Chapter 29: Declaration of War with Great Disparity in Strength

Lucky, who fell into the lava, plunged directly to the bottom of the pool, and then floated up again soon. Then he stood next to the pumice stone where the Halloween flame flower was and shouted to me: "There is a big one below. Exit, but I don’t know where it goes.”

I nodded and said: "As long as there is a passage. You come up first, and we will go back."

"Go back?" Lucky looked back at the Halloween Flame Flower in surprise and asked, "What should I do with this Halloween Flame Flower? Leave it alone?"

"Is there any way you can take it away without causing an explosion?"

Lucky shook his head directly and said: "I can only ensure that I will not be affected by the explosion."

"Then it's over. Come up quickly, we have to collect some Drunken Dragon Grass to take away."

"Oh, I see."

After leaving the lava sinkhole, we started walking back along the passage. But as soon as we arrived at the entrance of the cave, we saw the three players following us. They were obviously stunned when they saw us, and then hurriedly surrounded us.

"What do you mean? Do you want to take action?" I asked coldly, looking at the three people blocking the way.

Although the temperature in the lava tunnel was already frighteningly high, the three of them still felt a chill all over their bodies when they heard my voice.

"No, no, we just want to ask, that Halloween flame flower..." The three people said as they quickly moved to the side of the road to make way for the passage.

I answered directly before they finished speaking: "Did I say that I wanted to take away the Halloween Flame Flower? That thing is still growing there and is fine."

"Huh...!" After hearing my answer, the three of them finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It didn't take long for them to feel at ease. Having already passed by them, I added without warning. "Although I didn't take it away this time, as long as I find a way to suppress the volcano, I will still come back and take away the Halloween Flame Flower."

To my surprise, the three people did not show any panic, but said very happily: "As long as there is a way to suppress the volcano, it will be no problem even if you ask us to help you take out the Halloween Flame Flower and hand it over."

"You care so much about the safety of Reykjavik, are you the city manager?"

The three people looked at each other, then nodded in unison: "We are the city managers. Although Reykjavik is a system city, our system city management method in Iceland may be different from yours. In our place, the management of the city is relatively loose and casual, and the managers' guild has a higher degree of freedom than managers in other places. It can be said that except for slightly less income and the fact that we cannot violate the basic protection agreement, our place The managers' guild is similar to the city owners."

"No wonder you are so desperate." After I finished speaking, I continued: "Although I will not touch the Halloween flame flower until I find a way to suppress the volcano, but you three had better keep it secret, because I'm not sure others will I won’t touch the Halloween flame flower.”

My words stunned the three of them. Then there was a moment of fear, and then all of a sudden they all said to me: "We will send people to guard here 24 hours a day."

In fact, it cannot be said that they overreacted. But this is the case. The value of the Halloween flame flower is too great. Although removing it would cause nearby Reykjavik to be destroyed by a volcanic eruption, the city manager's guild and the city's resident players would be the victims of Reykjavik's destruction. For those who are prepared, In fact, nothing is lost at all. Even if there is a loss, it can be completely ignored under the huge temptation of the Halloween Flame Flower.

Imagine that there is something worth billions of yuan near the city where you live, but taking this thing away will cause changes in the crust beneath the city. Eventually a super earthquake destroyed the entire city. What do you think will happen if such news spreads? People with conscience will definitely not touch this thing, because when someone takes this thing and gets billions, it also means that many people will die in the nearby city. And those who survive will also lose everything they own. However, even with such a large impact. Do you think you can guarantee that no one will touch that thing? No, I think not only will some people do it, but there must be quite a few such people. Although what he got was definitely not as valuable as the loss caused by this thing, so what? It’s him who benefits, and it’s others who lose. This account seems to be easy to calculate.

Think of the people who steal high-voltage power lines and cause blackouts in large areas. Think of those people who steal manhole covers, causing passersby to fall into the well and die. Can you say there are few such people? No, there are many such people, and as long as the benefits are large enough, many so-called noble people who don't bother to steal wires and manhole covers will transform into existences like those people. This is reality.

Therefore, my warning is very important, because if this news leaks out, those people who are interested in profit and cannot see anything else will gather like flies that smell a bad smell. Maybe the managers here can do something about it. They can block one or two, but can they block ten or a hundred? Even if they are blocked, what price do they have to pay?

"You don't need to send someone to guard this place." I said as I walked out: "There is a proverb in China that there is no three hundred taels of silver here. It means that in ancient times, a man buried three hundred taels of silver in the ground, so I was afraid that someone would steal it, so I put up a sign where the silver was buried, saying that there was no three hundred taels of silver here."

The three people over there are not fools. After listening to my explanation of this proverb, they immediately realized that they sent people to guard this place, which is a business without three hundred taels of silver. The Halloween Flame Flower has been growing here for more than a day or two, but it has never been discovered before. In other words, no one knows about the existence of the Halloween Flame Flower, not even Bing Fist. Because of his In terms of character, if he had known that such a valuable thing existed here, he would have probably taken it away long ago, and there is no way he would have waited until now. In addition, the temperature in that passage is too high. Considering the actual strength of Bing Fist, it is possible that he will not be able to enter the passage over there like the three here, so it is very possible that he does not know the news. high.

According to this inference, then, now the only ones who know that there is a Halloween flame flower in this place are me and the three of them. Since I took the initiative to wake them up. It means that I will not tell it, and as long as they don't tell it, no one will know about it at all. If you want something to be protected from being stolen, the best way is not to lock it up or send someone to guard it, but to not let others know that such a thing exists. No matter how clever a thief is, he can't steal something he doesn't know about, right?

"Thank you, President Ziri, for waking up. We almost did something!"

"You're welcome, I just want to get the Halloween Flame Flower and don't want others to take it away first."

Although I am telling the truth. But the three people still thanked them. After all, this was real help to them. Otherwise, it would be difficult to guarantee that the next person who knows about the Halloween Flame Flower would first find a way to seal the volcano before getting the Halloween Flame like me. flower, most people would probably just take away the Halloween flame flower and let Reykjavik be submerged by the volcano, right?

Returning to the place where the buddleia grows outside, I did not catch all the buddleia. Instead, I only selected the mature parts and picked out some blooming buddleia. I picked up some Buddleia seeds.

After doing this, I left this place with luck. The three people who followed also borrowed my light and luckily helped to bring them out, otherwise they could have floated down on the pumice stone. But there was no way to go upstream. So I can only rely on luck to help bring them out.

After returning to Reykjavik, the situation here has been basically confirmed. The smell of a large amount of buddleia was indeed detected outside Bingquan's house, but because Bingquan's house belonged to private property, there was no way to enter. Of course, thieves can use special skills to enter other people's houses, but this so-called entry is actually just to obtain part of the other party's property stored in a private residence according to the skill ratio, and it does not really allow players of the thief profession to enter other people's houses. of houses. After all, the game also has to protect the body. Don’t forget that “Zero” is a virtual simulation game. Players can not only eat and sleep here. You can even do some wonderful things between men and women, you said, if someone is having sex with his wife in the game in the house he bought. Suddenly a thief appears next to the bed. What's going on? Therefore, the thieves in the game do not actually enter the house, but only steal property. But we don’t want to steal Ice Boxing’s money, we just want to know the clues of the magic pastry chef, so entering the room is the key, and theft skill obviously cannot meet this condition.

"What should I do now?" Because of my promise and my previous awakening, the three members of the managers' guild here are now with me. They help me by obeying my instructions and repaying me in disguise. However, even if they are a managers' guild, they have no right to enter other people's private residences. After all, this is a system city, and they are only a managers' guild, not an owners' guild. If someone buys a house in Essinger, we, the Frost Rose Alliance, have the right to enter and inspect it, because we are the founders of the city, and we set the rules entirely. Of course, we will not use this kind of power lightly. After all, if you want to sell a house, you must ensure the physical and personal safety of others. If you just inspect other people's houses like this, no matter how good other conditions are, will anyone dare to buy your house in the future? ? Therefore, even if we have such power in our hands, we in the Frost Rose Alliance have never used this power. After all, doing such a thing will damage our reputation too much, and we cannot use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Reykjavik is a system city, so there is no need to worry about reputation issues now, but the more serious problem is that the system will not allow you to modify the rules, so it is impossible for us to open this house using normal methods. Private residences in the city will become invincible after being purchased. No matter what method you use, don't expect to destroy it. This is the highest priority rule of the system. Even my eternity cannot penetrate this layer of rules. However, although it does not work under normal circumstances, it may not not work under abnormal circumstances.

Private residences are not really invincible, they are just invincible under normal conditions. If the city enters a state of war, the invincibility effect will disappear. The advantage of this setting is that it can link the safety of urban housing with the strength of the guild to which it belongs. In this way, more people will buy the houses in the city to which the powerful guild belongs, which can also be regarded as forming a kind of competition and positive upward environmental pressure. As for **, there shouldn't be anyone so stupid as to hide in a house during a war, right?

"It seems we can only declare war!" I said helplessly as I looked at the highest-level protected private residence in front of me.

"What?" The three players from the managers' guild who were following me immediately screamed.

Can become a managers' guild. Of course they are aware of this method of destroying the invincibility effect of private residences, but it is precisely because they know this method that they are surprised, because when they become the managers' guild in Reykjavik, it also means that they We have become the Guardian Guild of Reykjavik. If I said that I would declare war on Reykjavik, it would be equivalent to declaring war on their guild. How could such a thing not surprise them?

"Don't make such a fuss." I looked at the three nervous people next to me and asked, "You haven't had any guild battles, have you?"

After hearing what I said, the three of them shook their heads together like a rattle, and then one of the guys stood up and said: "President Ziri. We are in Iceland! The total population of the country is only more than three million, excluding those who don't play. Game players, as well as some elderly people, come in purely to use the sleep system to help them have a good sleep. Without those auxiliary personnel, the number of real combat players is less than 800,000. With such a small number of people, among them More than 30% of them have not joined any guild organization. The remaining people are divided into tens of thousands of guilds, many of which only have a few people. Do you expect us to fight guild wars? "

"Eh... I'm sorry. I didn't take your actual situation into consideration." After I finished speaking, I began to explain: "Since you have never fought in a guild war, let me explain it to you."

As soon as my words came out, Ling suddenly appeared next to me, and then as her finger moved a little in the air, a screen made of magic appeared next to me, and then I started to write and draw on the screen. At the same time, he explained to them: "If there is no actual result such as occupation in the guild war, for example, I attacked Reykjavik but failed to defeat it. In this case, the defending side, which is you, The losses that need to be endured include these." I said and gave up my position. Let them see what I wrote on that screen.

A few of them immediately came together, and I was explaining to them from the side. "First of all, this is your first loss, that is, casualties. However, I don't really want to attack you, so you don't have to resist my attack, so we don't have to fight at all. In this case... ..." I directly swiped on the screen to cross out that line of words, and then continued: "This item can be ignored."

"Is this okay?" The three people looked at me in surprise and asked.

I nodded and said: "The system only limits the basic rules, and the specific implementation is up to us. Therefore, don't really go to war after declaring war. Sometimes guilds will also use the method of declaring war to each other to break through the system restrictions. Something that cannot be done in normal mode.”

"Is there anything else I can do with the war system?" One of the guys came up and asked with great interest.

"There are many more. For example, some people who are wanted by the system must enter the city. You also want them to come in. But for a management guild like yours, you have no power to order the city gate guards to ignore the people wanted by the system. At this time, you You can start the war mode. In this mode, all NPCs in the city can be mobilized, so you can let the NPC leave the city gate. As long as that person is not seen by the guards, there will be no battle. Of course, if he is discovered If so, the NPC guards will still resume law enforcement, which is uncontrollable."

The three people nodded after hearing my words. "What other applications are there besides this?"

"You need to explore those things by yourself. I'm not here to give you guidance." I said angrily: "Now pay attention to the second loss. Your second loss in the guild war was destruction. Management facilities, such as damage to city walls, etc., this part needs to be deducted from your guild's city income after the war. However, the only thing I want to destroy is the door of this house, so the cost will not exceed one gold coin. , I don’t think you care too much about this little money, right?”

The three people nodded in unison again.

"Very good. So, the third loss. The loss of your reputation. Do you think this will have any impact?"

The three of them shook their heads together.

"I think so too." I continued: "Because we are united to take advantage of system loopholes to do something, so others will not despise you because of your defeat. Instead, they will because your guild and I, or in other words, and Bingshuang The Rose Alliance has cooperated with you and looks at you differently. This will not affect your reputation, but will make you more status. Therefore, this item can be ignored. Then, there are only two items left. One , the guild will be punished for defeat."

"Is there any punishment for defeat?"

"Of course. The penalty for guild defeat is a system-calculated penalty data. It will be comprehensively calculated based on the time spent in the battle between the two sides, the number of participants, losses on both sides, and player performance. Finally, a set of data is obtained, and then The losing party will be deducted a certain percentage of experience points. This experience point loss usually does not exceed one level. Of course, there are exceptions, but they are very rare. So far, we have not calculated the specific content of this calculation formula. But we can already roughly estimate it. Data results, and you can consciously avoid certain events that affect the score. This will reduce the punishment in the defeat environment."

"Can this be calculated?" The three people asked in surprise.

"If your guild also has a research institute that needs to throw in hundreds of millions of crystal coins every month. I guarantee you will know about it."

"Hundreds of millions?"

"Crystal coins?"

"Every month?"

The three people's eyes almost popped out of their sockets, but I had already anticipated their reactions, so I didn't say much, and just continued: "We are falsely declaring war this time, so you don't have to worry about many things. .The most important thing is to ensure that the attack points of both sides are equal. As long as the difference between these values ​​is not large, the punishment will not be too severe."

"What are strike points?"

"It is the damage caused to the other guild. But not only the people, but also the guild items and buildings must be calculated. I will open this door in a while. This will cause a blow to your guild. Because of Lei Kjavik belongs to you. Anything I destroy in Reykjavik is an attack on you."

"Then how do we counteract this effect?"

"It's easy. Just hit me."

"ah?"

"Don't be so surprised. I won't get too many hit points if I destroy this door. All you need to do is come up and give me a punch. Don't worry, I won't fight back."

"But if I hurt you..." one of the guys asked stupidly.

"Do you think you have that ability?"

After hearing what I said, the man realized that my defense was definitely not something they could break through, so a casual punch would only cause a little forced damage, but it would not really hurt me at all.

"Okay, don't worry about those things. Now let's talk about the last punishment, which is the guild record penalty. According to the system regulations, the guild record of the failed guild will record a failure record, and your guild will record a failure due to the failure of the guild. After a guild battle, this record is not displayed for the time being. This record will appear after you have fought a game. The record will record the total number of battles of your guild and the number of victories and defeats. This record data will be recorded in some special It is used during selection, but it is not a measurement, but a comparison of the ratio between wins and losses. Of course, the total number of battles is also very useful. However, one failure has almost no impact on the overall situation, unless you plan to challenge a zero-failure record. But I I think that is almost impossible, because many large guilds cannot guarantee this data. The starting reward for a zero-failure record requires not only a zero-defeat record, but also a total of more than 100 battles. Your guild probably does not expect to achieve this. It’s a number, so this data means nothing to you.”

"Um..." one of the people asked aloud: "I would like to ask, if we also falsely declare war with other guilds and then improve the victory and defeat records, wouldn't we be able to get a high number of battles and be guaranteed to get rewards? ?”

"Theoretically, it is possible, but there is actually an invisible record in this kind of record. Although it is not displayed, it does exist. The content of this invisible record is your war points. In guild battles, destroying the opponent's buildings, killing the opponent's personnel, and destroying the opponent's equipment are all War points can be obtained. The implicit requirement of zero defeat record is that the guild war value must reach a certain basic standard. You can increase the number of wins and losses, but you cannot increase the war value, because you can only increase the war value by actually destroying things or killing the opponent's personnel. Only in this way can you get the war value, and if you really have the ability to hire people to fill this war value, the reward you will get in the end will definitely not be as much as what you paid."

"Okay, we understand that this win-loss data is of no use to us, but why should we bear this losing record?"

"It's very simple. First, you owe me a favor. Second, the victory and defeat record of our Frost Rose Alliance is very important, unlike yours, which can be sacrificed at will. Third, I am the siege party, and the condition for failure is the loss of our personnel. More than half, and I didn’t enter the city. But I only have one person, so losing half of the people is impossible. And if I want to enter this house, I have to be in the city, so I can’t fail.”

"Okay, we get it."

"Don't worry, I won't let you bear this failure penalty in vain. I will give you a compensation afterwards, and I will notify the Frost Rose Alliance to prepare a batch of better equipment for you to sell. Note, although You still need to spend money to buy them, but these things are definitely good things that others may not be able to buy if they want to buy them. When you see them, you will understand that I did not cheat you."

"We believe in the credibility." The three other people immediately chose to believe in me because my credibility has always been very good.

"Now that we have agreed, let's get started. I want to go outside the city first. Declaring war cannot be carried out in the city."

After taking back the demon pets, I rode Yeying and ran outside the city, while the three people over there returned to the guild headquarters, which is also the city management center. The three people just entered the city management center and heard the system prompts in less than two minutes.

"Attention Volcano Alliance, the player guild Frost Rose Alliance has submitted a war application to your guild. Please choose whether to accept it. Attention, the ruling guild of the Frost Rose Alliance in China has a guild level of 137 and a combat strength assessment of more than one trillion. You The enemy's combat strength is estimated to be less than 20,000, and the gap is more than ten times. You have the right to refuse the war application. Afterwards, the Frost Rose Alliance can still launch war, but it cannot plunder your city. Please choose."

The data reported by the system scared the three people to death. When they first heard that our guild's level was only level 137, they felt that the level was very low. Then they were a little surprised when they heard that the combat power value exceeded one trillion, but they didn't know what this combat power value was. No matter how I calculated it, I didn’t feel anything. However, when they heard that their guild's combat strength was less than 20,000, they were immediately shocked, not because their own number was too small, but because our number was too high. At first, when I heard one trillion, I didn't feel anything compared to each other. But when I saw that I was less than 20,000, I realized how powerful our Frost Rose Alliance is. The system said the gap is more than ten times, which means that it can be rejected as long as the gap is more than ten times, but the gap now is more than ten times? This is simply a comparison of the combat capabilities of giant dragons and ants. Such a huge gap almost makes them feel like they are about to collapse.

"Huh, fortunately, President Ziri is a reasonable person, otherwise..." The three of them breathed a sigh of relief together, and then clicked to accept the war application. The subsequent system showed that they did not listen, and it was not a real fight anyway. (To be continued...)

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