Chapter Twenty-Seven: Counting is Counting
The butler service at Orlando House was attentive and everything was ready in less than half an hour.
After another half an hour, the Thorn Rose team finished bathing, and everyone changed into a pair of vests and breeches that were convenient for movement, and their appearance was completely new.
Several people sat at the table, ready to eat, and did the last recuperation before the big war.
"Go down and eat, too. There is no need to keep people in the restaurant, I have something to talk about with the guests. β
Before eating, Sun Ran waved his hand to the butler standing aside and sent him and all the servants away.
After the servants retreated, Sun Ran glanced at Bai Tingxuan and said, "Let's have a silent ban." β
Prohibition is the saying of Eastern Taoism, and in Western Taoism, it is generally called enchantment. The effect is similar.
The mute ban is very simple, it is just a zero-level basic auxiliary Dao technique, Bai Tingxuan nodded, raised her hand and made a few gestures, the formal name of the gesture is the mudra, and Bai Tingxuan's action just now is to seal it.
After the seal was sealed, Bai Tingxuan stretched out her finger and flicked it around the restaurant a few times.
With each flick, an almost invisible ripple flew out of her fingertips, and after the ripple hit the wall, it spread along the wall like a wave of water.
Several waves of water soon joined together and converged into a vague cover, enveloping the entire restaurant.
Once the ban is complete, the team members can talk freely in the cafeteria without worrying about being overheard.
Sun Ran spoke: "There are at least three people who followed us just now, two are ordinary people, and one other, I feel the heart of the blood clan from his body, he should be a vampire, but it is not strong, according to the classification of the vampire family, he is not even a baron, and his physical fitness is twice that of ordinary people." β
He was a little puzzled, if the saboteur only had this kind of strength, it should be easy to solve.
Lan Xin opened his mouth to explain his doubts: "Judging from our previous battles, there are not many real saboteurs, and the strongest one is at least a vampire earl, with a body strength of three levels, and the power of light is ten times that of ordinary people, which is very terrifying." He created the Bat Legion, which was responsible for assassination and intelligence. The number of legions is at least about 1,000 people, and it is the greatest reliance of Duke Dracula. β
Vampires can breed descendants, control descendants through bloodline, and ensure loyalty, and they create legions that are ten times more powerful than ordinary armies.
However, this kind of legion also has a weakness, as long as the leader is killed, the legion maintained by the bloodline will automatically disintegrate.
"I see." Sun Ran suddenly, he smiled again: "However, I also found something unusual. Do you think that the opponent is coming a little faster? β
Kerr agreed: "I'm an assassin, and I'm good at tracking. I don't think Dracula, no matter how powerful he is, won't be able to determine our identity within half an hour of our seizure, unless ......"
Sun Ran felt Kerr's gaze and said the answer: "Unless there is a game administrator who is ventilating the news!" β
The Dark Middle Ages is a mature virtual world, and it is very difficult to listen to data links like the Dragon Age, and the biggest possibility is that there are internal ghosts.
It's just a possibility, good to crack.
Lan Xin, as the captain of the Thorn Rose, had the authority to contact the game administrator, and immediately said, "I'll contact the game administrator now." β
Inform the admins directly of their suspicions, and the gamekeepers will definitely be more vigilant internally, and the role of the inner ghost will be abolished. This trick is called knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger.
The location of the game management department in the Dark Middle Ages is not on Earth, but on a large space station suspended in the sky.
The game managing director in charge of Dracula's commission is a young man named Heqiang, thirty years old, just in the prime of life and full of energy.
He received the news uploaded by Lan Xin, frowned, turned to Zhi Brain and said, "Query all the data links between the space station and the outside world in the past one hour. β
"Hao Qiang, permission confirmed, start querying."
The Brain operated, and a minute later it locked a link record, and the message on the record was the details of the Thorn Rose team and the location of the seizure. However, the whole link is very clever in concealment, using a single-dimensional MΓΆbis ring, and it is impossible to find out who sent the message.
Hao Qiang's eyebrows jumped, and the next command was issued: "From now on, monitor every move of all administrators, including me, until this maintenance task is completed." β
This move completely abolished the inner ghost.
Then, Hao Qiang turned to the task analyst on the side and said, "Our mistake has increased the difficulty of the task for Thorn Rose, and their commission fee has been increased back to 5,000 credits per person. β
"Yes, Director."
The news quickly spread to Lan Xin, and she had a smile on her face: "There are indeed internal ghosts, but the administrator has compensated and increased the basic credit points by two thousand." β
It's really good, and everybody is happy.
Lan Xin began to tell the news of the leakage of the inner ghost again, and the information of the three daughters was not important, because the saboteur already knew about it. The key is that Sun Ran was also exposed.
Sun Ran was not flustered, and saw the move: "Since the other party knows my information, then he should know that I am an alchemist and am ready to refine weapons." If I'm guessing correctly, they'll attack when we're at our weakest, when I'm busy refining gold. β
"But how does the other party know that you are alchemizing?" Bai Tingxuan asked, and as soon as she finished asking, she reacted: "You asked me to set a ban because there are also people in this mansion who are ventilating and reporting news?" β
Sun Ran smiled: "Yes, since we know our identity, it is impossible not to be prepared." So, I'm going to make a plan. β
He pretended to be alchemy, lured out the assassins, and then suddenly attacked, and caught them all!
The three women all agreed, and then began to discuss the details of the plan.
Five minutes later, Bai Tingxuan revoked the restaurant's mute ban, and the four of them began to enjoy the meal with laughter and laughter.
After the meal, Sun Ran called the housekeeper and said, "I'll rest in the collection room tonight, you can get me a bed inside." β
The collection room is filled with Orlando treasures, many precious alchemy materials, and it will become Sun Ran's temporary alchemy room. Sun Ran's voice was very clear, and there was no need to eavesdrop at all.
His meaning was obvious, he was going to work overnight, refining weapons.
The butler was dutiful, and without any suspicion, beckoned the servant to begin setting up a makeshift bed in the collection room.
When he was busy, Sun Ran assigned weapons to the three daughters.
The only weapons in the palace were daggers and one-handed swords, and crossbows were forbidden weapons, even Orlando could not possess them, because crossbows were too easy to use and too powerful, and the Holy See did not allow the lowest and most cowardly hands to take the noblest lives, and even the predominantly Muslim Ottoman Empire was affected.
Lan Xin will Gongsun Sword Dance, the sword dance is said to be founded by a dancer called Gongsun Auntie in the ancient Tang Empire, and contains the killing machine in the beautiful sword dance, when Du Gongbu made "Sword Weapon Line", describing this sword dance as "coming like thunder to collect anger, such as the river and the sea condensing clear light", its power can be seen.
So her weapon is a pair of steel one-handed thin-edged swords.
Sun Ran knew alchemy, took the one-handed sword, condensed a little fire from his fingertips, used his fingers as a pen, and drew runes on the spine of the sword.
He was fast, from the blade to the tip of the sword, all the way down, in one fell swoop.
On the sword body, a fiery red rune light shook, and then dimmed, leaving only a faint red vein, which perfectly fused with the sword body.
Sun Ran concocted the same method on the other sword, drawing the rune as well, and then explained: "This is a scorching rune, which can make your attacks carry fire damage, and have the ability to restrain cold and dark vampires. β
Lan Xin was very surprised: "This is a weapon enchantment?" β
There is no alchemist in Thorn Rose, she and Ke'er basically use ordinary weapons, and the embodiment of lethality depends on their own martial arts and the advantages and disadvantages of the weapon itself, and this additional attribute damage has never been thought of.
Sun Ran smiled, "This is the lowest level of enchantment. Runes have very low potency and disappear after a hundred triggers. β
Still, it's much better than nothing.
Ke'er also handed over his dagger, looking eager: "I want to enchant it too." β
Sun Ran took the dagger, thought for a while, and drew sharp runes on the dagger.
"You are an assassin, concealment is the first key, the scorching rune will emit a faint light, which will reveal your whereabouts, and the sharp rune can greatly increase the sharpness of the dagger, and truly sharpen iron like clay."
As he spoke, Sun Ran had already drawn the runes, picked up the dagger, and gently cut it into the corner of the silver-plated iron candlestick next to him.
There was an astringent sound of metal rubbing, and a thin piece of iron fell in response, and the fracture was as smooth as a mirror, and the dagger was sharp.
Ke'er was pleasantly surprised, snatched the dagger from Sun Ran's hand, and couldn't put it down. With this dagger, even if the other party is hiding in the heavy armor, she can stab him to death in one fell swoop.
After preparing the weapons of the second daughter, Sun Ran said to Bai Tingxuan again: "Let's start preparing defensive runes." β
Bai Tingxuan nodded, there is cinnabar in Orlando Mansion, and there is a good wolf pen in the collection, which are all carefully collected by Orlando, and they can just be used to draw talismans.
She prepared exorcist charms, invisibility charms, and puppet charms until she ran out of cinnabar and began to cut paper figures again.
There is a bean sprinkling into a soldier in Taoism, she can't, but she can cut paper into a soldier.
Sun Ran took Kerr to wander around Orlando Mansion, imprinting frost runes everywhere.
Ke'er kept the location of these runes in mind. She has a rune mark blessed by Sun Ran on her body, and even if she steps on the rune, it will not trigger. If these rune traps are used well, she will be able to fight the vampire assassins with ease, attacking and defending.
With the cooperation of the four people, in less than an hour, the originally safe and harmless Orlando Mansion became a tiger's den in Longtan, killing every step of the way.
The butler had already set up the storage room, and he and the servants in the house had been ordered not to wander around the house tonight, and to sleep for themselves no matter what happened.
It was already dark, Sun Ran walked to the door of the collection room, and before entering the door, he instructed Lan Xin, who was in charge of guarding the collection room, "Be careful. β
Lan Xin smiled: "Yes." β
Sun Ran closed the door of the collection room, immediately took out a paper figure cut by Bai Tingxuan, pasted a puppet charm, and then took a breath and threw it in front of him, the paper figure swelled rapidly, and a puppet that looked exactly like him appeared in front of him.
Sun Ran put an invisibility talisman on himself again, quietly walked out of the collection room, found a corner and hid, just waiting for the fish to take the bait.