He instinctively remembered, according to the game timeline, what would happen? Did Dongyi succeed? Judging from the scene, if it was the game timeline, then this thing would have a great possibility to fall into the hands of Gui'e. Gui'e's clone would definitely not carry a burden with him to challenge Er Loss, so would the things fall into the hands of Gui'e's body?

Although Wen'e said that he would break down the magical artifact into divine power and absorb it, Zhang Cheng now understood that this was impossible. Because Wen'e and Dongyi had actually secretly colluded. He needed Dongyi as a mercenary to participate in the magical war. If we follow the game timeline, the most likely result would be that Dongyi exchanged the files of the Jiuyi Army at the cost of participating in the magical war.

The Nine Yi Division's files were obtained, and Dong Yi formed an alliance again... Under this background, the war in the border fortress broke out. Although according to the game timeline, the border fortress was defended and not captured by the enemy, it was obviously already suffered heavy losses and was unable to fight again. Because the task of cleaning up the enemy's remaining soldiers was handed over to an outsider like the player.

The last major task in the first act is to attack the lizard man in the swamp. Although it was actually completed by the player, the nominal leader of this action is NPC, and the player only plays a role like a voluntary soldier under the family. In the third act, even this name is gone. The protagonist can directly take on various war-related tasks in the city, such as reconnaissance, sneak attacks, ambush, attack logistics, and arson. It can be seen that although the human side has defended the castle, it is exhausted.

However, there are still many questions that cannot be answered. For example, why can't Jiuyi seize the border fortress? Is it because of bad luck? Why did Jiuyi send troops so hasty? Logically speaking, it should not be an internal coordination meeting to select the leader of the alliance, form an organization, and start a war in the end? And at least you have to help Wen E fight the magical war. In addition, the artifact of the Jiuyi Division has actually been desecrated and invalid. It will definitely take a lot of effort to restore it... In short, time is on the side of Dongyi. They are so hurrying to launch troops to attack, even Zhang Cheng, the outsider, seems stupid. Not to mention that they fail in the end.

Could it be... Yingqiu is not a "border fortress"?

If the "Border Fortress" is another castle, its importance is less than Yingqiu...that would be easier to explain.

In short, there are many puzzles...what worse is the big witch's affairs. Zhang Cheng completely doesn't remember any tasks related to the big witch in the third act "Border Fortress".

Of course, there is actually no second act. If the game timeline is followed, the wizard had already died and there was no chance to meet the players.

Doctor Kunwu also made a special statement that he came to Yingqiu to find opportunities and clues.

While Zhang Cheng was thinking, Jiang Kao spoke. "Although Yingqiu is a major border town, it is also a place of trade where businesses and travelers gather. There are many strange things there."

"Is it a rare thing?"

"Brother Zhang Cheng has heard of evil gold?" Jiang Kao asked suddenly.

In the Bronze Age, there was a difference between US dollars and evil gold. The former refers to bronze, while the latter refers to iron. Before the appearance of real steel, neither cooked iron nor pig iron was suitable for use as raw materials for top-grade weapons. Pig iron was too brittle and cooked iron was too soft, so it could only be used as a tool. The Kunwu clan was particularly good at metallurgical technology (Kunwu said that it was just this talent to crack the soil as a vassal, so it was a special skill).

"Of course I know, what's wrong?"

"It is said that some people have created very rare evil gold on the coast of the East China Sea. The weapons they have made are extraordinary and similar to meteorite iron. Recently, some people have brought this special evil gold to trade here. This time I mainly want to see this."

Zhang Cheng immediately remembered the story told by Wu Lan and his group before. Some of them once made steelmaking furnaces in this world, refined real steel, and directly pushed the world from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. Unfortunately, the final result was taken away by the indigenous people by violence. Several time travelers were killed, while some members such as Wu Lan escaped by chance. From then on, they lost interest in farming development and instead worked hard to improve their professional level and social status.

Because of this failure, Wu Lan did not explain in detail where the specific location was. Now Zhang Cheng guessed that it should be in the east, probably near the seaside. This is why they met Lao Liu.

"So that's it." Zhang Cheng replied that he was not interested. In fact, time travelers have already messed up the world. After seeing the community established by Nanling with his own eyes, you will basically not be too interested in these things.

"By the way, I have something to ask Brother Jiang Kao," Zhang Cheng asked. "Do you know the great witch?"

"Great Witch?" Jiang Kao shook his head. "What are the Great Witch doing in Yingqiu? I heard that there are several Great Witches in Philadelphia. The state divination is extremely effective. Unless you go out from Yingqiu, no Great Witch will come here."

"We are going to fight in Yingqiu?" Zhang Cheng's heart moved and asked afterwards.

"Before the army goes to war, they will be divined," Jiang Kao is willing to teach the science. "Of course, the real army goes to war is to ask for the oracle. But on a small scale, they rely on the great witch to divine. So unless the princes intend to take the initiative to fight Dongyi and send troops from Yingqiu, there will be no great witch here. In this situation, the princes have no strength to go to war at all."

"But...if Dongyi came here... they would have brought the great witch?"

"It's hard to say, but it's really convenient to have a great witch to accompany the army." Jiang Kao said. "If there is a great witch, you don't have to worry about the enemy's surprise plan."

In other words... If the Dongyi invades, there may be a great witch in their army? Zhang Cheng was happy. Before he could reach Yingqiu City, he found the first clue about the great witch.

Of course, if the great wizard and the army are together, if you want to capture the great wizard alive, you have to defeat the army first.

Zhang Cheng has only one army in-depth contact with this world, namely the troops of Kunwu City. According to Zhang Cheng’s current understanding, in this army, the infantry (spoilers) are basically between level 5 and level 10, and the level of spell casters in cooperation with the infantry is slightly higher, about the level of level 10. But the chariot soldiers are powerful. Qu Xin and Huang Gong should be relatively high in the middle of the warrior and spell caster. Zhang Cheng thinks that these two are at least level 16 or above, and may even reach level 18. Taking them as reference, the average level of the chariot soldiers of the Kunwu Doctor can be about level 14 to 17, and even the chariots are also soldiers at least level 10 (this is why Jia knows that he cannot become a regular chariot driver even if he drives, he is probably not level 10). So if Zhang Cheng relies on his professional strength, he is only worthy of being a squad leader (soldier commander) to command infantry.

As for Doctor Kunwu, as the commander, he is even more powerful. Zhang Cheng speculated that Doctor Kunwu should be a mage and priest, and his professional level is at least comparable to Huang Gongla, which means that Doctor Kunwu's level is about 18th priest and 18th wizard, which may be higher. Moreover, because of the special bonus of the gods, his strength will be stronger than those of the same level. So he can support several rounds in front of Gui'e, and he once fought with offense and defense.

Taking Kunwu City's army as a reference, Zhang Cheng doesn't have to think about it and knows that he has no chance to deal with an army alone. At least it is not possible at present. Even if he uses the power of a brigade master, he should not be able to defeat him unless the bear is a god.

In other words... we must assist the garrison in this Yingqiu offensive and defensive battle to defeat the enemy before we have the chance to capture a big wizard? Although it feels very difficult, this is undoubtedly a useful method.

"Brother Zhang Cheng, do you want to ask for help from the great witch?" Seeing Zhang Cheng pondering and silent, Jiang Kao was very enthusiastic. "Although there should be no great witches here in Yingqiu, there should be in Guicheng."

"Guicheng?" The name is quite strange. "Is there a city called Guicheng?"

"Well, the new city has been established for less than 10 years." Jiang Kao said mysteriously. "Although I have to stay in Yingqiu for a while, I want to go to Guicheng next."

The other party's mysterious attitude made people immediately understand that this city of return is not simple. However, Zhang Cheng couldn't figure out what is not simple in a city.

"This Guicheng is the city of Laiyi, which was previously called Maiqiuyi." Jiang Kao reminded.

In the pre-Qin period on Earth, there was indeed a nation called "Laiyi" on the Shandong Peninsula. But it was a real human. To put it bluntly, it was the same gene as the Chinese, but there were differences in culture. By the late Spring and Autumn Period, even this difference disappeared - because it was annexed by Qi State.

But in this world, there are big problems with the direction of history. Because the race called Laiyi is not human, but a fishman with a very different difference from humans. This creature looks like a mixture of humans and scaleless fish. The upper body and lower body are humans with limbs and heads are similar to fish. The fishman is two or three heads taller than ordinary humans (about one and a half to two times taller than the shorter lizards). He is full of muscles, has infinite strength, and is primitive and backward, bloodthirsty and barbaric. The social form is still in the primitive tribal stage, and there is not even a stable tribal alliance at present.

From various channels, it can be seen that the fishman seems to be the only race known to live in the sea. Well, the main activities are in the sea. In fact, as long as they want, they can live well in the sea alone. They have almost no need for land, and only by chance they want to go to land to catch something to fight for a tooth sacrifice and change their taste. These monsters are willing to eat any land animals, including the intelligent race. They even love the latter.

This kind of creature is even more terrifying than the Rakshasa monster. Because although the Rakshasa monster eats people, they have at least developed into a slave society. Compared to the people eat, they have a second option. That is to say, you can at least be a slave if you are captured by the Rakshasa monster. And fishmen... except for eating people, they have no second option. Anyway, no matter who it is, it will be saved when it falls into the hands of Laiyi. No matter what the process is, the final result will be eaten alive. The usual rules such as "ransom" in civilized society are completely invalid for these barbarian guys who do not even have the concept of currency. In short, they are barbaric primitive people who are unanimously recognized by all wise races. Well, even the Southern Barbarian guys are extremely civilized than Laiyi.

If the wisdom race in this world has a chain of contempt, then the fishman is undoubtedly the lowest level. But in terms of danger, they are at the forefront.

However, as a whole race, Laiyi has a good record because they never fight against almost any race.

This is mainly because this creature does not need land territory at all. In fact, the body structure of Laiyi does not allow them to stay on land for a long time. In order to swim quickly in the sea, they have a similar state to fish: mucus will be secreted on the surface to reduce water resistance. However, on land, once the water on the surface of the body evaporates, the fish will crack the skin, causing great pain, and even die of dehydration. This means that these brute force guys will not move more than a day along the coast. Only in less cases, such as continuous heavy rain, will they move farther on the ground.

Therefore, there can only be a small conflict between these fishmen and land races, and there can be no war. Because it cannot be fought at all. You can't get out of the sea or he can't get into the ground.

There is no doubt that it is completely impossible for Qi State on Earth to annex Laiyi. At least it is impossible for humans to conquer the fishman. No matter how strong it is, it is impossible.

"Maiqiuyi?" Many thoughts flashed through Zhang Cheng's mind, and he finally asked.

"I used to be a town in Zhuxia in my early years, but unfortunately I was too close to Laiyi." Jiang Kao said. "I was repeatedly copied by Laiyi and finally abandoned. Now Laiyi has built a city called Guicheng on the former site of Maiqiuyi."

Zhang Cheng has heard of it more than once before, but he is a time traveler after all, so no natives are so shocked when they heard this news. In fact, for the natives, building a city in Laiyi is like the people on earth who heard that a group of chimpanzees in the African jungle actually built computers independently. It was like an absurd myth.

"Although Maiqiuyi is near the sea, as far as I know, Laiyi can't bask in the sun for a day on the ground." Zhang Cheng asked. From his words, we can see that this Guicheng is actually a short distance away from the sea. "I don't know how they solve this problem."

"I'm also very strange," Jiang Kao replied. "So I really want to go and see what's going on. There must be merchants coming and going from Yu Guicheng here in Yingqiu, so you can ask about it here first."

Zhang Cheng almost immediately thought of the "Interracial City-State", the fourth act of the game.

I don't understand what's going on with this game... Why did I get the game? Why does the content in the game happen?

In the game, the player plays a literal ranger. That is to say, the typical type of killing one person in ten steps, not leaving a thousand miles away, fighting for love and justice with a sword... Well, maybe it's just for money and experience value. So the player roams around, so he went to refugee camps, free cities, border fortresses, alien city-states and other places. But in reality, Zhang Cheng was not that free. He came to these places with the mission of Doctor Kunwu.

Is this an accident or an inevitable?

So, after going back, do you have to see Chen Wenwen again and find out about his brother’s situation? No, it seems useless. Her deceased brother lives alone, and Chen Wenwen also knows nothing about the time traveling...

"Oh, we're almost here." Jiang Kao stood at the highest point of the vehicle and looked far away. "I saw the city! We speed up, we don't have to save horsepower!" His last sentence was said to his coachman.

The coachman accelerated the speed as he said.
Chapter completed!