69novels #203 - Chapter 203 All Goats Withdrawn
#203 - Chapter 203 All Goats Withdrawn
A third-tier goat died inexplicably, frightening the surrounding third-tier goats into a hasty retreat, ignoring the attacks from the Tortoise Formation Masters.
Fortunately, there was a relatively large gathering of third-tier goats here, preventing the Tortoise Formation Masters from breaking through their defenses.
The goats retreated to a distance, activating more defensive items, and nervously watched the corpse, observing the surrounding situation.
However, there were no traces of any hidden enemies around.
At this moment, everyone noticed that the communication token on the corpse was emitting a faint, warm energy, indicating that other goats were trying to contact the deceased.
The goats didn't dare to approach and activate the communication token, only watching from afar.
However, not long after observing, another third-tier goat died, and immediately after, the communication token on its body also released warm energy.
The goats exchanged glances, and after a moment, one of the goats released energy, sending it into the communication token from a distance.
Immediately, an anxious shout came from inside the communication token:
"Leader, please return quickly! An unknown group of enemies has attacked the patrol and the outposts!"
After the voice came out, the third-tier goats looked at those whose territories were close to the deceased.
The goats who were being watched quickly defended themselves, saying, "I have not issued such an order."
"I also have not issued an order to attack."
"Even if we wanted to attack the surrounding neighbors, we couldn't possibly be standing in front of you."
The surrounding goats did not respond, but instead moved away from them, then took out their communication tokens and sent out commands to be careful of attacks.
Just then, a hole appeared in the chest of one of the suspected goats, and it instantly fell to the ground, dead.
The goats instantly panicked, as no one saw where the enemy was.
At this moment, the communication token of the corpse also emitted warm energy.
A goat who was also suspected quickly activated the communication token, and an anxious shout instantly came from inside: "Leader, our outposts have been attacked by unknown forces!"
The suspected goat hurriedly said, "My territory is not adjacent to his, it is impossible for my subordinates to have done this."
The goat whose territory was adjacent to the deceased also quickly defended himself, saying, "I have been here all the time, with no time to send messages back;
So many places are being attacked in turn, I suspect that the goats who left organized a team and launched an attack while we were away."
As soon as this was said, the goats' expressions became serious.
Then, one of the goats activated the communication token of the goat who died first, and information about the outpost being destroyed was also transmitted.
A third-tier goat said with a serious expression, "If those goats who returned earlier launched the attack, how could they cross the plane channel to harm us? If they had this ability, they would have unified the entire plane long ago!"
Another goat said, "If we continue to stay here, we may not survive, and our territory will easily be lost. We should return…"
Before he could finish speaking, a hole appeared in this goat's chest, and it instantly fell to the ground, dead.
The goats were already accustomed to the inexplicable deaths of other goats, and were not panicked at all at this moment, continuing to communicate, "We should indeed retreat, what do you all think?"
Many goats nodded in agreement.
However, those goats who were closer to the plane channel said:
"If the ones attacking the tribe are not those goats who returned earlier, they should be setting up defenses at this moment;
If we go back now, the Tortoise Formation Masters will definitely take advantage of the situation, and it will be troublesome to defend then!"
At this time, a goat who was farther away from the plane channel reminded, "If those who went back earlier did not set up defenses, the later everyone returns, the greater the losses!"
As soon as this was said, all the goats were instantly persuaded.
Many goats took out various items and integrated them into the defense line, replacing the second-tier goats who were providing energy at the corners of the defense line with the items.
Then, a group of goats quickly left the Tortoise Plane and returned to the Goat Plane.
As soon as they returned, the goats saw the defensive formations set up around them.
Some third-tier goats whose territories were closer to the plane channel felt a little regret in their hearts upon seeing this situation.
If they had known this, they would have persisted a little longer before, so that the returning goats could set up more formations. Now, it is unknown how long these formations can last.
However, the goats far away from the plane channel did not care about the defensive formations. They were more concerned about the mysterious forces that attacked the outposts and patrol teams, and even more concerned about their means of eliminating third-tier goats.
After everyone continued to move forward for a while, they soon discovered that the number of defensive formations had decreased, and found that the goats who had returned earlier had disappeared.
At this moment, everyone could be sure that the ones who attacked the outposts were those goats who had returned earlier.
The third-tier goats who were closer to the plane channel immediately accelerated, leaving the other goats behind, and returned to set up defenses.
An older third-tier goat traveled all the way forward, passing through a large area without any defense, and finally, before returning home, discovered a territory with a relatively large number of outposts.
The older goat remembered that when the goats who returned earliest gathered together, the goats from this place also ran back, as if they were guarding against the gathered goats from escaping.
Unfortunately, after guarding for most of the day, they still failed to prevent them from running away.
While the older goat was thinking, the local third-tier goat appeared here and asked, "Why have you returned, sir? Has the defense line been broken through?"
The older goat replied, "They are about to break through the defense line. How is your setup here?"
"It's almost set up." The local goat perfunctorily replied, and continued to ask, "How is the defense line on the plane channel side?"
The older goat immediately praised, "The defensive formations there are set up very well, and they are currently doing activation tests, so don't go over there and cause them trouble."
The older goat needed a 'shield' and could not reveal the secret of the goats' escape, otherwise the third-tier goat in front of him might also escape.
The local goat was unaware of the deception and looked happy.
Then, the local goat said, "The tribe closer to the plane channel in front of me has been quiet all the time. Are they still near the outer channel?"
The local goat had previously paid resources to hire the tribe in front to come back and act as a 'shield' for himself, but now that tribe's goats had not returned, which made the local goat a little worried.
The older goat had experienced more things and immediately guessed the local goat's thoughts.
Then, the older goat looked around and whispered a reminder, "After we returned, we left some things there, they can forget about returning to their territory and can only fight the Tortoise Formation Masters to the end."
The local goat didn't know whether to be happy or sad after hearing this.
What was happy was that those goats would fight to the last moment. The longer they resisted, the more power the plane will would bestow upon the other goats, and the safer everyone would be.
What was sad was that he had lost a 'shield', and after the Tortoise Formation Masters eliminated them, they might choose his territory as the direction of attack.