Trickster Hunter

Chapter 292 Black Armored Cavalry

Ye Jiu's heart skipped a beat.

Of course he knew how the previous owners of "Shafa" died.

The reason why the strange equipment "Shafa" is called Shafa is because this set of equipment contains an extremely strong desire for killing. Every time he puts on this armor and holds these two weapons, Ye Jiu can't help but feel the urge to kill all the living things he can see in front of him.

Especially when he puts on the mask, he even has a short feeling of "forgetting himself".

In that state, he is no longer Ye Jiu, the qualified person of the strange equipment "Shafa", but a member of the group of black armored cavalry who fought bloody battles more than a thousand years ago.

But the reason why Ye Jiu can become the best performer among the qualified people of "Shafa" is not because of the extremely high synchronization rate between him and "Shafa", but because he can always keep his original heart and not be controlled by the killing intent.

"Kill" The former qualified people, without exception, were gradually eroded by the desire for killing in battle after battle. The excitement of cutting flesh and breaking bones is as addictive as illegal drugs... Not only that, the golden ghost mask covering the face will continue to amplify this pleasure, making the qualified people of Killing indulge in it.

When the qualified people are completely reduced to puppets of Killing, it is the moment when Killing can exert its greatest power.

Strictly speaking, the qualified people cannot be regarded as the manipulators of Killing, nor can they be said to be the "living CPU" of Killing... but are closer to the effect of "limiter".

Use human will to counter the "instinct" of the strange equipment.

And the process of using this strange equipment is to unlock this limiter little by little, and use the ever-decreasing constraints to exchange for the powerful power of the strange equipment.

Experienced qualified people can grasp the "degree" of unlocking the restrictions - that is, to maximize the original power of the strange equipment without completely losing control.

But even the most experienced Qualified Person will have a day when he stumbles.

As the power of the strange equipment is released again and again, the threshold between control and loss of control will slowly slide to one side... and the Qualified Person's self-consciousness will be assimilated by the strange equipment little by little when he uses the power that does not belong to him again and again.

Ye Jiu has heard a saying that for most strange equipment, the Qualified Person can only be regarded as a "consumable".

But Ye Jiu is an outlier.

He summed up the various experiences and lessons of his predecessors, and then combined with his own experience, he came up with a way to suppress this erosion.

Compared with constantly hinting himself from things such as a sense of justice, responsibility, or patriotism, Ye Jiu found that it was the sand sculpture and abstract attitude towards life that could perfectly restrain the tempting desire to kill.

Ye Jiu was rarely affected by killing, and even when he just chopped off the two infected special agents like cutting melons and vegetables, he did not feel anything unusual.

Ye Jiu carefully read the files of the previous qualified candidates of "Shafa". According to their self-descriptions and psychological test reports, before they became puppets of "Shafa" or had to be relieved of their qualified candidates for various reasons, their thinking logic and psychological state would show obvious changes... and Ye Jiu would do similar tests not only once a week, but also before and after each mission, but he never detected any abnormalities.

"If so, why did this happen... Is this an illusion or something else?"

Ye Jiu held the reins tightly, puzzled.

At this moment, the row of black armored cavalry charging side by side in front suddenly dispersed, and the gap between each cavalry expanded from less than one meter to about five meters, and the width of the front end of the entire army suddenly extended four or five times.

"Spread? Why spread?" Ye Jiu was a little puzzled.

Although the combat record of the black armored cavalry is almost zero, there is no doubt that this is a standard heavy cavalry unit.

As a senior gamer, Ye Jiu has played at least 80 cold weapon war games, if not 100. At the same time, he has also read a lot of documents and military books describing cavalry battles. For the cavalry tactics of the cold weapon era, he is not an expert, but at least he can be regarded as a treasure.

The simplest and most effective tactic of heavy cavalry is to charge in groups, relying on their own weight and inertia after charging to tear open the enemy's army.

The tactics of the black armor cavalry in front of him are more like the spread of light cavalry, then encircling from the left and right, and then making a detour... But this tactic not only completely abandons the advantages of heavy cavalry's strong armor and sharp spears, but also actively exposes its own shortcomings such as poor endurance, inflexible turning, and a sharp drop in combat effectiveness after stalling to the enemy.

Could it be that... the general who commanded this black armor cavalry is a mediocre person?

What a joke? Emperor Zhenguan would let a mediocre person lead the black armor cavalry?

But soon, Ye Jiu understood the reason why the front row of black armor cavalry dispersed.

The black armored cavalrymen in the back row all raised the crossbows hanging on their saddles, and countless crossbow arrows were shot from the gaps between the front row cavalrymen, nailing the monsters that rushed to the ground... and the black armored cavalrymen in the back row were equipped with hard longbows that were taller than people. They did not shoot arrows horizontally, but projectiles. With the bowstrings constantly exploding like thunder, waves of arrows fell on the places where the monsters were most concentrated.

"Do the black armored cavalrymen still have such a strong long-range attack capability?" Ye Jiu was completely stunned - although the black armored cavalrymen a hundred years later would also be equipped with some crossbows, they were basically some palm-sized crossbows or short bows less than one meter long. This kind of weapon was okay for dealing with unarmored targets, but if the enemy was equipped with shields or armor, the lethality of this kind of weapon would be very limited.

But the strong bows and crossbows in the hands of the black armored cavalry can even directly shoot through the shields and plate armor of the heavy infantry. When facing these humanoid monsters that are only protected by leather armor and chain mail at most, shooting them is as easy as mowing the grass.

"Is it possible that the equipment of the later black armored cavalry is a castrated version?" Ye Jiu looked down at his saddle. Sure enough, on the right side of the saddle, there was also a strong crossbow hanging - the crossbow machine had been strung, and the heavy iron box stuck above the bow arm was filled with crossbow arrows forged with fine iron.

This is even a semi-automatic crossbow!

"Is this the long-lost Zhuge crossbow?" Ye Jiu took off the crossbow in surprise. He suddenly found that there was a safety similar to that of modern firearms on the side of the trigger!

"Oh my god..."

Ye Jiu opened the safety, held the crossbow horizontally on the horse's back, aimed at a monster nearly a hundred steps away, and quickly pulled the trigger.

A crossbow arrow whizzed out, instantly crossing the distance of nearly a hundred steps, and completely penetrated the body of the strange creature. At the same time, the next crossbow arrow in the iron box fell naturally and stuck in the firing slot of the crossbow machine. With a complex mechanical sound, the bowstring that bounced back to its original position was tightened again, ready for the next firing.

"This thing is as good as a gun!" Ye Jiu looked at the crossbow in his hand with some envy, "If only 'Shafa' also included such a crossbow..."

Unconsciously, Ye Jiu seemed to no longer worry about why he was thrown on this battlefield - in his opinion, this might be a test for himself from "Shafa", but he didn't quite understand how to pass this "test".

Not participating in the battle might be a wise choice, but for "Shafa", this is obviously not the right answer.

If Ye Jiu didn't kill a single monster, it would mean that he and "Shafa" were completely incompatible. From then on, the synchronization rate between the two might drop drastically...

And participating in the battle...Although the Black Armor Cavalry and the monsters had not yet fought each other, Ye Jiu could already see that this was an extremely tragic battle. If he wanted to survive in such a battle, he would not be able to survive without killing.

But if he really killed...

Wouldn't he become a puppet of the desire for killing?

Is this a trap?

"Shafa" saw that he had not fallen for so long, so he took the opportunity to set a trap for himself and forced himself to jump in?

Either give up "Shafa" or give up himself...Ye Jiu could only make one choice between the two.

"Damn, you don't have martial ethics." Ye Jiu patted the breastplate's heart mirror with some dissatisfaction, and the heart mirror immediately responded with a clanging sound.

"Then is there a third choice..." For some reason, Ye Jiu subconsciously thought of Sun Hang.

If Sun Hang stood in his current position, what choice would he make?

Ye Jiu suddenly found that he could not guess the answer at all.

Although he had been with Sun Hang for a long time and thought he knew him well... But after thinking carefully, he found that he was extremely unfamiliar with this person, and everything about him was so unpredictable... In other words, "that guy never plays by the rules."

But sometimes, just when you think he will not play by the rules, he just follows the rules and plays a pair of three.

"Damn, why do I think about that bastard at such a critical moment?" Ye Jiu shook his head vigorously.

He thought of the third option.

That is to stick to the clarity of his heart in the crazy killing.

"Can I do it...?" Ye Jiu glanced at the crossbow in his hand, and then looked at the large group of strange creatures less than thirty steps away from the front row of black armor cavalry, and couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.

However, the battlefield did not give him more time to think. The group of black-armored cavalrymen in the front row let out a series of whistles from under their masks. They threw iron chains to their comrades and used them to connect a whole row of war horses together.

These iron chains were hung with barbed caltrops, and when the black-armored cavalrymen in the front row crashed into the group of monsters, these iron chains also knocked down a large number of monsters that had nowhere to hide!

The second row of black-armored cavalry followed up immediately, and the iron hooves of the war horses instantly trampled the knocked-down monsters into meat paste, and those who escaped the net were finished off by the cavalry holding long halberds - the long halberds in their hands were wrapped in purple-black flames. After piercing through the bodies of the monsters, in just a few seconds, the flames of the same color that spread to the monsters would burn the monsters to ashes.

"Thousands of qualified people with strange equipment... Even in modern times, it is a very terrifying force." Ye Jiu lay on the horse's back and whispered to himself, "Why did Emperor Zhenguan form such a force... And where did their enemies come from... Could it be that as early as the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, there was a large-scale active period of monsters?"

The last time the monsters were active on a large scale, 99% of the countries in human civilization were destroyed, and only this ancient civilization on the Xiazhou continent survived... And in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Zhenguan suppressed a large active period of monsters with only a black-armored cavalry of thousands of people?

How could this be done with the level of technology at that time?

"No... it shouldn't be a global active period... maybe it's just local activity." Ye Jiu kept patching up his guesses, "Just like the Eternal Night, it has happened several times in history, but at that time the court chose to let the people in the affected areas fend for themselves, and rarely formed a special army to clear out the strange things that emerged in the Eternal Night area... Thinking about it this way, it seems to make sense."

An emperor like Emperor Zhenguan obviously couldn't tolerate the rampant strange things under his rule, so it was reasonable to form a black armor cavalry to deal with strange things at all costs.

The only thing that Ye Jiu couldn't understand was how the Black Armor Cavalry got so many strange equipment and then found so many qualified people? According to the research level of strange things in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, I'm afraid it's impossible to even measure the synchronization rate between strange equipment and qualified people?

"Wait... strange equipment? Mass production? Matching qualified people..." Ye Jiu couldn't help but open his eyes wide.

He thought of something.

The red square crystal that Sun Hang found in the underground palace.

According to Sun Hang, that thing can mass-produce artifact-like strange things, and can even tailor the adaptability of strange things according to the user's wishes... In other words, that thing can be used to mass-produce strange equipment and qualified people, so as to form an army composed entirely of qualified people?

So, Sun Hang's "mass production plan" that almost shocked himself... Emperor Zhenguan had already completed it more than a thousand years ago?

While thinking, the army formation of the Black Armor Cavalry had already collided with most of the strange things. Countless strange things were knocked away by the Black Armor Cavalry, which weighed nearly a thousand pounds, but at the same time, many Black Armor Cavalry were pulled off the horse's back by the strange things and were torn into pieces in an instant.

The charge did not stop, but the number of Black Armor Cavalry around Ye Jiu was constantly decreasing at a speed that could be observed by the naked eye.

The number of strange things is really too many...