Chapter 183: The Plan of the Wights
"Gargoyles... forget it, ghost troops fly over and assault that castle."
Upon realizing the castle might be an illusion, Gu Xi quickly made a decision.
Regardless, he had to test the situation.
Under Gu Xi's command, all his ghosts flew out.
Compared to the gargoyles, the ghosts did not fly as high, nor were they particularly fast.
As they flew over the wight troops, Gu Xi noticed another anomaly.
Some soldiers in the wight troops did not look up at the ghosts in the sky.
If this were an undead army, it would make sense for them not to be affected by enemies flying overhead.
But with such an obviously chaotic wight army, Gu Xi even saw some wights fighting amongst themselves, and they did not react to the ghosts flying overhead.
This abnormal situation made Gu Xi uneasy.
Could it be that the wight troops in front of him were also an illusion?
While Gu Xi was speculating, the ghosts had already reached the castle.
The ghosts rushed into the castle head-on.
What Gu Xi imagined did not happen next.
The castle did not disappear because the ghosts dispelled the illusion, nor did it retaliate against the ghosts' attack.
It was as if the ghosts and the castle were in different worlds.
The ghosts simply passed through the castle.
Seeing all this, Gu Xi's mind began to turn rapidly.
He kept recalling some knowledge he had, trying to figure out what was going on.
At this moment, the wights at the forefront had already approached the undead scourge formation, and Gu Xi's frontmost skeleton soldiers were about to engage them.
But just then, something strange happened again.
The skeleton soldiers, like the ghosts, rushed into the wight troops but seemed to be in different worlds and could not interact with the enemy.
Seeing the wights continuing to move forward, ignoring his undead troops, a thought flashed through Gu Xi's mind.
Mirror movement?
Gu Xi suddenly thought of Luna's best skill.
She usually moved freely in Aridowei City using this method.
Although she normally floated, when she wanted to move quickly, her body would gradually become ethereal, and a new body would appear in another location.
The actions of the wights before him were very similar to this method.
After all, a castle this large moving silently was impossible.
Thinking of this, Gu Xi quickly observed the wights closely.
This time, Gu Xi focused on the wights.
He noticed that while the wights appeared to be moving forward, their feet were not moving.
Gu Xi had not considered this possibility before, so he had not noticed this detail.
Now the situation was different.
If this was indeed some kind of mirror movement, everything would make sense.
So where were the real enemies?
At this moment, the wight troops had reached the gate.
Because they were now only phantoms, Gu Xi's undead could not stop them.
Meanwhile, the castle was slowly moving to the edge of the undead scourge formation.
Gu Xi suddenly had a thought and realized the enemy's plan.
They intended to use the castle to occupy the node of the undead scourge formation.
The node Gu Xi was guarding was one of the most important and difficult of the hundred external nodes.
Other nodes had been attacked by troops, but most of the time, the wights were suppressed outside this node.
Their initial plan could not work at Gu Xi's node.
So they had to use some tricks.
A huge castle did not need to fully suppress the node; it only needed to touch the edge of the undead scourge formation to control everything.
As for why they didn't place the castle directly in the center of the node?
Gu Xi glanced at the gate and suddenly laughed.
He had figured out the last piece of the puzzle.
The enemy's castle could not be placed directly on the node because Gu Xi's gate occupied that position.
A position already occupied by a structure cannot accommodate another castle, so the castle had to move slightly outward.
Just to touch the edge of the undead scourge formation.
Although he didn't understand the principle behind this.
Gu Xi found the breaking point from this detail.
Wasn't it that my gate was blocking your castle's placement?
Then I'll place another structure at the position where you're about to set down.
If Gu Xi's city of death had not reached level 5 before, he would not have been able to do this.
Now it was different. Gu Xi had a means to construct buildings in the wild.
Gu Xi had been considering placing the farmer's hut after the war to convert it into a usable structure for the undead.
Now he couldn't worry about anything else. Commanding the skeletons to carry the hut's pack, Gu Xi personally jumped onto the evil coffin and rushed to the edge of the undead scourge formation.
By now, the castle was almost in place.
Gu Xi could see that those pushing the castle had noticed his actions.
They had accelerated their pace.
Gu Xi knew time was running out.
So he ignored the wights around him and rushed to the edge of the undead scourge formation.
The skeleton soldiers moved quickly too, and as Gu Xi arrived, the hut's pack was already there.
Gu Xi wasn't sure of the enemy's final position, so he moved forward a little more with the skeleton soldiers.
He stopped about 700 meters from the undead scourge formation.
Gu Xi could see the castle gate bearing down on him.
"Deploy the farmer's hut!"
Under Gu Xi's command, the skeleton soldiers set the hut's pack on the ground.
Then Gu Xi tapped the pack with the cold wind staff, activating it.
After doing this, Gu Xi slapped the evil coffin and shouted.
"Run!"
The skeleton soldiers carrying the hut's pack ran back the way they came.
But they weren't as fast as the pack unfolding. Several skeleton soldiers were knocked away by the walls.
A farm-like structure appeared on the ground.
There was a stone hut, a pen with black-faced sheep, fields of crimson wheat, and a matching waterwheel.
Some skeleton soldiers were almost buried in the soil and struggled to get up.
Gu Xi ignored the notifications in his ears. He had one thought: get back to the undead scourge formation.