On a tall big tree.
Cong Wuyang slowly opened his eyes, feeling some soreness and discomfort caused by his bad sleeping posture.
"Another brand new day!" He clenched his fists and cheered himself on.
As for why he woke up on a big tree? Because he had also joined the time-traveling army.
It was all because he had stayed up late for three consecutive days playing Mount & Blade before, and he was even using a cheat engine!
Finally, after three days, he unified the continent. In a fit of excitement, his head became congested, and he time-traveled without knowing how.
He was still a child who was 6 years and 200 months old! And just like that, he came to this world!
But with a good attitude, he thought to himself: This is much better than those time-traveler predecessors who were hit by a cement truck.
Perhaps it was the necessary benefit that all time-travelers had. After he time-traveled, this body of his was full of strength.
Although his appearance was still his own, his body seemed to be the one whose attributes he had modified in Mount & Blade II.
He had reached the peak of knowledge in various types of long poles, two-handed weapons, one-handed weapons, running, and riding skills. Moreover, he also had equally proficient knowledge in various fields such as medicine, engineering, leadership, and trading.
(PS: After all, he had modified it. His vitality, control, agility, endurance, etc. were all at 10 points, and all kinds of skills were at the full value of 330 points. He could literally kill a miscellaneous soldier with one strike!)
Except for the bandit outfit he was wearing after time-traveling: a tattered linen top, shorts, and a pair of gaiter cloth shoes, everything else was not too bad.
Not too bad my ass!!! He had already been walking on this road for two days. Not to mention people, even animals were rare! If it weren't for the obvious traces of the road, he would have thought he had time-traveled to a primitive planet.
...
Fortunately, the cheat engine had also come along and turned into an auxiliary system, although it wasn't very intelligent.
It also had very few functions, only a few parts:
1. The modified infinite carrying capacity had become a space of 1 cubic meter. There were also modified dinars inside that could be taken out with his thoughts.
2. He could recruit the aborigines of this continent as soldiers. Once they agreed to be recruited and were marked by the system, they would be given a mark, and their loyalty would always be at the maximum value, and their morale would always be at the maximum value. He could also upgrade the types of troops through the system, along with functions such as equipment upgrade, repair, and arrow replenishment.
3. The system map could display friend or foe within a radius of two kilometers. Friendly troops were shown as green dots, and those with hostility were shown as small red dots.
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According to the system's prompt, the name of this planet was Gaia. There was only one vast and boundless continent that stretched endlessly, and there were also lakes of various sizes on the land.
There was no magic here, no battle qi. There were only empires, kingdoms, and various lords and warlords of different sizes. War was the main theme here.
Death, violence, and the fierce battles of blood and fire were taking place every moment! Light and darkness interwove, wisdom and ignorance coexisted, and arrogance and prejudice were always present.
This was the worst of times, but also the best of times.
For Cong Wuyang, who usually liked war strategy games, had the Mount & Blade system, and whose physical fitness was at the full level! What could be more fascinating than this?
Of course,
There was still something not so good at the moment. The system actually didn't give him a general direction or orientation!
He could only randomly choose a direction from the place where he time-traveled and walked aimlessly along this road.
He had been eating wild fruits for two consecutive days, hadn't washed up, and the bandit outfit on his body was very uncomfortable and also poked him. He could still occasionally smell a faint stench, and the air around him seemed to turn green.
After getting up, he simply tidied up and continued to walk along the road that he had been on for two days.
Although the sun was scorching hot, fortunately, there were sparse shades of trees on both sides of the road, which were enough to block the sun. He continued to walk for about an hour or so. Anyway, he didn't know the exact time.
Suddenly,
Five or six small red dots appeared at the farthest end of the system's detection range. Although he didn't know whether they were people or animals.
But this still made Cong Wuyang overjoyed. Judging from the simple map displayed by the system, the other party appeared in the woods on both sides of the road, and several of them on each side were motionless. It seemed that they were not coming with good intentions.
But he didn't care that much. If he still couldn't get out of this damned forest, he would almost become a savage.
Even if the people there were a group of bandits, the worst thing that could happen was that he would be caught and taken away. Moreover, with his perfect physical fitness, it wasn't certain who would catch whom. If they were hostile animals, they would just be a nice addition to his meal!
He thought this in his heart, but he still had to be cautious where it was necessary.
He walked towards both sides of the road, searched around, and found a wooden stick about two meters long. It was somewhat like a birch tree, and it was quite straight. It was about the thickness of his wrist. He waved it a couple of times, and it made a whooshing sound. The feel was quite good, and it was more than enough for self-defense.
Then he pretended to walk aimlessly towards the location where the red dots were displayed, walking at a leisurely pace for a journey of ten to twenty minutes.
Soon after, he came not far from the location where the red dots were displayed.
In front of the road, four people rushed out from the bushes on both sides and blocked the small path. Two people also jumped out from behind to cut off the retreat. Because he had discovered them in advance from the system map, he wasn't scared.
They were all as thin as bamboo poles, and they were holding things like wooden sticks and machetes in their hands. They were wearing linen clothes just like him, and several of them had explosion-style mohawks. One of them who looked a bit more burly and seemed to be the leader of this group of people stepped forward and said:
"Surrender or die!"
...
Huh?? Why can I understand them?
So, no matter where it is in all the worlds, they all speak Mandarin? Cong Wuyang thought in his heart.
But he blurted out in a hurry, "Too... um... Hero, I surrender!"
"You'd better not have any other thoughts. The weapons in our hands aren't for show!" The bandit leader said and motioned for a bandit behind him to come forward and search Cong Wuyang.
Although he was complaining in his heart, "Just these small fry. If I didn't have something to ask you, I would have killed you long ago."
He endured the smell coming from the bandit behind him, which wasn't much better than his own smell, and the other person was actually groping around on his body!
"Boss, this poor guy has nothing on him. Even this stick is too wet to use for firewood," the person named Ergou said after finishing the search, reporting back to the bandit leader.
"Then tie him up first. Looking at his well-built muscles, we can probably sell him as a slave for a few dinars," the bandit leader said after staring at Cong Wuyang for a while.
Bang!
Cong Wuyang kicked the bandit behind him flying and shouted in a cold and stern voice:
"Wait a minute!"
"You're done. Now it's my turn to ask! Is there any town nearby? Which direction should I go?" Then he asked coldly.
"Huh? You actually dare to resist. Brothers, all of you, go up together and beat him to death!" When the bandit leader saw that he had kicked Ergou flying, his voice trembled slightly, and he shouted, then rushed towards him with a machete in his hand.
They really didn't take his astonishing 300 points in long-handled weapons and 10 points in vitality seriously!
Cong Wuyang thought in his heart.
He looked at them indifferently, and with a few strokes of his long stick, he knocked out some of the bandits and broke the legs of others.
Finally, he raised the stick and threw it towards the bandit leader who was trying to escape. The stick whooshed out and knocked the bandit leader, who was turning around to run away, to the ground.
He then slowly walked towards the bandit leader among a group of curled-up and wriggling figures like maggots, picked up the machete on the ground along the way. When he reached in front of the bandit leader, he patted the bandit leader's face with the blade and asked:
"Now can you tell me which direction the nearest town is?"
"Spare my life, sir. We surrender! Please spare us, sir," the bandit leader pleaded when he saw the situation was not good.
"Answer my question properly, and I'm willing to let you go," Cong Wuyang stared at his face and said expressionlessly.
Then he learned from the bandit leader that his name was Vigoro and he was a villager from a small village a few kilometers further west from here.
The village belonged to the territory of Viscount Charles, and Viscount Charles was a vassal of Duke Rovina. Duke Rovina was the monarch of the "Yavier Duchy" here. His real name was Rovina Yavier. Viscount Charles was granted the title of lord of "Dehar Castle" and the three attached villages by the duke.
This was the border area between the "Yavier Duchy" in the south of the continent and the "Manya Kingdom". To the north was the powerful "Jiede Empire". The Yavier Duchy and the Manya Kingdom were now allied together to resist the aggression of the "Jiede Empire".
Three months ago, the Jiede Empire increased its troops on the border with the two countries, and the lords of the two countries were scared out of their wits.
Later, on the side of the Yavier Duchy, under the conscription of Duke Rovina, Viscount Charles frantically increased the war tax in his territory, then gathered the soldiers and conscripted some farmers with pitchforks. In total, 1,500 people followed the duke and went north.
They had come here to be bandits because they really couldn't make a living anymore.
As for why they didn't go to the main road?
With just these few of them, they couldn't defeat the guards of those merchant caravans if they were to be bandits on the main road.
So they formed a group and came to this remote path to see if they could get lucky and rob some traveling merchants. But they didn't expect to meet Cong Wuyang, this human-shaped beast, and were given a good beating.
And the direction from which Cong Wuyang came was exactly the Manya Kingdom. The place where he time-traveled should be on the west side of the midline of the border between the two countries.
This was inferred from what Vigoro said, that it would take three sunsets, that is, three days, to reach a village in the Manya Kingdom if one walked from here towards the Manya Kingdom.
There were hardly any people around here. It was estimated that only a few traveling merchants would pass by in a month.
"Take me to your village first and see if I can have a normal meal. Otherwise, I'll kill you right here!" After listening to his answer, Cong Wuyang, who had been wandering in the mountains and forests for two days and was almost bored to death, stood up and said to Vigoro.
"Yes, sir. You can follow us and walk a little further west to reach our village. But can you allow me to take my brothers with me?" Vigoro asked timidly.
In his heart, he thought that he couldn't beat the other party, and it seemed that he couldn't refuse. But judging from the fact that the other party hadn't killed them, he could only take him first and make further plans when they returned to the village.
"Let's go! Hurry up!!!" Cong Wuyang said, looking at him with a cold glint in his eyes.