Regarding the south of Gondor wasteland, Gao Wen has prepared many backup plans, backup plans for backup plans, and backup plans for backup plans. These plans are even more than that sometimes make Hetty and Rebecca feel completely unnecessary, but as long as he has the opportunity, he will continue to add "weight" to the direction of the wasteland.

The reason is that the first is the strong impression that Gao Wen Cecil left in his memory seven hundred years ago, which made Gao Wen maintain the highest degree of vigilance against the endless wandering monsters in the wasteland at any time. The second is that it is out of Gao Wen's own judgment that since the ancients in this world used a wall to lock a deadly natural disaster in a piece of wasteland, he felt that this matter was not very reliable. After all, countless experiences in his previous life told him that the disaster that was covered must be blown up, and the wall used to block monsters must be collapsed. Why is it for erecting a barrier like a world wonder on the border? Isn't that just to blow up a big shot when it is released?

So since the day he lifted the coffin, he has been preparing for the day when the wasteland walls were completely collapsed. Now, I can only say that this day has come after all.

He rubbed his eyebrows, raised his head from the documents on his desk, and his eyes slowly swept across the huge room. In the room were many senior officials of the Government Affairs Department, including Hetty, and many magic network terminals that were projecting holographic images. One by one, one real or one virtual figure gathered here, some were waiting for the update report, and some were waiting for the next order.

"At present, our soldiers have stabilized their defense line," Philip's figure floated in front of Gao Wen over a magic net terminal not far away. The background behind this young empire commander was a busy front line command post. "After the green forest barrier rose, the main force of the enemy's vanguard fell into the predatory area and was wiped out. We then used our superior firepower to cut off the distorted march route. The enemy's follow-up troops have temporarily retreated to the depths of the wasteland. We have taken the opportunity to push the main force into the wasteland and established several temporary strongholds in the south of the former site of the Magnificent Wall. Now we are waiting for the purification device to take effect and continue to send reconnaissance units to collect enemy movements."

Gao Wen nodded slightly, and his eyes turned to another holographic projection opposite, and a special figure was standing there quietly.

It was in the holographic projection of Belltila's direct connection through nerve conduction. She mimicked herself as if she was still a human being. The background behind her was half a Thorin tree standing on the plain bathed in the sun, and half a vast forest standing on the edge of the wasteland that was transformed into a green forest barrier. After noticing Gao Wen's sight, she immediately nodded and said, "I am in good condition here, and my distal limbs have survived smoothly. Now I am transforming the biomass I preyed during the day, which may take some time."

"Okay, don't worry about it. First of all, you must ensure that you can take root stably. Now there is an irreparable hole in the magnificent wall in the northern region. You are the most important barrier there." Gao Wen exclaimed and said extremely solemnly.

While saying this, he also sighed in his heart that his bold decision was really correct, and letting the Thorin tree spread towards the wasteland was probably the most successful of the many plans he set up.

This grand and adventurous plan cannot be achieved overnight. Belltila, far away in the Holy Spirit Plain, certainly could not transfer part of his limbs to the front line in the southern part of the Dark Mountains in an instant. The "Spread Plan" was originally launched a long time ago. He and Belltila discussed and decided secretly. They discussed the possibility of letting the Solin giant tree grow in one direction, and discussed many solutions to use synthetic brains to solve the difficulties in controlling the distal limbs of giant trees in this process and use biomass factories along the way to solve the nutritional deficiency of root systems in the "spreading period".

He used this as a trump card. Even in the empire, only the limited high-level and some executors who directly participated in the plan knew the existence of this plan. In the past year, Belltila's roots have been spreading deep in the earth without anyone knowing it. She spent more than half a year spreading from the eastern part of the Holy Spirit Plain to the southern part, and then from the southern part to the dark mountains. It took another two months to pass through the complex rock formations and underground caves of the dark mountains. The mountain was hollow, and then grew secretly in the plain area near the magnificent wall. Relying on the nutrition provided by the large number of biomass factories set up along the way, a huge "predation organ" was nurtured underground...

Of course, this huge "spread" is not completely unrecognizable. Although Belltila has made her roots move as much as possible in the depths of the earth, she still needs some "nodes" close to the surface to supplement nutrients or communicate with local operators responsible for cooperation. Therefore, in the past year, in Pompeii, Cecil, South Gate Fortress, and propulsion bases, some wonderful phenomena will be discovered from time to time.

These wonderful phenomena include, but are not limited to, extremely lush forests, lush vegetation in winter, and clean flowers blooming in polluted areas... These things can essentially be regarded as "debris" accidentally falling off by Belltila during its growth, and these "debris" that cannot be explained by common sense have left rumors in many places like urban legends and rural monsters...

Fortunately, the rumors are just rumors, and this secret plan has been implemented smoothly to this day. Unfortunately... Gao Wen did not intend to expose Belltila so soon. In his initial plan, Belltila will always be a "dark front" that spreads deep in the earth. While the local propulsion troops launched a frontal attack, she secretly spread underground. Until the army advanced to the depths of the wasteland and entered a critical point with the enemy's battle situation, the "living forest" would rush out of the ground and bloom inside the core area of ​​the wasteland, and give those who like to secretly make trouble a heavy blow to the face of the deceased.

Unfortunately, this is only something he imagined. Who could have expected that the magnificent wall would break a big hole in this critical moment?

"Sorry, Brother Gao Wen," probably noticed the change in expression on Gao Wen's face. Bell Tira suddenly said without waiting for Gao Wen to speak, "Crawling out of the ground is my action without authorization. I exposed your most important card."

"This is not your fault. If you wait for my order to act, the front line will probably have fallen, and even the Tifeng defense line next to you will have to be completely torn apart. It will be meaningless if we have any cards," Gao Wen waved his hand, "I gave you the authority to make your own decision in an emergency to deal with this sudden situation."

He paused and changed his subject: "The situation is already like this. We have to look forward to the current situation under the wasteland? Can you continue to advance?"

"It has begun to encounter resistance," Belltila said immediately, "Just as I expected, those cultists also rely on building neural and root networks underground to establish command systems. This is a unique technical means for the end of everything. Now they have realized my existence, and this root network... is entering an active defense state."

She narrowed her eyes slightly, as if she was sensing the state of certain nerve nodes in the distance. After a while, she opened her eyes and continued: "Now the enemy has concentrated the power of their root network towards the northern region. My roots have been stubbornly resisted during their growth. Now they can only break through directly, and it is unlikely to go around."

Gao Wen looked seriously at the former dark minister who was attacking the wasteland alone on the battlefield that was invisible to ordinary people: "Do you have the advantage at present?"

Speaking of this, a hint of pride suddenly appeared in Belltila's expression: "You can rest assured that although their root network is tenacious, it is definitely not my opponent. They never thought they would encounter an attack spreading underground, and I had prepared for it for a long time. But it took some time. I would first find the defects of their underground immune barrier..."

Listening to Belltila's description, Gao Wen couldn't help but imagine what it would be like. The roots of the giant Thorin tree continued to grow on the edge of the wasteland, attacking, and another hostile network of dark roots built a huge counter-wall. In the depths of soil and rocks that ordinary people cannot see, living roots entangled each other, attacking, using toxins and parasitic spores as weapons, underground caves and underground rivers as barriers to camps, day and night, but silent...

This is a "fight" beyond the understanding of the world. I am afraid that even the most outstanding strategists in the world will not be able to find their own place in this battle. Even Gao Wen himself... can't make any suggestions at this moment.

"Be careful," he could only say, "Don't underestimate the enemy. Although your existence exceeded their expectations, the dark cultists also developed in the wasteland for many years, and no one knew what kind of traps they had set up in the depths of the old empire. Your attack on the ground was alone, and it was difficult for our ground troops to provide effective support to you, so you must be extra cautious when going deep into the enemy."

"Yes, I understand." Belltila said solemnly.

After a brief thought, Gao Wen spoke again: "Next, let's discuss the...discipline manifestations of those aberrant monsters during the attack."

"Yes, obvious discipline, the monsters have a command structure behind them," Belltila responded immediately, "In a brief contact with the enemy's vanguard... I mean, during the feeding process, I also touched the spiritual connection behind them. The monsters themselves have limited intelligence, but their spirits are connected together and are commanded by some more advanced nodes. I also recognized one of the most obvious nodes, whose name is Bertleme, and one of the heads of the wasteland branch of the Death Society of All Things..."

"It sounds like a spiritual command network architecture similar to the original Crystal Cluster Legion," Gao Wen touched his chin and said thoughtfully, "but the scale is larger and the efficiency is significantly higher. The original Crystal Cluster Legion did not have such an astonishing number, and there are not so many strange mutant individuals in the Crystal Cluster Legion..."

"We...the spiritual command technology we used at the beginning was in line with the branches of the wasteland," Belltila said in a strange tone, but soon continued with a normal expression. "It comes from the Eternal Sleeper, and part of it belongs to the neural impulse technology of the Dark Druid. It is obvious that the branch of the Death of All Things in the Wasteland did not share all the information with our fellow compatriots outside. They retained some of the key information and improved it over the years...and this improvement is likely to have been completed recently."

As soon as she finished speaking, Hedy, who was standing beside her, couldn't help but ask curiously: "It's only been completed recently? How did you judge this?"

"I briefly invaded Bethleme's spiritual world and he thought I was torturing his will at that time, and did not discover this invasion," explains Belltila. "During the invasion, I saw a part of the flow of consciousness in their huge command system. Although I couldn't intervene at that time, I could still see that it was something that had just been born and was still growing slowly and improving."

After hearing this, Hetty nodded slightly: "Yes, if those cultists had already established this system and successfully controlled the aberrants in the entire wasteland, they wouldn't have waited until now to act. There was such an army that they could sweep the world many years ago."

Gao Wen asked immediately: "This is an important intelligence, is there any loopholes in their command system that can be exploited?"

"It's hard to say, I need more information," Belltila shook her head. "It's better to capture a few advanced nodes for me to taste... Let me analyze it, maybe I can find ways to further invade or destroy that command system from their now mutated nervous system."

"... As the situation develops, we will find opportunities," Gao Wen nodded slightly, then looked at Belltila with a strange expression, "But then, you are in a hurry this time... Is it really okay to eat a lot of monsters that ran out of the wasteland?"

"...Frankly speaking, it's not delicious, not even as good as the stones in the dark mountains," Belltila's expression became even more strange than Gao Wen, "but there was no other way at that time. Those monsters were dirty and poisonous. I had to remove the remaining pollution after their death as soon as possible and throw them into the biomass splitting pool. The fastest and most effective method. But you don't have to worry about me, the dirty bodies of those monsters have been completely digested in the splitting pool. Their toxins can also be converted and absorbed to me, but..."

Bell Tira paused, as if trying to suppress his urge to vomit, and then continued after a while: "But... it's really unpalatable, it's really unpalatable, it's better to eat dirt."

The resentment between Belltila's words was as if it were substance, but everyone at the scene didn't know what expressions to do. This lady's life form and way of looking at the world have always been fresh and refined. Others had nowhere to start if they wanted to comfort or echo. As for Gao Wen... Gao Wen couldn't help but have a strange idea. He always felt that he would probably see a new book circulating in the empire soon. How to eat earth in the empire by Belltila's food encyclopedia...

Fortunately, he did not let this strange idea stay in his head for too long, because soon, an emergency information from the front line was sent to him.

The Sentinel Towers, which had been extinguished on the wasteland border for a time...reopened.
Chapter completed!