Last Totem Novel - Chapter 495
Chapter 495 Gossip
Dr3716-11-08. Three months after Tianchang, Chenu, and Hagrid left the War Bear Temple, when the cold north wind blew past Tieshan Town, it took a year and three months. At a cost of millions of gold coins, the Crimson Peak Stronghold was finally completed.
The stronghold was divided into five parts. They were about three meters wide and ten meters tall, with an oval-shaped city wall, a main fortress, two subsidiary buildings, and a warehouse for strategic goods. Its overall structure was roughly the same as Tyre Stronghold, except for the subsidiary buildings on both sides of the stronghold.
The main fortress was a trapezoidal structure with a solid foundation. It was about 61 meters tall and covered an area of more than 30,000 square meters. It had five floors above the ground and two floors below the ground. Half of the first floor was a material warehouse and a mechanical maintenance center, while the other half was a soldier’s dormitory.
The second floor was divided into more than a thousand single-person dormitories, which were the residences of basic-level officers and power-armored warriors.
The third floor is the Soldiers’ Dining Room and the rest center.
The four floors were divided into three parts, namely, the residential area for senior officers, the office area, and the “restricted area”.
The restricted area was specifically designated by Tie Zha and guarded by Sophia Bubvero’s “Nightingale Group” for Lena’s exclusive use. Since the beginning of winter, she had entered a period of dormancy, not eating or drinking, hiding in her bedroom all day long to sleep. Due to the dragonizer’s strong defensive consciousness, when she fell asleep, her accessory brain would automatically wake up, instinctively launching indiscriminate attacks on creatures that entered the alert range.
In the past, when he was in the Sandsea Oasis, Tie Zha had personally witnessed a desert centipede that had accidentally entered a cave. In the blink of an eye, it had been crushed into powder by violent psionic energy, and its entrance had also collapsed. It could be said that apart from Tie Zha, anyone who approached her without permission would be mercilessly killed. Hence, Lena’s resting area was heavily guarded 24 hours a day to ensure that not a single fly could fly in. If it disturbed her sleep, the Crimson Peak Stronghold would most likely be destroyed instantly with the power of the Dragonizer to destroy the heavens and the earth.
The fifth floor was the command center, and the top floor was a small airport and 12 heavy mortars. Because large-scale weapons of mass destruction required the approval of the World Council, Crimson Peak Stronghold could not be equipped with a large-caliber “magma beast” like Tyre Stronghold.
The first basement was the Soldier Training Centre and the mecha warehouse, while the lowest floor was the cell and food storage centre.
The annex building on the left side of the fortress was the logistics building, with a total of three floors, covering an area of 5,000 square meters, for the use and residence of logistics personnel; The annex on the right is a business center with bars, hotels, shops and investor offices.
The strategic stores are located northwest of the fortress and are used for storing firearms and ammunition.
At this moment, in an office on the fourth floor of the fortress, Tie Zha was sitting on a large chair with his legs on his desk. He was drinking red wine while flipping through Chifeng’s personnel list.
After more than a year of Hagrid’s efforts, the Crimson Peak Guards had begun to take shape, recruiting and screening 1,200 bounty warriors and 1,800 logistics personnel. By the time Lu Dali’s workshop had completed the transformation of the first two hundred sets of mechanical power armor, he would be able to fully arm this troop.
The Black Boar Corps had no change in numbers. They were divided into three groups: the wild boar, the nightingale, and the sandfox. The Black Boar King was in charge of the wild boar group, Sophia Buvero was in charge of the nightingale group, and Lilith was in charge of the sandfox group. Each group of about 50 people was also waiting for Lu Dali’s power armor.
Zhao Wenke set up a hidden guard organization called “Swallow Nest”. All the members were codenamed “Swallow” and were mainly responsible for intelligence gathering and various covert operations. The exact number of members was unknown.
Wang Hu’s Fierce Tiger Group and Mu Qianhe’s Vermillion Bird Group had both returned, but in order to hide their presence, they were stationed at Storm Stronghold in Silver City No. 13.
The LTTE currently had more than 300 people, mainly academy marines, equipped with more than 30 Thunderfire mechs. As before, the main members were Jerome as Deputy Commander, Hillman Hiroth as Treasurer, Marvin as Mech Captain and Giant Ammu as Logistics Brigade Captain.
The Vermillion Bird Guild consisted of more than 200 people, mainly mecha and maintenance personnel. They were equipped with more than 60 Thunderflame Styles, 10 Flamingo Styles, several Wild Wolf Styles, and a few Tiger Styles. The main members were the same as before. Match was the Deputy Commander, Bai Xiaoyun was the Finance Officer and Logistics Officer, and Marcus and Gangze were in charge of the Marine Squad as Mu Qianhe’s guards.
In addition, Lu Shanhai has established a subsidiary of Cyrus Investment Co., Ltd., Barren Mountain Industries, which is mainly responsible for the transportation of miners and various mining-related businesses.
At the same time, while Tie Zha was flipping through the list, Bai Xiaoyun, Hillman, and Quinn gathered together and chatted in the bar that Xiao Yue was in charge of. Although they came from different backgrounds and had different personalities, they were very similar in some respects. Firstly, they are all handymen, secondly, they have a lot of nonsense …
Bai Xiaoyun raised his head and said, “Speaking of which, Boss and I are still classmates. We met when he was studying in the West. At that time …” As a handyman, the most important thing was to show our friendship with the highest leaders. “Let’s go to the canteen to eat together, go to the War God’s Hall to do missions, go to the classroom to study together, and even pick up girls by the Egret Lake.” In order to explain this, Bai Xiaoyun almost went all out. He nodded slightly and said, “When we were in need, we used to …” He said in a strong tone, “We slept in the same bed …”
There is an old saying in the Far East, “Eating means sharing a table, sleeping means sharing a bed.” This is used to describe the intimacy between friends.
Hearing Bai Xiaoyun’s words, Hillman smiled. “I’m his brother-in-law. He was in Tieshan Town before. We met when he was fourteen or fifteen years old.” He paused for a moment. After taking a sip of wine, He continued, “Actually, I saw how extraordinary he was back then. I even gave him pocket money, but I didn’t expect him to …” He took another sip of wine and sighed heavily. “He’s developing so fast that we can’t even compare to him. I’m truly ashamed …” His tone was filled with vicissitudes, as if an elderly man was telling stories of the past.
Seeing that both of them were bragging, Quinn was naturally unwilling to fall behind, so he said, “Although I haven’t seen him for a long time, his brother and I are old friends, so …” He narrowed his eyes, swept his gaze across their faces, and then said, “I often heard his brother mention that when he was ten months old, he held out two chubby little hands and was very cute …”
“Wait, what did you just say?” Bai Xiaoyun suddenly interrupted him and said.
“What?” Quinn looked over with a puzzled expression.
“Did you just say that the boss is chubby and cute?” Bai Xiaoyun asked in astonishment. As the saying goes, a dragon has a reverse scale, and if it touches it, it dies. A wolf has a hidden thorn, and if it peeps at it, it kills. Using the words “chubby” and “adorable” to describe its boss is simply asking for trouble.
Although Quinn wasn’t smart, he wasn’t stupid. He quickly realized the problem and laughed dryly, “I heard what his brother said. I don’t know if it’s true or not.” In the blink of an eye, he pushed the blame clean.
After a moment of silence, Bai Xiaoyun played with the wine cup in his hand and began to chat about a new topic.
After saying that, he took out a hook-shaped fang from his pocket and casually threw it on the table. “You guys have experience. Help me see how much it’s worth?”
Hillman and Quinn exchanged glances, their gazes flickering with confusion. Although everyone was a handyman, one of them was a psionic warrior and the other had experienced hundreds of battles. Not to mention killing a weeping fly, even killing hundreds of them wouldn’t be a big problem. Bai Xiaoyun boasted about this, and it was simply playing tricks on him.
However, the person concerned did not know anything, and the two of them were also extremely bad. Not only did they not break it, they also pretended to be very shocked at the same time.
“Wow, that’s amazing” Hillman exclaimed.
“This … this is at least an adult, right?” Quinn’s expression was solemn.
“Of course” Bai Xiaoyun said proudly. When he was practicing his mecha in the dark jungle, a weeping lacewing suddenly appeared. On the spot, it was beaten half to death by Mu Qianhe, and he was the one who took the last shot.
However, although both of them had wonderful expressions, Bai Xiaoyun was not a fuel-efficient person. Very quickly, he could tell that the two of them did not mean what they said, so he asked, “What? You guys have killed Weeping Flies before?” Since he and Hillman weren’t on the same team, and they hadn’t known each other for a long time, and the three of them were handymen, they naturally believed that their combat strength wasn’t far from their own.
“No.” Hillman and Quinn denied in unison.
“Then what did you kill?” Bai Xiaoyun asked.
As he pondered, Quinn suddenly moved his shoulders and pulled out two daggers from his waist like lightning. The daggers rotated rapidly on his fingertips, producing a soft “brush brush brush” sound. Then, with a “thump” sound, he stabbed the daggers on the table, one on the left and one on the right.
He revealed his hand, causing Bai Xiaoyun to stare blankly at him. Then, he prompted, “Please look at the hilt of the knife.”
Bai Xiaoyun stared fixedly at the wooden hilt and saw rows of “Zheng” characters the size of mosquitoes and flies carved on it.
“I have a small habit of carving a brush on every person I kill.” Quinn explained.
Bai Xiaoyun’s eyes widened. The dense word “right” seemed to be oozing blood.
“Too busy …”
Right at this moment, Hillman tossed out a white ball that rolled on the table and finally stopped in front of Bai Xiaoyun. Under the dim lights of the bar, the surface of the sphere could be seen to be ivory white, with a translucent texture.
“What is this?” Bai Xiaoyun couldn’t help but ask. This thing looked like the teeth of some kind of creature.
“Big red teeth.” Hillman said. This was the Great Red-skinned Abyss Devil that he, Tie Zha, and the others had killed in the bottomless abyss two years ago. When he was dismembered, he asked the spoils of war collection team for a tooth as a memento.
Bai Xiaoyun muttered to himself, “Hooligans, they’re all hooligans …” For a moment, his entire body was in a bad mood. His dispirited appearance was like a frosted eggplant.