Chapter 337
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Chapter 337: A Ruthless Character
With a new trump card in hand, Luo Ji felt significantly more confident about the upcoming battle.
His mood light and cheerful, he returned to his office.
Meanwhile, Ye Xuan, who had been engrossed in drawing blueprints, seemed to have finally finished for the time being.
She was now carrying a large stack of blueprints that probably only she could understand, preparing to return to her research lab to continue her work.
Luo Ji naturally wouldn’t stop her.
As if remembering something, he quickly took out a safety clasp carved from jadeite and handed it to Ye Xuan.
“Take this. It’s your reward for successfully developing the crossbow.”
Although Ye Xuan was only interested in various military weapons and blueprints, successfully creating the crossbow was a significant achievement.
It only made sense to reward her.
For this purpose, Luo Ji had specially chosen a few small jade artifacts from a newly delivered batch and carried them with him, just to handle such situations.
If there was truly nothing else to bestow, then a jade artifact would do.
These were all top-tier, first-grade jade pieces, inherently priceless, and beneficial to one’s health when worn close to the body.
In some ways, these high-quality jade pieces were his best rewards at the moment.
Ye Xuan took the safety clasp from Luo Ji’s hand.
Looking at this novel item, she surprisingly played with it for a couple of moments and found it unexpectedly comfortable to handle, so she accepted it quite readily.
With another matter concluded, Luo Ji resumed his work.
After this delay, the sun was almost setting.
The stack of documents on his desk clearly couldn’t be finished today, but this was certainly not enough to spoil Luo Ji’s good mood at the moment.
Maintaining a relatively pleasant mood, time quietly passed.
With the expiration of the Truce Token, the timely system notification still brought Luo Ji no peace.
[System Notification: Player ‘Li Yuanjie’ is invading your civilization!]
Upon hearing this name, Luo Ji’s pupils immediately contracted.
He hastily pulled out the intelligence report Zhang Tang had interrogated earlier.
“Li Yuanjie, Li Yuanjie…”
“Found it!”
Muttering the name, Luo Ji quickly located the corresponding entry and his expression instantly changed.
“68th on the Bronze Rank Leaderboard?!”
“He’s the highest-ranked Bronze player in the Zongheng Tianxia Alliance right now!”
Luo Ji never expected such a formidable opponent to arrive first.
Thanks to the intelligence provided by Shang Jun, he had a rough understanding of the Bronze rank’s strength divisions.
Previously, people like Zhou Dongnan, Wang Luzong, and even Shang Jun himself, were only ranked in the 200s or 300s. But this one was a ruthless individual in the top 100!
There was very little intelligence on Li Yuanjie.
Clearly, even a fellow alliance member like Shang Jun couldn’t have perfect knowledge of every other player’s information within the alliance.
However, the scarcity of intelligence still gave Luo Ji a headache, as there were only two pieces of information about Li Yuanjie.
One was his Bronze rank, and the other was that Li Yuanjie was a player invited by Wang Dong, the leader of the Zongheng Tianxia Alliance.
In other words, it was highly probable that Wang Dong, the Platinum-rank leader of Zongheng Tianxia, was also involved in this matter…
“A Platinum-rank player?”
Luo Ji’s mood was heavy.
Ever since he had ascended to the Bronze rank, he felt as if he were walking on a tightrope bridge, with a chasm thousands of feet deep below.
One misstep, and the outcome would be utter destruction!
Luo Ji had to ensure he could walk steadily on that tightrope bridge.
For this, as the defending party, he could not invite external aid.
Because once he invited external aid, the opponent would also gain permission to invite external aid.
At that point, whether it was Platinum-rank Wang Dong or Iron-rank Liu Ye, they probably possessed the strength to completely annihilate his civilization.
Unless Gao Su was brought into it, but doing so might bring Gao Su’s enemies flocking in, potentially making the situation even worse.
“Sigh, the pressure to develop is really immense. This time…”
With the 68th rank staring him down, Luo Ji genuinely felt a bit uncertain for a moment.
If they fought for seven days and couldn’t deter the opponent, could he truly hold out for a month until the invasion battle was forcibly concluded?
He let out a deep sigh.
As the defender, he could only adapt to the situation.
“He Liang, send out the order. Tell the defending soldiers to pay attention to the direction the wolf smoke rises…”
As Luo Ji’s command was relayed, within Myriad Worlds Civilization, an indistinct muffled sound suddenly echoed from the hills outside Iron Wall City, the first line of defense on the eastern border, causing a soldier on the city wall to frown.
“Sounds like something,” a soldier said.
Zhao Pan, the defending general of Iron Wall City, ran his army with strict discipline.
During watches, there was usually no idle chatter on the city wall.
In such a quiet environment, even the slightest disturbance would be noticed by the on-duty soldiers immediately.
“What’s going on?”
Liu Tao, who was currently patrolling the city wall, clearly noticed the commotion and quickly walked over to ascertain the situation.
“Reporting, Deputy General Liu, there seems to be some movement in the distance.”
A soldier said, quickly pointing towards the vast expanse of hills in the distance.
As Zhao Pan’s deputy and student, Liu Tao’s character was undoubtedly similar to Zhao Pan’s, always calm and cautious in his actions.
He glanced at the hills outside Iron Wall City.
To be honest, he saw nothing at first glance.
But out of caution, he still pulled out the monocular telescope from his waist and carefully confirmed it.
The hilly terrain was complex, with rising and falling elevations that would greatly affect their visibility.
Even standing on the city wall, they couldn’t claim 100% certainty that they wouldn’t miss anything.
And as it turned out, his caution paid off.
Through the enhanced vision provided by the telescope, Liu Tao faintly saw a few blurry figures approaching them on the distant horizon.
At the same time, as those figures drew closer, accompanied by heavy footsteps like thunder, Liu Tao, who gradually made out their appearance, instantly changed his expression.
He even instinctively took a step back, startled.
“Monsters, monsters!”
Liu Tao’s exclamation caught the attention of most of the soldiers on the city wall.
Without telescopes, they could only hear the gradually intensifying heavy footsteps and see a few blurry dark figures, but they couldn’t make out what they were, so they naturally couldn’t comprehend Liu Tao’s inner terror!
“Quick, quickly light the wolf smoke, then go inform the General! There are monsters, monsters coming towards Iron Wall City!!”
