Chapter 84: Super Baby
"Trivia?" I was thundered by the hatching method written on the property. The previous owner of the rabbit may have forgotten to tell us about this problem, and I can probably think of the reason, because compared to the combat ability, this hatching method is really not too much of a problem.
According to what is written on the attributes, the rabbit may not have been a rabbit before, because the attribute says that this thing has no fixed form at all, and the rabbit form we saw before is completely from the imagination of the previous owner. Whenever the rabbit takes the form of an egg, it will be chocolateized in the form of the previous one, and then it will have to answer questions, and if you can think of a new image within ten questions, it will hatch, otherwise the image will be re-selected, and then you have to go through ten more questions.
"Boss." One of the members suddenly called out to me.
"What for?"
"Did you notice a problem?"
"Questions? What's the problem? I asked and looked left and right, and jumped up in surprise. How is this going on? "I suddenly noticed that the environment around us had changed again. Previously, we automatically exited the illusion after the capture, but now the environment around us has started to change again. The towering trees are gradually turning into the form of cloth paintings, the sky and the earth are rapidly distorting, and the whole world around us is rapidly transforming into a state of cloth embroidery.
"Hahahaha......" arrogant laughter suddenly appeared, and the owner of that voice was actually the chocolate bunny.
"Haven't you been sealed? Why can you still talk? A member next to me asked in surprise.
"Do you think babies are so easy to bully? Hum. Sue you, as long as you can't really turn me into a demonic pet, I can continue to fight even in my current form. β
"Hmph, it's not a matter of dividing your way into a demon pet." My member immediately said to me, "President, hurry up and take him in." β
"Hmm." I quickly walked in front of the chocolate bunny, and after thinking about it, I switched to the silver moon form. I heard from the rabbit's previous owner that his loyalty was hard to increase, so I planned to use the charm of the Silver Moon Demon level to tame this rabbit. First of all, according to the general rules of demon pet land recognition, the blood is dripped first.
Although the rabbit screamed loudly, there was no real harm other than making the world around it quickly turn into a canvas, and when my blood dripped onto the rabbit's head, the rabbit quickly dissolved into a puddle of chocolate puree, and then flew into the air to form a chocolate ball, and the rabbit's voice came out of the ball.
"Although the baby adult is very reluctant. But rules are rules. You've already bled in my egg-like state, so you'll have to answer the baby's adult questions. I have decided on my new image based on your memory, and I will evolve a skill specifically for you according to your ability characteristics, but if you can't outline my general form in my brain within ten questions, I will change the image again, but the second image is definitely not as powerful as the first image, and the skill that has been specially evolved is gone. If you get it wrong again, I'll be a normal pet, but if I get it wrong the third time, I'll automatically hatch into a wild creature. Then the baby is free. So, I wish you all guessed wrong hahaha......! β
"You mouthy chocolate ball, ask questions."
"Hmph, when the baby is free, you will taste the wrath of the baby. Okay, now listen to my first description. You don't have to answer my question, just imagine my form in your brain based on my description, and no matter how many questions you make, I'll stop the description as soon as the correct answer comes out. First of all, I will be soft. β
The rabbit stopped for a long time after saying that he was soft, but it wasn't just me. Members of our guild in the neighborhood were also imagining the form of this guy. After listening to him, a player stopped and couldn't help but ask, "Is this the end?" β
"Hmm. Finished. That's it for the first description. β
"Damn, it's too short, isn't it?"
"If you don't listen to the pull, you're not a contractor anyway." The rabbit doesn't dump that player at all. "Now the second description stops. I will be very translucent. Seeing that we didn't react, he continued: "The third one. My form will be unfixed. After saying this, the chocolate bunny, or my new pet, suddenly screamed. Damn, how did you guess it with only three? That's impossible! β
With his shouting, the chocolate ball in front of us suddenly contracted violently into a small black dot, and then exploded like an explosion, spewing out a large mass of gelatinous translucent substance, which exploded everywhere and covered several people in our vicinity.
"Damn, what's this thing that's so disgusting?" A player desperately pulls on the translucent gel like snot on his body.
A player next to him reached out and dipped the thing in front of his nose and sniffed it. "It's good that it doesn't smell weird."
"By the way, what about your pet? How could it suddenly explode? Isn't it supposed to be a pet? β
"That seems to be it!" As I spoke, the gel that had just burst began to squirm slowly. This time it was even more frightening, and those people desperately threw the things on their bodies down. Luckily, the gels aren't very adhesive either, and they seem to be climbing down on their own.
The gel that had been thrown off began to quickly come together, and the scene was almost the same as the liquid metal machine qì man in a science fiction movie, but this guy was much slower. The gel began to stretch upwards rapidly, eventually turning into something like a large peanut standing on the ground. The upper hemisphere of the translucent, jelly-like thing suddenly opened a pair of eyes, followed by a crack like a mouth.
"Haha, I'm born again. β¦β¦ Strange, why do I say again? Hey. Are you my master? Why do I think you seem so kind? The newborn jelly monster looked at me and asked.
"I am your new master. After that, you will be called a baby. β
"Baby? Is this my name? It feels so kind! The baby loves the name very much, and I will call it Baby from now on. β
I don't know if it's my demon-level charm value that interferes or what. In short, the baby's memory seems to be very strict, and a lot of things have been erased, at least he doesn't remember fighting with me at all, probably this is the power of rules. The previous owner of the baby said that the baby's loyalty is difficult to cultivate, and it will fall down if you are not careful, but now it seems that it may be caused by their lack of experience in raising pets and their own charm is too low. The requirements for high-level pets are relatively high, which can be said to be very difficult to serve, and those players who only have one or two magic pets themselves want to recruit such magic pets, which will inevitably lead to difficulties in improving their loyalty. Besides, in addition to professional animal trainers like me, ordinary players also lack corresponding skills, so they are not suitable for taming high-level magic pets at all. Maybe "Zero" was not designed to let every player bring a high-level pet, so so so many restrictions were added.
After successfully recruiting the pets, the illusion in our neighborhood finally disappeared again, and I walked back with all the members. On the way, I carefully examined the baby's various attributes and finally concluded that this is a very scary guy.
There are three main systems of baby skills, namely "interference", "doll" and "virtualization". Interference refers to spells and attacks that interfere with the enemy's release, such as the lava projectile fired by our fire mage before that ended up turning into a large cloud of ketchup. Tong guΓ² is a skill that theoretically allows the baby to turn any spell unleashed by the enemy into a variety of harmless attacks. Of course, this skill requires a certain amount of mana, and if the enemy releases the land spell, the cost is too large, and the baby can't be transformed.
The so-called doll system is designed to target living creatures, and its effect is to turn a creature into a doll of various materials. This change is very expensive, and the use distance is very short, and it must be close to a certain range to take effect, but once the target is successfully released, it will become a soft doll, and in addition to the physical decrease, the defense will also fall to the bottom, which can be called the ultimate kill in hand-to-hand combat, especially for players like True Red who rely on fists to eat. How hard do you think a plush toy's fist can be?
The last type of void system is the most disturbing of the three, and it can create illusions and turn a large area into a world that the baby likes. And in this world, there are generally only a few options. One is the world of desserts. For example, the United City fell for this trick, and as a result, the whole city became a dessert. There is also the cloth painting world we encountered when we were trapped just now, and almost all the things in that world are made of flannel, and the world will become flat, and anyone will become as thin as a layer of cloth. The third world is the crayon world, which is worse than the flannel, and the flannel is still a bit three-dimensional, the crayon world will make the surrounding environment become a paper state, and all items will become the crayon drawings of kindergarten children. Children may enjoy that world, but we will definitely be out of luck. In addition, according to the baby himself, there is a kind of dream world. That's even worse. The dream world turns into a dream, characterized by the fact that nothing no longer obeys the laws of physics. In your dreams, you can cross thousands of miles in one step, or you may never be able to run out of a table like the earth, this kind of world has no rules at all, and it definitely belongs to the level of playing the dead. But the conditions for the activation of this dream world are very harsh, and the consumption is also very high.
In addition to the above three systems, the current baby has some things similar to inherent attributes, which are not skills. However, it can actually be used in combat. For example, the way of exploding and splitting just now is one of them. The baby is now a lump of jelly-like storage zΓ i. In other words, it doesn't actually have a fixed form, and you can flatten it and round it at will. Even if you cut it into pieces, it will fuse again, and unless you burn him completely with fire or corrode him with strong acid, you won't be able to kill him with physical attacks. Of course, spell damage will still take effect, and the baby's resistance to magic is very low, so it can almost be said that there is no spell resistance. This is a weakness.
Along the way, we also learned a very fortunate thing, that is, the baby's spell has a twenty-four hour stable period, once he releases the spell for more than twenty-four hours, it will produce damage solidification, for example, our United City has been hit by his dessert world spell before, if we don't defeat it within twenty-four hours, then the real game world in the city will really become a dessert. And for example, the walls that the big pot of rice gnawed off before will actually be gnawed off, and will not be restored after the illusion disappears. This attribute can be described as terrifying, but it also has many limitations. The first is that the baby can't immediately cast the spell within 24 hours, and there is that his fantasy world is only allowed to be used once within 48 hours, whether it is the dessert world or any other world, it cannot be changed if it is used. Previously, we were affected by the dessert world and the cloth painting world in a row, because the baby changed form once in the middle, so we could release two spells in a row, otherwise it would not have been possible to succeed at all.
By the time we returned to Union City, it had returned to normal, and the walls that had been gnawed by the big pot had not changed much. According to the baby, as long as the illusion is less than twenty-four hours, no matter how much damage occurs inside, it will not affect the outside environment, but this twenty-four hour limit is only for the virtual world. There is no such restriction on dolls that can be used directly on the human body. Another is that we learned that the area that was pulled into the illusion will actually be closed, although you can still enter, but no matter what you do, the illusion will be restored when it is restored, which means that it is impossible to use this trick to pretend to take the opportunity to occupy the city, because the city will automatically restore and force out the people who should not be in the city when it is normal.
Because of the previous attack on Union City, much of the work that should have been done is now delayed. The main problem is that we have lost contact with our South Korean allies for too long, and there is a problem with the coordination between the two sides. The pro-China Korean guild, led by Park Eun's Cheonjimeng, had been trying to contact us, but because our people had suddenly disappeared, contact could not be made, and as a result, the South Korean allies thought we had been attacked. Although it is true that we were attacked, this attack was not the same as they understood it.
Originally, in order to keep it secret, we didn't tell SΓΉ Park Eun all of his battle plans. So South Korean players only know that once our Union City is attacked, it is equivalent to a full-scale war, so the current situation is that our allies have launched a counterattack in advance.
"What now?" In the conference hall of Isengahdi, all the leaders of our guild are here.
Su Mei held her chin and looked like a little adult, and said while thinking: "Since Park Eun and the others made a move in advance, it means that the Japanese side will definitely know that the plan has been revealed, so if my guess is correct, the Japanese will have two choices." β
"Give up or go all-or-nothing?" Rose, who had fully understood the meaning of Sumi, asked directly.
"With the Japanese way of thinking, you probably won't choose to give up, right?" Shura Ziyi said.
Red Moon nodded. "The Japanese don't know what it means to give up, they just worry about not eating enough and whether they can swallow it...... That's not what they're thinking. β
"So your opinion is that the Japanese will take a gamble, right?" I looked at everyone's faces.
"I know, yes." Su Mei affirmed.
"So......" I slapped the table hard and stood up. Inform the departments and our partners that the plan is ahead of schedule. β
According to what we have learned from the Emperor's earthen monument, the Japanese should let the Europeans attack Ashford's Iron Cross first, and then attract reinforcements from our guild. Then they will attack our native cities and gather all the forces against our guilds to divide our cities around the world. This is a very simple and effective move. But the Japanese miscalculated because they didn't know that we knew the situation in advance.
Because we knew the situation in advance, it was naturally impossible for us to be led away by the Japanese. Originally, we had planned to wait for the Japanese to launch a full-scale attack and then launch a surprise attack to catch them by surprise. The Japanese tried to harm us by diverting the tiger from the mountain, and we used the trick to rectify them. But we both tried and calculated, but in the end, a plan came up and couldn't catch up with the changes. The sudden trapping of Union City led the Korean players to move ahead of time, and Japan would soon learn from the pro-Japanese Koreans that it was all pro-us guild Korean forces that attacked them. These pro-Korean guilds are like our little brothers, and if they go out individually, it can be understood as an individual act, but when they all go out, the fool knows what we mean. According to the Japanese plan, we should now be mobilizing troops to support the Iron Cross, and the guild is in a period of shortage. At such a time, a normal person will definitely choose to shrink the defense. And if you want something to happen less, how can you fan the flames everywhere? But now, the pro-us Korean guild has made a move, which clearly shows that we intend to open up a second battlefield. This behavior represents only two possibilities. One is that the leadership of our guild has a collective neurotic attack, and the other is that we have not sent troops to reinforce the Iron Cross at all. Nobunaga was a reckless man, but he wasn't so stupid that he couldn't even understand the truth, so he would surely have deduced from it the fact that we already knew about their plans, and that their actions would certainly change after that.
As we expected, we actually had a high-level meeting in our guild at the same time as the Japanese side was meeting.
Onite Nobunaga is walking back and forth in front of a world map. Suddenly, he stopped, and slapped the table hard. "I don't care how the news leaked, that's not the point right now. The point is that our strategic plan must be adjusted. Inform the allies on the European side immediately. Don't feint anymore, the Frost Rose Alliance won't be fooled at all. They had known the news for a long time. Now their mission is to conquer the Iron Cross as best they can, and then use the remaining forces to help us deal with the Frost Rose Alliance. β
"I'll let you know right away." A Japanese samurai immediately turned around and ran out.
After issuing the order, Nobunaga continued to spin in circles with great anxiety, and then new orders were issued, and the Japanese players below ran to carry out his orders one by one, and finally only one player with a mask was left in the tent.
"Actually, you don't have to worry about it at all." The masked man spoke.
"Why?"
"It's simple. Even if Purple Sun now knows about our plans for some reason, do you think he has the ability to raise enough troops in such a short period of time to deal with the ranks that we have been amassing for so long? Besides, even if he has so many troops. Do you think our secret weapon is a fake? β
Ghost Nobunaga said with great certainty: "If it were someone else, I wouldn't dare to say it, but if it was the purple sun, I could tell you with great certainty." β
"Are you so sure?"
"There is a saying that it is often your enemies who know you best, and this is probably the situation with me and Ziri."
"Hahahaha......!" The masked man laughed arrogantly. "You don't mind if you regard Purple Sun as your biggest enemy to understand me, but Purple Sun may not regard you as your biggest enemy, because ...... His worst enemy should be me. "The masked man suddenly lifted his mask, revealing the same face that I had defeated in Europe." That fool of Purple Sun actually thought that I was going to fight against Venus for that stupid woman, and now he must have put all his hatred on Venus. Hmph, that kind of golden haired woman doesn't interest me at all. β
"Don't be too complacent." Nobunaga reminded, "Even if the plan fails, what we lose is nothing more than an opportunity, but you Indonesians really don't think about anything." This time it was for the sake of the funds you provided and your strength that I agreed to help you, so it would be better for you to be vigilant and complete our plan one at a time. β
"Hmph. If you have strength, you don't have to scruple about anything. This is what you have taught us. The crow said arrogantly.
Nobunaga frowned but didn't say anything, he didn't bother to say anything to these uncultured natives.
Compared to the chaos on Ghost Nobunaga's side, the situation on our side is not much better. When both sides suddenly discover that the other knows their secrets, it is impossible to continue with the original plan. But what I'm better than Ghost Nobunaga is that I have more people on my side who can come up with ideas, so I don't have to do everything myself. After a simple layout of the general direction, everyone else will start to go their separate ways.
Time slipped by quietly in tension and chaos, in the early morning of the second day Beijing time, it was still afternoon on the European side, and the troops attacking the Iron Cross City suddenly began to retreat, but Asfud, who was standing at the head of the city, did not smile at all.
"It's finally getting started!" Asford sighed.
Lu Wei, who was standing beside Ashford, asked suspiciously, "Hasn't the enemy already begun to retreat?" Why are you still so depressed? β
"Because it's not a retreat at all."
"Purple Sun?" Suddenly, when he heard my voice, Ashuford immediately turned around excitedly. "You're finally willing to come over, and if you wait a little longer, my side will be completely finished!"
"Cut. Do you think you're so busy? "Asford and I talked about the situation in Korea. Ashford was also shocked when he heard this.
"Now that this has happened, what decision do you think the Japanese will make?" Asford asked me nervously.
"I've come to your side, don't you know what the Japanese have decided?"
"You mean ......?" Ashford glanced at the Anglo-French forces outside the city that were slowly retreating. "Do they think of me as the main battlefield?"
"Almost!" I looked at Asford and explained, "The Japanese decided to turn to a feint attack as the main attack, originally they were fighting Iron Cross just to attract our attention, so they have been using cannon fodder units to create pressure, but now the plan has been revealed. So they planned to take down the Iron Cross City altogether. β
"Then I'm not the main battlefield here?" No. You are not, because the Japanese have no intention of abandoning their original plans. β
"Are you so sure?" Asford didn't trust my sources of information.
I patted him on the shoulder. "Rest assured. My messages are absolutely reliable. Besides, the analysts of our guild also speculated in this way, and the intelligence showed that it was exactly the same as the speculation, so I think there should be no problem. Now the plan of the Japanese is to let the British and French forces defeat you first, and then there is no need to attract any troops, and directly let them send the remaining forces to Asia to directly interfere in our campaign with Japan. β
"And what about your countermeasures?"
"Countermeasures?" I smiled: "Since you know that this is a countermeasure, what countermeasure do you ask me?" β
"Countermeasure? β¦β¦ Countermeasure! β¦β¦ Countermeasure? Are you going to do the exact opposite? β
Ashford wasn't stupid, and he certainly understood the deeper meaning of my anagrams. What we mean is to work against the Japanese. Since we have this combat strength, there is no need to play intrigue with the Japanese. In fact, orthodox tactics are the most effective tactics on the battlefield, although orthodox tactics are often broken by some surprise soldiers. But the fact that so many people still use it in this situation shows that orthodox tactics have the strongest tactical effect in general. Therefore, the advice given to me by our guild think tank is: since the stratagems of both sides have been seen through, then simply don't use stratagems and just hit the hard. When the narrow road meets, the brave wins, and whoever can hold on to the end is the winner.
Japan meant to settle the European theater first, because the Anglo-French forces had an absolute advantage over the Iron Cross here. They hope that this side will first get it done and then concentrate on opening a second battlefield in South Korea, and then push back into China. The content of this plan is fairly simple, but it is a fairly effective tactic. It can play a role of a kind of continuous force, with the help of the power of the victorious army to win small battles along the way, and finally win the overall victory. Under this tactic, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese will be like that of a car rushing down a hill, and the more it intercepts it at a high place, the less effort it will have, and by the time the car rushes to the corner of the mountain, it will definitely be overwhelmed. There is no one to stop at all.
Just understand these paths. It is relatively simple to make the appropriate arrangements.
The army outside the city was rapidly moving, and those cannon fodder troops quickly retreated outside the range of the Iron Cross's firepower, and then they saw a large area of troops on that side moving, but because the distance was too far, only a dense black phalanx could be seen, and everything else could not be seen clearly.
It took about three hours to change the formation to finally end, and thanks to the fact that the two consecutive days of high-intensity fighting consumed too much destruction, the total number of British and French troops of more than 100 million people has finally dropped to less than 100 million, but the number is still as high as 90 million, and the number of cannon fodder fields only accounts for about two-thirds, which means that there are at least three million regular troops here. Within three hours, the cannon fodder units were broken up and divided into the forward parts of some of the main teams. The advantage of this is that the density of the elite forces is not reduced without reducing the density of personnel, and the result is that it will be more difficult for us to strike with firepower.
After the reorganization was over, the large forces of the Anglo-French army began to move forward gradually, and Ashford hastened to inform the gun emplacements not to open fire first. The width of the front of the Iron Cross City is only more than 15,000 kilometers, which means that even the width of the second wall of the Isengh Land is not enough. However, this also has the advantage that the area left for the enemy to charge is also relatively small. Fifteen thousand meters, even if one person is one meter, can only stand 15,000 people, and in fact, it is impossible for the battle formation to be so dense, even if it is two meters and one person, it is too dense. Not to mention "Zero" as a fantasy game. Not all of the troops here are human-sized, so in fact, there are no more than 5,000 troops that can actually touch the walls at the same time. The Anglo-French forces probably intended a quick victory this time. So what they put out was a frontal twenty plus one battle formation. This three-plus-one pattern means that every twenty types of humanoids are lined up in a horizontal row, and then one large creature is spaced apart, followed by another twenty humanoids. This arrangement belongs to the panacea method, and it has a good destructive power against any strength and density of the wall defense system, but it is certain that it is also zΓ i, that is, it cannot give full play to its combat effectiveness. After all, this is a panacea, and good versatility means insufficient specificity.
Due to the confusion of the enemy's troops. We don't know which of the twenty or twenty people in the team is elite and which one has cannon fodder, but I have no doubt that the big guys are all elites.
The arrangement on the Iron Cross side has also changed, with some low-level players being replaced in the rear to take up logistics, while elite players have been moved to the front, and NPCs have all become support forces. The game is fundamentally a player, and there are indeed high-end stores in NPCs that surpass players, but there are definitely not many of them.
As the Anglo-French forces advanced, we began to hear the sound of war drums and footsteps, but we didn't expect the other side to use a military band this time. And it actually used the assault mode of the infantry phalanx.
When the first row of soldiers began to quickly follow the second row, the Anglo-French army divided the troops into a short area of twenty rows, which meant that the infantry phalanx was a square of 400 men. As for the large creatures, they only appear around the corner of each block, not in a row of twenty like humans. However, if you look at it yourself, you will find that these large creatures are actually in phalanxes, but the intervals are too large to be easy to find. Every twenty large creatures means a large phalanx, and this large phalanx is composed of four hundred large creatures and two hundred and thirty small human phalanxes, and its scale is also quite large. The Anglo-French army counted such a large phalanx as a large brigade, while each human phalanx was a small team, and the large creatures were managed individually. Such a command system is summed up in the long war in the game. The advantage is that all squads can be managed repeatedly by placing a frontline commander on each large creature, and even if the command on the large creature is killed, as long as there is one commander left in the four corners of the squad, the command will not be lost.
"The other party is really moving." I said to Ashford.
"I know." Compared with Ashuford, who was running around everywhere before, Ashuford is now calmer. He wasn't afraid of failure before, he knew that that kind of feint would not achieve any practical effect, and the reason why he pretended to be so scared was to show the enemy on the other side, and on the other hand, he hoped that I could help him reduce the burden. Although the enemy can't do anything to him, he is not stupid, of course he hopes to lose some troops, and this guy is not even willing to waste cannon fodder. Now there is no need to perform. Ashford was naturally restored to normal. After moving his neck, he stood on the amplified magic array and shouted, "Warriors, the warm-up is over, it's time to get serious." β
"Roar ......" A cheer suddenly erupted on the city wall, followed by the ground on some city walls suddenly cracked one after another, and a large number of ground weapons that had never appeared before rose up.
"You still have a secret weapon?" I was also surprised by these things, after all, Ashford didn't mention them in the original plan.
Asford grinned and said, "Do you want it?" It's a pretty good thing. β
"Let me see the combat power first."
"Don't worry, you'll see it soon."
These new weapons are not very large. It's about the same as a minicar. It looks a bit like the anti-aircraft turrets found on old warships, but with an extra layer of protective cover on the outside. And it has only one barrel, and the caliber is also very small.
As the enemy approached, the defensive artillery on the Iron Cross began to frenzy, and at the same time, the few remaining artillery units of the British and French forces also began to return fire.
Although the artillery fire is quite intensive. However, long-range firepower could not be swept one by one, so the enemy's ground formation did not lose much except for being blown out of holes, and the team was still advancing in an orderly manner. Soon when the enemy approached the range of the mage, some of the enemy stopped, and it was clear that these were the enemy's spell strike troops, and their task must have been to suppress the mage and archer troops at the head of the city. Today, though, they seem to be going to be out of luck.
The strange weapons at the head of Iron Cross suddenly moved, each operated by two NPCs, one of whom quickly shook the direction and the other commanded to aim. Some of the mages in the enemy army had begun to glow with magical light, but just as the spell was about to be completed, the mage's head suddenly burst open without warning. The people nearby were stunned for a moment. Then their heads began to explode one after another.
At this time, those small anti-aircraft guns-like things on the head of the city were pressing the barrels of the guns to the bottom of the city against the group of mages, and then began to sound at the same time as the command of the commander. To be honest, I was really scared of these things, because it was fired at what it looked like a machine gun. I saw that the barrel of that thing suddenly recoiled with the recoil, followed by a rapid rebound, and then recoiled again, and each time the barrel retracted, it would be accompanied by a burst of white smoke, and the speed was quite fast. After my calculations, this thing can basically achieve a speed of two rounds in three seconds. You know, it's a game. There is indeed artillery here, but it can't be compared to real life in terms of power or range, but this rapid-fire machine gun has burst out with the same power as a real machine gun, at least so far I haven't seen a single enemy block this kind of attack.
The rapid-fire cannon fires quite frequently, and it's not very loud, but strangely it doesn't sound like the crisp pop of a gunpowder weapon. On the contrary, it is very similar to the sound of a train's pressure valve exhausting. I quickly discovered the secret of this thing.
"This is a steam cannon?"
Asford nodded triumphantly. "How? Our German engineers are some of the strongest in the world. β
"How did you do that? Isn't there a lack of precision machining equipment and reasonable propulsion technology in the game? β
"Hehe, it's not easy." Asford said proudly: "I got some new machine gun designs from the Internet before, and then found that it was impossible to produce those precision machine guns with the technology in the game, so I found a lot of old machine gun blueprints, and I found a kind of machine gun that our Germany was equipped with during World War II." This kind of thing is actually an enlarged version of a machine gun. But the power and range have decreased. However, at the expense of size and range, the process of making this weapon became simpler. Since the cost of gunpowder in the game is too high, we considered the use of magic crystals to directly heat the liquid to produce steam to propel the projectile to the firing ground, and the main feature of the steam device is that it does not need to be too airtight. Because the vapor pressure itself is not very large, the general simple seal can ensure normal use. And because of the sacrifice of the size advantage, the power of this thing has not decreased much. Although the velocity of the cannon is not high, due to the relatively large projectile and the broken magic array carved on the warhead, the penetration and damage are quite considerable. What do you think? Interested in ordering? β
"I'm going to buy technology." The Frost Rose Alliance is no ordinary guild, and our production technology is definitely no worse than that of the Iron Cross, so it is better for us to buy technology than to buy finished products. Other guilds like to buy finished products because they can't produce them themselves. There is really no way to buy the finished product, so we naturally don't use it.
On the one hand, Asford knew that I would not buy the finished product, and on the other hand, he also understood that once I figured out the principle, it was actually very easy to imitate, so he nodded happily, which would not only make a small profit but also increase our favorability.
Actually, I bought this thing for another reason, that is, our guild actually has the ability to transform and process it on its own. So if possible, we might be able to go one step closer to the design of Ashford's steam cannon. I'm not hoping for a real-life general-purpose machine gun with a terrifying rate of fire that can be carried around by a person. I just wanted a range long enough to equip ships and walls. Even a small suppressive weapon that can be pulled and run by a horse-drawn cart. Now we are facing a major counteroffensive by the Japanese, and if we have this thing, we don't have to have a headache to deal with a large-scale enemy.
Our long-term partnership with the Iron Cross has made a lot easier. Since the two sides agreed to directly allocate funds, Ashuford sent someone to help me send a few sets of samples and drawings to our guild, of course, there must be technical instructors, otherwise it is not so simple to rely on drawings to imitate.
Since the structure of this thing itself is not too complicated, and there is a strong technical foundation, our guild almost started trial production after getting the drawings, and as for the transformation, it may take some time to produce results, but that is not what we should be concerned about now, because the enemy in front of us has already appeared in front of us.
The steam cannon intercepts much better than expected, but there are too many enemies, and it's not as aggressive as a real-life automatic weapon. So the enemy finally approached the city wall, which was nothing more than a lot more losses than before.
The Anglo-French warriors attacked in a strange way, instead of summoning creatures while charging, they had the player rush to the front line before starting to summon. Ashuford and I were observing the battlefield when we saw a dragon appear out of thin air, and it was less than thirty meters away from us.
"Stand back." I took out the eternity and strode ahead of everyone.
"Be careful." Lu Wei reminded.
"It's just a dragon." I lifted the eternity in place, spun around in a circle, and swung a sword in the air, and the nine sword qi broke away from the blade and roared towards the dragon that suddenly appeared, and opened nine huge wounds on him before he could react. The dragon fell to the wall with an unwilling throat and knocked down a large number of its own people, but many more climbed the wall on the dragon corpse. The height of the wall of more than 30 meters is not insurmountable, not to mention that most people in the game have flying or jumping skills.
I strode towards the edge of the wall. Several enemies who had just stormed the walls immediately ran towards me. I didn't stop, and with a wave of my hand, Eternity swept out in the form of a whip sword, and the enemy thought that this distance would not be attacked, but it was immediately split in two. After killing an enemy, I suddenly rushed forward with a hunched waist, and the enemy who had just landed on the wall only saw a streamer flash past me, and then the body inexplicably broke in two.
Until I rushed to the edge of the city wall, all the enemies on the wall had been killed by me, and the enemies who saw me standing at the top of this wall were stunned for a moment, although they were still moving forward, but they were avoiding the section of the city wall I was in, intentionally or unintentionally, after all, I had killed two elites on the ground in front of them before. They all know that they are on the battle power list, and they don't know that they can't even stop a single move when they are ranked tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands. Instead of coming up to send him to death, it is better to find other places to break through, and it is more practical.
I stood at the top of the city walls and watched the vast expanse of enemies in front of me, while quickly searching for worthy targets for my attack. A single enemy is really worthless to me, and it is more appropriate to leave the work of slaughtering soldiers to soldiers, and I am looking for the kind of strong storage that can inflict heavy losses on my own soldiers.
"Over there." Ashford suddenly pointed far away at the enemy's rear.
I took a closer look, and it was indeed a troublesome guy. "Be careful yourself." I spread my wings and flew up, and when the people below saw me take off, they immediately shot countless crossbows, but unfortunately none of them could hurt me. Ordinary bows and crossbows don't have much strength from the bottom up, not to mention that the set on me is still artifact armor.
The place that Asford pointed out to me just now is actually a giant monster, which doesn't seem to be a player's pet but some kind of high-level class. Players in "Zero" know that under normal circumstances, there is a big difference between a magic pet and a high-level class, and a magic pet is generally subject to some restrictions because it belongs to the player's personal strength, just like Ling and Xiaochun. The two of them used to be the main god-level earth storage zΓ i, if I retain my original strength and become my demon pet, then no one else needs to play, I only need to take any of them with me to sweep a guild. But the high-level troops are different, firstly, the high-level troops belong to the guild forces in the final analysis, so its combat effectiveness will be relatively stronger than that of the Demon Pet, after all, its owner is a group of people and not a person. In addition, compared to the magic pet that does not cost money, the consumption of high-level troops is amazing, so the general system does not impose too many restrictions on these things. Anyway, even if you don't limit it, you can't afford to raise much. Unlikely to upset the balance of the game.
The monster I'm eyeing at the moment is clearly the top model in the advanced class, because this guy is just too big. In fact, this guy is still very far from the city wall now. But I already had to go out in advance. Because I don't know what the hell is going to happen once I get this guy close to the walls. The guy in front of him was at least more than a hundred meters tall, and the walls of the Iron Cross City were about the same as a fence in front of him. The monster's body looks like a dragon, and in addition to its muscles, it is also covered with scales, which clearly bears some of the characteristics of a dragon. But he's different from the dragon because he walks upright. His legs and tail behind him are very thick, his upper body is similar to that of a human, but the muscles are scary, and his arms are similar to those of a human, but the palms of his hands are more like dragon claws. His neck is not as long as that of a dragon, but it is somewhat longer than a human's. The head on the top of the neck resembles a dragon. But it is not exactly like it, because his horns grow forward, much like a big buffalo with its horns upside down.
"Lucky, Plague, Crystal, Little Three, all come out to see what this thing is?"
Because this thing has a lot of dragon characteristics, I directly thought that this thing had something to do with dragons, and as a result, the four dragons all shook their heads vigorously after reading it. "I don't know, this is definitely not a branch of the dragon clan, and he doesn't have any dragon breath on him at all. Even the wurm is closer to the dragons than he is. β
"Not dragons?" I wondered for a moment, and then figured it out. "Whatever he is, give it to me now, put him down for me."
"Understood."
In fact, if you are really lucky, they are also more than 100 meters long, but compared to this thing, it is much smaller. Partly because the thing is upright, and partly because the tail and neck account for nearly half of the dragon's body length, it is far less than this guy's size. Although this guy looks like he is only more than a hundred meters tall, his legs are bent, and he is not straight at all, and his body is also thick and terrifying, and it is estimated that his strength will not be too low.
The size of the monster is really noticeable to him. The giant creatures around him are generally from the waist down. As for the humanoids, it is estimated that they can only reach his ankles. The appearance of the four dragons immediately focused the attention of this guy, although this was still the rear of the battle formation, but the monster suddenly roared into the air regardless of it, and the powerful shock wave instantly made the lucky ones black, and then hit the ground fiercely and rolled all the way out to offset the impact, of course, the soldiers along the way also fell into bad luck.
I was lucky enough to be spared, and the monster immediately turned its attention to me when it saw the four dragons fall, but I wasn't much slower than the dragons. The monster snapped its claws at me, but in a flash of my form, I let go of his claws, and flapped its wings and accelerated towards the monster's huge eyes. The monster was not slow to react. When I saw that I didn't shoot, he tilted his head and aimed his big mouth at me, and then I saw a rolling golden ball of light appear in his open mouth, and there were a large number of golden bands of light in the monster's mouth that were rapidly converging towards the ball of light, and at the same time, the ball of light was also getting bigger.
"Jingjing, guard."
Crystal suddenly appeared in front of me, and the shield suddenly unfolded into a giant shield the size of a basketball court. "Guardian Aegis Defense." Oh...... The monster's mouth slammed back, and the ball of light instantly hit the Crystal Earth Shield like a cannonball. With a bang, Jingjing and I were blown out together. The golden shockwave instantly blew away all living creatures within a few hundred meters of our battle. Even the gigantic creatures couldn't stop the shockwaves of the main terror.
"Jingjing, are you alright?" We flipped N heels in the air and finally stabilized our body, and Jingjing's shield had disappeared automatically. And she herself fell into a coma. "Jingjing. Xiao Chun, help take care of Jingjing. Ling, come out and help. β
"It turned out to be an ancestral dragon beast, no wonder it was so strong." Ling Yi came out and actually said something that surprised me.
"Have you ever seen this thing?"
"I've read it in a book." Ling said while preparing for the magic: "This thing has a common ancestor with the dragon clan, they and the dragon belong to the two branches of the same ancestor, but unlike the dragon's comprehensive enhancement, these guys are simply strengthened." β
"Damn, it's already so difficult to deal with just strengthening **, if you strengthen other aspects, you won't let people live? By the way, since you know about this creature, does it have a weakness? β
"Yes. This guy is slower and doesn't have a high IQ. β
"We're on the defensive, it's useless for him to be slow! The walls can't run again! As for IQ...... What does this guy say? β
Ling replied with a strange expression, "With his IQ, I can't believe he can learn any language. β
"Then how could he help the British and French in the war?"
"I'm afraid you'll have to ask the Anglo-French guild to find him."
"Dizzy. It seems that it can only be attacked. It just so happens that the combat effectiveness of the newly acquired magic pets is real. "I said that a whirlwind had swept through my body, and the next second Silver Moon's body appeared in the whirlwind." Baby, come out and help. β
"Baby, here, ......." The jelly-like baby jumped out of the phoenix dragon space and immediately screamed, it turned out that this guy didn't know that it was hanging outside, and he thought he was on the ground, but he just didn't know that it wasn't that he couldn't fly. As the body falls, the baby's body suddenly becomes a bird's image, and of course the texture is still jelly-shaped. The baby, who had become a bird, flapped its wings and flew back to me. "Master, why don't you tell the baby that we are in the air?"
"Don't you know what's going on outside?" I remember that Ling and the others in the phoenix dragon space could actually know what I was encountering outside.
The baby looked at me with a natural look and said, "But the baby was sleeping before!" How would the owner react if he suddenly stepped on the air as soon as he got up? β
"Oh, that's still my fault?"
"Yes, it's the owner's land."
It's really the most difficult demon pet to cultivate loyalty, and he even has to worry about this kind of thing. But if you want to cultivate loyalty, you have to settle for it! "Okay, okay, even if I'm wrong, right?"
"Hehe, that's pretty much it. Then the baby doesn't care. But what did the master do when he suddenly called me out? β
"Be careful." I suddenly grabbed the baby and slammed it down, dodging a golden ball of light from the monster. This monster isn't going to be there waiting for us to talk, he's always trying to attack us. But now it's a little better than just now, fortunately they've gotten up from the ground, and although the fall just now wasn't light, the dragon has always been known for its rough skin and thick flesh, and this little collision didn't hurt them well.
"Whew...... What a danger! "The baby who turned into a bird wiped the sweat that was not in the first place with one wing." Hmph, this ugly monster actually wants to attack the baby and the master, this is absolutely unforgivable. Master, shall we teach him a lesson? β
I can see it. The baby's loyalty is difficult to cultivate, which may be related to his calculating personality, as long as he offends him at any point, he will find a way to retaliate back, so as long as his master is a little tougher, it will lead to a rapid decline in loyalty. With his character, unless his master had studied psychology like me, it would have been impossible to cultivate his loyalty. No wonder he changes masters so often!
"Baby, this guy is really bad, how about you use a support spell to weaken him, and then I go and deal with him?"
"Okay." The baby suddenly struggled to fly out of my hand, and then he shouted at the big monster, "Turn you into a rag doll." β
"Damn, how can this be?" The baby's spell is used to the end, but the monster is still a monster. On the contrary, it is the baby himself who has changed from a jelly bird to a ragdoll bird. It's obviously a magic backlash.
The baby also looked at himself in surprise, and then said, "Ah master, this guy is so powerful, I can't turn him into a rag doll." β
The baby's change is not an infinite skill, at least a creature that is too much higher than him in the overall assessment cannot be turned into a rag doll by him, and this guy is still so big.
"Don't worry, baby, can you still use spells like this?"
The baby immediately said: "The rag doll is just relatively soft, and the spell attack will not be affected." β
"Then can you turn a part of that badass monster into a ragdoll alone?"
"This ...... I haven't tried it, but I think it will! β
Nightmoon had previously been unable to completely petrify enemies, when she only petrified parts of the enemy's limbs to limit the enemy's movement. Now that I think about it, the baby should have similar abilities.
After getting my prompt, the baby immediately began to cast spells on the monster.,This time the goal is designated by me.,I asked the baby to only turn a small piece of the monster's heel into a rag doll.,This part is not too big.,It should be able to be done.γ
Sure enough, the baby yelled at the monster's feet, "Turn you into a rag doll", and then half of the monster's feet and ankles turned into a flannel structure. You must know that the weight of a creature more than 100 meters tall is quite terrifying, and the ankle responsible for bearing the weight suddenly turns into a soft flannel, how can it still bear the previous weight? This mentally retarded guy didn't even realize what was going on and went headlong. With a loud bang, the sky cracked. The entire Iron Cross city shuddered. The monster's sheer size almost smashed a squad under him. Countless people were knocked down by the earthquake wave nearby.
"Haha, call you to bully the baby. This time I fell badly! The baby was flying around proudly showing off his achievements.
"Don't be too happy, baby, that guy isn't dead yet. You see he's going to get up again, and we're going to turn his wrists into cloth, right? β
"But what if I run out of power?" The baby's words made me feel half cold. I didn't expect the baby's puppet skill to consume mana according to the enemy's size and strength, the big guy just now was too big, although only a small part of the area was still consumed by the baby's mana.
"Do you have any skills that don't consume mana?"
"Doesn't consume mana? It seems that there is no eh! β
"Then you wait here first, and we will go down to help you get revenge." "Okay, the baby is watching over here, and I'll continue to fight monsters when my mana recovers."
In fact, the baby's attack had already had a considerable effect, and after the fall, the monster tried to get up again several times, but failed because the ankle could not bear weight, and luckily they took the opportunity to tear several huge wounds on the monster's body. However, despite his low intelligence, the monster's fighting instinct told him that this was not possible, so he gave up his intention to get back on his feet and climbed directly towards the city wall.
He hadn't stopped moving during the previous battle between the monster and us, and we hadn't noticed it at the time, but now that he can't get up, it's not normal to keep going. In this case, if we can't guess his intentions, we can just find a piece of tofu and hit him headlong to death.
"Stop him, he's going to hit the wall!"
After doing it for a long time, this guy was used as a battering ram, no wonder I didn't see a large city-breaking machine in the Anglo-French army, because this guy is enough. With his size and strength, once he was allowed to climb under the city walls, it would not take him a minute to lift the gates into the city along with the buildings above.
Ah Xiufu on the city wall also saw the way out at this time, and he didn't care about revealing my location, so he directly used the amplification magic array to shout loudly: "Zi Sun, stop that guy." β
Well, with this sound, hundreds of thousands of eyes below suddenly turned to my body together. "Ashford, you idiot, why are you calling my name?" It's over. The people who flew high before me didn't recognize me, and now it seems that the interception plan may not be very good!