Chapter 305: The Sad Celestial Alliance(1/2)
Although Rose knew my combat effectiveness, I came here to investigate the situation this time and suddenly informed her that she had occupied a city and asked her to send someone to accept it. This was indeed a bit surprising. Fortunately, after a brief explanation, Rose understood why I occupied this place.
In fact, there are multiple considerations for occupying this city. On the one hand, it is naturally because the situation in South Korea is obviously very chaotic and our guild needs to intervene. Therefore, we need a front-line supply station. After all, there is still a little far from home to here. Players can accept the speed of traveling with long spears, but the problem is that NPC cannot do it. Moreover, the back and forth of those war materials is also a problem. Because of these annoying problems, moving forward to the base has become a necessary existence.
Is this the second... Actually, it's for the benefit. The city is now controlled by a low-level guild, which means a child is holding a diamond the size of a duck egg. The so-called guilty of possessing a treasure is that this guild does not have enough strength but bought a fortified island located at the intersection of the Three Kingdoms sea routes. What does this mean? If you don't have the strength, you hide aside, and naturally no one will cause trouble for you, but you not only pop up, but also nailed to the place where military strategists must fight. Are you thinking that this is not a fight? To be honest, even if I don't come to grab this island, this place will never be held in the hands of this guild for a long time. After all, this place is so intriguing, and anyone who has passed by here will notice it.
As for my third consideration, this is mainly to consider the expansion plan arranged by Matsumoto Masaki in the future.
We had previously formulated a expansion plan with Matsumoto Masaga, which was to guide the Japanese players' desire to fight northward. Let them not always stare at mainland China, guide their combat power to South Korea, and then let Japanese players occupy South Korea, and then go north to find trouble for the Russians. In this way, the combat power of Japanese players has a vent, and Masaga Masaga's so-called curved national saving plan has also been confirmed, which can be said to be a killing of multiple goals. Of course, more importantly, from then on, Russian players will not be able to cause trouble for us wholeheartedly. After all, there is a Japanese staring at me next to me and need to be wary of it.
Of course, the above is about long-term interests, as far as the third reason for occupying this city is concerned. My purpose is to arrange a visible and tangible goal for Masaga Masao.
Although Masaga Matsumoto told Japanese players that turning the direction of battle to South Korea was to temporarily accumulate strength for the future of Japan. If we don’t fight head-on with us, this is ultimately a big pie drawn on paper. Some senior Japanese guilds really believed Masaga Masaga’s big pie because their eyes were longer and could see the temptation of the big pie. But relatively speaking, ordinary Japanese players cannot fully understand the significance of this strategy. Although these players have to follow this plan because the presidents of their respective guilds agreed with this plan, this is not a long-term solution. If all the players at the bottom do not agree with this plan and rely solely on the orders of the above-mentioned high-level players to force their behavior, then there will inevitably be resistance and even rebellion over time. Therefore, the mass base is very important in any country.
I occupied this island so that Matsumoto Masaki can win over the hearts of those Japanese players. You asked Masaki Masaki to tell those Japanese players at the bottom, but they don’t understand what big strategies they have. Besides, can you take out this strategic level and promote it everywhere? So Masaki Masaki and others can neither explain nor explain it clearly. The easiest way is to not explain it, and directly take out what ordinary players can understand at a glance, so that they can conquer the hearts of those players at the bottom.
This island is such a thing now. According to my plan, we will now start to interfere in Korean affairs, and this island will serve as our base for advancement. After we complete the adjustment of Korean power, Matsumoto Matsumoto can bring Japanese players to attack this island. No matter where the island is, it is our Frost Rose Alliance. Matsumoto Matsumoto let Japanese players attack this island and prove to the guild presidents: "Look, we are destroying the Korean war zone operation of the Frost Rose Alliance." For the Japanese players at the bottom, they are indeed fighting with our Frost Rose Alliance, so that they can realize that they are resisting our Frost Rose Alliance. They will think that Matsumoto Matsumoto is indeed leading them to the road to confront China, and there will be no resistance, but will also increase Matsumoto Matsumoto's prestige.
Therefore, the occupation of this island is of great significance. Even if I don’t defeat it today, I will definitely need someone from the guild to capture it. But since I am here, there is no need to be so troublesome. It saves a lot of trouble to deal with this island by hand.
Although the occupation of large cities requires many people to handle, the initial occupation must not be used for many people. Rose also knew that I would definitely not be able to stay here for a long time, so she sent some people to replace me first. Anyway, the city has been suppressed, and the rest is to watch the city make some troubles, and it doesn't require much combat power.
After the person who came to hand over arrived, I gave a few brief explanations and left the city, because while waiting for them to come, I had already asked about the situation of Tianji League from several players in the city who were willing to compromise.
The current Tianji Alliance is like the president of the Wuji Society who said that it has been driven into the mountains, but the specific location is not clear. It is said that because they were strong in South Korea before, they offended many people. Now the guild is in a civil strife, so there are naturally many people who want to take the opportunity to take revenge. Park Yin probably also knows this situation, so he even gave up the traffic centers with good income and decisively moved into the deep mountains and forests. Although the income of such cities in that kind is meager, it is also because of the small abortion and low income, so it is not easy to attract the attention of enemies.
The news I heard from those players who were willing to compromise was the specific location of the mountain area where Tianji League was located, but I don’t know where the specific city is in the mountains. But I think I can go to the place and ask slowly. The other party is relocating the entire guild. There are so many people and so many things, it is impossible to be silent. Just ask the nearby NPC and it is not difficult to find them.
After riding the bird in the sky, I directly put the bird away and replaced it with Ye Ying. Although the bird was very fast, it was too fast, so it could not be used to find things. Things on the ground were almost flashed by with the bird's speed. Although that city should be easier to find, it was a mountain city after all. If it was missed by the mountain or forest, it would be troublesome. So I finally chose to give up the bird's speed and switch to Ye Ying to transportation.
Although Ye Ying's flying speed is not as slow as that of a bird, it is actually not slow. It's just that it can't fly at supersonic speed. After riding Ye Ying to the mountain area, I first found a small village. From the sky, this is the only way to enter the mountain. Because the roads on the mountain seem to gather here.
After landing outside the village, I rode Yeying into the village. There were not many players here. On the way, I only met one player who left the village along the way, and there were not many players in the village. After all, the reason why Tianji Alliance moved here was because they had few people here. So if I saw a large number of players here, it would prove that their enemies came to the door. And now this only means that the other party has not found it or is not planning to cause trouble for Tianji Alliance.
Of course, players who can get involved in such a down-and-out village cannot be a great figure. In fact, players in such small places that are rarely visited are players who do not pay much attention to leveling. Of course, it is not ruled out that some people stay in such places occasionally for special reasons. However, in normal circumstances, most players in such places are more easy-going than players in big cities. After all, most people who like this place like the quiet environment, and people who like the quiet environment have a good temper.
"Will anyone see people from Tianji League nearby?" Because the village is very small, I did not ask someone alone, but stood at the intersection in the middle of the village and shouted loudly. There are only two roads in the village, and the intersection is this intersection. Because this is the most crowded place in the village, my voice immediately attracted the attention of many people around me. Of course, the so-called many people actually add less than twenty people, and only five or six of them are players, most of them are NPCs.
As I shouted, an old man who seemed to be at least sixty years old suddenly asked, "Are you here to seek revenge on them?"
I looked up and down at the old man, then jumped off Ye Ying's back. No matter what, it would be impolite to ride on a horse and talk to others. If it were the enemy, it would be fine. This is just a passerby, and he is so old, so naturally he can't be too rude.
"Hello, I am President Park Eun's friend, and I'm not here to cause trouble. Do you know where they are? I know they are in the mountains nearby, but I don't know the specific location!"
"Are you a friend of President Park Eun?" The old man looked me up and down with a look of disbelief, and then asked, "How do you prove that you are not here to cause trouble?"
"This...If I were to come for trouble, do you think I would talk to you so politely? I should have kicked you down long ago and stepped on your chest to ask about their location?"
The old man thought about it but shook his head and said, "Even if someone comes to cause trouble, he will not be so rude to me. After all, I am also an elder!"
The etiquette of Koreans is similar to that of Japanese, and they are inherited from ancient Chinese etiquettes. However, in the later period, we lost all of them. On the contrary, the etiquettes retained by Koreans and Japanese people quite complete, although the development was slightly out of shape.
I thought about it for a while and it was really a rude behavior to deal with the elderly with the etiquette in Korea, so what the old man said was indeed correct, but he was embarrassed to prove me. How should this friend prove it? A couple can also issue a marriage certificate, but friends have never heard of a friend certificate?
"Then what... I can't prove it even if you ask me to prove it. This friend is a friend, how can I prove it?"
The old man seemed to realize that it seemed that it was really difficult to prove it, but he thought for a moment and said, "It's okay if you can't prove it. If you really are the president's friend, just wait here for a while. I have a way to know if you are the president's friend."
“How long does it take to wait?”
"It'll be fine in a few minutes."
"Then it's okay, you can prove it quickly."
The old man did not act immediately. Instead, he asked first: "What is your name? What is your identity?"
"My name is Zi Ri, and I am the president of the Frost Rose Alliance." I said, pointing to the three-dimensional sign of the Frost Rose on my left chest and said, "You should know this sign that only the president's sign is three-dimensional, the guild management is a relief, and ordinary members are flat."
When the old man heard my name, he was stunned for a moment, then looked at me for a few more times, and finally asked: "Can you take off your helmet and let me look at your face?"
I suddenly realized when I heard this. When I was flying in the sky before, I was too cold, so I put my mask down. However, because the Dragon Soul suit is too comfortable and the mask also has a visual auxiliary system, I forgot to put the mask down with wine. Now when I heard the other party ask, I remembered that my head was really wrapped. I quickly lifted the mask away. Then I hugged the helmet and took it off, shook the long hair behind my head. I looked at the old man again and said, "Sorry, I forgot before!"
The old man looked at me in a daze for two seconds before suddenly reacting and saying, "No need to prove it. I recognize you. You are the Zi Ri. It turns out that I am the same as my son said. It is more beautiful than my daughter-in-law!"
When I heard the old man's words, I couldn't help but make a black thread. What does it mean to be more beautiful than your wife? Is there such a comparison?
The old man couldn't hear my heart and continued, "I really didn't expect you to come. But I know that you, your guild is indeed an ally of the Tianji Alliance. I can take you into the mountain."
When it comes to serious matters, I no longer worry about the old man's words and said directly: "That's great, let's get into the mountain quickly. I've been looking for it here for a long time!"
The old man nodded and said, "Yes, but I'm afraid it won't work now."
I looked at the old man in surprise and asked, "Why?"
The old man pointed to the sky and said, "It's completely dark this day. Now the monsters in the mountains will be more frequent. We will be attacked when we enter the mountains!"
"There are bosses above five or six thousand in this mountain?"
"Five or six thousand?" the old man exaggeratedly: "If there are such a powerful monster here, how can we dare to build a village here? The most powerful thing here is a level 2,000 monster, very powerful."
"What's the matter?"
"Isn't the monster of level two thousand worth fearing?"
"Is it necessary to be afraid?"
We stared at each other for a while and then I suddenly raised my hand and a red light flew out. A loud bang came from the mountain road outside the village, followed by a squeaking sound. More than a dozen towering trees fell neatly in one direction, leaving an open passage.
"It should be fine, right?"
Seeing the newly opened passage outside the village, the old man finally took me into the mountain. He was just worried about the monsters before, but after seeing my casual blow just now, he realized that I was actually much more powerful than monsters, so there was no need to be afraid of monsters.
As we chatted along the way, I realized that this old man was not a member of the Tianji Alliance. At least according to the system, he was not a member of the Tianji Alliance. Of course, according to the human nature, he was actually a member of the Tianji Alliance, but he had not joined the society.
The old man actually had a son in Tianji Alliance, and that kid was also an official member of Tianji Alliance. After the rebellion of Tianji Alliance, his son still followed Park Yin and others to the place. After that, Tianji Alliance found a deserted city in the mountains and rested, and then regained its own guild city, which is also the only guild city in Tianji Alliance. However, it may be caused by the previous rebellion that Park Yin and her men felt that even hiding in the mountains was not completely safe, so these people decided to set up an existence similar to a guard post at the intersection of the mountain.
Although the guard post is easy to arrange, it is actually difficult to be discovered, so after some thought, I came up with this method. The old man's son pulled his father here to stay and then acted as a secret whistle. Because the old man was not a fighting player and had no guild belonging, it was very normal to live in such a small village. In fact, because the game "Zero" has a sleep assist system, many elderly people will use the game system to assist sleep. After all, this thing does not have side effects like sleeping pills, and this auxiliary system will not harm the human body. In order to sleep in the game, these elderly people naturally need an account, and after having an account, they cannot sleep as soon as they go online, and they always look around. Moreover, although the bodies set by these elderly people in the game are still old people, they are game characters after all, and their physical strength is much better than in reality. In addition, the environment in the game is also better than in reality, so many elderly people are in the game.
They stay in the game. They don’t fight, but they often travel everywhere, and sometimes they settle in some villages and other places for a while. There are many such old people in the game, so it’s normal to meet one in this village. No one doubts at all. And if someone passes here and shows hostility towards the Tianji Alliance, the old man will immediately go offline and tell his son directly in reality, and then his son can tell the people of the Tianji Alliance to prepare. This method is impeccable. After all, the old man is a non-combat player. As long as he doesn’t leave the village, others can’t affect his decision to go offline. After all, non-combat players do not have a combat state judgment. Unlike normal players who have the consciousness to leave the line, the body of the game characters is still in the game. They can still be killed and robbed equipment, so ordinary players do not dare to go offline in battle, and non-combat players do not worry about this. Anyway, they will not lose much if they are killed.
Of course, this does not mean that non-combat players can use their special identities to interfere with the normal battle of combat players. The system still has restrictions on this. If you deliberately rely on whether you are not a combat player and try to spy on intelligence, the other party will still have a way to deal with you. However, the problem of being a secret whistle is indeed unsolvable, and it is extremely concealed. As long as the non-combat player does not reveal his or her own fault, it is generally impossible to be discovered.
During my chat with the old man, we quickly entered the depths of the mountain. It was already night and the forest became even darker. There was still a little moonlight outside, and there was really no fingers in the forest. It was almost impossible for ordinary people to move around without using lighting tools here.
The old man knew that the forest was dark, so he had prepared a torch, but it had been turned off at my suggestion, and instead he replaced it with my magic pet ghost lamp.
The Ghost Lamp is the kind of green and red light we encountered in the Demon King before. It is a kind of monster. It has no combat power, but its auxiliary ability is quite amazing. However, now the Ghost Lamp is either supporting me to fight, summoning him out or using it as a street lamp.
Compared with torches, the light of the green and red light is slightly dimmer and will not shine brightly around you, but this light will not produce any shadow. In fact, as long as the green and red light appears, all places nearby within the range of your vision will be at the same brightness. The ice will not be bright like the light of the torch, and the far away will still be pitch black. The light of the green and red light can even cover a range of several kilometers in the open ground, and all areas within the range are bright, and there is no change in light and darkness. The advantage of this characteristic is that you can clearly see the position of the enemy without exposing yourself. After all, holding a torch is basically a target. Others can see the light on your torch from a distance, but you can't see the enemy outside the range of the torch light.
However, although the green and red light is much better than the torch in terms of lighting range and visibility, it has one disadvantage of not being painful or itchy, that is, it is more cunning.
You can see it from the name I gave this demon pet. The ghost lamp, when you hear the name, you will think of the dark clouds covering the moon, the lonely grave next to the tree-lined path, and the shiny ghost fire. In fact, the blue and red light is the monster formed by the combination of ghost fire and yin energy, so it is not wrong to say that it is ghost fire. However, because the blue and red light itself is ghost fire, its light is all blue with green, and it is gloomy, especially in the forest at night, let alone seeing ghosts, even a normal person, even if he is shining by this light, as long as you have no expression on your face and have a stern face, others will think you are a ghost at first glance.
Because this light is more cunning, most people dare not use it as a lantern even if they have ghost lamps, and I am the only exception. Of course, given the rareness of green and red lamps, it is unlikely that ordinary people will have such a magic pet.
The old man loves and is afraid of my magic pet. Although he doesn't feel much fear because he knows that this is my magic pet, the old man is actually a little scared. However, while he is a little scared, the old man still likes the effect of this light. In fact, in addition to the gloomy color and low brightness, the light effect is almost the same as the feeling during the day. This stable and large-scale light is definitely ten thousand times better than a torch. If he hadn't known that this thing was difficult to work with, the old man would almost have planned to get one by himself.
In fact, what the old man didn't know was that the ghost light actually did not glow. Yes, the green and red light was actually black, and it would not emit any light at all. The reason why he felt a large area around him was because I let the green and red light open up the soul perception to him. The light of the green and red light is actually a kind of self-contained ability, called soul perception. This green and green light is actually the light of the soul, and what we see is its energy essence, not the reflection of the entity. This is why when you look at things under the light of the green and red light, you will feel that many things are a bit white, because those things are "glowing". Therefore, the brightness is brighter than the empty places around you. Of course, the main reason why the old man has not discovered this secret is that there are no advanced creatures nearby, otherwise he will definitely find a huge ball of light appearing within his sight.
Under the irradiation of flexible fire, the stronger the strength of the object, the higher the energy level, the higher the brightness of the object. This is a bit similar to an infrared night vision device. However, the characteristic of an infrared night vision device is that the higher the temperature, the brighter the things look. The soul fire is the higher the energy level, the brighter the things look. As for why I didn't blind the old man's eyes, it was entirely because I let the green and red lights block myself, otherwise the old man would find that I was like a personal sun in his sight.
After walking for a while, the old man suddenly asked me to wait. Then he walked to a big tree next to him and knocked it a few times. Then I seemed to hear two knocks from the big tree. Then the old man knocked it a few more rhythmic times, feeling like he was sending a telegram.
After knocking, the old man took me to a big tree on the oblique side, and then walked around to the back of the trunk. The tree was facing away from the road, and because the trees here were so tall that the holes on the trunk did not look abrupt. However, when the old man took the lead in climbing in, I realized that this was actually a secret entrance.
The new city of Tianji League is indeed in the mountains, but it is not what everyone usually understands. It is really the same as described in the text, it is inside the mountains and inside the mountains. To put it simply, it is a dungeon, and its main part is completely inside the mountains, just like an air-raid shelter. Such a city is not necessarily found even if it is pulled into a human wall on the ground and searches. After all, no one would have thought that there is an authentic entrance in an ordinary tree hole!
"Damn, are you going to play tunnel battles?" I said to the old man below while climbing down the tree hole.
Surprisingly, the one who answered me was not the old man, but a younger voice. "We have nothing to do about this! Now our Tianji Alliance has offended too many people. If we don't hide it, we will not know how many times have been pushed!"
I was thinking about who was talking to me below, but suddenly I felt that I had reached the ground, but my upper body was still in the vertical hole. At this time, the man below asked me to turn around again, so I had to turn over and squat down a little before I found that there was a horizontal passage here, but the height was only about one meter, and I had to squat down to crawl inside. Fortunately, the horizontal passage was not long, and I climbed to the exit after a few strokes. After drilling out, I had a regular tunnel structure. The height here was about two meters, and I didn't feel too depressed, at least with my height, it had no effect.
After I stood up again, I looked at the person who spoke. This is a very ordinary male player. He is the type that you will soon forget him after seeing him. There is no special sign. It can basically be said to be a public face. The other party was stunned for a moment after seeing me looking at him, and then nodded as if he suddenly realized. I was surprised by his reaction, but when I saw him holding the old man, I understood.
It is said that habit becomes natural, and I cannot avoid this characteristic. There is actually no light in this underground passage. Before I came down, I put away the ghost lamp according to the old man's request. After entering the tree hole, it was useless even if there was light. Because the passage was very narrow, you could not look down, so you could only rely on the feeling of your body to find a place to leverage the force to climb down a little bit. However, because I have perfect dark vision, I habitually forgot that there should be no things here. The old man kept holding the wall after he came down, and just now because I had already come down. The other party was going to take the old man with him to help him, but he obviously had dark vision, otherwise he would not have noticed that I was staring at him. He was surprised just now and then relieved, probably because he realized that it was normal for a person like me to have night vision.
The other party didn't say much, and waved his hand and signaled me to follow me. Less than five meters ahead of this direction was a very thick door curtain. The outer layer of the door curtain seemed to be made of thatch, and I didn't know what was stuffed inside. It felt soft and heavy. After passing through this door curtain, it was the second door curtain two meters away from the front. We finally entered a wider passage after passing through three door curtains. And this passage was different from the dark passages in front. There was light here. However, the brightness here was really low, so we could barely see if there were any obstacles in front.
I guess the function of those door curtains and these channels is sound insulation and light blocking, because although the tree hole itself is very hidden, if there is a sound coming out of the hole and there is light, the fool also knows that there is something wrong with it. So the other party sets up several door curtains here. On the one hand, it blocks the light and makes the bottom look dark. On the other hand, it also blocks the sound over there to avoid people with better ears judging from the sound that there is an entrance here.
This channel with dim light is not long. However, it turns several turns like a nine-curved bridge in the south. And every time it passes, the brightness increases by one point. When the last bend is about the same brightness as the normal light.
When he arrived at this place, the young man spoke for the first time. He first reached out and made the move to shake hands and said, "It's so exciting for you to come. The president will definitely be very happy to see you."
While shook hands with him, I said, "I went to the island occupied by Wuji before and realized that such a big thing happened to you. I remember that I left you a communicator, and there were more than one. Why don't you use that communicator to contact us?"
The young man shook his head and said, "I don't know this either. I'm not a senior player in the guild. I just knew that there was a rebellion in our guild, and then we were forced to run here. After that, it seemed that I couldn't contact you any more, but I don't know why I couldn't contact you."
I think so, this guy is obviously a gatekeeper. Although the guard work is very important, no matter where he is, the gatekeeper's status is actually not high, so this guy is definitely not the leader of the Tianji League. It is normal for him to not know the important information.
Since he couldn't ask anything, I asked him to take me to see Park Yin. The other party nodded immediately and asked the old man to find his son by himself, and then took me to continue walking forward.
From the passage where we are, there is a very wide underground passage. You can basically see a lot of people running around here, and they look quite busy. Turning into another passage from here, there is a manpower elevator. I sit on the elevator and descend vertically for a long time, and then we arrive at a new passage. There are many people queuing up for the elevator at this passage, which is obviously very busy here. My arrival made all the people in line to pay attention to me. After all, my equipment is too exaggerated. Compared with the dusty people around me, my outfit is like standing in an African refugee camp in an evening dress, which is so out of place. Fortunately, I am used to being watched, so I didn't care and followed the player to move forward.
This place is actually a place similar to an elevator. After walking less than a hundred meters from here, we left the passage. Then I found that we entered a very huge underground space. This place is obviously an underground world. Although the huge space is not boundless, it is already very spectacular. At the bottom of this huge underground space is a city that looks a bit gray. Of course, although the city looks very old, it is full of vitality. A large number of people run back and forth during the period, and it looks like a busy scene. It is obvious that Tianjimeng has not been moved here for a long time, and everyone is busy restoring the city's restoration work. I guess the construction work of this place may not have been completed yet, because I found that many places have the original wooden cranes and various personnel busy. It seems that Park Yin and the others first restored the main facilities of the city to run, and then began to restore the other parts one by one.
I can understand this way of repair. After all, they encountered an internal rebellion. And the wall fell and everyone pushed it. They were chased and ran here because they had no choice but to come. Of course, they could not move in as slowly as the construction was established in a new city. The situation at that time was that if they didn't find a city to station in, they would face the punishment of guild demotion, so they had to do so.
In "Zero", there is a very important watershed in whether the guild will have its own guild city. If you don't have your own city, no matter how powerful your guild is, it will be useless. You won't have many things, the system will put a lot of restrictions on you, and you can't get many guild benefits. This kind of guild without its own city is generally called a free guild, but in fact freedom is freedom. It is a place where there is no fixed place. Generally, powerful guilds will try their best to build their own city. At least they have to find a system city to become the guardian guild.
The guy who led me to the road knew that when I saw me staring at the city at the bottom of the pit, I knew that I must be surprised by the dilapidation of the city, so he said, "Don't think that this place is broken. If we could have such a city discovered at such a moment, we already felt that we had a great fortune. If we hadn't discovered such a city in the end, our guild would have almost become a free guild!"
I nodded and said, "I can understand your situation at that time. But if you want to help you, you still need to understand the specific situation. Okay. Take me to see Park Eun quickly. I need to ask a lot of things."
To be continued...