Chapter 117 Flesh Mop

The Cloud City players charged very suddenly, and their human mop tactic was far beyond the expectations of the Greenwood City players. In addition to being scattered, the Greenwood City players had a major weakness: Shui Shen was not present.

It hadn't been long since Shui Shen had died and returned to the city, and he hadn't had time to rush back. Although it was indeed possible to continue commanding even when a player was not present in an online game, remote command clearly couldn't keep up with the rhythm when facing some unexpected situations. Just the back-and-forth messaging and inquiries about the situation would take a lot of time.

In the meantime, the thirty-odd meters of trap area in Greenwood City had been cleared by the leading mop squad! In fact, there weren't as many traps as the Cloud City players had imagined, and it couldn't be compared to the thirty meters that Shui Shen had traversed before. It seemed that the opponent's trap encirclement was also loose and scattered, with varying densities. Shui Shen had publicly shown his face in front of everyone, so he chose a relatively dense area, resulting in him swallowing the bitter fruit himself.

The Greenwood City players were not slacking off either, and they had done their best to intercept, but unfortunately, it had little effect. Facing a thousand-man army, small-scale sneak attacks were of no use. Moreover, the Zongheng Sihai's arrow formation was really terrifying. Players who were slightly careless were instantly shot down, and even some stealthy thieves were forced out of their hiding places in the process. The exchange of spells between mages was also greatly in favor of the Cloud City players, which they probably didn't even realize themselves. Because they weren't aiming at any specific target, but just blindly carpet-bombing, and only the Greenwood City mages behind the trees knew the suffering in the midst of it.

They huddled behind the trees, afraid to move too much because of Zongheng Sihai's arrow formation, which was almost like being caught in a hunting trap. Then they could only grit their teeth and endure as spells fell from the sky and rose from the ground. They could still withstand the spells, but facing the swift arrow rain, death was inevitable.

Even so, one of the ten members of the Cloud City mop squad was still killed. However, this was a character who was operating the mop, and as soon as he died, someone immediately took his place. But one of the ten mops seemed to be not very firmly attached, and it loosened and slipped off during the pushing process. But this did not affect the overall situation, and the forward troops had completely broken through the trap area.

The mages' attacks did not slacken afterwards, and they continued to randomly throw spells around, regardless of whether they hit or not, to cover the players behind them as they smoothly passed through this passage that they had finally opened up. At the same time, Daoying Nianhua gave an order, and some thief brothers who had been prepared for a long time went into stealth and scattered in a wide range. This was arranged by Daoying Nianhua in advance, in order to prevent the ambush from being ambushed after breaking out, so now they let so many thieves observe in all directions without being noticed, if the opponent has any action, it is impossible to escape so many people's eyes.

After breaking the traps, the forest warfare still made the Cloud City players a little frightened. In this situation, which was not necessarily advantageous, no one was in a hurry to retaliate against their opponents. After everyone broke through and rushed out, the team immediately continued to move forward, with a look of panic and haste still between their brows.

The Greenwood City players felt even worse. Their first encirclement plan had obviously failed, and Shui Shen could only sigh deeply after learning the news. They even used such a cheap tactic as a human mop, so it's not too much to be able to survive. Doesn't it say that when people are at their lowest, they are invincible?

"What do we do now?" Facing the arrow formation of the Cloud City players staring at them like tigers, and the mages who would occasionally throw spells left, right, front, and back while walking, the Greenwood City players absolutely dared not go up and engage in a head-on confrontation.

"Is the direction they're going in correct?" Shui Shen asked.

"Yes." Someone replied. After all, Wushi Zhi Jian and the others had already studied the route before entering the forest. At this time, they were just continuing to move forward in that general direction. Even if there was a slight deviation, as mentioned before, it would just mean that they couldn't reach the city gate exactly, but they could still find the main city.

"It probably won't be so easy to encircle them again like we did just now. Everyone, scatter immediately, in groups, and harass them on a small scale. Determine their direction of advance and try to delay their speed as much as possible. Buy time to re-ambush them on their inevitable path." Shui Shen said.

"Understood!" The Greenwood City players acted again. And the groups that Shui Shen was talking about were only units of ten people. At this time, they had gathered separately and were feeling their way forward from different directions.

"Is there a chance for a sneak attack?" Shui Shen asked.

"It's quite difficult..." There were still quite a few hesitant voices. "Their mages will occasionally throw a spell to check."

"It's just a spell check, it won't kill anyone. Just don't make a sound and you'll be fine. They're just throwing them blindly. What we're afraid of is that the formation of their team isn't as concentrated as we see it. There must be thieves scattered around. If their ambush is seen by them, it will be troublesome. We must find these guys and eliminate them first. You all brought the stuff, right?" Shui Shen said.

"Of course!"

The thing that Shui Shen was talking about was the White Stone Ash imported from White Stone City. This stuff was formed by the special geographical features of the White Stone City area, and it could be found all over the mountains and fields without spending a single copper coin. It was cleverly used by players to deal with the stealth of thieves, which was probably a problem that even the designers hadn't thought of.

As a close neighbor of White Stone City, the Greenwood City players would certainly not lag behind in learning this advanced technology. It was common for them to go to White Stone City in their spare time to collect large bags of White Stone Ash. However, after all, it took more than six hours to go back and forth, so this stuff was still quite precious to the Greenwood City players, and they were reluctant to use it unless it was necessary.

At this time, in such an important scene, no one would be stingy anymore. The players in each group had a small cloth bag in their hands, grabbed a handful, and sprinkled it all over the place, looking like Maoshan Taoists exorcising ghosts.

And this trick really worked. Some of the Cloud City's thief players, as Shui Shen had expected, had already found their targets and were following and monitoring them in secret. If the thieves were from White Stone City, they would definitely understand what was going on when they saw this mystical scene. The Cloud City players suffered because of their status as outsiders. They had never paid attention to the fact that the other party was using anti-stealth measures, and several thieves carelessly revealed themselves. Some of them were slow to react and didn't even realize that their skills had been interrupted and they had been completely exposed, and they were still happily admiring themselves!

A group of ten people, it was really difficult to have any suspense against a thief. Daoying Nianhua began to constantly receive obituaries from the thieves they had sent out, and they were shocked: "Not good, the other party seems to have anti-stealth!"

"Really? So many people with anti-stealth?" The number of deaths and the simultaneous display showed that if the other party had this kind of skill, it was definitely not just one person, and Wushi Zhi Jian couldn't believe it.

These words reminded Gu Xiaoshang, who was not far from them, and she came up and said that there was a kind of White Stone Ash in White Stone City.

"Why didn't you say so earlier!" Daoying Nianhua said angrily.

"No one asked me." Gu Xiaoshang spread her hands.

"Quick, call them back!" Wushi Zhi Jian said.

"Don't worry." Daoying Nianhua was calm. "It's easy to hide in this forest. They just suffered because they thought they were safe after going into stealth. Remind them to be careful, and the reconnaissance mission can still continue."

"Those who went are all from the mercenary group, right?" Wushi Zhi Jian said softly. Gu Xiaoshang was not far away, and he didn't want the girl he liked to know about his meticulous planning.

Daoying Nianhua nodded proudly: "And they don't need to be paid extra."

"Haha!" When Wushi Zhi Jian heard this, he was relieved and waved his hand with an expression that he didn't care about their lives: "Then tell them to continue monitoring."

"Of course." Daoying Nianhua gave instructions to the various团长 (tuan zhang, regiment commanders).

"Have we calculated how many people we've lost so far?" Wushi Zhi Jian asked Daoying Nianhua.

"146 people!" Daoying Nianhua said. "Including those who didn't come in the first place because they had something to do, those who were finally too timid to cross the Black Dragon Mountain, but mainly those who died in this battle in Greenwood City today."

"Damn it! That guy, I'll definitely make him look good when I get the chance." Wushi Zhi Jian said angrily. He was still full of anger when he thought of Shui Shen. "How are the mercenary group's losses?"

"This... I didn't count them in detail, but I guess it's about the same as us." Daoying Nianhua said. The number of people in the mercenary group was less than that of Zongheng Sihai, and the losses were about the same, which showed how strong Zongheng Sihai's self-preservation awareness was. The two of them were discussing this in a low voice, although the mercenaries knew from the beginning why they were hired, but it was always not good to make a lot of noise about it!

While the two of them were discussing sneakily, Shui Shen was also understanding the situation on the other side. As Daoying Nianhua expected, after the thieves knew that the other party had anti-stealth, they began to pay attention to hiding themselves, and it was not easy to be discovered in such a forest. After Shui Shen received the report on the number of thieves eliminated, he immediately understood that the opponent had begun to pay attention to concealing themselves. There was no direct way to deal with this, and they could only walk and look for them, with a bit of luck involved.

But since they had grown up in the forests of Greenwood City since level zero, the Greenwood City players' familiarity with the forest and their immersion in this kind of sneaky fighting were not achieved in a day. In comparison, the Cloud City players were too inexperienced. The thieves who were hiding carefully were still being picked out and silenced by the Greenwood City players. Of course, there were also those who escaped by speed, but Daoying Nianhua's face was getting uglier and uglier. The other party was cleaning up the thieves in order to hide their actions. What kind of conspiracy or trap was waving at them again seemed already on the way.