Chapter 117: Alert
Northern Uffizi, western Adus, Dosa.
After arriving in Dossa by car, Dorothy asked Ed, who was playing the alias of Ney's special adviser, to get out of the car, and together with Nefernis, they came into contact with Adam, the commander of the Dossa revolutionary army.
Adam invited Ed and Neveu to have a simple dinner together. At the table, he told Dorothy in more detail about the current situation and the previous failure in the expedition to Karnak.
During her conversation with Adam, Dorothy learned that shortly after the troops set out to clear Karnak's outer defenses, they were ambushed by the Undead before they even got close to Karnak. The Undead were lying in wait under the sand on their way, and when the troops were passing over them, they suddenly emerged from under the yellow sand. Those skeletons and zombies used cold weapons to launch a surprise attack on their troops.
Since many soldiers had never seen the undead, when they were attacked by such a large number of undead, many of them broke down emotionally. The army was instantly in chaos. The chaos did not last long, and they were immediately bombarded.
The long-range artillery bombardment and the Undead's sneak attack threw the entire army into chaos. The chaos lasted for a long time. Although the officers tried their best to maintain order, they had little effect. The army began to retreat and flee on a large scale. At this time, the Savior's armed forces arrived at the scene. They appeared from beyond the horizon, with gun-wielding Undead warriors as the vanguard and ordinary human soldiers behind. They launched a charge against the chaotic Revolutionary Army and completely defeated the entire army. The Revolutionary Army's advance team suffered heavy casualties. Only a small number of officers successfully gathered the remnants and retreated in an orderly manner. In the end, only about one-third of them successfully escaped back to Dosa, which dealt a heavy blow to the morale of other Revolutionary Army troops in Dosa.
In the descriptions of the soldiers who retreated, the undead were portrayed as extremely terrifying and numerous, numbering tens of thousands. Dorothy did not completely agree with these exaggerated descriptions.
Compared to the main continent, due to the chaotic order in Northern Wu and the coexistence of a large number of historical sites, the residents here are closer to the secret world. The people here have long lived in the midst of various mysterious legends, with incidents of extraordinary injuries and the spread of poison emerging one after another. As soldiers in the war, they all have a vague knowledge of the existence of the secret world, and have more or less heard of the legends of the undead.
However, they had almost never heard of such a large number of Undead armies. The Undead armies caused great psychological trauma to the surviving soldiers who retreated. After returning, they kept exaggerating the number of Undead armies. By the time Adam heard about it, the number had reached tens of thousands. Such rumors directly caused the entire Dosa Revolutionary Army to fall into a state of low morale. Even Adam himself was affected. During meals, Dorothy could occasionally see a hint of fear in Adam's expression.
After roughly understanding the current situation on the front line, Dorothy asked Ed to finish his meal and go back to the arranged accommodation to rest. Dorothy herself had already moved into the Dosas family's fairly decent hotel, and from her room she began to think about the current situation.
"The Saviours of Karnak... suddenly received a large number of undead support... Hiss... It's not good. It seems that the situation I was most worried about has happened. Those guys from the Order of the Coffin have joined forces with the Saviours of Karnak."
Sitting by the window, Dorothy thought with a frown while enjoying the breeze created by the corpse next to her. Then she raised her eyes to a large world map placed on the table, and her eyes were focused on the direction of Mount Saint.
'According to the news from Shadi and Vanya, the church has confirmed with their own spies that Mukhtar is dead. After Shadi and Adusi have truly purged the forces of the Savior faction, they have almost believed in Shadi's sincerity in converting.
'After the assassination of Kankdar was reversed, the Ewe faction of church power took the lead on the issue of Adus. In order to cooperate with Shadi's domestic purge movement, the Holy Mountain sent a pilgrimage team led by an archbishop to other areas in northern Ukraine that were severely influenced by the Savior Sect. They then directly threatened other important areas of influence of the Savior Sect, tied up the power of the Savior Sect General Assembly, and made it impossible for it to provide effective support to the remnants of the Savior Sect in Adus, leaving it an isolated force.
'Such a lone army is indeed easy to be eliminated, but it is also easy to take risks and conduct some extraordinary risky operations, and it is easier to seek all forces that can be united. After we knew that the Karnak Savior Faction in the Dead Eagle Valley was under control, we have always been worried that the Coffin Order, which was also spying on the Mausoleum of King Rahman in the valley, would unite with the Savior Faction. I didn't expect that this worry would come true. The Coffin Order and the remnants of the Savior Faction really united together. Such a large-scale manipulation of the undead, except for the Coffin Order, no other force can do it.'
Dorothy thought so in her heart with a gloomy face. At present, she still didn't know what kind of agreement the remnants of the Savior Faction in Karnak and the Order of the Coffin had reached to unite the two parties. She could only guess that this agreement must be related to the Rahman Tomb. Maybe at some opportunity, both parties decided to jointly excavate the Rahman Tomb.
"If they really plan to excavate the Rahman Tomb together, it will not be a good thing for me. I must find a way to stop them. The combined strength of the two of them may be beyond our ability to deal with. Therefore, if I want to fight them, I must unite the forces around me, such as the Shadi Adusi Revolutionary Army..."
Dorothy thought so. Now she had made preliminary plans to help the Adus Revolutionary Army to break through Kanak. For this, she must immediately speed up her own actions. For Dorothy, no matter what she does, collecting intelligence is always the first priority.
"Knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure victory in a hundred battles. This was true in the past for small-scale extraordinary stations, and it is even more true on the battlefield today. The most urgent task is to fully collect intelligence on Canak, learn their details, and then slowly formulate a strategy."
Dorothy thought so, and then she made a plan. She decided to get close to Karnak one day, use the corpse dolls to conduct reconnaissance on the entire city, and find out the situation of the Savior Sect and the Coffin Order.
After making the preliminary plans, Dorothy wiped the sweat from her forehead, then turned her head to look at the zombie who was still fanning her tirelessly, and asked him to increase the strength. After feeling the stronger wind dispelling more heat, she breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to think about how she would survive this hot northern night when she fell asleep and could not operate the zombie.
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Time flies, and soon one night passed. Dorothy got up early the next morning and immediately manipulated Consultant Ney to get up in a hotel near his headquarters. After a short rest, Dorothy asked Ed to leave the city early in the morning in the name of surveying the terrain. Dorothy herself also mixed in with the camel caravan and left the city together.
Dosa is about seventy kilometers away from Karnak. Dorothy and her team traveled light and marched for most of the day under the scorching sun and wind and sand, and finally approached Karnak in the afternoon. During this period, Dorothy kept controlling the eagle corpse to patrol the sky, and from a bird's-eye view, she saw a vast desolate land of yellow sand.
Dorothy used several eagle corpses as the vanguard of her team to conduct reconnaissance in the area of more than ten kilometers ahead. When the eagle corpses flew to a distance of about thirty kilometers from Karnak, Dorothy found something wrong and immediately stopped the forward reconnaissance.
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