85: Chapter 85 Chu Shen's Strategy [Thunderhorn Lizardman Tribe]: Formulaic Strategy!

"The team must be equipped with at least two people who possess group defense skills. Those people from the Black Hole Council have the same descent time as us, but their descent points will overlap with ours. In other words, the very moment you land, they might be right beside you..."

"I've entered the secret realm for several consecutive rounds and interrogated a few captives. Although I didn't get the exact number of teams, but... the ones remaining right now definitely won't exceed three!"

"Inside the secret realm, choose to group up at the very first moment. If anyone has high-altitude reconnaissance items or skills, search the descent points of the entire secret realm immediately..."

"If any team encounters enemies, you can call for rescue immediately. My suggestion is to shoot into the sky, just like this..."

"Da! Da! Da-da-da!"

"..."

Chu Hong shared all his intelligence regarding this map without reservation.

He even unreservedly blurted out unorthodox tactics like "Speed-type Pioneers who don't fight at all and comfortably devour the entire core area."

Battalion Commander Sun, Director Huang Miao, and the surrounding Pioneers looked at Chu Hong with gazes that had completely changed.

It was as if they were looking at a madman, but at the same time, it was also as if they were looking at a deity!

Is this person really this year's rookie Pioneer?

His familiarity with this secret realm had actually reached the point where he knew exactly where to throw a magnetic bomb to draw away the attention of specific Lizardman Warriors.

There was also things like assault-type injury-free cliff jumping...

"All in all, the possibility of encountering the Black Hole Council exists, but it is definitely not as high as everyone imagines!"

"According to what I've said, abandon those low-level containers, enter the secret realm at the fastest speed and highest frequency, surround and kill the boss, and then evacuate the secret realm. This is your action objective!"

"Do you understand?"

Chu Hong hadn't even realized it, but at this moment, he actually possessed an inexplicable aura of leadership about him.

Clearly, for the vast majority of the people present, he didn't even know their names.

But as his shout fell—

Everyone involuntarily straightened up with solemn expressions.

"Understood!!!"

...

Candlelight flickered, and the atmosphere in front of the fireplace was depressed to the extreme.

At this moment.

All members of the Vulture Team and Snow Wolf Team looked with gloomy and panicked faces at the long dining table in front of them.

The seats where originally only the Black Bug Team was absent now had a dozen more empty spaces.

What made everyone present tremble even more was—

The dinner plates in front of these people's positions were also all shattered.

"How could this be... It's merely an ordinary-grade secret realm! The Iron Axe Team, Black Cat Team, and Iron Fist Team—not a single one of them actually came back..."

The captain of the Snow Wolf Team had a face so gloomy it seemed like water could drip from it.

However, a sentence from the captain of the Vulture Team instantly shocked him and pulled him out of this impotent rage.

"There are less than three hours left until midnight when the President returns!"

In everyone's eyes, a flash of fear of death instantly crossed.

No!

If they enraged that Lord President, their fate would be even more terrifying than death!

"Everyone! Never mind anything else, speed up! You must shatter the [Thunder-Horned Lizardman Tribe] secret realm before Lord President returns!"

"Everyone, bring your forbidden objects! Set out!"

...

"Engage, search, wrap it up and retreat!"

Chu Hong's voice seemed to still be echoing in their ears.

Gu Long was an ordinary Pioneer at only the fourth stage of the Qiyuan Realm, belonging to the Bronze 4-star Elk Team.

After a blank white expanse before his eyes, it instantly turned pitch black.

The moment he entered the secret realm.

Before his vision even recovered, Gu Long cast one of the few spells he mastered.

[Forest Magic: Wooden Shield Barrier]!

Thick wooden magic shields enveloped all members of the Elk Team a step ahead the moment their vision recovered.

"We didn't run into those madmen from the Black Hole Council!"

A teammate immediately reported the news, and someone in the team instantly pulled out a pistol and aimed it at the sky.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

After three shots.

Soon, from the direction of the river valley entrance and the southern cliff top, three more rhythmic "secret signals" that sounded like responses came over.

The nervous expressions of Gu Long and all members of the Elk Team instantly relaxed.

"Great, no people from the Black Hole Council barged in."

Following the relaxation came wild joy.

"Captain, we are right at position number one, the 'Mouse-Mouse-Gets-to-Eat' spot that Chu Hong mentioned. Let's go check it out quickly. Is there really a secret passage straight to the core area?"

Hearing this, everyone immediately took action.

The [Lizardman Captain Treasure Chest] on the southern cliff top outpost, which had been their primary target prior to this, was directly ignored by them this time.

In Chu Hong's words—

"Don't lose the whole melon field for a single sesame seed!"

"It's a big rock! There really is a big rock!"

"Quick! Quickly blow it open!"

As the captain of the Elk Team let out a roar, a fierce source energy condensed on his massive fist.

It was a martial arts-faction skill.

[Mountain-Shattering Fist]

"Boom!"

The giant boulder was blasted apart, and then it revealed the narrow secret passage entrance below, which allowed one to see the treasure chest, [kasar secret treasure], at a glance.

"Holy shit! It's true! It's real! Chu Hong really didn't lie! Oh my god, there really is a high-value container here that no one knew about! And it's even a secret passage!"

"This... this is too absurd. Just how did Chu Hong know? Could it be that he searched the entire map meter by meter? Not even the people from the Records Department of the Pioneers Guild back then were as exaggerated as him, right?"

"What Chu Hong? This is God Chu! Do you understand, God Chu?! To resolve this base city crisis, he spilled such precious intelligence. Without exaggeration, based solely on this intelligence, he could completely build a large squad equivalent to the Rose Squad!"

...

"Bang! Bang! Bang-bang-bang!"

The magic barrier emitted a violent commotion, as if something was hitting it fiercely.

It shook their minds and souls.

At the same time, it made the Huangshan Base City Secret Realm Guard Team No. 113 Squad, led by Sun Liang, react immediately.

"An attack! We've been attacked! It's those madmen from the Black Hole Council!"

Sun Liang didn't even clearly see how many people were attacking them or what information there was.

Without any hesitation, he raised his gun and shot into the sky.

The five members of the Night Crow Society's Snow Wolf Team were very dumbfounded.

People in their line of work—

launching large-scale skills directly and without hesitation at the surroundings the moment they land—that was simply written in textbooks.

After all,

Pioneers Source Energy Middle School taught students to choose defense and observe the surroundings at the very first moment of descending into a secret realm.

Although there was the intention of guarding against them,

but... where was the logic of being on a thousand-year defense against thieves?

Starting off dogmatic and reciting things mechanically according to the procedures taught in school, after entering a secret realm a few times, almost all rookie Pioneers would abandon this habit of wasting source energy right at the start.

But those people from the Black Hole Council wouldn't!

Did they not even know when they themselves would launch an attack?

"Boom!"

A descending icicle magic spell was defended against by Sun Liang and the others at the very first moment.

Afterwards, the Snow Wolf Team, having lost the advantage of the initiative, was met with the frantic counterattack of all members of Sun Liang's group.

"Da-da-da!"

Meanwhile, atop the southern and northern cliff tops,

the Huangshan Base City Pioneers who received the "secret signal" instantly abandoned their respective original routes, just like a pack of wolves receiving the signal of the wolf king.

At the very first moment, they directly chose to rappel down the cliff.

One second into the start, the Snow Wolf Team fell into an oppressive passive state!

One minute into the start.

The three squads of Huangshan Base City completed their rendezvous.

At this moment, all members of the Snow Wolf Team were dumbfounded.

15 vs 5?!

They weren't dreaming, were they?