Chapter 332
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Chapter 332: Wolf Smoke
After earnestly giving his instructions, Luo Ji, having ended the conversation, glanced at his meager savings, feeling utterly depressed.
Unexpectedly, just as he was feeling so down, another piece of good news landed on him.
“Reporting, Your Majesty, the materials for the wolf smoke are ready.”
Hearing this news, Luo Ji’s heart swelled with joy.
He decisively took a team of guards and rode Liaoyuan Huo straight to the walls of Mirror City.
Atop Mirror City’s walls, a signal tower had already been erected, clearly filled with special fuel.
“Light it!”
At Luo Ji’s command, the fuel in the signal tower immediately ignited.
Pure black, wind-resistant dense smoke shot straight into the sky, making Luo Ji clench his fist tightly as he witnessed the scene.
Undoubtedly, after so many trials and failures, he had finally gotten the wolf smoke formula right!
On the modern internet, there’s a saying that wolf smoke is made from burning wolf dung.
After personally testing this claim, Luo Ji declared it to be utter nonsense!
Even if one were to concede the point, where would you get so much wolf dung to burn?
To burn wolf smoke once, you’d need roughly 5 or 6 lbs at least, right?
One city would need 5 or 6, ten cities would need 50 or 60 lbs.
Not to mention even more cities, plus wolf smoke is a wartime signal, you’d burn it every time you fought a battle.
How many ‘patriotic wolves’ would need to contribute their feces for you to burn, just to last one battle?
For this, Luo Ji even went offline once and spent a good while researching to roughly figure out the wolf smoke formula.
Returning to the alternate world, he then had his subordinates slowly experiment and research for a long time before achieving this result!
Today’s ‘wolf smoke’ test had been announced in advance.
Upon seeing the wolf smoke rising from Mirror City’s direction, wolf smoke also began to ignite on the signal towers of the surrounding cities.
In the blink of an eye, the entire territory of Myriad Worlds Civilization was filled with rising wolf smoke.
Holding his telescope, Luo Ji observed this magnificent sight and couldn’t help but secretly praise it in his heart.
Undoubtedly, this was the fastest way to transmit information in the entire cold weapon era!
If the front line was attacked by enemies, how much time would it take for the wolf smoke to spread all the way down?
Even carrier pigeons wouldn’t be this fast.
Although this method couldn’t convey detailed war reports, it could at least allow them to confirm the enemy’s attack location in advance by the direction the wolf smoke came from, and immediately begin mobilizing troops to prepare for battle!
On this side, the joy of successfully igniting the wolf smoke significantly alleviated the depression Luo Ji had felt earlier.
On the other side, in the meeting room of the ‘Zongheng Tianxia’ alliance stronghold in the neutral zone, a certain group of people were not in such a good mood.
“It seems many of our alliance players have died in recent months…”
Sitting at the head of the conference table, Wang Dong, the leader of the Zongheng Tianxia Alliance, continuously drummed his fingers on the tabletop, making a thudding sound that clearly conveyed his current irritation.
As a Platinum-rank player, Wang Dong’s irritation was clearly not due to the mere life and death of a few Bronze-rank players.
Instead, it was because he had fought a full 4 year total war with his archenemy, ultimately failing to achieve a decisive outcome.
A total war was indeed a decisive battle that utilized the entire civilization’s power.
However, such decisive battles, besides ending in defeat and death for one side, also had two other paths, ‘surrender’ and ‘reconciliation.’
If ‘surrender’ was chosen, the initiating party would immediately be judged as defeated and pay a relatively heavy price.
At the same time, the other player had the right to refuse the surrender and continue fighting.
‘Reconciliation,’ on the other hand, was when both parties reached a certain consensus, directly allowing the system to calculate battle achievements and points to determine the winner and end the battle.
Wang Dong’s total war with his archenemy, after 4 years of fierce fighting, finally ended temporarily with ‘reconciliation.’
However, after the system’s judgment, he ultimately lost by a narrow margin.
At this moment, it would be strange if he were in a good mood.
The death of many alliance players recently could only be said to have unfortunately run into his bad temper.
“What’s going on, Liu Ye?”
Liu Ye, whose name was called, had a slight twitch in the corner of his eye.
Clearly, Wang Dong had already gotten a general understanding of the situation.
As for how he learned it…
Liu Ye glanced at Wang Congjie, another deputy leader in the alliance.
Who else could it be but him?
As if sensing Liu Ye’s gaze, Wang Congjie curled his lips into a sneer.
As the saying goes, colleagues are enemies, especially since Wang Dong, as the leader, often fought battles lasting several years.
The Zongheng Tianxia Alliance was managed mostly by these two deputy leaders.
Under these circumstances, power struggles were inevitable.
Over time, resentment slowly accumulated.
“Reporting, Alliance Leader, this is what happened…”
As he spoke, Liu Ye recounted the entire story to Wang Dong, withholding nothing.
He knew Wang Dong’s character well.
Wang Dong was in a fit of anger right now, if he lied and was exposed, he would definitely suffer dire consequences.
It was better to confess frankly, it wasn’t anything shameful anyway.
After listening, Wang Dong’s expression indeed softened considerably, then he frowned slightly.
“So something like this happened.”
It was almost a matter of course for Liu Ye to put a bounty on the alliance to avenge his brother.
Even Wang Congjie, who constantly disliked Liu Ye, couldn’t say anything about this matter.
Wang Dong naturally couldn’t blame Liu Ye for such a minor issue.
Moreover, in the previous total war, although Liu Ye did not personally come, he had dispatched two fierce generals with considerable troops to support him, and even suffered significant casualties in the battle.
These favors had to be remembered.
Thinking of this, Wang Dong pondered for a moment, then spoke.
“If this continues, our ‘Zongheng Tianxia’ will lose face. Which player will be willing to join us later? This Luo Ji must be dealt with! I’ll handle this matter, is that alright, Liu Ye?”
“As the Alliance Leader commands.”
Hearing this, Wang Dong nodded with satisfaction.
Below, Zhao Nan, Lin Leshi, and the others could only inwardly lament their bad luck.
In front of this Platinum-rank alliance leader, these Bronze-rank rookies clearly had little say.
This time, they were at a loss.
While everyone was pondering this, Wang Dong, after briefly considering who to send, spoke again.
“I’ll have Li Yuanjie deal with that Luo Ji.”
The mention of that name startled everyone who had been worrying about their losses.
Although Li Yuanjie never attended alliance meetings, and few present had even met him, among the Bronze players of Zongheng Tianxia, the undisputed strongest was Li Yuanjie.
He was also the player invited into this game by their alliance leader, Wang Dong, and ranked 68th on the Bronze-rank leaderboard.
Moreover, they had vaguely heard rumors that this Li Yuanjie seemed to be a special civilization…
