Chapter 1145 Nothing Happens without Me

On the one hand, there was the ongoing battle in full swing, and on the other hand, there was the Dragon Clan wedding that kept chattering away. Angel Soka was about to have a schizophrenia. In fact, in order to avoid disturbing her, Zhao Mai used the psychic network to connect everyone early. But he forgot that there was a psychic jellyfish next to him. After opening the alliance's psychic network, it would also copy the information of everyone except Zhao Mai, so Soka could also hear it.

This group of people was a little too laid-back, Sokka gritted his teeth, but the relationship between them was still very good. The wedding of a dragon and a dog must be very interesting, I really want to see it myself! The more Soka thought about it, the more he felt that Naikos was hateful and was here to cause trouble!

Through the large-scale connection developed by the psychic jellyfish, Sokka became more and more aware of the neglect and regression of the Ring Alliance during her sleep. Ever since she started pretending to be a stone statue and lazing around, the other six elders also began to go about their own business, completely entrusting the Ring Alliance to the process and rules, and no longer invested any more energy. In order to solve all kinds of strange problems, the rules are becoming more and more complex, the processes are becoming more and more lengthy, it is becoming easier to shirk responsibility, and the efficiency is getting lower and lower. In this attack, it was not that Nekus had become stronger, but that the Alliance of Rings had become weaker.

Fortunately, there was no danger. The load on the internal network dropped to less than ten percent, and there was no danger of paralysis for the time being. Naikos probably also realized that the situation was irreversible and quickly began to organize a retreat. When Soka received the news, he did not relax because of the enemy's retreat, but became even more nervous. Not only did the Nexus Temple show good organizational and coordination skills and excellent tactical literacy, it also showed that they could obtain real-time data on the network load within the alliance. There must be a mole here!

"Transfer the XXX action team back to the headquarters to prevent Nexus from deliberately retreating and causing the central government to bloom." Sokka has fought countless battles and fought against devils, demons, undead, and evil machine intelligence. Naturally, he knows how to do it more safely. . Nexus attacks the internal network in an attempt to paralyze it, but its ultimate target is always the Ring Alliance headquarters. Without the internal network, the headquarters' ability to dispatch troops will disappear, and it can only rely on ferryers on the external network for communication, which will put the alliance at a disadvantage that is easily attacked.

Sporadic fighting occurred from time to time, but the overall situation finally stabilized. After searching the entire alliance headquarters twice and failing to find Nekos, the alert level was lowered from "war" to "alert and combat readiness". This also means that Zhao Mai and others can move around at will, as long as they do a good job Be prepared to be probed by skills at any time. And they basically talked about the food reserve and Alexstrasza's wedding, and were about to go outside to stretch their legs.

"I know where there are cheap and useful things. I'll take you there!" Alexstrasza volunteered, but somehow she felt that she wanted to stay longer with her food reserves. According to dragon custom, she will return to the Dragon Kingdom to make preliminary preparations, and the food reserves will still stay with Zhao Mai during this period. "You are going to attend the wedding, why don't you prepare something? Of course, I will get everything back. After all, I have made up my mind to leave that boring place. You can buy with confidence, you will definitely not lose money!"

If her eyes didn't sparkle when she said this, maybe Zhao Mai still had a 10% to 20% chance of believing her. Let Dogian and Alexstrasza handle things like shopping. Xiaohua is only interested in cute and cute things, so she shouldn’t spend much money just to go shopping.

However, before leaving, we still need to coordinate matters with the Ring Alliance. Seeing that Angel Soka was free, Zhao Mai said, "Soka, let's go for a walk outside. Just leave those clones in various worlds, don't feel bad, but my spaceship still needs to be taken back."

"On behalf of the Alliance of Rings, I would like to thank you for your help. Although you rejected the title of Duke, you can no longer omit this." Sokka flew to Norton's side and stretched out his little hand. The golem of the construct swayed, the parts made a clicking sound, and then pressed a red crystal sheet the size of a business card, with the words "Alliance Headquarters" written on it, without any other words or decorations.

"There are destiny gold coins inside. As long as you carry it with you, you will get 233 points every standard month, which is regarded as the dividend of the dukedom... Probably, I don't understand the financial terms very well. Then you can borrow up to 30,000 on credit. Amount, monthly dividends will be deducted without interest." Angel Soka said: "If the operating conditions of the Ring Alliance change, the dividends will fluctuate. By the way, although the possibility of this happening is relatively small. , but I have to say one more thing: Don’t die. If you die, there will be no dividends.”

"Keep it with you all the time? Will this thing communicate with the Ring Alliance?"

"You are the ferryman. In fact, you and the Ring Alliance are constantly communicating. The location information, the income and expenditure of the destiny gold coins, the navigation system, the exchange system, etc. are all working. Please continue to believe in the Ring Alliance, we are Disciplined.”

No matter how familiar this sentence sounds, it seems that Zhong Jianbai often talks about discipline.

"If you have thoroughly researched the three dragon scrolls and found any results, please make a copy. The lead-shelled stone balls of Naikos are obviously a new threat. I have to ensure the safety of my hometown." This is what Zhao Mai is most concerned about. He continued: "Originally, I came here to find some technical information on searching, preventing and destroying Nexus, but the process was interrupted due to various things. Let's go out for a walk first. , I will come back when everyone is a little more relaxed."

"Norton will help you put together a protective suit that can be used in the entire world. Although there is no guarantee that the dragon scroll will be fruitful when you come back, it can certainly establish an intrusion warning and counterattack protection mechanism. Naikos It will suffer a serious blow, and only the guys from the Pseudo-Temple can avoid detection by relying on their various racial characteristics. However, they are far inferior to Nexus and cannot make any waves."

"If there is such a thing, why not spread it as much as possible? Is it because it is too expensive?"

Soka shook his head: "It's not expensive, but to deal with Nekus, you need to use rule-level power, which often requires the support of the original power. The technology of the Alliance of Rings is already the most compatibility-focused in the multiverse. Yes, but it still needs to be combined with local rules. This requires the help of the transcendent. The creation god and the will of the world themselves are somewhat insufficient, but they can barely communicate. The decentralized world structure of multiple gods and below can be It is impossible to integrate with this system. But the world with the transcendent can deal with Nexus by itself, so I feel that it would be a bit awkward to install something on the core consciousness of the world. This is a contradiction."

So that's it, but Dark Earth just happens to be available. It is connected to the original earth, and it is enough to adjust it once and then move it there. Moreover, although there is original power there, there are no transcendents there yet, and it lacks a protection system.

Maybe the world of Athas will do the same. Using the natural environment formed by the soil to replace the will of the world, Zhao Mai can make his own decisions to a large extent. Just now Sokka said that the will of the world seems a little lacking, but it should still be usable.

"The world will of a planet? I'm afraid not. A world is not an entire planet, it is at least a galaxy. A large one will have billions of large galaxies. How big is the world you are talking about? Calculate it in terms of planets , you must have at least mastered more than 70% of the planet's will to reach the minimum standard for deploying the system."

"Uh... That's a bit far off." Zhao Mai scratched his head and said no more. In fact, in the worlds controlled by Zhao Mai, such as Atas and Dark Earth, Zhao Mai spreads soil and Z-worms as much as possible. As long as it is a planet, no matter how big or small it is, all will be occupied by Gardener Dragons. Perhaps by taking advantage of these natural environments and the connection to the Z-worm spiritual network, and if the world is not that big, it may be possible to meet the requirements for installing a protective system.

If Atas had such a system, coupled with its relatively static nature of time, it could become a fairly safe refuge. If Atas is relatively small, it will assimilate the entire world faster, but the total amount of resources and the upper limit of development will be relatively small. However, nothing in the world is perfect. Zhao Mai thought that he hadn't even seen what the legendary system looked like, and he wasn't sure how big the world was. Why were his thoughts wandering so far away?

"Soka, I have the three starfish motherships on standby. If you accidentally find a supernova lead shell stone ball, you can handle it more conveniently." Zhao Mai felt that Xiaohua was pulling on his clothes, obviously wanting to drag him as soon as possible. Go outside to play, and maybe stay away from Seraph inside. Having said that, Zhao Mai followed Xiaohua's wishes and said goodbye to Soka.

Sokka smiled and said goodbye to them, then looked at Xiaohua and spoke a word to her through the Holy Mantra that only she could hear. "You need to be older. You can't always be like a little sister. Like me, I work here alone and the person I like is missing." Xiaohua paused for a moment and turned back to look at Soka.

Seraph had a smile on her face, but Xiaohua felt that she was crying.

"I will come back to play with you!" Xiaohua waved her hands vigorously and said loudly, then smiled sweetly at Sokka. There are also seraphs in Golarion. In Xiaohua's perception, seraphs will never waver due to the difficulty of battle, the hardship of the environment and physical injuries. The only thing that can affect them is the lack of spirituality. Xiaohua was not sure what Sokka had experienced, but she had an intuition that Seraph's sadness was probably related to the missing Master Lynch.

Sad people need the comfort of friends, and Xiaohua feels that she can definitely become friends with Sokka - she can become friends with everyone, except the bad guys.

Zhao Mai didn't think too much. He was holding Xiaohua with one hand and Duo Jian with the other. He was already very happy. The main reason is that he is not smart and keen enough to see into people's hearts, so he can live a life where fools are blessed. But the fool was not without troubles. Looking at Alexstrasza who was holding the reserves of food and walking swaying from side to side, he frowned again.

Reserve Food has long been a big dog. The length from head to hip when lying on the ground is no different from the height of an ordinary person. Otherwise, no matter how light the little flower is (the density is between wood and petals), there is no way to ride it around all day long. Alexstrasza is a red dragon, strong enough to pick up food reserves, but she is very uncoordinated in human size, which leads to her walking crookedly.

"Okay, stop being so awkward, he's not lame. Can you two just be normal?"

"If it were normal, I would have destroyed the corridor... Okay, I'm not joking, boss." Alexstrasza put down the food reserves, and the dog walked beside her feet for a while, then teleported to Zhao Mai and ran For a while, back and forth.

Leaving the battle dispatch room of the headquarters and leaving the side of Seraph Sokka, the empty corridor of the Alliance of Rings headquarters gave no clue that a big battle had just occurred here. The decoration is still monotonous, the work efficiency is still slow and inefficient, and the queue is getting longer and longer. It seems that this is still the same Ring Alliance as before.

The battles mainly took place within the internal network, between the headquarters and the various branches, and in places like the Exile Star, while the headquarters itself was safe and sound. In fact, if you think about it carefully, Nikes is quite stupid. As long as you hire some desperadoes or use their own Templar diving suits to cause trouble here at the headquarters, you may be able to produce greater results.

Zhao Mai knew it very well, and I believe Soka also knew it. If Zhao Mai hadn't swallowed a supernova forcibly, and then sent a battleship to convert the new star into a blue crystal, the internal network would have exploded long ago. Although Zhao Mai was not necessarily the one who contributed the most in this battle, he did remove the straw that broke the camel's back. This friendship is enough for Zhao Mai and Soka to form a long-term cooperative relationship. The next thing to do is to consolidate and stabilize this relationship.

According to the information fed back by Gardener Long and the clone Zhao Mai, the Alliance of Rings headquarters also has direct jurisdiction over many resource stars, planets for cultivation and scientific research in special environments, and worlds with extremely weird rules. No matter where it goes, the clone will separate a small piece from its own body and throw it into an unnoticed corner, or simply throw it into the wilderness. The clone contains very strong energy, and as long as a small piece of Z-worm source matter will slowly expand. After a period of time, these Z-worms will definitely be discovered, and then they may need to find Sokka to "come to the truth" again.

It's best to find an opportunity to help her again, just to improve her friendship!

Thinking of this, Zhao Mai approached Alexstrasza. Because this red dragon girl has to travel through parallel worlds to kill herself all day long, she often interacts with ferrymen. It seems that she has come to the Alliance of Rings headquarters more than once or twice. It is better to trust local guides than to trust your own people. Zhao Mai believes in the charm of food reserves. "Alexstrasza, where are we going now?"

"Well... Liangliang said that you like all kinds of strange creatures, such as animals, plants, microorganisms, etc., so I took you to Duobao Pet Shop. When I travel around the world, I often need to hunt for food. belly and wound treatment, so I also sold it some rare things, such as lich brains." Alexstrasza looked around, lowered his voice and said: "There are also powerful biological weapons there, I I have also seen venom that can directly kill the ancient dragon. Boss, please help me research and see how I can be immune."

From the moment he heard the first sentence, Zhao Mai's eyes began to shine and his whole person became energetic. This is not entirely because Zhao Mai's hobbies have been aroused, but because the Z-worm cells all over his body are excited, unrestrained, and geared up. Fortunately, he has never given up on his spiritual practice, and he still maintains self-control at this time. Otherwise, under this kind of stimulation, the appetite and powerful biological aura emitted by the Z-worm cells would be enough to scare most of the organic life forms in the headquarters to the ground, and the remaining intelligent machines would also start to panic. Just now, I was thinking about helping Sokka try to find out if there was any news about the Temple of Nexus in the city outside the headquarters, but now I have forgotten all about it.

"Come up, I'll drag you all." Zhao Mai just said that Alexstrasza was holding the reserve grain in an indecent manner, so it was better for him to directly use his psychic powers to construct a transparent tricycle with just enough space for everyone to sit in it. . He didn't care, he was the driver anyway, so he opened his legs and jumped directly onto the driver's seat, holding on to the handlebars. Xiaohua sat sideways next to him, still holding on to the corner of his clothes, and others came up one after another. "Dogian, how can we get out the fastest? Alexstrasza, help us navigate!"

It’s actually not difficult to go supersonic indoors.