redvbooks Chapter 184 Veresa's reconnaissance operation! Thermaplugg's death is approaching!
Chapter 184 Veresa's reconnaissance operation! Thermaplugg's death is approaching!
Gnomeregan, the corridor leading to the flight zone.
Lines of Argent Dawn soldiers were piling up the stinking corpses of the Stonejaw to burn.
Lancelot, Vereesa, and Jeremy stood beside a step with a detailed map of Gnomeregan that had just been rubbed by the sorcerer.
"Remember?"
Lancelot asked Vereesa who was memorizing the map.
"Okay."
"Tell me about the plan.
Vereesa nodded and said.
"The specific plan is this."
"The whole of Gnomeregan is divided into upper and lower layers, while the Stonejaws are mainly concentrated in the lower layer. 55
"Their 'lairs' are also concentrated in the lower layers!"
"So your task is to scout the whole of Gnomeregan along the lower levels of the city.
"I need you to find the biggest lair of these stonejaws."
"If possible, find out why they appear!"
"Also, you need to find the survivors of the gnomes and remember their location."
Lancelot kept drawing the route on the map to show Vereesa.
"clear!"
Vereesa nodded, and she turned directly towards the ranger team.
An hour later, in front of a tank factory in the mechanical area, a stone-jaw monster wrapped his arms around his body and cut a piece of rotten meat with the stone in his hand.
It purred inexplicably from its mouth, because the stone was so dull that it could not cut the rotten piece of meat.
"Um~"
A dull blade tip pierced the chest of the stone palate monster, brown blood came out of the stone paw monster's mouth, and it was soft to the ground.
Vereesa retracted her dagger and jumped lightly onto a black smoke tank. The bow in her hand made an inaudible sound, and the arrow passed through the black smoke.
A stone-jawed monster lingering at the gate of the factory fell forward while clutching its throat.
A black figure put his toes on the corpse and dragged the corpse to a corner.
Vereesa approached the factory door and pressed her ear against the cold steel wall.
After a while, she raised her palm and made several gestures.
It means that there are thirteen stone palate monsters, two entrances are left, three entrances are right, and the others are gathered together, close to the inside of the factory.
Vereesa made another gesture, and three rangers, all covered in runic leather armor, sprang from the shadows beside the tank.
983 They stuck to the steel wall, and Vereesa made several gestures at them.
The three rangers nodded, and the silver cloak behind them suddenly wriggled.
As if some force twisted the air, the Ranger suddenly disappeared into the air.
Vereesa took out two dull daggers, activated the invisibility spell on her cloak, and followed the shadows into the factory gate.
To the right of the entrance, three stonejaws surrounded a dwarf's corpse and did not know what to do.
Approaching quietly, the killing intent in his heart was deeply hidden, and he sent the dagger gently and slowly.
Approaching the back of the stone jaw monster's head, the greasy sticky hairs suddenly curled up a few times and accelerated sharply.
It avoids the hard bone, passes through the artery in the neck, and is quickly pulled out.
Its blood has not yet splashed out, and it has been inserted into the other neck.
The toes gently padded, and the corpse cushioned, lying on the dwarf's corpse, turned around, and pulled it out.
The two hands crossed and stabbed into the neck of the last stone palate monster at the same time, and the stone palate monster's trachea and arteries were cut off at the same time.
Falling down with a grunting sound.
Vereesa looked towards the opposite side, where the two Stonejaw monsters had also been dealt with.
She made a gesture to the ranger in the shadows, and continued along the corner of the wall.
A blue stonejaw, different from the other grey stonejaws, stands in front of a huge siege tank.
It held a steel rod that looked like a mechanical part, and next to it were several stone-jawed monsters cutting fresh meat from unknown sources.
The cut pieces of meat were placed in front of the blue stone-jaw monster, and it picked up the pieces of meat that were just enough to swallow and still chewed in its mouth.
Vereesa took off a short bow from behind, made several gestures, and the rangers took out their short bows one after another.
With another gesture, Vereesa pulled the bowstring with three arrows between her fingers.
'7,6,4,3....'
Vereesa counted in her heart the time it would take for the Stonejaw to eat another piece of meat.
The stonejaw monster with blue fur picked up the meat and put it in his mouth.
Its hands stopped in midair, and suddenly shrugged its deformed flesh nose.
"Boom~"
The short bow made a short muffled sound, and the four stone-jawed monsters suddenly lay on (cbci) the meat.
The other stone paws raised their heads in astonishment, the arrows magnified in their eyes.
"Ah~"
The cry of the blue stonejaw was interrupted by an arrow, which it blocked with a steel rod.
Waving the steel rod to open the stab, it was about to make a sound of warning when another arrow had passed through its throat.
"It appears that the different coat colours represent their class.35
"No finds here, smear their blood and move on.
Vereesa first pulled the corpse of the Stonejaw Monster.
Then he smeared blood on his face and leather armor expressionlessly, and left the factory with the three rangers.
Stonejaw monsters live underground for a long time, so they are almost no different from blind people.
But they still have weak eyesight, and their sense of smell is quite sensitive.
They can smell the 'human smell' about 50 meters away.
So the rangers had to smear their blood and certain bodily fluids on their bodies to mask their scent.
"how is the situation?"
Vereesa walked into a dwarf room, which had been cleaned out very cleanly, whether it was stonejaw monsters or mechanical parts.
This room is located on the upper floor of the mechanical area, and there are several planes that don't seem to be fully completed.
The concealment of the room is very good. After Veresa led people to clear the surrounding stone jaw monsters, she took this place as a temporary stronghold for the rangers.
"Three locations with dwarf survivors were found, and seven tunnels like the lair of the Stonejaw monsters have been marked on the map."
"The perimeter of the lair has been buried, but we're not sure what effect detonating them would have on the city."
"Also, there are currently 4 squads that have not returned.
A ranger pointed to the map on the table, which looked like a simple combat map that had been drawn, with only the shape of the city on it.
"Don't detonate first, send a copy of the map of the burial and surviving points to the Grand Knight Lancelot."
"After leaving some weapons and food for the survivors, let our squad continue to the next urban area."
"The stronghold here is also abandoned, our mission is not here."
Vereesa frowned when she heard that the 4 teams did not return, and then tapped the map.
"clear.
The reported ranger captain nodded, and nodded to the rangers next to him.
The rangers saluted Vereesa, then left the room and rappelled to the bottom of the city.
"Get ready, leave in ten minutes."
Vereesa and the other rangers began to clean up the room, and ten minutes later, silence returned.
Artisan District, at the city generator.
"They may have noticed!"
"The Steel Needle Brothers have been out of contact since yesterday."
"I've been to their place and there's no one there with Ben!35
Crusher has blue engineering eyes, and his face is a little bad.
A strong sense of unease appeared in his heart.
"impossible!
"There's no way that idiot in Mekkatorque has discovered our plan.
"The Needle Brothers may have been sent on a mission. They are members of the Tinkers Guild after all."
"Let Lanka and Briss speed up the cracking of the code of the city's defense system, and others too!"
Thermaplugg maintained a high-pitched voice that sounded like several ducks quack.
If two password crackers are discovered, it doesn't matter.
He arranged for several groups of people to decipher these things, and they didn't know each other's existence!
"I think you've been away for too long... Your Majesty the King!"
"You are now Mekkatorque's adviser after all. 35
"As a consultant, it's a little suspicious not to help the Great Artisan with his affairs at such a time.
For Thermaplugg's statement.
Crusher felt that it was not very reliable and still looked worried and said.
There's no need for that anymore, broken wheels.
"In two days at most, I'll be able to crack this damn unlock code.
"At that time, no one can stop us!"
"I've had enough of grovelling next to that idiot!! 99
A trace of madness began to appear on Thermaplugg's face again, waving his hands and saying.
"Okay, Your Majesty the King.
"I'm going to get our people ready, and the 'secret passage' next to the factory will be opened soon."
Seeing the abnormal flushing and frenzy on Thermaplugg's face, Shattered Wheel knew that persuasion was useless, so he could only nod his head and say.
"Let those idiots hurry up!"
"I don't want to delay anything because of them!"
Thermaplugg is a little dissatisfied with the current progress.
Shattered Wheel bowed and left the room.
A shadow flickered in the corner behind him, and Shattered Wheel looked back, then turned and left.
Somewhere in the Artisan Quarter, Gnomeregan Rogue Training Ground.
"Lanka and Brice?"
"They are also high-level technicians of the Tinkers Guild, and I didn't expect to get involved. 995
A dwarf frowned.
"These idiots have been blinded by illusory power, you should really see Therma Plugg's expression when he speaks.
"I bet he's out of his mind."
The pink-haired female dwarf made a crazy look on her face, imitating Thermaplugg's look.
"Normal people can't do such a thing."
"There has been some progress in our investigation."
"We suspect these stonejaws were deliberately put in by Thermaplugg."
The gnome took out a document full of gnome words.
"Intentionally put in?
"Are you sure?"
The female dwarf widened her eyes.
"All leads point to him.
"Aren't you surprised?""
'Our city defense system was completely useless when those stonejaws invaded. ""
"All the early warning robots seem to be malfunctioning."
"By the time they started working, our city was almost down!"
"It's just that the battle was urgent at the time, so the great craftsman never thoroughly investigated the matter. 99
"But our people just found out yesterday that several of the high-level technicians responsible for maintaining the city's defense system were his people!
The dwarf looked at his 'colleague', and he knew that her brother had also disappeared in this disaster.
His younger brother was working in an aircraft factory in the Mechanical District when the disaster struck.
"Does the master craftsman know about this?"
The female dwarf asked with an expressionless face.
"Already reported, the Great Artisan let us continue the plan until all the traitors are found!
The dwarf said with hatred for the traitor on his face.
"Then go ahead and plan."
"Send all our thieves, I'm going to speed up!"
The female dwarf nodded.
"It's all dispatched.
"Don't worry, Kelsey, I reckon we've caught half of them.
"In less than a week he will be sentenced to death in front of all the dwarfs!
The dwarf patted the female dwarf's arm and said affirmatively.
"but me!
"I will personally carry out the death penalty against him! 55
Kelsey Steelspark pulled out like a machete.
The Artisan Quarter, the Great Artisan's quarter, is also the headquarters of Gnomeregan.
Lancelot, who was back here, walked in with a map.
"Information just received.
"In the entire mechanical area, a total of 4 survival spots and 7 stonejaw monster nests have been found, and fireworks have been buried."5
"But my people had no blasting experience, and they were afraid of the unpredictable effects on the city, so they didn't detonate.
"Also, my people have been evacuated from there and started exploring like the next town.
Lancelot didn't do much politeness, and put the map directly on the table.
Magni and Mekkatorque are here.
"Sure enough, there are survivors."
Mekkatorque is clearly more concerned with the safety of his people.
"They are safe."
"But it won't always be safe.
"Now that we've figured out what's going on here.99
"Then we can clear this place directly."
Lancelot pointed at the map and said to the two of them.
"You are right! 99
"Captain Fire Drill!
"Assemble our troops now!"
"We're going to save our people!"
Mekkatorque looked at a one-eyed dwarf with a blindfold behind him.
"Follow your orders, Your Excellency the Great Artisan!"
The dwarf officer gave a salute and walked out of the headquarters...
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