Chapter 202

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Chapter 202: Two Matters

After slipping back to his office, worried that Ye Xuan would come to ask him more questions about the hand crossbow, Luo Ji almost decided to go offline again.

However, he then had a change of thought, there were only a few days left until the Truce Token’s effect ended, so he should postpone going offline to check for information for now.

He would deal with it after the upcoming battle.

Because he had previously taken the initiative to invade Zhang Peng, the original Truce Token he had hung up expired prematurely after only seven days.

Therefore, the duration of the new Truce Token he put up later would clearly end a little later than Ye Qingxuan’s.

But it didn’t matter.

Strength brought confidence.

After gaining so many new people and greatly expanding his military strength, having developed into a behemoth in a short time, he declared that he wasn’t afraid at all.

As for Ye Qingxuan’s situation, there was basically no need to worry much now.

After all, she already had experience.

As long as she thoroughly implemented the guerrilla tactics he taught her, relying on geographical advantages, even if she couldn’t win, she would be able to protect herself.

A few days later, Ye Qingxuan had already entered a state of battle ahead of schedule, and Luo Ji also began to confirm the troop deployments of his various tribes.

With the number of tribes under his command increasing to seven, the distributed military forces clearly had to increase as well.

In fact, he had always felt that this step was a bit too big.

The Rocky Mountain Tribe at least had mineral resources, while the White River Tribe and Giant Wood Tribe, as the two players’ initial main cities, although they concentrated resources, had no special resource output.

In game terms, they had no resource points.

Therefore, Luo Ji had actually considered dismantling one or both of the White River Tribe and Giant Wood Tribe, and then concentrating the population on building the Black Rock Tribe, Iron Wall Tribe, Wild Horse Tribe, and Rocky Mountain Tribe as his four sub-cities.

But in the end, he couldn’t bring himself to do it.

As mentioned above, the White River Tribe and Giant Wood Tribe were the two players’ initial main cities, equivalent to Luo Ji’s Mirror Tribe.

They were places where resources were concentrated for construction, and the construction of various facilities was quite complete.

Even ancient city walls had been built.

It would be truly regrettable to just dismantle them.

If he wanted to rebuild such a tribal camp, even with the manpower Luo Ji currently commanded, it would take two or three months.

Given this, he ultimately chose to keep them.

Time passed quietly.

The effect of the Truce Token had already vanished with time.

Having long lost his initial nervousness, Luo Ji flipped through the work report in his hand, waiting for the system notification to sound in his mind.

However, half a day had passed, and nothing happened…

This was undoubtedly a strange occurrence for Luo Ji, who had always been precisely timed and challenged by those players.

Then he suddenly realized that, without him knowing it, he had also become a ‘familiar face’ in the eyes of those veteran players…

Stretching, his mood was subtle for a moment.

Originally, he wanted to quickly finish this round of battles to gain permission to buy Truce Tokens, so he could hang one up and develop peacefully.

But now, suddenly no one was invading him on schedule, which somewhat disrupted his plans.

And those from the player alliance, did they just retreat when faced with difficulty?

He thought it was unlikely.

Their main players seemed to be in the Bronze tier.

It was more probable that they were waiting for him to advance to the Bronze tier.

At that time, a large group of Bronze tier players would be able to attack him without restraint.

But no matter what, if the opposing players didn’t come, it wasn’t a solution for him to keep his city gates closed and just wait it out.

How was he supposed to develop then?

Thinking of this, Luo Ji couldn’t help but ponder for a while in his mind.

Then he decisively issued an order for the reconnaissance and patrol teams to increase their reconnaissance and patrol efforts.

At the same time, he ordered the city gates to be opened to continue development.

At worst, he would deal with problems as they arose, adapting to the situation.

Time continued to flow.

In the blink of an eye, several more days passed.

Ye Qingxuan’s battle had already reached its seventh day, and a distress signal had arrived before him.

After confirming the enemy player’s name, a flicker of thoughtfulness appeared in Luo Ji’s eyes.

Vaguely, he felt something was off.

Would Liu Ye really retreat so decisively and then patiently wait for him to advance to the Bronze tier before acting?

He found that highly unlikely.

Thinking of this, with a mindset of taking precautions, Luo Ji decisively called Bai Xu over and gave him some instructions.

Only then did he confirm the expeditionary forces and launch an invasion.

Luo Ji’s invasion setup this time was basically identical to the last.

A 10 person cavalry squad including Bai Ze, plus a 10 person shield-axemen squad, as well as one Three-Bow Crossbow and the soldiers responsible for operating it.

Upon realizing that his home base was being invaded, the opposing player, as expected, retreated.

Up to this point, everything was exactly the same as the previous time.

However, very soon, things became different…

[System Notification: Player ‘Song Rong’ is invading your civilization!]

“Hahaha, so that’s it.”

“You’re playing this trick on me, aren’t you?”

Luo Ji curled his lips, his expression utterly filled with amusement.

Although he didn’t know exactly what happened in the battle, as long as one paid a little attention, they could calculate an approximate battle time and then analyze some things from the duration of the battle.

For instance, he had previously conquered Zhang Peng’s tribe and killed Zhang Peng in less than a day.

This caused some people behind the scenes to misunderstand that he must have used the vast majority of his military forces in the invasion battle to achieve such a quick victory.

And this approach had a major flaw, it would leave his own tribe’s defending forces empty!

After clearly knowing the information that ‘Luo Ji would definitely attack the player who invaded Ye Qingxuan on the seventh day,’ they just needed to roughly calculate the time.

They could then time their invasion of his civilization to coincide with the ‘empty defending forces’ period after he set out.

At the same time, the most brilliant move was that Luo Ji, as the invading party, was currently stuck on day one.

This meant he had no retreat permission.

As long as the player responsible for defending here stubbornly held the city gates, gaining enough time to prevent him from returning in time, then that group of people could effectively pull the rug out from under him!

It had to be said, this was indeed a good move.

But, the person who devised this plan made two mistakes…

The first matter was that his defending forces were very abundant, and there was no need for him to return to defend at all.

The second matter was that the defending player currently before him could not gain any time for them at all!

Casually glancing at the city gate that had been completely bombarded and collapsed by the Three-Bow Crossbow, Luo Ji unhurriedly waved his hand.

“Crush them!”