Chapter 190
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Chapter 190: A Clumsy Method
Originally, he had definitely fallen into a small misconception, which was having overly high requirements for arrowheads.
However, while drawing the design for horseshoes earlier, Luo Ji suddenly realized that the quality of some things didn’t need to be too high.
For example, horseshoes, you don’t need to clash directly with other people’s metal weapons, so why demand such high quality?
With the birth of this idea, Luo Ji instantly felt a sense of sudden enlightenment.
Arrowheads were the same.
At this division level, the best defensive gear players had was leather armor.
Metal armor?
Non-existent!
Everyone simply lacked the technology and conditions.
To deal with mere leather armor, was there a need to make armor-piercing arrows?
Facts proved, no need!
Thus, Luo Ji decisively drew up the designs, then ordered the Armament Department to begin mass-producing arrowheads using casting molds!
This would enhance the strength of his archer unit.
Meanwhile, on the other side, in Ye Qingxuan’s world…
In the steep and difficult mountain forest terrain, a player’s army appeared out of thin air.
As this invasion’s player, the moment he was teleported in by the system, Zhang Peng unhappily stomped his foot on the mountainous ground.
Although the intel provided by his employer had clearly stated that the opponent’s home ground was mountain forest terrain, he had not expected this mountainous area to be so steep.
Just standing still, he could clearly feel his center of gravity shifting.
The opponent’s home ground advantage was too obvious, which inevitably made him worried, as he and his troops were not at all accustomed to this mountain forest terrain and lacked extensive combat experience in such environments.
However, on second thought, according to the intel, the opponent was merely a novice who had just left their novice protection period, while he himself was at least a veteran ranked 141.
Surely he couldn’t even bully a novice, could he?
After thinking this, Zhang Peng immediately calmed down somewhat.
He turned to glance at his soldiers, then waved his hand, “Same as usual, everyone spread out.”
“First, scout out the surrounding terrain thoroughly.”
The soldiers immediately dispersed upon receiving the order, while Zhang Peng himself remained in place with a small squad of remaining soldiers.
That way, if any sudden situation arose, he, staying in place, could provide timely support.
Unexpectedly, not long after they spread out, a scream suddenly came from the distant woodland.
Without time to think much, this sudden situation came a little too quickly.
Zhang Peng immediately took his men and rushed towards the direction of the sound.
After quickly traversing a small patch of mountain forest, they saw one of his soldiers hanging from a large net woven from tree bark rope beneath a large tree ahead.
Judging by the situation, he must have stepped into a trap set by the opposing player to catch wild beasts.
However, before this thought could fully settle, two whizzing sounds suddenly echoed through the mountain forest.
An unexpected situation occurred again.
Accompanied by a scream, two arrows piercing through the air directly struck the soldier who had been strung up and was essentially immobilized, easily taking his life!
“Damn it! Enemy attack!”
“Enemy attack!!”
This scene shocked Zhang Peng into roaring repeatedly.
At the same time, the strong sense of crisis surging in his heart made him quickly lower his body, scrambling on all fours to hide behind a large tree, his face still showing a trace of lingering fear.
“Damn it, wasn’t this supposed to be a newcomer who just finished their novice protection period?”
“How are they so fast to react? And even proactively attacking?!”
However, this was not the end.
That previous scream seemed to have triggered a chain reaction, as one scream after another continuously came from all directions…
“Over here! They’re over here!”
“They’re here too!”
“What’s going on?”
“This mountain forest is full of their people!”
“No, we can’t catch them, these guys move so fast in the mountains!”
“Watch out for traps!”
“Aaaaaahhhhh!!!”
The entire situation instantly became chaotic to the extreme.
Screams and shouts blended together.
Just now, he personally witnessed another one of his soldiers stumble and fall into a pit trap dug by the opposing player.
There was no need to confirm, just hearing that sharp scream, he could already imagine that the pit below must be filled with sharpened wooden stakes!
Once someone fell in, death was almost certain!
Thinking of this, Zhang Peng’s already grim expression immediately became even worse.
Trap deployment combined with guerrilla tactics, he had fallen into the opposing player’s meticulously arranged fatal chain trap formation!
Before even making direct contact, he had been delivered a harsh blow!
Standing on a high vantage point, Ye Qingxuan looked down at the battle in the woodland below.
After seeing her trap tactics successfully take effect, the excitement of that moment made her involuntarily clench her fist.
However, she was not carried away by this small advantage.
After a brief moment of joy, she quickly regained her composure and began to ponder her next countermeasures.
When the idea of digging traps combined with guerrilla tactics was first proposed, Luo Ji had very clearly stated that digging traps was a clumsy method.
This was because the invasion player’s landing spot was randomly determined by the system, and no one knew where, or even which corner, the opponent would appear when they invaded.
Therefore, setting one or two traps was useless.
If you were going to set them, you would have to place them all over the mountains and plains, ensuring that no matter where the opposing player appeared, they would step into your trap area.
But once this was done, it would become a massive undertaking, both time-consuming and laborious, even hindering the development of an entire tribe.
At the same time, the more frustrating aspect was that these traps were essentially single-use items.
Note, ‘single-use item’ here didn’t mean that a trap couldn’t be used again after one activation, but rather that even an idiot wouldn’t fall into the same trap twice in the same spot!
Moreover, once an enemy player realized you had set a large number of traps, they would certainly be on guard, causing the effectiveness of subsequent traps to significantly decrease, or even be rendered completely useless.
Considering all these reasons, the cost-effectiveness of this trap warfare was simply too low, so hardly any players would use it.
However, Ye Qingxuan was a special case because she was a newcomer, she didn’t have many tactical approaches to choose from.
Thus, sometimes, facing one formidable enemy after another, even if she knew it was a clumsy method, she had to grit her teeth and do it.
