Chapter 267: The Scout On the afternoon of January 2, 3044, Zhao Yannian, who was on annual leave for himself, was summoned to the royal capital by the Supreme Council, and after seeing the map of the orc kingdom, Zhao Yannian touched his chin and thought about it.
"Your Excellency, do you have any clues?
His Excellency Count Rodnik?
A nobleman sitting next to Zhao Yannian with two delicate mustaches summoned Zhao Yannian back from his thoughts.
"Oh, Marquis William, what did you just say?"
Zhao Yannian, who came back to his senses, asked the bearded middle-aged man with some apologies.
"Count Rodnik, I was asking you if you have any impression of this palace sign?
In the aerial photographic materials owned by the Supreme Council, there are no traces of man-made structures here.
The Marquis William, like Zhao Yannian, was an honorary member of the Supreme Council, and he was also one of Edward's most important thinkers.
"Your Excellency Marquis, I don't think there is any mention of man-made structures in this area, but I do have a clue."
Zhao Yannian thought for a while and then replied to Marquis William, although he didn't speak loudly, but after he finished speaking, all the members of the Supreme Council looked at him quietly.
After finding that he was noticed by everyone, Zhao Yannian had to stand up and turn on the loudspeaker in front of him, Zhao Yannian glanced around and got Edward's nod of agreement, Zhao Yannian coughed and began to speak.
"Ahem, I think everyone knows that since the Blackbird was built, we have been conducting a carpet reconnaissance of the Beast Plateau every month, and this reconnaissance has not stopped for many years, so the images we have collected cannot tell us the specific situation inside the orcs, but they can give us some clues."
Zhao Yannian took out a map made of high-resolution aerial photography from the ring and handed it to the waiter, who willingly placed the map next to the animal skin map, and then under the effect of illusion, the two maps were enlarged to the middle of the conference room and gradually overlapped.
"Earl Black, please try to make a long story short."
Edward asked with some urgency, His Majesty had a hunch from the first sight of this map that this would be the key to the war between humans and orcs.
"In the past few years, we have taken a map every other month, which means that we can easily record the direction and pattern of the movement of those tribes on the grassland, and we have been building a chart to try to analyze their customs for the actions of these large and small tribes, but in the last year or so, we have found that nearly half of the active tribes on the Beast Plateau have suddenly disappeared, and most of these tribes have suddenly left their traditional migration routes and then traveled north.
By the time our Blackbird reconnoiters the Beast Plateau the next month, the tribes had completely disappeared as if they had evaporated.
Zhao Yannian's words immediately caused discussion among the councilors, and for this map, the disappearance of these tribes should be an important clue.
"Is it possible that they joined the army or entered the city?
Haven't we been able to figure out the exact population of those cities?
Duke William asked Zhao Yannian.
This notoriously cautious thinker does not easily believe any information.
"We have also considered this, since the orcs have entered the age of farming, then herding is not an inevitable work, if the orc tribe enters the city to live, there is also this possibility, but as time goes by, until the end of this year, I can be sure that they have definitely not entered the city."
Zhao Yannian replied very affirmatively, after hearing his accurate answer, the members of the Supreme Council showed an inquiring eye, and Zhao Yannian did not continue to sell the guanzi, and continued to talk without waiting for others to ask.
"In the past year, the new farmland of the orcs has only been cultivated equivalent to one percent of the farmland they originally owned, and our investigation of the city has found that the population density of the places where they should be markets has dropped by nearly half compared to previous years, which means that these disappeared orcs did not enter the city to start farming, and they did not trade goods in the city as usual."
Zhao Yannian's conclusion once again caused discussion among the parliamentarians, and everyone had different guesses about where the disappeared orcs went.
"Quiet!
Be quiet!
Edward was a little displeased to see the mess in the council.
After the members of the Supreme Council quieted down, His Majesty the King asked Zhao Yannian again.
"Count, what is your final conclusion?"
"Your Majesty, I don't know, but I think we can find out what's going on there if we look somewhere."
Zhao Yannian's finger pointed to the very top of the map, the red palace drawn in blood.
In 3044, an airship about the size of the Sparrow is quietly drifting to the north of the Beast Plateau over the sacred mountain, the exterior of the airship is equipped with an invisible array, in the sky like a ghost to hide their figure completely, this named Scout airship, does not use the conventional propeller propulsion system, he is using the gravity circle of the earth system to carry out silent propulsion A new generation of experimental airship, driven by six gravity circles, although the airship is far less economical than the propeller in terms of energy consumption, But in terms of silent acceleration and agility, the Scout is far superior to the clumsy old airships.
In order to avoid being discovered by the ancestral spirit totem of the orcs, the airship flew over the sea for a day before reaching the northern part of what the orcs called the sacred mountain, and now scouts only need to cross this mountain range to reach the location of the palace marked on the map.
After quietly reaching the target, the gravity circle gradually weakened and the scout silently stopped less than a meter above the ground, and then several of the most elite agents of the kingdom jumped from the scout in their invisibility cloaks.
These agents have magic stones mounted on their heads that transmit magical effects, and these magic stones transmit everything they see to the scout and record it.
The Kingdom Agents turned into a blur of light and shadow the moment they jumped off the Scout, and then after they split up and took a few steps, their figures completely disappeared into the snow and ice that had not melted all year round.
The agents stalked cautiously through the snow without leaving a trace, and after about two hours, they came to the target they were trying to investigate.
Approaching the foot of Mount Kinabalu, the spies discovered a canyon that, according to a reconnaissance map taken by Blackbird, was the most suspicious place in the area.
Soon after entering the canyon, the Kingdom Secret Agent, who was the captain of the team, sounded a warning sound.
"Be careful!
Someone came over.
Through a radio intercom hidden under the mute barrier, the Kingdom Agent sent a warning to his companions.
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Several spies immediately hid in the shadows under the rock walls of the valley.
A minute later, several red orcs led the hellhounds about their height past the area, and unlike the noisy and casual orcs, these red orc raiders were as cold as machines.
When passing through the hiding place of the kingdom's secret agents, a hellish demon dog sniffed around with some suspicion, but after all, no trace of the secret agents was found, fortunately, the equipment of the kingdom secret agents was advanced enough, and even the body smell had been completely hidden.
After the patrol formed by the orc raiders left, the kingdom agents continued to advance into the valley, this time the agents fought with 120,000 spirits, because they could use the elite of these orcs as guards, then this is probably really an important place for orcs.
All the way to the deepest part of the valley, on the other side of a cold pool, a black hole like the mouth of a monster is a black hole, which makes people shudder.
"It's dangerous inside, with powerful magic fluctuations."
The extremely sensitive agents of the kingdom clearly sensed that the cave seemed to be full of danger, and they hesitated to enter it.
"Wait, I heard footsteps in the distance, a lot."
A spy suddenly interrupted his companion's conversation, and at his prompting, several Kingdom agents immediately found a hiding place and hid.
About ten minutes later, a large number of orcs came from the mist, these orcs, men, women, and children, judging by the way they dragged their families, they should be members of the same tribe, these pious eyes of the orcs hummed an ode in praise of the beast god Samael and walked towards the waterhole, the icy water temperature was close to freezing, but the orcs did not seem to be aware of any slowing down their journey.
"Follow up and see."
The captain of the kingdom's agents has confirmed that this is the reason for the orc's disappearance, and it is impossible for the agents to return empty-handed as to what is here.
The agents quietly followed the orc procession into the cavern as if they were going to the Holy Land, and the last image they sent back was a palace watered with orc blood, a huge teleportation array was slowly moving in front of the palace, and the red orcs were constantly watering the seemingly magical grooves on the ground near the teleportation array with blood.
A few spider silks wrapped around the necks of the Kingdom agents and lifted them high, and no matter how much they struggled, these elite agents could not get rid of the thin silk threads.
Regardless of the discovered intruders, Lady Eternal Night turned back to Samael and said, "It seems that the humans have discovered this place, and if you don't speed up the plan, then our efforts will probably be in vain." ”