Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 108 Predict the enemy and be lenient [4k+ big chapter!Please subscribe! ! 】

A day later, the lizardmen noticed the hunting team that had gone out and never returned.

However, presumably in the past hunting, there will be situations similar to the hunting team not returning for days, so their reaction was not intense at first, and it was not until two days later that the other party really took action against this matter. .

Under the watchful eyes of the explorers, the lizardman leadership in the territory dispatched a 12-person apparently well-equipped lizardman team to start a search along the direction of the hunting team.

Sass did not try to cover up the traces of the battle site and its surroundings at that time. In fact, with the ability of the Zerg, there was no way to cover up. All bloodstains, battle traces, including the traces left by the engineers who dragged them away, were all visible at a glance.

Therefore, after the search team found this place, they easily judged that something had attacked their hunting team, and it should have taken the corpse away.

After confirming the death of the members of the hunting team, the group of lizardmen in charge of the search had no intention of continuing to explore along the traces on the ground.

Maybe it was because they had seen such things too much and they didn't care much, or maybe they judged that it would be dangerous to continue to go deep into the jungle with the strength of the exploration team. In short, they did not follow the traces to catch up.

And since they discovered that the hunting team had not returned and sent an exploration team to search here, it had only been more than three days.At this point in time, Sass was still processing the memory he had just acquired.

If they pursue it, there is a high probability that they will be able to discover the existence of the Zerg.

But even so, Zero was never worried, because Sass had clearly arranged everything.

All the nearly one hundred warriors in the two ambush teams were all mobilized by it, in order to prevent this from happening.

If they catch up, with the combat power displayed by the warriors, even if they are well-equipped and swarmed up, they will definitely not be opponents. With their number, Sass will definitely not mind asking the engineers to carry a few more lizardmen go back.

But their unexpected withdrawal thwarted its plans.

In the next few days when Sass dealt with the newly acquired knowledge, Zero found that there were significantly fewer lizardman hunting teams going out, and basically all of them avoided this direction.

Presumably, it should be a compromise made by their exploration team after judging part of the Zerg's strength.

Zero didn't quite understand this kind of compromise, because according to the traces left by the Zerg at the scene at that time, there were only a hundred or so if they survived. Although there were a lot of them, they thought the Zerg should be beasts without wisdom. Given the population size of the lizardman colony, it makes no sense not to even explore in this direction.

Sure enough, on the same day that Sass finished absorbing the knowledge of the lizardmen, Zero saw a team of lizardmen going out in this direction for a long time.

Sass has organized the language of the lizard people into a "dictionary" and taught it to Zero.The so-called "dictionary" is to match the meanings corresponding to the various pronunciations of the lizard people with the meanings understood by Zero.

This method is simple and easy to understand, and zero has easily completed the learning.

However, because there is no corresponding vocal organ, the Zerg has no way to imitate the voice of the lizardman. At present, they are all dumb who can only hear but not speak.

But this is also enough, zero-inquiry information does not need to communicate with the lizard people, it is enough for him to let the tiny explorers eavesdrop.

Zero commanded the explorers to keep up with this large group of lizardmen, all of whom were wearing tough clothes. After a rough count, the number of people should be around seventy or eighty. Looking at the direction of travel, it was Sass who commanded the warriors to catch them. The place where the lizardmen are caught.

Given the population size of the Lizardman settlement, this number should account for a considerable portion of their armed forces.

They seemed to be very disciplined, and most of the lizardmen did not speak at all during the march, which disappointed Mou Ling who wanted to hear some information with all his strength.

However, not all the lizardmen were quiet. The three leading lizardmen in the front were communicating with each other from time to time. Ling let a few explorers fly closer, and immediately heard their voices.

These three people should be similar to the managers in the settlement, and they are the leaders of this group of lizardmen. This is not only reflected in their positions, but also in their distinctive "armor".

Behind them, all the lizardmen were wearing simple wooden armor made of hardwood, but obviously this kind of wooden armor could not cover the whole body, it could only roughly protect the chest and abdomen, while the other parts were almost completely covered. Without protection, at best, there are a few extra leggings.

To be honest, the protective effect of this kind of hardwood is still good, at least it is indeed very hard. Under this kind of protection, coupled with the protection of the scales on their bodies, the warriors want to penetrate their chest and abdomen from the front in an instant, almost It's impossible, at least the current warriors can't do it.

However, their protection was nothing compared to the three lizardmen at the front.

Because the three lizard men were wearing iron armor!
Different from simple wooden armor, the refining process of armor obviously involves the development of metallurgical technology. If we infer from this, the other party at least already has the means of large-scale iron smelting.

The skill of making this kind of iron armor is obviously many times superior to the wooden armor on ordinary lizardmen. Compared with the manufacturing skills of this kind of iron armor, the making of those wooden armor is not even perfunctory.

Not only that, this kind of armor actually covers the whole body, and the design is quite delicate, even the tail is protected.If the warriors imagined that they could cut off their tails as easily as last time, there is a high probability that it will be impossible.

From the front view, the defense strength of the chest, abdomen and legs is obviously the top priority of this armor design. It just looks unbreakable, but the actual defense ability must be stronger. Even the head has an iron helmet. Wrap most of the lizardman's head in it, leaving only the face exposed.

Compared with ordinary lizardmen, they are armed to the teeth.And this is also an important reason why Zero judges that they are the top of the entire lizardman settlement.

Presumably this should be the army in the lizardman settlement, Zero thought so.

The explorers were sometimes far and near to them, but no matter what, at the same time, at least one explorer was flying beside the three lizardmen, listening to their conversation information.

Zero could already understand their language, and as soon as he approached, he heard the lizard man in armor at the front speak quickly.

"...In this jungle, we have explored so many times before, how can there be any large herds of wild beasts? I think it must be that Xi Li has neglected his duty, and he has the nerve to brag about his bravery in front of me." Xi Li's words, obviously is a name that, through their language, Zero can only transliterate in their heads.

Behind him, another lizardman answered, probably persuading him.

"Since he dared to make such a promise to the lord, I don't think it was a lie. Besides, although he had some conflicts with you, didn't he still let us lead the team? The lord trusted him so much and let us lead the team directly. If we don’t find the large herd of beasts he mentioned, the evidence will be convincing, and we will come back to settle accounts with him.”

Zero was not at all interested in what they were talking about. In fact, he already knew a lot of information about this lizardman settlement through Sass' description, but he didn't care much about such information.

From his point of view, what these lizard people are called or what positions they hold, or how they are related to each other, what contradictions, etc., are completely meaningless to him. Only information about the entire lizard people race can arouse his interest. Pay attention to.

But those three hunters are obviously not high-level people, and they don't know much information. Apart from language, they really didn't contribute much value.

At present, Zero only knows that this so-called lizardman settlement should be a newly-built territory, and their leader is called the Baron of the Jungle, and this Baron of the Jungle seems to be not just a title of title, but more of a code name , because in the memory of the hunter, there seems to be more than one Jungle Baron.

On top of the baron, there are viscounts and earls, which together form a ruling system. As for more, they don't know, after all, they are just a few hunters.

In fact, Zero is not very clear whether the lizard people are called like this, and it is definitely not. These are the corresponding translations in Zero's mind from the dictionary compiled by Sass, just for the convenience of understanding.

This kind of progressive and strict ruling system makes people feel that there must be great oppression and exploitation. Zero is not interested in these at all. Compared with these, the workmanship of their armor and the configuration of weapons are more important. Attract him a little.

As early as when the lizardmen were first discovered, Zero saw the hunting knives and short bows in their hands, and realized the level of civilization they might have. At present, it seems that they can be roughly determined.

This lizardman civilization is probably only in the Iron Age at present.However, judging from the subtle smelting skills of the armor they cast, their iron smelting technology should have reached its peak.

Although Zero was not found in this lizardman's territory, it would not surprise Zero at all if the main body of their civilization had simple firearms.

However, now is not the time to think about these things. Soon, the group of lizardmen arrived at the place where Sass captured the lizardmen hunters, and conducted a very careful search.

It has been a few days since the battle took place, and it even rained, so there are not many traces that can be left.

But this lizardman team is obviously not as perfunctory as the previous search team. Although they don't have much information, they still found a lot of clues. considerable information.

The vision of the zero-use explorer has witnessed everything, but this time the protagonist is still not him.When the other party had just set off, Zero had already given Sass the task of dealing with this group of lizardmen who were clearly ill-won, and he was only a bystander.

However, because Sass could not obtain the vision of the ant explorer, he had to relay the specific reasons.

This is the inconvenience caused by Sass' inability to command the Ants. However, the Zergs do not currently have such tiny units as the Explorers, which led to the current situation.

He made up his mind that after the group was completely settled down, he must let Sass analyze and transform the explorers belonging to the Zerg with all his strength!

Of course, this is something for later, and we still need to concentrate on dealing with this group of lizardmen.

In order to deal with them, as early as when the other party set off from the settlement, Sass had already begun to mobilize the Zerg warriors who were originally used to explore the jungle.

After the continuous loss and replenishment during this period of exploration, the number of this group of warriors has exceeded two thousand again. Among them, except for a small number of people who are responsible for staying behind the camp of the Zerg on the cliff, most of them are continuing to explore around the jungle , to expand the Zerg's explored area farther away.

Now, having received the order from Sass, they quickly began to gather at the designated location from all directions without any hesitation.All of a sudden, there was rustling in the jungle, birds flew away in fright, and warriors running at full speed were everywhere.Compared with the cautiousness of the lizardmen in the jungle, the warriors are much more carefree when they drive.

Because the opponent should always pay attention to possible dangers and geographical conditions that are not conducive to progress such as avoiding terrain, but the warriors have no such scruples. Sass clearly knows where there is something on the way back for the warriors, and the Zerg will not be too restricted by terrain.So they act without any scruples at all, and at a very fast speed.

Due to scattered exploration, most of them are not in the same direction as the lizardmen, and the distance is relatively far away, so there is no need to worry about being discovered by them, they are completely on their way.

So much so that when the Lizardmen just arrived at the scene of the incident, the warriors had already assembled between them and the Zerg camp ahead of time.

Sass did not hesitate, and immediately began to subordinate.Although the lizardman was well equipped this time, the number of Zerg warriors was obviously more. Even if it was a head-on confrontation, it had no reason to be afraid.

However, although Zero did not issue an order to capture them all alive this time, he still asked Sass to complete the complete annihilation of this group of lizardmen as much as possible.

He didn't want them to flee back to the settlement and spread the news of the Zerg's existence.

Therefore, except for the three leading lizardmen who were captured alive as much as possible, the other lizardmen had to be killed!
And to accomplish this, you can't do it recklessly. If there is one carelessness and one or two of them run away, all previous efforts will be wasted.

Therefore, adhering to Zero's consistent spirit of being lenient in anticipating the enemy, it almost mobilized all the warriors of the Zerg to explore outside, in order to be safe.

Of course, this zero point is also acquiesced throughout the whole process. Since it has been handed over to him to deal with, then he will not end up interfering until the bottom line is not involved.

So far, Sass has gathered more than [-] warriors, facing a team of less than [-] lizardmen, it can be said that he has an absolute numerical advantage.

I'm afraid the other party would not have imagined that in order to deal with a mere hundred or so of them, Sass mobilized [-] worms in a frenzy. In terms of numbers alone, it was already twenty times more than theirs. He really valued them. .

However, Sass also has his own theory about this.Because with this number, the Zerg were just able to tightly surround their group of teams in the jungle with three layers inside and three layers outside, so as to ensure that no one would slip through the net.

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