Chapter 58: The Tiger Has Left and the Wolf Has Arrived

"Now that it's all said and done!" Al Ni seemed to have made up his mind. "We are all smart people. There is no point in beating around the bush. No one of us can deceive anyone. It is better to be straightforward and save trouble."

"Okay." I clapped my hands: "Since you said so, we can't go around in circles with you anymore. We know the situation on both sides, and I also know your purpose."

"Then President Ziri will tell you about the current situation so that I can confirm that nothing is missing."

This Arni, to put it bluntly, is still playing tricks, but I don’t want to argue with her about such small things. "The situation couldn't be more obvious. The Dark Temple, the Light Temple, the Chinese Heavenly Palace, and the Chinese Monster Realm, four major forces respectively control part of China's power, and they overlap with each other. Among them, the Heavenly Palace is hostile to the monsters, and you are hostile to the Bright Temple. The forces of all four of you are very strong. I don’t deny this. At least it won’t be a problem to destroy me. But my identity is very subtle. The four parties have friendship with me, and you are hostile to each other. This means that none of you lacks a certain strength. A detached attitude, and this is precisely my advantage. No matter which of you wins the final victory, I will not be affected, so I am detached. These conditions determine that I will inevitably become your middleman. Without me, everyone on the four sides will not be affected. It’s hard to live with. More importantly, the relationship between Heavenly Court and the Demon Realm and me is locked, so this system is already half complete. If you want to join, you must play by my rules. If you don’t join, you will offend Heavenly Court, the Demon Realm and the Demon Realm at the same time. All the middle forces." I looked at Al Ni's complicated face and said, "That's the situation. Did I say anything wrong?"

Al Ni nodded: "Very accurate. Based on this current situation, how do you plan to arrange future actions?"

I smiled and then patted Rose on the waist. Rose immediately began to say: "Actually, the situation is very simple. The identity of the middleman requires the integrity of our fair position system, but everyone is playing power, so I will put it bluntly. The world There is no perfect thing, and there will never be a perfect balance. Self-interest is the common desire of everyone. The key lies in whether you harm the interests of others while being self-interested. Although we must maintain a balance, what does the Dark Temple say to us? It is also an old friendship. Through various channels, our relationship is probably the closest among the four parties."

When Arni heard this, the expression on his face became much better. "In this case, are you planning to tilt against us?"

"Tilt is inevitable, but the premise is that it does not affect the balance. At this stage, everyone's conflicts are not very intense, and there will not be too many direct conflicts. I can only stay free and accept everyone's tasks. If this task hurts the third For the interests of the three parties, we will appropriately control this loss. In terms of losses to the Dark Temple, we try to keep it at a low level. This is the highest guarantee our guild can make. If Goddess Al Ni wants to enter a We don’t mind asking for benefits, but please defeat the other three parties first. If you can’t do that, then don’t say anything.”

The current situation is like a tug-of-war between four people. The tug-of-war rope is cross-shaped. Any party that pulls the center point toward itself will inevitably push the other three parties together, so unless one party is strong enough to pull the other three parties away, it cannot expect to control the situation. The real skill in this kind of competition is to fight for endurance instead of fighting with all your strength from the beginning. Only by dragging down the other three parties can you have a chance.

Arni thought for a moment and said: "I understand what you mean. The Dark Temple will not forget everything you have done. But I have one more request."

"Request?" I was surprised. She said she understood it so well, why did she still have demands? "Let's talk and listen first."

"You must rebuild Isengard."

"Rebuild Isengard?" Why is this request so strange! "Isn't Essinger already rebuilt? What else needs to be rebuilt?"

"Didn't I say it at the beginning? Your current Isinger is completely different from the real Isinger. We in the Dark Temple need the original Isinger to make up for the missing parts of the magic circle."

"Can't you rebuild it yourself? In the worst case, I will move this Essinger to another place."

"It's not just a matter of location." Arni said: "Although your location is necessary, the name and status of the city are also necessary. The name can be changed, but the status cannot be changed! You have the demon Isinger. The background of the capital. Even if we rebuild a city called Isengard and put it in its original location, it will just be a city called Isengard, and it will never become a magical city."

"Then you mean you want us to rebuild an Isengard?" Rose asked.

Arni nodded: "I know it is indeed a waste for you to build two cities at the same location, but we really need to have such an Essinger erected at the original location."

Ying couldn't help but said: "You need it but we don't! We won't talk about the cost of restoring the original Isinger. What should we do with the current Isinger? Change the name? That will cost the city level land. , we finally rose to the strategic fortress, and it is not easy to get back to such a troublesome position."

"But...!" Arni wanted to explain.

"It's not impossible for us to rebuild." I suddenly said this, which stunned everyone around me. Except for Rose, Su Mei, and Xiaoyao, everyone else looked at me in a daze.

"Do you agree to rebuild?" Al Ni asked in surprise.

I stretched out my hand first to stop her from being happy. "Don't be happy first. There are conditions for reconstruction."

"You don't have to worry about this." Al Ni said cheerfully: "We will take care of all the building materials, and we will be responsible for transporting them. You can just build. We will bear half of the labor costs. After all, you are spending nothing in a city. It’s not too much to pay half of the labor cost without using building materials, right?”

"It's not just a matter of materials and money." I shook my head and said: "First of all, you have to find a way to transfer the city's attributes. Under the registered name of Essinger, our level is already very high. We can't possibly change it for you. This level becomes zero. And this kind of thing is not so easy to accumulate. Once it reaches zero, it is a question whether it can be replenished. Another problem is the problem of special buildings. We can't get those magic equipment in Juling Tower. . You are responsible for sending people to help restore the Spirit Gathering Tower and various magic circles."

Arni seemed to have been prepared for it, and he said without thinking: "The city level is easy to handle. There is no need to change the name of this Essinger now."

"Oh? Is there a good way like this? Tell me."

"It's actually very simple. You move this Isinger to the correct location of the original Isinger, then raise the city, and then rebuild Isinger below it. When building the site, you apply for city expansion and don't open a new city. , so that the restored Essinger below becomes the real Essinger. Since then, these two seemingly completely independent cities have become a common city, and the one on the ground that will not move is called Essinger Old City. This thing that can fly is Essinger New District, how about it? Is this method okay? "

"Is this okay? Will the Genesis Star allow such a responsible urban structure to be built?"

"Absolutely." Al Ni took out a small black crystal ball. "There is a complete set of drawings stored in this space crystal. There was originally a city of this type in China, but it was more exaggerated than the plan I mentioned. The drawings in this crystal are the original design drawings of that city. At the time, many people I haven’t given you anything you want, but if you agree to rebuild Isengard, I will give you this as a reward. As for the problem you mentioned about the Spirit Gathering Tower, we will naturally send people to help. You don’t have to worry about these things."

Rose suddenly added: "It can be built, but on the basis of ensuring the effectiveness of your magic circle, other designs must be decided by us. Also, you can't just pay for the labor costs. We don't Lack of money. Just not enough staff."

"Not enough manpower?" Al Ni was also curious about our needs.

Rose explained: "Our guild has just conquered Indonesia recently. Although most of the cities have been sold to other guilds, we have also retained a few big cities ourselves, and now the construction workers are there. It is really hard here." No one is doing construction anymore. And you also know that Essinger is not a small fishing village. It is a city larger than ten cities, and it also has an underground city. This amount of construction is not something we can afford. If you don’t provide labor , then don’t be impatient while we cultivate for ten or eight years." Rose, this is naked blackmail, but this trick is just right now.

Arni immediately became anxious when he heard that he would be practicing for ten to eight years. "Isn't it okay if I transfer all the workers and troops in the Dark Temple to help?"

"How many of you are there?"

"00,000 regular workers, 80,000 technical personnel. 5 million troops." Al Ni said: "I can only provide so much, and there are still more people elsewhere! I can't take them all away, can I?"

"That's enough, that's enough." I smiled and said, "That's enough." Building things in the game is very fast, and with so many workers working together, it probably won't take more than 10 days to complete. Didn’t we assemble this Essinger within three days?

Arni asked: "With so many workers, how long will it take you?"

I thought for a while and said: "After the materials and personnel are in place, it will take as little as 10 days or as much as a month."

Arni nodded: "Well, the progress is almost there." She handed me the crystal ball and said: "I will send out materials and personnel tomorrow. I will be here with you the day after tomorrow. I hope you can be there as soon as possible."

"Don't worry. Use money to help others to eliminate disasters, ah... I said it wrong. I mean what I said!"

Ying smiled at me in a private chat and said, "Haha! Are you bringing out your professional habits?"

"Go, I didn't become a bandit just for the development of the guild."

"Now that the matter is finalized, I will go back and make arrangements first." Al Ni was very anxious for the progress of this plan, so he hurried back.

After seeing Arni off, I returned to the conference room and sat down on the throne I brought back from Dragon Island. "Phew! They're finally gone."

"Scared me to death." Su Mei and Xiao Yao also sighed beside them.

Rose sat on my lap and said, "How was it? How did the three of us sing in this play?"

"Awesome." I nodded my nose and said, "Al Ni originally planned to get some benefits today, but I didn't expect that the three of you came out to fight with her and turned her plan into a pot of porridge."

Xiaoyao smiled and said: "That's right, Al Ni's face turned green with anger."

Ying Ye said: "Maybe she is scolding you right now."

"Haha! Would you rather get benefits and be scolded by her, or would you rather give her benefits and then scold her?"

Ying immediately said: "Of course I was scolded for the benefit. She scolded her, and I don't feel any pain or itching. It's more economical to get the benefit." Ying's words caused a roar of laughter. This time, I really made a profit.

In fact, even if Arni doesn't come, I still plan to build a new Isengard at the original location of Isengard. Now that Essinger can be moved, the original location requires a new city to serve as the guild's main city. This will be the fortress from now on. Arni's visit this time coincided with my plan. With her money, I saved a lot of money and could build a large city. The only thing I need to accommodate the Dark Temple is to bring out the original magic circle. No matter what, I take advantage.

Everyone was laughing and proud of the big pot of rice when they suddenly rushed into the conference room. "It's not good, it's not good, the tsunami... the tsunami is coming...!"

"What?"

"Oh!"

I was so shocked when I heard the news. As a result, he suddenly stood up. Rose, who was sitting on my lap, didn't expect me to stand up suddenly, but I threw her to the ground.

"Slow down, what happened? Tell me clearly." Rose couldn't care less about the pain in her butt, and asked as she got up from the ground.

"Tsunami." Da Guofan pointed to the direction of the sea and said: "There is a super tsunami in the direction of the sea. The wave is almost 200 meters high. It will reach us in ten minutes."

Eagle said excitedly, "Then why are you still standing there? Order the city to rise above the clouds."

I took out the leaves of the city tree and said, "Let's just let the city tree start operating!"

Essinger was currently parked on the beach where Essinger was, half in the sea and half on the shore. If this wave hits now, Isinger's strength is estimated to not cause much damage. But being hit by such a big wave is always dangerous, so it's better to avoid it.

A shrill alarm sounded instantly inside Essinger. "Warning, due to emergencies, the city needs to ascend urgently. There will be a brief feeling of overweight during this period, please be prepared to fight against overload. Now enter the ten-second countdown."

When the countdown ended, Essinger shook and began to rise slowly. Because the mass of the city is very large, we dare not increase the acceleration too much, otherwise the load on the load-bearing parts of such a heavy thing will be too great. As the city continues to rise. The bottom of the city finally broke away from the water. The bottom armor under the city was still dripping water, and some grooves were like small waterfalls.

The bottom armor was not closed when the city was in the sea, because the crawlers were always supporting the city forward on the seabed. The advantage of multiple crawlers is that we can maintain the balance of the city by adjusting the length of each crawler support frame. No matter how uneven the ground is, the city does not need to follow the ups and downs of the ground during movement. This was originally designed to ensure the stability of the city. If the city moves, it will jump up and down like a car. How can you still work there?

As the city rises, those crawler support frames are slowly being retracted into the city. Since they originally expanded and contracted at different lengths, they now come back at different speeds. There are pressure feedback devices on these supports. Although they are pressure sensors made using purely mechanical principles, their effects are similar to those of electronic instruments. These things are responsible for feeling the pressure on each support frame. If the ground is uneven and the support frame at a high place is pressed, it will exceed the average pressure, and then it will automatically shorten its length. until the pressure equalizes. Rely on this principle. We don't need to calculate the heights and fluctuations of the ground at all. The pressure from the ground will automatically maintain the balance of the city.

When the last support frame is recovered, all external armor plates begin to close inwards at the same time. The armor modules are latched onto each other and then locked by the locking device. The water in the cabin sprays outward along the special drainage pipe. The city's rise is gradually accelerating, but the acceleration has remained stable. Although the tsunami wave is only 0 meters high, the air waves driven by the sea water will affect the sky very high, so we have to lift the city above the clouds to stabilize it. The stratosphere should be unaffected by convection currents from the lower air.

I stood at the observation port at the bottom of Essinger and looked at the situation below. Although it is above the clouds, because there are no clouds, the ground can be seen clearly. The global climate change caused by the Gourd of Heaven and Earth has begun to show its power. Unexpectedly, we were the first to suffer. From here I can already see the white waves on the sea. The huge waves 200 meters high here look like just a thick white band, but if you compare it with the trees on the land, you can see See how huge they are.

The waves formed a wall of water and rushed towards the dark side. We could hear the rumbling sound rolling forward from such a high place. After activating the Star Pupil, I could see that there were almost a lot of wood chips and the like in the waves.

"What is that?" Rose and the others also saw those things in their telescopes.

I immediately saw those things clearly after magnifying them. "It's fragments of the ship, and there seems to be a body."

Rose immediately shouted: "It can't be Tianmen Island, right?"

"Oops!" I suddenly remembered that if this wave came from the sea, it must have passed through Tianmen Island, and now I was in trouble.

"Don't worry, Tianmen Island is fine." Da Guofan said with a relaxed look.

"How did you know?"

Big Pot Rice said matter-of-factly: "The news that the tsunami is coming is the news that was sent back through the crystal communication machine over there."

"What happened to them? Didn't the tsunami pass through them?"

"It's passed." Daguofan said: "Actually, this tsunami was not initiated from our side. It was generated from the Pacific Ocean."

Ying said: "Nonsense, there is still Japan between the Pacific and us!"

"I'm not talking nonsense." Daguofan explained: "This is the news from Tianmen Island and the lurking Ling Yuanbuki in Japan. After the tsunami was generated in the Pacific Ocean, it hit Japan. I have never seen such a big tsunami before. Waves. The tsunami didn't stop at all after it washed ashore. It landed on the east coast of Japan and crossed the entire country. Then it entered the sea on the west coast and rushed towards China. Ling Yuanfuki and their communication machine was damaged by the waves, and it was only repaired just now. . When they notified Tianmen Island, it was already too late. The tsunami had already reached Tianmen Island. Guess what happened next?"

We shook our heads together: "You can't guess this! Tell me quickly!"

"Hey, let me tell you. The tsunami took a detour at that time."

"detour?"

"Well, it's a detour. Isn't Tianmen Island in the storm zone? But because of Biling's remains, there are no waves at all outside Tianmen Island. Everyone knows this. But what you can't think of is that Biling can't even tsunami. It was blocked. When the tsunami waves reached the wind-free area outside Tianmen Island, it was like hitting a cover, and they all separated and rushed over from both sides. There was water everywhere, but Tianmen Island came over safely."

"Thank you so much Bi Ling! The super beast is indeed extraordinary." Rose sighed.

Su Mei suddenly said: "This wave has hit Japan and is so big, isn't Japan doomed?"

Daguofan said with a smile: "This wave was more than 400 meters high when it was on the Pacific Ocean. It only dropped to this height after reading about Japan. Now, except for some areas and cities protected by divine power or special power, most areas in Japan have become It's in ruins. Ling Yuanchui said that it's relatively "chaotic" there right now and she doesn't know the specific situation, but it's a preliminary estimate that more than two-thirds of the city is ruined. By the way, Ziri, how about we take this opportunity to attack Japan? "

I smiled and said: "You are stupid! Players cannot die. Even if they are killed once, they will only lose one level, and their strength will not drop too much. The only advantage of the current attack is probably the loss of Japanese warships It's relatively dark. I guess they don't have many ships left. But with Tianzhao in their country, it's not much use to attack on our own! Even if they are vulnerable now, who do you want me to send? Over in Indonesia The world is busy, Europe is also engaged in expansion, and the United States is not at peace either. Just now Al Ni said that we should rebuild Isengard. How can I be so busy? "

"There are just too few people in our guild!" Daguofan sighed.

I also remembered what he said. "By the way, wife, how many people do we have in our guild now? We asked you to recruit people last time, did it work?"

Rose said: "There are now a total of 689 regular members in the guild, including 0) women and 7660 men. There are 73 preliminary members who are being tested, including 1096 women. , 6231 men."

I nodded. "In the future, the expansion speed can be slowed down appropriately. Soldiers are more expensive than elites. Also, can the ratio of men to women in this guild be adjusted appropriately?"

"It has been adjusted a lot." Rose said: "In the past, the male to female ratio in our guild was 1 to 1. Now it is 7.6 to 7.6. If it weren't for the purpose of adjusting the gender ratio back to the reserve members, I wouldn't have gone out of my way to There are so many male players but only a few female players."

Da Guofan said with a longing look on his face: "I think this is good. I think the guild is full of beauties. It feels so good to walk in the middle!"

Ying poured cold water on him next to him: "You kid, if you dare to go out of your way to Hongxing, be careful if Bing'er finds out and has you castrated."

Rose quickly covered Su Mei and Xiao Yao's ears: "There are children here! Be careful when joking."

"Look, the tsunami is coming to Yamagishi." Daguofan felt embarrassed at being joked about, so he quickly interrupted and diverted his attention.

The white waves we came off had already reached the shore in a blink of an eye. We didn't feel any problem on the beach, but the effect was obvious after entering the inland. After the waves broke through the deep pit left by Essinger, they gradually entered the forest area. Those forests that could block the wind and sand were easily broken in front of the tsunami like toothpicks and then broken into pieces and moved forward with the waves.

Da Guofan laughed and said: "Haha! Now our neighbor will be in trouble."

The guild that the big pot is laughing at is the subordinate guild of the light force outside the forest. This guild is not very friendly with us, but it doesn't mean we have any big grudges. The last time they held a martial arts competition, we happened to fall on the competition ground together with Hongyan, and the guy was so angry that his mouth was twisted. This time it looks worse. It is estimated that after the tsunami, there will be nothing left in the city except the foundation! Why! Poor man!

"What is that?" Sumei suddenly pointed in a direction and shouted. I followed her fingers and saw a colorful strip of light appearing at the edge of the forest. After the violent waves hit the strip of light, it split into pieces and scattered in all directions. What is this thing that is so powerful?