Chapter 142: The Crisis of Maritime Power

"Ah...!" I was hesitating, and the fairy Zizhu in my arms suddenly let out a painful ***.

"Damn, that guy Taishang Laojun is so unreliable to do things! Didn't he say he would wake up after an hour? It's only a few minutes?" While cursing Taishang Laojun, I carried Fairy Zizhu to the Temple of Chaos and Order in Aisinger, borrowed a guest room from Vina, and then put Fairy Zizhu on the bed.

Although she was no longer in a deep coma, Fairy Zizhu was just humming all the time. It sounded like she was having a nightmare, but she just didn't wake up. However, although she didn't recover immediately, the words of the Taishang Laojun were still not accurate, because after Fairy Zizhu was knocked out, she suddenly sat up from the bed, an hour and a half earlier than the time that the Taishang Laojun had expected.

"No..." Fairy Zizhu probably just woke up from a nightmare and hadn't figured out the current situation. After jumping up from the bed with a scream, she was stunned by the surrounding environment. The Temple of Chaos and Order belongs to the European God system, so this room is also European-style decoration, and it has nothing to do with the style of the Heavenly Court. Fairy Zizhu was stunned when she saw the decorations around her, and then found me sitting outside.

I was sitting in the living room outside the bedroom, but the sofa I was sitting on was facing the bedroom, and the double doors in the bedroom were not closed, so I could see the situation on the bed directly. The reason why I sat so far was to clear my relationship and be afraid that Fairy Zizhu was taboo; the second was to worry about my life, and if Fairy Zizhu woke up, I wouldn't stop it.

"woke up?"

"Where is this?" Fairy Zizhu sat up and glanced around, then jumped out of bed and walked out.

"This is the Temple of Chaos and Order in Aisinger. Don't worry, your identity of the gods has not been erased yet, and I have not turned you into my demon pet. After all, our private relationship was pretty good before, and I wouldn't take advantage of others' danger."

"Thank you." Fairy Zizhu walked towards the gate after saying that.

I sat on the sofa while pouring drinks for myself and said to myself: "If you plan to go back to heaven, I won't stop you, but I hope you understand that it's meaningless to go back now. In the end, even if you are not sent back to me, you will still be sent to another place. In terms of divine power, I am indeed inferior to you, but if you understand human nature, you are too far inferior to me!"

Fairy Zizhu was about to go out, but she stopped by putting her hand on the doorknob. "Do you have a way to help me?"

"Do you know why there is something that cannot be solved in Heaven and always come to me?" I took a sip of the drink, then leaned against the sofa and continued, "Because I always have a solution." Seeing that Fairy Zizhu was about to speak, I suddenly stretched out a hand to stop what she wanted to say. "Don't worry. Although I can indeed handle most of the problems you can't handle, I am not a caring volunteer at the charity. Yes, I can indeed provide perfect services, but that is based on perfect rewards."

"I……"

Fairy Zizhu said just one word and was interrupted by me again. "No, no, no, don't rush to promise me anything. All I want is your idea of ​​agreeing to pay the reward." I said and reached out to signal the surrounding environment. "Look, I am not short of money, nor resources, and even I have the thugs of the gods. So I am not in a hurry. Heaven forced you to me, not paying the bill at all. They are increasing their debts, and this makes me very angry, so since you are willing to bear the reward for my help, I will definitely help you. OK, I think we have reached an agreement now, right?"

Fairy Zizhu nodded. "I will pay it, as long as you say."

I nodded, then stretched out my hand, and a small white ball of hair jumped into the arms of Fairy Zizhu. Fairy Zizhu instinctively reached out to catch it, and then looked at me in confusion. I wonder why I gave her such a cute little animal.

"It is one of my guild guardians, you can call it wool ball. Since we have reached an agreement, I hope you can cooperate with me to act in the show first, so that I can help you find a way."

"Yes. What should I do?"

I stood up with a smile, and walked to a wall and stood there with my back against the wall. "Okay, use your ultimate move to knock me out with the wall behind you. Then the little guy in your arms will take you to a place where you can adjust it. I will go to find you after the matter here is handled. Okay, come on. You don't have to hold back. I'm not as fragile as you imagined. You won't be able to kill me in one move. As for the damage to the house, I will reimburse the Heavenly Court."

Although Fairy Zizhu didn't know what I was doing, she could only rely on me now, so in the end she took action according to my arrangement.

There was a big hole suddenly on the top floor of the Temple of Aisinger. Everyone around saw me flying out of the wall with a lot of rubble, and then a purple glow flew out of the hole and disappeared into the sky in an instant.

Boom. The rubble on the ground was suddenly lifted up, and I crawled out of it in a dusty face, still cursing: "Damn Fairy Zizhu, Damn Heavenly Court, do you really treat me as an idiot?" I cursed and turned the teleportation ring to disappear in an instant. The next second I had already walked out of the teleportation array outside the South Heaven Gate.

At this time, the South Sky Gate had closed again, but I didn't knock on the door at all. I used my ultimate move to hit the door three times. The people inside were startled and hurriedly opened the door. "Hey, isn't this President Zi Ri? Are you..." I am still covered in gray and look extremely embarrassed, so the general guarding the door was stunned for a moment.

I ignored him at all and rushed into Lingxiao Palace angrily. However, there were no one here at this time, only a few gods were guarding outside. I ignored the dissuasion of the gods and continued to break back. Soon I found a group of leaders of the Zitian Court in the Tushita Palace of Taishang Laojun.

"Hmm? Why is Zi*** back? What's going on?" Seeing me suddenly appearing, Laojun was also asking questions, and seeing that I was angry, I was clearly here to quarrel.

"Hmph, I don't care what happened in your heavenly court. It's your internal problem. My reward must not be less." Seeing that the Jade Emperor was about to speak, I quickly shouted: "Also, don't mention that Purple Bamboo Fairy to me. She is not a reward, but a task. Look at me being beaten by her! My Aisinger Temple was bombarded with a big hole, and you all have to compensate you." I pointed to the Supreme Lord and said: "Didn't you say she can't wake up within an hour? Why did she wake up in half an hour?"

"Ah? I don't know this!" The old man of the Supreme Court was also very depressed. According to his calculations, it was a conservative estimate, but who knew that he woke up in half an hour. But now that I have come, it means that this is true. After all, it's only been forty minutes before he knocked out the Zizhu Fairy, which is a bit too fast.

"You can calm down first. We will give you the reward. Heavenly Court will not be sluggish, but you have to give us some time! You have also seen that Heavenly Court has not returned to normal yet, and I am really too busy for the time being. Please wait a few days, okay?"

"Okay, I will believe you again, but if you rude me next time I come, don't blame me." I said and left the Heavenly Court angrily.

Actually, I didn’t come to ask for rewards for this trip, but I just informed the Heavenly Court first to let them know that Fairy Zizhu is not on my side. Otherwise, they would have been arguing with the Fairy Zizhu as a reward. It’s not more than an hour now, so there was a problem with the words of the Taishang Laojun. He couldn’t deny it openly, so he could only admit it. As long as they were willing to admit what they owe me, that would be enough. After all, the Heavenly Court is the Heavenly Court, and it is a little stingy, and the promised reward will not be denied.

After returning to Aisinger again, the temple had already started repairing. I just took a quick look at the situation and was pulled away by Woma.

"Okay, okay, don't pull it." I asked while running with Woma: "What did you guys get out of here and you're so anxious to take me to see?"

"It's not that I made something, but that I discovered something."

"Discover? What did you find?"

"You will understand when you see it."

I was forced to drag by Woma to the surveillance center of the God of War. At this time, most of the leaders of the guild had reached.

"What did you find?"

"You can see it yourself." Eagle pointed forward and I looked along his finger. In front of me was a large crystal imager, which was showing a three-dimensional scene. Eagle explained next to me: "This is a real-time signal transmitted from the giant mosquito outpost."

When I heard the eagle's words, I immediately focused my eyes on the screen in surprise. At this time, the imager showed a vast sea surface, and a huge sea ship was sailing slowly in the center of the sea surface. This ship was very large. Except for the Invader Sea Fortress and the Great White Shark Jellyship, our guild had no mobile ship to catch up with the size of this big guy. Even the guild's super battleship is only half the size of this thing. However, unlike ordinary large warships, this ship has no turrets, and there is no external equipment that looks like cannons. In addition, it has a very important feature, that is, its entire upper deck is flat.

"aircraft carrier?"

"That's right." The God of War calmly answered my question and played another scene. "This is a scene you recorded before you arrived here." In the picture, a huge two-legged flying dragon was running on the deck, and then quickly flew up and finally disappeared into the sky. "See?"

I nodded. "But...oh, oh, no, I get it!"

Combat ships such as aircraft carriers have been proven to be the strongest maritime military force in modern battlefields. Their appearance directly led to the withdrawal of the battleships, which are representative of the theory of cannon giant ships, from the stage of history. However, although this theory has been proven in reality, it is not the case in the game. Super battleships like Eternal and Biling are still maritime overlords. Those giant battleships like floating islands are being produced and used by various guilds, including our guilds. Moreover, our warships are still being built and larger, and the caliber of the main gun is also being installed. The reason for this phenomenon is not because the players in the game do not understand military knowledge, nor because we worship cannon giant ships, but because of an objective factor - gunpowder.

The reason why aircraft carriers can dominate the ocean is because they can attack others in positions beyond the reach of enemy cannons. To do this, there must be aircraft with sufficient range, and these aircraft must also be able to carry weapons with sufficient power, at least to ensure that they can sink enemy warships. Only when the above conditions are met can aircraft carriers become the overlords at sea. The reason why there is no aircraft carrier in Zero is because the above situation cannot be achieved.

"Zero" is a magic game, so there are a large number of flying monsters. Although these guys may not be able to compare with modern jet fighters in terms of speed, they have a range and load capacity that is no less than fighter jets. In other words, except for relatively slow speed, flying monsters can completely replace aircraft. But the problem is not flying monsters, but bombs. No matter how strong the flying monsters are, they are still a bit whimsical to sink a warship. Except for top creatures such as dragons and phoenixes, most flying monsters cannot threaten the safety of even small ships such as light destroyers, so Warcraft alone cannot sink a warship. As for top creatures like dragons and phoenixes, they can cross the Pacific Ocean by themselves, and what else do aircraft carriers do? Besides, even if there is one, there is absolutely no more. Almost no guild can be as luxurious as a carrier-based aircraft.

In modern warfare, aircraft mainly deal with warships: anti-ship missiles, aviation bombs, and airborne torpedoes. But the problem is that the special alloys in zero and some magical materials make the armor of the warship much stronger than the real warships. In contrast, gunpowder is a lot less powerful in the game. The direct result of this is that no matter what weapon it is, it must be large enough to produce appropriate power to sink the warship. But the problem is that once the weapon increases in size, it will inevitably lead to an increase in volume and weight. What the flying unit fears most is large and heavy weapons. Torpedoes as big as small boats are not a problem for warships, but for flying monsters, it must carry two air-conditioned buses.

The takeoff of torpedoes that are even big together is definitely a big problem. As for aviation bombs, although the size of that thing is slightly smaller than that of torpedoes, even a large flying monster can only carry one at most, and the flight distance and speed will be severely reduced. Basically, the flying monsters that catch the bombs have no power to take off. They will be shot down if they cannot reach the sky above the enemy warship. As for reducing the size of the bomb, it will directly lead to a decrease in power. If the warship armor cannot penetrate, what else should the bomb do? Therefore, the problem faced by flying monsters is that torpedoes and large bombs cannot fly too heavily, small bombs can drive but basically have no lethality, let alone missiles, there is no production technology in the game.

It is because of the above reasons that the aircraft carrier, a sea overlord, which has been proven to be absolutely powerful in reality, has become an auxiliary warship in the game. Apart from using the flying monsters it carries on for reconnaissance and battlefield rescue, it has basically no direct effect. Who else would want such a garbage warship?

However, the problem has been solved now. The problem of aircraft carriers is that flying monsters do not have suitable strike weapons, but the *** people now have magic crystal steam technology. With the power of magic crystal steam bombs, as long as the bomb is as big as a watermelon, it is enough to threaten the safety of any ship below the cruiser. If you want to sink a cruiser and a battleship, as long as two bombs as big as watermelon hit a dozen consecutively, it will be almost the same. The mainstream flying monsters that each chariot can get in large quantities are griffins, two-legged flying dragons, Pegasus and Thunder Eagles. Among these four creatures, the Pegasus has the smallest weight. However, if it is two bombs as big as watermelon, even if you carry six to eight, you can still have the minimum air dodge ability. As for big guys like two-legged flying dragons, even if you make the bombs as big as winter melons, they can still carry dozens of them easily.

"That means that the *** people have the ability to strike in the air, right?" I asked as I looked at the image on the imager.

"Yes. And it's a very powerful aerial strike capability."

"Is there a coping strategy?" I continued.

"At present, it's not a big problem for our guild to arrive." said the God of War: "The guardian spear of our guild has absolute air supremacy. As long as it can be discovered in advance, we can guarantee that the opponent will be killed before it arrives above. But the key problem is that our alliance guild. They do not have air power like us, and some of our guild's warships also use high NPC configuration structures. A ship may have all NPCs except the captain, and NPCs do not have guardian beasts."

"That is, our battleships have weak air defense power, right?"

"I'm afraid yes."

The King of Chuang looked at me and said, "President, if we don't find a way to solve this, our guild's warships will not go out to sea! Without air supremacy, warships cannot beat aircraft carriers at all. No matter how strong our warships are, they cannot fly!"

I listened to the King of Chuang complaining, but I was quickly calculating in my mind what method could deal with the small aircraft carrier. The reason why our guild and the players commanded by Matsumoto Masaki were able to suppress the players was because we had sea control, so we could intercept the players' warships and find a place to log in at any time, but the people could not log in on a large scale to harass us. However, once the small aircraft carrier gained the sea control rights, our advantage would be completely reversed, which was something we absolutely could not accept. We must find a way to destroy the small aircraft carrier.
Chapter completed!