuse, he was interrupted by Macedonia. "Don't refuse my offer. If you are willing, I can use the death scepter in my hand to give you a body of flesh and blood."
After hearing this condition, Golden Skeleton thought about it. He nodded and accepted Macedonia's invitation. Seeing that the Golden Skeleton agreed, Macedonia immediately began to fulfill its promise, using the power of the Death Scepter to reshape the human body for the Golden Skeleton. At first, Macedonia wanted to do half and leave the other half, and then give the golden skeleton a complete body after it has performed meritorious services. But when Macedonia saw Kuro, who was half flesh and half skeleton, this idea was immediately abandoned. It's really a bit scary. If you see it unexpectedly at night, even those who don't have heart disease may be frightened and fall ill.
Qrow stood in the palace and tried to move his new body. Except that his movements were not as light as before, he felt nothing else. This made Macedon a little disappointed, and he thought Qrow would cry with joy after getting his new body. But he didn't expect that this skeleton didn't even show an excited expression, which really disappointed Macedonia.
Just when he was disappointed, he heard the noise outside the palace, and Macedonia walked to the door of the palace. He knows his army well. Unless an important situation occurs, a well-trained and disciplined army will not cause such commotion.
As soon as he arrived at the door, he didn't need anyone to report him. Macedon was also shocked by what he saw. Directly opposite the palace gate, a strange scene appeared in the sky, wearing the same clothes as his army of heroes. One of the troops is in the quicksand. Although they are struggling hard, it is still of no avail.
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“I didn’t expect to see a mirage.” The golden skeleton who followed out looked at the scene that was gradually disappearing in the sky and said in surprise.
Macedonia said without looking back: "Yes. A mirage." After speaking, Macedonia raised his voice and shouted to the soldiers who were whispering because of the scene in the sky: "Don't panic, everyone, this is just a natural phenomenon, and it is not a bad thing. A bad omen before it happens. Don’t panic, everyone, it’s okay.”
Out of trust in the Macedonian emperor, the talking soldiers stopped their discussions and returned to their respective camps under the leadership of their generals. Seeing everyone dispersed, the golden skeleton whispered to Macedon: "This mirage seems not to be an illusion, right?"
Macedon nodded and replied: "Yes, I know. But in order to stabilize the morale of the army, that's all I can say. Qrow, keep your mouth shut. I don't want to punish you for a crime that shakes the morale of the army."
Being warned, Qrow nodded quickly and replied: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, Qrow knows what to do."
Without paying much attention to Kuro, Macedon ordered his soldiers: "Go and inform the generals to discuss matters."
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Your Majesty called upon you, and the generals rushed to the palace from all over the Golden City. As soon as everyone arrived, Macedonia said to the generals straight to the point: "I won't talk nonsense. You also saw the mirage just now. Ordinary soldiers don't understand what the mirage is, but you all understand. The one we sent out A scout team is in trouble. Were the scouts careless? Or were they plotted by the enemy? If you have any ideas, just speak freely."
After Macedonia finished his opening remarks, the generals expressed their opinions, and they concluded that the scene they saw in the mirage was real. The scout team sent out encountered danger. The scouts who can be sent out are all the best among the best. There is not much possibility of being seduced by the enemy. The most likely possibility is that the scouts accidentally broke into the quicksand belt in the desert, thus triggering this tragedy.
When the matter comes to this point, it can basically be concluded that Macedonia does not care much about this loss. He just told the generals to keep their mouths shut when the meeting was over. Do not spread random information to avoid unnecessary panic among soldiers.
The mirage incident originally ended here. But in the next few days, one or two teams of scouts sent out would always fail to return on time. Macedonia did not believe that the scouts who did not return were deserters. The only possibility left was that something unexpected happened to the scouts sent out. Whether they accidentally broke into the quicksand zone or were ambushed by the enemy, the losses of army soldiers were real. If Macedonia was still the emperor, Macedonia would not even take a look at the loss of this scout. But it's different now. Today, with the loss of population and territory, if Macedonia wants to conquer the world, it must properly use every ounce of power in its hands. It can be said that MacedoniaThe more than 20,000 people he currently controls here are the seeds for his conquest of the world. One less person will make Macedonia feel distressed. What's more, like now, the battle attrition is unknown.
"We must find out what is going on?" Macedonia said in a deep voice to the general who was responsible for going out to investigate today.
"yes."
In order to maximize the effectiveness of the investigation, a team of thousands of scouts were sent out every day. There were a thousand people in total, divided into fifty groups of twenty people, with the Golden City as the center, and spread out in all directions, like casting a net, to explore the situation around the Golden City.
Because of Macedonia’s personal order, the general who personally led the team this time specially led five groups of scouts to investigate in the direction where the missing scouts were responsible for the past few days.
When we reached noon, the leading soldier at the front of the team suddenly ran back and reported the enemy's situation. As soon as the general heard the news, he immediately rushed over with the bone horse under his crotch. When he came to the scout who was staying on the dune and was responsible for surveillance, he looked in the direction pointed by the scout. Sure enough, he saw a group of humans who had fought against him some time ago sitting there in an open space some distance away from the dune. Rest and eat.
The general made a rough estimate based on the strength he brought. It shouldn't be a problem to eat the resting humans. But vaguely, the general was a little uneasy. He always felt that he had overlooked some issues that he had not considered.
But just when the general was hesitating, the guard on the side suddenly noticed something and quickly reminded the general to take a look. The general took a closer look and saw that the group of resting people actually took out some equipment that originally belonged to his own scouts. It seems that the disappearance of the previous few scouts is most likely related to these people. In order to thoroughly understand the reason for the disappearance of his scouts, the general decided to attack. It was only necessary to leave a few alive, as for the others. Just kill them to avenge those scouts.
This time the general brought a total of more than a hundred people, but there were only thirty or forty humans under the dunes. The two-to-one advantage made the general believe that the battle would end soon. If everything goes well, maybe those humans will be solved by people like us before they even have time to react.
Out of confidence in his soldiers, the general did not think too much about tactics. After confirming that there was no ambush nearby, the general slowly drew out the sword from his waist and pointed hard at the group of humans under the sand dunes. Then he took the lead and urged the bone horse under his crotch to rush down the sand dune. The general made this move. The more than a hundred soldiers who followed immediately rushed down.
When the general and his men rushed halfway up the dune, the humans under the dune seemed to have discovered the general and others. Suddenly. The human side seemed to have exploded, getting up and spinning around like headless flies. When the general rushes under the sand dunes and rushes straight towards the human side, the human side will organize a defensive formation.
When the general saw this, he immediately urged his mount to speed up, hoping to disrupt the deployment of the human side before the human side could gain a foothold and open a gap for the soldiers following behind.
But something unexpected happened. When he was less than thirty meters away from those humans, the bone horse under the general's crotch suddenly gave out its front hooves and leaned forward, throwing the unprepared general directly. Fly out. The general is imagining that he will kill everyone in one fell swoop. But he didn't expect that his bone horse would suddenly come to him. He didn't even have time to react before he plunged into the sand, leaving only his body and limbs outside the sand.
The general felt that his posture was embarrassing and immediately wanted to pull his head out of the sand. Unexpectedly, not only was his head not pulled out, but he felt like he was sinking deeper and deeper. The suction force from the ground caused the general to sink into the sand involuntarily.
The general has thought about many ways to die, among which the most happy one is to die in battle, but this is definitely not the case of being suffocated to death by the sand without even fighting the enemy.
But the more the general struggled, the harder it was to break free. Gradually. The general began to have trouble breathing and became dizzy. Just when the general felt that he was about to die, he felt something was wrapped around his exposed right ankle, and then he felt a strong force pulling him out.
The general thought at first that his men were saving him. But when the general was pulled out of the sand, the general saw that all his men had fallen into the sand one by one. They could not save themselves, let alone saving themselves. The general struggled to stand up and save his men. But the struggle just now had exhausted the general's energy. Although the general does not need to eat to replenish his physical strength, this does not mean that the general's physical strength is endless. When the strength in the body is exhausted, the general needs time to restore his physical strength. But now if the general recovers his strength, those soldiers who got stuck in the quicksand may still see a Tianling Cap if they are lucky.
Just when the general felt helpless, he suddenly felt his right foot being dragged, and the general quickly looked towards the other end of the rope. It's actually human. The humans who were targeted by him saved himperhaps not to save himself, but because he was a general, so he wanted to capture him.
When he thought of this, the general immediately struggled again. His pride prevented the general from accepting the reality of becoming a human prisoner. In order to avoid this reality, the general would rather sink into quicksand like his subordinates. But the reality is cruel. The general only struggled for a moment and lost strength. Then he was dragged to a safe area by the group of humans and tied up. In order to prevent the rare captive in front of him from getting emotional, he committed suicide. The general was tied up very artistically, not to mention the four horses were tied up, and a ball gag was stuffed in his mouth.
The general, who was being carried away like a pig, turned red and his eyes widened. If he could speak, the general would have cursed a long time ago, but now, he could only let out waves of protest and was at the mercy of these damn humans.
The general didn’t know that what happened to him had been seen by Macedonia, to whom he was loyal. The mirage appeared again, and it appeared more clearly and persistently than last time. From the time the general discovered the target until the general was captured and carried away, the entire process was reproduced.
Macedonia’s face was livid and his fists were clenched. Everyone could see that Macedonia was on the verge of bursting into anger. Golden Skull Kuro slowly walked to Macedon's side and whispered: "I know the whereabouts of the humans in the mirage."
"Where?" Macedonia asked in a cold tone.
"Leave the Golden City and go eastward for two hundred miles. There is an oasis there, and those humans are hiding there." Qrow replied slowly.
"Send the order, the whole army must assemble." Macedonia was silent for a moment and ordered loudly. - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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