The strength displayed by Xiang Qi and the others made Hei Yan startled, nearly five hundred mercenaries plus more than five hundred players, a total of more than a thousand units, such a strength can even intervene in the battle for the Central Plains, even if it is not comparable to the five major guilds, it can also create enough deterrent power to make the five major guilds dare not attack them easily.

If it had been changed to Black Flame, with such a huge amount of power at hand, he would definitely not have cowered in such a small place, and he would have already entered the Central Plains. He didn't even understand why Xiang Qi didn't take the opportunity to expand with such a huge power, but instead cowered in obscurity in this corner of the Savage Plains.

After Hei Yan figured out Xiang Qi's strength, he lost the will to resist, and he regretted a little that he brought the troops over without finding out the situation, but now it was too late to regret it.

"Retreat!" Hei Yan sent a message to his players, his leadership ability was not weak, and he was still very orderly when retreating, retreating while fighting, rather than a comprehensive rout.

Seeing Hei Yan's troops retreating like a tide, Xiang Qi remembered the old saying, poor Kou Mo chases, anyway, Hei Yan's troops have retreated, and catching up can only add casualties, or forget it, anyway, the trebuchet is in hand.

After the trebuchet was dismantled, it was reassembled into a cart and slowly moved towards the village. In order to prevent Hei Yan and the others from giving up and coming back to attack, Nightfall Feixue sent heavy troops to protect the trebuchet.

Hei Yan sent some hunters to investigate the location of the trebuchet, but they were all intercepted and killed by Xiang Qi's troops, and seeing that he really couldn't recapture the trebuchet, Hei Yan finally gave up.

Hei Yan went back with the people in a gloomy way, and the casualties of the troops did not hit him hard, and the most depressing thing was that the trebuchet was gone. The trebuchet was obtained by him with a lot of hard work, and it was impossible to find a second trebuchet in a short time.

Xiang Qi checked the trebuchet, it was still intact, it seemed that Hei Yan's people were not too willing to destroy the trebuchet, and it happened to be cheaper than Xiang Qi.

After the battle, such a battle is no longer common between guilds, because if the guild wants to develop, it must constantly attack, occupy and expand, so winning or losing is also a common thing. A battle is over, and no one knows when the next battle will take place. When a guild occupies a territory, there are other guilds that come to disturb it almost every once in a while, some of which occupy a certain amount of territory and want to continue to expand their territory, and some of which have not yet established a village. Most of the guilds that have not established villages are not strong, and they can be easily driven away, and it is more difficult to deal with those guilds that are strong and want to expand their territory.

Seeing Hei Yan retreat, Xiang Qi breathed a sigh of relief, and asked the farmers in the village to start repairing the village fence and the destroyed fortifications, and the trebuchet was placed by Xiang Qi on the square in the center of the village, and it could be used the next time he attacked a certain village.

Xiang Qi counted that he had gained a total of sixty-one pieces of equipment, sixteen gold coins, gained more than 30,000 points of experience, was promoted to three levels, and lost one hundred and three mercenaries. All those equipment items were thrown into the treasure hunt shop and sold, and the lost mercenaries were re-recruited, and some of the mercenaries were upgraded to one order, and after a careful count, about thirty-one, one second-order soldier is better than two first-order soldiers, and they are all a population, and they finally make up for part of the losses, in general, this battle is earned.

"It's finally done!" In this battle, Liu Tianming was the most depressed of all, he led the troops to guard the village, could not leave the village, and had been nesting in the village to be bombarded, his troops hung up a lot, and the village fence was also blasted open, but he was stunned that he could not fight back, but fortunately, the battle was won, and there was still a lot of gain, and the resentment in his stomach disappeared invisibly.

Everything is back on track, and Village Three is slowly recovering.

A system prompt message came, the development level of Village No. 1 has reached five hundred, and the town can be upgraded, but the town construction drawings are too expensive, although there is the support of the miner's language talent, the financial resources are still a little unable to keep up, unless you can open a treasure chest to open one.

"Did you watch the news broadcast? There is a piece of news about the game. Yang Yun said.

"News about the game? What's new? Xiang Qi asked, under normal circumstances, news about games is rarely broadcast on the news.

"Speaking of which, this news is not about a game, but about the servers of Skyware Games. That server turned out to be from the Tianhe series! Yang Yun said that Tianhe is the latest supercomputer developed on the basis of the Galaxy series, with a number of petascale calculations per unit time, and its computing power ranks fifth among all supercomputers. This supercomputer is often used for important scientific research, and this is the first time it has been used in the civilian field.

"Tianhe? No wonder it's so mysterious! Xiang Qi said suddenly, Tianhe's service provider is very confidential about where the main server was purchased, it is said that its company headquarters has set up strict security, the media has not found any news, I didn't expect it to be on the news network, Tianyu's popularity should be full soon.

"It is said that the staff of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are working on a technology related to Tianhe, called the Thundercloud Project, which can connect all the computers that have been turned on on the Internet together to form a huge system, and its computing power will be thousands of times that of the Tianhe series." Yang Yun said that she was very ignorant of this knowledge, and it was difficult to imagine it intuitively.

"Cloud computing?" Xiang Qi was surprised, he had heard of this technology, this cloud computing heard that IBM was the first to start researching, is a kind of use of the Internet to complete the computing of cutting-edge technology, known for its high efficiency, low cost, is the United States [***] investment, IBM development, by the United States [***] side of the highly praised, China has not come out of any news, did not expect to suddenly burst out such a strong news.

What people understand about cloud computing is superficial, and there are many powerful features that only the United States knows, and when IBM was halfway through development, the United States added ten times the funds.

"It is said that Thundercloud plans to run on the servers of Tianyu Games, and all computers on the game network will be part of the system."

Hearing Yang Yun say this, Xiang Qi pulled out the video of the news network, and looked at the news, the news network did not disclose its specific details, but vaguely said the thundercloud plan, a very orthodox official language, plausible, no one can tell what kind of plan this thundercloud plan is, I am afraid that only the old men of the Chinese Academy of Sciences know, it may be a technology similar to cloud computing, and then Lenovo revealed the news before, a spy from a certain country stole IBM's technology, and people can play a rich association.

The mysterious cloud computing, the mysterious thundercloud plan, the attitude of the Chinese side and the United States side are very ambiguous, without releasing any specific explanation, both sides have invested a lot of money in this technology, and even a bit of an arms race. Xiang Qi hopes that the emergence of these things can bring great changes to society, and then various opportunities will follow, and a person can succeed in addition to his own ability. In this society, an opportunity is more important than a lifetime of hard work. If you don't have a chance, you can't use your ability.

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