Volume 19, Chapter 144: Fat Sheep Are Meant for Slaughter
"Ditans, Philindil, Marilyn? How did you three get together?"
Although I had made some speculations about the business that Ditans might want to discuss with me before I came here, none of them could be remotely related to the result in front of me, even seeing these three people here at the same time. It's absolutely impossible for me to think about it.
Ditans Walkerma is the main god of the Dark Temple and the master of the European dark system. Marilyn Xiuda, the former main god of the European Temple of Light, is now the main god of the European Temple of Light. Philindil, the former candidate goddess of the European Temple of Light, is now the orthodox main god of the European Temple of Light. Let’s not talk about the situation of Ditans and the two goddesses. The war between light and darkness has never stopped, so that people on both sides now feel that there is something missing in life if they don’t fight every now and then. Except for Ditans, it is extremely abnormal for the two goddesses to appear here together.
There was originally only one European Temple of Light, but due to their internal disputes and the interference of our guild, the European Temple of Light eventually split into two parts. One was the part pulled out by Marilyn, the original goddess of light. The other part of the new religion established by die-hards is the orthodox religion re-established by Philindil under the support of the original Temple of Light Elders. Among them, the Orthodox Church occupies the original main temple of the Temple of Light and most of the original resources of the Temple of Light, and is slightly better in terms of fixed assets. Marilyn's Protestantism is actually now confined to the United Kingdom. All temples and other things are basically rebuilt in a hurry. But because Marilyn has been a goddess for a long time, she has brought out many subordinates. , it can be said that in terms of combat effectiveness, Protestantism is obviously stronger than Orthodox Christianity.
One is the former goddess, and the other is the new goddess who subverted her. You can imagine how bad the relationship between Philindil and Marilyn can be. According to normal routine, these two people should start fighting when they get together. However, not only did they not start fighting now, they seemed to be planning to cooperate with me to do something, which was obviously beyond my acceptance range.
"Then...can you let me figure out how the three of you got together?"
"This matter is rather complicated. Do you mind if we find a more suitable place to discuss it?" Ditans said politely.
I immediately nodded and followed Ditans back to his palace, which was the cave under the Dark Temple. However, this time he did not receive us in the living room, but asked us to follow him into a room where he was the only one. There is a special study room that can only be entered. Ditans first planned to only let me and the three protoss in, but because everyone except himself objected, he had to relax the restrictions in the end. Naturally, I brought Ling, Xiaochun and Linglong with me, Philindil brought her sister Yuna, and Marilyn brought an angel who was more than two meters tall and was covered in heavy armor. Because we all brought people in, Ditans, who felt a little disadvantaged, finally called two archliches to come in and participate in the meeting.
In order to accommodate so many people, Ditans' study was eventually rearranged. There is a square coffee table that can be used as a bed in the middle of the room. Four sets of sofas are located around the coffee table. However, except for the four people on my side who are crowded together on the sofa, only Marilyn and her sister Yuna are there. Shared sofa. Philindil's entourage and Ditans' subordinates were both standing behind the sofa. Obviously, the relationship between them was not close enough to share the same sofa.
"Okay, now can you tell me what you want me to do?" I asked, looking directly at Ditans sitting opposite me.
Ditans first snapped his fingers to the back, and a lich immediately took out a scroll and sent it to me. Curiously, I took the scroll and looked through it. There wasn't much on it. It was basically three sets of time-related data. From this point of view, it seems that the data is gradually decreasing as time goes by, but because we don’t know what data this is, we can’t judge for the time being. However, just when I was about to open my mouth to ask Ditans, he took the initiative and said: "What you see now is the faith accumulation data of our three temples in the recent period. The first part is from our Dark Temple. The two paragraphs below belong to two goddesses respectively."
"Your faith level has obviously dropped significantly!" I said while looking at the data report.
Ditans nodded and said, "This is exactly why we came to you."
As soon as I heard this, I immediately put down the scroll, then stared at Ditans warily and said, "I have not developed any other beliefs on your territory."
"I know this." Ditans explained: "Can you please stop being so nervous? We are not here to settle accounts with you. I said, this is a transaction."
When I heard that they were not asking me to settle accounts, I let go of my worries, picked up the report again, looked at it, and then asked again: "From the data, it seems that your belief has declined in the past two months, and it has declined. The speed is quite rapid. Do you know what caused the decline in faith?"
"We wouldn't have looked for you if we didn't know." It was Marilyn who spoke this time. She said directly: "The law of creation limits the scale and conduct of wars between us gods. Therefore, even if we know who is robbing us of our faith, we cannot launch a full-scale war. As for sending elite soldiers to 'harass' For actions like this, we don’t have that kind of free time, and we really can’t find a candidate with enough weight.”
"Stop." I stopped Marilyn from continuing. I lowered my head and thought for a while and said, "What you mean is that you already know who is robbing you of your faith, and you have discovered that the other party is a divine force, but because Due to the restrictions of the law, you cannot launch a large-scale divine war, so you need someone who can fight the divine war on your behalf. Is my analysis correct?"
Marilyn nodded and said, "You are right."
After hearing the other party's affirmation, I immediately said: "You said that you can't find anyone of suitable quality to 'harass' your opponent, but you dare to hire me to help you fight a full-scale war. This means that the individual strength of the opponent's personnel is higher than that of others." Your people are strong, but their overall combat power is not as good as yours. Being able to steal your faith means that you are not far away. In addition, the overall strength is weaker than yours, but the individual strength is stronger than yours. The gods nearby meet the requirements. There seems to be only one power left?"
"As expected, you guessed it." Ditans admitted generously: "Yes, what we need you to deal with is the Olympus Protoss."
"It's okay to let me help, but at this price..." I looked at Ditans and the others with a deliberately evil smile.
"What kind of reward do you want?" Ditans asked worriedly. After all, we have not dealt with each other once or twice, and Ditans knows my appetite very well. Although I am absolutely reliable in my work, based on the principle of "you get what you pay for", my charges are definitely not cheap. Moreover, it seems that they are at an absolute disadvantage in this transaction, because this task is absolutely necessary, and no one can do it except me, so no matter what price I offer, all they can do is accept or reject it.
I almost laughed out loud when I saw Ditans's expression of generously willing to die. "Don't be so exaggerated, right? It's as if I want to use your wife as payment."
When Ditans heard my joke, he showed no intention of relaxing at all. He still kept a tight face and said: "If you are willing to let me use my wife to pay for it, I will get married immediately and then give her to you."
"Hey... do you think the woman you married grew up eating the fruit of wishes?" After I finished speaking, I said seriously: "Okay, I won't joke with you anymore, let's get down to business. Attacking the Olympus Protoss is not a problem. Although I am not yet able to destroy the Olympus Protoss, I can still find some trouble for them and kill a few of the opponent's high-level Protoss. However, you yourselves should also know that this kind of thing is very risky and the consequences are very serious. So my remuneration will definitely not be low. You'd better be mentally prepared for this."
Ditans nodded and said: "Before I asked you to come, I knew that I would be severely beaten by you, but you should also know that it is not a good thing to overly weaken our two major temples of light and darkness, so..."
"So I will offer as high a price as possible while ensuring that you have enough capital to cause trouble with the local gods."
In the middle of what he was saying, Ditans choked on my sudden words and almost lost his breath. After waiting for a long time, he asked with a livid face: "What kind of reward do you want before you are willing to help?" ?”
Marilyn and Philindil also said: "Just say what you want. We know you won't let us go easily this time, but for the power of faith we admit it."
Hearing their words, I knew they must have been discussing this for a long time before I came. If they were not forced to do this, they would definitely not ask me to help them do this. As for them not even bargaining, but directly raising the white flag for me to kill, this is not because they are naive, but because they really have no choice. If there is a conflict between the two protoss, there is no need to even think about it. There is no second option except to compete for territory and believers, and the power of faith is the foundation of everything for the protoss. Without the power of faith, there would be no Gods, just like there would be no water people to live without. Now they are stuck on this key sexual need that is related to life and death, and the matter cannot be concealed, so Ditans and the others will accept their fate and let me kill them without resisting, because they know that instead of being together, If I bargain to make me unhappy and get a higher price, it would be better to be clear about my attitude and make me order less.
"Since you all said it so straightforwardly, I can't do anything about it. How about you give me an hour and I'll discuss it with someone and give you an answer later?"
Ditans and the others also knew that such a big thing could not be resolved in a few minutes, so they immediately agreed to my plan. In order to save time, I did not return to Essinger. Instead, I told the think tank in the guild and several main leaders of the guild through the God of War to let them give their opinions. After a short period of consultation, the think tanks of the guild suddenly expanded the meeting. They also grabbed the heads of various departments of the guild and asked them what they were missing recently. According to Sumei, this is called production-based production. To put it simply, if our guild lacks anything, we can ask the Dark Temple and the Light Temple for what we need. This is better than me just asking for some high-end items to gather dust in the warehouse. I have done a lot of this kind of thing before, just to get some very valuable things, but our guild has no use at all. Apart from showing off, they really can only be used to collect dust. ! Therefore, in order to maximize the use of resources, this enlarged meeting called all the heads of the production department of the guild. After all, they know best what is missing.
After more than an hour of consultation and coordination meeting, the result was finally reached. During this period, I had to go to Ditans and the others to ask for an extension of the consideration time because it was overtime. Fortunately, it was them who asked us to do something, so Ditans and the others They don’t dare to put on airs with me. As long as I can help them gain the power of faith, now it’s basically up to me to do whatever I say.
After finally waiting for Essinger's staff team to come up with the results for me, Rose simply asked me to directly use the Ring of Love to summon her to the Dark Temple, and then the negotiation basically had nothing to do with me.
"Our requirements have been discussed. Take a look. If there is no problem, we can start implementing it now. After all, the power of faith is very important to you. The longer the time is delayed, the greater your losses will be. Therefore, in order to ensure To minimize your losses, please tell us as soon as possible whether you can accept this agreement." After Rose said this, she took out a book from Fenglong Space that was as big as two computer mainframes stacked together. book and then put it on the table. The coffee table made a loud bang and barely escaped being knocked over.
"What is this?" Ditans and the others stared blankly at the giant book in front of them with their brows twitching.
Rose replied in a serious manner as if nothing was wrong: "What about the agreement information? Didn't you ask us to quote? This is the quotation."
"Quotation? Is this an encyclopedia of quotations?" Although Ditans said this, he had already pulled the book in his hand and started to turn it over. Philindil and Marilyn had no choice but to move to Ditans. Si looked beside him.
At first, Ditans could still turn page by page, but after turning two pages, he started to notice that the speed became faster. In the end, he was picking through piles of piles, but soon he discovered the trick and turned the pages after a while. The book was flipped through the table of contents for a while, and it took him almost twenty minutes to finally look through it.
"I said... aren't the things you want too trivial?" Ditans and the others flipped through it for a long time before they discovered that more than 90% of the first part of this information contained magic materials, although the required quantities of each item were It’s not a lot, but the variety is really scary. Don’t say they can’t get it all together. Even if they do, it will be a few years later. It’s basically impossible to get everything.
After hearing what Ditans said, Rose immediately said: "It's true that you didn't read the agreement carefully. As I said before, you are not required to give all of these things, but you have to decide what kind of things to give, as long as the type you provide can It’s enough to reach 1% of the types of items we list, but the types that are not available must be converted into one unit of the items you have. In the end, if the total amount of items reaches the quantity we require, you will be considered to have met our requirements.”
"But so many things...?"
"I know you don't have time to compare one by one, so we applied for an appraisal contract. You can use this appraisal contract to automatically and quickly scan the things you have. It only takes a few minutes."
"No problem." Ditans, Philindil and Marilyn each took a contract scroll, unfolded it and used it on themselves. This thing can quickly search for the things that the three of them know their own forces have. Finally, the information will be summarized and compared with the things we listed, and then a specific list of the quantities they can come up with will be given. Basically, this kind of thing is just a cutscene. What the contract is actually performing is the search operation, so the speed is amazing. In less than a minute, three contracts are automatically transformed into three red lights that shine into us. On top of the agreement, many things in the agreement were suddenly erased, and the demand for the remaining supplies changed significantly. The demand for almost everything became much larger.
Ditans briefly browsed through the new agreement, and then said: "There are more than 3,000 resources in it. I took a rough look and found that we can accept this request."
After hearing this, Rose immediately smiled and said, "Then turn the agreement to the second requirement."
After hearing this, Ditans immediately checked the table of contents and then turned to the second request. He was surprised to find that the request written here was super simple. The second request is for our guild to send three researchers to randomly check the information in the library of the three temples for three days.
This request sounds simple, but in fact this request is more terrifying than the first request, because there are constructed creatures like Noreen in our guild. Her two eyes are basically two high-speed cameras, so just give her three days and she can replicate the entire library. The library of the Temple of Light in China was looted by us once before. Although the European side is the headquarters, there shouldn't be much information in it, so our target is mainly the library of the Temple of Darkness. You must know that the specialty of the Dark Temple is to have a large number of offensive spells and build various powerful war machines, so as long as we copy the library of the Dark Temple, we will definitely be able to produce a lot of technical achievements. No matter how bad it is, it would be good to add thousands of optional skills to the players in our guild.
Ditans and the others didn't know whether they didn't expect that we could copy the entire library in three days, or they didn't care. Anyway, they quickly agreed to the request.
Seeing that they even agreed to this, Rose asked them to flip the agreement to the third requirement. In fact, the super-thick agreement is almost at the end when you turn to this point. The large pile in the front is a catalog of various materials, and the most important ones are actually the few at the back.
Although the previous two agreements were complicated, they actually had little impact on the Three Temples, which was one of the reasons why they agreed so quickly. However, when they saw the third request, their expressions changed.
"Ziri, is this request...?"