Chapter 223 New Guild Guardian

The person in charge of landscape design of the guild explained: "The so-called water city does not mean to make the whole city float. I mean to build a city similar to Venice. The tree of life serves as the superstructure of the city. A huge umbrella structure is formed over the entire city. We can even use some natural magic to spawn plants such as rattan and hang some bird's nest-like houses from the branches of the Tree of Life, which will look more beautiful. pretty.

The middle area of ​​the city is on the water. There are two options for this location. The first is to build a house with a fixed foundation like Venice. Of course, the architectural style can be the plant architecture of the elven city, or human architecture. Or if you like something more natural, I suggest you just build a floating house. "

"Floating house?"

"Yes, a floating house. Use some simple buoyancy devices to make the house float, and fix it with fixed anchor piles or simply chains or rattans below. The house is allowed to move within a certain range, but the position of the house will not alternate. Case."

"You just said this is the middle layer, does that mean there is something underwater?"

"This depends on your ideas." The design director said: "If you want to be more fancy, I suggest you set up some transparent force field walls underwater or simply use a crystal cover. Anyway, it is to create a transparent structure. , and then build an underwater city. If you don’t want it to be too fancy, this part can be completely omitted. Of course, a city can also be built under the root system of the Tree of Life, but it is no different from an underground city. The specific situation depends on what you want. No matter what kind of city you want, our industry seems to have no shortage of construction technology.”

I turned to look at Rose, but Rose didn't answer directly, but snapped her fingers. Su Mei and Hong Yue quickly joined her and started a quick discussion in low voices. After a few minutes, they returned to their seats, while Rose said to me: "Since the city is not going to expand in size, let's make it more gorgeous. Don’t waste your city, air or underground resources. We suggest that it would be better to build two more floating islands suspended in the sky and connect them to the ground with the vines of the Tree of Life. This may feel better.”

Hongyue also followed: "The Tree of Life now occupies too much space. Although our new city looks quite big, the usable space is actually not rich. Setting up a high, medium and low multi-story building system can effectively use the space area to increase the city's Capacity. And this is a tourist city, practicality is not the main goal, beauty is the first priority."

"In that case, let's set it up according to the Duozeng structure. Moreover, I think it is best to build another connecting channel to the sea if possible."

"To connect to the sea?" I asked doubtfully, "Why do we need to build such a waterway?"

The person in charge of the design said: "Actually, it is okay if there is no waterway to the sea, but I think since it is a city that focuses on entertainment, the more complete the supporting facilities, the better."

"This is a good idea." Rose said, "In that case, let's settle it like this."

I thought about it and agreed to this plan, but it was not that simple to implement. Although we all have the technology available in this city, the cost issue is definitely not easy to control. You must know that what we need to build are many special building structures that have never been seen before. These complex buildings are not as cheap as ordinary buildings. On the contrary, the construction costs of these buildings will be very exaggerated.

Although the cost increased significantly, in the end we chose to build a more gorgeous and dreamy city. After all, this is a tourist city. If it’s not fancy, what can we use as a selling point?

I don’t need to worry about the city’s construction work. As long as the general direction is set, someone will naturally be responsible. After the city’s construction work was determined, I stopped caring about it and directly left the work to the construction department of my guild. . Of course, before leaving, I still had a good communication with Persephone. After all, she is a god, and I was worried that others would not be able to command her once I left. But it's not bad. When I talked about this matter with Persephone, Persephone was very talkative.

After talking to Persephone, I didn't take any time off, but asked about the location of the God of War, Rhadamantis. With the help of the God of War, I quickly saw Radamantis in Tianyu City. At this time, she was surrounding a tall defensive mother tree and was studying something there.

"Radamantis. Why are you here? I've been looking for you all over Isengard!"

Radamantis turned back to look at me and started to busy himself, but he said without stopping: "Didn't you put me in charge of these four defensive mother trees?"

"I put you in charge of the four defensive mother trees, but the question is where is the banshee I want?"

In fact, when I initially brought the Lair of the Noisy Banshee back and asked Rhadamantis to plant it, my ultimate goal was to add a powerful guardian creature to the guild. It can be said that defending the mother tree is just an unexpected gain. From the beginning, my goal was to protect living creatures rather than to defend the mother tree.

Radamantis did not panic when he heard my question, but said it naturally. "The banshee lair has been completed. For production, only energy materials need to be added. If you want to take a look, we can make some now."

"Then what are you waiting for? Go get it quickly. I want to see how powerful the banshee is in combat. I don't want to use it as a decoration after spending so much effort to get it back."

"Okay, I'll let them prepare things now. But which defensive mother tree do you plan to use to hatch the banshee?"

"Use the defensive mother tree of Essinger Mobile Fortress. There are no outsiders there, so confidentiality work is easier to do."

At present, three of our guild's four defensive mother trees have been planted, and the remaining one is reserved for the elf city under construction. The three defense mother trees that have been planted are located in Fulcrum City, Tianyu City and Essinger Mobile Fortress. Among them, Tianyu City is the transportation hub of our guild in Europe, so there are not only players from our guild and domestic players in the city, but also foreign players. After all, as an intercontinental hub city, the amount of people flowing within it is conceivable.

Fulcrum City is slightly better than Tianyu City. It is a fortress city, and it is also a forward fortress. It is the only and final support point for our guild and even the entire China region in Japan. It is a strategic support in itself. Points, coupled with the recent extremely unclear situation in China and Japan due to Yamata no Orochi, have led to the fact that Fulcrum City has been completely closed by our guild, except for our own guild players and a small number of guilds that have a good relationship with us. Players, we no longer allow anyone to enter Fulcrum City. However, although the personnel are relatively simple, there are still outsiders after all, so this confidentiality work is not that easy to do.

Compared with the previous two cities, Essinger Mobile Fortress is completely different.

First of all, Essinger Mobile Fortress is not a reading city in the true sense. In the system certification, Essinger Mobile Fortress is a satellite city belonging to the Essinger Twin Cities rather than a reading city. Secondly, Essinger Mobile Fortress is not built somewhere near Essinger. It is actually located at the bottom of Sky City in Essinger Twin Cities. Although it is at the bottom of Sky City, because Essinger Sky City is upside down directly above Essinger Ground City, Essinger Sky City is actually an inverted city, with its bottom facing the sky. The Essinger Mobile Fortress usually stands on the flat bottom of this sky city.

Because of this strange setting, Essinger Mobile Fortress does not actually contact the ground, but is located at a fairly high place. In addition, although Essinger is an international metropolis that includes players from almost every country in the world, the level of development of Essinger is graded. Essinger's underground city is almost a completely free city. Except for a few military camps and other military facilities, other areas are almost all public areas. Any non-hostile player can enter and exit at will. However, this opening is only for the ground city. Essinger Sky City is a semi-open area, open only to players of this guild and a few alliance guilds, while Essinger Underground City, Essinger Mobile Fortress and Essinger Mobile Fortress All are completely internal areas. Among them, Essinger Dungeon is open to all players of the guild, while Essinger Dungeon is only open to certain specific players of the guild. Even ordinary members are prohibited from entering. As for Essinger Mobile Fortress, that is another special setting.

When the Essinger Mobile Fortress was stationed in Essinger, there were almost no people inside the Essinger Mobile Fortress. Except for some personnel responsible for manipulating the weapons system and flight system of the Essinger Mobile Fortress, Essinger The Ge Mobile Fortress is basically unmanned when not in battle. When a battle is needed, troops and personnel will be temporarily stationed inside the Essinger Mobile Fortress, and no unrelated personnel are allowed to enter. Therefore, Essinger Mobile Fortress is actually the safest among these three cities, and its level of confidentiality is definitely the highest among these cities.

After determining the target, Radamantis and I teleported directly to Essinger Mobile Fortress. Under the leadership of Radamantis, we quickly saw the newly transplanted defense mother tree. At this time, the defensive mother tree was planted in a small square. In the center of the square, the defensive mother tree stood like a flagpole, and around the trunk of the tree on the ground was a circle of fountains. This design made the defensive mother tree stand out. It becomes very much like the central sculpture, except that this "sculpture" is slightly larger.

"You are good at choosing a place. The Defense Mother Tree Seed seems to be in harmony with the surrounding environment, and it does not seem out of place at all."

Radamantis shook his head and said: "Don't praise me. I just like to study the creatures of the Harpy series. Gardening and other things are not my business. This placement location is the responsibility of professional players in the guild. I'm just responsible for guiding the transplantation work."

I nodded and said, "The design of these people sounds good. By the way, what's going on with this fountain? Why do I feel like something is wrong with this water?"

"Do you feel it?" Radamantis said to me with a smile: "You will know if you take a closer look."

After hearing what Radamantis said, I curiously walked to the edge of the pool and looked down, then reached out to scoop up some and put it to my mouth to taste. As a result, as soon as the water entered my mouth, an extremely stimulating taste spread out. Come on, I quickly squirted out all the water in my mouth. "Holy crap, is this fantasy spring water? Why does it smell like this?"

"You have a good taste." Radamantis said with a smile: "This one is mainly ordinary water. We made a connection device on it. Every once in a while, a drop of dream spring water from the dream pool will flow into this Fountain pool, of course, if necessary, the injection speed and dose can also be manually controlled to increase.”

"Do you want to use this method to provide energy for the defense mother tree?"

"It is indeed the case." Radamantis said: "But the Dream Spring alone is not enough. We have also connected the blood pool."

"The blood from the blood pool was also added to this?"

"Of course, otherwise what do you think that taste you just tasted was?"

"Ugh..." While I was feeling sick, I quickly took out the water from Fenglong Space and rinsed my mouth. This was really unbearable. The bloody water in the blood pool is not just blood. It also contains various disgusting liquid components such as bath water and corpse water. It can be said that the thing is actually more disgusting than the cesspool. Although that thing can improve attributes for players with dark attributes, everyone only uses it externally, but no one will drink it. It was better not to know just now, but now that I know I feel like my stomach is about to turn over!

Rhadamantis smiled and said: "Don't make such a fuss, isn't it just a little blood?"

"The bloody water from the fart, I know very well what's in it. I was the one who made the first pool of bloody water in the first place!"

"Okay, okay, do you understand?" Radamantis changed the subject and said: "Okay, now that the place is here, let's start hatching the banshee, right?"

When it comes to serious matters, of course I become serious. First, he looked at the defense mother tree up and down, and then asked: "How does this defense mother tree hatch banshees? Could it be that like other harpy series creatures, sarcoma sprouts out, and then the larvae hatch out?"

"It's not that disgusting." Radamantis pointed to the top of the tree trunk. I followed his fingers and saw that there seemed to be several oval crystals embedded in the trunk at a high position above the ground.

"what is that?"

Radamantis explained: "That is the incubator. Unlike the mother's nest of ordinary harpy-type creatures, this defensive mother tree does not complete the most primary reproduction by producing meat sacs. This defensive mother tree uses It is close to the internal reproduction method of higher organisms, it will hatch the banshee inside the body, and when it comes out, it will directly enter the adult body."

"That's a nice special name."

"Not bad?" Radamantis asked in surprise: "You think it's not bad? Do you know that the main reason why the defense mother tree consumes so much energy to produce a banshee is because it uses internal reproduction. If it can be carried out In vitro reproduction, then there is no need to consume so much.”

"Does this also have an impact? Even if in vitro propagation is used, the initial energy does not need to be supplied by the defense mother tree. How big a difference can there be between the two?"

"You don't understand this." Radamantis explained: "Magical creatures are different from natural creatures. In addition to the energy they usually obtain from eating, the most important thing they need is to absorb magical energy from the outside world. Its own needs. If the defense mother tree hatches the banshee by itself, then the defense mother tree needs to use its own magic structure to absorb energy and inject it into the body of the banshee. This will cause the energy demand of the defense mother tree to suddenly increase. However, if it is discharged directly A sac-shaped egg that is not fully grown, then this egg must have its own energy absorption ability. After that, the egg will hatch by itself by absorbing free energy, and the defense mother tree does not need to provide energy. Of course, there are also such methods Disadvantages, such as the development of eggs will be slower, and the eggs will be reproduced as larvae rather than adults, and the individuals grown from embryos are usually much weaker than those directly hatched, because the mother can continue to hatch during direct hatching. The offspring are genetically adjusted and optimized, while eggs that develop on their own do not have such treatment."

"Listening to what you say, I would rather hatch the complete body directly as we are now. Soldiers are more expensive than finesse, so it's okay to spend extra money. You can't ask for defective products!"

"Since you said so, shall we start now?"

I nodded and said, "Okay, let's get started."

Probably because of the construction of supporting facilities, it is now very simple to catalyze the birth of a banshee. Radamantis threw the pile of prepared materials directly into the fountain. The defensive mother tree seemed to have no reaction, but in fact it was constantly absorbing the substances in the fountain. Although I couldn't see how those substances disappeared on the water, the pool of water that looked like a boiling pot was enough to explain the problem.

"How much material did you just throw in?" I asked, looking at the boiling fountain.

Radamantis shook his head while continuing to pour things down and said: "I haven't weighed it."

"I'm not asking you how much the things weigh, but how many banshees you can breed by adding these things."

"Oh, you're talking about this. I don't know the specific number yet, but according to previous tests on energy response, if nothing else happens, these things are enough for the defense mother tree to produce more than a hundred banshees."

"Then the banshee will come out of the crystal-like thing above when the birth is completed?"

Rhadamantis nodded this time and said, "Yes, just come out from there."

"Then should I prepare some clothes here?"

Radamantis shrugged and said: "This is a mutant species. I have never seen what they look like. If you are afraid of being delayed then you can prepare it first, but I cannot guarantee whether the banshee needs to wear clothes." ."

I thought about it and what Rhadamantis said seemed to make sense. Harpies are creatures that do not need to wear clothes. They have feathers all over their bodies. Although their bodies look like humans, their vital parts are covered by feathers, so even if they wear nothing, it is no problem. But we have no idea what species this banshee is and what characteristics it has. This information is too little, so we have no idea whether this banshee needs to wear clothes.

"I think I'd better prepare more, it's better than looking for it at the last minute." I said and summoned two unicorn warriors to let them inform, while I started to help Radamantis into the pool. throw things.

Speaking of which, this fountain is actually not very big. The things we threw into it were enough to fill it up several times. But now not only can we not see any accumulation in the pool, but even the water that originally had some colorful ripples is no longer visible. Gradually it becomes transparent and clear.

"This pool of water...?"

Radamantis glanced at the pool of water and said: "This is caused by being absorbed by the defense mother tree. Just add some blood from the Dream Spring and the blood pool."

"This consumption speed is really fast."

"So this thing costs money." After finishing speaking, Radamantis sighed: "Fortunately, he has joined our Frost Rose Alliance now. If he had been with the Olympus Protoss before, even if there was such a defensive mother tree, It’s also impossible for me to breed a female child.”

"Are the Olympians poor?"

"That's not true, but it's not rich either. There aren't many forces that are as willing to throw away money as our guild."

"Our guild spends money wisely. This is not a waste of money."

Rhadamantis smiled and said: "It depends on who you are competing with. If you are capable, go and compete with the Holy See of that guy Jehovah."

I stopped talking immediately after hearing this. No matter how frugal we are, we can’t compare with Jehovah. That guy said he was a protoss, and I even doubted whether he had been in the Beggar Clan before he became a god. Among all the gods in the world, no one is as stingy as Jehovah. It is absolutely impossible to say that they are poor. The areas controlled by Jehovah are all relatively wealthy areas, and the various military expenditures of the Holy See are very low. Without this most expensive expenditure, it is difficult for me to imagine that the Holy See would be short of money, so Jehovah's usual behavior is definitely pretending to be poor.

After we added all the materials into the pool in proportion, the people I sent to find clothes also came back. But because I hadn't thought of this before, what I brought back wasn't any good clothes, just a lot of unmarked magic robes. This kind of robe is the standard equipment for trainee mage, and there are many such clothes in the guild NPC Mage Training Center. It is estimated that the Qilin Warrior went there to get it.

After putting the robe in place, Radamantis also stopped filling, and then looked up at the nurturing cavity of the defensive mother tree above, waiting for the birth of the banshee.

The benefits of internal incubation are shown at this time. As long as there is sufficient energy, the incubation process in the body can be very fast. Less than five minutes after we completed the filling, the crystal-like incubation chambers on the top suddenly began to fall off, but these incubation chambers did not fall off suddenly. There is also a thick rattan behind them connected to the depression on the main trunk. After the hatching chamber is separated from the trunk, the rattan begins to stretch, and then slowly lands on the ground with the hatching chamber.

It wasn't until those hatching chambers separated from the trunk of the defensive mother tree that we discovered that these crystal-like hatching chambers were actually not crystals, but water balls. The shell of the incubation chamber seems to be a very elastic membrane structure, and the content inside is probably some kind of liquid. However, because the color of the incubation chamber is relatively dark, you can only vaguely see a person curled up inside. The human form is obtained, but the specific structure cannot be seen.

When the rattan placed these incubation chambers on the ground, the connection between the incubation chamber and the rattan suddenly broke, and then the rattan began to quickly retract into the pits on the trunk, and those that fell to the ground The incubation chambers suddenly burst one after another and spurted out a large amount of dark brown liquid.

As the incubation cavity exploded, the banshees originally soaked in it finally emerged from their embryonic state, but their current state made me a little stunned.

"Is this the banshee?" I looked at the banshee crawling out of the hatching cavity closest to us. This creature, which is actually related to the harpy, has white and pink skin, and long hair of different colors. Some individuals have black hair, some have red hair, and some have green and purple hair. , in short, there are all colors, but no matter what color their hair is, they do have beautiful long hair.

In addition to pink skin and beautiful long hair, these banshees also have slender arms, shapely long legs, double S-curved bodies, and extremely obvious female characteristics.

Based on everything I saw, I finally found that except for hair color, I couldn't find any difference between these banshees and humans. They have no fangs or claws, wings, tails, scales and other features that humans do not have. Except for their good skin, which is a bit too good, and some individuals with hair colors that humans do not have, these banshees look like human females. There is no difference at all.

However, the above are all what they looked like when they were lying on the ground. When the banshee closest to me raised her head and looked towards me, I immediately noticed the difference between them and humans.

Not the face. The banshee has a very beautiful face, a small and delicate oval face, matched with almost perfect facial features. Although she lacks a little bit of personality, she has to be said to be an absolute beauty. However, their eyes are different from humans. The eyes of banshees are a bit larger than those of humans when they are closed. Of course, this can be seen as a beautiful feature, but their pupils are the same color as their hair. The succubus closest to me has dark red pupils. I have seen three other people with this color. There are also two black eyes and two green eyes, and there are also purple ones. There are a few more farther away because they are in the wrong direction, so I can't see them for the time being, but I have discovered several kinds of these. color.

In addition to the color of their eyes, these banshees have different pupils than humans. Their pupils look like the eyes of a crawling thing, with vertical pupils and actually two layers of eyelids. The outer layer is the same as that of humans, but there is a layer of horizontal transparent eyelids on the inside, which are things that humans do not have.

"Radamantis, is this normal? Why does it seem like you have no fighting ability?"

(To be continued)q