Chapter 850 Negotiation

In the next few days, Li Mu practiced and recovered at the temporary headquarters. The Xiaoqing Lake War was completely over. Armored troops, aerospace troops, mercenary troops and academic students all retreated to the temporary headquarters.

The temporary headquarters was temporarily transformed into an air and space army base. Under the emergency deployment of the First Monastic College in the mountain city, several large formations were set up in a few days, and the people of the mountain city also contributed and donated a number of souls. Many schools even spent their own capital to transport spiritual stones to the temporary headquarters.

But even so, too many spiritual stones were consumed to activate the Ten Directions Extermination Array last time. The spiritual stones transported this time were not even one-tenth of the last time. After discussion, the senior leaders of the temporary headquarters decided to directly build a few spiritual stones. This is a large attack formation, all defensive formations are cancelled, and offense is used instead of defense.

The coalition forces attacking Xiaoqing Lake suffered a lot of losses, and a lot of personnel and equipment were consumed. However, now that the strategic goal has been achieved, the diameter of Xiaoqing Lake is only about a hundred miles away. Not only can it not continue to expand, it has also shrunk by two hundred miles. , the dilemma of Qinghu Fortress was solved by half.

A large number of personnel and equipment gathered here at the temporary headquarters. Everyone was in a war-ready state. Main battle tanks were deployed separately. Many soldiers loaded various heavy armor-piercing bombs and high-explosive bombs into the tanks. Some people also conducted preliminary inspections on the tanks. Maintenance to ensure the tank is in optimal condition.

The heavy artillery troops deployed all kinds of artillery on the hills to increase the firepower range of the artillery, so that the farthest range of the artillery could even cover part of Xiaoqing Lake. Once a water monster was detected within the range, they would immediately cover and bombard it with artillery. .

Students from the monastic academy are responsible for deploying various formations, and soldiers and mercenaries are responsible for building temporary fortifications. The mountain city requires the temporary headquarters to build this place into a small fortress, which can threaten Xiao Qinghu and affect the battle of Qinghu Fortress. It can cover the evacuation of the active forces of Qinghu Fortress.

However, this is only the final plan to cover the evacuation of Qinghu Fortress. Unless Qinghu Fortress cannot be defended at all, this plan will never be activated.

The biggest strategic goal of the mountain city is to protect the Qinghu Fortress, and the Qinghu Water Monster must not be allowed to destroy the Qinghu Fortress.

In less than a week, more than 800,000 people of all kinds gathered in the mountain city, and Li Mu also met many old friends.

Some of them even include people from the Supreme God Sect who evacuated from the Qinghu Fortress. Some people from the Supreme God Sect were seriously injured in successive battles and temporarily lost their ability to fight. The medical conditions of the Qinghu Fortress are limited, and various All kinds of medical institutions are already overloaded due to successive wars.

The ability to treat seriously injured personnel was very limited. Qinghu Fortress took advantage of the beginning of the Xiaoqinghu battle and finally quietly transported out a group of seriously injured personnel, including some from the Supreme God Sect.

Li Mu went to visit them and learned that the situation in Qinghu Fortress was not very good and he could only continue to hold on. Then these people were sent to the mountain city.

Others including Lian Dieyi, Zhu Yihou, Yun Feiyang, Tao Yuewei and Luo Qingqing also came to the temporary headquarters. They were almost always operating together during this period, because Qinghu Fortress was now surrounded by the water demon army. It was not easy to get in and out, so no one entered the Qinghu Fortress.

Li Mu chatted with everyone about old times, because many people had tasks, so they quickly became busy.

Li Mu then went to visit Xiao Rongyu. Xiao Rongyu has now completely recovered. Since the end of the battle of Xiaoqing Lake, the current battle situation has begun to enter a stalemate.

Now the Qinghu Water Demon has suffered heavy losses, and the mountain city has also paid a huge price. From the beginning of the war to the present, the losses of the mountain city's soldiers, academic students, and other personnel have exceeded 600,000, including equipment, spiritual stones, and materials. The supplies are even more numerous.

It can be said that this battle has depleted the mountain city of a lot, and the losses in personnel and materials have been very heavy. Every additional day the war goes on, the pressure on the mountain city will be heavier, but this battle must be fought, The mountain city cannot afford to lose the Qinghu Fortress.

The price paid by the Qinghu water demons is equally huge. Even with the support of a large number of sea demons, the water demon army has now lost more than two million. On the Qinghu fortress battlefield and the east-west battlefield, the fallen demon fairy realm has also There are more than thirty, and the emperor-level demons are even more numerous.

This is simply a huge loss that the Qinghu Water Demon has never experienced. After the failure of the Little Qinghu battle plan led by Sea Princess, the Qinghu Water Demon is now somewhat unsustainable.

And now the water demon is facing more than just this situation. Just when Li Mu went to visit Xiao Rongyu, the Golden Toad King had already appeared at the junction of the east and west battlefields.

This place is in a mess, with all kinds of bones and remains scattered everywhere. If Xiangzu were here, he would find that this is the place where he met the Black Dragon Taoist before.

"Damn, what the hell is going on?"

The Golden Toad King landed in the dense forest and retrieved a skeleton. After careful analysis, it determined that this skeleton indeed belonged to the patrolling Yaksha leader.

The leader of the patrolling yaksha is a middle-level monster in the fairy world, not an ordinary monster in the lower-level monster world. He came from the sea with the sea princess. Unexpectedly, when he went out for patrol, he turned into this pile. Skeletons.

"Your Majesty, other places have also been discovered, and the other water monsters following the leader of the Yasha have all turned into bones!"

Soon, other monsters rushed over in fear and reported.

"Even the demon pill has been eaten. Damn it, there is an evil smell here!"

The Golden Toad King's heart tightened, and he quickly took these bones back to the Water Demon Camp and reported to the Sea Princess.

The Sea Princess looks like an ordinary human girl. There is not even the slightest trace of the demon clan on her body, and even the demonic aura is so weak that it is difficult to detect.

King Jin Chan quickly reported what happened.

"This is not the first time this has happened. In recent months, a large number of water monster corpses have turned into withered bones and been eaten. Now the evil thing has begun to capture the living monster!"

The Golden Toad King said in shock.

"In the last battle in Qinghu, an evil thing appeared to devour the corpses. However, the evil thing did not dare to show its face at that time, so we let it go. Unexpectedly, this time it actually started to directly hunt the living monsters. A large number of people in the Qinghu area It appears when there is a battle, and its strength increases so fast that it can make the big leader of the Yasha be swallowed up without any resistance. I am afraid that he is at least a half-step warrior in the Martial Saint Realm!"

The sea princess also had a solemn expression on her face.

"This evil thing feeds on a large number of water demon corpses. The more we fight, the happier it becomes and the faster its strength increases!" King Golden Toad said worriedly.

The battle for Qinghu Fortress has been going on for several months now. In these few months, the Qinghu Water Demon has suffered heavy losses. Not only the ordinary elite demon soldiers and water demons have suffered heavy losses, but even the top management of the water demons have suffered heavy losses. A huge loss, and now the water demon is already somewhat unsustainable with its current offensive.

Even if the Qinghu Fortress is forcibly broken, the water demon may not be able to bear the price paid. Therefore, the senior management of the water demon has begun to think of retreating, but it is obviously not possible to retreat casually.

But now something like this has happened again. In addition to the Qinghu Water Demon and the Mountain City Alliance military, other forces have appeared, which quickly complicates the situation.

"This matter must be discussed carefully!"

The sea princess immediately made a decision.

At the same time, on the other side, students from the Mountain City Academy discovered more than one cemetery of corpses.

"Teacher, this is a bone cemetery we found just over a hundred miles away from the temporary headquarters. It is almost full of water demon skeletons, as well as a small number of human skeletons!"

Some students submitted the footage they took directly to the temporary headquarters. Once the footage was opened, the densely packed skeletons inside made all the teachers and top brass of the Air Force change their expressions.

"Why are there so many bones? Are they leftovers eaten by monsters?"

A senior member of the Air Force asked with a solemn expression.

Water monsters are different from humans. Human beings cannot say that their companions died in the battle, and others ate their companions as military rations. But monster beasts are different. Monster beasts have no military rations at all. Once the war starts, humans will die. They eat dead bodies, and they also eat the dead bodies of other monsters.

So even if these skeleton graveyards appear, the first reaction of the top brass of the Air Force is that they were eaten by other water monsters.

"No, it doesn't look like it was eaten by other water monsters!"

It happened that Li Mu was also at Xiao Rongyu's place. After getting the news, Li Mu also went to attend the meeting. Since he had a special status, no one objected.

"How can you be so sure?"

Mo Rulong turned to look at Li Mu and asked.

Mo Rulong had one of his arms bitten off in the battle between the death squads, and now he is a one-armed general. Originally, Shancheng wanted him to return and install a suitable magic arm in the mountain fortress, but Mo Rulong felt that the war was now critical, so he did not He returned to the mountain city to recover from his injuries, and continued to fight at the temporary headquarters.

"Because they are too clean. These skeletons are too clean. There is no muscle left at all. If one or two corpses are like this, it is still possible. If all the corpses are like this, then it is impossible!"

Li Mu said in a deep voice.

"That's right. It should indeed be the case. There is something wrong with these skeletons. Let's go check it out on the spot!"

Mo Rulong made a quick decision and immediately turned around to check the nearest corpse cemetery.

"Sure enough, they were eaten very cleanly, and there are no teeth marks or signs of gnawing on the bones. This is not right, they were not eaten!"

Mo Rulong said.

There was also a teacher who sniffed the corpse cemetery vigorously, his expression condensed, and he said nervously, "No, there is an evil atmosphere in this corpse cemetery!"

"Something evil has appeared!"

As soon as he said this, everyone's expressions became solemn, but any evil thing is difficult to deal with, especially this evil thing is obviously unusual. After all, no less than five places have been found in this skeleton cemetery alone, which shows that There must be something powerful and evil appearing.

Now there are uncontrollable changes on the battlefield, which is a situation that no one wants to happen.

"Immediately report this matter to the top of the mountain city. All teams will strategically shrink. Notify Qinghu Fortress that all patrol teams are not allowed to act without authorization. Increase vigilance, change patrol strategies, and require every patrol team and investigation team to conduct inspections every hour. Regardless of whether there is a situation or not, the situation must be reported to the headquarters!"

Mo Rulong immediately ordered.

"yes!"

Mo Rulong's order was immediately passed on, and then three aerospace warships even took off directly into the air and began to serve as the second guard. These aerospace warships did not fly high, only one or two hundred meters above the ground. They were huge. Under the searchlights, there were at least ten large searchlights on a ship.

The temporary headquarters raised the level of alert, and the water demons on the other side of Xiaoqing Lake also strangely retreated directly, shrinking back into Xiaoqing Lake.

Even at Qinghu Fortress, there was a strange cessation of fighting. For three days, there was no battle outside Qinghu Fortress, whether it was a large-scale battle or a small-scale battle.

From the beginning of the Qinghu War to now, this has never happened before.

Three days later, a fish spirit holding a white flag entered the temporary headquarters in full view of everyone. An hour later, the fish spirit returned. Half a day later, through satellite phone communication, an Aerospace Forces transport ship came from the temporary headquarters. The headquarters took off and flew into the depths of Xiaoqing Lake.

Deep in Xiaoqing Lake, the transport ship picked up a group of water demon envoys and returned directly to the mountain city. The water demon envoys were very mysterious, but the leader was the powerful Turtle Prime Minister of the Qinghu Dragon Palace.

Two days later, the water demon envoy's team returned, and the top management of the temporary headquarters also received the news.

"The Green Lake Water Demon wants a truce and peace talks!"

"Peace talks? We lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers, millions of other survivors, lost four free cities, the Air and Space Force base was also destroyed, other large and small survivor forces, and survivor bases suffered countless losses Count, and other kinds of materials are huge, and now the water demon wants to negotiate peace?"

A senior command official said angrily.

There were not many high-level officials attending the meeting. There were no more than five people in total. One was an academic representative, one was a representative of the Air Force, one was a representative of the armored forces, another was a mercenary representative, and the other was a representative from the mountain city. .

"Indeed, this battle was devastated. Too many people died, too many things were lost, and the consumption of manpower and material resources was sky-high. But now the situation is stronger than the people, and the situation in the mountain city is also very bad. The three-month war has almost cost us money. Once the strategic reserves of the mountain city are emptied, once the strategic reserves continue to decline, the entire mountain city will be in danger!"

"In addition, there are uncontrollable factors on the battlefield. After urgent discussions, the Mountain City Alliance military is also inclined to peace talks!"

The person sent by Shancheng said.

"We dare not say that we will win this battle for sure, but the chance of victory is not small. If we suddenly stop fighting and talk about peace talks with the water monster, I am afraid it will not be easy to explain to the soldiers!"

Mo Rulong frowned and said.

"This battle has been going on so far. Neither we nor the water demon can fight. The losses are too great. However, no one will accept the withdrawal of troops if they are told to withdraw. Therefore, the Qinghu water demon proposed to send representatives to play four games with us. These four Shancheng cannot send any more people to the game, and the top management of the academy cannot leave the game. At the same time, the Water Demon guarantees that the Four Hegemons of Qinghu will not leave the game in person!"

"If the water monsters lose, they will withdraw unconditionally and will compensate for the war losses in the mountain city. They will compensate for all losses. But if we lose, they will not want the Qinghu Fortress, but they will want us to give up the control of the four free cities in the Qinghu waters. We also guarantee that no members of the Alliance military will be allowed to set foot west of Qinghu Fortress within ten years!"

The representative sent by the mountain fortress said solemnly.