Chapter 28 Big Conspiracy

Technical transformation is not something that can be completed in a day or two, and we can only hope that researchers in our guild can come up with solutions.

Shura Ziyi walked up to me and said, "I'm going to Clark's place to order guild badges and various logos. Is there anything you need me to take care of?"

"Yes! It just so happens that I also have something to ask Clark for help. Do you know the characteristics of NPC equipment?"

Shura Ziyi said: "I asked the NPC about equipment a few days ago."

"what's the result?"

"There are two types of NPC equipment, one is called special equipment. This kind of equipment can only be worn by NPCs, and the other is called general equipment. Just like us, these are general equipment. In other words, the equipment that players can use can be used by NPCs. It can be used, but players with NPC equipment may not be able to use it.”

"Can Clark create NPC equipment?"

"Can."

"Then you go and tell Clark to help build the equipment for the Temple Guard. I will bear the cost. Also, help me order a few sets of these." I asked Scott to give the equipment to Shura Ziyi. "My demon servant is not equipped enough right now. You ask Clark to make 10 sets like this."

"Then I'll go first."

"Well! You go ahead."

After Shura Ziyi left, I also left the port. The various parts of the guild are now reasonably coordinated, and I don't have much to do. In the next few days, everyone was busy with the construction work in the three cities. Goods from the Northern Alliance and Atlantis arrived one after another, and construction work began in various places. The armor of the Ring Knights was completed quickly. All 21 of my Ring Knights have the same equipment. However, the mounts cannot be unified for the time being. Fortunately, I have a lot of magic pets and so on. An ordinary ring knight uses a heavy armored dragon, but Scott is the leader and needs to be special. I let him use my steel claws. Anyway, I have Night Shadow, and if that doesn't work, I can still ride the dragon.

Today is the 16th. The materials needed for urban construction are basically complete, and the few who are still looking for them have been contacted. However, there is still a problem that seriously affects our development, and that is the labor force. Essinger is already a super metropolis, and Steel City is even bigger than Essinger. Although there is no need to build city walls and defense facilities, the amount of work is still not small. Although Tianyu City in Europe is not large, it is being expanded recently, and because the Iron Crusaders want to purchase steel from us, Tianyu City's teleportation array has been expanded into a very large teleportation array and a special application has been made to build a cargo channel. The cities built by players basically use level 4 teleportation arrays. These teleportation arrays can only transport players and some personal belongings. If you want to teleport NPCs other than the player's familiars and demon servants, you must have a level 3 teleportation array. If If you want to transport a large amount of goods, you must have a level 2 teleportation array. If you want to transport extremely large or large quantities of goods, you must have a level 1 teleportation array. Essinger's teleportation arrays are basically level 2 teleportation arrays, with a few places having level 1 teleportation arrays. The transnational teleportation arrays are special-level teleportation arrays that do not limit the transmission of items and distances.

According to this calculation, the amount of construction projects in each city is very large. It is simply not enough for us to rely on the NPCs and guild players that can be mobilized in the city. Everyone thought of many solutions, but none worked well. Finally, Xiaoyao suggested recruiting workers. "Zero" is not a simple killing and killing game. Construction is also a kind of fun. Otherwise, the "Sim City" series of games would not be so popular. There are a large number of non-combat players in "Zero". These people practice life occupations, especially there are many craftsmen. It would be a good idea to hire these people. NPC craftsmen in the city also cost money anyway, so it's cheaper to hire players. Everyone agreed that this plan was very good, so I was naturally elected as the recruitment director.

I took Rose and Bingbing to Yunxiao City. Being the city lord is a bit of a job. We held a job fair in the hall of the original Guangming Temple. Other guilds were not as big as ours. More than 200 guards were mobilized from the city defense team to maintain order outside the temple. Anyway, Vina's temple guards were watching inside the temple. We chose this place to hold the job fair because, firstly, it turns out that there are more people in the main city of the system, and secondly, we didn’t dare to go to other cities. Currently, no player city is as big as Essinger. All the larger cities in the system are temple cities. These cities are either subordinate to the Temple of Light or the Temple of Darkness. With our current relationship, we can see that both light and dark cities have to go around, so don’t even think about entering the city. Fortunately, the largest number of neutral free cities in the game does not affect our activities at ordinary times, but we must not approach those big cities.

I used to go into ravines to fight monsters and seldom went into the city. Today, I held a job fair and I knew that I was indeed behind the times. Rose asked the city's NPC guards to post the announcement one day in advance, and also hired players to go to other cities to promote it. The people who came to participate today were all kinds of people. I thought it was strange when Rose asked me to open 16 channels at first, but now I understand why there are so many. It seems like this is still not enough. If I had known it, I would have opened 36!

The main entrance in the middle of the temple has 16 passages opened side by side with railings, all the way from the entrance to the central square in front of the temple. There are NPCs at the entrance of each passage responsible for maintaining order and providing guidance. Those who want to register enter the temple from the passage. There is a table at the end of each passage. Two NPCs sit behind the table. After completing the formalities, they can leave from the small door at the back of the temple and directly enter the large teleportation array dedicated to the temple to be teleported to Ai Singh. The people I brought today are all high-level NPC clerks from Essinger. Their service efficiency is 0% faster than ordinary NPCs, but despite this, the queue is still very long.

Rose and Bingbing were standing behind the row of NPCs. If there was anything that needed special handling, the NPCs would hand it over to them. I myself travel around inside and outside the temple, specializing in handling all kinds of bullying incidents. The people we are recruiting this time are not only non-combat players, we are also recruiting combat players. The two teams on the far right are specially used to recruit combat players, and those who fight are usually from these two teams.

I was patrolling the square when I suddenly heard someone calling me. When I looked up, I saw an NPC cavalry commander standing on the top of the steps and shouting down: "City Lord, please come here."

A row of people on the steps turned to look at me. Anyway, I'm not wearing a dragon suit today. I'm wearing Order armor. No one knows who I am. Just look. He ran all the way to the top of the steps and asked the NPC as he walked into the temple: "What's going on?"

"There's someone playing rogue in there."

As soon as I entered the main hall, I saw a player standing in the middle of the team making a lot of noise.

"What do you think this is? Isn't this a joke?" The player was still shouting, and the players behind him were blocked by him and unable to go through the formalities.

I walked over and said, "What's going on?"

Rose leaned against my ear and whispered: "This person is a combat player, but he came up in the queue of non-combat players. We asked him to queue up again and sign up at the table next to him, but he refused to queue up. It needs to be done immediately." I was about to walk over but was pulled back by the rose. "Don't be too impulsive. There are too many players here. Even if we are reasonable, we cannot be too tough."

I patted her waist: "Don't worry, am I someone who doesn't know the importance of things?" I let go of the rose and walked to the side of the person. "I am the president of the Frost Rose Alliance. How about we go aside and talk? Don't waste other people's time."

"Then wasting my time doesn't count? If I can't do it today, don't even think about doing the rest." That player looked so human-like that he didn't expect his words to be so irritable!

I smiled and said: "Look, the players behind you are also very anxious. It's not a good idea for you to be stuck like this all the time. What if some players behind you get anxious and come up to trouble you? There are so many people here and I won't do it." If you know who hit you, you won’t be able to catch him even if you want to, no matter how bad you say it is.” I deliberately said it in a loud voice so that the players behind could hear it, and I had to do it right to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

In fact, the players behind this guy were not happy for a long time, but there were two rows of level 91,000 NPCs on both sides of the team, and no one dared to move. When I explained it like this, I was implying that it is not illegal to hit someone. People nowadays are smart enough to understand it when I heard it. Suddenly a group of people gathered around him, pushed the guy down and started beating him.

I stood aside and stopped the NPC guard who wanted to step forward, but I kept shouting: "Everyone, please calm down and return to the team. It is not good to hit people."

Anyway, I shouted mine, and the beating inside was very good. After a while, the guy was thrown out like a puddle of mud, with footprints all over his body. After the fight, players from both teams quickly resumed their positions, as if nothing had happened. I walked to the side and said loudly: "Just now, a group of people openly attacked a player here. Did any of you see that group of people?"

Someone replied: "I saw it. It seemed that the group of people ran outside."

I immediately said: "Oh! It took so long to run away. We still have things to do, so we won't chase him. No one was killed anyway." As a result, there was a burst of laughter from below.

Order was restored in the temple, and I walked back to Rose and Bingbing. "The power of the masses is invincible, do you understand?"

Rose smiled and punched me: "Only you can!"

Our guild’s recruitment is the largest recruitment since the game began, and Rose’s preliminary work was relatively good, so many people came to participate. Because it is in the game, it is very simple to recruit people, just look at the skill level. During the 48-hour job fair, we actually recruited more than 300,000 non-combat players, which is almost three thousandths of the total number of non-combat players in China. After the recruitment ended, the labor needed for city construction was solved, but my economy also collapsed. The Dragon King only cares about Isengard's expenses, and I have to pay for other cities myself. This is not a good thing. While steel mines are a good thing, converting steel into cash will take time. Although the magic crystal in our hands is a hot commodity, we also need it ourselves and cannot sell it. I looked through the rubbish in the bracelet and sold all the useless necklaces, armors, weapons, etc., but these were only small amounts of money and did not have much significance for the construction of the guild. It seems that we are entering an economic crisis again!

Rose and I lay together on the top of Juling Pagoda, watching the sunrise and thinking about the problem.

"What do you think I can do to solve the economic crisis?" I asked, putting my arm around Rose's shoulders.

"Generally speaking, there are three types of countermeasures to our economic crisis. The first is to expand reinvestment, but I think this is not good. The second is to replace capital with assets. Although we have advantages in this aspect, after all, this method requires time."

"You mean you want me to use the third method? Just tell me what it is?"

Rose said firmly: "Foreign war."

"fight?"

"Capital plunder is the most effective and quickest way to solve the economic crisis. War drives consumption and produces spoils of war. The biggest advantage of passing on the economic crisis is that it supplements one's own while weakening the enemy."

"But what are we going to do? You can't make money from pure war, unless you want to do the arms business."

"Why not?" Rose asked me. "It is very difficult to learn the manufacturing technology from finished weapons. It does not mean that you can copy our products if you buy them. And we have absolute technological advantages, so why can't we sell arms?"

"Okay. I understand this."

"You also have to carefully consider the issue of sales. You might end up causing trouble for yourself."

"You don't have to worry about this. I am also Long Yuan's successor. I come from a family of arms dealers!"

"Arms is only one aspect, there are other businesses."

"For example?"

"For example, taxes." Rose took out the financial records of our guild. "Look, our guild has done a lot of things so far. We are pirates, selling obsolete warships, gold trading, steel trade, transportation, and taxing Yunxiao City. Among these, the most stable and profitable one is Yunxiao City. Don't look at the amount of money you deceived from those NPCs in the Dragon King, but it is actually not much more than the city's tax revenue. Don't underestimate the silver coin for the teleportation array usage fee, nor the 5% tax on each store, and the city gate. The fee for entering the city is 10 copper coins per person. This is not a lot of money, but do you know? The fees charged by the four gates of Yunxiao City have exceeded 10 million people in the least one day today. If you do the math, 10 million People, 10 copper coins per person, that’s 100 million copper coins! Just the entry fee for the city alone is at least 100,000 crystal coins per day! 10 copper coins is only converted into RMB 1 cent, and beggars don’t care about 1 cent. But it can provide us with 100,000 crystal coins in one day. What do you think of this number? I have calculated the traffic of God City and Goddess City. The minimum number of Yunxiao City is 10 million people per day, and the maximum number of people on holidays may be 200 million. The average All are above 25 million. In other words, Yunxiao City’s entry fee income can reach 250,000 crystal coins a day on average. Our guild owns 54% of Yunxiao City’s shares, and the daily tickets alone are 135,000 crystal coins. In fact, the city entry fee is not bad. Small ones include the rent of city shops, taxes, teleportation array fees, various office fees, and temple expenses. Now there is also a catering industry. I have calculated that the daily income of a city like Yunxiao City is after tax. It can also reach 10 million crystal coins, and we can get 5.4 million crystal coins. Do you think the city is the most profitable industry?"

"According to your calculation, it is indeed quite a lot. But the city's expenses are not small!"

"I have calculated that the city's expenses are mainly construction fees. Maintenance fees do not exceed 00,000 crystal coins a day. Even for a city as big as Essinger, it only costs 2.5 million crystal coins. The profit margin is huge!"

"You mean you want me to build a city in another country?"

"Not only must we build cities, but we must also make full use of the conflicts between countries."

"what do you mean?"

Rose shouted to the Eye of Hell above her head: "Eye of Hell, open the map of China's coastal areas and nearby areas." The Eye of Hell instantly projected a perfect map in front of us. Rose pointed at South Korea and said: "This is South Korea. Like the Chinese, they also hate the Japanese."

"Of course I know that."

"And our guild has exactly what Koreans need."

"You mean the transnational teleportation array?"

Rose gave me a quick kiss on the face. "It's really smart. We can build a city in South Korea. It doesn't need to be too big, as long as it can accommodate a Korean local teleportation array and a transnational teleportation array, along with some related facilities. The whole city doesn't need to be too big. There are two Three square kilometers is enough.”

"Isn't it so big that it can become a bunker?"

"It's nothing to do anyway. It's just an entrance to the teleportation array. It doesn't matter how big or small it is!"

"That's true! But where will the Koreans go with the teleportation array? You can't send them to China, right?"

"I just called you smart and you are an idiot. Of course the Koreans are going to Japan."

"But we didn't...!" I suddenly understood what Rose meant. "You mean to build a city in Japan and then let the Koreans go to war with the Japanese?"

"Yes. But it's more than that. We want to build not one, but two cities in Japan."

"What do you need two for?"

"Fight each other!"

"ah?"

"Aren't there many Japanese players in our guild? Let them build a city in Japan in the name of the Japanese. Keep it secret and prevent the Japanese from knowing that we built the city. We can even let a few players leave our guild. Set up a separate Japanese guild to build a city there. Then we build another city next to this city, not too far away. But this time we need a large city with good armed protection, preferably close to the seaside, so Our warships can come into play."

"I understand. The Japanese will definitely want to attack our city by then, but their warships at sea cannot defeat us and they can only come from land, and the closest to us is the city we built secretly. The Japanese will definitely do it by then. They gathered in this city for supplies and have been at war with us for a long time. We transported Koreans to Japan to fight with the Japanese. The cities on both sides are ours, and we only need to collect money. If there is a war, there will be deaths and injuries, and a large number of Weapons. We can build a large number of weapons stores, medicine stores, resurrection halls and the like in both cities. When the time comes...hehehehe!" I couldn't help but hug Rose and kiss her back. "You are so black!"

"I help you with ideas and you still call me evil and heartless!"

The two of us just made up a super evil plan while laughing, and the next step is to start working hard on this plan.

The first thing to do is to stop the construction of Tianyu City. Three more cities need to be built immediately. So many places require money, and I really can't bear it. When the construction of Tianyu City was stopped, I started to officially sell steel to the Iron Crusaders. Our guild used the black steel produced by Crystal Beetle, but the Iron Crusaders definitely couldn't sell black steel, so they could just provide raw steel directly. While selling steel, we also provided the Iron Crusaders with new artillery, which is part of the technology of the Shenwu Cannon, and the condition is that the Iron Crusaders quickly raise 1 million crystal coins for us. The Shenwu cannon itself is modified from the Iron Crusaders' cannon. It is definitely expensive at 100,000, but we have given corresponding policies, such as the exclusive right to buy out the steel mines. Our guild is not allowed to ask any European guilds except the Iron Crusaders. Steel mines for sale.

This million alone was obviously not enough, so I found Hongyue again and asked her to bring Feng Yin Piaomiao over. After negotiation, Feng Yin Piaomiao agreed to provide 50 million crystal coins to fund us, but he must have 10% of the shares in the three cities built. We didn’t suffer any loss at all. In the initial stage, we had no choice but to borrow money to live on! Our own guild currently has 50 million misappropriable funds, plus the 70 million raised, there are a total of 120 million crystal coins.

The city in South Korea does not need to be too big. When the time comes, we will promote it to Korean players and say that we Chinese will attack the Japanese and open up channels for them. Then the Koreans will not attack the city we built in South Korea. Even Even Korean players may help us defend when monsters attack the city. Therefore, the city in South Korea does not need to be too big. It is enough to use 00,000 crystal coins to build it. The two cities on the Japanese side are going to be at war, so they must be built very tall and strong. According to our calculations, a city requires at least 90 million crystal coins. In other words, there are still about 60 million loopholes left.

After thinking for a long time, I suddenly thought of someone. "Rose? Do you think it's okay to borrow money from Yanyu?"