Chapter 252: The Trade Winds from the North (5)
The traditional summer in Burkner Town starts in July of the game, and if you count it according to the time span, this is already the second summer of Chen Kai and their games in the game. Although less than a year has passed in reality, two years have passed in the game. The main reason for this is that time passes two to three times faster in the game, and for some people they can spend a longer life in the game, especially those who are destined to die in reality.
For these people, the battle in the game is something they want to stay away from, because the purpose of entering the game is to cherish their own small life, and want to use their life of less than a year or even a few months to live twice or even double the wonderful time.
But for most people, they don't enter the game to waste their little remaining life in the game, but to leave the best page on their life path. The boring and numbing life in reality makes these people choose to escape from the game, and they do find what they want in the game, and even earn money through the game that they can't earn in reality.
However, there are only a few who can earn wealth, and the complicated environment in the game is no worse than reality, so that players who enter the game world may suffer losses in addition to making money. No matter how real players discuss the immorality of the Xianghu Brotherhood on the forum, or whether the Drow and the Minotaur are too strong, it can't change the outcome of the two guilds being wiped out of Hugodi's forces.
However, human beings are real animals, and they will not give too much sympathy to losers, in fact, even if the Iron Knights and the Zodiac Alliance are so disdainful on the real online forum, they can't change their identity as losers. Under such circumstances, some of the players of Hu Goddi's Iron Cavalry and the Zodiac Alliance chose to follow the two leaders, Feng Buyun and Qi Shaohuang, to other territories to develop. Others chose to stay in Hugodi, intending to find an opportunity to stumble on the Xianghu Brotherhood. Others chose to break away from the two guilds as a result of someone else's digging into the corner. They may choose to join Hugodi's other players' guilds. Or simply become a casual player and organize a small adventure group or mercenary group on your own.
For the native lords of Hugodi, their favorite thing is that the player becomes a scattered or small mercenary group. Casual players can recruit players in a state of war as long as they choose to stay in a province. The same is true for small mercenary groups, except that those lords pay far less to recruit casual players than they do to small mercenary groups. If Chen Kai was given a choice, he would have hoped that there would be more small mercenary groups in his territory than scattered players. Because there is really no way to guarantee the combat effectiveness and character of the scattered people. Relatively speaking, the small mercenary groups that are formally registered can at least guarantee their combat effectiveness and character, unless they are willing to give up the prestige they have saved up in the mercenary guild. However, it seems that the small mercenary groups that have just been established basically do not have much prestige, so even if they are disbanded immediately after they are formed, it is estimated that there will not be much hindrance to them.
After the dissolution of the two guilds, only half of the original members of Hugodi left with their president, and of course everyone knew that basically the elite of the guild were the ones who followed. Players who choose to stay in Hugodi, or those who leave alone, are basically not too strong to be noticed by the guild higher-ups. It's someone who doesn't want to be involved in such a profitless battle and wants to take risks alone. However, even if most of them are miscellaneous fish, the huge base also makes these players who have been abandoned by the high-level or choose to leave by themselves become the objects of competition for most of the player lords and even the aboriginal lords of Hugodi.
Chen Kai didn't think about winning over this part of the players, but sometimes the more he didn't fight for it, the more people he sent to the door. Compared to the player's guild territories and the aboriginal aristocratic territories in the north, the town of Burkner in the south is much higher in terms of both the city defense facilities and the easy way to make money. Therefore, even if Chen Kai does not extend an olive branch to these players, there are still a large number of people who come to beg for support. If Chen Kai chooses to establish a trade union, tens of thousands of players may choose to join in a short period of time. It's a pity that he didn't have this idea, and the Scarlet Crusaders, who were also relatively large in Burkna Town, were released by Chen Kai, and even Chen Kai gave Mograine an indicator to establish a village as a subordinate territory of Burkna Town. But Mograine, the leader of the Scarlet Crusaders, is also Chen Kai's own family, knows very well that building a village at this moment is simply looking for death, and he knows even more that with the current development of the Scarlet Crusaders, running to establish a village will ruin all the family funds that he has saved up so hard.
Seeing Chen Kai's speed of spending money, Mograini had completely abandoned the idea of being a big lord in the game, although his name was the name of the big lord in a game in the past. But no matter how powerful the name is, it can't be used for money. Compared to the money that the Scarlet Crusaders have saved now, even if they can already build a very good village. But Mograini knew that this so-called goodness only allowed his more than 3,000 brothers to eat bread every day. Because the cost of infrastructure alone to build a village would have hollowed out the Scarlet Crusaders' pockets, the village that was founded in the first place could not survive in the current world of drow and minotaurs, either in terms of defensive power or otherwise. If you want to make the village strong, then the only option is to build like a fortress, and this will inevitably require a lot of rock and metal, which will lead to a crazy increase in the price of buildings.
So although Mograini was very moved to see the advice given by Chen Kai, he still chose to refuse considering his worth. Because he knows very well that his family background stays in Berkner Town as a mercenary group or something, and maybe he can eat meat, but if he really returns to his old business and runs to build a village, then he may really change from eating meat to drinking soup or clear soup.
At the same time, he knew better that Chen Kai's construction was actually proposed after the Minotaur approached Burkner Town, so he couldn't help but doubt Chen Kai's intentions. Because at this time, if the Scarlet Crusaders established villages in the wilderness, the only benefit would be to become a bridgehead for the town of Burkner against the Drow invasion. So Mograini directly rejected Chen Kai's simplicity, of course, it can't be said that he completely refuses, but that he plans to take a look at it after a while.
However, he didn't have much thought about Mograini's rejection of his proposal, in fact, he was just trying to test it. Chen Kai himself is also very aware of the situation if he changes places. He would have the same answer as Mograini. If the other party agrees. Then Chen Kai not only won't feel happy. On the contrary, they will be wary of each other.
Over the course of a few days, the number of resident players in Burkner Town had increased from 20,000 to 30,000, and the Scarlet Crusaders had grown to nearly 6,000. It's just that the increase in numbers did not increase the combat effectiveness of the Scarlet Crusaders, on the contrary, the new recruits became a big drag. Because most of them were of a lower rank, they were originally second- and third-tier figures in the Iron Knights and the Zodiac Alliance. If it weren't for that, how could they stay in Hugodi and run somewhere else without following their boss.
After a period of personnel increase and decrease, the resident population of Burkner Town is close to 10,000 in the future. 50,000 Native Humans plus 3,000 Minotaurs, plus 30,000 resident players and finally the Scarlet Crusaders who don't count as resident players. Due to its large population, the town of Berkna is one of the most powerful towns in the whole of Hugodi. Of course, in terms of population alone. If you convert the combat effectiveness, the troops at hand for the terrible Zhuoer and the Minotaur Chen Kai are still insufficient. Although players can be temporarily recruited, their combat effectiveness is not strong enough, and perhaps Chen Kai can only spend a lot of money to use them as death squads in the end. Although nearly 30% of the more than 30,000 players use the bloody mode to fight, even if they use such a high-fidelity mode to combat combat, it is still a problem. Perhaps only two out of ten players who fight in Bloody mode will be able to match the combat power of the Aboriginal soldiers, only three or four out of a hundred may be able to match the combat power of the elite soldiers, and only one out of a thousand may be able to reach the height of Su Xinghe.
But I don't believe that among the more than 30,000 players in Burkner Town, only there are more than 100 people in the Scarlet Crusade, which can be said to be the Cheng dù of elite soldiers, and none of them can be equal to Su Xinghe and others in combat power. Of course, in addition to some of the reasons for this result due to equipment, the most important thing is also the reason for skills. Chen Kai: The worst fighting spirit they learned was the intermediate fighting spirit, and the important members basically chose to spend money to learn advanced fighting spirit at the very beginning of the game. Except for Chen Kai, several other people have already reached the level of mastering some of the Dou Qi attributes. Just this one of their combat power pulled out a few streets of ordinary players, plus Chen Kai spared no expense to equip them with the best equipment. Or they equip themselves with the best equipment, and the level of combat effectiveness of the guide zhì pulls at least a dozen streets out of the average player. Even Hu Lansi, who has the worst combat effectiveness, can single out three or four ordinary soldiers, while Chen Kai and them can at least single out a dozen elite soldiers.
Of course, this kind of heads-up still refers to the ordinary state, if it is Chen Kai's violent state, it is estimated that no one will run to him to find him alone, unless it is a storage zài whose level exceeds Chen Kai's third or fourth order or does not know that Chen Kai is in a violent state. If you know, you can basically hide as far as you can, because everyone knows that the lord of Burkner Town is very perverted after going berserk.
While the players are busy distributing the personnel left over from the two guilds, and then working hard to prepare for the battle. The Xianghu Brothers' players once again find that their leader has met with a cloaked native, aka NPC. However, not many people know the news, and they have all received gag orders from their presidents. But this gag order may be effective for other people in the Xianghu Brotherhood, but it is absolutely ineffective for Robles Children's Shoes, who is determined to become a spy buried by Chen Kai deep in Li Xiangrong's side.
When this cloak guy first appeared in Li Xiangrong's lord's mansion, Robles children's shoes sold the news to Chen Kai at a high price. When the other party came to Xianghu Town for the second time and met Li Xiangrong, Fei Yun's figure appeared next to Robles Children's Shoes, followed behind his ass and used the shadow to slowly sneak into the lord's mansion in Xianghu Town.
Because Chen Kai was in the underground world, they provided a lot of information to Robles Children's Shoes, plus his fast running characteristics were discovered by Li Xiangrong. Now Robles has changed from an obscure small role in the past to a squadron leader level who can easily enter the Lord's Mansion in Xianghu Town, but it is the first time he has done this matter of taking Fei Yun into the Lord's Mansion, so he was almost sweating with fright when he passed through the sentry post of "his own people".
"Don't worry! It's okay! Be careful yourself, I'll sneak in first! When Fei Yun's voice sounded behind Robles, he didn't know that Fei Yun had followed his ass and approached the Lord's Mansion. By the time he reacted, Fei Yun had disappeared, and Robles touched the sweat on his forehead and chose to wander around the lord's mansion for a while, ready to go out again.
At this moment, Fei Yun's stealth ability, which was covered with various magic gems, was even more powerful than Leif's voyeur for a period of time. So even without Robles as a cover, he can easily get into a lot of places. It's just that with the other party as a shield, he can do it more easily. And it will be a lot less trouble. But even if Fei Yun had already touched the Lord's Mansion. He also didn't know where Li Xiangrong and the guy in the cloak met. Although Robles was already considered a middle-level member in the Xianghu Brotherhood, he could not enter and exit all areas of the Lord's Mansion completely freely. Even if the structural drawings of the Xianghu Town Lord's Mansion had already been sold to Chen Kai, and Fei Yun also knew the situation of all the areas in the entire Lord's Mansion, it was just the content of the simple drawings.
Therefore, Fei Yun was still very careful to grope inside. When he found Li Xiangrong's location, the other party had already talked to Li Xiangrong. In fact, if it weren't for Li Xiangrong suddenly breaking a cup, Fei Yun wouldn't have known that the other party was hiding a wall away from him.
It's a pity that even if he knew that the other party was next to him, Fei Yun didn't dare to touch it immediately. Instead, you can only choose to lie on the wall and steal the sky. It's a pity that the sound insulation effect of the wall is relatively a little better, and the voice of Captain Li and the man in the cloak is not loud, except for the crisp sound of the cup before, the only few words Fei Yun heard are assassination, cover-up, and aftermath have your benefit. Fei Yun knew very well what he should do now, he was not the kind of person who would die for the sake of information, and the news he heard now was enough for him to digest for a long time. So almost as soon as the other party's chat was over, he chose to transfer and ran out of the room very quickly.
Less than ten seconds after Fei Yun left the room, the wall where he was lying was suddenly broken, and a miserable white palm poked out from behind the wall. The huge power attached to the palm of his hand made the entire room feel as if it had been blown by a hurricane, and if Fei Yun was still in the room at the moment, then he would definitely not be able to escape the fate of being discovered. But Fei Yun, who was extremely vigilant, had already run away at this moment. Especially when he felt the sound coming from the room not far behind him, his movement speed doubled. Those spell gems that you don't plan to use on your body. It is also used under such stimulation, so that his speed is faster, his steps are lighter, and his figure is more hidden.
When Robles Shoes was still wandering around the Lord's Mansion, Fei Yun had already run out of the Lord's Mansion alone, and even chose not to say hello to Robles Shoes, and directly opened the teleportation scroll to run to Burkna Town after leaving the Lord's Mansion for a distance. The whole process was completed in less than five minutes, and it was only then that Li Xiangrong could issue an order to enter the city under martial law and prohibit everyone from entering or leaving.
When Fei Yun returned to Berkner Town, the news that Li Xiangrong was under martial law in Xianghu Town also came. Although martial law was lifted immediately after less than ten minutes, there was Robles Children's Shoes, a traitor in the opposing camp, and the news that should be known to Chen Kai was clear. It's just that the information that Fei Yun got at a huge cost is not very clear, although they know that Li Xiangrong intends to assassinate the guy in the cloak, but who exactly assassinated and who the cloaked man is.
However, although it is not clear who is the target of the assassination, both Chen Kai and Xu Fei have put a mark of focus on the old fox Li Xiangrong. If the other party wants to assassinate the people in Zhuoer, it's okay to say, but if the assassination targets those aboriginal lords on the human side, then Li Xiangrong's camp is very suspicious. So Chen Kai immediately began to ask the player to pay attention to whether anyone in Hu Gedi's territory was assassinated, of course, this attention was not immediately. After all, the other party has just begun to communicate, and it is not a matter of time and a half to want to launch an assassination. It's just that Chen Kai didn't know that the man in the cloak wanted Li Xiangrong to cooperate with the assassination was not someone else, officially Baron Berkner was Chen Kai himself.
If Chen Kai knew, he would definitely launch an attack in advance and uproot Xianghu Town. Because of this, when Count Hugod, who was wearing a cloak, found out that someone was eavesdropping, Li Xiangrong was very nervous, if it was known that he was colluding with Count Hugodi, then he wouldn't have to mix in the human camp. At the same time, if the one in the south knew that he was going to assassinate him with Count Hugodi, Li Xiangrong knew that he would definitely be killed by the other party's attack first. Of course, he also knew that as long as the other party did not have direct evidence to prove that he had rebelled, then the identity of the lord was his best talisman. (To be continued.) )