ATPnovel Chapter 12 Commander, the village is besieged by zombies!
Chapter 12 Commander, the village is besieged by zombies!
"...Well, after all, there's Warhammer Total War in Total War, so it doesn't seem so strange that Skaven suddenly appeared."
"I really didn't expect the Poison Wind Grenadier to only be rated as a four-star unit by the system. I thought this unit would be rated as a five-star unit!"
Rock made a few casual remarks, then checked his system interface and found that he currently had six hundred taels of silver left.
Perfect timing! Enough said, let's recruit two big rats to try them out!
As a rustling sound came, two large rats, each about a meter tall and clad in heavy armor, darted out from the corner of the room and knelt down in front of Rock with a thud.
"Yes! Yes! Great leader, ruthless warlord, despicable tyrant... From this day forward, we formally pledge our allegiance to you. Please give us your orders!"
It has to be said that the two big rats were quite interesting. They immediately showered Rock with compliments, but it seems that their compliments landed on the horse's legs.
Unfortunately, for Skaven, adjectives like ruthless, despicable, and evil are all used to praise them, and are qualities that all Skaven warlords desperately want to possess.
But to humans, this word is clearly not a good word, so their flattery sounds very strange to Rock.
"Very well, I accept your loyalty, you..."
Rock was about to say something encouraging to the two rats, but just then, as the two rats bowed down to Rock, the backpack on the back of one of the rats was suddenly opened.
Immediately afterwards, a green metal sphere rolled out from inside and hit the ground with a thud.
Upon seeing this thing, Rock was taken aback for a moment.
But in the next second, a look of terror flashed across his face, and he quickly scrambled backward, hiding in a corner in an instant.
If it weren't for the wall blocking his way, Rock felt he could have run 100 meters backward!
"Damn it! When you're bowing to me, could you please put your dimensional stone bombs aside? What if they explode?"
Holy crap, this is absolutely holy crap!
Rock hadn't noticed before, but only now did he realize that the backpacks on the backs of those two rat-like creatures were full of dimensional stone bombs.
According to Rock's understanding, dimensional stones not only have strong radiation, but are also extremely unstable. They may explode on the spot if they are bumped or knocked, or they may explode inexplicably if left untouched.
This is why all the Skaven's dimensional weapon squads are actually fighting for their lives, because they don't know when the dimensional stone weapons they use will suddenly explode and turn them into dust.
Upon hearing Rock's words, the two mice quickly put away the dimensional stone bombs on their backs, and even picked up the bombs that had rolled on the ground, stuffing them all into their backpacks.
Watching them stuff bombs into their backpacks with such force, Rock's heart pounded again. He felt utterly weak, pitiful, and helpless at that moment!
Good heavens, being a Skaven warlord these days isn't easy. One wrong move and these unreliable henchmen might blow you up with a dimensional stone weapon!
Immediately afterwards, Rock quickly asked the system:
[Hey, System, aren't there any restrictions on things like dimensional stone weapons? Have I already been exposed to radiation?]
[Players, please rest assured that the system has restrictions on all units with corrupting properties. Unless you click "agree," effects such as radiation from dimensional stone weapons, chaos contamination, and spores scattered by green-skinned units will not appear.]
[This game guarantees that all units are clean and harmless, and will not pollute the environment unless you require them. Please refer to the game instructions for details!]
Rock breathed a sigh of relief after examining the area carefully.
Thankfully, this game has a series of random restrictions that prevent the Warhammer world's various unit types from causing unnecessary contamination.
Otherwise, if he creates Chaos units in the future, and the land is blessed with Chaos, and he uses Vampire units, and the land is already contaminated by Vampires, plus a bunch of other weird things like Greenskins and Skaven, then his land will be unusable.
If things go wrong and he becomes successful in the future, he might actually summon a few Chaos Demons, turning what was originally just a modified version of the late Qing Dynasty into a war to unify Terra!
Hopefully, a giant golden guy carrying genetically modified corn won't suddenly appear. He doesn't want to be mistaken for a Chaos Warlord and then face Old Man Huang's wrath!
Who knows if Old Man Huang even exists in this world, or what he's busy with right now?
Besides this, another advantage of the equipment produced in this game is that the equipment produced by the system is always of high quality.
Therefore, the weapons produced by Rock do not have the typical damage characteristics. They won't misfire or explode after a few shots like a musket, and these dimensional stone weapons will also return to stability and won't suddenly explode for no reason.
"That's good, that's good. Otherwise, using Skaven units would have been far too risky!"
Rock breathed a sigh of relief, and when he looked at the two rat-men grenadiers again, he immediately realized that these two guys were treasures.
Just then, he heard footsteps outside, and it seemed that several people were talking.
The next moment, Lu Xiong and another cavalryman pushed open the gate with a bang and hurriedly said to Luo Ke:
"Commander, we've followed those refugees to their destination, but the situation there is dire. A large number of zombies are attacking their village. What should we do...? Wait, Commander, what are those giant rats?"
The cavalryman was hurriedly reporting the information he had gathered to Rock. Judging from his exhausted appearance, he must have followed the villagers all the way to the village and hadn't rested at all before galloping back.
But before they could finish speaking, both the cavalryman and Lu Xiong focused their attention on the large rat in front of Rock.
Seeing the two mice, Lu Xiong couldn't help but shout:
"Oh my god, Commander, watch out! These rats are demonic! Let me handle them!"
Clearly, in Lu Xiong's eyes, these two rats were not only huge and walked on two legs, but they were also wearing clothes and a strange suit of armor, carrying a large backpack, and even wearing a single eyeglass with a green lens. What else could they be but spirits?
What kind of decent mouse looks like this?
This is no ordinary rat; we must strike hard!
Just as Lu Xiong raised his fist to smash upwards, the two Skaven grenadiers also pulled out dimensional stone bombs from their backpacks. The situation was about to escalate, and Rock quickly shouted:
"Stop! All of you, stop! Lu Xiong, don't worry about these two rats. They're one of us, comrades who came to help me in this battle!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Xiong quickly stopped raising his fist, which was already halfway up, and looked at Luo Ke with a surprised expression.
"No way, Commander, I think these guys are demons!"
"Those mountain spirits and monsters are man-eaters, and they're incredibly cunning. Can we trust them?"
In response to Lu Xiong's questioning, Luo Ke simply waved his hand.
"You don't need to worry about that. I naturally have the means to control them, so you can rest assured!"
"These two rat spirits will never attack our brothers without my order, and they have some special skills!"
As he spoke, Rock pretended to give orders to the two large rats.
"At ease! Attention! Left turn, right turn, about turn..."
After dealing with the two Skaven, Rock looked at Lu Xiong again and said:
"See? I can completely command them, so you don't need to worry about these two rat spirits harming me!"
Lu Xiong nodded with a look of surprise, no longer worried about anything.
Since Rock has already said that, and judging from his appearance, he seems to be able to control these rats quite well, so he might have some kind of magical ability.
If that's the case, then it's not necessarily a bad thing that two mountain spirits and monsters have come to help the rebel army fight. Who knows, they might surprise the enemy at some point and launch an unexpected attack?
Lu Xiong was about to leave when Rock suddenly remembered the cavalry's report.
"Wait, you just said that the group of refugees has found a village to stay in?"
The cavalryman nodded quickly and said:
"That's right, the village they're going to settle in is called Wangjiazhuang. It seems to be a village built on the spot by people who came to Northeast China to make their way in the Northeast a few years ago."
"I figured they were all from the same village, so I headed towards them. I arrived at the village not long after, but when I got there, I found it under attack by zombies!"
Upon hearing this, Rock frowned.
"How many zombies did you see in total?"
"Reporting to the commander, I can't count them all, but I think there are at least a thousand zombies!"
It's a bit scary. How come so many zombies have gathered here?
After thinking about these zombies, Rock began to carefully plan in his mind.
"...Alright, in that case, let's send troops to support that village immediately. Hopefully, we won't be too late when we arrive!"
"All guerrillas stay behind to guard the base, the cavalry move out! Oh, and those two rats too!"
Upon hearing this, the cavalryman saluted and prepared to leave to relay Rock's orders.
But before he could leave, Rock added:
"Oh, and I told the guys before we left that if we couldn't win, we should just call it a day!"
"That village is indeed useful to us, but it's not to the point where we need to fight to the death. If we really can't win, we should run. Don't stay put and be stubborn. We're all on horseback, so we can run fast. Those zombies can't catch us!"