From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 259 Harvest

Armor-piercing bullets whizzed in the air, and Nesta and several other witch doctors followed behind the thick-skinned ancient war tree, approaching the center of the battlefield little by little.

As they approached, they saw a purple arm stained with blood, carefully stretched out from the wound on the superior salamander's neck;

It seemed to be testing something, waving in mid-air. Seeing that there was no unnecessary movement, it slowly exposed the elbows and upper arms behind it, and finally reached its head and neck.

Obviously, the owner of this arm is not someone else, but Azshara, who was previously penetrated into the body of the advanced salamander. She did survive and did not suffer much damage.

Although Nesta kept silent, she was still worried in her heart. After all, the power of natural thunder and lightning was too majestic, and if Azshara was even slightly affected, she would be killed on the spot;

But now, seeing that she was fine except for looking a little weak, Nesta finally breathed a sigh of relief and no longer worried.

"Azshara!"

Different from Nesta's reserve, Freya yelled and happily ran towards the big mouth with only the upper jaw left. She grabbed Azshara's arm and pulled it out, trying to help her hurry up.

Click to drill out.

"No, no, no, I can do it myself."

Azshara, who was somewhat concerned about her image, immediately stopped the little girl's reckless behavior, saying that she did not want to be pulled out like a carrot, and that she was not that weak.

At this time, Nesta no longer held back. In the name of protecting the safety of Freya and Azshara, he sped up his pace slightly and walked up to the salamander first.

The marching speed was extremely slow due to the drag of two cage trees, slag storage tanks, etc. It took a long time to reach the edge of the base;

After that, it took a longer time to successfully lower the many drags, each larger than the last, by more than a thousand meters.

Azshara briefly explained her encounter and response, then looked suspiciously at her friend and the other witch doctors who had come nearby and asked.

The progress of the research is not satisfactory, but the target's extremely outstanding vitality and the existing skull gap have given the witch doctors the best experimental conditions, giving them the opportunity to try more radical methods to achieve the goal.

Purpose.

After hearing this, the other witch doctors just glanced here in surprise, but the movements of their hands did not stop, and they were still assisting the ancient trees in the integration.

Coordinating with this part of the ancient war trees were the other witch doctors present except Nesta and Azshara. At this time, they took out tree seeds that had been pre-made according to the needs and planted them for the upcoming birth.

Cage trees add functional structure.

This naturally caused the regeneration rate to increase. Even if the witch doctors completed the craniotomy of a small area of ​​​​the back of the brain, they still had to spend a lot of time resisting this regeneration.

Because of this, several witch doctors were deployed from the bombardment observation point. They became an effective force in cleaning up the battlefield and improving the cage, speeding up the progress of many works on site.

And once this window period is missed, Nesta is not sure that it will repeat the previous severe thunderstorm and cause the same trauma as now.

Therefore, even if the surrounding situation is not yet stable, even if there are countless secondary salamanders in the outer volcanoes, and even if it is not a good time to start the operation, Nesta does not intend to let this opportunity pass.

"The task of merging the cages will be left to you, but don't wrap this guy's head in it yet. I want to open his head now."

The Cage Tree walked very slowly. When the rear corpse collection team, with the assistance of the witch doctors who joined later, recovered almost all the remains of the salamander species, and returned to the main force together with part of the escort force left around them,

We have just walked through the valley area where the battlefield is located.

But when it goes deeper into the inner bone area, the execution becomes more difficult, which greatly slows down the progress of the project;

Without further ado, the ‘parts’ of the seventy Cage Tree No. 3 have already arrived. They formed an inner and outer circle and began to release vines towards the target’s many wounds;

The rest of the troops naturally did the same and took the next batch of 'shuttle buses' one after another and began to return one after another.

For the same reason, at this time, a large number of troll recruits who had lost their 'Vine Tree Vehicles' began to target the two east and west volcanoes with individual weapons such as 'Totem Armored Shields' and 'Rapid Fire Cannons'.

and other nearby volcanoes to prepare for possible counterattacks by the salamanders.

The sound wave feedback was concentrated in the meditation space, and the contrast between the damage to the advanced salamander's head and the rest of the area became more obvious. The trauma in the target area made Nesta's eyes bright, but the recovery speed made him quite embarrassed.

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As for the troll levies who had just been replaced from their 'vehicles', at this time, under the instructions of the witch doctors, they entered the area where hundreds of salamanders had been killed by heavy artillery and began to retrieve the broken corpses.

,recycle magic crystal;

No matter which category they belong to, these two are extremely valuable trophies.

The former includes blood, flesh, bones, scales, and the total seems to be tens of thousands of tons of residue, which will be put into a special hollow plant similar to a large oil tank, and then pulled to the headquarters on a track;

At this point, the capture operation of advanced salamanders can finally be said to have come to an end.

While still on the way, the harvest of this trip was counted one by one;

In addition to the high-level salamanders as the primary target, a total of more than twenty 80-meter-level salamander magic crystals, more than 60 60-meter-level newt magic crystals, hundreds of 40-meter-level 'little guys', and more than 20 80-meter-level newt magic crystals were purchased.

There are also countless pieces of meat and armor they contributed.

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In the process of returning to the headquarters, the number of witch doctors, which had been increased to 20, finally completed the craniotomy of the advanced salamander, exposing the brain and the corner of the giant magic crystal to the air, causing the witch doctors to

For the first time, the brains and magic crystals of higher organisms were observed with the naked eye.

In addition, among the hundreds of smashed salamanders, many were 60-meter and 80-meter-level giants, and their magic crystals were not in the current reserves of the headquarters;

Therefore, out of these considerations, a group of troll conscripts took the collection tools handed out by the witch doctors and began to do the work of 'scrap recycling' in the magma-like flesh and blood pits.

For example, strong acid method

In the process of researching compounds, our department has mastered several types of acidic liquids that are even more effective than similar magic in terms of corrosiveness, etc., and transformed them from chemistry into new magic;

Also, the latter's magic crystal is also a research raw material worthy of attention;

First of all, the headquarters does not know the composition and cause of the magic crystal. In order to prevent possible "large-scale demand" in the future, no amount of reserve is too small at this time;

During this process, the salamanders in the base and crater cooperated unusually. They stopped attacking the east and west walls, and most of them had even drilled back into the magma channel at the bottom of the base, leaving only

Those little ones with insufficient body strength and more security forces than usual remain in the upper part.

No matter why they made such a choice, this is good news for this department, which means that the task of preserving the loot is no longer heavy;

"It seems fine. It was weakened too much by that thunderstorm."

After deliberation and making up her mind, Nesta, with the help of her partner, began the rather difficult journey of opening the skull.

The preliminary work went quite smoothly. The high-frequency frequency blade used by Nesta can be said to be the highest-end non-explosive cutting technology currently available in the department;

He flexibly controlled the force form of the blade body, sometimes it was a razor, sometimes it was a saw, sometimes it was changed to a drill, and he easily completed the preliminary cleaning work in the area that had been damaged by lightning.

Of course, this is still within the "effort" judgment range that Nesta made previously, so it will not be like when he faced the body of the cave wolf before, and there will be no way to deal with it.

Condition

The unpleasant sound of "crunching" spread almost throughout the entire battlefield area. A small area in the back of the skull was continuously weakened by Nesta and Azshara with extremely low efficiency;

At that time, this batch of concentrated liquid will be put to use immediately, and the amount will be enough to give birth to new mother trees as quickly as possible without over-squeezing the land.

In addition, even if 6,000 people died instantly before, the total number of hornhoof mercenaries is still more than the troll levies. It seems that it will be faster to let them participate?

However, the remains of salamanders have high-temperature properties, and horn-hoofed species are basically unable to withstand that kind of temperature, so they can only do other tasks such as replacement and pathfinding within their capabilities.

"Well, that's fine. Azshara, when you have rested, can you come over and help me?"

Of course, this is the best situation for this department

The dead high-level monsters can only be regarded as a waste of resources, and they will lose the most important part of their current value. Only this kind of "alive, but not completely alive" is the most beneficial situation for the tribe.

The other part began a path-finding evacuation operation, moving uniformly towards the edge of the volcano base.

The rest of the witch doctors have all moved to the two cage trees. Some are responsible for guarding and some have joined Nesta. The movement of the cage trees has not interfered with their work progress. Nearly ten witch doctors are standing aside at this time.

Against the self-healing of the operated area, the craniotomy was performed in a hurry.

"No problem, come right now."

Similarly, Nesta also received more help, thus improving hand speed efficiency.

Although Nesta is directly related to everything that happened before, the principle is not very clear. It can only be attributed to natural changes based on the combined effects of terrain, climate, hot and cold conditions, etc.

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Later, in various comparisons with natural acidic magic, the witch doctors harvested the 'strongest acid' at this stage and achieved better results than their predecessors in magic and chemical results. However,

It is still not enough to do this job 'on its own'.

"Okay, let's take a rest first."

"I'm not sure. I just used some airflow and air pressure control techniques. Who knew it would suddenly turn into a big thunderstorm?"

As time gradually passed, the volcano group became peaceful for a while, except for the noise discovered by the workers at the headquarters.

The large forces have begun to move, and many combat forces are maintaining vigilance while moving from the cracks of the volcanoes to the edge of the base;

The witch doctors at the artillery observation post also retreated step by step, maintaining the accuracy of their own heavy artillery group within a certain limit, and gradually recovered and transferred the metal communication wires that had been laid previously.

The braincase of this advanced salamander, the cortex attached to it, and the muscles are already at a very special critical point;

Now, as long as his effort exceeds its recovery speed, he can open its skull;

And as long as this guy is allowed to take a breath, it is very likely that the impact of the lightning strike will be gradually eliminated, and it will return to its original state of hardness and no way to start;

For the headquarters that has so far lacked opportunities to observe the brains of advanced Warcraft and observe magic crystals, this is an excellent opportunity that cannot be missed;

Therefore, the original templates for spells are of great research value. Perhaps we can also find insights from them to continue optimizing and improving the attack power, rate of fire, etc. of existing long-range weapons.

After a moment, Nesta retracted his hand, and after turning his head to look around at the various preparations and observing the current situation of the salamanders outside, he made a decision - 'Open the skull on the spot'.

"Why are you so reckless? What if this thing is just pretending? Don't do this next time."

This process took several days in total, but there was still no situation where the salamanders fought desperately to recapture their leader. A team of tens of thousands of people of all colors left the base unexpectedly and successfully arrived.

The southern desert area below.

After a period of time, Cage Tree No. 3 wrapped most of the body of the Advanced Salamander, leaving only its head, which was tied layer by layer and placed on a platform, only exposing the part where it was undergoing craniotomy.

outside the area;

After a while, the witch doctors had given the cage tree the ability to move, filled it with concentrated nutrients on the spot using part of the salamander residue, and then controlled it to move.

After they are transported back to the headquarters, they will be sent to the manufacturing plant of "nutrient concentrate" to be broken down into the raw materials of "low-energy concentrate". The synthesized concentrated nutrients will become important strategic reserves;

In addition, the headquarters plans to use the two newly captured advanced salamanders as the core and the cage tree as the original body. After excluding the ancient war tree itself and some external cores, two new mother trees will be established near the new urban area of ​​the headquarters.

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Some of the horn-hoofed mercenaries have reached the edge and are now taking the elevator to leave the base. The other part of them have replaced their 'cars' and are following closely among the large army, carefully and slowly evacuating with the army.

"Well, then you go ahead and do it. Don't worry about it here. Let's complete the mobility first, then add concentrated nutrients to make it move. The rest will be done as we go."

After a brief exchange between the two elves, Azshara refused the help of others and slowly moved to the side to sit down on the ground to rest, while Nesta observed the big guy on the ground.

This advanced salamander is naturally very miserable. Its entire neck, as well as the part of the head connected to the neck, are now burnt black in patches;

Most areas of the body were also covered with scorch marks, and it looked like he had been injured more than once.

But even after being injured to this point, even though it no longer seems to have any conditioned reflex reactions, there is still a heartbeat happening in the deepest part of the body, and it even retains a certain degree of functional peristalsis of the organs, so it is far from being 'dead'.

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On the side of the advanced salamander, Nesta has not participated in various tasks for the time being. He is currently observing the scorched black area on the salamander's huge head, and slowly reaches out to cover the back of its head;

However, this technique and its finished products are still strictly restricted in dissemination by witch doctors;

Because, like other strong acids, it can not only prevent the injured parts of trolls and elves from regenerating, but can even 'burn' the bodies of uninjured trolls, and also cause a certain degree of damage to the bodies of elves, providing them with

Bring severe pain.

On the other hand, some of the horn-hoofed mercenaries on the east side who lost their 'cars' and survived were arranged to replace the troll levies to control the remaining vine trees and continue to maintain the barriers at the bottom of the east and west volcanoes;

"I understand... I'm a little exhausted. I'll rest for a while. You can do it yourself first."

"Perhaps it can only be explained this way. We will study it in detail later, but we can talk about it later. We must first take advantage of this opportunity to capture this big guy."

"Is it feasible in terms of strength?" Jian Ya asked doubtfully.

By this time, most of the integration work of Cage Tree No. 3 had been completed, so a few witch doctors left to go to the conscripts to help recover the battlefield debris, while the other part stayed in the cage to continue improving the remaining functions.

This is regarded as a subsidiary product of the process. While making a certain contribution to subsequent research, it also allows the department to more clearly understand the current situation that its own ethnic group is not 'invincible'.

"Are you okay? What happened?"

Further out, 600 self-propelled combat vehicles and 80 ancient war trees have placed alert targets in other areas.

After all, after the two leaders were captured, no one could guess how the remaining secondary salamanders in the many craters would react to the current situation;

Although it is extremely lacking in combat adaptability in a non-magmatic fluid environment due to its body structure and other reasons, if the black-edged gold projectiles like before are repeatedly attacked without hesitation, and our own side does not have the ability to enter the crater on a large scale in the short term,

The encirclement and suppression ability is generally very troublesome to deal with.

They are obviously preparing to do what they did with the last advanced salamander, by inserting part of their body deep into its interior, thereby becoming a means of restraint in the future, as well as a carrier of many functions in the direct contact area at the end.

The sound wave detection technique was emitted from the palm, detecting the damage to various structures in the brain area, and focused on the hard skull.

"Then let's get started. I'll give it a try first. I'll do the best I can. If it doesn't work, I'll speed up the capture and then retreat with all my strength."

For the sake of the life of advanced salamanders, although such concerns may be a bit unfounded,

But it was indeed to avoid accidents that the witch doctors did not choose to completely separate the magic crystal from his brain. Instead, they began to consider how to make this area, and even his entire brain, forever become an outer shell without bones.

Setup structure.

Logically speaking, it is most appropriate to leave this task to the witch doctors, but currently the witch doctors on site have all concentrated on the Ancient War Tree, preparing to assist the Cage Tree No. 3 to take shape and have corresponding functions;

As for the remaining witch doctors, they were either on defense at the artillery observation point or waiting for orders at the divisional headquarters. They could not allocate manpower to take care of this in a short period of time.

Now, the witch doctors have used these acidic liquids to partially infiltrate the skull gaps in an attempt to limit the self-healing properties of the advanced salamanders;

Some results have been achieved, but they are not enough to once and for all compete with its increasingly rapid regeneration power.

Once we got here, everything became much more convenient.

The rail transportation has been prepared for a long time, and the three cage trees, two large and one small, were first arranged to board the moose car and embarked on the road back to the headquarters;

Pretending to reprimand Panfreya for her reckless behavior of leaving the group, he stepped forward and held Azshara's arm, helped her stand up, and wiped the blood on her face with his sleeve robe.

In other respects, Cage Tree No. 1 left the volcano group early after completing its mission of luring the enemy;

Facts have proved that unlike the unknown injuries on 'Advanced Salamander No. 1', the power of nature, at least the natural power of lightning, does not have the same damaging effect as gangrene attached to the bone.

past; past;

So at this time, with the help of its own life strength and the help of the witch doctors, although it was not their intention, but it did have a cleaning effect, the external trauma suffered by the advanced salamander during the lightning effect was being erased bit by bit.

"clear!"

"Ahem. It doesn't matter. I was almost killed by lightning. I used metal bala bala and then, what's going on here? When did we have such a powerful lightning spell?"

However, this is also the beginning of another kind of 'pain', because if you want to continue research, you need to fight against the steadily increasing self-healing ability of the skull, muscles and cortex at all times.

Turning around, the attempts to 'bone out' the head of the advanced salamander continued. The witch doctors successively tried various methods, but their real success was only achieved some time after they returned to their headquarters.

This is a comprehensive approach that combines different methods to work together;

The witch doctors will repeatedly perform "ultrasonic vibration" on the gap to further weaken the newly regenerated skull, which is not as hard as the "old bones";

It is supplemented by extremely fast 'hot and cold conversion' in the area to continue to increase its crispness, and then the newly developed 'strongest acid' is used for continuous application;

Finally, a 'high-frequency frequency blade' is used around the gap to maintain precise and rapid circumcision without affecting the relatively soft brain tissue.

After such a multi-pronged approach, not only has the existing gap been retained, but it has even tended to expand further.

(End of chapter)