Chapter 608: The Electricity Stealing Four (Part 2)

Whether the efficiency of energy acquisition is high or not can be compared to oil.

The global daily oil production is calculated in 10,000 barrels. The daily oil production in Saudi Arabia alone is about 10 million barrels. As of March 2022, the global daily oil production is about 100 million barrels. Although it is 1989 now and the production is not so high for the time being, it is definitely not small.

As mentioned before, the size of the dark owl is similar to that of the real owl. About 100,000 owls sound like a lot, but if they are squeezed together, it may not be as much as the global daily oil production in one minute. How can such efficiency work?

So, Schiller began to organize everyone to further improve production efficiency. The main plan is still the same, one is to reduce time costs, and the other is to automate the whole process.

In terms of reducing time costs, it is really difficult for these children to concentrate for a long time, and if they don’t want to sing and fool around with pronunciation, there is no way to attract owls.

Moreover, it is difficult to ensure that all these children will be on time. Sometimes they have family matters or are sick. The essence of doing this is to protect the children, so we cannot exploit them. In this case, the time cost is incompressible.

Human employees have such shortcomings, so everything falls on the development of mechanization. If machines can replace humans, then as long as there is enough energy, they can work all the time, and there will be no problems of absenteeism or poor condition.

In this regard, Constantine was almost driven crazy by Schiller. He said: "You want robots to use magic??? Do you think this is reasonable?!"

"They don't even have souls! Even if they can make that kind of syllable with a recording device, it is impossible to attract owls!"

"That's why you are needed." Schiller looked into Constantine's eyes and said: "You now have to study how to make something that won't get tired, and then let them deceive owls."

Hal looked at Constantine with some sympathy. He had never seen Constantine so embarrassed and haggard.

Normally, Constantine is a scumbag, but he still takes care of his image, otherwise he can't go around flirting. In the past, he always looked like a British hipster, and when he was serious, he had a unique charm that made people unconsciously attracted to him.

Although he occasionally looked crazy and decadent because of excessive drug use, he was full of a punk aesthetic, and some people still liked it.

But now, Constantine can no longer be called a punk. There is only a homemade spear between him and Robinson.

In the plan proposed by Schiller, Constantine was the most tired, because he had to arrange magic circles around hundreds of grids around the entire school room. He hadn't slept for more than a week, and his beard was untidy and extremely haggard.

If Schiller hadn't promised to give him 10% of these energies, he wouldn't do this kind of work. Now, even if Schiller promised to give him 10% of these energies, he wouldn't want to do this job.

Constantine cursed: "You damn capitalist, vampire! You want me to work for you like this just because you give me a little benefit..."

Schiller stretched out another finger, shook it in front of him, and said: "Add another 10%, you can take 20% alone, Hal and I can only share 10%, Bruce doesn't even have 10%."

Constantine was really going crazy. He felt that a devil called greed had come to him again. He could almost see the black flames burning behind Schiller, which made him crazier than any other devil.

He gritted his teeth and said: "You forced me to do this. It seems that I have to go talk to my old friend."

After that, Constantine left. Schiller didn't know who the old friend he was referring to was, but he knew that a devil might be in trouble.

Two days later, Constantine came back even more haggard, and at the same time, he brought back a small voodoo doll. He said, "I contacted all the friends I could contact, and finally found a way."

He put the voodoo doll in his hand, and then put it in front of several people, saying, "This is a kind of evil magic from Africa, a bit like the magic used by ghost mothers, both of which are aimed at children."

"In African tribes, they will put the souls of dead children into a special voodoo doll. Special demons will feel this soul, and then send power into the voodoo doll in exchange for the soul. The priests of the tribe can use this energy to cast spells."

"But where can we get the souls of children?" Hal asked, "Don't tell me, you want to..."

"I haven't thought about it, I'm a good person." Constantine sighed.

Bruce glanced at him, seeming a little surprised, but Constantine was telling the truth. Whether in terms of deeds or heart, Constantine is actually a good person. On matters of principle, he is as unshakable as Batman.

"I contacted the devil who would respond to this kind of spell, and he told me that human sacrifices are really cunning. With the development of modern medicine, fewer and fewer babies die today, but the priests still want to continue using spells. They have come up with another way."

"Killing innocent children may be possible, but the efficiency is too low. They choose to deceive the devil and use a special ritual to forge the soul of the child. After attracting the devil, they trap them there, so that they can use the power of the devil."

When Constantine said this, he didn't think there was anything special, but Hal looked at Schiller. Schiller looked at him and said, "Why are you looking at me? This only shows that humans are like this, and I am not special."

Constantine nodded in agreement and said, "If you ask me, what humans are best at is cheating. We have many tricks in this regard. Even the cunning devil will be fooled occasionally."

"However, their trick has been eliminated, because the devil will not be fooled again after being fooled once. At most, it will lose a little power. Therefore, they have developed many other versions now, but we can't use them."

"I found someone to contact the priest who can use this version of the trick. He told me how to forge the soul of a child. The other materials needed are relatively simple. "It's easy to do." Schiller looked at Bruce and said, "Wayne Group should be able to collect breast milk from the society in the name of medical experiments. As long as the price is high enough, it should be collected soon." "There is another question..." Schiller looked at Constantine and said, "Can the soul of the fake child sing?" "Of course not, it's just a bait, so I have to use another kind of magic to control this voodoo doll to sing." "Do you need to control them all the time? What if you get tired?" Schiller asked another question. Constantine took a deep breath and said, "Although I don't need to control them all the time, you are really a bit too greedy. You don't even want me to take a break..." Schiller turned his head away and didn't look at him, and then said, "No one can rest on the extremely efficient production line, including me." Several people shook their heads, obviously a little bit unbearable to him, even Bruce, who likes to pursue efficiency, thinks this is really a bit too extreme. Fortunately, Schiller did not exploit them, and the owl was still the one who suffered the most in the end.

After a few days of preparation, Constantine started to make raw materials with all his strength. In order to prevent Constantine from being exhausted, Schiller asked Hal to treat him with green light energy.

Whenever Constantine was tired, Hal would give him a healing spell, and then he would be full of energy again. Under such inhumane exploitation, Constantine made thousands of voodoo dolls in a few days.

Then, he began to cast puppet control spells on each doll, the same kind he used to control ghosts before. After casting, he could make the voodoo dolls sing by themselves.

Then, he placed these dolls in the center of the formations and started the same process again. The efficiency increased several times, but Schiller was still not satisfied.

What he was not satisfied with was that every time he had to manually clean the array and then infuse energy into the Ark reactor, although he would not feel tired or bored, it would still waste time. In other words, time is money, and no waste is allowed in the extremely efficient production mode.

So, he forced Constantine to start technical reforms, asking him to build automatic energy transmission lines between several arrays, and then connect the lines to the Ark reactor, so that the plan of fully automatically extracting the dark energy of the owl could be realized.

Constantine was really unlucky. He wanted to run away several times, even without sunk costs, but was still caught by Schiller.

Finally, he also broke the jar and began to study how to make the energy channels between the arrays.

As we all know, optimizing the line is the biggest difficulty in the automation game. Constantine was stuck on it for more than a week, but in the end, Constantine, who was stimulated to his full potential, still made a most efficient version.

Finally, this huge device for automatically extracting the energy of the dark owls was completed. When the entire assembly line was running, the efficiency reached the highest level. Even one storage module of the Ark reactor was not enough, so Bruce temporarily added a few more.

If you look at it from the perspective of the spirit world, the entire living hell has become a huge oil drilling rig. Countless magic arrays are connected into lines to form a sphere emitting red light, and countless dark owls rush there like moths to a flame, and finally all annihilated in the light of the magic array. The extracted energy pulsates into the Ark reactor along the energy channel like blood vessels and is stored.

Until one day, all the owls disappeared, and Schiller, who was standing in the monitoring room, turned around and said to everyone: "...It seems that this plan has come to an end."

"Not surprising." Bruce gave a conclusion. He said: "Even if this rule is automatically operated, judging from the efficiency of this device in extracting energy, they will react soon."

"I'm more inclined to believe that they ran out of power." Hal said thoughtfully, "If they could have discovered it, they should have discovered it long before we completed the automation. After all, if someone was watching, they would definitely brake urgently if they suddenly extracted so much energy."

"As early as the first time I swallowed energy, I knew that this rule should be unsupervised." Schiller shook his head and said, "And the reason why it stopped this time is probably because we have drained all the energy."

The reason why Schiller dared to extract this dark energy so unscrupulously without worrying about Barbatos' attention here is because he found that this energy should not be Barbatos' original energy, but has undergone some special treatment.

In other words, they are not plucking Barbatos' wool in real time. The dark owl priest has already helped them to plucking the wool and even woven the wool into blankets. What they are stealing is actually the blankets in the inventory.

As for why Schiller thinks this rule is unsupervised, it is not only because the dark owl did not react when Aisha and others swallowed energy before, but also because, according to Gotham's historical records, the era when the owl nursery rhyme was circulated has passed for a long time.

In modern history, this song is no longer popular, and no children can sing it, which means that this set of rules has been abolished for a long time.

The reason why it is awakened again and still works is probably because the batteries thrown here still have some residual power, and Schiller's goal is to drain the residual power as soon as possible.

Some people may think that since the batteries have been abandoned, it is okay to steal electricity at any time? However, this has to do with Schiller's previous arrangements in Metropolis.

He knew that there were owls in Metropolis a long time ago, so he deliberately gave the medal to Pikachu, and then borrowed Clark to tell Lex about the illegal invasion of the agent, and then let Lex find the CIA agent.

Schiller, who had experienced the incident in the mayor's mansion in Metropolis, was of course very clear that after Benjamin's death, the CIA's resident in Metropolis was replaced by a female agent Kayla, who was a KGB and a student of Alfred.

After Kayla knew about this and got the medal, she would definitely notice that there were other mysterious forces in Metropolis. According to the KGB's way of doing things, after a month, the owls in Metropolis might be in trouble.

In a secret meeting room under the sewer of Metropolis, a mysterious man in a black robe and a beak mask said, "Those godless lunatics are almost here. Although the great dark master is everywhere, for his cause, we need to stay out of the spotlight..."

"But where are we going?" asked another mysterious man in a black robe.

"At first, we left Gotham just to develop our power in Metropolis. Now, we have several secret bases in Metropolis, and there are many members of the Council of Owls who stay here... It's time to return to Gotham."

"That's right." Another low and hoarse voice said, "When we left, we left the most precious dark statue there. Because of our departure, the people of Gotham have not chanted our names for many years. This time, we can just use the essence of energy again..."

"Do you remember the spell?" A sharp female voice chanted: "Mulitz...Mulitz..."

Suddenly, she paused and said, "What's going on? Why didn't the statue respond to my call?... Come... Owl... Come to me, I will return to the promised land under your guidance..."

"Mulitz...Mulitz..." All the black-robed people began to chant.

However, no owls flew over, and they gradually stopped chanting. Silence returned to the room. The leader waved his staff, and the magic circle in the room was lit up. Everyone disappeared instantly, and then came to a room with a huge owl statue.

This room is not only located underground in Gotham, but also protected by mysterious spells. It cannot be heard or seen. Only by using a special teleportation array can you get here. This is a concealed method set up by the owl priests to protect their hard work.

The leader of the dark owl priests was stunned as soon as he landed, because the black owl, which was originally full of dark energy, had turned gray at this time. The dark energy they had purified by praying to the dark master and using their bodies for many years was gone.

While they were going crazy, Schiller, Bruce, Hal, and Constantine, the four electricity thieves, stood in a row in the underground room.

Schiller took a step forward and asked, "Recently, the energy loss of the Dark Owl Priest is very severe. Do you have any clues?"

Then, he looked up at the dark energy storage module piled up like a small mountain and said:

"...I don't have it anyway."

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