329. Chapter 327: 326 Ambush and Rescue for ‘starsfallin’
Chapter 329.Chapter 327 326.Ambush and Rescue – for “starsfalling” [215].
Under the evening light, a huge transportation fleet was traveling along the road from the Pioneer Fortress to the east.
The scale of this team far exceeded that of an ordinary caravan, and there were more than two dozens of large vehicles used for the transportation of heavy loads, while an entire production line used for the production of firearms was disassembled and moved in such a way as ants moving around.
This is only a small part of the production line that the Carpe family got from Xike City, Xike City as the capital of the Confederacy of Portia, its industrial capacity is not as good as the “Bourbonnais Industrial Belt” in the territory of the Golden Sparrow, but in terms of the standard of Transylvania, it is already one of the best.
Unfortunately, those glorious pasts have faded in time.
This set of production lines was a gift to be sent to Governor Murphy’s territory as a show of “sincerity”, and the timing was very accurate, so there would not be any behavior of transporting all the production lines there before the construction of the factory was completed, which would be a serious waste.
After all, as a qualified capitalist, these production lines in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce under the Capet family can earn a lot of money every day.
Right now this was only the first transportation.
If the upfront cooperation with Governor Murphy was pleasant, then the subsequent production lines would be shipped to the right location at a much faster pace.
The official steam train plan of the Kingdom of Canary Blossom is advancing in an orderly manner towards the East Prussia area, this project is precisely supported by the Capet family in conjunction with several other great nobles in the provision of a portion of the financial support, and when the railroad is built to the pioneering fortresses, then this piece of the earth will forever belong to the King Louis under the banner of King Louis.
Just as the Transylvanians could not understand how the Northmen had conquered the great wilderness with almost impossible difficulty, so the Northmen could not understand how the Kingdom of the Golden Sparrow had so quickly annexed its new-found power and transformed it into a force to be used at a daunting speed.
The tracks that were constantly being laid were the tougher veins the kingdom had woven for itself, the factories along the railroads were the backbone that held up the body, and the steam trains that kept moving forward represented the new era that was roaring in.
The Goldfinch was already on board, but unfortunately Nordtorff missed the class, and the Bohemian Confederacy was even worse, they didn’t even qualify for the station.
“That’s the border between East Prussia and Transylvania up ahead, miss.”
A female knight in light armor riding a warhorse clad in gorgeous battle armor arrived at the large carriage in front of the group and reported to the curtained carriage:
“The leader of the Firefox Mercenary Corps asked me to relay to you that the next road into Transylvania may not be so peaceful, that old mercenary who traveled extensively once lived in Transylvania for a few years, and he said that this land is full of repulsive jackal banditry and incomprehensible vampire bloodsuckers.
We may encounter threats, so he wishes to take over the escort of the caravan.”
“Oh?”
A confused voice rang out from the carriage as Major Fraser’s fiancée, the Heavil family’s daughter-in-law, Miss Becky, asked suspiciously in return:
“Why would he have such an unauthorized idea? The Firefox Mercenaries are just the ‘Black Gloves’ that the Carpe family has been cultivating in East Prussia, right? What makes him think that I would entrust him with the escort of an entire caravan?
Is that wannabe mercenary leader bullying me for not knowing anything?
The volume of this entire line could be far more expensive than his crappy mercenary group.
Get back to him and tell him to do his job!
Fraser is trusting me by leaving this to me, how can I let my good brother down?”
“Uh, miss, that’s your fiancé, not your brother.”
The female knight of the Xavier family who was acting as an escort rubbed her neck extremely helplessly as she whispered:
“The head of the family is very satisfied with the progress of your marriage to Young Master Fraser, he even gave up his intention of annexing the Beverly Family’s territory for this reason just to leave a good impression on his future aunt. If he learns that you and your fiancé refer to each other as brothers, I’m afraid the head of the family will have a heart attack on the spot.”
“Oh, he wouldn’t, my father is the shrewdest businessman.”
Miss Becky was looking on the bright side.
She joked with her playmate and escort who she had played with since childhood:
“Do you believe that my father will not only not be angry when he learns the truth, but will instead be even more delighted, for him, as long as he can have a closer relationship with the Capet family and reap the benefits from it, that’s enough.
The means of accomplishing this are various.
Whether it is to send his daughter, who has not been able to get married for many years, to the bed of the heir of the Capet family, or to make his daughter, who has an eccentric temper, a close friend of the only heir, are all options.
That’s why I’m not at all worried that this ‘little secret’ will be dismantled… Well, this is still something that Fraser analyzed for me before we left, and I feel that he analyzed it correctly.
What do you say? Leaven.”
“I still feel that you and Major Fraser are a match made in heaven, a perfect combination of beauty, strength and wisdom, and your child is destined to become the pride of the Golden Sparrow Kingdom.”
The female knight named “Raven” shrugged her shoulders as she glanced out into the starless evening night and then forward into the wilderness that led to Transylvania. After a few seconds of listening to a sound that only she could hear, she gripped the hilt of her sword at her waist and spoke softly:
“I have a bad feeling about this, my lady, perhaps you should put your armor on now.”
“Oh, is it your faith that is warning you?”
Ms. Beech’s voice became noticeably more “excited” as the sound of metal clashing in the carriage, and she asked with interest:
“You haven’t told me which god you believe in since you were a child, but I’ve seen you praying, and it’s different from the rituals of the Old Church and the Church of the Winter Wolves.”
“Miss! It’s not for you to think about, I don’t tell you just to protect you, my deity doesn’t want His majesty to be known by too many here, and as I’ve told you since I was a child, I’m just the eyes of the deity to bring Him more of the things on earth that He wishes to see.”
The tone of the Raven Knight’s voice became noticeably more serious.
She no longer chatted with her own lady, but instead, she pushed her horse forward in preparation to talk to the leader of the Firefox Mercenary Corps, who was located at the front of the caravan, about the choice of paths to take once they entered Transylvania’s territory.
At the same time, at the front of this caravan, on top of a mountainous area that belonged to Transylvania’s territory.
A large-scale black night boundary under the auspices of Fimis enveloped the surrounding cliffs, making it impossible for an entire force hiding here to be tracked and sensed by the outside world.
There was no shortage of people here.
On the NPC side, in addition to Missy and a few of her servants, there was Baron Kudel the Hunting Baron, Dorothy the leader of the Blood Rats gang, and Vulture Knight Valander and two squads of Winged Cavalry, who had traveled here from the mountains outside of Sikor City.
On the player side, in addition to Stick and Woo Meow’s team, who triggered this storyline themselves, there is also a group of Soldier Strike Slammers who have become the Protector Kudel’s Squadron Knights, and a group of Thieves and Assassins players from the Blood Rats Gang, led by Frost Tooth’s Claw.
Lastly, there is Brother Loyalty, the only apprentice of the Little Count of Sherron at the moment.
This guy was a manufacturing player, his own character level was only at level 7 not yet out of the realm of the newbies, but he was the one who was the most eager to try out of everyone on the scene.
There were two reasons for this!
First, Brother Loyalty regarded the upcoming rescue operation as a testing ground for “new weapons”.
At his waist was a special psychic bag, filled with a variety of weapons that he and Count Sheridan had created after “brainstorming” in the past few days.
Secondly, as the intended manager of the “Transylvania National No. 1 Arsenal”, Brother Loyalty knew very well that the goods transported by this caravan in front of him were directly related to whether or not his own industry could open in time to make money.
He naturally couldn’t allow a group of wolfsbane dogs to ruin his first step to expand his ambition in Transylvania!
“Coming! They’re close to the border, there are so many people, big bags and small bags just like a fleeing team! It’s like ants are moving in a spectacular manner.”
Smoke Sang, who was hiding in the Darkness Boundary and maneuvering the Scouting Technique, suddenly shouted out, causing the small players who were gathered in various places to wipe their weapons and prepare for the battle to immediately get refreshed, and the NPCs also stopped the affairs that they were talking to each other in whispers.
The winged cavalrymen rolled onto their horses, while the vampires spread their wings.
They didn’t know when the Wolfsbane Clan’s ambush would begin, but those bastards would never guess that there was already a force here that was planning to “come after them”.
Old Qu picked up his shotgun and filled it with bullets, but Loyalty stopped him.
“Come, come, brothers, throw away the burning sticks in your hands, use the ‘new type of weapon’ I brought to fight tonight, as a practical test for us, to see how powerful the ‘otherworldly weapon’ that I made is. ”
Brother Loyalty took out a large box from his psychic energy bag and threw it on the ground, kicking it open to reveal the rifles neatly placed in it.
“Crap, 98K!”
Giant Sharkbot let out a strangled cry, followed by a super blank stare of disdain from Stick.
“Don’t call everything you see a 98K, it only reveals your um, flaws in that area.”
The veteran spat.
Bending down and picking up an antique rifle from the case, he gave it a rather smooth and hard swing, clicking as the snowy bayonet popped out and stuck into the underside of the barrel.
“A fully nude version of the SKS.”
Stick did a couple of shoulder-to-shoulder firing maneuvers, withdrew another round to look at it, and looked back at the smug Loyalist Brother, who had an odd expression on his face:
“What’s with the full-power rounds? And don’t tell me you knocked this out with pliers?”
“Of course not, I just provided the drawings, these are the work of my little mentor, and my hands aren’t that deft.” Brother Loyalty laughed.
Picking up a rifle himself and placing it in his hands, he whispered:
“The engineers over here are monsters one by one, they have very special casting methods that can almost completely restore the designs on the drawings with a rather subtle degree of machining, but that kind of technique can only be used to hand rub collector’s items, and even the little Count of Sheren can’t make them fast enough to catch up with large-scale weaponry launches.
Therefore, really want to go on mass production is certainly not the way to get this kind of ‘fine’, but I have finalized a few can be in the arsenal of rapid production of firearms to be assigned to Lord Murphy’s soldiers.
As for why full-power ammunition
What the hell kind of question is that?
You don’t think our little peanuts can crack a vampire or jackal’s skull, do you? Full-power ammo is really good for civilization in a fantasy world where the demons are all over the place!
Overpowered isn’t even a problem. I’d make dumdums if the standard charge list wasn’t so far from completion, they’re too extreme for us, but they’re just right for here.
And I’ve got special bullets for you.”
He threw out another ammo box and grabbed ammo pouches from it to distribute to the others, explaining:
“These are spiked bullets loaded with gold-fueled powder, the stopping effect is super strong and can trigger a terrifying cavity effect, as long as the target still has flesh and blood, basically the target will die, even transcendent beings will end up with serious injuries.
If we use this thing over there, everyone standing here will be court-martialed, but over here there is no such problem.
I used different loads to make the arsenal’s first load chart, so tonight, in addition to testing the gun there was also a test of the damage different loads of bullets could do on a wolfsbane vampire.
You guys try to switch bullets if you can.”
“Hey, hey, good stuff.”
Gunner Qu was very satisfied.
Although he had touched a gun and shot at a target during military training in reality, he really had a big problem with the “unorthodox” firearms in the game.
With the kinetic energy of the gold-burning gunpowder, the spherical bullet’s accuracy could still be guaranteed at short and medium ranges, but the trajectory at long ranges was simply miserable.
He had wanted to change it for a long time.
“Brother Loyalty, is there anything good for me!”
Brother Qu carried a melee Remington and two packs of bullets on his back and smiled playfully, rubbing his hands together and said:
“We also know that you makers are in a difficult situation, so I don’t want the Barrett or anything else, but you should at least give our sniping buddies some family benefits, and give us a big bolt.”
“I’ll give you this.”
Brother Loyalty took out a sniper special rifle and threw it to Lao Qu, who took it in his hands and looked at it repeatedly, liking it a lot.
“Ha, Mrs. Springfield, can can, you really know your stuff.”
Qu gave a happy thumbs up and activated Item Identification to scan it again, realizing that even though this thing was hand rubbed, it wasn’t of low quality:
Name: “Mrs. Springfield” Trial Sniper Type 1 – Otherworldly Classic Firearms
Quality: Seiko – [Trial Work] Veteran
Traits: Strengthened Accuracy – Strengthened Heart Strike – Weak Swiftness – Tactical accessories can be added
Special effects:
I. Steady Shot:
After using this weapon for more than 1 second of steady aiming, the hit rate and destructive power will be increased.
Due to the use of the Engineering Accumulation Accessory in the crafting of the gun’s body, it allows the weapon to shoot bullets that do up to 600% bludgeoning damage when hitting an enemy in a lethal location.
II. Queen of Lights Under the Night:
The tracer rounds fired from this weapon will ignite the target, applying the [Burning] status to it.
Crafted by Sandra Sherron Sicomair Le Sombra
Item Description:
[Don’t mess with Mrs. Springfield, she has a bad temper except for being kind to her master.]
“Hey, does this thing even come with tactical accessories?”
Old Quirk cradled his new gun in his arms like he was treating his bride so close to going up for a kiss, he turned his head again and shouted at Brother Loyalty, who didn’t have time to pay attention to him.
The new gun hadn’t even been tested yet, who was in the mood to make accessories?
If you want to find someone to do it yourself, he will be an arms tycoon in the future, he is very busy.
“Stick, you punchers use this.”
Brother Loyalty threw a few classic Remingtons and a large bag of deer bullets to Brother Stick and Brother Woo Meow, the big guys were naturally happy to get their hands on weapons with familiar styles, especially the pointy bullets coated with maintenance oil, which made Happy Stick put them under his nostrils and inhale them fiercely.
Ah, the familiar feeling has finally returned!
If only Brother Loyalty could come up with an AK or a 56 punch, it would be even more perfect.
“Hey, they jumped out!”
Smoke Sang’s side once again sent out an alert, within the range of his Scrying Technique, he saw that the Carpe Family’s merchant caravan had been ambushed by the Wolfsbane Vampires after crossing the Transylvanian border.
Those assholes didn’t seem to want to wait a minute longer, and to make matters worse, there seemed to be a “rebellion” within the caravan!
“Damn, why did the convoy guards start cutting up their own people?”
Smoke Sang was so shocked that he jumped up and shouted to the people beside him:
“Are they Wolfsbane’s insiders?”
“It’s the hidden blood servants.”
Missy expressionlessly withdrew the Black Night Boundary and spun the Night Whistling Staff around in her hand, the huge batwings behind her flapping to lift herself into the air as she casually explained:
“This is the most common tactic used by vampires!
We are never foolish enough to wait for a potential enemy to exterminate us, and we are never foolish enough to run off and develop our own servants in the camps of others, we only put our best blood servants out in the open and wait for behemoths such as the Carpe family to recruit them into their system.
Always keep this in mind when encountering vampires on unfamiliar turf; any compatriot you encounter could be a vampire lapdog.
Alas, I suddenly realize that the other races don’t seem to hate us for no reason”
“Don’t get sentimental, little girl!”
Kudel flapped his wings and swept through the air, griffin greatsword in hand he greeted Missy:
“You and I will be the vanguard to break up the pack of wolfsbane pups, and remember what you promised Murphy, no wandering off!”
“I know.”
Phineas took a deep breath and followed Kudel as he flew towards the caravan that had been attacked and was already on fire.
The Winged Cavalry and the small players followed, while Loyal, who was last, rubbed the mechanical claws of his hands, bent down and took out a heavy “big barrel” from his “personal” wooden box, and skillfully opened the grip to let the rough sights pop out.
There was a light of anticipation in his eyes.
“Ha, it’s only WWII level, but it shouldn’t be too much of a problem to burn a few vampires, so let the otherworldly fist of steel bloom tonight! If I was working on this during business hours I’d definitely be in serious trouble, but here there’s no one to worry about me .
I suddenly realized I liked this hellhole.
It’s a dangerous temptation.
Heck, I can probably see why this ghost game is generating so much attention.”
(End of chapter)