563 Quota allocation
For Turner, or the high-level officials of Red City, giving Sawa a batch of old models of equipment is nothing, anyway, they are all obsolete products that are too troublesome to remelt and rebuild, and giving them to Sawyer can also free up a few warehouses.
But what really interested Turner was Sawyer's ability, if Sawyer really had the ability to transport supplies to the endless land at a very low cost, then the value would be too great for the Red City, or even for the entire West Ring City.
Between the Seven Great Rings and other small Rings, there is already the responsibility and obligation to help each other, taking the Red City as an example, every year the Red City will send a part of the dwarven machinery to the other ring cities, and the other ring cities will also send some unique minerals and metals to the Red City.
However, due to various constraints, the delivery of these materials is extremely limited.
The distance between the rings, the width of the grey fog passage and the isolation of the unstable zone have limited the size and efficiency of the convoy, as well as the use of endless places for long-distance teleportation, and the problem is mainly how to conserve resources.
Theoretically, everyone can carry a lot of supplies when entering the Endless Land, and as long as they use their own strength to pull the materials to be transported, they can enter the Endless Land together.
But the problem is that when you enter the Endless Land, you have to go through a "test", and at the moment of teleporting into the Endless Land, you will pass through a chaotic area full of space-time storms, and you must resist the invasion of space-time storms in order to enter and exit the Endless Lands completely.
For an individual, having the defense power of the Titled Knight level can protect the whole body, and at most it takes some extra strength to protect the clothes on the body, but if you want to bring more non-living matter, the strength of the space-time storm will increase exponentially.
For ordinary lords, the materials that can be brought into the endless land each time are no more than three times their own volume, and only a lord-level spellcaster like Anoke can take away a large amount of materials at once if they prepare a magic circle for most of the day in advance, or like the Red City, use high-strength materials to make transport boxes to resist the storm of time and space, and when entering and leaving the endless land, the lord only needs to allocate a small amount of strength to protect himself.
However, the cost of both methods is very high, Anoke's circle needs to consume a large amount of precious spell casting materials every time, and the transport boxes in Red City are disposable, and the cost of each transport box is not lower than the value of the transported materials, unless it is an emergency, it will not use the endless place to transport materials at all.
If Sawyer can really use the Endless Land to teleport a large amount of supplies by paying a small price, then it will be too useful for the entire ring system.
Think about it, when each ring city has millions of dwarven machines to help defend the city, and the materials of each ring city can freely circulate throughout the ring system, and each ring city ......
"Stop!" Looking at Turner, who was straight-faced, Sawyer hurriedly opened his mouth to interrupt his imagination, "I'm just saying that the price is smaller, and it's not that there is no price!" ”
He didn't want to be a humanoid portal!
"No problem!" Turner patted Sawyer's shoulder boldly, "What the price, we will help you out in Red City!" All you have to do is deliver the supplies! ”
Looking at Turner's straightforward expression, Soyer's brain suddenly ached: Mom, an honest person or something, it's terrible!
"The problem is, you can't afford it......"
Sawyer sighed, he had already thought of a reason before he opened his mouth, and this "price" was definitely something that the Seven Great Ring Cities couldn't take.
"At what cost? Don't worry, Sawyer, if it's a specialty of other ring cities, I'm sure they're willing to take it out and contribute to the whole world! ”
Turner still didn't give up, but Sawyer sighed, changed to a gloomy expression and raised his head: "Do you have the leaves of the World Tree?" ”
"Isn't it the World Tree's...... Uh, what are you talking about? ”
"Leaves of the World Tree," Sawyer sighed again, "You should know what the World Tree is, right?" ”
"Of course!" Turner nodded, and it took a full three seconds for him to react, showing a look of surprise, "Can you get close to the World Tree?" ”
"If you ask the witches, you'll know that I actually have a little connection to the World Tree."
Sawyer looked solemn: For example, your so-called "World Tree" was planted by me.
"And in some special cases, I was able to get a leaf of the World Tree."
Sawyer sighed again: "Well, it's really special, like when I suddenly wanted to blow the leaves very childishly.
"And every leaf of the World Tree can allow me to carry a large amount of supplies in and out of the Endless Land."
When he said this, Sawyer's eyes shifted slightly, after all, he made up this sentence blindly.
However, Turner believed it, after all, in his understanding, it was a great opportunity to be able to get close to the World Tree, let alone "find" fallen leaves from around the World Tree, but he was now more concerned with another question: "How many World Tree leaves do you have?" ”
"Twenty-four," Sawyer said casually, adding, "I've left them under the World Tree." ”
"That's ...... I can't make my decisions about this, I need to discuss it with others. ”
As Turner spoke, he was about to lead Sawyer to the lift, but Sawyer had to remind him, "Go straight to the tower and let the witch gather the others." ”
"Yes!"
Turner nodded heavily and glanced at Sawyer gratefully, if Sawa didn't say anything, this honest man would definitely go to the other three Red City Lords in person.
However, Sawyer's so-called "others" not only refer to the three lords of the Red City, but also include the four ancient kings and the lords of the Green City and the Black City, after all, this matter is too important for the entire ring city system, even if the number of teleportations is extremely limited, it has to be discussed by the high-level leaders of the seven ring cities.
As Sawyer expected, the news quickly reached the ears of the higher-ups of the Seven Great Ring Cities through the witches, and in just half an hour, the towers of the Red City were filled with figures condensed by flames.
However, Sawyer's imaginary mutual quarrel did not appear, and the high-level leaders of the Seven Great Ring Cities asked Sawyer about the details of the "Leaves of the World Tree", and after a brief discussion, they quickly discussed the main tone of this "transportation operation".
The first is the number of teleportations, although Sawyer has twenty-four leaves of the World Tree, in fact, each time he enters and leaves the Endless Land, he needs to consume one leaf, that is, in fact, Sawyer can only complete twelve teleportations.
So, the next discussion is about how to allocate the twelve "places".
The principle of distribution is very simple and fair, the first point is "how much you get, how much you pay", and the second point is the principle of "concentration first and then distribution", in other words, the major ring cities first transport the materials to be transported to the endless land through Sawyer, and then redistribute them in the endless land, and then transport them to each ring city through Sawyer.
And the "quota" for each ring city was also quickly decided, among which the red city won four places because the dwarf machinery was too sought-after, and the golden city, as the largest, most material, and also the largest demand for the ring city, won two places, in addition, Sawyer, as the "city lord" of the blue city, also won two places for the blue city.
The other four ring cities have only one place.
As for Sawyer's own place?
Sorry, no.
As for the reason, it was because Sawyer himself said more: "The leaves of this World Tree are not easy to find, I stayed in the Endless Land for three years before I found twenty-four leaves, and the frequency of the World Tree dropping leaves is getting lower and lower, and I don't know how long it will take to find the leaves of the World Tree next time." ”
So, in line with the principle of urgency, the witch and the four ancient kings directly canceled Sawyer's quota and used all their resources to strengthen the power of the ring city.
However, the four ancient kings and witches also made a promise to Sawyer, from now on, the warehouses of the seven rings will be open to him without restrictions, as long as he needs to, he can directly enter any of the warehouses around the city to take it by himself, in addition, the four lords of the red city also promised Sawyer that the red city will reserve a whole warehouse of high-quality dwarf artifacts for Sawyer, and when he obtains the leaves of the world tree again, he can directly come to the red city and take it away.
"Lift a stone and shoot yourself in the foot!"
Sawa wanted to cry without tears, he originally thought that he could leave at least one place for him, but he never expected that in the end, all he got in exchange for was a blank check.
And he couldn't go back, if he said now that he could use the endless land to transport supplies, maybe he would soon be treated as a humanoid portal, spending months dedicated to transporting supplies for the various rings.
Even if he "accidentally" obtains the leaves of the new World Tree again, he will need to wait for a while, after all, the four ancient kings are not fools, if he just finished transporting supplies for the Seven Great Ring Cities, and then took out two leaves of the World Tree to "pick up" in the Red City, do you guess he will be beaten?
It seemed that seeing that Sawyer was depressed, Rowena finally gave Sawyer a little compensation: "You can take one percent of the materials obtained by Blue City." ”
With Royna's words, Sawyer's mood was a little better, one percent of the amount was actually enough for him, he could now take away the goods of a small warehouse at a time, converted into volume, enough more than 10,000 square meters, even if he could only take one percent of the materials in Blue City, there would be more than 200 cubic meters of materials, and if they were replaced with various dwarven mechanical parts, it would be enough to spell out more than 300 dwarven mechanical balls, or more than 50 dwarven centurions.
However, this amount is not enough to see in the entire ring city system, take the red city as an example, if the materials of the four units are replaced with the parts of the dwarven centurion, it is only 8,000 dwarven centurions, even if there are two places in the golden city and the blue city, they can only get 2,000 dwarven centurions each.
And Blue City itself has more than 4,000 great knights, even if there are two more dwarf centurions, it will only increase the comprehensive strength of Blue City by about two percent, and for the more powerful Golden City, the increase is not even one percent.
What's more, after the seven ring cities have distributed the materials, they also have to transport some resources to the nearby small ring cities, and the resources left behind by themselves may not even be half.
In other words, the effect of this material transportation is far from the point where it can make the major ring cities sit back and relax, and at most it can make the defense systems of each ring city more stable.
Even Sawyer was wondering if he wanted to get more leaves from the World Tree, as for the reason...... Could it be that the World Tree has been oversecreting abscisic acid lately?
But he also thought about it like this, whether it was Sawyer or other high-level leaders around the city, in fact, they all knew in their hearts that solving the trouble of the Kuroshio Tide was only a solution to the urgent need, and the real crisis in this world was never caused by the Kuroshio.
After a short meeting, the seven rings became busy, except for the red city, each ring city was trying its best to collect all kinds of supplies - mainly from the small ring city to collect special products, as for the seven ring cities themselves need to transport the materials, as early as the day ready.
And the Red City was not idle, the dwarven engineers stopped the production line and turned to dismantle the dwarven machines that had been built - in order to save transportation space, the materials paid by the red city this time will be transported in the form of mechanical parts.
Of course, Hongcheng did not forget the supporting services, they also assembled six engineering teams, escorted by the strong overnight to the other six ring cities, these engineer teams will be transported to Hongcheng after the materials arrived, on-site assembly operations.
As for the black tide that is about to break out in the Red City......
After throwing millions of dwarven machines outside the city, this group of dwarves completely ignored this black tide.
It's really an otherworldly version of rich and capricious.
And during this time, Sawyer was not idle, but constantly teleported between the Red City and the Blue City, although he can't deliver a large number of materials openly, but it's no problem to only take one container of materials at a time, and he is still the nominal "Fifth King", and he won't doubt him if he teleports four or five times a day.
So in just three days, Sawyer delivered more than 500 more than 500 goods to the Blue City, and this efficiency made the four lords of the Red City all jump - if a king was to do the transportation industry wholeheartedly, what a terrifying efficiency it would be.
And Sawyer himself has discovered that it seems that with his ability to bring goods back and forth "normally", he can get more things than Rowena "rewarded" him.
So, Sawyer's rare high wind festival was celebrated, and he waved his hand to return his one percent "reward" to Blue City.
However, three days later, when the seven ring cities had prepared the materials, Sawyer had to give up the business of moving goods to his own home, and turned into a "time and space courier" to help the seven ring cities transport the materials, and this time, another three days passed.
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