Chapter 424 Determine Whereabouts
In fact, to put it bluntly, my discovery is not that complicated, except that I discovered that the energy of this teleportation array is actually driven by a piece of white magic crystal as the main energy source. This is nothing originally, because most teleportation arrays use white magic crystal, which does not pose any problem. However, one thing is very important, that is, the transnational teleportation array used by our guild does not use white magic crystal as the driving energy source.
As I said before, the magic energy in the game is very similar to the electrical energy in reality, and the magic crystal is actually similar to a battery. Installing a magic crystal into a device that requires magic power to operate is equivalent to installing a battery into a real electrical appliance, and then the thing can run normally.
However, there is also a difference between a battery and a battery. There are many types of magic crystals. As the lowest level of magic crystals, white magic crystal is roughly equivalent to a dry battery in reality, and it is at the level of AA batteries. Normally, a piece of white magic crystal that can be held with one hand can basically only drive some small non-powered magic energy equipment, or be used as a one-time energy source for explosive equipment, such as the smallest magic crystal cannon loaded into a fist. The size of the white magic crystal is just enough to fire one shot, and then the white magic crystal will be completely scrapped.
The teleportation array consumes a lot of magic power, so if it is used by a single person, domestic teleportation usually requires a piece of white magic crystal the size of a duck egg, and if it is multi-person teleportation, then the volume of the white magic crystal It needs to be slightly larger, at least the size of two duck eggs. Although it has increased, the amount of energy consumed by the teleportation array when teleporting people is not directly proportional to the number of people. Theoretically, a single transmission of multiple people's scores will save more energy than multiple transmissions.
However, no matter what, each transmission of the teleportation array requires a piece of white magic crystal to complete its operation. Many player cities and system cities even use this method to charge fees. They will make their own teleportation array energy interface into a weird shape. Your own magic crystal is too big to fit in. A small one can fit in, but it cannot support the teleportation needs because of insufficient energy. If you want the teleportation array, you need to buy the polished magic crystal they provide. After paying the money, they will give you a special-shaped magic crystal. This special-shaped magic crystal can just be stuffed into them and they can make it out by themselves. That special-shaped magic crystal slot, and its energy is good enough for you to complete a transmission, just like buying a ticket on the bus, and it also has a built-in ticket verification function. It's not that the magic crystals they sell can't be stuffed in at all.
Of course, our guild's teleportation array is not like this. Essinger's teleportation array basically uses liquefied magic crystal steam as the power source. However, of course, non-guild players still need to pay to use the guild's teleportation array. Yes, it's just that instead of spending money to buy magic crystals, the system automatically deducts the money. This function is a branch upgrade option that only appears after the city is upgraded to level 20. The city needs to be upgraded to level 20 first. After that, as long as the average daily flow of people in the city's teleportation hall reaches 20,000 for 30 consecutive days, you can check the city construction option to upgrade the city's teleportation hall to a regional hub.
Once a city's teleportation palace is upgraded to a regional teleportation station hub, the energy consumption of the city's teleportation array when transporting people and materials to the outside world will be reduced by 20%, and the system will have the function of collecting teleportation fees. However, this kind of hub station will be used every day. Not performing any teleportation requires an additional amount of magic power. The purpose of this magic power is to keep the transmission channel open. Because you are a hub and need to provide relay services for certain teleportation arrays, you will need to consume additional energy.
In view of this characteristic, upgrading hub stations is no longer suitable for those relatively remote cities. Because if the daily throughput of your city teleportation hall is not enough. Then the total amount of 20% energy saved may not be as large as the relay loss. In this way, this upgrade will not only have no benefits but will also cause more losses. therefore. This upgrade option is only suitable for cities with a particularly large flow of people, and the more people flow every day, the more cost-effective it is.
Essinger certainly met the requirements, so we completed the upgrade when we first discovered this option.
The problem I found with this teleportation array this time is that the magic crystal they used was only a piece of white magic crystal the size of a melon, and the white magic crystal was not used up yet. The energy inside is enough for at least five people to teleport within the country again. In other words, the magic power used in the previous teleportation was not large.
Our guild has its own cross-border teleportation array, so we know how terrifying the energy consumed by cross-border teleportation is. Even if this teleportation array is relatively energy-saving, it is impossible to complete cross-border transmission with such a large piece of white magic crystal. If it is really that exaggerated, then this teleportation array is simply priceless. How could it be abandoned in such a place? Nobody cares?
Think about how big Zero is now? There are billions of registered players around the world, accounting for almost 80% of the world's total population. Even if these people are not online all the time, the average number of one billion people online at the same time is scary enough. With so many people playing in the game world, how many people use the teleportation array every day? Don't forget that this teleportation array is not only used by combat players. Non-combat players who don't like fighting also need to use the teleportation array if they want to travel to other places or experience different game experiences. Even if these people only use the teleportation array once a day, how many magic crystals do they need to consume?
Magic crystals in the game cost money. When you use the teleportation array in the game, although the owner of the teleportation array will take a portion of the profit, more of the cost is actually spent on the magic crystals. If the teleportation array in front of us is really a cross-border teleportation array, judging from the consumption of the white magic crystal, even if only one person was teleported before, the energy utilization rate of this teleportation array is at least that of our guild. Dozens of times that of the transnational teleportation array, which means that the magic crystal that originally teleported one person is now enough to teleport dozens of people and there is still some left. Don't forget that joint teleportation by multiple people can save energy.
Assuming that this setting really comes true, then whoever masters the technology of this teleportation array can reduce the teleportation cost of his guild to a few tenths of the original cost. What is this concept? Creating hundreds of millions of net profits every day is definitely not a problem.
Of course, such an exaggerated thing cannot exist. Otherwise, if nothing else, our guild's Essinger Mobile Fortress alone would be enough to destroy the balance of the system. Don't forget that Essinger Mobile Fortress has the ability to jump in space. If we can develop the technology of this teleportation array, then the cost of space jump in Essinger Mobile Fortress will be a few tenths of what it is now. In this way Once our restrictions are completely gone, Essinger Mobile Fortress will be able to roam around the world, appearing almost wherever needed. It feels so scary just thinking about it. Not to mention the attack power of Essinger Mobile Fortress itself, even if Essinger Mobile Fortress has no combat effectiveness at all, it is purely used as a troop transport ship. Such a big thing can carry millions of troops from Europe in the morning to America in the afternoon and to Asia in the evening. How can people fight at this speed?
Therefore, there will never be such an ultra-low energy consumption teleportation array technology, because it will break the balance of the entire game system, and it is a technology that must not be developed. Even if we find some technologies to reduce energy consumption in the future, it is impossible to reduce the energy consumption of the teleportation array by dozens of times. A reduction of a few percent is actually quite extraordinary.
So, if this teleportation array is not particularly energy-saving, then we can further infer that the only reason why the white magic crystal still has so much energy is because the teleportation target is not far away and does not cross the country. Barrier, otherwise the energy consumption would not be so low.
The Rainbow Alliance is not a guild in South America. If this teleportation array was used for domestic transmission, then there is a high possibility that this teleportation array was used for relay transmission rather than long-distance transmission.
Based on this inference, the fluctuations in the teleportation array discovered by the guild's vanguard team should have nothing to do with the teleportation array in front of them. In other words, the people from the Rainbow Alliance should have just used this teleportation array to teleport to the real mission location.
I just came up with this inference, and Dart and Bailang immediately reported by chance that they had discovered the location of the other end of the scent signal. According to the reports of Bai Lang and Fei Dart, they followed the direction of the smell and found another teleportation array, and there were two people guarding it. Bailang and Dart did not alarm the two players, but they used sensory sharing to let me take a look at the situation over there. Although I wasn't able to get a closer look, judging from the picture of Fei Dart standing on the treetops looking down, this teleportation array is much larger than the one here. If one of the two sides is a transnational teleportation array, then the possibility of the one over there is at least twice as high as the one here.
Now that it has been determined that the teleportation array over there is the teleportation array where people from the Rainbow Alliance came to South America, then the one in front of us now should be the teleportation array that the senior leaders of the Rainbow Alliance really left. If we want to find the senior leaders of the Rainbow Alliance, then You need to use this teleportation array to go to the coordinates of its last teleportation to know the subsequent situation.
However, although I know that I need to do this to find the top leaders of the Rainbow Alliance, I am a little worried. After the teleportation array is activated and the teleportation is completed, we cannot see the situation on the other side, so we don’t know if the exit of the teleportation array on the opposite side is guarded. If we go directly there, there is a high possibility that we will appear directly on the other side. Under the eyes of the opponent's guards, this is simply the rhythm of throwing themselves into a trap! Even with my fighting power, the other party can't do anything to me if they find out. But once the other party finds out that we are there, they will definitely cover up their whereabouts and purpose, and it will be very difficult for us to find any information. This is inconsistent with our original intention.
"Does any of you know space magic?" I looked at the surrounding vanguard team and asked. (To be continued ~^~)