Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors

Chapter 344: When Empty Show Solidity; When Solid Show Emptiness


At the same time, within the city fortress of the Reorderers.

Inside the City Lord Mansion, Chu Ge and a few other players were discussing countermeasures.

Up until now, there had been some casualties on both the wilderness battlefield and the Anshi City battlefield. These players, having returned to the Reorderers' city fortress, did not go back to their original battlefields. Instead, they quickly gathered to prepare for the impending battle against the demon soldiers within the fortress.

At this moment, Chu Ge was seriously planning the strategy for the entire battle.

In front of Beichen, there was a huge battlefield sand table, showing everything from the Reorderers' fortress located in Liaoze to Anshi City in the front and then to the wilderness battlefield—it was all clearly displayed on the sand table.

But looking at the distribution of the demon soldiers on the map, the players' faces showed grave expressions.

It was evident that the demon soldiers had far greater strength than the Reorderers.

Of course, the strategy for the entire battlefield wasn't decided just by these few people present. Although Zhao Haiping and others were also on the frontlines participating in the battle, they were involved in the discussion through the internal chat channel of the player team.

Chu Ge gazed at the sand table, his eyebrows tightly knitted.

He looked at Beichen in front of him, "With the current situation, I'm afraid that in at least two of the three battlefields, we need to use some unexpected strategies to have a possibility of victory."

At that moment, Meng Yuan, multitasking as he controlled Beichen, nodded slightly, "Hmm."

Chu Ge felt somewhat helpless. Hmm, what hmm! I'm asking for your opinion here!

As an NPC, if you're not offering strategy that's one thing, but as a player proposing a tactic, you should at least give some hint, right?

But obviously, he did not know that Meng Yuan, who was playing Beichen, did not have a script in hand at all.

Taking the players directly to a historical snippet of the Liang Dynasty was also a risky move, betting on the players coming up with solutions even in this headwind situation.

Now you're asking for my opinion, you're obviously out of your mind...

Chu Ge probed a bit, but seeing that Beichen was indifferent, he also had to give up his illusions.

Better to stick resolutely to his own plan.

"Based on the intelligence we've obtained, the three major demons are Feilian, Gonggong, and Kua Fu.

"If we rely on brute strength to go head-to-head, we are almost certain to lose.

"So, we need to come up with a way to exploit their weaknesses and defeat them one by one."

After saying this, he glanced at Beichen.

And Beichen just had that "keep talking, I'm listening" look about him.

He showed no intention whatsoever of offering any strategies.

The other players present also nodded in agreement, "Hmm, but how do we defeat them one by one specifically?"

Chu Ge continued, "Military tactics say, if the enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. We need to keep the demons guessing about our next move, and the odds of winning will be great."

Saying so, he pointed at Anshi City.

"I believe the breakthrough point lies in Anshi City!"

Seeing the other players looking somewhat puzzled, he continued to explain: "It's very difficult to use schemes against Gonggong and Kua Fu, the two major demons.

"The former is stubborn, and the latter has incredible endurance. Though it's possible to trick them, it would only result in minor losses for them and would be hard to achieve any decisive outcome.

"But Feilian is different.

"Feilian is suspicious by nature and very good at preserving its own life. This kind of temperament is best dealt with by a strategy of deception, that is... finding a way to scare it away!"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

That really made sense!

Against a stubborn demon, at best, you could waste some of its strength through some deceptive tactics, but making it tuck its tail and run was almost impossible.

Take Xingtian, for example, who, seeing that the situation was unfavorable, actually chose to stay and fight to the death.

These major demons, when players had the upper hand, were like delivering vegetables—easy to defeat. But when players were at a disadvantage, they became quite tricky.

Because even if some tricks were used to deplete their strength, the overall balance of power between the two sides would not change much.

Feilian was different.

Among the major demons, it was the most suspicious and fond of staying alive. Such a nature was suitable for a strategy of deception.

If there was a way to scare Feilian into retreating, to make it flee the battlefield in order to preserve its strength, then the pressure on the players would decrease sharply.

But the question was, how could they scare Feilian away?

Though Feilian was suspicious and cowardly, it was not stupid. Given the current situation, the demons were almost entirely dominant. How could they convince it that it must flee?

The players quickly posed this question to Chu Ge.

Chu Ge responded with confidence, "It's quite simple. We do the exact opposite of our previous strategy!

"When we used the strategy of magnification before, both Xingtian and Feilian repeatedly mistook Zhao Haiping and me for the incarnation of Beichen, nearly at any cost using a lot of Demonic Qi in their attempts to eliminate us.

"But in the end, they found all of their Demonic Qi had been wasted.

"So, this time we'll select another person, disguise him as the incarnation of Beichen, and have him take the initiative to attack Anshi City!

"Not only do we need to make this person larger to create pressure on Feilian, but we also have to pretend that we're concentrating our superior forces to fight it to the death. Make it believe our attitude is: even if we lose this great battle, we must kill it!

"In this way, Feilian might possibly flee."

The other players nodded, "Hmm... It sounds quite feasible! But, what if Feilian really concentrates its Demonic Qi and goes all out against this player?"

Chu Ge chuckled, "That's not very likely. And besides, even if it does strike with lethal force, what does it matter? Players can be resurrected. Although we lose some Reorderer force, this is a gamble in itself."

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