756: Facing the Terrifying Hunting Chosen, Players Cried Out, "The Walking Treasure Vault Is Unbeatable!"

"Fuck! They actually pulled it off?"

The chaos at the gnoll encampment was quickly noticed by the scouts. At a fire-support platform on the outskirts of Shadowvale, Qin Ye hurried over with Five Pairs of Wheels and several young staff officers after receiving the news.

Using a scout mage's psychic spells and their own binoculars, they watched the smoke columns rising in the distance. Five Pairs of Wheels said in astonishment,

"We ran the numbers. There's no way they could've done it! How many sacrifices would it take to pull off something like that? Those newbies are probably all going to die in there, just for three supply depots."

"But they did it. Facts speak louder than words."

Old Qin grinned, lowered his binoculars, and turned to Five Pairs of Wheels.

"Now you know why the players called you cowards on the forums, right? A veteran talked to me about this earlier. He didn't spell it out, but now the facts have exposed the flaws in your planning.

"Don't let conventional thinking tie your hands. Players' lives are expendable. That means tactics that were unusable before are now viable options.

"I'm confident we can hold the Wilderness Mountain front for thirty days. It's not just because of this network of trenches we designed.

"It's people!

"Five Pairs of Wheels, what determines whether we can hold the line and win is always people!

"People are always the decisive factor in war.

"If the gnolls hadn't flipped the table and destroyed Blackflame Pass first, I'd have been confident we could've worn them down forever from those positions.

"You've performed flawlessly lately, but you could actually do even better.

"Take this into account, too.

"Be bolder at the tactical level!

"Don't hesitate to give impossible missions to our player brothers. They're not good