Volume 19 Chapter 189 Doubts

Volume 19 Chapter 189 Doubts

"What did you say?" I lifted the guy on the ground, then almost put my face on his face and asked again: "Where do you think the other bottle of liquefied magic crystal steam is?"

"He's coughing... he's coughing... he's coughing..."

"Say it. "

"Ziri, you're going to crush him to death!" Hongyue said, holding my arm.

It was only after Hongyue reminded me that I was a little too excited that I quickly relaxed my grip on my hand. The guy immediately broke free from my control and knelt on the ground, coughing desperately. After seeing that he was almost done coughing, I held back my temper and asked again: "Tell me, where is the last can of liquefied magic crystal steam?"

"I'm not lying, that tank of liquefied magic crystal steam has really been transported to the Himalayas."

"Do you know the specific location?" Hongyue asked before I could.

The guy shook his head and said: "We are just delivery people. They only need us to deliver it to a city called Kula at the foot of the Himalayas, and then the jar of liquefied magic crystal steam will be handed over to them. Even the fact that they transported the liquefied magic crystal steam up the mountain was only found out after I secretly followed them for a short distance."

"Why did you follow them then?"

"Don't I want to leave a way out for myself? I don't know where those guys came from. If there is any accident, it won't hurt if I know more, right?"

Hongyue and I exchanged glances with each other, then looked at the guy again and said: "We will let you off this time, but after you leave here, you'd better not think about going to the Sancai Hui to inform you again. From the moment you are exposed, you have no use value in their eyes, so you can't expect to get any benefits from them. Whistleblowing will not give you anything in return except offending our Frost Rose Alliance. .”

The guy nodded and said: "I'm not stupid. What can't I do with this money? If I tell the truth and make myself like a street rat, I won't be able to mess around in the game in the future. I still Not that stupid."

After seeing that this guy understood what we meant, I let him go, and then said to Prince Charming: "You can go back to meet Yanyu and tell him that we already know the approximate whereabouts of the can of liquefied magic crystal steam. , you ask him to seize the time to investigate the traitors in the guild, and we will go find clues ourselves."

Prince Charming asked in confusion: "Can't I follow?"

"Sorry, the other party may be going there for a secret of our guild, so it's not convenient to bring outsiders."

Hearing what we said so directly, Prince Charming can no longer make any excuses. He nodded to us and said: "Okay, I'll go back and resume my life right away. But if you get the exact whereabouts of the tank of liquefied magic crystal steam, please inform us as soon as possible. We can't control such dangerous things unless they are under control." Feel at ease!"

"This is for sure."

After being polite with Prince Charming, Hongyue and I returned directly from the teleportation array to Essinger, and then transferred from Essinger to the City of Commandments. Unlike other cities, the City of Discipline is equipped with special protection devices. Normal teleportation methods cannot pass through the space barrier here, so most teleportation arrays and teleportation skills will be ineffective here. Of course, the City of Commandment also has a teleportation array, but this is not a general teleportation array, but a special teleportation array. This kind of teleportation array has special protection. It can send a connection request to any teleportation array and teleport people there. However, if other teleportation arrays want to teleport people here, they must have corresponding special equipment. If there is no such equipment, Unable to connect. Currently, there are only two teleportation arrays equipped with this kind of equipment and capable of direct teleportation to the City of Discipline. One is in the Sky City of Essinger Twin Cities, and the other is in the underground part of Steel City.

According to the information provided by the guy before, the tank of liquefied magic crystal steam was transported to the Himalayas. From this information, the first thing we thought of was that the other party had set its target on the City of Commandments. Of course, this is just our conjecture and there is no reliable evidence. The Himalayas are not just small mountains. In addition to having the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, the Himalayas themselves are also quite large. According to the information of our guild, there are as many as thirty-three system cities in the entire Himalayan Mountains region, and it is not known how many cities have been built by players. Although the tank of liquefied magic crystal steam that Sancai transported to the Himalayas was probably for our City of Commandments, we do not rule out the possibility that the other party happens to have a secret base here. However, even if there is only a slight possibility, we must come over and conduct a thorough inspection before we can rest assured. After all, the significance of the City of Commandments is extraordinary.

As a safe that preserves the Ring of Commandments that the gods long for, the City of Commandments itself is a huge powder keg, and anything related to it can eventually trigger large-scale disputes among the gods. For example, some time ago I used the threat of no longer preserving the Ring of Commandment to force the gods to compromise with me. This shows the weight of the Ring of Commandment. If those idiots from San Cai Gui really blow up the City of Discipline, then we don’t know what losses we will suffer. Anyway, their guild is definitely going to be doomed. Of course, if the Sancai Hui is eliminated at the cost of destroying the City of Discipline, I personally feel that we will suffer a greater loss, so we must prevent this from happening.

Because of the special "nature" of the City of Commandments, any key location is guarded in groups. It’s not that there are so many guards here, but that the protoss feel that they cannot trust each other, so there will be several protoss forces appearing at each post at the same time, and because there are too many protoss forces, even if each tribe only has I sent a guard to each post, and the result was that there were a large group of guards at every post in the city. This was because I used the rotation method to forcefully reduce the number of guards. Otherwise, it would be estimated that every guard in the City of Discipline was There must be at least two to three hundred people standing at the sentry position.

As soon as the teleportation between Hong Yue and I started, the teleportation array in the City of Commandments immediately lit up, and then I saw the divine guards who were sitting or standing lazily moving freely around the teleportation array suddenly jumped up. The person who threw the dice threw the dice directly, and the player who played poker also scattered the cards. In an instant, all the guards entered a combat state and stared at the center of the teleportation array on alert. Although these people may look lazy, in fact they are the elites of various divine races. Just like the special forces in the army, they may not be as disciplined as some conventional troops, but their combat skills are definitely first-class.

As the teleportation array gradually reached the critical point, two figures suddenly appeared in the center of the teleportation array and quickly converged into shape. Then all the guards collectively tensed their muscles for a moment, but the next second, after seeing the person clearly The guards immediately relaxed.

"It turns out to be President Zi Ri." Seeing Hong Yue and I appearing in the center of the teleportation array, a guard couldn't help but sigh, then turned around and greeted the people who were playing together before: "It's a false alarm, let's continue. "As he said this, he saw this group of people picking up poker cards and looking for sex chips. It was like a divine version of a casino party.

Hongyue whispered in a low voice: "Are these guys too arrogant? Are they using us as an entertainment center?"

I whispered back: "It's not like we're paying to support these people anyway, what do you care about them? Let's find out where the can of liquefied magic crystal steam was sent first."

"That's right." Hongyue nodded and immediately followed me out of the teleportation array. The guards outside were much more relaxed compared to the teleportation array. Most of them nodded and said hello when they saw me. Only the guards at some important sections would jump out in surprise and scare people.

It took more than ten minutes to run to the guard management office of the City of Discipline, and then told the guard commander on duty today about the situation. The other party immediately mobilized a large group of gods to climb on the wall of the City of Discipline and take charge of the lookout. In addition, he A large group of protoss guards were also sent out to provide warning around the mountain. Anyone who dared to approach the nearby area would be immediately arrested by these protoss.

Arranging the defense work here is not enough. There are always loopholes in passive defense. Facts have proved that there is no truly invincible defense in this world, and I have only heard of people who can be thieves for a thousand days, but I have never heard of people who can prevent thieves for a thousand days. It's not a problem for us to keep guarding like this. The most important thing is to find the stolen can of liquefied magic crystal steam.

After arranging things in the city, Hong Yue and I left the City of Commandment. After teleporting to the Kula City that the guy mentioned before, we both began to investigate the whereabouts of the liquefied magic crystal steam. The size of this thing is not small. For such a small border town, if someone uses a teleportation array to transport such a large thing, it should be very conspicuous, so it should not be difficult to investigate. In addition, our investigation here has another purpose, and that is to alert the snake.

Hongyue and I's identities mean that many people know us. If the people from Sancaihui are really lurking nearby, they will soon know that we have appeared in Kula City. The three talents who know that we have chased here will definitely react. Whether they launch an attack plan in a hurry or change their strategy to move the tank of liquefied magic crystal steam, this will give us a signal. The most difficult bugs to find are those that hide in the grass and don't move. As long as they run, we can definitely find some clues and pull them out.

With this idea in mind, we began to search around the city. Hongyue mainly asked passers-by about the situation, while I specifically looked for fixed NPCs in the city. With my special affinity and intimidation attribute towards NPCs, generally NPCs will basically cooperate with me as long as they don't have a definite affiliation.

"Excuse me, have you seen this thing recently?" I asked a waiter in a hotel near the city gate.

The other party looked at the magic image in my hand, then shook his head and said, "I definitely haven't seen it before. This thing shines like gold. If I had seen it, I would definitely have an impression."

Seeing the waiter shaking his head, I did not give up, but continued to ask: "Have you ever seen a transport truck or box that can hold this thing passing by? Maybe this thing is wrapped."

When the waiter heard what I said, he frowned and started thinking, and then after a long time, he suddenly realized it and shouted: "I remember, three days ago, a group of people drove a large truck with a fully enclosed cargo box. The car passed by here, and they used four brute beasts to pull the car, and there were people pushing it from the back. I don’t know what exactly was pulled that was so heavy.”

"How big is that car?"

The waiter pointed at the magic image in my hand and said, "It can hold at least seven or eight of these things. At that time, I remember that when the car arrived at the city gate, it was almost stuck in the city gate hole because it was too big. It took a long time to get out of the jam."

I threw a bag of gold coins to the waiter, then turned around and walked out. According to the waiter, the size of the car is probably comparable to the size of a small container. A tank of liquefied magic crystal steam obviously does not need such a big car to load it, so this car is either not for pulling liquefied magic crystal steam, or it is also loaded with other things.

I was thinking, and suddenly I saw Hongyue running over. I looked at her confused and asked, "Why are you so worried?"

After Hongyue stood still in front of me, she said: "Let me inform you. The Rose side just found out that the Northern Alliance lost three large trebuchets. Because now everyone uses cannons and almost no one uses trebuchets, so they keep firing They were pressed in the warehouse. When the roses were just being counted, Yanyu and the others realized that the things were missing."

"Trebuchet? What kind of trebuchet? How big is it?"

"The trebuchet is folded when not in use. Not counting the transport carriage underneath, the main part is about the size of three double-door refrigerators bundled together."

After hearing this data, my eyes immediately lit up, and then I asked again: "What else did Rose and the others find? Did they lose more than this liquefied magic crystal steam storage tank? There should be five more tanks, right?" ?”

Upon hearing this, Hongyue immediately looked at me in surprise and asked, "Have you already contacted Rose? How come you even know the quantity?"

"My guess."

"Guess?"

I nodded and pointed to the hotel behind me and said: "Just now a waiter inside said that a large carriage pulled a closed carriage as big as a container out of the city from here a few days ago. I didn't think the other party would use such a method before. The big car ostentatiously only pulls one can of liquefied magic crystal steam, but if there are three trebuchets and five cans of liquefied magic crystal steam in the car, it will be just right."

"I said, why are you so awesome! What should we do now? Find that car?"

"Of course, but there is something we need to do before that."

The so-called first thing to do is to look all the way back along the road at the city gate. Because I know that the target is that special carriage, I basically always ask the right questions when asking those NPCs. This kind of border town usually has few people, so the sudden appearance of such a large carriage will certainly attract attention. I followed the road and kept asking the NPCs on both sides if they had seen the carriage, and then worked backwards in this way, and finally found the place where they drove out.

This is a house bought by a private person. There are many places like this in other cities, and it is a place specifically for players to rest. And some players also like to use this kind of house as a storage box, throwing all the equipment and items that they don't use but can't dispose of in a short time in the house, so that they don't have to carry it all on their backs. After all, space equipment is quite rare, so most players can't bring too much.

Although this kind of private residence is very common, it is only in some big cities or scenic areas. It is definitely rare to buy a house in such a small border town, and to actually buy such a big house.

Although it is strange, because the house that the player buys in the city is protected by the system, no matter how high your attack power is, don't expect to break in and check it out. There are only three ways to see what's in the house. The first is to ask the owner to give you permission to enter; the second is to learn the thieves' stealing skills; the third is to launch a siege, during which these houses will switch from invincible to destructible. This setting is mainly to stimulate those big guilds to develop their own cities. After all, the safer your city is, the more secure it will be for others to buy houses here. And the bigger your city is, the more people will come to buy houses. . This is definitely an important source of income for most guilds. However, the largest cities in our guild do not sell houses to the outside world. Otherwise, Isinger may become the city with the highest housing prices in the world. After all, Isinger has never been captured by the player guild. past existence.

There is nothing I can do if I can't get into the house. The system protection cannot be bypassed by relying on strength. As for finding a high-level thief with stealing skills, it doesn't seem necessary, because in my opinion, this house is at best It's a temporary transfer station, so there probably aren't any clues. The reason why I came here is just to let Bailang confirm the other party's scent.

Bai Lang, who was released by me, first sniffed at the door, and then began to sniff fiercely on the ground. Finally, after successfully confirming that the other party's scent could be tracked, we started walking all the way out along the street.

At first, the smell became very messy and difficult to track due to the crowds of people coming and going in the city. However, because there were many witnesses, we didn’t need to worry about the smell problem at all. After leaving the city, although there was no one to guide us, Since there weren't many people around, the smell became less intense. It is indeed not easy to find the smell you need among tens of thousands of smells mixed together, but it is much easier if you only search for a dozen smells.

After leaving the city, our speed not only did not slow down, but actually ran faster and faster. Finally, Bailang took us all the way up the mountain.

The outer areas of the Himalayas are actually not very steep. When you first enter the mountain, you don't feel that you are climbing at all. Only after walking for a while, you look back and find that you are much higher than the previous position, and you realize that it has been going uphill.

We moved quickly along the mountain road following the smell, and soon Bailang discovered a large mess of smell on a relatively flat site, and we actually found the huge transport truck here.

This car is too big, and the fully enclosed cargo compartment outside is too heavy. The purpose of using this thing is probably just to transport things out of the city. The relatively flat mountain road at the beginning was okay, but the mountain road behind it became increasingly steep. If they continued to use this kind of car, they would probably be exhausted even if they asked a leader to pull it, so they decisively gave up the car used to cover it here. Sight of the cart.

After confirming that the other party changed his behavior, I released the king. As a heroic spirit, the king is made up of the soul fragments and fighting will of countless soldiers on the battlefield. This actually includes many memory fragments, including the memory of tracking. For soldiers, tracking is basically a practical skill, so every legion on the battlefield will be equipped with at least some soldiers who can track. When there are more of these soldiers, it will be easier for them to leave fragments of their memories behind after their death. The king who merged the fragments of their souls, and the king learned how to track because of these fragments.

As soon as the king came out, he immediately searched the ground according to my request. Then he turned to me and said: "The other party's changed team has three four-wheeled medium-sized carriages, but they are not horse-drawn. The person pulling the vehicle was a clawed animal creature, which should be between four and five meters in length. It was probably an earth bear. Behind the team, there were three small two-wheeled carriages, also pulling some kind of animal creature. , but I can’t see the specific species, but I’m sure it’s not as big as the Earth Bear.”

"Can you tell by the staffing of the team?"

"In terms of personnel, we can only see that there are a lot of people, but the specific number cannot be confirmed. This is a mountainous area, and it is frozen soil. The soil on the ground is too hard, and the weight of a person can hardly leave any traces."

"With six cars and a group of people, this team should be quite large. Let's follow their scent first."

With the king's tracking technique and Bailang's scent tracking, we basically don't have to worry about losing track, so we advance quite quickly along the way. However, we are fast, but the targets we are tracking cannot move faster. Even if a creature with extremely exaggerated power like the Earth Bear is used as a traction force, dragging a heavy four-wheeled carriage along the mountain road is by no means an easy task. This can be confirmed from the ever-increasing scent signals Bailang said. .

As the time it takes for the other person to walk through a place increases, the smell at that location will only become weaker and weaker. Bailang feels that the smell is getting stronger and stronger because we are walking much faster than the other person, so the distance between the road we walked and the other person's passing time is It becomes shorter and shorter, so the smell becomes stronger and stronger. At first Bailang had to stop occasionally to check the direction, but later he simply ran away. I simply put the king away, and Hong Yue and I rode our respective mounts and ran all the way.

Bailang is a wolf-shaped creature, so he has no burden at all when running on the mountain road. Ye Ying looks like he is running, but in fact he is just flying, so anything that is not mountainous is just a cloud to him. As for Hongyue, she rides the steel claw of the guardian beast assigned to members in the guild. Everyone knows that Steel Claw's limbs are extremely strong, and from the fact that his name is Steel Claw, you can see how prominent his claws are. It can be said bluntly, not to mention that the mountain road is just a little rough, even the steel claws on the cliff that are 90 degrees upward can grasp the rocks to climb up. For him, walking on this kind of road is like walking on flat ground.

Among the three creatures, Steel Claw is the slowest, but in any case, it is also a creature that can be used as a mount. If it really spreads its legs and runs wildly, its speed is definitely not slow. At least it was more than ten times faster than the snail speed of Sancaihui's group of people dragging three carriages.

As we ran all the way, we soon discovered that the other party was gradually approaching Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world where the City of Commandments is located.

Hong Yue asked me with some worry: "Looking in this direction, they are obviously coming towards our city of commandments. Should we remind the guards in the city to slightly expand the search area?" After hearing Hong Yue's words, I also started to think about it. , but after thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn’t figure it out. Seeing that I didn't respond for a long time, Hongyue couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you speak?"

I frowned and said, "There are some things I don't understand."

"What's up?"

"The situation is obvious now. The other party stole three trebuchets and six cans of liquefied magic crystal steam from the Northern Alliance. The purpose is probably to bombard the City of Commandments, but this is somewhat unjustifiable."

"Why can't you make sense?" Hongyue still didn't understand what I meant.

"Think about it. The trebuchet is not a rail gun, and the range will definitely not be too far. With the weight of the liquefied magic crystal steam tank, they can throw it three to five kilometers and it will reach the sky. But Mount Everest is It is a single peak, and the distance between the nearest peak and it is far more than this number. Besides, Mount Everest itself is the highest peak in the world, and the other party wants to throw liquefied magic crystal steam storage tanks from other peaks. You have to shoot from above, which will further shorten the shooting range. I really don't understand how the opponent can use a trebuchet to throw the liquefied magic crystal steam storage tank into the City of Commandment, and if they can't Yeah, then why did they go to such trouble to move these three trebuchets up the mountain?"

Hongyue also reacted after hearing my explanation. "That's right. Their trebuchet can't throw it that far at all? Do you think they intend to use the trebuchet to throw a small can of liquefied magic crystal steam? Maybe they didn't intend to throw the whole can?"

I shook my head and said: "It's unlikely. First of all, if the other party originally planned to throw away the small cans, they could just get the cans at the bottom of the mountain and then transport them up. Wouldn't this be much easier than transporting the big cans? Why would they bother to transport the big cans? How about bringing up the liquefied magic crystal steam? Furthermore, even if they switch to a small tank of liquefied magic crystal steam, the shooting range should still not be enough. There is a limit to the shooting range of something like a trebuchet. , if the weight of the thrown object is too light, it will not be thrown far. Even if they find the optimal weight ratio, they can probably only throw it six or seven kilometers away, but they still can't reach our City of Commandments, right?"