Chapter 35 Sky-High Price Battleship

"Are you here too?" the old man's voice came from behind us.

"What's wrong? Is our ship calculated?"

"Okay!" The old man said, holding a record book in his hand: "I have calculated that this ship is equipped with a total of 750 propeller tanks, 600 gun rooms, 400 lounges, 40 double rooms, and a large chart room, a combat command room, 16 damage control rooms, and 8 modified warehouses. Let me tell you about it here. Because you have too much remaining space, I merged the adjacent warehouses into 8 for the sake of saving materials. Large cargo hold. I also helped you set up a temporary prison that can hold 0 people, so that you can capture prisoners! There is also a medical room, a kitchen, a canteen, an armory, a safe, and a backup combat command room. The sails are made of composite Sail, five mainmasts, a total of 5 mainsails and 45 auxiliary sails. Because the keel cannot be dismantled, I helped you install a mid-range ram, which can collide with enemy ships without preventing you from installing the bow. In addition, I There are three rotatable platforms designed on the bow of the ship to facilitate your installation of the magic crystal cannon. I have also prepared two rotating platforms on the stern of the ship for you. You can decide where you plan to install the cannon! Finally, I did the math for you. The price requires a total of (00,000 crystal coins. Since you can let me complete such an outstanding work, I will give you a discount, just 20,000!"

"20,000 crystal coins?" All of us shouted almost at the same time.

Rose began to calculate: "Zi Sun has 1 million, Eagle has 550,000, and Ziyue donates another 50,000, a total of 1.6 million. There is still 600,000 left!"

"It's really a sky-high price. I understand why other guilds can't build big ships!" Jin Coin sighed.

"How big of a ship are you going to build?" King Chuang asked in surprise when he heard the price of our ship. "My Haiwei is already very big. It only cost more than 500,000 yuan, but your ship actually costs 20,000 yuan! A ship can almost catch up with a fleet!"

I said seriously: "Soldiers are more expensive than fine soldiers. We use the money to build a fleet to build a ship, and its future combat effectiveness will definitely exceed that of a fleet!"

"I have no objection to this!" King Chuang nodded. "But don't you have enough money?"

"There's something wrong!" I nodded helplessly. "600,000 is missing!"

"I guess you don't have enough. It took us a long time to save up the 500,000 yuan! By the way, is your 20,000 yuan the ship price or the total price?"

"Ship price? Total price?" We looked back at the old man and waited for an answer.

The old man looked at us and said: "This is the price of the ship. The materials and labor costs are so much. You have to figure out other things by yourself! I can't help you buy it!"

"You mean we need to spend money besides building ships?" We looked at the old man.

"Of course! What I built is just a boat!" The old man started to count his fingers for us. "If your ship wants to go to sea, you need sailors! You have to hire sailors from the sailors' association, and different sailors have different prices! The ones in the paddle room seem to be cheaper, the gunners are slightly more expensive, and there are some doctors on top. Chefs and the like, of course you can also hire players! Also, if you want to fight, you must hire combat sailors. For example, NPC archers for long-range attacks and combat sailors for hand-to-hand combat. In short, these all cost money. Also, The artillery on the ship also has to be purchased from a blacksmith shop that specializes in selling siege equipment. Different types of artillery have different firepower and prices. By the way, don't forget the gunpowder. There is no gunpowder and cannon shells. It’s just a pile of scrap metal! Also, you need to buy the ship’s bow statue. That thing is a magic item, so you have to go to the Mage Association to buy it. Different Mage Associations sell them differently, so you’d better go to a few more and get a good idea before buying it. That stuff is not cheap, and it won’t be returned! By the way, you also need to buy food. Although you players have no hunger level, the NPC sailors have to eat on time. Once the hunger level is full, they will rebel, and it will be difficult to deal with it then! "

"Is there any more?" I almost fainted. Based on this calculation, I guess I won't be able to get it back until 3 million!

"That's all for now!"

"That...!" Rose paused and asked, "We don't have enough funds, can we owe it first?"

The old man immediately changed his face when he heard that he was going to default. "No, I can tell you that the construction of the things has already begun. The money will be deducted directly from you. You must collect enough debt before the construction is completed, otherwise I will resell it!"

"Then how long will it take you to build?"

The old man pointed out a finger. "A month? That's okay, it should come in time." I nodded.

The old man shook his head.

I said in surprise: "It won't be one year, right? Then when you finish building the national war, the war will be over!"

"It's one day! No matter how big or small I make here, I can deliver it in one day! You can pick up the boat at noon tomorrow!"

"No! One day? How did we get there in time?" I exclaimed in surprise. It is indeed convenient for players to set up this game for one day, but we did not have time to collect so much money! "Can't you give me a few days' grace?" I continued to show off my horse skills.

With my super high charm points, I really convinced the old man. "If you can help me turn this ship into the most famous invincible battleship in the world and advertise it for me, I can reduce some of the fees."

"Then what are we going to do? How much can we reduce the cost?"

"First you must let me put my shipyard's name on the hull, which counts as advertising. Then you must sink enemy ships worth more than the original cost of this ship within a week. If you fail, you will be How about confiscating the boats and imposing fines?”

"Yes, yes, but how much can you reduce us?"

"How many do you have?"

"1.6 million crystal coins!"

"I will charge you 1.6 million crystal coins."

"Thank you so much!" I was so excited that I almost went up to kiss him. (The 00,000 boat was settled for 1.6 million in the end! I made a profit!

The old man interrupted me and said, "Don't be too happy. You at least need to hire sailors. Without sailors, your ship can't sail at all!"

"Okay, we will find a solution for this!" I turned around and asked King Chuang: "Do you know where the Sailors Association is?"

"Of course, I just want to replenish the sailors. We lost a lot of people in the battle just now! Come with me!"

"Okay, please lead the way!"

Just as we were about to leave, the old man stopped us again. "Don't leave yet! Tell me the name of the ship." "Let's call it Bi Ling!"

After explaining what happened to the old man, we followed Chuang Wang out of the port and walked through half of the city. Finally we saw a house with a lifebuoy hanging on the door. The door of the house said Professional Sailors Association. After we came in, Chuang Wang pointed us in a direction and then went about his own business. We followed the direction he pointed to the room at the end of the corridor, pushed open the old wooden door and entered the room. This is a small living room, and an old man is sitting behind a desk.

I stepped forward and started to prepare for negotiation, but I had no choice, who told me to add so much charm in the first place! "Hello, we need to hire sailors. I would like to ask what procedures are required for this hiring."

"No formalities are required, it's very simple!" The old man looked at me and said politely: "You just need to tell me the name and type of the ship, the name and level of the captain, and the number of types of sailors required!"

"Our ship hasn't been built yet. It won't be completed until tomorrow. The ship's name is Biling. As for that type, what does it mean?"

"The type is asking you whether it is a warship, a fishing boat, or a yacht!"

"Battleship!"

"Where's the captain?"

I looked back at Ying and the others to ask for advice, but Ying just shouted out. "Purple sun."

"Ziri! Okay. What's your level?"

Now that I have reported it, I will no longer refuse. "Level 339."

"What kinds of sailors do you need? How many of each?"

"We need 3,000 oar sailors, 1,800 gunroom sailors, 300 'hands' sailors, and 0 orderly sailors. We also need a set of essential sailors, like doctors, cooks and the like! There are also combat sailors, but I don’t know who the combat sailors are, can you tell me?”

"There are not too many types of combat sailors. One is a light-armed swordsman for hand-to-hand combat, the other is a heavily-armored swordsman for hand-to-hand combat, there is also a short-range archer, a long-range archer and a long-range rocket soldier. Finally, there are magician troops. , divided into four elements: water, fire, wind, and thunder. Which one do you want?"

“How do these people set their prices?”

"Are you buying or renting?"

"purchase."

"The oar rocker and orderly sailor cost 50 crystal coins each, the gunner cost 100 crystal coins, the 'sailing' sailor cost 150 crystal coins, and the doctor, chef and the like cost a total of 10,000 crystal coins. Among the combat sailors, the machete hand cost 0 crystal coins. One, a swordsman costs 500 crystal coins, a short bow soldier costs 0 crystal coins, a long bow soldier costs 400 crystal coins, and a rocket soldier costs 500 crystal coins. Each mage costs 1,000 crystal coins."

Rose pushed me and whispered: "Husband, just the necessary sailors for sailing cost 395,000 crystal coins! We have 400 sailor rest cabins, so we can still hire 00 combat sailors, but regardless of hiring We don’t have enough money for any kind of combat sailor!”

I politely said to the old NPC man: "I'm sorry, we have to discuss it before we decide." After saying that, I quickly pulled everyone and ran out. I rushed to the street and took a long breath. "I'm scared to death that it's so expensive!"

"It's so expensive to begin with! This thing was originally designed to be purchased between guilds, not just for a few of us." Gold Coin nodded.

"Yes! We should also form a guild!" Ziyue suggested.

Bingbing immediately said to me: "Don't bother building it. Brother Ziri has his own guild. It's just him and Sister Meigui who can take us all in."

"Do you have a guild?" Ziyue actually didn't notice that I had a guild badge until now. "That's perfect, I want to join the club!"

"Ah? I'm just doing it for fun. If you come in, won't it be a drag on you?" I explained.

"It's not a burden. Anyway, we haven't thought about joining any guild. It's so convenient to join yours. From now on, when you go online to find people, you can directly shout on the guild channel. You don't have to cancel the team mode as soon as you go online. How troublesome it is to reorganize!" Ziyue actually recognized me!

"Okay, okay!" I really couldn't resist everyone and had to take them all in. Now there are quite a few people in my guild, and I am also the president of the "big" guild (actually there are only 12 people including me)! I thought smugly!

"What now?" I asked everyone. “There’s still a lot of money we’re short of!”

"How about we first ask about the price of the cannon and the bow statue?" Bai Ling suggested. "It would be nice to have a target if we know how much we are short of in total!"

"Then let's ask first!"

After asking around all the way, we came to the siege equipment shop. It was really hard to find it. It was actually built next to the city wall! The whole store felt like a factory, with many semi-finished cannons piled everywhere. It took us a long time to find the blacksmith standing in front of a large stove. "Hello, we want to buy artillery for warships. What kind of guns do you have here? What's the price?"

The blacksmith was shirtless, his body was shiny with sweat, shining in front of the stove, and his voice was rough when he spoke. "Follow me." He led us to a row of different cannons beside the wall and said: "The worst is this kind, the flat cannon, which has a range of two kilometers and can fire two fires per minute. It's very powerful and often explodes."

"Excuse me, what does exploding a chamber mean?"

"It's just that the shell didn't go out and exploded in the barrel!"

"Oh! Keep going!"

"Each flat cannon costs 1,000 crystal coins. This is a cannon, with a 'firing' range of 2.5 kilometers. It can fire 3 shells per minute. Its power is average. Each cannon costs 1,0 crystal coins. This is a heavy cannon, with a 'firing' range. 3 kilometers, fire rate 4 rounds per minute, high power, 1500 crystal coins each. This is a chain gun, fire range 3 kilometers, fire rate 6 rounds per minute, the power is the same as the heavy cannon, every Each door costs 1,800 crystal coins. The last one is a breech-loading fortress cannon with a firing range of 4 kilometers and a firing rate of 6 rounds per minute. It is very powerful and costs 3,000 crystal coins per door. Okay, that's it. Take your time. Decide, call me after you’ve chosen.”

Seeing that the blacksmith left, we quickly slipped out. Rose, who studied economics, once again acted as an accountant and calculated: "If we want to have a firepower advantage, we have to buy that fortress cannon. We need 1.8 million for 600 of them!"

"Oh my god! It's more expensive than the boat!" I really couldn't bear the blow. "Money, money, I want money!" I looked up to the sky and screamed!

"How much do you want?" A familiar yet unfamiliar voice suddenly answered, startling me.

"Are you...? Feng Yin Piaomiao!" I finally recognized it. Isn't this the rich man who bought my magic pet egg last time? "Why are you here?"

"This is the location of my guild's branch. I recently heard that they were badly beaten by Japanese pirates. Let me come and take a look!"

I suddenly became nervous. Feng Yin Piaomiao is Hongyue's brother. Now that he is here, Hongyue won't...!

"Finally I found you!" It really means Cao Cao Cao Cao has arrived! Hongyue ran over from the side. "Last time I just logged off for a while and you slipped away, but this time I caught you!"

"Hey!" I smiled so unnaturally! "Why are you here too?"

"The coastal branch of our Goddess Alliance was also attacked. My brother and I came here to take a look. But you, tell me, what are you doing here?" The red moon is still so fierce after not seeing it for several days!

"We're here to fight pirates too!"

"That's just right, let's go together then!" Feng Yin Piaomiao said with a smile: "You just shouted for money, isn't it because you don't have enough money to buy a boat?"

"How do you know?" I looked at him in surprise.

"Last time, you had to sell your magic pet to get the one million crystal coins, and building a ship cost hundreds of thousands. Plus buying some peripheral equipment, I don't think it would be possible for less than one million." Well, how far are you short? I'll lend it to you!" Feng Yin Piaomiao is worthy of being the president of the largest guild in the Central Plains. As expected, he is generous and good at being a good person!

Hong Yue stopped Feng Yin Piaomiao. "Wait, let me borrow it!" I looked at Hongyue in surprise and thought when she would change her gender! But the following words make me sure that she hasn’t changed at all. "Ziri! I will be your creditor from now on, so you must listen to me! If you don't have the money to pay back, don't pay back. Use yourself to pay off the debt! I don't mind!" Haha, this girl wants to buy me ah! It's a pity that my status is different. It may be okay in the game, but no one can afford my real net worth!

"Piaomiao, I really need the money, so I won't be polite to you anymore. It's not my style to be coy. But I will pay it back as soon as possible!"

Feng Yin Piaomiao smiled and said: "It's okay, I don't care. In fact, I hope you don't pay back the money!"

"Ah?" I was shocked. Don't both these brothers and sister want to buy me?

"The few magic pet eggs you sold last time almost caused a fight among several elders in our guild. It would be better if you help us get a few more when you have time than to pay back the money!" So that's what he meant! Scared me! I thought he had that hobby!

"No problem! I will definitely take the time to help you catch some good ones!"

"That's fine! Tell me, how much do you want?"

I turned around and looked at Rose, who immediately understood what I meant. "Four million!" This was not Rose Lion's big mouth. Those cannons cost 1.8 million, and the necessary sailors for navigation cost about 400,000, which is 20,000. In addition, the cost of hiring combat sailors is estimated to be 3.5 million. I don’t know how much the bow statue costs! Judging from the generally exaggerated prices of magic items, the remaining 500,000 may not be enough!

"So much?" Although Feng Yin Piaomiao is very rich, he didn't expect that we would need so much money to build a ship. "How many boats do you have?"

"One!" I smiled awkwardly looking at Feng Yin Piaomiao's dropped chin. "Hehe! It's just a little bigger!"

"I'm afraid it's not bigger, right?" Feng Yin Piaomiao has his own fleet, and he knows very well how much a ship costs! "Four million is still a difference. Your entire ship is estimated to cost more than five million?"

"Your guess is quite accurate! Our shipbuilding fee is 1.6 million, and the 4 million I borrowed from you is to buy peripheral equipment!"

"Isn't a 1.6 million ship a big one? Did you spend so much money?" Feng Yin Piaomiao suspiciously took out a shipyard shipbuilding manual. "My ship is already the largest. The shipbuilding cost is only 1.8 million. The peripheral equipment doesn't cost as much as you do!"

Rose stepped forward to explain. "Our ship was obtained by Ziri Special Case. His charm value is relatively high. The shipyard opened a back door to specially build a very large warship. The actual cost is (00,000 crystal coins. Because we have no money, we exchanged conditions with him. We just set a price of 1.6 million!”

"Oh my god! Then doesn't the actual total cost of your ship cost 6.8 million crystal coins? When will it be built? I want to go and admire the largest ship in China!"

"If you are interested, just come to the dock and wait for us at noon tomorrow, and we will watch her launch together. After all, there is your investment here, right?"

"This is money. I have to go to my guild to solve the fleet problem, so I won't accompany you." After saying this, Feng Yin Piaomiao took Hongyue and walked away. This woman! Scared me!

After I got the money, I first went to the blacksmith and ordered a cannon from him, and then went to the Sailors' Association to hire the necessary sailors. Looking at Eagle and the others, I asked, "What about the combat sailors?"

Bai Ling said: "We should hire more melee sailors. Our long-range firepower is already exaggerated, and the mage archers are actually of little use! If the enemy really dares to rush into the shooting range of the mages and archers, then it is obvious. We need to engage in hand-to-hand combat, so we’d better recruit more melee sailors.”

Rose said: "Then 00 heavy swordsmen, 500 rocket soldiers, and 50 each of the four types of mages, exactly 00 people!"

"Then it's settled!" I reported this figure directly to the old man in charge of hiring sailors. Another 1.3 million crystal coins were gone. Including the necessary sailors, we spent 1.695 million crystal coins just to hire sailors. ! In addition to the 1.8 million spent on the cannon, 3.495 million crystal coins were gone in just a short time! It’s so easy to spend money!

With the last 505,000 we went to the Masters Association area. The Masters Association in the city felt like the Siheyuan in old Beijing, with a circle of high towers surrounding a small square. "Dark Mage Association, Chaos Mage Association, Fire Mage Association, Water Mage Association, Light Mage Association, Auxiliary Mage Association, Psychic Mage Association, Necromancer Association,..., Life Mage Association!" Count each meal on time! Come over. "Good guy, more than 70!"

"What should I do? There are too many!" Bai Ling was so dizzy!

"How about we search separately?" I suggested: "One person is responsible for several of them. Write down all the more useful ones among the ship's bow pictures we see. Then we will compare and select the most suitable ones, and then we will decide on a few key targets together. Go in and take a look.”

"Okay! Let's look separately!" We all assigned tasks and dispersed. I was responsible for the seven in the middle.

Fortunately, although there are many associations, none of them are big, at least the ones I looked at are not big. The things in these seven associations are all good. In the end, I took a fancy to the Great Demon's prow statue from the Dark Association, the Yvrit's prow from the Fire Mage Association, and the Holy Angel's prow from the Light Mage Association. The three bow statues each have their own characteristics, and the prices are similar. The most expensive one is the particularly best-selling Holy Angel Statue, which actually costs 510,000 crystal coins. I doubt that her beautiful appearance has caused such a high shipment volume! In the end, the devil statue with poor sales is the cheapest and can be easily purchased for 470,000! It seems that the worth of gods is also affected by market supply and demand! Poor devil!

By the time everyone came out, it was already night. After spending a long time together, we still had too many choices. The main ones were the Great Demon Statue, which can greatly increase the melee power of the ship, and the Evolit, which can prevent fires and increase the power of artillery fire to a certain extent. The Holy Angel Statue greatly speeds up the recovery speed of all crew members' health and other attributes, the Hammer Statue makes the ship stronger and harder to be damaged, the Skeleton Statue causes the opponent's crew to fear and make mistakes, and puts the ship in half The half-moon statue that is invisible, the virgin statue that greatly improves the morale of the crew and speeds up the movement and firing speed, the dragon statue that greatly improves the long-range firepower of the battleship and its sturdiness, and the giant shark that makes it difficult for the ship to sink and greatly increases its speed. For example, these are the statues of the gods of wind that keep battleships always in the wind.

After a heated discussion, there was no result at all, so we had to sort by price. First, we removed the angels and virgin statues that we couldn't afford, and then we removed the ones that were not cost-effective. Finally, we decided whether to use the big devil or the skull statue. Or I still can’t decide between the Half Moon Image Yi or the Giant Dragon Image!

In the end there was nothing we could do! We used the most boring, helpless, stupid, and at the same time the most traditional, practical and effective method to decide which bow image to use!