“What did you say!”
Liu Hao shot up from the ground, his head buzzing, his hands pressing on the other person's shoulders, his face flushed, “You mean you didn’t see wrong? A hundred-meter-tall Light Crystal Mountain?!”
The other two heard the news and their legs began to soften, collapsing onto the ground.
They questioned Yuanlian Lord with trembling voices.
“Holy crap! You… you better not be dreaming.”
“We don’t have time for jokes now, do you know what this means?!”
The air fell silent, and the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the trees was exceptionally clear at this moment.
“It’s real! It’s real!”
“As one of the most strategically important military materials, how could I possibly be mistaken!”
Yuanlian Lord’s entire face was twitching, and you could even hear the pounding of his fiercely beating heart.
After speaking, he seemed to remember something else, “Oh, right, behind the wall is indeed a Lord’s territory!”
“It must be Lin Yi!”
“The Crystal Mountain is right inside his territory!”
Having received a definite answer.
Everyone looked at each other, seeing the greed in each other’s eyes.
light crystal!
The most scarce material for recruiting top-tier Light-element Legendary units.
Its value in the outside world is immeasurable.
Each time it appeared, it was at most a hundred units, almost impossible to circulate on the market, as the royal family and warlord nobles secretly divided it among themselves.
And now…
They had an entire Light Crystal Mountain in front of them!
It’s like someone telling you that in the room ahead, there’s a winning lottery ticket worth five billion or fifty billion!
Should they take the risk and go for it?
“Not enough!”
Liu Hao took several deep breaths, and his bloodshot head regained some ability to think.
Unlike the other three.
What he valued was the strategic significance brought by the light crystal.
If he occupied this Crystal Mountain.
The Liu Family would instantly become a top noble family in the Great Xia Empire, a millennium-old aristocratic house.
His own ascension to the position of family head would also be a matter of course.
Liu Hao pulled out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out a slightly trembling one and put it to his lips, then took out a lighter, striking it several times before lighting it.
Then he said coldly, “We have too few people, not to mention he also has rare units.”
“We can’t take it down!”
Liu Hao’s words were like a bucket of cold water, instantly sobering everyone up.
Oh, right.
Rare units.
It had been more than ten days, so Lin Yi must have at least ten elite warriors under him whose combat power was equivalent to a Tier 2 monster.
Plus, the opponent was fighting on his home ground, and ordinary soldiers and hundreds of villagers would be enough to severely wound their team.
“Go back and get more people?” The cropped-haired youth said, preparing to open the chat interface.
Suddenly, there was a commotion from the nearby woods.
Rustle—
It seemed like figures were moving.
The already tense group became as if facing a great enemy, picking up their weapons one after another, forming a circular formation and getting ready for battle.
“Hurry back, the dragon attacked the territory yesterday, and almost all our warriors died.”
“Who knows if that guy is still nearby!”
“The injured people in the territory are still waiting for these herbs to save their lives!”
“…”
Two disheveled villagers, holding many unknown herbs in their arms, emerged from the forest bushes one after another.
They came face to face with Liu Hao’s team, staring at each other.
“Who… who are you…”
The two villagers “scared” dropped the herbs on the ground and kept backing away.
“Take them down!” Liu Hao’s eyes lit up as he decisively ordered.
“No, no, no, don’t kill me, I’ll tell you everything!”
The villagers were swarmed by soldiers and pinned to the ground, with a gleaming long blade placed against each of their necks.
The two seemed to be scared out of their wits, their bowels and bladder emptying, and an unpleasant smell wafted through the forest.
“Are you villagers from that territory?”
Liu Hao pointed to the location of Crystal Mountain.
“Yes… yes.”
The villager shrunk his neck, trying to move away from the sharp blade.
“You just said a dragon attacked the territory, how many people are left who can still fight now?”
Liu Hao had no doubt about their words.
The experience in the basin had already proven that a white dragon indeed existed.
He heard that dragons liked shiny gems.
It was reasonable for Lin Yi, who possessed Crystal Mountain, to become a target of attack.
It couldn't be that the dragon was raised by Lin Yi himself, and he inexplicably sent two villagers to put on an act to lure him into attacking the territory, could it?
Not to mention whether dragons could be tamed.
These recruited villagers, with their unstable faith in the early stages, had nowhere near the loyalty to sacrifice themselves to protect the territory.
“Not many left… Only about thirty people who were out gathering fortunately avoided the dragon attack, they… they are taking care of the injured.”
“Your men are pressing so hard I can’t breathe… Please let me go.”
“I will absolutely not tell anyone.”
The villager being questioned widened his eyes, looking very honest.
“What’s your name?” Liu Hao suddenly asked when he saw him answering fluently.
“Sir, my name is Li Ergou, and his name is Ding Dachui.”
The villager quickly replied.
“They do have names!”
Liu Hao chuckled, “Don’t worry, I won’t harm you, I just hope that after your original territory is destroyed, you’ll work for me!”
“I guarantee you wealth and glory!”
The two villagers nodded repeatedly, their eyes seemingly filled with longing.
“Heh heh!”
Liu Hao scanned the three eager Lords, moistened his lips with his tongue, and sneered, “Heaven doesn't favor Lin Yi! We’re also forced into this…”
“Hahahaha, Brother Liu is right!”
Two of them smiled knowingly, already beginning to imagine digging up Crystal Mountain, returning to Blue Star, and enjoying a life of class ascension and financial freedom.
Only the cropped-haired youth’s smile was a bit stiff.
He glanced at the chat interface and, upon hearing Liu Hao’s command to depart.
He bit the bullet and followed the team.
Attracted by astonishing wealth.
More than a hundred people only took about ten minutes.
The thousand-meter-long, low and flat wooden wall appeared in their sight.
Almost immediately.
The strangely shaped mountain inside the wall, like a magnet, firmly attracted all of Liu Hao’s attention.
“It really is light crystal!”
Liu Hao was practically ecstatic, his face flushed, “Break down the gate!”
“That kid sells monster meat every day, so his territory must still have a lot of stock.”
“All these things are yours!”
The three little followers were even happier to hear about the extra perks, and with a wave of their hands, their armies, along with Liu Hao, charged towards the crumbling wooden gate.
【Warning, you have illegally entered another Lord's strong claim territory!】
【Warning, you are illegally attacking another Lord's legitimate territory, the other party will have a strong claim to all your territory!】
The Lord’s Will notifications scrolled like a screen refresh, cycling through Liu Hao’s panel.
“Student Lin Yi, I’m sorry.”
Liu Hao glanced at the wooden gate, which was about to shatter, and seeing no villagers coming out to stop them, the corners of his mouth turned up in a fierce, uncontrollable grin.
Bang!
The wooden gate, having suffered continuous violent impacts, finally collapsed under the strain.
“Brothers!”
“Swords in hand, follow me…”
Liu Hao raised his long blade, about to rush into the territory, when he suddenly froze after seeing the situation ahead.
With a clang, the long blade slipped from his grasp and fell to the ground.
Dense beads of sweat uncontrollably seeped from his forehead.
He rubbed his eyes hard until tears streamed uncontrollably down his cheeks.
Confirming that he hadn't seen wrong, his suspended heart finally died.
“Ha… haha… I, I thought it was an alien stronghold.”
In his field of vision, behind the wooden wall, there were nearly thirty elite spearmen, radiating a chilling aura, clad in light armor!
In front of them, there was also a strange woman, shaped like a giant bear, whose deltoid muscle alone was as thick as a wrist.
And.
He didn't know when, but a large group of villagers, holding machetes and with lewd smiles, emerged from the forest behind, blocking their retreat.
He was very familiar with the villagers’ eyes.
Greed!
That was an extreme craving for something, a desire!
“Classmate.”
“What’s wrong with… kicking down my door?”
“You’re making this… a bit difficult for me…”