Chapter 1 Clues

The Jade Emperor thought what I said made sense. Besides, we are such a big guild and we have been cooperating with each other for such a long time. He was not afraid that we would default on our debts, so he immediately agreed to advance the benefits to us. When the news spread back to the guild, it immediately caused an uproar, and some people from the lay guild also wanted to join our guild crazily. However, our guild stopped accepting people during this period, because our guild pursues quality rather than In terms of quantity, those miscellaneous people joined purely for the elixir. They will quit the membership once they get the things. Even if they stay, they will not be of much help to the guild, so we simply don’t want any of them. Anyway, we have a lot of people in the guild.

The people from Heaven brought the injured Four Sacred Beasts and Erlang Shen back to Heaven to recuperate. The reward will be sent directly to our guild by the people from Heaven. What I am more anxious about now is how to find clues. The members of this disappearance case are all experts, and they are all flying in the sky, so there are almost no clues, and I have no idea how to start. I had no choice but to ask people in the guild to pay more attention. If anyone happened to see or hear relevant news, they might be able to spot them.

They say there is strength in numbers, and this is true at all. After waiting for less than three hours, I found something. After I got the notice, I quickly ran to the weapons shop owned by Night Child, where this guy was still leisurely appraising the weapons. "Did you really see it?" I grabbed Ye Zhizi's arm and lifted this guy up from his seat.

"You, please, please be gentle! Let me down quickly!" The child of the night struggled hurriedly, but this guy is a mage and his strength is incomparable to mine.

"Hurry up and tell me if you really discovered Yinxue?"

Ye Zhizi pushed me and said, "I didn't find it, it was a friend of mine."

"Your friend? Where did he find it?"

"I can't explain this clearly. How about I bring him here and you ask him directly?"

"Okay, call him over quickly." Just as Ye Zhizi was about to leave, I called him again. "Forget it, let's go there together and hurry up." I said, picking up the child of the night and rushing out.

The child of the night struggled against me. "What are you doing carrying me?"

"How long will it take for your zombie to arrive? Tell me where you are and I will take you there. Is he a member of our guild?"

"He is an idle player. He does not have a guild. But that guy's personality is quite...!"

"Which one is that?"

Ye Zhizi thought for a while and said: "Forget it, maybe you two will understand after getting along for a while. He is in Longkou Shipyard now, you can just teleport directly to Longkou City."

"Tch, did you tell me earlier!" I turned the teleportation ring directly, and the next second the teleportation array appeared at the dragon's mouth. This is a seaside city, and you can smell the faint salty smell in the air as soon as you step out of the teleportation array. "Son of the Night, how to get to the shipyard?"

"You can see it all the way to the beach. It's not a big place."

"Then let's go from the sky." I said and spread my wings. Grab the child of the night and jump to a height of six or seven meters above the ground, flap his wings and fly quickly to the seaside.

Like the Night Child said, this place is not big. The total area of ​​the city directly under the jurisdiction of this system is not larger than a block of Essinger, and most of its seaside is a rocky area, with only two small piers and a small stretch of reasonably comfortable beach. Compared with a big city like Essinger, this is simply a satellite city of a satellite city, which is really small and pitiful.

In my opinion, the so-called shipyard is actually a shabby house on the water. The length of the dock is not wide enough for the Ever Given, and it can only accommodate a ship of three to four thousand tons at most. And it looks like the boats built here are actually wooden boats.

After climbing to a certain height, I spread my wings and glided all the way over. After quickly reaching the sky above the shipyard, I circled twice, and then slowly landed at the entrance of the factory. There are actually two guards guarding the door of this broken factory, but they are all NPCs, and they are obviously the old, weak, sick and disabled type. There's very little in Zero that's formulaic. Even within the same race and at the same level, there are great individual differences. Hiring these old, weak, sick and disabled NPCs is relatively cheaper than young and strong NPCs, and it is even cheaper when compared with players.

My personal attributes include a high degree of coercion over NPCs, because the NPCs I usually hang out with are either members of my own guild or super NPCs like Erlang God and the Lord of Darkness, Titans. So this attribute can't play any role at all, but it's different now. After the dirty jade was installed on Eternity, the dark power in my body became even more terrifying. The white resentful souls could form almost physical images and circle around me in broad daylight. One of the two NPC guards was an old man. One was a half-grown child. When he saw me, he started to tremble and dropped his weapon to the ground.

"Why did your friend think of buying a boat in this damn place? Why don't you go to our guild to buy it?"

"You really are a rich young man who doesn't know the sufferings of the poor. The cheapest ship from our guild costs several thousand crystal coins, and all of them are extremely advanced. Who among ordinary people would dare to buy one?"

"What's wrong with being advanced?"

"Of course everyone likes advanced boats, but the problem is that as boats become more advanced, the price also goes up. Of course rich people like our boats. They have great performance and are powerful, but ordinary people can't afford them! Our guild produces the cheapest boats. A boat, even if it doesn’t match any plug-ins, it still costs more than three thousand crystal coins, that’s thirty thousand yuan! Who among the average players would be crazy enough to buy that thing?”

When Ye Zhizi said this, I understood. For people like me, spending millions of crystal coins on a boat is nothing. All I have to consider is the issue of over 100 million crystal coins. Naturally, I won't pay attention to that little money. But for ordinary players, items exceeding one thousand crystal coins are considered large items or super luxuries. So there are really not many people who can afford it. But this "not many" refers to a small proportion, not a small number of people. Our country alone has a population of almost 2 billion. Even if one person in 10,000 can afford it, the sales volume will not decrease.

I looked at the two NPC doormen, then walked up to the old man and asked, "Can I enter here?"

The old man nodded hurriedly. "Okay, okay, how can you block customers when you open the door for business?" In fact, what the old man said are lies. Shipyards usually have special reception rooms in the city, and few people come to the shipyard to buy boats. This is like To buy steel, you don’t necessarily have to go to the steel-making furnace to buy it. However, with this old man's mental state. I guess he would just nod his head no matter what I said.

Although I knew it was not true, I had already asked and it was considered polite, so there was no need to ask others for instructions and I just walked inside. The Night Child is still running around like a zombie.

"Hey, Son of the Night, what's your friend's name?"

"May."

"What's his real name?"

"No." The Son of the Night explained while looking for someone: "I'm talking about the month of May, but his real name is Wu Le. Koutian Wu, the musical instrument, is pronounced similar to May. This May is his nickname, so the name of the game is also May."

I nodded, then opened the Phoenix Dragon Space and released Lucky. "Help me roar. Call me someone, his name is May."

Lucky nodded, and then shouted into the dock. The volume of the giant dragon was not much worse than that of a tweeter, and the sound shook the roof of the broken dock. After a while, I saw a small door opened on the side of the dock, and a large group of people ran out of it, many of them holding tools such as wrenches in their hands.

The person running at the front was a young man about the same age as me. Although he was a man, he was rather handsome. She is almost the same as me, but not as beautiful as my b13-optimized gene. This guy was wearing overalls and didn't look like a combat professional, but he and the large group of people behind him looked as if they were going to fight with someone.

"Stop." After running in, the young man's momentum suddenly relaxed. And stopped the people behind. "You made a mistake, it's my friend."

The Son of the Night teleported and appeared in front of May. "Haha, you want to beat me with so many people?"

Wu Yue's face looked slightly bad: "In the past two days, a group of people have come to cause trouble. We thought they were here again, so we rushed out. By the way, you are not clinging to the powerful. Are you a senior member of a big guild? Why do you have time to visit a poor friend like me?"

"I came here to see you out of kindness, but you dare to mock me." Ye Zhizi smiled and punched him. "Come here. Let me introduce you. This is..."

"No need for introduction, I know you." Wuyue walked up to me and extended a hand very generously. "My name is May, and I have seen your battle scenes on online videos before."

I shook hands with him, and then said very directly: "I came here to ask about the missing national guardian beast. I heard the Son of the Night said that you have news about her, right?"

Wuyue nodded, and then said: "I have indeed seen the white jade unicorn with my own eyes. It is exactly the same as the national guardian beast in the forced game CG. And he seemed to be chasing someone at the time, fighting on both sides. It’s very powerful. I was also implicated in the harm.”

After hearing what May said, I felt a little relieved. At least Yinxue was chasing someone else instead of being snatched away. At least she doesn't have to worry about her safety. However, the key issue in this matter still lies with the Great Wheel Pluto. The other party must have rescued the Great Wheel Pluto when he came here, and the two pieces of jade that Heaven is eager to recover are very likely to be on the Great Wheel Pluto. In order to complete the mission and get more prizes, I still have to recover the Great Wheel Pluto.

"Where did you see them? Do you know where they went?"

May smiled and said to me: "I know the place, and I can take you there, but I need you to give me a certain amount of help. I was originally going to the mission site, but was affected by their fighting, so I finally got the money to do it. A boat that came out was also sunk. If I can't complete the task, I will suffer a lot of losses, so I hope you can send me there. Anyway, we are on the way, and the place I am going to is also the place where the person you are looking for is going."

This guy is very smart and actually knows that he needs to bargain with me, but it’s not a big deal anyway, so it’s okay to agree to him. "Okay." I turned to Ye Zhizi and said, "Then you go back alone? Wuyue and I will go directly."

Upon hearing this, Wu Yue quickly said: "Don't worry, I still have some things to prepare."

"What do you want to prepare? I will prepare it for you." To paraphrase the lines in the movie, I can make hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute. It is a waste of my time to prepare my luggage here with you.

When May arrived, he was not polite to me at all and immediately gave me a list of a bunch of things. Now I finally know what the Son of the Night and I predicted before and what I wanted to say. After working on it for a long time, this May is not only similar in appearance to me, but also has a similar personality to me. Peel all week long.

Although the list is long, they are all ordinary items and not worth much money at all. However, considering that it is indeed a considerable expense for ordinary players, and the list also includes two ships, one large and one small, it is really strange.

I asked May with the list in hand. "What's going on with these two boats?"

"The place we want to go is on the sea. The big ship is the tool to get there, and after passing there, there will be a relatively special water area that must be entered by a small boat."

"Okay. I understand." I turned around and sent Lucky back to Fenglong space first, then released Ling and Xiaochun, and then opened the door to the earth. With May May's surprised eyes, I pulled out two sacks of crystal coins from Fenglong Space, and then asked Ling and Xiaochun to help me get the money. Then I tore the shopping list into pieces and handed them to the Qilin warriors who filed out one by one. A group of five people went to Ling and Xiaochun to get money and went to buy items separately, so that everyone could go together much faster.

After all the lists were distributed, the money was barely moved, and the crystal coins were very small. It doesn't take up much space, and the sack is so big that you can't even see it when you hold it. The list given by May did have a lot of items, but they were all cheap items, so they didn’t cost much. I'm afraid I'll have to return a few sacks of change after I finish my shopping.

I looked at Wuyue and said, "Okay, if there is anything else that needs to be prepared, I will arrange it right away."

Only after Wuyue heard my words did he move his eyes away from the sack. Maybe he had never seen anyone use a sack to hold crystal coins before. The average player can only carry three to five hundred crystal coins with them, and a small cloth bag will suffice. But I am very good at handling money. Sometimes I even move money in boxes and boxes, and the sacks are already considered small. "Ship." Wuyue reacted and then said: "You haven't prepared the boat yet."

"Oh, yes, I almost forgot." I 'touched' the love ring and connected it to the rose's love ring. "Honey, help me maneuver the ship."

"What ship do you want? Where to send it?"

"One big and one small. For the big one, just use the watchman. For the small one...wait a minute and let me ask." I raised my head and asked May: "How big will the boat be?"

Wuyue immediately said: "If you don't bring anyone with you, it will be fine if the two of us can sit underground, but it cannot be too big. It is an underground river. There is a cave above the head. It is only two meters high from the water. The boat is too big to pass."

I nodded and continued to say to Rose: "Just use a small dolphin for the boat. Send it to the port of Longkou City for us."

"Arrived in ten minutes." Rose is very efficient at work, and the ship problem was easily solved.

The Qilin warriors arrived before the ship even came back. Longkou City was not far from Essinger. Our guild's boats are incredibly fast. Arrived in exactly ten minutes. The port of Longkou was already full of people, all pointing at this strange warship.

Watcher is a lead observation ship. In the fleet, it is generally responsible for leading reconnaissance and over-the-horizon artillery guidance. Although it is not a battleship itself, it often moves with the large battleships in our guild. If it is too small, it can easily be overturned by the wake of a giant ship like the Eternal, so even if it is not a battleship, it cannot be much smaller. . The Watcher has a displacement of one thousand tons and a length of about 60 meters. It is equipped with six large-scale jet engines produced by Haizu Heavy Industry. It can run at a speed of 90 knots at full power. It is said to be a ship, but in fact it is not the same as a ship. The same goes for airplanes.

"Is this your ship?" May asked, looking at the very modern watchman in disbelief.

"Of course." I introduced with a smile: "This is a Watcher-class lead ship. Although it has little combat power, its performance is absolutely outstanding. The most important thing is that it is fast enough."

May asked excitedly: "Are there weapons on this ship? What is that observatory-like thing on top of it?"

"There is a twenty-millimeter double-barreled smoothbore cannon on the bow, and there is nothing else. This is a lead ship, not a battleship, and it is of little use to have weapons. The observatory-like thing you just pointed to is the fairing of the optical lens. Inside Hidden is a set of long-range observation lenses that are no less than an astronomical telescope.”

"Optical lens? How far can it see?"

"If you look upward, you can see an object as big as a car on the moon's surface, but the earth is round, so you can only see the horizon at most, and any further forward will be blocked."

"Does such a ship cost at least tens of thousands of crystal coins?" May asked.

"How many tens of thousands?" I pointed to the observatory-like lens and said: "Our guild cannot produce that thing. It is all imported from Germany. The purchase price is 4.5 million crystal coins per unit. This boat contains six Taiwan only has jet thrusters made by the Sea Clan and us. Each one costs one million crystal coins. Thirteen rare metals are used for the hull shell. The material cost of this shell alone is worth one million crystal coins. The ship is on board. There is also a mirage system. Once activated, as long as the enemy does not come within 700 meters, it will be completely unobservable. In addition, there are many patented items of the guild on the ship, with a total value of quite a lot."

"What? This ship costs more than 10 million crystal coins?"

"To be precise, it's 16.7 million crystal coins."

"This, this, this...isn't this too expensive?"

I smiled and patted his shoulder: "Why are you nervous? I won't charge you a boat ticket."

"I mean, who can afford this thing?"

"There are many people who can afford it, and they all want to buy it, but I don't want to sell it. This thing is a weapon in naval battles. Selling it to others is just a fool's errand. But this thing is really too expensive, and our guild can only do it. Each main fleet is equipped with only seven to eight ships."

"Then how many main fleets do you have?"

"Only three. There are many ships. There are just not enough people. There is no computer system in this game. One ship requires thousands of NPCs, and players have to match seven or eight. A fleet must have at least several thousand ships. , the number of players alone is tens of thousands. If it weren’t for this reason, I could build at least ten fleets.”

May suddenly found a small thing on the back deck of the boat. He immediately pointed over there and asked me: "What is that?"

"Little dolphin."

"Little dolphin?"

"It's the boat you want. It can hold four people. It's a little over three meters from head to tail. It can dive up to seven meters. It can also be driven on the sea."

"submarine?"

"To be precise, it should be regarded as a semi-submersible ship, or a stern boat. This little thing is very fast and can drill anywhere. It is very useful."

"It's great to have money!" May sighed as he looked at the watchman.

I looked at May with some surprise. "Are you short of money?"

"It can't be said that it's a lack of money, it's just...!"

I stretched out my hand to stop him from talking. "I think I understand what you mean."

"Do you understand?" This time it was May's turn to be surprised.

"You just long for a better life. And judging from your appearance, you seem to be a plain perfectionist. We are very similar in this way."

May also smiled and said to me: "We do have a lot in common, but the two of us can't be particularly good friends because we are too similar."

What May said is true. My personality determines that I am unlikely to become close friends with people who have the same personality as me, because we are both very strong. They have a strong desire to control people and things around them. I think this is the main reason why we are all friends with the Nightborne. But even though we can't be close friends, it's okay to be just friends.

"By the way, what's your profession? Since you go out to sea to do missions, you should be a combat player, but why are you wearing work clothes?"

Wuyue looked down at her clothes before reacting. "My auxiliary occupation is a carpenter. This is my friend's shipyard. I have no money, but I still need a boat to go to sea. So I asked him to help me build a boat. Although the money they charge is relatively low, I am embarrassed to say it. Take advantage of others!"

"I understand. Are you going to help offset some of the funds?"

"Yes. My main occupation is actually that of a musketeer."

"Isn't musketeer a unique profession in the United States? How did you change professions?"

"That's not easy." May said with a smile: "The career system in the United States is completely different from other countries. You only need to do a few special tasks to transfer. It is not as restrictive as other countries."

Many features of "Zero" are compiled with reference to reality. In reality, the United States is a multi-ethnic country, so its policy restrictions in the game are not too strict. You can change the characteristics of their country by completing tasks. Occupations, unlike other professions with national characteristics, you have to log in for the first time in another country or have the other country's nationality before you can hope to change professions.

"Musketeers are a sub-class of crossbowmen. They require agility rather than strength. Why did you choose carpenter as a sub-class?"

"I didn't know much about it at first. So I chose it randomly." Wuyue suddenly said: "Your people are back."

I still looked at the sea and didn't look back. He just opened his mouth and said: "I know. They and I maintain spiritual contact at all times."

"It's really a convenient ability, but you have to take care of so many summoned creatures. Are you busy?"

I pointed to my head: "My place is a little different from yours, but I can't tell you why. Okay, let's get on the boat now, it's time for us to set off."

The things that the Qilin Warrior brought back were a mess, but May had space equipment the size of a jewelry box. The volume is quite large, and everything is actually packed into it. After completing the supplies and taking back the summoned creatures, we went up to the Watcher together.

"President, where are you going this time?" the members on the boat asked me.

"I don't know the place. The guide is there."

Without waiting for the crew to ask him, May said directly: "You drive eastward first, and then I will tell you where to turn."

"Okay. Please sit down first."

May shook her head: "I like standing on the bow of the boat, facing the sea breeze. It feels good."

The crew members on the boat all laughed, and May looked at them in confusion, completely confused as to what was going on. Finally, the captain explained to him: "The Watcher is equipped with six jet thrusters. Do you know what ship these thrusters were originally designed for?"

May shook her head.

"Eternal." The captain continued: "The jet thrusters currently used by the Watchers were originally designed as the main thrusters for the Eternal, and the Eternal only has eight installed, but the Eternal has a full ten Ninety-eight thousand tons, but the Watcher is less than a thousand tons. Therefore, the unit propulsion is very large. It is absolutely impossible for people to stand on the ship at this speed. If you stand on the bow of the ship, when the ship reaches its maximum speed Eventually you will find that you start to lose blood because the wind speed has reached enough to cause damage."

"Eh... Then I'd better sit down!" Wu Yue ran back and sat on the seat honestly. Then under our guidance, we fixed ourselves with safety belts. The crew members on the ship also sat down. When the watch was activated, it was decided not to allow standing.

The captain turned back to me and asked, "Are we ready to go?"

"Set off."

The captain immediately ordered: "Leave the port and move forward vulgarly."

The watchman retreated slowly on the sea and left the port, then turned in a different direction and began to slowly resume its advance, but at a very slow speed. After May felt this speed, he thought we were making a fuss out of a molehill, but just when he was about to speak, the captain suddenly said: "Full thrusters, maximum speed."

"Full thruster, speed five knots, ten knots, fifteen knots, twenty knots..."

May only felt that she was suddenly pressed to the seat by a huge force and was completely unable to move. Even breathing became a little difficult. The bow of the Watcher completely left the water, and the battleship rushed straight into the sea like a rocket.

"Speed ​​eighty, eighty-five..."

"Release the forced propulsion and stabilize the speed." The captain ordered again.

"The speed is ninety knots, and the speed is stable."

After the acceleration ended, the pressure disappeared immediately, but the battleship's speed had reached an astonishing ninety knots. The bow of the ship has now completely left the water, leaving only two hydrofoils chopping waves on the water. As for the stern, only a little bit is still in the water, and the entire ship has almost left the water. Watchmen is too fast. It's too light in itself. It won't sink at all at top speed.

The captain jokingly said to Wuyue: "You can stand up now, but if you plan to go to the deck, I suggest you wear two more safety belts." In fact, the door cannot be opened at all after the Watcher reaches its maximum speed. , and besides, at this speed, as long as the ship turns slightly, the people on the deck can be thrown out.

Today, the surface of the sea is relatively calm, but it was a little hard to travel through the storm zone. I explained to May: "We can sail freely on this sea now. If it were half a year ago, there would be RB warships everywhere. Even a fast leading ship like us would be difficult to stay safe in it." Navigation, but now the warships are lying on the bottom of the sea, it is much safer here than before."

What I said is true. The fighting has not stopped since the beginning of the National War, and RB's port has been almost destroyed by us. Masamoto Matsumoto's successor, Nobunaga Ghost Hand, was far less powerful than Matsumoto in naval warfare, so now the rb navy has been suppressed and can hardly do without the port.

Wuyue seemed very excited when he listened to my introduction. I knew at a glance that he was also a passionate guy. However, he was very serious about his work, and he did not forget to lead the way while listening to my introduction. I was speaking very well when he suddenly shouted: "Turn right thirty degrees."

"Turn thirty degrees to the right." The captain quickly ordered. The battleship turned sideways at a large angle and made a beautiful arc like a motorcycle turning a corner, and then continued to resume straight sailing. The captain reminded: "It seems like you rarely get on the ship. Next time you want to turn, please tell us in advance. Not all ships can turn like the Watcher!"