Chapter 1194 1176. ‘Amount of meat’


    ??The moment Lan En lifted his hood, he was equivalent to declaring the force he had.


    That is the deterrence of being killed alive on a battlefield like a meat grinder.


    ?Siward knew this very clearly, and expressed his incomparable understanding of the Grand Duke of Cintra''s urgency.


    ??The Ember Knights naturally serve as nodes in Lann''s command structure.


    Everything happened very smoothly, and they already had a tacit cooperation.


    "In order to maintain basic combat effectiveness, I will not confiscate the weapons of the White Rose Knight. Is that okay?"


    Lan En said to Lincoln beside him without looking back.


    ?The young scribe smiled at this moment and looked at the knights who had gathered around Siward, but all of them had sheathed their swords.


    “Let them try, sir.” The young secretary said nonchalantly, “It’s best to give them a try. I’m still a little curious about their condition.”


    The witcher shook his head.


    ?Ember Knights are cautious in doing things, but show pride inadvertently. I don’t know who they learned it from.


    “My lord, what is our primary goal?”


    Another Ember Knight asked from the side.


    Lan En pointed around: "Just evacuate as quickly as possible."


    ?There is actually no room for fine command now, because the primary purpose is to get this group of people to withdraw from the Pontal Valley.


    ???The Scoia’tael destroyed many carriage frames and killed many livestock.


    ?This greatly reduces the carrying capacity and operational efficiency of the fleet.


    This is also the main evidence that Lan En believes that the other party actually wants to delay time.


    ?The car is destroyed. If you can’t part with the things on the car, then the remaining cars will have to be overloaded and move slower.


    ??What Lan En and the Ember Knights could do was actually forcefully order and supervise these people to abandon their baggage, throw away all unnecessary things, and start moving quickly outside.


    The Ember Knights began to take over the management of the entire team under the leadership of Lincoln, and Lincoln himself began to pick up the notepad that could be carried on one shoulder like a large satchel and began to become the general''s secretary.


    ??Triss did not step forward to Lan En until the Ember Knights began to perform their duties.


    “What exactly do you want to understand?”


    ??The sorceress crossed her arms to support the weight of her chest.


    She did not connect the tiny clues into a line in her mind like Lan En did.


    ??In fact, when she was removing the arrow inserted into Buchter''s right arm, she found that the Scoia''tael''s arrow was the same as the one she found at that time, so she went to find Lan En.


    So although Triss has been standing behind Lan En to show her support, she is not very clear in her mind.


    ?Lan En pursed his lips and kicked the remains of a carriage with a broken axle down into the mountain stream beside the mountain road.


    “The thing we’re investigating can indeed be seduced, Triss.”


    ?Lann turned his head and looked at the sorceress.


    “Have you never thought, ‘There is not a single living creature in the area it passes through’? What did it do to those living creatures?”


    ?Lane had beautiful eyes, and Triss always loved looking into them when the two of them were kissing and getting deep into each other.


    But now, these eyes were looking at her, but the associations in the words made her feel cold from her bones.


    "What do you mean?" Triss said a little stiffly, refusing to believe it. "What do you mean?"


    “I mean: those living creatures, those ‘flesh’.”


    ?? Lan En carefully weighed his tone when he said the last word.


    “For monsters, aren’t they usually used for food?”


    “.” Triss blinked, as if she didn’t understand this sentence. "For eating?"


    She repeated: "For eating? Lan En, do you know how large the range that that thing passed through? How many creatures are there?"


    “Since it first appeared, it has passed through one-fifth of the Mahakam Mountains!”


    Mahakam is a long mountain range running from north to south. The word "crossing" in Triss''s mouth does not mean crossing, but emerging from the middle of the mountain range until it is approaching the Pontal Valley.


    This distance has indeed approached one-fifth of the length of the Mahakam Mountains!


    If all the creatures in this range are eaten.


    ?That pile of meat could block the mountain stream at their feet!


    Become a **** flesh dam!


    This is also the reason why this conjecture has not been raised before.


    This amount of meat. In the small northern countries, many countries cannot even reach this level of meat consumption in a year!


    ?What could eat up one-fifth of the life in the Mahakam Mountains in just over a month?


    “But this is a highly probable conjecture.” Lan En said calmly.


    "It can be seen from the initial trajectory of this thing that it is a brainless and frantic creature. It often goes in one direction and then turns around at will." "It eats too much and too much. So it often buries its head in one direction. After eating, I saw more and closer meat in the other direction, so I turned without planning or thinking.”


    "The Scoia''tael live and guerrilla in the mountains. The breastplate of the Aedirn officer is probably part of the large pile of flesh and blood they used to lure the thing to turn."


    “All the people sent by Aedirn should have died long ago, but their bodies were just reused.”


    “And now,” Lan En turned around and said towards the mountain road that was still scattered and tattered after cleaning it for a long time, “they only have to hold people back and wait for the thing to reach the Pontal Valley.”


    “That’s why we don’t need to plan carefully when we attack, and we don’t pursue victory with one strike. After all, the purpose is just to delay time.”


    Triss held her forehead with her slender fingers, and for a moment she felt the impact of having her world view reshaped.


    She spent too little time with Lan En after all, and she didn’t know what monsters he had faced.


    It takes more than a month to eat something equivalent to the amount of flesh and blood of a large river dam. To be honest, this thing is still within the scope of Lan En''s imagination.


    ??If it was Tissaya who was next to Lan at this time, she would accept it quickly.


    ? And after Margarita was re-taught by Tisaya in the field of ''theology'' and urged her to review the deeds of ancient wizards, her receptive ability is also getting closer to her teacher.


    Triss''s mouth opened and closed, but at least she accepted the impact of the worldview after taking a few deep breaths.


    She still held her forehead with her fingers: "But if that''s the case, something that can eat one-fifth of the living creatures in the Mahakam Mountains would reach the Pontal Valley."


    The sorceress’s expression was ugly.


    ?After looking at the problem from this perspective, the dangerous thing now is not the convoy of several hundred people brought out from the Principality of Ireland.


    ??In the entire narrow Pontal Valley, even the Haji Fortress, which is the largest military stronghold, cannot fight against this kind of thing alone.


    ??Although it is still unclear how that thing has such a high eating efficiency and how it eats.


    But it is undoubtedly beyond the capabilities of mortal soldiers.


    “It’s pessimistic, but you’re right.”


    Lann nodded, acknowledging Triss''s concerns.


    “So letting the people in this convoy run away quickly is actually just to save fewer people from dying, just like what I told Seeward.”


    ?On the other hand, how many people are there in the entire Pontal Valley?


    Anyway, it is at least the size of two small cities.


    “Wait!” Triss nodded lowly at first, and then looked up at Lan En as if she suddenly noticed something. "What do you want to do?!"


    ?Lan raised an eyebrow after seeing Triss''s expression and chuckled: "Hey, don''t think I''m so impulsive."


    After laughing, the witcher became serious again.


    “I really wanted to stop that thing before it came. But until now, I don’t know what it is. It’s too passive.”


    ?Lann put his hand into the alchemical leather bag on his waist, took out the cone-shaped crystal and handed it to Triss''s hand.


    “Get them out of here quickly, Triss.”


    “I need help later.”


    Triss looked at the cone-shaped crystal placed in her hand and nodded.


    —


    ?Under the supervision of the Ember Knights, although many people in the convoy looked at the baggage and equipment scattered on the ground, some of them had their eyes gleaming.


    After all, as long as these things can be taken out and sold, they will definitely get a good price.


    ?But in the end, everything was ordered to be left behind, and everyone packed lightly and evacuated outside the Pontal Valley without any delay.


    “We’ve only been walking for half a day and we’re evacuating because we were raided by the Scoia’tael?”


    ??Although the right forearm was pierced by a special Scoia''tael arrow, and Triss pulled out several muscle fibers when she pulled it out, Buchter was frowning because of his decision to retreat on the way out.


    ?This bull-like man had no choice but to lie on the cart and talk forward.


    “Come on, Bucht.” Yarpan said without looking back while controlling the reins carefully. "This Scoia''tael raid is different from their previous tactics. There must be something wrong. Didn''t I tell you?"


    As he spoke, the dwarf scratched his beard and showed a big smile to the Ember Knight riding beside him.


    “Supervisor, don’t worry, he’s just not smart, just complain.”


    ??When the Ember Knights took over the command from Siward and the Knights of the White Rose in full view of the people before setting off, although this group of people did not yet understand what was happening.


    But they have very keenly understood who to listen to now.


    ??And there are many knowledgeable people among them who have already made associations through Lincoln''s re-hanging of the gun flag.


    “I don’t care.”


    The Ember Knight, who no longer concealed himself, looked at them calmly.


    “As long as you don’t slow down, I don’t care what you say.”


    ??Ember Riders display a level of control on horseback befitting their current reputation. The team of hundreds of people was temporarily taken over by ten of them, but now there was no trouble that affected the speed.


    (End of this chapter)