Chapter 75: Happy? Decline?

Of course hard work has its price, and today is the time to reap the rewards. I was so busy for two days that I finally finished all the work before Thursday morning. The cities in Indonesia are much more beautiful now than when the Indonesians controlled them. We did not hesitate to spend money on this auction.

At exactly 9 a.m. Beijing time on Thursday, more than 100,000 people gathered in the square in central Jakarta. For their own benefit, each guild spares no effort to attract customers everywhere. Almost all guilds that are related to our guilds have been attracted by us. Thanks to the expansion of the square after listening to Rose's words, otherwise there really wouldn't be room for so many people!

Now on the city walls outside Jakarta, hundreds of thousands of NPC troops are standing ready to defend the city. Our propaganda campaign is overwhelming, and the Indonesians must also know that today is the day of the auction, so they may take the opportunity to sabotage our auction. With these guards outside, they can rest assured.

At 9:30, we closed the square passage and officially started the auction. I stood in the loudspeaker magic circle on the 'chairman' stage and said to the following: "Everyone, everyone, please be quiet. The auction will now officially begin. Before the auction begins, our staff will distribute the auction instruction booklet to everyone. All the equipment, technology, battleships, cities, etc. in this auction are introduced in detail in this booklet, and the order in the booklet is the order of our auction. You just need to scroll back to see it in order. Come to our auction items. Okay, now please ask the staff to distribute the instruction booklets."

Immediately, a large number of mms began to distribute instruction manuals to those present. This instruction manual was much more detailed than the one used for promotion, and the data in it were very accurate. More importantly, this instruction manual contained Detailed descriptions of the auction rules and special regulations for different items have also been written in the instructions.

"Everyone is waiting for the staff to issue the instruction booklet while listening to me explain some rules. You all know the general auction rules. I won't say more about this. Now I will mainly explain the special content of this time. The first is the bidding system. . We have applied for the auction guarantee system to the system. You should now see a small payment system form appearing in front of you. This contains your account information, and you can perform operations in it. In addition to your No one can see it myself, so there is no need to worry about confidentiality.

After you get the instruction booklet, you will find that there is a bidding amount under the photo of each auction item. Because the items in this auction range from a city to a piece of equipment, it is impossible to use the same bidding method. . All you have to do is bid according to the quotation at the bottom of the phone book. For example, if the bid amount is 10,000 crystal coins, it means that you must increase the price by at least 10,000 crystal coins every time you bid. Of course, you can also add a lot at once, but it must be an integer multiple of this number.

Because this auction has applied for system protection, a large crystal ball will appear in the auction during the bidding. The current highest price is displayed in the ball, and everyone will bid as you bid. The crystal ball will automatically move and always rest on the head of the highest bidder.

In addition, there are a large number of items in this auction, and they are listed one by one in the booklet. You can judge the time by yourself. If the item you want to buy is relatively low in order, you may consider looking elsewhere first. "

I have read out the general requirements above, and the instruction booklet below has been distributed, and all buyers have begun to flip through the picture book in their hands. There are more than 3,000 cities alone among the items in our auction this time, and the captured equipment was also used for auction. There are also some technical information from Indonesian guilds. Anyway, there is a lot of stuff. As a result, this instruction manual has become a super encyclopedia with more than 8,000 pages. We are auctioning off a country. You can imagine how shocking this transaction will be.

The auction will be hosted by me, Rose, and Bailing respectively. It takes too long and will definitely require a break and substitutions. After receiving the instructions, the buyers below all sat down and started reading, while I immediately started preparing a larger instruction booklet on the stage. My copy is more detailed than the ones they got, and I can't remember so many things. Without this, there is really no way to conduct an auction.

After waiting for a few minutes, I started: "Everyone, the auction has officially begun. Since there are too many items to be auctioned this time, we will not introduce the auction items. Please take the time to read the instructions while we change items. That’s it. Okay, now let’s start the auction of the first item.”

A huge holographic image appeared behind me. It was an overhead view of a city. "What you are seeing now is Palangkaraya, the first fortress city in Indonesia. There is a detailed introduction in your instruction booklet. I believe you have read it. The starting price of this city is 1 million crystal coins, and each bid is at least 1 One million crystal coins. Start bidding.”

Today's opening was really fierce. The first auction item was very popular. This time we deliberately put a better city first for auction. The main purpose is to liven up the atmosphere and get everyone excited, so that the subsequent items will become more expensive.

Palangkaraya is the fortress city located in the swamp that the Germans could not capture for a long time. In the end, our Windmill City played a huge role, otherwise this city would be really difficult to capture. Buyers from all over the world have long been familiar with the video of the Three Kingdoms' invasion of Indonesia. Of course, this city has received special attention. The buyers below were bidding like crazy. As a result, such a city was bought by a Swiss player after asking for 230 million crystal coins.

Next, we began to auction some smaller cities, with some equipment auctioned in between. The competition among buyers was fierce. Our shareholders' guilds were all drooling as they listened to the prices shouted by the buyers. All this money determines our final income!

I presided over the auction by myself until one o'clock in the afternoon, and then took a 10-minute intermission. When it started again, Bai Ling was in charge of presiding over the auction, and I came down to rest. At 5:30 in the evening, we took another break and then the roses were replaced. The first thing Bailing said when she came down was: "How much did you earn?" She didn't know the total amount on the stage, but we were constantly calculating the total amount of funds below.

Eagle gestured to her with his hands, five and four, and she immediately asked in surprise: "Four and a half billion crystal coins?"

Eagle shook his head. Then Bai Ling looked at me. I smiled and answered her: "It's 54 billion."

Without warning, Bai Ling rolled her eyes and fell down. Ying hurried over and picked her up. I smiled helplessly, because more than two thousand people had fainted before Bai Ling. The group of Americans who fought with us in the war are now in extreme excitement, and they are all howling crazily. After all, the total income is so exaggerated, and the final dividends are absolutely indispensable.

In fact, Rose and I were the ones who fainted, because others only knew that the first two-thirds of the product sold for 54 billion. But only Rose and I noticed that the really valuable important cities and the equipment and technology worth buying are all in the last part, and more importantly, the goals of the really rich guilds are all these last things. It is really the main buying force.

At the beginning of the third game, the number of people in the venue was obviously much smaller. Those individuals who wanted to buy some equipment and those small guilds who wanted to buy a small city to play in had already achieved their goals, so they had begun to leave one after another. But now, there are suddenly many new faces in the venue. These people left after handing out the instruction manual in the morning. I haven't come back until now, and I know that these are the representatives of the big guilds.

Rose stood on the stage and announced the start of the last stage of the auction. In order to let those big guilds understand the importance of the last stage, the first auction item in the third stage was East Timor. This time we are auctioning the entire territory of East Timor plus Ketamunanu and Atambuad in Indonesia as a whole. In fact, this area does not have much strategic value. What is really valuable is the fragrant wood. The area our group auctioned this time is the entire growing area of ​​fragrant wood. Sixty-five percent of the world's total production of fragrant wood is here. You can imagine how valuable it is. Monopoly equals huge profits, everyone knows this.

We plan to buy this area ourselves, and put it at the first position in the third phase in the hope that some guilds have not yet reacted, so we can spend less money, and by the way, it can also stimulate the purchase of those big guilds** .

When Rose shouted out the base price of 100 million on the stage, everyone below gasped. Although the reserve price of an auction item has little to do with the final transaction price. But if the reserve price of an item is too high, the transaction price will be absolutely astronomical.

Almost as soon as Rose finished shouting, Ziyue, the representative of our guild's buying group, shouted loudly: "500 million."

There was an uproar around him, and everyone was dumbfounded. Rose shouted 500 million once on the stage but no one responded. Then she shouted a second time but still no response. I'm getting excited. If I could buy this area for 500 million, that would be great. The actual value here is far more than 500 million.

When Rose was about to shout for the third time, a voice suddenly shouted: "Eight hundred million!" The person bidding was a man from an American guild. I recognized him as the representative of the several guilds that originally conquered this area.

"One billion!" a German player shouted loudly.

"Two billion!" This shout was not from Ziyue, but from Su Mei. She and Xiaoyao were sitting on both sides of Ziyue. I asked her and Xiaoyao to bid, and Ziyue did the shouting, but Su Mei was so excited that she shouted out, and the price gap was so big.

The whole audience was shocked, and no one dared to speak. Eagle suddenly reacted and looked back to me, but I was no longer online. When I heard the price Su Mei shouted just now, I knew something was wrong, so I logged off as quickly as possible. The current total funds of our bank are just enough for this figure. If someone adds more money later, we will not be able to keep up. So I logged into online banking directly using my helmet after going offline. Then I quickly mobilized 5 billion yuan from my personal fund to remit it to the guild. 5 billion is the maximum amount of funds I can mobilize without disturbing my father. This may be a big number to others. But not to me. After charging 5 billion, I quickly logged into the game. This 5 billion yuan is only equivalent to 500 million crystal coins, which is only enough for Su Mei to add a few times. I know this forest is valuable, but the price is a bit exaggerated. If the 2.5 billion crystal coins cannot be obtained, I will give up immediately. The risk is too great and there is no need for us to bear it.

Sure enough, someone shouted out not long after Su Mei finished shouting. "Twenty-two billion."

Su Mei looked at me in embarrassment. I nodded to them and made a twenty-five. Su Mei immediately shouted again: "Twenty-three billion."

"Twenty-four billion." This time the person bidding was actually a Japanese. This time we are recruiting investment from all over the world, and it is normal for Americans to bring in Japanese. It’s Japanese money anyway, so if you don’t make money, you won’t make it in vain.

"Two and a half billion." Sumei shouted out the final reserve price.

"Twenty-six billion." It was still the Japanese, and this time he shouted an astonishing price.

"Three billion." The sudden voice focused the attention of the audience on one place. The Japanese watched the crystal ball above their heads float to the head of an Italian in the field.

The bidder turned out to be a beautiful Italian girl, but it was obvious that she was bidding for the man next to her.

"Thirty-one billion." The Japanese shouted almost through gritted teeth.

"Thirty-one billion and one million." The Italian girl shouted the price as if she was deliberately provocative.

Next, the two parties started to increase the price upwards according to the minimum markup standard of one million and one million for this auction item. In the end, they finally stopped after raising the price to 3.527 billion. In the end, it was the Japanese who succeeded in bidding, but at this time he was panting like a cow and his eyes were bloodshot, and he was like a mad cow suffering from mad cow disease.

In everyone's shocked eyes, the rose dropped: "Auction item No. 30179 was bought by this gentleman from Japan for a price of 3.5027 million crystal coins. Your bid will It will be automatically deducted, please send someone to receive it as soon as possible."

This shocking bidding is really unbearable. Originally, our guild thought that we were determined to win, but we didn't know that there would be more cruel ones. But to be honest, that price was indeed a bit risky. I don't know what the Japanese's purpose was in purchasing this land. Anyway, it was definitely not just because of the valuable trees. No matter how valuable those trees are, they are not worth three billion.

While they were starting the next auction, I quickly logged off and transferred the funds back. In case dad finds out and scolds me again. When it went online again, the second item had already been sold. It was a medium-sized city and sold for 170 million, which was not bad.

In the next auction, our shareholder guilds began to participate in the bidding one after another. Everyone knows that these are important cities. You must get one or two, so the land grab is very powerful. The auction finally came to a successful conclusion at 10:30 p.m. Because Jakarta was bought by an American guild that did not participate in the invasion, all our guilds that participated in the invasion had to concentrate on Isengard. It was finally time to divide the spoils.

After the presidents of each guild sat down, we Rose began to read the report. "Our total income from this auction is...!" Rose paused deliberately, and the presidents below stretched their ears. Although they also have their own statistics. But because the entire auction lasted one day, their data was incomplete.

After seeing that those people were ready, Rose finally spoke again: "The total income is 1,797,095,211,000 crystal coins."

With a rumble, more than half of the presidents in the room fell under the table. The rest of the people's jaws all dropped, and their eyes were as wide as bells. It took Ashford a long time to react. After swallowing, he asked in disbelief: "Did I hear correctly?"

Rose clapped her hands, and several NPCs came out and handed some small books to each of their presidents. Then Rose said: "These are detailed records of the accounts, and every transaction can be checked."

The first thing those people see after opening it is the statistical total. Everyone crashed again.

I knocked on the table and called their souls back. "Don't be dazed. These are the total amount, which is the 'gross' profit. Our war consumption is not a small amount, and we still have so many guilds to share this money. The final number will not be so exaggerated."

I poured a basin of cold water down and finally calmed everyone down, but because the fire was too strong, they still acted very excited. Everyone knows that such a large amount of money will never be small no matter how much it is divided. So they didn't take my cold water seriously at all.

Rose spoke again: "The total number of participants this time is over one million. And everyone has different levels. Fortunately, there is a system to help with statistics. Now we let the system directly allocate everyone's appearance fee to their personal account. These data are too huge , we are too busy, so the system handles everything on our behalf.”

I opened the system interface and clicked on the system auxiliary salary payment, and immediately a large amount of money was lost in the account after our auction.

Rose said again: "A total of more than 100 million crystal coins have been used for personnel wages. So we have to deduct this part from the total account. Next is compensation for death in battle and equipment compensation."

The work of calculating accounts is definitely very boring, but if you are calculating how much money you can get, it is a very wonderful thing. Two hours have passed before you know it. Our guild's material consumption in this war cost is as high as 4.9 billion crystal coins. These are the materials our guild has accumulated over a long period of time. But what those guilds didn't know was that our accounts were actually not accurate at all. Many of the guild's expenditures were exaggerated, and no one knew the cost of many confidential materials. In the end, there was a discrepancy of 500 million crystal coins between the accounts prepared by Rose and the real accounts. In other words, only 4.4 billion of the 4.9 billion consumption is real.

In addition to material consumption, we have made a lot of money from NPC expenses. This time the guards in each city are all our PCs with an average level of over 500, and a large number of NPCs have received a large amount of compensation for us. Although the salary of NPCs is not as high as that of players, there are many of us, and as a result, we spent 1 billion crystal coins in one go. This 1 billion is nothing for us. It is impossible for NPCs to ask us for money, their equipment will not explode, and city defense NPCs will not lose levels, so there is no consumption at all.

In addition, we have carefully designed the maintenance process of occupying the city. Prices for most supplies are inaccurate. We have made small changes to the price of each piece of material. Originally, this change was nothing, but you have to think about it. This time we are repairing all the cities in Indonesia. The amount of materials consumed by so many cities is unimaginable. We only get a penny per piece of material. The final number is also scary. Rose secretly told me that we actually earned more than 200 million crystal coins from this project. It was really fun!

After we have accounted for all consumption, there will be only more than 90 billion left in the total account. And our guild has already received more than 20 billion in funds, excluding the actual consumption of our guild. The bank will actually earn more than 5.7 billion. Although the consumption is relatively large, the remaining net profit of more than 90 billion is also very considerable.

According to what was agreed in advance, our guild, as the leading guild, has provided a large amount of material foundation. As the leading guild, we can withdraw 8% of the net profit as a commission. As a result, we spent more than 7.3 billion of the more than 90 billion. The remaining more than 80 billion began to be divided according to contribution, and this part began to cause trouble.

The contribution value is relatively general. Although the system score cannot be questioned, everyone cannot agree on the proportion of some points. Finally, we started using a voting system, discussing while voting.

Our guild serves as the leading guild. This contribution value certainly ranks first. But some guilds think that our battleships should not be scored. The opinion of these guilds is that our warships participate in the war on a lease basis, and everyone has already paid the rent for it in the 'gross' profit, so the warships should not be included in the final points. However, people in our guild believe that the battleship belongs to our guild after all. Although it is a lease, it is a fact that it will participate in the war, and this point still needs to be counted. In the end, everyone argued for a long time and decided to compromise. The battleship's contribution would not be counted. However, both players and NPCs on the battleship must keep score. Otherwise, wouldn’t it mean that these people are fighting in vain?

After finally ending the argument, everyone began to divide the funds. Our guild will directly obtain 23 billion from the 80 billion, and other guilds will share the remaining part. The results of rose statistics are. The guild's net profit income from this battle was 37.7 billion crystal coins. But this time we bought a few cities, including Garan City on Sumatra Island (formerly Tanjong Garan in Indonesia), Surprise City (formerly Pekanbaru in Indonesia), Master City (formerly Tranepura in Indonesia), Lingzhi City We bought both Palembang City (formerly Palembang, Indonesia) and Pure City (formerly Padang, Indonesia). In addition, we bought Mataram on Lombok, which is now renamed Sentinel City. Lombok is just such a city. After we bought it, the entire island became a sphere of influence. We bought here for a purpose. The Americans bought all the nearby cities. If we don't sandwich a city in the middle, this place will completely become American territory in the future. When the time comes, we think we will have to go around in a big circle.

In addition to these cities, we also bought the entire original Palembang, the island outside our Lingzhi City. This island blocks the sea entrance and exit of Lingzhi City. If you leave it to others, it is equivalent to planting a time bomb at your door, so you must not let it go. There are two cities on Bangka Island. After we bought it, we simply merged the two cities into one. The island is not big anyway, so we simply changed the entire island into one city. The new city was called Bangga City, named after the original island name.

A total of two billion crystal coins were used in these cities and islands. Half of it was used in Garland City. The location of this place was so special that everyone wanted it. As a result, the price was so high that I almost didn’t buy it!

Overall, it was a big profit this time, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to worry about. We also have to pay attention to something more important, and that is the day of vengeance that is about to happen. It was already early morning on Friday after we finished the meeting, and the revenge would begin more than thirty hours later. Only if you can survive that big explosion can you be considered a true success.

We had known for a long time that there was such a revenge operation, so we were quite well prepared. Ashford received the news from me, and of course he made preparations in advance. Early on Friday morning we started selling various defensive weapons to the guilds that had bought the city. The Germans mainly got cannons, while ours mainly got various power equipment. Americans, on the other hand, sell guns, and everyone has their own way of getting rich anyway.

Before the auction, we had notified each guild that there would be such a counterattack, but we did not say it seriously, mainly because we were worried about the impact on the auction price. But now we are working hard to publicize how dangerous this time is. Anyway, we have already sold it, and we don’t care about returning it.

Those guilds knew that there was going to be a war, and now that they saw us selling weapons, of course they bought them desperately, and of course we were desperately counting the money beside them.

Although we took the opportunity to make a lot of money, we still have to defend ourselves. The guild took the lead and proposed a joint counterattack strategy to each guild. Because these cities were not occupied at the same time. Therefore, the time for Indonesian NPCs to retaliate will definitely be different. We plan to arrange them in order, and we will support whichever guild is attacked. Try to get this area settled before the war starts in the following city, and then everyone can run to the next city to defend it. In this way, we can always keep our own power higher than the power of NPC, and the possibility of success will naturally be greater.

What everyone is still not sure about now is the refresh situation of enemies. It is said that the number of NPCs should be fixed, and the regional defense power of each country should be limited. It seems that in the time in Japan, the only enemies that appeared were ghost troops. At that time, there were nearly 10 million ghost troops fighting with Japanese players. We, the guild presidents, discussed it together and found that we had differences. If there were two countries building cities in Japan at that time. The NPC's revenge situation will definitely be different from that of our city. This is where everyone disagrees. Some people think that NPCs will be separated, with 5 million NPCs appearing on each side. Others think. NPCs will double, and both cities will be counterattacked by 10 million NPCs. Some people think that the total number of NPCs is still 10 million, but they will focus on attacking one city first, and then attack another city when it is over.

There are so many cities we need to defend in Indonesia this time. If so many NPCs spawn outside each city, it will be really troublesome. However, although everyone has different opinions, most people support the first statement, that is, the NPCs will attack separately. Since there was no result from the discussion, everyone had no choice but to strengthen their own defenses as much as possible. No matter how the enemy attacks, strengthening oneself can definitely improve the chance of victory.

On Friday, all the guilds were nervously preparing for the next day's battle, and the busiest one was Samarinda. This city was bought by an American guild. It was the first city to be occupied, and the counterattack must start from here. In order to ensure that this city can consume more of the enemy's power, various guilds have donated money here. Almost every guild has contributed money to help the city purchase several artillery pieces, and our guild has even parked Windmill City directly on top of their heads, ready to help them defend the city at any time.

If the NPCs attack according to the first or third plan we guessed, then as long as we defend this city, we will defend all the cities. Driven by this understanding, everyone spares no effort in the construction of this city. After all, helping them is helping ourselves. By Saturday morning, the rocks were almost invisible in the city, and the entire city was covered with several layers of armor plates. All the buildings in the city have been turned into forts, and more than 100,000 artillery pieces of various types are densely packed in every street in the city. Every place where there could be a cannon was filled with cannon. On the sea outside the city, tens of thousands of warships from China, the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and Australia almost blocked the entire strait. These countries that bought cities sent their fleets over.

Our guilds have stationed a large number of troops in this city, and there are hundreds of thousands of players ambushed outside the city. The presidents of various guilds are gathered here, and no one wants this place to fall, because if this place is destroyed, it means that the city they bought with money may also be in vain.

Japanese players and Chinese players are still at odds, but for the time being we have a community of interests and have no choice but to work together to defend this city. Damn it, I didn't pay attention to my identity when assigning tasks. When I got to the area I was responsible for, I discovered that the people defending this area together with our guild turned out to be Japanese. I yelled and pointed at each other at the same time when we met. Because that guy is Masamoto Matsumoto of the Black Dragon Club.

"Why are you guys?" Rose also shouted in surprise. Among the Japanese who came to buy the city yesterday, there were no members of the Black Dragon Society. The place participating in the defense today was actually the Black Dragon Society. They were so stubborn that they defended the same place as us.

"I wonder why my eyelids are twitching today!" Masamoto Matsumoto was also extremely disgusted with us.

Players on both sides began to argue with each other, and finally almost started fighting early. In the end, Masa Matsumoto and I came forward to ask everyone to restrain themselves for the time being. Although both sides didn't like each other, it was definitely not the time to fight. If the Indonesian NPC counterattack succeeds, Japan will indeed lose billions, but we will not be much better.

To avoid another conflict. People on both sides of us separated a five-meter separation zone on the city wall and found some NPCs to come in and use it as a separation zone.

There was chaos on land for a while, and it was similar on the sea. The Japanese fleet and our fleet almost came to war. At first, there were too many warships from various countries and no one paid attention. Later, the two fleets came together accidentally. As a result, both sides sounded the alarm at the same time. The German fleet and the American fleet quickly stepped in to separate the fleets on both sides, otherwise it would be dangerous.

After the conflict between the Japanese ended, the players on both sides of the game began to defend their own areas with peace of mind. Ashford pulled me aside and asked quietly: "What if it is really the second option?"

I shook my head: "I don't know. But I think the second option is unlikely."

"Why?"

"Indonesia is such a large area. If 10 million NPCs are spawned outside each city, how many troops will be needed? I don't think the system will be messed up like this. It will probably spawn an army to attack one city based on the situation. , and then defeat them one by one. After my city was destroyed last time in Japan, I checked with senior NPCs. It seems that this counterattack is related to the defense of the city. Last time in Japan, only 10 million ghost troops were spawned. , this time in Indonesia it is expected to far exceed this number."

"What do you want to do if you really can't stand it anymore?" Ashford seemed worried.

I thought about it and said: "The death of players is not a big problem, but the loss of materials is a pity. If we really can't defend it, I will let the fleet retreat first. As for the city...! It's best to defend it, but it's really not possible. Anyway, we can't. As for the loss, the profit from the auction is enough to make up for the loss. But I will never retreat early. The fleet can withdraw, but the people cannot leave. Unless I defend this city, I would rather hang back."

"I understand." Ashford nodded and said, "I think we will fight to the last moment."

After Ashford left, the city gradually became quiet. All guilds were in place, and everyone was waiting for the final revenge. As long as the defense is successful, Indonesia will cease to exist. But if it fails. It is estimated that the city we bought will no longer exist.