Chapter 53: Existence Is Deterrence

Essinger's sudden appearance made the entire battlefield suddenly quiet, and all the warships that were firing or preparing to fire stopped. The shock of the crew was one of the reasons why these warships stopped shooting, and the other reason was shock. Essinger's greatest ability is not to directly participate in the battle, but its ability to intimidate. As long as Essinger stops near the battlefield, regardless of whether it directly participates in the battle, its powerful shock ability will completely destroy the opponent's will to fight. Faced with such a large mobile fortress, although the British had thousands of warships parked in this strait, no one dared to continue firing.

The fleets of various countries are still in shock, but Essinger has already taken the first step. The huge city fortress first displayed a large cannon, and then the city protection system was also activated. Millions of air cavalry and flying monsters appeared in the sky above the fleets of various countries. In this game, Essinger is a nuclear weapon, its existence is a deterrent, and it can be effective without direct use.

Faced with the sudden change, warship captains from various countries urgently ordered the gun emplacements to unload the loaded shells to avoid accidental firing due to emotional stress. The accidental shooting just now just brought forward what will inevitably happen. If there is another accidental shooting now, and if Essinger is hit by mistake, no one wants to see the result. Compared to being on land, Essinger on the sea is definitely more dangerous. With its size, there is no need to attack directly. It just needs to suddenly turn off all power and slam into the sea. Throwing a stone into the water can stir up waves. Everyone knows how big Isinger is. If it suddenly fell into the water, the waves rising around it would be called a tsunami. Considering that Isinger has the power to destroy any fleet on the sea, the commander of any fleet will not consider engaging in a sea battle with Isinger. For the above reasons, it is easy to understand why these captains ordered the withdrawal of artillery shells.

Before the cannonballs of the warships from various countries were completely withdrawn, a huge sound suddenly sounded in the sky above Essinger. To be precise, this is one person's voice coming out through multiple speakers. Essinger has an advanced loudspeaker broadcasting system, and external broadcasting is very simple. At this time, Hongyue was sitting in front of the broadcast position broadcasting to everyone on the surrounding sea. Since Hongyue has activated the translation system a long time ago, the sound broadcasted to each player's ears is the default language they use when logging in. That's the beauty of gaming systems. Once the translation system is turned on, players who need to listen will automatically recognize the language type.

"Attention to the fleets of various countries gathered in this sea area, this is the Essinger Mobile Fortress belonging to the Frost Rose Alliance from China. The Great White Shark diving dock affiliated to our association has been stranded in this sea area recently. I would like to thank our friends from all over the world for their support during this period. The guild’s rescue force has arrived for the protection of the stranded ship. Your protection is no longer needed here for the time being. Please return to your respective ports to leave room for us to move. The guild will express its gratitude to you here again.”

Everyone knows what the warships from these countries are doing, but what Hong Yue is saying now cannot be called a lie. To be precise, the language Hongyue is using now is called political language. This is a lie that the whole world knows is a lie. The person who tells it has no hope of using it to deceive others, and the people who listen also know what the person who tells it wants to express.

Seeing the current situation, the fleets of various countries also behaved very wisely. Unless Essinger lands, it is invincible at sea. It is impossible to fall out with us now. No one is stupid enough to rob Essinger in front of us after he arrives. That is completely impossible.

After carefully considering the situation on the scene, fleets from various countries began to turn around and leave. Staying would only hurt their own self-esteem. Seeing Essinger, no guild dared to say that they had an invincible fleet or something. At present, no warship from various countries has weapons sufficient to destroy the main structure of Isinger. Therefore, the battleship has no ability to fight back in front of Essinger.

As warships from various countries began to retreat, Essinger also began to move above the Great White Shark, and hundreds of steel cables were lowered from under the city. The Great White Shark was traveling too fast at the time and rushed too far into the shallow sea. Simply towing it would have damaged the hull structure. We planned to lift the entire Great White Shark and transport it to the deep sea. Anyway, Essinger has enough power to lift the Great White Shark.

The members below were busy connecting the cables, and Ashford climbed up to Essinger first. After seeing me, Hongyue and the others, Ashford was so excited that his words became abnormal. "You are finally here, it would be unthinkable to be any later! The bandits below can't wait to take action. They just started a round of shelling before you arrived. If you hadn't suddenly appeared and shocked them, our fleet would be It’s all over.”

"We also just hurriedly and slowly caught up." Hongyue emphasized that we had tried our best.

I also said to Ashford: "To be honest, I was really lucky this time. I just missed it. This also includes the black hole monster crystal core you provided, otherwise we would not be able to build this teleporter." The whole Essinger was sent here at once!" At this point, I paused for a moment and then looked at Ashford with a smile.

Ashford cautiously took half a step back. "What are you planning to do with such a sinister smile?"

I chuckled and approached him and said, "Let me calculate the cost of the aftermath with you."

"I knew you wanted to ask me for money." Ashford has worked with me for so long and he knows my style very well. Although I am relatively generous in certain matters, in principle I will not give up the interests that I should strive for. Ashford said calmly: "Just tell me! I am responsible for causing the Great White Shark to hit the rocks this time, and I will bear the reasonable expenses."

"With your words, it will be easier." I took out a big notebook and was about to start reading when I was stopped by Ashford.

"Hey, no! It's just stranded. Why did you come out with such a big bill?"

"Don't be afraid. This is my record book. I just use it temporarily to record things. Your bills are not that big."

"Scared me!"

I smiled and said: "Okay, let's start settling the accounts now. First of all, the grounding of the Great White Shark must have caused a certain hull collision, and you will definitely be responsible for the maintenance costs."

"Of course. Just give me the bill after the overhaul." Ashford was so happy that we won't be bargaining over things that have been decided.

I continued: "After this stranding, warships from so many countries were gathered here to rob the Great White Shark. In order to protect the Great White Shark, we had to temporarily find a way to get Essinger here quickly. Fortunately, we succeeded. Obtaining this long-distance transmission technology allows Essinger to get here quickly. But...!" I paused for a moment before continuing: "It cost a lot of money to make this set of equipment. But considering the impact of this set of equipment on Aisinger It is not useless for Singer, and can be used many times in the future. So we will not charge you for the construction cost. However, the crystal core of the black hole monster we took from you was taken to build this equipment, so we Even if everything is settled, our guild will not pay you any more for that crystal core."

"Okay." Ashford nodded in agreement.

I smiled and said: "Final comparison of accounts. Every time the space jump equipment is started, it consumes a lot of energy, and the source of the energy is priceless magic crystals, so the jump cost is very high. Our jump this time is entirely because Your negligence caused the Jaws to run aground, so you should bear the cost of this jump. There will also be another jump when we return, and you should bear it as well."

"I have no objection to this." Ashford still agreed to our request.

"That's good. That's all the accounts. I will send someone to contact your guild after the specific contents."

"Okay, don't worry about this. Our Iron Crusaders are still very reputable."

"If you don't have credibility, I won't cooperate with you." I smiled and said to Ashford: "Since I jumped here this time, I don't plan to run back right away. I may stay here. Activities. Is there anything you need help with? Just ask, I promise the fees will be fair."

"You mean to rent Essinger to me?" Ashford asked in surprise.

I corrected: "I'm not renting Essinger to you, but renting it together. It's impossible for me to let others 'manipulate' Essinger. Besides, Essinger's control system is a city tree. You can't control it! I'm just acting as a mercenary. You pay us to help you eliminate disasters. What do you think?"

Ashford only thought about it for a moment before agreeing: "I do have a sworn enemy, his name is Silo Padrick. This guy's guild is the sworn enemy of our Iron Cross. There are currently three major guilds in Germany. , the third-ranked guild is only a quarter of our guild. It is basically not a threat to us. But Padrick’s guild is as strong as our guild, and they are always close to us. Something is wrong, and conflicts between the two sides continue. In recent months, with the help of your guild, we have gradually begun to gain the upper hand, but Padrick's foundation is still good. At the current speed, our guild still has a long way to completely overwhelm them. It will take a long time, so I want to use your troops to do it vigorously and thoroughly. In this way, our guild will be the overlord of Germany in the future, and it will be much safer for you to come to Germany again."

Other staff who were following Ashford also said: "Now there is a new rule in the system. If the number of cities owned by a certain guild in a country accounts for more than half of the total number of cities in the country, then this guild will The guild can apply to become the ruling guild of this country. Regardless of whether other player guilds agree or not, the system will transfer all existing system cities in this country to this guild for trusteeship, and this guild can represent this country to foreign countries. Formal diplomatic power. If you want to overthrow the status of this ruling guild, you can only destroy its cities. Until the number is less than half of the total number of cities in the country. The cities that the system is entrusted to this guild will not be counted in the number of cities of this guild. land, so this guild must ensure that it has the strength to ensure the safety of the city under its jurisdiction. If you help us completely destroy this hostile guild, our Iron Crusaders may become the ruling guild of Germany. In the future, we can control China Set it up as an alliance of Germany, so that the two countries can teleport to each other without activating the transnational teleportation array."

"What? Is there such a thing?" I looked back at Hongyue in surprise. "have you heard of it?"

Hongyue nodded. "I have heard about it a long time ago. How can you be so uninterested in the work of the guild like you? I knew this news half a month ago. But you have not read all the news. Even if your guild becomes the rule of Germany If the rulers' guild recognizes China as an ally, it only allows the Chinese to teleport from China to Germany at will, but they cannot teleport back from Germany. There must be a guild that becomes the rulers of China and recognizes Germany as an ally. . The two countries can truly realize a complete transmission channel. Moreover, a space door will be systematically opened between the two countries to form a connection similar to a land channel, and people from the two countries can travel freely. "

Ashford immediately looked at me and said: "If you want to be the ruling guild in China, I think your guild is the only one."

Ying interrupted Ashford and said: "Are you thinking too simply? China is no better than Germany. Your country only has more than 350,000 square kilometers, but our country has 9.6 million square kilometers and the number of cities. Compared with Germany, it is quite scary. If we really want to control more than half of the cities, our guild needs to expand the number of members to at least 3.5 million people, otherwise there is no hope at all. China is too big to appear. The rulers’ guild is really unlikely.”

"You are also real. In fact, you can use opportunistic methods!" Ashford said: "Don't your guild have a city called Honor City? There is a circle of small cities around that city. This method is actually practical. Isn’t it good enough?”

I looked at Ashford and said, "You mean to let us quickly build a large number of micro-cities to increase the number. In this way, we can control half of the total number?"

"Ashford is right." Rose suddenly came over from behind.

"Honey, why did you just show up? Where did you go just now?"

Rose came over and leaned into my arms coquettishly and said: "It's not all your fault. Suddenly you said you wanted to find the crystal core of the black hole monster, but I went to help you find it. Who knew that I just found one and returned to Essinger Underground City? I heard that you have collected all the crystal nuclei and left, making my trip in vain."

"You just said that Ashford's method is right. How exactly is it right?" I quickly interrupted to prevent Rose from getting angry at me again.

Rose immediately explained to me: "The area of ​​our country is indeed relatively large, but the number of cities is not as scary as you think. It is because the country is large. Therefore, the urban density is not as high as in European countries. Although large cities have a large population, no matter how large they are, It only counts as one, so the number of cities in our country is not too exaggerated. Among these existing cities, the cities controlled by the system and not occupied by player guilds are not included in the calculation of the number of cities of the ruler. Therefore, what is really necessary It exceeds only half of the total number of player cities. In fact, many of these player cities are very miniaturized small cities, and these guilds are not large. I think it is completely possible to connect these small guilds to their locations through mergers. The cities will be pulled into our guild camp together. This is equivalent to increasing the number of our own guilds and reducing the number of remaining cities. In this way, we can gain twice the result with half the effort and gain the numerical advantage of cities. In addition, as Ashford said Same. We can definitely build a large number of small cities. These cities don't need to be too big, as long as they are not recognized as villages by the system. Things like Steel City are very suitable for building these small cities."

"Isn't there a desert in Steel City?"

"That's right." Rose said: "There are no cities near Steel City, and the desert is all empty. We can build small cities around Steel City as the center. These cities don't need to have trap facilities, as long as they have an urban appearance. That's it, and these cities can also become factory areas in steel cities. We will build cities by imitating the workshop methods of large factories. One city is equivalent to a factory area. Anyway, it is inevitable for heavy industry bases to expand. We might as well kill two birds with one stone and increase the number of cities. Turn it over."

“But what about funding issues and safety issues?”

"We can build a circle of defensive cities on the outskirts of the desert. These cities are connected by teleportation arrays, magic trains, and linear aircraft. If any point is attacked, a defense can be quickly formed. No matter which side the enemy attacks from There will be comprehensive resistance, so we don’t have to worry about defense issues at all. The enemy can destroy at most one city, and we don’t care if it is a small city anyway. Then we can wipe out all the opponents. In such a large desert, the interior is dotted with buildings. Small cities. The number should be more than half of the total number of player cities. By the way, it is equivalent to controlling the desert."

"Oh my god! How much money will it cost? And there aren't enough people!"

Rose said seriously: "The status of the Ruler's Guild is not a false position, it has actual attribute capabilities. So you won't suffer if you work hard for it. It may cost some money to build those cities, but it won't be too much. .Honey, don’t bring Essinger’s standards to other cities. Essinger was designed and built according to the standards of a luxurious invincible fortress. This time, what was built around the Steel City was an ordinary small industrialized city, which was only equivalent to the steel city. The small factories outside the city don’t cost much money at all. However, it is definitely necessary to expand the number of people in our guild. The current number of players is definitely not enough, especially the number of non-combat players who do not directly participate in the war is very high."

Hongyue suddenly said: "Actually, non-combat players are easy to find. You just need to go to the business districts of major cities to recruit people. No guild has ever openly recruited these non-combat players before. Although our guild has done a good job recruiting people , but we didn’t take them seriously. If we were really serious, this aspect would actually be the best thing to recruit. After all, there are more non-combat professional players than combat professional players in this game, so we can easily Easily complement these guys.”

"In this case, you should go back to recruit players in this field immediately, but you must pay attention to personnel control. Even if our guild expands, we must ensure the principle of elitism. I don't want traitors and freeloaders to exist. Also, shadow dancers are sent out to lurk in The spies within our guild still haven’t figured out who they are. Although I used them to set up a countermeasure last time, I still don’t worry if I don’t dig them out.”

Rose said: "I have asked the guild affiliated organizations Hell's Eye and Poison Fang to investigate this, and the results should be available soon."

"Didn't I send Venomous Fang to Russia and India? When did you return to China?" I actually didn't even know that Venomous Fang's affiliated guild had returned to China.

Rose said calmly: "Not all of them came back, only one-third of them came back, and these people didn't come back together. They came back in batches as they sent some special items back home."

"Oh I got it."

The things I arranged were quickly implemented. Hongyue returned to the mainland with a large number of people to recruit new members. The current membership of our bank is less than 120,000. It is indeed difficult to suddenly expand to 500,000, but there is nothing we can do about it. Compared with recruiting players, what is more troublesome is the number of NPCs. After all, players can use various methods to persuade each other to join, and our guild's own preferential treatment makes it easy to recruit people, but NPCs are different. The number of NPCs in a city must exceed the number of players, but most of them are useless free NPCs. This part is easier to handle. As long as the city construction is completed, they will naturally flow in from nearby cities, and then they will multiply and increase rapidly. Fill up the quantity. What I'm worried about now are professional NPCs, or NPCs belonging to guilds.

Professional NPCs generally have relatively high intelligence, and they can take on various jobs. The quality level of professional NPCs in a city directly determines the city's work efficiency and response speed, and also affects the city's economic benefits. Our guild's magic crystal research expert, Master Lund, and those Seratis people are both professional PCs, not just free NPCs. Their acquisition is not as simple as finding good equipment!