Chapter 14

All of humanity must thank this wizard who took an unconventional route into the city.

He has made outstanding contributions to mankind's exploration of alien civilizations. With his example, the advance team's entry into the city will be much easier.

But the tragic death of the orc guards also sounded a wake-up call for them——

Obviously, the civilization in this region adheres to the principle of the survival of the fittest.

The status of mages was higher than they had imagined. Once they were discovered that the members of the advance team were just ordinary people who had infiltrated the group, not to mention that they were not of their race and their hearts would be different, the technological power possessed by human civilization alone would definitely attract a wave of malicious prying and plundering.

When they were almost at the mountain near the fortress, the leading instructor gestured to the rear, signaling everyone to stop and hide on the spot, because a group of orcs seemed to be coming into the city from another direction.

Gu Liangyi's heart suddenly became nervous.

In the past few days, he has been analyzing various intelligence about the fortress with the school leaders, and he can restore the topography of the surrounding area with his eyes closed.

Outside the entrance of the fortress is a vast gravel field. It can be seen that it should have been a river valley a long time ago. There are still traces of river erosion in many places, but now there is only a dry shallow beach.

Yi Yan and the others were located near the cliff on the left.

There is a huge area of ​​fallen rocks here, probably caused by a landslide during an earthquake, which makes it very convenient for hiding.

"roar--"

A heart-shaking beast roar came from the headset.

Through the monitoring screen, Gu Liangyi saw a team of tall and strong orcs driving huge iron-gray four-legged beasts, walking towards here from the distant horizon.

The giant beast had scarlet eyes and looked like a rhinoceros, but its body was like that of an elephant. It was moving slowly forward under the whip of an orc who was nearly two meters tall.

Behind it was a black metal cargo box covered with thorns. The wheels alone were more than two meters high. There were no entrances around it, and it was completely sealed off, like a huge coffin.

The surface of the cargo box was a dark, gloomy brown color, as if countless blood had been splashed on it and then solidified. Some unknown liquid was still oozing from the corners and cracks of the cargo box.

Even through a screen, Gu Liangyi could feel a creepy aura.

What on earth is in this?!

The giant beast pulled the mysterious cargo box farther and farther away, but before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, a very short man in a black robe suddenly came out from the other side of the cargo box, walked away from the caravan alone, and walked straight towards the direction where their team was hiding!

“Damn it!” “F**k!”

For a while, greetings from various countries came one after another in the Earth Command.

Gu Liangyi gritted his teeth: The hidden location chosen by the instructor was already far enough away from where the orcs were. Who knew that there was a mage in their team!

No one knew what race this mage belonged to. He looked no taller than 1.2 meters. He was short and fat, and he staggered as he walked, like an underdeveloped child. He was completely lost in the orc army, whose average height was over 2 meters. No wonder even the aerial reconnaissance drones failed to detect him.

"Hide immediately! Split up and retreat!"

The instructor made the first judgment on the channel, but he himself remained where he was, carefully observing the situation outside through the gaps between the boulders.

According to their observations and experience, although the mages of the alien civilizations regard ordinary races as insignificant, they generally do not conflict with each other.

Maybe, we can try to communicate?

"Too risky!" Gu Liangyi heard Zong Qinyuan's anxious voice in the channel, "We don't understand the language here. The body language I mentioned is only limited to the primitive races in the forest. It may not work on these mages!"

"Principal Zong, I think it's still necessary to give it a try. If a conflict really occurs, at least the team can retreat in time outside the city." The instructor didn't think so, "And..."

He looked at the short wizard who suddenly stopped dozens of meters away with a red flame suddenly burning in his hand, and the corners of his mouth under the mask were tightly tied into a straight line.

"——Judging from its actions, it had already concluded from the beginning that there was someone here."

At present, humans have no idea how magic in this world works. It is known that wizards can destroy a drone from a distance and cause organisms to spontaneously combust out of thin air. Who says they don’t have other abilities?

For example, through the obstacles, let them experience the feelings of the unfortunate guard?

Half a minute should be enough for the other team members to retreat.

The instructor gritted his teeth, said "Stay where you are," lowered the brim of his black robe, and slowly walked out from behind the boulder.

The flame in the short wizard's hand soared higher in an instant, and along with it, everyone's hearts were lifted up.

“%￥#@……? #%&@%……!”

It stood there and questioned sternly. The linguists in the Earth Command were almost extremely alert, quickly recording and analyzing the syllables and grammatical structure of the language of this new civilization.

But the instructors are not experts in this area, and no one can learn a language in a minute.

As expected, the two were unable to communicate at all.

Even though the instructor tried to express his harmlessness as gently as possible through body language, and even pointed to his throat and tried to pretend to be mute, the other party did not buy it at all.

"&￥%@#..."

The wizard stared at him for a while, suddenly extinguished the fire in his hand, and said coldly.

The instructor frowned, trying to understand what it wanted to express from its actions, but the next second his pupils shrank suddenly -

Because the wizard raised his right hand with his index finger and thumb together and pointed towards him.

This posture is very familiar to humans.

That's how the drone was destroyed, and its whereabouts remain unknown and cannot be recovered. The unfortunate orc guard who was burned to charcoal also died in this action.

Instantly, his heartbeat quickened, adrenaline surged, and the gun hidden in the sleeve of the instructor's right hand instantly slipped out of his palm.

“Bang!!!!”

But someone was one step faster than him.

Two bullets were fired one after the other, one hitting the forehead and the other piercing the heart.

The short wizard's mask was shattered on the spot, and he fell heavily to the ground with a bang.

The channel was completely silent.

"Sure enough," Yan Beichen murmured, "Seven steps away, the gun is fast; within seven steps, the gun is both accurate and fast..."

The major live broadcast rooms on Earth have exploded:

"Oh shit, he really fired the gun? Awesome! He didn't hesitate at all!"

"What else? I'm not kidding you. The war of civilizations is a life-and-death struggle. Do you really expect to influence the aliens with love? Have you watched too many crappy movies?"

"FBI open the door! Oh, it's one of ours, that's all right."

"I feel a little physically uncomfortable, really. It's a life after all. I didn't do anything wrong, did I?"

"What haven't you done yet? Come on, if it were on Earth, this would be the equivalent of pulling out a gun with your right hand! I suggest you buy a plane ticket to Bald Eagle and try to do this in front of their police before you come and brag, OK?"

"I am laughing so hard that I want to die. Eagle sauce is watching you."

"I'm almost sick of all the comments from saints and saints online these days. If we follow the procedure, shouldn't we hold up a sign to protest, 'Alien lives matter too'?"

"Hahahaha, the key is that I think it's really possible..."

"I'm really impressed. We weren't the ones who wanted to start the fight first. If we hadn't shot in self-defense, the people lying on the ground now would be our own!"

The silencer muffled the loud gunshots in the no-man's land. The instructor held the gun, breathing rapidly, but still did not dare to let his guard down.

After waiting for a few seconds, he walked over carefully and poked the fallen mage with the hot muzzle of his gun. After confirming that the other party really had no signs of life, he stood up and shouted angrily into the headset:

"Who fired the gun just now? Come out!"

The team filed out from the boulder, and Yi Yan, who was in the lead, lowered his head obediently.

"I'm sorry, instructor," his voice was still calm, "I took the initiative."

The instructor stared at him. Although he wanted to reprimand him, he also fired the gun himself, so it was difficult to say that the boy made a mistake. He could only educate him sternly: "Although you were a student before, remember, next time you are not allowed to shoot without my order! Even if I die in front of you, this is a serious violation of discipline! Do you hear me?"

"clear."

The instructor snorted, and then reluctantly praised him: "But your shooting skills and reaction speed are not bad, you are a good candidate, no wonder Instructor Jiao asked you to be the - what is this!?"

He ripped off Yi Yan's collar, revealing a circle of strange totem tattoos on the young man's neck.

It seemed to be made up of hideous black and red runes, parasitic under the skin of Yi Yan's neck like a maggot, and was changing its shape rapidly.

At first glance, it looked like a collar tightly strangling the young man's neck.

The instructor took a breath.

He grabbed Yi Yan's shoulders and asked loudly, "What's going on?"

Gu Liangyi couldn't see Yi Yan's appearance, and could only rely on the instructor's anxious tone to figure out that something might have happened to Yi Yan.

The three people in the dormitory who had just breathed a sigh of relief suddenly became tense again.

Gu Liang pursed his lips tightly, and even the hand holding the headset became wet.

"After I fired the gun just now, I suddenly felt a suffocating feeling in my neck, as if someone was holding me back. Now, it's a slight stinging and burning sensation," Yi Yan described his feelings in the most concise language. "I suspect it has something to do with that mage... I can't see my neck, what does it look like?"

"It looks like a rune collar carved with blood," the instructor said in a bad tone, "I'm afraid it's a curse or something - I told you, you bastard, why did you have to stay there and steal someone's head! I've already opened fire!"

He looked like he wanted to beat Yi Yan up. He squatted down cursing and began to rummage through the body of the short wizard, trying to find some useful things and clues.

Yi Yan stood there silently, and his teammates around him were ordered by the instructor to stay away from him.

The instructor seemed to think that Yi Yan would explode on the spot in the next second, but unfortunately, not only were these young people not afraid at all, some of them even laughed and gave him a thumbs-up from a few meters away, which made the instructor so angry that he rolled his eyes to the sky.

If it weren't for the fact that these were all students, he would have punished them so hard that they wouldn't be able to straighten their arms and legs for three days!

Without the mask, the wizard's true appearance was exposed to everyone.

The dark greenish rough skin, the large protruding eyes, the messy fangs and the long ears like an elf, all these features confirmed its non-human identity. Therefore, the members of the special action team just watched the instructor's body search out of curiosity, and did not show any physical or psychological discomfort.

Gu Liangyi felt that it looked more and more familiar. He just happened to hear Zhuge Xiao beside him whispering, "Is this thing a——"

"Dobby?"

Gu Liang, who had been brainwashed by the savior theory during this period, answered unconsciously.

Zhuge Xiao glanced at him speechlessly, but his tone became relaxed again, with a familiar smile:

"Hurry up and apologize to Dobby. He doesn't look that shabby. He's obviously a goblin."

Gu Liangyi: “…………”

Regardless of whether this thing is a house-elf or a goblin, the most eye-catching thing about it is definitely the blood-red gem embedded in its forehead.

It seemed to be the gem that ordinary races handed over to the guards when entering the fortress. Unfortunately, Yi Yan's bullet directly and accurately broke it into two halves.

For some reason, the more the instructor looked at its color, the more it resembled the strange rune on Yi Yan's neck.

"We can't waste any more time," the instructor said to one of the strongest members of the team immediately after dragging the mage's body into the shelter, fearing that the orcs would come looking for him again. "Yaroslav, take him back to school first, and we will continue to sneak in."

This student named Yaroslav is from the Bear Country. His full name is Yaroslav Morosnovich Stanislavsky. He is one of the few international students at the University of Desertification.

Because his last name, Stanislavsky, is too long and difficult to pronounce, people usually just call him Yaroslav.

Hearing the instructor's order, Yaroslav nodded immediately, patted Yi Yan on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, Yi, if you feel uncomfortable, just tell me. As long as you don't mutate into a super zombie on the spot, I can carry you back to school!"

But Yi Yan objected: "No. We haven't figured out the function of this rune yet. If it has a positioning function, I might get into trouble for the school if I go back now."

After that, he added: "Of course, this also includes my continued stay in the team."

The instructor stared at him: "So what do you want to do?"

"I apply to go into the city alone."

"Impossible!" The instructor refused. "The risks you will encounter alone are completely unpredictable! Without backup and teammates, how can you survive even if you sneak in?"

"Actually, there is another reason." Yi Yan continued.

He lowered his head and touched the skin of his neck with his fingers, then raised his head and looked straight at the instructor:

"After having this thing, I feel like I can understand their language."

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We exercised great restraint and launched a self-defense counterattack, firing the first shot into the other world (not