Chapter 230 Help and Coping Strategies
After understanding why Amakusa Tobukie knew Matsumoto's identity, he next asked about his purpose.
Of course, Amakusa Tobukie answered our questions with ease, because this was his mission.
"That means, are you here to bring reinforcements?" After Amakusa Tobukie briefly introduced, we finally figured out the general matter.
According to the introduction of Amakusa Tobukie, he was a local subordinate of a local castle guard, and his original purpose was to get the help of Masaki Matsumoto. As for the reason for seeking help, the people who were constantly missing in their city.
Yes, they are missing people. It is said that their city has lost more than 30 people in the past week. Originally, in terms of the cruelty of the world in Zero, a city that loses 30 people in a week is not a big deal if it loses 30 people a day. The reason why the city lord hurriedly sent people to find help is that the loss is not ordinary people, but monks.
The reason why the loss of monks can make the city lord so panic is mainly because of the environment here in Japan. The arrangements for the forces in various places in the game are roughly like this. First of all, the lowest level is the free NPC. They are like ordinary people in reality, and they belong to the lowest level. The upper level is local forces, that is, political groups. However, because of the existence of gods, the political groups in the game have not formed an obvious concept of state, and there is only a non-stable city-state system. Generally, cities are governing their own respective positions, or a large city controls several small cities around them, and generally there will be no large management span.
Above the political group, there is the power of the gods, but this does not refer to the gods themselves. For example, the power of the gods in Buddhism refers to the monks, the power of the gods in the heavenly court on earth is Taoist priests, and the two temples of light and dark are actually similar. After all, the two temples are more humans, and the existence of the gods such as angels or demons is just the top leaders of the two temple forces, and they will not run around outside. The specific tasks below are all transferred from the personnel recruited from the free NPC and then transferred to their posts.
These gods are the real god forces above the human agents. For example, the headquarters of the two temples of Buddhism, Heavenly Court, Light and Darkness. Of course, they are not top-level existences, because there are higher gods on it. As for players... this group is actually independent. To put it in a comprehensive way, players are actually the most important group. After all, the game exists for players. If any of the above forces are gone, they can't be without players. However, in fact, the player's status in the game is high, low, and the distribution is very chaotic.
Scattered players are actually a kind of existence that is equal to local political groups. They are higher than free NPCs, but are restricted by the divine institutions. After all, many businesses such as transferring jobs rely on their divine institutions to provide. As for local political groups, this is basically the same as scattered players. Players are not afraid of them, but they cannot easily offend them.
Although the scattered players have low status, players with groups will have higher status. Even in a small guild, they can be half a head higher than the local political power, but they are still slightly lower than the temple organization. Of course, with the strength of the individual guild, this status is also unstable. If you are a member of a small guild with only thirty or fifty people, and there is not even a master in the guild, then joining such a guild is actually similar to a guild without a guild. No one pays attention to you at all. However, if it is a medium guild with thousands of people, there are some second- and third-rate masters in the guild who can hold on to the scene. The status will be obviously different, at least it is much higher than that of a local political group. Don’t be too careful when you see the temple. As long as you don’t go too far, others will tolerate you.
If the guild power is further expanded, such as some more well-known guilds, with a scale of more than 10,000 people, there are a large group of first- and second-tier masters in the guild, and there are a few top players who are ranked on the combat power list, then people of this guild basically don’t have to care about the local divine service agencies. As long as you don’t offend those real divine forces.
As for the top guilds, which are at the level of our Frost Rose Alliance, basically as long as you don’t be too proud, the general forces really don’t have to pay too much attention. After all, even if we say it out, we have not even one or two of the real gods. In addition to those who are too powerful like the Heavenly Court, we need to be careful. Ordinary gods should be polite when they see people in our guilds. No matter what they think in their hearts, at least on the surface, everyone will nod and pretend to be kind. After all, those who dare to bare their teeth at us are basically stubborn, and as long as the rest are noisy, they basically know what they should do.
Of course, the status of a player is actually dependent on his strength. If you have the ability to kill gods, you don’t even have to be afraid of your body. No one can beat anyone, so you can only be a human being with your tail between your legs. This is not much different from reality. It’s just that in reality, it’s not forced to be a personal combat power, but in the game, you basically use weapons and magic to speak.
Because there is such a level of strength in the game, the level is controlled by the first level, and the level is quite strict. This Buddhist sect in India has been crippled by our Frost Rose Alliance and the Heavenly Court. The remaining forces are either annexed by various Indian forces or are surviving. The Buddhist forces in China have all been incorporated into the Heavenly Court or the demon side. Of course, our Frost Rose Alliance has also gained a lot to bring the chaos and order gods closer. However, although the main vein of the Buddhist sect has been interrupted, the sphere of influence of the Buddhist sect group is not just that. Japan is actually a country that is seriously affected by Buddhism. Naturally, there are Buddhist forces here. It is just because the main vein is broken, so the Buddhist forces in Japan are much weaker than before.
However, although the Buddhist power is now weak, the problem is that other gods in Japan are not very good.
The power of the Japanese gods is basically very similar to that of China. First of all, the two temples of Light and Darkness, which are infrastructure, also exist in Japan, but these two temples belong to the guiding class of the gods. Except for their strong strength in Europe, they are not the main gods in other regions. The two temples of Light and Darkness in Japan have not developed very well since the beginning of the game, and their competitiveness is not as good as Japan's own local gods, so they have always been very weak.
In addition to these two temples, Japan also has three semi-god forces. The three of these gods are Buddhist, Gaotian Genshin Impact and Demon Clan. These three forces are similar to the gods in China. For example, Buddhism and Demon Clan are also available in China, but the Gaotian Genshin Impact and Heavenly Court are different. However, there is one thing that is, the relationship between the Gaotian Genshin Impact and the Demon Clan in Japan is not like the heavenly court and the demonic power of our country.
Now the relationship between the Heavenly Court and the Demons has eased because it has only slightly eased after the emergence of our Frost Rose Alliance. Because under my threading needle, the Heavenly Court demons worked together to solve the Buddhism, so the two tribes have certain common interests, and this contradiction does not seem so intense.
However, the relationship between the Gaotian Genshin Impact and the demons in Japan is quite different. Their two gods have had a bit of chaos from the beginning. Some demons themselves are members of the Gaotian Genshin Impact, and many of the Gaotian Genshin Impact are immortals exiled on the mainland. Anyway, the Gaotian Genshin Impact is very diverse, and it is divided into several major sects. One of the sects is basically all composed of demons. In this way, the relationship between the Gaotian Genshin Impact and the demons becomes more chaotic. The two forces can be said to be one force, and two forces can be said to be two forces, but it is very chaotic anyway.
In addition to these three god forces, Japan also has a god force that is not a god force, which is the half god force I mentioned. This god force is called Japanese Shintoism. Its religion absorbs the culture of Chinese Buddhism and Taoism, and also softens Japan's own demon culture. Anyway, it is a hodgepodge, and the most serious thing is that Japan actually has no god group corresponding to this Shintoism. Some of the gods believed in by Shintoism are Japanese Buddhism or even Chinese or Indian Buddhism, some of the gods in the Heavenly Court, some of the gods of the Gaotian Genshin Impact, and even a large number of monsters and ghosts. In short, the gods they believe in belong to multiple god forces. They are not a collective at all.
In theory, this kind of force without the upper structure of the gods cannot be considered a gods. However, because Shintoism has a large group of advanced combat power, they can still suppress the local political groups without challenging other gods, so they created such a half-true gods.
After counting the power of the Japanese gods, you can find that the current gods in Japan have really appeared in a certain vacuum state. A Buddhist sect, the main vein was killed, and the rest was the branch of Japan. A Gaotian Genshin Impact Clan, who had asked me to take the elites in the guild to harm me, but now it is still a little depressed. Even the leader of the Gaotian Genshin Impact Clan, Amaterasu, was seriously injured, and his strength has not been fully restored. I won’t talk about the two temples, and it has been in a position of soy sauce in Japan and has no development at all. The demon power is even more unreliable. It is just a mess of sand and basically has no organization. Shintoism is even more cruel. It has not even a gods, so it has established a religious faction, and it has also created many temples to carry out system powers that can be implemented in various gods.
By counting these gods, you can find that the gods in Japan are actually very problematic. Originally, the Gaotian Genshin Impact and the demons were quite strong. Unfortunately, the Gaotian Genshin Impact made us suffer a lot, and the demons were not united, so the Japanese gods seemed quite depressed. Thanks to the later Matsumoto Masaga Masao later, the Japanese strategy of our guild shifted, from occupying Japan to controlling Japan, so these gods were retained. Otherwise, according to our guild's tactical habits, we would definitely have to clean up the Japanese gods.
It is precisely because the Japanese gods have their own problems now, and they are all like sick people, that even if the Japanese Buddhist forces have no main meridian, they can still maintain their previous status. However, it is precisely because the Buddhists still have their status that the master of Amacao Ten Bingwei was so anxious to send Amacao Ten Bingwei out to find someone to help.
As local political groups, they have a higher status than the free NPCs and are absolutely inferior to the subordinate institutions of the gods. Fortunately, the requirements of the gods and local political groups are different, so there is basically no conflict between the two. One is to have material benefits, and the other is to mainly aim at the power of faith, so there is no conflict between everyone.
However, without conflict, it does not mean that you will be worried. Before, everyone will do their own duties. Now that the main lineage of Buddhism has been annihilated, the Japanese branch is eager to absorb the power of faith to strengthen itself. As a result, at such a critical moment, the monks who are the most direct unit to collect the power of faith suddenly lost more than 30, and they are all concentrated in one city. Do you think the top leaders of Japan's Buddhism will send individuals to see the situation?
It was nothing at all. The problem was that the low-level gods who came to see what caused the loss of more than 30 monks also disappeared after the arrival.
The relationship between the power of the gods and the city lord is basically not much different from the relationship between the emperor and the local officials. Although it is not a direct relationship, it is really a matter of people saying that they can determine the life and death of the city lord here. Originally, the loss of more than 30 monks here was gone, but the result was that an imperial envoy sent by the other party was actually an accident. If the Buddhist sect was indifferent, it would be obviously impossible. Regardless of whether the result of this matter can be found in the end, and whether the responsibility lies with the city lord, anyway, the city lord must have no good results. It is lucky to be replaced, and it is not surprising that he lost his head.
It just so happened that the owner of Amacao Shibingwei was a master who likes to take the initiative and did not like to sit and wait for death. I didn’t know it, but now he foresaw his miserable future. How could he not think about it?
When he was thinking, he immediately thought of asking for help. There are also some specialties in asking for help from someone. The power of the gods is definitely not good. It is said that the relationship between the local regime and the gods is like an emperor and a local official. If the imperial envoy here has an accident in the jurisdiction of your local official, you don’t explain it, and you will go to find a foreign official to come to you to support the scene. What does this mean? No matter whether the previous thing is big or small, right or wrong. If you can do such a thing, then the above will never be spared. This is not a question of right or wrong but a matter of principle, so there is no room for bargaining.
It is precisely because of the distinct factions between the powers of the gods. So the city lord knew that he would never ask other powers of the gods to help. Besides, they might not take them seriously. If he wanted to find other gods to fight against Buddhist inspections, it would basically be like committing suicide, and worse yet, he might not be invited.
If you can't find the power of the gods, then there is only one option left for the remaining power, that is, the power of the player.
Although most player forces cannot actually fight against the power of the gods, the city lord and others know that there is a force that can fight against the gods, that is, Matsumoto Masaki and others.
It was precisely because we knew that Matsumoto and the others had the ability to fight against the gods and at least they could protect them that the city lord sent Amakusa Shibuwei to come here to contact Matsumoto Matsumoto to help. But unexpectedly, he encountered this misunderstanding afterwards, and Amakusa Shibuwei discovered our relationship with Matsumoto Matsumoto.
Matsumoto Masaki Masaki discovered his secret, so he thought about killing people to silence him. However, Masaki Masaki asked him to give him a chance to speak, and Masaki Masaki also agreed. After Atsumoto Masaki told Masaki Masaki Masaki the entire content of this matter. After hearing this, Masaki Masaki Masaki also felt that this matter might be worthy of reaching out, so he did not kill Atsumoto Masaki, but asked me to decide what to do.
After explaining the complete incident, Amakura Shibuwei said, "Okay, President Zi Ri, I have told everything. I am the only one who sees your secret. I have not returned to the city lord yet, so I only know your secret. If you don't want to interfere in this matter, as long as you kill me, you can guarantee that the news will never be leaked. Of course, I don't want to die, so if you may not kill me for some reason, I will guarantee that the news will definitely be rotten in your stomach, and even the city lord will never say it. Please believe that I am not a fool who only grows muscles. It is far better not to know this kind of news. I tell the city lord to put him in danger, so even if you let me go, I will never tell the city lord. As for others, I will naturally not say it."
I still believe Amakusa Tokushi's promise, after all, what he said is the right path. Amakusa Tokushi knows that our relationship with Matsumoto Masaki is equivalent to knowing a great secret. Of course, this kind of thing cannot be said easily, otherwise if the news is leaked, we will suffer losses, and he himself will not be able to escape our revenge. And before this matter is completely spread, who he tells is equivalent to letting this person enter our hunting list. He will definitely not do such things as long as he has a little brain. He has no grudges with us, and there is no need to fight his life and let us cheat us. Isn't it obvious that there is a problem with his brain?
"Okay. Regarding our secret question, I won't kill you because of this, but it's impossible for me to let you ignore such a big thing. So, I will take some precautions against you. But don't worry. As long as you don't leak the news, this precaution will not have any impact on you. As for helping you... I want to know what your city lord is planning? He won't think that we will definitely help after asking for help here, right?"
When Amakura Shibingwei heard this, he immediately knelt down, first kowtowed, and then said: "Thank you for not killing, and at the same time, thank you for your willingness to help us."
"Wait, I haven't said I'd like to help."
"The cost question you ask us is that you are moved, at least you already have the intention to take action. Of course, our city lord will not let you offend the Buddhist guys in vain. His meaning is to use some special rewards to pay your reward."
"Special reward? What special reward can he give?"
Amakusa Tobudwei paused for a moment before saying, "Our city lord has prepared many beautiful women of high quality for you. Just..."
"Stop!" I almost fell to the ground after hearing Amacao Shibuwei's words. "Who do you think of me? Beauty? Your city lord really has an idea. Don't tell me that you have only prepared this. If this is the case, I will immediately let someone tell you to be bombarded."
As soon as Amakura Tobudwei heard my words, he shook his hand and said, "Don't be anxious, we have something else besides this."
"explain."
Amakura Tobudwei said for a moment: "Our city lord still has something in his hand that doesn't know what the value is. We probably may be very expensive, but we don't know the specific value for it for the time being, so we can't determine whether you are satisfied."
"What kind of thing is it?"
"It's a round thing. There are many incomprehensible patterns on the surface carved. The material seems to be jade, as big as an apple."
I frowned and said, "Does there be no other characteristics except this? I don't know what the information you said at all!"
"We don't know what this is, so we can't explain it clearly to you, but I think it must be a good thing, because this thing is something left by the Buddhist gods who came to check later."
"What left by that god clan?"
Amakura Shibuwei nodded and said, "Yes. The first thing that happened to the gods when they came was to go to the temple where more than 30 missing monks were checked. Then he found a secret lattice in the room of an old monk in the temple, which was placed there. At that time, he seemed to know the location of the secret lattice. He was just going directly for this thing. And after seeing this thing, he immediately seemed very at ease. The subsequent investigation work was not so anxious. But he disappeared the next day, and we found this thing while sorting out his relics. So we were not sure if this was of value, but we just knew it should be a good thing."
"What you said is indeed a good thing. So that's it. I'll go and help you see this, but if that thing is of no value, I won't care about your affairs anymore."
"Thank you, sir."
"Okay, you step down first. We have something to do here, and I will come to find you later."
"It's an adult."
Amakusa Tobuki was taken to the Yixiao room by Matsumoto Masaga, but in fact he was temporarily placed under house arrest and could not be allowed to leave without safety precautions.
After Amakusa Tobuki was taken away, I looked at Matsumoto Masaga and asked, "Okay, let's talk about Nobunaga and Hachiki Orochi now. When did they both disappear?"
"We only learned about this early this morning, but according to the information obtained by our personnel, they were actually missing later last night."
"It's understandable that these two people can't bear to see them, but there are so many people under Ghost Nobunaga, and you haven't found any of them?"
"Sorry, President, our people really don't know how they disappeared. They were fine before, but suddenly everyone disappeared collectively." Masaoka Matsumoto said helplessly.
I thought for a while and said, "Can you be sure that Nobunaga and Yakio Orochi are together?"
Masaga Matsumoto hesitated for a moment and nodded: "I am more than 80% sure that they are together. There is a lot of evidence that can be proved indirectly, but we have no direct evidence."
I thought about it for a moment, and then asked Rose and Sumi beside me: "What do you think?"
Rose frowned and said, "They were missing together, and they must have planned something, and they obviously ignored the people on Matsumoto-kun's side. It would be understandable if Nobunaga Ghostou did this, but it would be a bit unreasonable for Hachiki Orochi to do this."
Su Mei followed, "I think they shouldn't come for us this time."
"Why do you think they weren't coming for us?" I asked out loud.
Su Mei replied: "You think. If you want to attack our Frost Rose Alliance, it will basically be an invasion of our country. Such large-scale operations must not be small. It is not safe to devote the whole country to the fullest. How could some people not be used?"
Rose nodded and said, "What makes sense. If Yakio Orochi wants to attack us, it doesn't matter if he doesn't ask Masamoto Masato and the others?"
"Yes, now most of the people in Japan are under our control. Nobunaga Ghostou and Orochi Hachi is definitely unable to bypass our plan. If they don't notify us now, it means that these players cannot be used. If it is an invasion plan, we will definitely need our staff. Then from this, it will be inferred. No matter what Ghostou and Orochi Hachi is planning, it should have nothing to do with the Frost Rose Alliance." Masaga Matsumoto said.
"But what if they use a few people to hit him like this?" asked Sakura Yu Shenqi. "If Aisinger is attacked, will our price be too high?"
"Actually, I'm not worried that they will attack Aisinger." Rose said: "Aisinger's defense is very strong. Even if they really come, they may not be able to take down our city in a short time. And now this matter has been filed in the Heavenly Court. Once the Yaki Orochi appears in Aisinger, the reinforcements from the Heavenly Court will arrive in a few minutes. At that time, the battle will inevitably turn into a protracted war, and this is probably not the result that Yaki Orochi is willing to see. Of course, it is not ruled out that Yaki Orochi is suspected of being a shareholder of Ghost Shou Nobunaga doing stupid things, but the possibility is very low."
Sumi interrupted us and said, "I don't think so. We will first activate the third-level defense plan in Aisinger, which will at least play a certain safety alert. In addition... I suggest starting the space transmission interception system on Kirishima immediately, and the cross-border teleportation array uses the time-jump connection to avoid it, so that the possibility of Yakio Orochi and others directly teleport to Aisinger to launch a surprise attack. Then we only need to block the sea area between China and Japan, which can basically serve as a warning."
Rose nodded and said, "This method is feasible. But Japan cannot relax. I suggest sending people to Japan to investigate the whereabouts of Hachiki Orochi and Ghost Nobunaga." Speaking of this, Rose looked at me and said, "It's just right. Zi Ri, aren't you going to help Amacao Tomohide see the situation on their side? By the way, you will investigate the information of Hachiki Orochi and Ghost Nobunaga. Isn't this just killing two birds with one stone?"
I nodded and said, "No problem. I'll go to this myself, but what should I do in South America?"
Rose said: "The Tree of Life has been planted, so don't worry about the rest. If I care about the logistics, please rest assured. Just deal with the Yakio Snake and don't make any more troubles!"
"No problem, leave this to me."
After the simple discussion, we immediately started to take action separately. Rose was going to South America to focus on the construction of the new city. After all, she was the logistics manager. I can't take care of the matter there now, so she had to take over. Su Mei was of course not idle either. She wanted to go to the staff team to discuss the formulation of a local defense plan. This plan had to be modified in the original plan. On the one hand, the defense was activated, and on the other hand, the intention could not let anyone see anything. This was not a simple job.
They both have their own busyness, so I naturally couldn't get idle. After leaving Aisinger, he went to Mizushi Island to supervise them to activate the teleportation isolation barrier. This thing is a very high-end remote space intercepting device that can block the space channel between the two regions and cause the teleportation array to fail. Moreover, even if the space transmission that does not rely on the teleportation array will be disturbed and cannot be used.
If Yakio Orochi wants to come to China, unless he flies over, he can either take a boat or use a teleportation array. Moreover, the men of Ghost Nobunaga's are the same as them, and they must use one of three methods. As long as this teleportation interference device is activated, there are only two methods they can choose. Either fly over or take a boat on the water.
As I said just now, we will start the coastline blockade. So if they come by boat, they will definitely be discovered. And they will definitely be sunk halfway, so they cannot reach Aisinger by boat, and they will inevitably be exposed. Then, all that is left is in the air. Of course, this is actually a big pit.
What is the strongest in our Frost Rose Alliance? Of course it is the Air Force. Do you think it is fun to keep so many spears and dragons? We dare not guarantee other battles. In air combat, we have never been afraid of anyone. In the past, when there was only one Tianma herd, we were the first in air combat. Now we are a spear formation, a dragon group, an air combat mobile angel and an air warship. The most important thing is that there is the Aisinger Mobile Fortress, which is the air battle fortress. Our guild's air combat capabilities are definitely one of the best. Even if the Yakima snake flies over, we can knock on him.
Of course, once this space isolation barrier is activated, our own cross-border teleportation array will also be limited, but we plan to rely on the working principle of a frequency hopping station for transmission. To put it simply, leave a hole on the isolation barrier for us to use, and this hole is not fixed, but changes every moment. However, because the communication center of the Military God exists, we can use communicators to coordinate the frequencies on both sides, so that our transmission array and isolation barrier use the same frequency for frequency hopping transmission.
If others can't find our transmission rules, it is impossible to transmit at all. Because we use instant communication to coordinate frequency, there is no law at all, so this method cannot be cracked at all. Of course, if someone enters our communication channel, it is possible to send them secretly with the frequency hopping. But the problem is that our communications are based on the God of War, so if someone enters the channel, he will find out at the first time that as long as the frequency hopping is stopped, the entire space channel will be completely blocked, and the enemy will still not be able to pass.
After dealing with the matter here, I left from Kirishima and then arrived at the fulcrum. Without leaving the city gate, I went around a big circle from the sea, then logged in from an unmanned land far away, and then took a detour to reach the temporary headquarters where Matsumoto Masaki and his team were.
Seeing me coming, Matsumoto Masaki and his team immediately led me to the secret conference room. This is the core area here. Only those who truly understand Masaki and his identities can get here. Most Japanese players cannot even enter the peripheral area here.
Here I went to Matsumoto Masaki and the others to learn about the situation of Hachiki Orochi and the others face to face, and then I was taken to Masaki Tomoto Masaki and the others to the room of Amakusa Tomoe.
Although I had seen this in the communicator before, I was quite surprised to see this Amakusa Tomoei on the spot. This guy's appearance is quite alternative to Japanese people, and I thought his appearance was not very Japanese, or Asian. In fact, this Amakusa Tomoei looks like a Western white man, and he can only vaguely see a little Asian bloodline.
Although I was very curious about the appearance of this guy, I didn't ask much. After all, I was not here to check my household registration. I simply exchanged a few greetings with this Amacao Shibingwei and then started to get to the point. "Where is your city and what is its name?"
"Happy Lord. Our city is called Yuanbang, which is a large city with several small mountain villages and a farm managed around it. Because the city is relatively large, a large temple was set up by Buddhism, and there are many very powerful monks stationed there. I just don't know why people will disappear in this way."
"Are all the missing people monks?"
Amakura Tobudie thought about it and shook his head, "Not all, one of them is the staff of a small guild passing by."
The so-called staff of this small guild by Amakusa Tobeyee should refer to the mpc in the guild, because if it is a player, he will directly say it is an adventurer. The name used by the staff must be npc.
I thought for a moment and asked, "What are the characteristics of those missing people? Have you investigated?"
In a continuous homogeneous case, the first reaction is to find common points to confirm the behavioral characteristics of the murderer. Although Amakusa Yoshibe and I are not detectives, everyone can think of some basic common sense. The facts are not expected. Amakusa Yoshibe nodded and said: "We have indeed studied this. In fact, the gods who came to investigate the case before also wanted to start from here, but they disappeared before they were found. After our conclusion, these missing people all have a common characteristic, that is..."
Chapter completed!