Volume 20, Chapter 182: Broken City

Volume 20 Chapter 182 Breaking the City

While everyone was running around in panic, the ultimate destruction cannon at the bottom of Essinger Mobile Fortress finally completed its thirty-second energy gathering time. Then, with an eardrum-piercing buzzing sound, A dazzling beam of light pours down from the bottom of Essinger Mobile Fortress, directly at the top of the protective shield on top of the city below. For a moment, the sky and the earth are completely covered by a dazzling bright white. You can't see anything except the dazzling light. Nothing else was seen. 【_】

"Ah... I don't want to die in vain!" Many people in the city screamed because they couldn't stand the pressure. Above their heads was a protective shield that was shaking violently, and the entire city began to shake violently. As the city trembled, cracks began to appear in the buildings below, and some of the poorer quality buildings even began to collapse. Cracks on the ground that could sink a whole person appeared one after another, and they seemed to continue to extend. It looked like the end of the world.

"Damn, how long does this thing take to attack?" Without being penetrated immediately, the president below realized that the protective shield withstood the first wave of attacks, but the problem was that the attack of the destruction cannon was not instantaneous. It is a continuous period of time. It has been close to ten seconds since the light pillar fell, but the light pillar still has no intention of stopping.

A member squatting on the ground like him said: "President, can that demonic core be able to withstand it?"

Another person followed closely and said: "I'm not too worried about the magic core. On the contrary, our city may not be able to support it. Although the protective shield blocks direct attacks from the outside, our city is under supply pressure. Although This attack force has been dispersed, but the resulting shock is still destroying city buildings. I am now worried that even if the protective shield withstands the attack, our city will be doomed!"

"Damn it, a bombardment worth 100 million yuan cannot be underestimated!" A player who had heard the rumors said: "I shouldn't have taken this mission if I had known. We are really full and have nothing to do with the Frost Rose Alliance. What does this kind of monster guild do?”

"Just stop saying a few words. I've already answered the phone, so what's the use of shouting now?" Another person said angrily.

Just when a few people were complaining to each other to reduce the pressure, the light beam above the city suddenly began to thin out, and then shrunk into a thin line within a second and suddenly extinguished, turning into dots of starlight floating away, and The attack flame below immediately began to disappear layer by layer from the center to the surroundings the moment the light pillar disappeared, and finally disappeared completely into the air.

As the attack ended, a large amount of white smoke suddenly began to rise from the transmitter at the bottom of Essinger Mobile Fortress, and the radio also rang at the same time. "The launch of the urban destruction weapon has been completed, and the forced cooling process has been entered. It is confirmed that the target has not been completely damaged, and the backup weapon is activated."

As the prompt ended, the players below also raised their heads from the ground, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the bright light and flames in the sky had disappeared. The well-informed person before said in confusion at this time: "It's strange that the protective shield is fine. It seems that the protective shield of this guild is not an ordinary thing."

A few people nearby who had been stunned by his bragging immediately shouted: "Didn't you say before that the weapon was so awesome? Why is it so powerful? Look, isn't the protective shield still in good condition?"

"You idiot." The source immediately retorted: "Open your krypton gold dog eyes and look at the surrounding buildings and the ground under our feet. The protective shield has not been broken but it can cause such serious damage to the city inside. , you can imagine what kind of attack this is. It has not been broken now. It can only be said that the protective shield here is extraordinary. It does not mean that the weapons of the Frost Rose Alliance are not effective. Moreover, I don't mind telling you another piece of inside information. In fact, the boyfriend of my uncle's wife's...(omit the twists and turns)...brother-in-law's daughter is a senior member of the Frost Rose Alliance. According to him, in addition to this super weapon, Essinger Mobile Fortress, There is also a more powerful weapon, but that thing is relatively unsophisticated, so it is rarely used and not many people know about it."

"What's so powerful? Are you fooling us again?"

"No, no, what I said is true. This thing is called the Seven Spiritual Dust Bell. It is a big bell. As long as it is struck once, all objects that are regarded as targets within a radius of 80 kilometers will turn into dust. It is said that this It is a special attribute attack, and your resistance is completely ineffective against this attack."

"Wouldn't it be unstoppable?"

"I just know that this thing ignores magic resistance. As for whether this protective shield can block it, I don't know. But in my opinion, the possibility of blocking it is very low. After all, this protective shield has withstood one round of attacks. It looks obviously unstable now, and it will probably break if I hit it again.”

"I agree with that."

There's a reason why these people think the shield is dying. Because the protective shields above their heads were no longer as transparent as they were at the beginning, and only rippled in circles when they were hit. This protective shield is always in everyone's sight now. It is not nearly invisible as before, and the surface of the protective shield is no longer transparent, but looks like the kind of shattered explosion-proof glass. You can clearly see that the surface of the protective cover is full of cracks, but it has not collapsed, and the cracks are still being slowly repaired. This situation shows that the thing supporting the protective shield has no magic power. It can only be repaired by temporarily absorbing energy, but the protective shield cannot be repaired quickly. Although if you give it time, the protective shield will remain as strong as ever, but the question is, will it have time?

"Warning, all personnel outside Essinger Mobile Fortress should enter the city as soon as possible, or retreat 80 kilometers away from the city. The city will activate the second city-level weapons."

The announcement from the sky confirmed what the well-informed person below said. Although the broadcast above did not say what kind of weapon it was, the destruction radius of at least 80 kilometers was correct.

The warning was played three times, and the countdown began after the last play. Finally, when the count reached one, everyone heard a dull bell ringing at the same time. You can be sure that this is not a sound wave, because it appears in everyone's hearts at the same time, without sequence, and the sound will have a time difference depending on the distance.

As the bell rang, no changes could be seen, but all the objects in the city were like dusty antiques that had been suddenly breathed out, with a layer of scratches suddenly rising on their surfaces. The smoke and dust all flew in one direction as if they were blown out by the air current, but no one felt any wind.

After the bell tolled, in addition to a burst of thick smoke and dust in the city, all the players also found that their equipment had lost hundreds of points in durability. Some of the equipment was in need of repair and even those who wanted to cry without tears. I found that the equipment on my body exploded directly.

In fact, compared to the equipment on his body, it should be said that the buildings in the city were hit more seriously. These buildings themselves had cracks in the previous attacks, but this bell sounded as if time had accelerated for hundreds of years. Not only did many buildings that were already damaged collapse, but the outsides of even the stronger buildings seemed to be weathered. Usually a layer of outer shell has been peeled off, making the whole building look like a historical monument that has experienced hundreds of years of wind and rain.

"This, this, this..." In the guild headquarters in the center of the city, the president here looked at the surrounding buildings and the furniture that had been completely pulverized in shock. He was now speechless. He has begun to regret taking this mission now, because the current losses are already comparable to their mission rewards. In other words, even if they no longer suffer any losses from now on, this mission is just to protect their capital. Not only will they not make any profit, they will also offend our Frost Rose Alliance. It can be said that this mission has actually failed. However, even if they fail, they cannot give up, because the losses are already so huge. If they can't get the mission reward, they will lose even more, so they are now in a difficult situation.

Unlike the president's entangled and painful mood, we are quite happy at this time. Looking down from the sky, you can clearly see that there are hundreds of large and small holes in the protective shield outside the city. Moreover, these holes seem to be irreparable and are constantly disappearing, appearing and disappearing. It is obvious that the protection The hood has reached its load-bearing limit.

At this time, I entered Essinger Mobile Fortress and saw the reinforcements brought by Vina, so now I have no plans to continue using city defense weapons. After all, those big killers rely on energy to support them, and energy costs money. Money. I dared to use the super weapon that cost 100 million crystal coins before, not because I didn't care about money, but because our guild also has a colorful dream pool, which can store magic power, just like a magic battery. The first shot used the magic power from the sequel in the pool, not the magic crystal, so it can be said to be free of charge, but if it were to be done again, it would have to be filled with real magic crystal. So, we don't care about the first shot, but we won't be able to do it again. Rose will have to fight with me again.

"Vina, I think the protective shield can no longer hold up. Can any of you come down and help open a hole for me?"

"I'll do it." Xinghuo took the initiative to take over the task, and then flew directly to the lower part of Essinger Mobile Fortress, and then pointed his finger towards the protective shield. The already tattered protective shield suddenly seemed to have completely lost its power. Usually the whole thing disappears.

The guild members who were staring blankly at the protective shield that was riddled with holes suddenly discovered that the protective shield was missing, and then they all panicked because they had already seen Spark and thought of another big kill in our guild. device.

Our Frost Rose Alliance is famous, so most guilds would not dare to take on this mission. Although this guild accepted the offer, they had done enough homework beforehand. Because the investigation was relatively detailed, they certainly know that our Frost Rose Alliance is the only player guild that has its own guild to protect the gods. However, because the previous mission said that we only had twenty-four members to participate, and it was only limited to players, these people simply ignored the Protoss. However, what was unexpected was that Essinger Mobile Fortress suddenly jumped over. At first, because of the huge coercion that suddenly appeared in Essinger Mobile Fortress and the subsequent continuous attacks, they did not expect that the guild gods would be involved. However, when they saw Spark flying out with a huge Buddha's Light Golden Wheel, they I finally thought of the existence of these humanoid nuclear weapons.

"Damn it, it's the guild gods of the Frost Rose Alliance! They've sent out the gods!"

"Oh my god, how could I forget this?"

"What should we do? Those are the gods!"

"Didn't we also get system reinforcement?"

"Do you think you can do as much as the gods after being strengthened? Besides, it's not like you haven't read the information before. Don't you know what kind of gods those in the Frost Rose Alliance are? Can that be inferred from the general gods?"

Just like this person said. The gods are also divided into three, six or nine levels. Xinghuo was originally the Guanyin of the God Clan, and his fame did not last for a while. Such a famous protoss cannot be compared to just some miscellaneous gods.

Seeing Starfire remove the remaining protective shield with one finger, the people below were completely panicked. Now the protective shield is their biggest support. Without this thing, it is equivalent to a death sentence for them. However, before these people could put their fear into action after panicking, Spark flew back to Essinger Mobile Fortress.

It's certainly not a problem to kill these people with the abilities of the gods, but I don't dare to let them go. The previous mission was limited to twenty-four people, and because of the special scene, reinforcements could not be called. Although reinforcements have been called now, I am worried that if the reinforcements directly attack the players in that guild, we will be judged as a foul, so for the sake of safety, I will never let the protoss participate in the battle. Anyway, as long as the protective shield is gone, the people below are nothing to worry about.

The group of people below don't know why our guild Protoss has returned, but this does not prevent them from being happy about it. However, the joy was temporary, because the holes where eggs were laid at the bottom of Essinger Mobile Fortress were reopened, and then densely packed strings of mobile angels detached from Essinger Mobile Fortress and spread their wings to glide directly. Landed in the city.

I am worried that we will be judged as a foul when the Gods participate in the war. This is because the system previously said that we can only send 24 people to participate. Although the guild Gods are not players, they are still counted as a population, so I am not sure whether their participation in the war is against the rules. However, the Mobile Angel appears as a guild item in the system's recognition and is not counted as a guild member. Therefore, if the system does not want us to use the Mobile Angel, it can only notify us to disable the prop, but now we have not received it. This reminder means that Mobile Angel is not on the restricted list.

As a large number of mobile angels landed, Matsumoto Masa and I congratulated them on their smooth landing into the city under the cover of the mobile angels, and other personnel who participated in the mission who had been left behind by us all caught up. Now except for Rose who is still teaching the king, everyone on our side is already here.

"Everyone spread out, sense the magic wave, and immediately send a signal for reinforcements when they find the core." As soon as I landed, I reminded everyone through the communicator to split up. With the Essinger Mobile Fortress covering our heads, it is extremely convenient for us to move. In addition to getting a full set of communication services, the more important point is that you can call for artillery support.

"This is Masamoto Matsumoto, fifteen meters ahead. Confirm the suspicious building and request artillery support." Masamoto Matsumoto just thought it was fun. After all, he had never fought such a battle before, so he saw many enemies rushing into a building. Immediately after the construction, I called for reinforcements to see how effective it was. However, this effect was really beyond his expectation.

As soon as Masamoto Matsumoto finished shouting, he heard a sound breaking through the air, followed by a large group of buildings in front of him all rising into the sky. The stunned Matsumoto Masako didn't wake up until an enemy's helmet hit his feet. Now he finally knew why he was defeated in the first place.

Not to mention the situation on Masamoto Matsumoto's side, the other groups rushed in extremely smoothly. Although the attributes were temporarily strengthened ten times by the system, the players here basically had no time to adapt to their new abilities. Only those NPCs performed normally. After all, they are data themselves, and the improvement is just a matter of modifying a few variables. They do not constitute an impact in themselves. However, even those improved NPCs and players are still no match for the Mobile Angel.

Compared with players with complex thoughts and NPCs with relatively rigid minds, Mobile Angel is simply a legion-style killing weapon. All its tactical actions are combat methods compiled from various combat data extracted from the guild's database. Its efficiency is terrifying. Of course, this is a propaganda statement for people within the guild. After all, our guild is quite special, and there are some things that cannot be said casually even to internal members of the guild.

If you want to know the real reason why Mobile Angel is so strong, you have to trace it back to the God of War. Everyone knows that although the God of War appears as a player in the game, he is essentially a battlefield management computer. Since the company will give us this precious machine to test, of course it will not just test some basic data, so they will often give us some weird test items. Among them, Mobile Angel's tactical skills and combat data are actually one of the test items. These things are not written by us at all to collect player combat data in the game, because there is nothing in the game that can monitor players on such a large scale, and it is impossible to talk about collecting data in this way. Therefore, these data are actually all outside the game.

Everyone knows that Longyuan is a military-industrial group, so we will conduct a lot of research on weapons. One of the research projects is the Machine Legion project. This project includes the development part of combat robots and the tactical and strategic research part of combat robots. You can think of these two parts as the relationship between hardware and software. Robot manufacturing is just hardware. If the robot you build will just move forward stupidly, and then fire when it sees the enemy, then this kind of thing will be destroyed by the enemy 100%, because the defense of modern weapons has always been weaker than the attack, and There are no targets that cannot be destroyed, only targets that cannot be hit. Therefore, hardware alone is not enough. We also need to study software issues such as the robot's individual combat actions and how to deal with enemies when encountering them. In addition, if multiple robots operate together, there will be a problem of tactical coordination. Rather than wait until the robot is built and then slowly study these things, it is better to use a software environment to study them virtually in advance.

With such a good test platform as "Zero", how could the research department let it go? Therefore, our guild's mobile angels became experimental subjects. Although the artificial souls installed in the guild's mobile angels are similar to system NPCs, the tactical actions they use in battle are all processed by actual military robot operating systems. The company can modify the combat methods of these mobile angels based on their various performances in battle, remove erroneous and redundant movements, modify unmatched movements, and ultimately make the combat robot's movements perfect.

Although this system is still under testing, and there are still many weird problems. For example, the mobile angel with this driver installed likes to hit the wall. I have never been able to figure out what is going on. They never go through the door when there is an enemy. Even if it is just a wooden door, they will turn a blind eye and go straight through the wall to chase the enemy. Anyway, there are many such messy little problems. However, none of this can hide the fact that this is a real military system. Therefore, its efficiency is far more powerful than those NPCs and players in the game.

The tactical action data of military tactical robots is derived from the tactical actions of special forces. Some adjustments have been made on this basis. The other parts are improved little by little in the later stage of the game based on actual data. To put it bluntly, the tactical awareness of these mobile angels may be stronger than that of special forces, and the computing power of combat NPCs can only be equivalent to the standards of ordinary athletes at most, and at most they are a little more fierce than athletes, but after all they are just ordinary sports. nervous system. The reason why it is not designed to be more sturdy is mainly to accommodate the players. Think about it, if the fighting skills of NPCs were all at the level of special forces, what would the players say? Even though my attributes are higher than others, I still get slapped in the face for no reason. Is this a player playing a game or a game playing a player? Therefore, the player's strength may be the weakest among the three.

Even if the two sides can be completely equalized in terms of strength, the Mobile Angel can still crush players and NPCs without any pressure, because the Mobile Angel uses a military system, and what the military is best at is cooperating in combat. There may be cooperation between players, but small-scale cooperation with a few dozens of people is just fine, but when there are more people, everything becomes chaotic immediately. Besides, players are amateurs playing games after all. No matter how good they are, they cannot be compared to professional soldiers, and the tactical cooperation of professional soldiers above the special forces level determines that players and mobile angels may be able to draw a tie in one-on-one situations. When ten versus ten were fought, it was the Mobile Angel that completely crushed the players.

NPCs do cooperate, but unfortunately their cooperation is basically just showy. "Zero" is just a game, so the purpose of the cooperation between the NPC armies here is to make players feel the atmosphere of the battlefield, not to increase the combat effectiveness of the NPCs. However, the tactical coordination of Mobile Angels was developed to increase combat effectiveness. The starting point is different, and the results are naturally different.

In any case, when the Mobile Angel enters the city, it basically kills everyone. The battle lines between players and NPCs are completely unable to stop these powerful commandos with professional military qualities. No, the Mobile Angel is better than the professional giant. After all, professional soldiers are also human beings and will die if they are hit. But Mobile Angels are not humans, they are not afraid of death, and their defense is calculated based on durability. Thanks to the durability setting of city defense weapons, the Mobile Angel is basically a humanoid tank in front of the player, and one or two hits will definitely have no effect. In addition, all the modern mobile Angels in our guild are equipped with liquefied magic crystal steam missiles. As soon as the number of enemies is found to be too large, they will immediately hit them with a missile, and the result is self-evident. Thanks to the technology I got from the Iron Empire, all the analysis and installation have not been completed, otherwise a group of mobile angels with guns will definitely collapse these players. You must know that the operating system of Mobile Angel is modeled after the modern army. Cold weapon combat is actually a part that they are not good at. If Mobile Angel has conventional thermal weapons that can guarantee endurance, it will definitely be a nightmare for the enemy. Of course, I believe that this nightmare will soon happen to someone, because it is only a matter of time before we have to change our clothes.

Following the Mobile Angel, we encountered almost no resisters along the way. Not all the players in this city are from that guild, and most of them chose not to help defend the city, so many people went offline directly after we entered. Now the system no longer adds any cursor display above the person's head in order to make the game more realistic, so it is impossible to distinguish between camps as before. These people had no choice but to log off if they didn't want to be accidentally injured. Although they are in the city now, because they chose not to participate in the defense of the city, they can go online and offline at will, and this will not be affected.

Without these ordinary players, those NPCs and players from the opposing guild are no match for our Mobile Angels, so this battle will naturally be extremely easy. In less than five minutes, more than half of the city has been captured, and Kristina has informed us that the magic power fluctuations in the magic core have been discovered.

"As expected of a mage, he is more sensitive to magic power fluctuations than us."