Chapter 70 The Banker Joins the War

The powerful beam emitted by Essinger directly formed a huge diffuse fire ring on the city ground. The powerful light radiation caused all objects exposed to the strong light to begin to smoke, and the fire ring It continues to spread along the ground to the surrounding areas. In addition to the powerful unstable magic power, this spreading fire ring also has the effects of high temperature and shock waves. Anything higher than the ground will be pushed down in pieces like straw. Nothing can resist such power. One tenth of a second.

We stood at the observation port attached to the super magic destruction cannon at the bottom of Essinger. Through the huge, almost opaque dark blue crystal glass, we could still see the dazzling white halo on the ground expanding to the surroundings. , Pieces of buildings were reduced to nothing in the flames, and patches of defense troops were lifted up by the air waves and finally completely engulfed by the flames. No matter you are a player who has just left the novice village or an 800-level master, you are as helpless as a baby in front of city-level destructive weapons. Personal strength is meaningless in front of this weapon, even if it is red flame and black A super strong person like Qilin may not be able to survive such an attack.

The beam continued to emit for five seconds, and then suddenly began to become thinner, and finally turned into a bright line and broke into dots of stars scattered in the sky. Everything around us suddenly returned to darkness. Our eyes were a little uncomfortable after the strong light, and it felt like everything around us had turned dark. It took us a few seconds to regain our vision. The city on the ground had been completely destroyed. The huge city surface was completely melted into strange rock condensation. Hot toxic smoke was rising everywhere on the ground. It was some building materials that had been destroyed. Harmful gases emitted after melting.

The sound of city trees sounded above us. "The firing of the super magic destruction cannon is completed, and the main retainer is loose."

We turned back and looked at the pipe mouth of the super magic destruction cannon behind us. The double-layer circular metal retainers fixed at the pipe mouth rotated in two directions, and then with a chirping sound, the two retainers ejected to both sides at the same time. open.

"The main retainer is unlocked, and the secondary gate begins to relieve pressure." As the city tree prompted. Sixteen pressure relief valves on the periphery of the super-magic destruction cannon's firing port simultaneously sprayed out high-pressure steam exceeding a thousand degrees. Even in the city we can still hear the loud chirping sound produced by those valves exhausting gas at high speed.

Ah Wei joked: "This steam would definitely be good for steaming steamed buns."

I nodded and continued: "Well, you'll still be cooked even if you stand there."

The pressure reducing valve sprayed for a full seven or eight seconds before gradually stopping, and the City Tree prompt sounded again. "The decompression of the No. 2 gate is completed, and the main pressure gate is opened to depressurize."

We first felt the ground shake violently, and then the sixteen decompression vents outside the city started spewing steam again, but this time it was different from last time. The last time it was sprayed out was only high-pressure water vapor of more than 1,000 degrees, but this time it was forced cooling filler steam up to 4,500 degrees, in order to ensure the safety of the entire launch device. After emission, a special semi-liquid solid mixture will be filled into the reactor. Then the high temperature will sublimate this substance into a gaseous state, but this will reduce the reactor temperature to below 5,000 degrees, avoiding expensive heat Sensitive components melted due to extremely high temperatures.

As all the high-temperature cooling substances were converted into gaseous state and ejected, most of the high temperature in the cabin was also taken away. City Tree issued another reminder. "The main pressure reaction chamber is cooled for a second time, the main pressure gate is closed, and high-pressure cooling liquid is injected."

Although the gate is closed, we can still hear the chirping sound of the cooling liquid entering the reaction chamber. It seems that the temperature difference between the two is not generally large.

Ten seconds later the sound sounded again. "The main pressure gate opens and the cooling liquid is forced out."

Boom boom…. The coolant sprayed out this time made an unprecedented sound, and it felt like an explosion. From the observation port of the super magic destruction cannon, you can see that the high-temperature cooling fluid ejected from some nozzles has turned into steam and volatilized before it even reaches the ground.

"The secondary cooling is completed, the forced cooling circuit is connected, and the cooling water valve is opened."

This is already the third time it has cooled down. A large amount of fresh water was injected directly into the reaction chamber, but because the gate was not closed, the water quickly flowed out from the outlet below. Although it has been cooled twice, the temperature in the reaction chamber is still as high as one thousand degrees. Cooling water cannot cool the reactor in a short time, so large amounts of cooling water can only be used for continuous flushing. At first, water vapor was sprayed out from the lower outlet, but soon the temperature of the reactor dropped below the boiling point, and steaming boiling water began to be sprayed out from the lower outlet.

"The temperature of the reaction chamber must be controlled within a safe range, the cooling water valve is closed, the main gate and No. 2 gate are closed, and the high-pressure door retainer at the pipe mouth is unlocked."

The six high-pressure steel gates with a diameter of more than one meter in the pipe mouth next to us rotated and locked back into the wall, and then a rotating device locked by the gate automatically retracted into the wall after rotating 90 degrees counterclockwise.

"The pipeline entrance gate is open."

The high-pressure metal gate covering the pipe mouth rotated half a turn under the action of the opening device. A steel column with a diameter of more than two meters was lowered from the top of the room and directly inserted into a port in the middle of the gate. Then with a click, the three retainers on the gate automatically popped up and locked the steel column. The pillar began to rise slowly, and the gate was pulled out with it. As soon as the gate was taken away, a burst of white mist immediately rushed out from under the pipe mouth, which also contained a smell as if something was burnt.

Although we were still more than ten meters away from the mouth of the gathering pipe, the billowing heat wave brought out by the steam still forced us to retreat. The working mechanism on the roof stretched out two pipes to the pipe mouth, and then two water columns poured into the pipe mouth with a bang. We only saw the pipe mouth spraying water vapor outward like a volcanic crater, and the room was very dark. Almost no one can be seen.

Woma shouted outside: "Turn on the forced exhaust fan."

There was a sound of mechanical rotation. The exhaust system starts working. The water vapor is quickly drawn out of the room. The water spray pipe stopped spraying for a while, and the water vapor stopped coming out. Another mechanical claw came down from the top of the cave. It stretched all the way into the mouth of the pipe, only to hear a click, which seemed to be that something was fixed, and then the mechanical arm pulled the mechanical claw and began to rise. Soon they left the mouth of the pipe.

What was grabbed by the mechanical claw was an object whose original shape could no longer be seen. This object melted so much that it was basically a mass of material crystallization. Although it is unrecognizable from the appearance, I know that this is the magic power gathering supercharger of the super magic destruction cannon. It is the key technology for firing the super magic destruction cannon, and the cost of firing the super magic destruction cannon is very high. Half of it is because of it. This unrecognizable thing was originally a precision instrument worth 100,000 crystal coins, but now it is just a pile of precious raw materials. If it is re-refined, it can probably recover the value of more than 300 crystal coins.

"What number is this?" I asked Woma.

Woma smiled bitterly and said: "The sixth one. Each one can only be used once."

Eagle said from the side: "Although it costs one hundred thousand crystal coins to shoot, but considering the effect...it's really worth it."

Woma shook her head and said: "There are more than one hundred thousand crystal coins, there are still one hundred thousand over there!" As she was talking, not far from us, sixteen 50-centimetre-diameter rods rose from the ground. There are cylindrical columns, and there is a flower-like holder on the top of each column. Now there is a white magic crystal in each holder, and these magic crystals are all steaming.

We just walked over when we heard a snap. The magic crystal on one of the holders suddenly exploded, followed by a crisp sound, and the other fifteen magic crystals also exploded one after another.

Woma pointed to the magic crystals that were broken into many small pieces and said: "This is the other one hundred thousand crystal coins."

"It's so fierce. Two hundred thousand crystal coins are just gone."

I patted Ying's shoulder and said: "With input, there will be output. This time the profit is large, so the investment can be increased accordingly. Otherwise, I wouldn't use this magic crystal given by Ashford." Where’s the stuff!”

Rose held the map and said: "We still have three targets that need to be demolished, so let's work quickly?"

I nodded. "Woma, hurry up and replace the launching device. We still have a few targets to demolish!"

"I'll start right now."

The huge lifting arm in the launch room started working again, and something that looked a bit like a motor core was inserted into the pipe opening. The steel pillar at the beginning pressed the gate cover back again and locked it. After the steel column was pulled away, the metal fixed locks returned to their positions and locked the rotating mechanism. Each gate began to refill the protection liquid, and the gates were sealed again. Finally, the outer main fixed lock rotated back to completely lock the pipe mouth. A group of staff moved large pieces of transparent magic crystal to replace the magic crystal that had no energy. After fixing the magic crystal, the metal pillars lowered back to the ground, and the ground was automatically sealed.

The huge Isinger suddenly began to flicker more than ten seconds after the launch device was ready. A faint aperture appeared around Isinger, and the aperture flickered several times. It flashed more and more clearly, and finally it suddenly turned into a substantial state and then suddenly began to shrink towards the center. The huge ball of light that enveloped the entire Essinger quickly shrank into a small ball of light that was only as big as a table tennis ball and then exploded into dots of starlight.

A small blue and white ball of light suddenly appeared in the sky above the city of Galliman, the second most important town in the Beast League. No one noticed the small ball at an altitude of two thousand meters. The ball of light that looked like a ping pong ball suddenly began to enlarge in the sky, and quickly expanded into a giant ball of light that covered the entire city and a large area around it. Then the ball of light exploded like a soap bubble, but there was nothing there at first. There is an even bigger city in the sky above Kaliman City.

"Isengard! It's Isengard!" The Beast Alliance troops in Kaliman City were in chaos almost instantly. They already knew the news that the guild headquarters had been destroyed. A few minutes ago, some smart people wisely chose to escape before Essinger attacked. These people used positioning teleportation scrolls to teleport themselves to other cities in the guild, and some of them went to Kaliman. At the same time, they also brought the bad news to the people here that the guild headquarters was destroyed.

Unfortunately, these people who ran the Great Kaliman were surprised to find that Essinger had also followed here. Although we did not follow those specific people here on purpose, those few people felt that they were very unlucky, actually twice They were selected, but there was not much time left for them to regret. Essinger came here after replacing the launch device. Now the launch device is in a complete state, and the remaining energy gathering time is about ten minutes. Essinger cannot jump in space while ensuring that the energy gathering device works normally, so he must first reach the target area and then gather energy.

Ten minutes is a long time or a short time. The Beast Alliance players in Kaliman City chose to use this time to counterattack, hoping to save their city. Of course, the main reason for this is that they don't know that Essinger only takes ten minutes to gather energy. They think that Essinger can only use the super weapon once today, so they have such courage. Otherwise, they will definitely choose to transfer personnel directly to preserve their vitality. .

Nearly a million air cavalry took off from the city of Kaliman and launched a fearless attack on Essinger in the sky, but Essinger did not make any reaction. It’s not that we underestimate our enemies. But it's really not necessary. Essinger's bottom surface is now about 1,700 meters above the ground. Energy gathering has been started for a minute, and the opponent's air cavalry has just taken off. It has to climb 1,700 meters in nine minutes, which means it will rise nearly 200 meters in one minute. I believe that most monsters can reach this speed when flying in a straight line, but the climbing height is not a level flight. So far, except for a few powerful monsters, I have never seen a monster that climbs so fast.

Just as we guessed, when the fastest air cavalry was less than 200 meters away from the launch device at the bottom of Essinger, a dazzling beam of light had already penetrated the city from Essinger. Center, and then the same thing happened in Kaliman City as the Beast League headquarters. This megacity, known as the second most important town in the Beast League, was reduced to nothing in ten seconds. Millions of NPC troops and tens of thousands of players were incinerated together. The direct economic damage was worth trillions of crystal coins. Of course, for this reason our guild It also cost a lot of money. A super magic destruction cannon bombardment requires one hundred thousand crystal coins of magic crystal and a magic power compression core worth one hundred thousand crystal coins. Also, rush for time to destroy the city of Kaliman. We activated the jumping device. This thing doesn't need to be replaced every time, but the magic crystal it consumes for one jump is about 200,000 crystal coins.

Although this jumping attack comes with a hefty price tag, considering Ashford's commitment. We got the bonus in advance, so we gritted our teeth and jumped to the third goal. Today Isengard has five targets in total, which require four jumps and five artillery strikes. A total of 1.8 million crystal coins will be used, but this can end the war at least six hours early. Our guild can do this Earning an extra six million crystal coins, not to mention each member can get additional rewards, is totally worth it.

It's different from Essinger. The ground force attack mission is relatively difficult. But this is only relatively speaking, not really that troublesome. Essinger is responsible for clearing all the five most difficult targets in the Beast League. The cities that Ashford is really responsible for start from the seventh-ranked city. This city is a semi-fortress city. There is nothing special about it except that there are many cannons, the walls are very high, and the moat is very wide.

In order to cope with this city, I transferred both the Spider Fortress and the Dragonfly Castle here to cooperate with the Ashford Land attack mission. The Dragonfly Castle will first bomb the city, and then the Spider Fortress will forcefully penetrate into the city and destroy the defensive artillery one by one. , As long as Ashford takes care of the moat and city wall, he can enter the city and start a strangulation battle with the people of the Beast Alliance.

The entire battle situation in the Beast Alliance took a turn for the worse. Those analysts who originally expected that the battle between the Iron Crusaders and the Beast Alliance would continue until the third day have now noticed the abnormal development of the situation. These analysts are not incompetent. The reason why their analysis was wrong was because the important link of our guild was missing from the intelligence. It was originally expected that our guild would only be a helper in auxiliary operations. Unexpectedly, our guild actually dispatched powerful troops to fully participate in the war, so all the original analysis results must be overturned.

That is because of the intelligence collected by analysts. And an unexpected intelligence caused problems with the Iron Crusaders' one-sided oppressive attack. The source of this unexpected information was the huge gambling game. It originally had nothing to do with the war itself, but now it reflected a problem from the side.

The original bet on the final outcome of the battle stipulated that betting could continue within ten hours after the start of the battle. This was originally intended to attract more funds from the British and French guilds, but after the battlefield situation became one-sided, many people realized With the strong intervention of our guild, this incident has clearly affected the tilt of the war balance. Judging from the current situation, the Iron Crusaders will not suffer much loss even if they deal with the Beast Alliance. At least the Foster Alliance will never be able to shake the powerful alliance composed of the Iron Crusaders and our Frost Rose Alliance.

The result of this prediction is that those who bought the Foster Alliance victory realized that it was impossible to exchange their gambling tickets for funds, and the funds they invested must have been wasted. Of course, gamblers who discovered the problem in advance would not watch their money disappear in vain. They all began to think about how to recover their losses. At least reduce losses. There are only two ways to do this. The first is to find a way to help the Foster Alliance and let them win, so that there will be no problem with the gambling tickets in their hands. But this method is actually hopeless at all. The powerful alliance between the two major guilds of China and Germany is no longer just a guild force. There is no hope of resisting under the overwhelming advantage of this alliance. Since this method cannot be used, there is only one last method left, which is to purchase a bet on the victory of the Iron Crusaders again, so that the funds from the victory here can be used to bear the losses on the other side. As long as you invest one-third of the original capital, you can guarantee that you will not lose money. If you have enough capital, you can even make a small profit again.

This second method is not a complicated solution. Many people have thought of this solution. Everyone is not stupid. They do it as soon as they think of it. Everyone who can still mobilize funds starts to buy Iron Cross Victory and prepares to use it. Evening the capital deficit, but therein lies the problem.

When those who had worked hard to raise funds wanted to buy bets on the victory of the Iron Crusaders, they were surprised to find that they could not buy them. The gambling auxiliary system specially applied for by the British and French guilds actually refused to accept bets from new places. However, the end time for bet purchase has not yet arrived. There can only be one reason for the system to end early, and that is that the funds are full.

The British and French guilds that start the gambling game need to provide a starting capital before the game starts. This is the banker's principal. After the odds are opened, everyone begins to place bets on the outcomes they think are possible. At this time, the system will calculate all the money that has been invested and the results of the three outcomes in advance. If it is found that the compensation that needs to be paid after the victory of the betting funds for any outcome exceeds the dealer's principal and the total funds invested by all parties later. If it is confirmed that this project no longer has the ability to compensate, the system will suspend the purchase permission of this project. This avoids the situation where someone buys the correct result but doesn’t get the money after winning.

Before the war started, everyone thought that the Foster Alliance would win, so the British and French guilds believed that the funds to buy the Foster Alliance should be overwhelming, while the funds from the other two parties should be relatively less. The money paid by all parties plus the initial principal of the banker is the total compensation amount for this gamble. The two parties with higher odds were originally considered to have no chance of winning, so the British and French guilds believed that offering high odds would attract those who like to take risks. Throwing money is a good idea, but Foster Alliance lowers the odds and pays as little money as possible. With such a large amount of funds, it stands to reason that it should be able to support a considerable amount of purchases. However, when the wind direction suddenly changed, the British and French guilds suddenly discovered that the result of Iron Cross Victory could no longer accept new bets. That is to say, someone had bought up the compensation amount, causing the system protection to activate and prohibit further purchases.

When the quota is full, it means that once the result in this direction is successful, all the investment funds and the banker's principal will be paid out. The result is that the people who bought the other two parties, including the banker, will lose everything. Gambling is managed by the system, and the British and French guilds as bankers are only responsible for providing the principal. Finally, after the entire gambling is over, they can also get some organization fees, and if the amount of compensation required for winning the gambling answer is not high, the remaining funds will be They all belong to the banker. In fact, real gambling houses always win. Is there ever a time when you lose money? The British and French guilds suddenly discovered that the gambling game they opened had swallowed up all their banker's principal. How could they not be anxious?

The two major British and French guilds are thinking about why the victory of the Iron Crusaders was fully bought. Obviously scattered individual investment cannot do this, so the only possibility is organized large-scale investment. After contacting our guild's strong intervention, the results are already obvious. Everyone can see that our guild first paid for the Iron Crusaders to win, and then strongly intervened to help the Iron Crusaders win to win a large amount of gambling money.

Such a simple routine was quickly analyzed, but the current situation is that the Iron Crusaders' options for victory have been fully bought, and the British and French guilds as the organizers are unable to modify it. If they do not want to lose everything, the British and French guilds are the only hope. It was the Foster Alliance that won as planned. The smooth sailing battle between the Iron Crusaders and our guild changed suddenly because of this bet that should not have affected the outcome of the battle. The British and French guilds also adopted the same plan after understanding what our guild was doing. At this time, face is no longer a concern. Money is more important than face. The British and French guilds abandoned the cloak of bankers, rolled up their sleeves and went out to fight in person.

Originally, I expected that the battle would be over before five o'clock that afternoon. After all, the battlefield had been a one-sided massacre. The Beast Alliance seemed very powerful, but under the joint attack of our guild and the Iron Cross, there was no chance to fight back. No. However, at around 6pm Berlin time, the situation on the battlefield suddenly reversed. A force of the Iron Crusaders that had just destroyed a Beast Alliance city was suddenly attacked by an army of unknown origin while being transferred. As a result, with the loss of more than 100,000 NPCs and more than 10,000 players, they retreated to another nearby force. There were friendly units, but after the two forces merged, they were still attacked on a larger scale. More than 500,000 NPCs were all killed within three hours. The player's troops directly lost more than 20,000 people, and a large number of siege equipment was destroyed. However, this battle at least sent back a certain piece of information.

"They are the British and French troops." The resurrected Iron Cross player nodded in front of me and Ashford and confirmed: "I can guarantee that I saw it right. Although they did not take the national flag, I I saw people with special professions from France and Britain, and there were a lot of them. Even if someone in Germany chose the professions with special features from Britain and France, it would be impossible for them to appear so densely in the same army, so I am sure that the other party is definitely British and French. A combined force of guilds.”

After listening to the words of this Iron Cross member, Rose said to us: "It seems that our big business has finally attracted the attention of the British and French guilds."

"I'm afraid this is inevitable. After all, our investment amount is too large. It would be strange if we can't find it again."