Chapter 58 Buddhism’s New Methods

When we arrived at the city wall, the Buddhist vanguard army just arrived outside the city. However, these guys did not assume a posture of attacking the city immediately. Instead, they began to set up camp on the spot, and soon a large camp was established, which overwhelmed us. It's all a question mark.

"What do they mean?" Hongyue asked in confusion as she looked at the large tent outside the city wall.

"The devil knows!"

"Are they planning to fight a protracted war with us?" I said to myself in confusion.

"But the problem is that we are not in a hurry at all? Wouldn't it be more detrimental to them the longer the time goes on?" Hongyue asked me.

"Only those guys from the Buddhist sect and God probably know this!" Ying turned to me and said, "No matter how they arrange it, we still have to be on guard."

I nodded. "You're right. Anyway, we don't care about delaying time. So as long as the enemy can't move, I won't move. Just be careful and alert."

In the following time, Buddha kept doing weird things. They first set up a large camp, and then brought a large amount of building materials to build a city face to face with us across a piece of grassland.

"What are they going to do?" Hongyue looked at the busy construction scene opposite and her mind was completely confused.

"Well... to be honest, I don't know what they are doing."

"Do you want to send someone over to do some reconnaissance?" Rose asked me.

"Do you think our people can sneak in under this situation?"

"I guess it's tough enough!" Eagle suddenly said: "By the way, where is the Giant Mosquito Outpost?"

"That's right!" I slapped my head and ran back quickly to call the Giant Mosquito Outpost for support. Fortunately, the Giant Mosquito Outpost was a fast castle and flew over from China very quickly. When it arrived, there was still a bit of light in the sky. Soon, a large group of reconnaissance mosquitoes flew out of the Giant Mosquito Outpost and sneaked into the construction site of Buddhism. We all crowded in front of the monitor in the Giant Mosquito Outpost and watched the pictures returned by each reconnaissance mosquito.

"Buddhism seems to be really building a city!" Ying said while looking at the screen.

"Wait, that place just now..." Rose hurriedly pointed to a construction site at the edge of the screen and said to the operator next to her: "Let this mosquito go back, quickly."

When the scout mosquito moved to the area again, we happened to see some people building the wall of a building. We didn't see it clearly before, but now that the picture stabilized, we immediately noticed that the wall was just a thin layer on the outside. The interior of the seemingly solid building is actually made of wood frames. The outside is covered with a thin layer of plant fiber skin, and then a layer of something similar to soil is pasted on the surface. Finally, it is made with divine power. This kind of seemingly solid building is actually just wood, soil and some plant fibers. One person can tear down the entire city in a real fight.

"Strange, what are they planning to do with this crappy project?"

"I don't know. But it's not a good thing."

"That makes sense."

Kristina suddenly said: "Don't you think this building looks a lot like our parliament hall?"

"Huh?" Kristina's words made us turn our attention back to the building. I only paid attention to the details before, but now I look at it as a whole and it feels exactly like Kristina said. This building is not similar, but is completely built according to our parliament hall. Whether it is structure or appearance, it looks exactly the same from any angle.

Rose suddenly said to the operator: "Immediately find a mosquito that flies higher. I want to see the bird's eye view of the whole city."

"clear."

The scene switched from a low-altitude close-up view to a large-scale aerial view. When we saw this picture, we were all stunned.

"Isn't this Contract City? Did the mosquito fly to the wrong place?"

"No, that's not right. This is not the Contract City, this is the city that Buddhism is building." I pointed at the workers and some buildings in the city and said: "Look here. These are Buddhist construction workers, not ours, and the progress is not No. This city is not as complete as our city.”

"That means Buddhism is in the imitation contract city?" Hongyue asked uncertainly.

"It's not a replica of Contract City, but a full-scale model of Contract City. This thing is just an empty frame of Contract City, and it's all empty inside!"

"What are they planning to do?"

Rose said: "Although I have no idea what the Buddha is doing, I am very sure that it is definitely not a good thing. After all, judging from everyone's current situation, the Buddha should be the most anxious party. They should start immediately after arriving here Attack, this is in the best interest of Buddhism. But instead of attacking, they stopped and built such a strange full-size model, which is obviously illogical. Unless..."

"Unless what?" Everyone's eyes focused on him.

"Unless building this model city can bring far greater benefits to Buddhism than a direct attack, time is life for them now. If they are willing to waste time to complete such a thing, then it must be the key to determining the situation of the war. , otherwise it really doesn’t make sense why Buddhism would do this.”

Because I always felt that the city model in front of me was very dangerous, I finally couldn't sit still. "No, we can't figure out the purpose of this thing. If we keep waiting like this, something will happen sooner or later. I'll go find foreign aid to see if I can help."

"Okay, we'll watch here." Eagle said.

After quickly leaving Contract City, I immediately teleported to Heaven. Since that thing was made by Buddhists, if you want to know what the purpose of that thing is, people who ask Buddhism will naturally know. Although it is impossible for Buddhists in India to tell me what that thing does, there are still a large number of Buddhist clones in heaven! They should also know what the Buddhists know, unless this is a newly developed technology after they left India. But the possibility is really slim.

Seeing me running back so quickly, the Jade Emperor thought something had happened, and quickly asked me: "You ran back in such a hurry, could it be that Buddhism captured your city?"

"no."

"Then what are you...?"

"I can't explain it in a few words. Buddhism is playing tricks on me again. I need your help now. Find the Tathagata clone quickly. If there is an emergency, I need him to help me."

"Okay." The Jade Emperor immediately asked Taibai Jinxing to invite the Tathagata's clone over, but the Tathagata's clone did not come by himself, but was carried. Because the effectiveness of the suppressive drugs is getting weaker and weaker, he is basically unable to move now.

As soon as the Tathagata clone was put down here, I immediately set up the large crystal communication machine, and then clicked on the screen to show the situation of the model city outside the contract city. "I'm really worried this time, so I have no choice but to ask for your help. I hope Tathagata won't be offended." The Tathagata clone lying on the stretcher waved his hands to be polite. He was too lazy to speak now. Seeing that he was like this, I stopped being polite to him, and directly introduced the situation of this model city, and then asked: "I don't know if you know what this is? It's not like Buddhists can't run to the outskirts of our city." We are really confused when we have built something like this during the siege of the city."

As soon as the Tathagata clone saw that thing, his eyes immediately widened. Then he raised his hand with difficulty and took out a small box similar to a jewelry box from his body. Of course, Tathagata cannot have a jewelry box. This thing should have other uses. I saw him 'touching' the box a few times, then putting his hand on top of the box and pressing it lightly. A circular hole about two inches in diameter suddenly opened on the top of the box, and then a rod more than a foot long opened. The scroll suddenly popped out of the hole in the box and fell on Tathagata. It looked like the scroll was bigger than the box, and I didn't know how it was packed inside. It is estimated that the box should be connected to the space channel, otherwise it would be impossible to hold such a large scroll. Tathagata tremblingly picked up the scroll and stretched it out to me. I quickly went over and took it.

I pointed at myself and asked him, "Let me see?"

Tathagata nodded slightly, then lay still again.

I carefully pulled off the red ribbon from the scroll, and then pulled the scroll sideways, only to find that the direction was wrong. "Taibai, come and help."

Taibai Jinxing quickly came over to help me hold one end of the scroll, and then I asked another god general to come over and help pull the other end to fully unfold the entire scroll. Unexpectedly, the entire scroll was hundreds of meters long when unfolded. Finally, several divine generals were called in to help lift the scroll completely. After the scroll was completely opened, the Jade Emperor couldn't help but leaned over and started reading together. It turns out that what is recorded here is a research report on a large-scale spell. Although this technology is obviously not yet completed, it is actually not much different from the finished product. The only difference is the final finishing touches, which is not difficult at all. .

According to the content recorded on the scroll, this should be a large-scale spell similar to witchcraft. It turns out that this thing was not created by Buddhism itself, but was passed from the West. Buddhism also obtained some content and spent a long time It took time to perfect it into what it is now. According to what is recorded in the scroll, this spell is specifically targeted at enemy buildings and large weapon systems, and has no effect on living organisms. To use this spell, you need to first build a full-scale model of the target object, just like the one being built by the Buddhist Gate outside Contract City. This full-size model must be constructed from the specified materials, and once the model is complete, spells can be used. The use of this spell requires many harsh conditions, and requires a large number of powerful mages to jointly cast it. It also requires some strange sacrifices. After this point the spell takes two completely different directions, and either one can be activated as needed by the caster. The first development direction is that once the spell is successfully completed, the full-scale model built before will be replaced with the real target. That is to say, the previous model will become a real existence, and the original real target will Become a model. If the model built by Buddhism outside Contract City is completed and cast successfully, and the first development direction is chosen, then once the spell is completed, Buddhism’s model will become a city exactly like Contract City, and we will It turns into standing among a bunch of models that only have appearances. Originally, we had some hope of fighting against Buddhism with our strong city defenses, but now we are suddenly standing in a model made of mud and rotten wood. How can anyone survive?

In fact, for us, the first situation is pretty good. If Buddhism chooses the second development direction, the situation will only be worse. The preliminary preparation work for the second development direction is exactly the same as the first development direction, but when it comes to the final completion part, the guidance of mana will be slightly different, which will change the result. Once this second development direction takes effect, our city will still be our city, but the model will become an individual associated with our city, and they will express each other's status. For example, if Buddhism uses the second direction of development and successfully casts the spell, then they only need to burn the model they made with a fire, and our city will immediately burn with it and eventually be burned to ruins, and maybe even burned to death. many people. Or they can directly smash the model they made. No matter how they destroy the model, the corresponding locations in our city will also suffer the same damage as the model. Anyway, whatever happens to the model will also happen in our city. The same situation, although the reverse is equally valid, can we not destroy the Buddhist model by destroying our own cities?

"There is such a weird spell?" The Jade Emperor understood the content of this spell after reading the scroll, and if this spell is really completed, then our contract city will most likely not be saved. If that happens, Heaven will suffer the biggest loss. After all, this city was built with Heaven's money. If it is destroyed, Heaven's money will be wasted if our mission fails.

"Well, is there any way to prevent them from completing this spell?" After reading the scroll, I quickly approached the Tathagata clone and asked.

Tathagata's clone opened his mouth to say something, but after a long effort, nothing came out. His mouth was moving as if he had something to say, but the voice was too soft to hear. Seeing that I didn't understand what he meant, Tathagata himself was sweating profusely, but he was so weak now that he couldn't speak at all. But I quickly figured out a way. "By the way, I have a way to help communicate. Just don't resist for a while." After I said that, I summoned the princess. It is very simple to read the shallow thinking of the other party without resistance, and what a person wants to say is the most typical shallow thinking, so the princess can completely translate between us.

As soon as the princess comes out, she starts using mind reading on Tathagata's clone, and we soon understand what he is trying to say. It turns out that Tathagata didn't know much about this spell, he just had research information. But he said that this time there is someone among the Buddhist clones who understands this thing. After receiving Tathagata's instructions, we quickly found the guy he mentioned. This Buddhist avatar was originally a high-level monster from the West, and later joined Buddhism, and the spells mentioned in this scroll were also brought by him from the West. Of course, the one in front of me is just a clone, the real guy is still over there in India. This guy is in a similar condition to Tathagata's clone. He is also in a weak state. Fortunately, there is a princess here who can act as a translator.

"How is it? What did he say?" Seeing the princess stand up, I quickly stepped forward and asked.

"He said that the conditions for completing this spell are very harsh, and conversely, it would be very easy to destroy it, because as long as any part of Buddhism fails to meet the requirements, the spell will fail."

After listening to the princess's translation, we all understood. This is like a modern large-scale war machine. Although its function is very powerful, its structure is also extremely complex. Producing such a machine requires harsh conditions, but it is extremely easy to destroy it. As long as any one of its components fails to meet the requirements, the machine will be scrapped. The same is true for the Buddhist spell. Various conditions are required to complete it, and we don't need to stop all their methods. As long as any key requirement is destroyed, the spell will naturally not be used.

"You ask him what conditions he has that are easier to break?"

"Okay." The princess turned around and continued to communicate with the guy for a while, then turned to us and said: "He said that if he wants to destroy the spell, the easiest way is to destroy the surrounding humidity balance."

"Ah? This spell also requires air humidity?"

"Yes. This spell requires the air around the model and the target object to be very humid. Although it is not easy for us to get close to the model, we only need to dry out our city."

"But the problem is that it's going to rain in Contract City soon?"

"This is easy to handle." The Jade Emperor suddenly interjected: "I will find a way for you. Just wait a moment." After saying that, he called Taibai Jinxing over and gave a brief explanation, and then Taibai Jinxing ran away immediately. He went out and soon ran back with a god general wearing blue armor.

As soon as the god general came in, he first bowed to the Jade Emperor, then ran directly to me, pulled out a rolled-up flag from behind and handed it into my hand. "This is a thunderstorm sail. Just insert it at the highest point in the city, and then recite this incantation to ensure that there is absolutely no rain around your city." He said and handed over a finger slip with a paragraph written on it. Spell.

After I took over the thunderstorm sail, Taibai Jinxing took out a white gourd. "This is a cloud-absorbing gourd. You can open its lid and place it anywhere in the city. It can absorb moisture within a hundred miles of the surrounding area, ensuring that your city is as dry as a desert."

"There are really a lot of weird things in your heaven, right?"

"After all, Heavenly Court has been established in China for such a long time, so good things are naturally indispensable."

After seeing these two things, the guy lying on the ground immediately waved to the princess. The princess quickly leaned over to read his thoughts, then stood up and said: "He said that just absorbing water vapor cannot guarantee that everything will be safe. If there are too many It would be safer to break a few conditions.”

"Then what conditions can be broken?"

The princess leaned forward to read for a while, and then conveyed: "He said that there are alternatives to other methods, and it may not be useful if it is destroyed, but there are two points that are very important. One is the completeness of the model. We can find a way Destroy that model city. As long as parts of the model are destroyed in advance, the pre-destroyed parts will not take effect after the spell takes effect. If the damage ratio exceeds 10% of the total volume of the model, the entire spell will not be activated. That spell will not be activated. The model city is so big, it shouldn’t be difficult to destroy it. In addition, he also said that this spell requires a sacrifice to activate, and if the sacrifice can be destroyed or taken away, then the spell will not be able to proceed."

"What is the sacrifice?"

"The sacrifice is not an object, but a person. To put it simply, it is a player, but not all players are suitable. It must be a 'virgin' who has never done anything like that in the game, and the age limit cannot exceed 22 Years old, cannot be less than 18 years old. This player's occupation cannot be a dark occupation, but must be a neutral or light camp occupation, and his personal justice value must exceed 1,000. The most important point is that this player must agree to become a sacrifice , it is useless to tie her up forcibly, because after the spell is activated, she will be asked if she is willing. As long as she answers that she is not willing, the spell will stop immediately. As a sacrifice, she will suffer tremendous pain during the ten minutes it takes for the spell to be completed. , and it will be reduced by five hundred levels at a time, and irregular visual confusion will permanently occur in the future."

I analyzed: "Age and virginity are not issues. With India's population base, it should be easy to find. The profession and camp are also simple, but the one with a justice value of more than 1,000 is probably difficult to find."

"Is it difficult to increase the justice value?" the Jade Emperor asked curiously. No matter how powerful he is, the Jade Emperor is still an NPC, so he doesn't understand this justice value. After all, NPCs don't have this attribute.

After the Jade Emperor finished asking, the princess pointed directly at me and said, "The master has no justice value because his value is negative. If the justice value is lower than zero, it will be displayed as an evil value. The master's evil value seems to have reached one." Ten million.”

After hearing this, all the gods present cast their eyes on me, and all of them showed the same expressions as before. I was so angry that I shouted: "Don't think wrongly, I am here because I drank the evil spirit." Quan, if you do good deeds, the justice value is not added, but if you do bad things, the evil value is multiplied ten times, that’s why it’s so high.”

Although I explained for a long time, the guys in the heaven obviously didn't listen at all. They all marked me as the number one evil element in their hearts. I had no choice but to interrupt everywhere in the hope of distracting their attention. "Let's get down to business. Since that sacrifice requires such a high justice value, it must be difficult to find. The Buddhist sect should guard it very strictly, right?"

Taibai Jinxing also said: "It makes sense. The sacrifice will have to endure a lot of pain and the price of losing five hundred levels at once. It is estimated that even if the previous requirements are met, not many people will be willing to do it."

"That's not necessarily the case." I said: "Although the pain is uncomfortable, it doesn't necessarily mean that no one is willing to persist. And you may not know that there is a kind of person in this world called a masochist. The more others bully him and torture him, the more he will be bullied and tortured. The more excited he is. There are also some people who are naturally more tolerant of pain, so this pain may not necessarily block everyone. As for the cost of losing level 500, as long as Buddhism agrees to provide a large amount of compensation, I think many people will willing."

"This is possible." The Jade Emperor also said: "With the ability of our Heavenly Court, it is not a big deal to forcibly upgrade a person to five hundred levels. I think Buddhism should have similar abilities, so this five hundred level should be very important." It’s easy to make up for it. As for the pain issue, although I have never heard of masochists, as long as the conditions offered by Buddhism are reasonable, there should still be many people willing to do it. But so many conditions can always block someone. There shouldn’t be many people left in the big group. As for what Ziri said about Buddhism protecting the sacrifices, don’t worry about that. Don’t Zizhu Fairy and Wukong have a quota of assassination opportunities every day? You take them two and rush in to kill them. It shouldn’t be difficult for the sacrifices to run away. Anyway, there is no need for a long delay, as long as it hinders the progress of Buddhism. We can’t afford to delay Buddhism, and as long as we kill the sacrifices once or twice, Buddhism should give up this plan completely.”

"It's possible. Then I'll go back first. If it doesn't work, I'll come to you to find a solution."

After returning to the contract city with the Thunder Sail and the Cloud-Absorbing Gourd, I quickly released the two treasures, and the effect was indeed very good. The light rain that had started to fall suddenly stopped, and after a few minutes, Lianyun All gone. However, the function of the cloud-absorbing gourd is too powerful. After the rain clouds disappeared, the air began to become drier and drier, and even the grass on the ground was quickly turning yellow, but fortunately, there were not many of them. What impact does it have on living people?

As soon as the two magic weapons on our side were displayed, the Buddhist side immediately became chaotic. Without water vapor, the spell could not be completed, and all Buddhists began to hurriedly think of ways to solve this problem. But while they were busy solving the water problem, I was busy destroying the other two conditions of Buddhism.

After I told Rose and the others about the news I got from Heaven, Rose and the others helped me formulate a relatively simple plan. The planning process was to first use our guild's long-range weapons to attack the city model of Buddhism, although Buddhism would definitely block it. A lot of shells were dropped, but as long as we can hit one or two shells, we can reduce our losses and cause more trouble for Buddhism. In addition, while the cannon attacks, our guild will use the method of digging tunnels to send part of the player team into the model city to cause destruction, and I will also take the Zizhu Fairy and Sun Wukong to follow these saboteurs into the model of Buddhism. Go to the city. But my goal is different from that of the saboteurs. Their task is to destroy the huge model and provide us with cover, while our task is to find the 'sacrifice' and destroy it.

After arranging the plan, we paused for ten minutes to prepare everyone, and the sneak attack was launched on time at nine o'clock in the evening. The first to fire were the long-range cannons on the floating forts in Contract City. Originally, Buddhism built cities after calculating the distance, so generally speaking, our cannons would not be able to hit that model city anyway. However, the long-range cannon itself is a weapon for ultra-long-distance attack, and when it is forcibly loaded with ammunition, its firing range can be increased by about 30%. As a result, we fired all the cannonballs into the model city. Because when the first wave of shelling started, the Buddhists thought that our cannons had insufficient range, so they never thought of intercepting the shells, so almost all the first wave of shells hit. In the "charge" mode, it is a super long-range shelling, so the hit rate is out of the question. Fortunately, our target is a city. Even if it is a super long-range shelling, it is not that easy to get outside the city. , so after the group, basically all the artillery shells fell in the city.

In order to increase the effect of the shelling, we loaded the first wave of shells with explosive and incendiary bombs, so the houses made of wooden frames in Buddhism were burned to a large area almost as soon as the first round of shelling started. Started to get busy. Some people flew into the sky and began to use their divine power to resist the subsequent shells, while others were fighting fires everywhere in the city. At this time, strange movements occurred in several inconspicuous corners of the city at the same time.

Somewhere on the ground in the Buddhist model city, a wooden board suddenly lifted up a little. A tentacle with a crystal ball at the front stretched out from the edge of the board. The green crystal ball immediately rotated after it emerged from the ground and swept around it. Then a large area of ​​the ground nearby suddenly rose up. Under the wooden ground were vines. are holding up those floors.

"Move quickly." I turned over and picked out the big hole in the ground, followed by a large group of players, NPCs and Mechanical Angels. When we all got out, the rose vine immediately pulled the ground back to the ground and reassembled it into a flat ground. As long as you don't open it, you can't find that it has been hollowed out below.

After we came out, we immediately started to spread out and walk from house to house along the street. The buildings here are all imitated in the style of Contract City, so we all know the terrain. In addition, because the houses are all made of wood, our people can break through the walls between houses, which avoids the chance of being discovered by Buddhists when walking on the street.

I led a few players to quickly 'touch' under a relatively tall building. This place is a fake fort in the contract city. As long as the fake fort in this model city is destroyed, even if the Buddhist spell takes effect, our fort It will also be kept safely.

A player who was following me quickly 'touched' a fist-sized crystal block from his body, then tied a bundle of cylindrical objects to the crystal, set the time, and stuffed it under the foundation of the pseudo-turret. This thing is a remote control bomb with a timer function. If it does not receive a remote control signal, it will automatically detonate at the set time. Because everything here is made of one layer of wood and one layer of mud, we specially added some combustion aids so that once a fire breaks out, it will not be easy for Buddhists to control the fire.

"Who is that?" We were about to evacuate after loading the bomb, when we suddenly heard a loud roar.

"You go first, I will take care of this." Let the others run away first, and together with Fairy Zizhu and Sun Wukong, I rushed towards the guy who discovered us.