Aurora stepped out of the portal and into the teleportation hall of the Grand Temple of Rose.

She patted her chest, calming the anger that was surging at Theresia.

A good friend who was originally regarded as a sister has now become a wicked person who wants to be slapped in the face. In the communication room of Alpha Castle just now, as soon as Theresia's image disappeared, she spat on the Book of Trade Winds.

Theresia was still reluctant to mobilize the three legions on the border of the Hadron Kingdom, and the two legions, 115 and 120, could not withdraw from the north and south wings of the fort in order to defend the teleportation fortress that was spreading out over a large area.

Thinking that Timmy secretly said that there were not many waste materials that could be sent to the Godfall Plateau, Hathaway's side not only closed the portal connecting Beta City and Shadow City, but also canceled many transactions on the grounds that the Queen issued a decree on the control of magical materials, and the rise and fall of Aurora's chest was even more violent.

She saw a clear line separating the Godsfall Plateau from the Alliance of Order.

"Theresia and Hathaway are joining forces to blockade us! We must intensify our infiltration into the Kingdom of Chestter and open a new exit in the north!

Aurora set a new agenda for the Temporary Central Daily Work Meeting, and hurried to the portal to Beta. If you remember something, stop quickly.

She came to the miraculous stake in the center of the temple and bowed solemnly to one of the walls of the temple.

There are more than 100 portraits hanging on the wall, and unlike the portraits of other victims, in addition to the outermost black circle, there is also a layer of red circles, and the first two portraits are Minsi and Otto.

This is the Crimson Warrior who continues to fight as a crimson undead in the Realm of the Dead.

A team of people sorted out the portrait under the wall, and saw a portrait re-hung with the red circle on it gone, and Aurora sighed slightly. It was the crimson undead whose remnants had dissipated, and who had died again for the sake of the revolution.

Thinking that Li Qi was leading the crimson undead to fight the purgatory undead, a hot current surged into Aurora's nose and eye sockets.

Don't let anything happen to you, Richie, I don't want to see your portrait here......

Aurora snorted, bowed to the stake again, and cast a banner magic spell on the stake with her hand, handing over today's rations.

"Ding, student card ......"

The goddess sensed it and replied in her head, it seems that the goddess is in a good mood today.

..................

In the office building in the heart of Beta, there is a circular workbench in Richie's office, and although Richie is not there, everyone is still used to having temporary meetings with him.

A three-dimensional map was displayed above the workbench, with red dots distributed within a radius of 200 kilometers centered on Beta City. To the southwest, there is a monstrous fog, locked in by three red dots.

The chief chairman of the Infrastructure Committee of the Communist Party of Philippines pointed to the shiny red dot and said: "The engineering corps has just completed the construction of the flax fortress, and the portal has been added to the teleportation network. ”

He pinched his chin and said with emotion: "Huma, is it the dwarf who died first? Damn, I told him a long time ago that he is not a material for war, how good it is to honestly work with me in infrastructure......

All teleportation forts are named after the Crimson Undead, such as Mins Fortress and Otto Fortress.

The predecessor of these teleportation fortresses was the teleportation anchor point established in the anti-crime and anti-evil operation, and Fei Gong built a fixed portal on the anchor point, and then used a full-defense fortress to protect it, so that he could mobilize personnel and materials in a very short time to extinguish the tide of undead that broke out nearby.

"He's still fighting down there," Aurora grimaced, "And what's wrong with the dwarves? ”

Long Hammer scratched his beard embarrassedly: "I didn't mean that...... Yes, it's me who has a problem with my thinking, and I review. ”

He coughed twice and cleared his throat as he began to explain the entire teleportation network made up of teleportation fortresses.

With the completion of teleportation fortresses one after another, the vast area of more than 100,000 square kilometers with Beta City as the center is gradually being completely mastered. The distance between any two forts was no more than a hundred kilometers, and if the undead moved, a legion-sized force could be on the scene within an hour.

However, the area of the Divine Fall Plateau is more than ten times or even dozens of times that of this area, and if the Giant King finds a breakthrough in other places, the consequences will still be unimaginable.

As a result, the teleportation network not only covers the core area of Beta, but also extends to other parts of the Godfall Plateau. Of course, it is impossible to engage in carpet dragnet in those places, so you can only set up points.

The priority area is the lair of the undead that adventurers have already discovered, including all kinds of underground mausoleums, underground caves, depression graveyards, etc., which are all potential breakthroughs, and teleportation fortresses must be set up near the exit.

"Now the farthest is the Dragon's Back Valley, two thousand kilometers to the south, where Captain Elon's floating ship carries an engineering team over. Complete the survey, determine the space anchor mark, and then build a temporary portal teleportation engineering corps to build a fortress. According to the schedule, it will be completed in four days at the latest. ”

"Farther west and farther south is the eternal departure from the forest, and in accordance with the previous decision, we will not extend it anymore, of course I am not too reassured. ”

"The biggest headache now is the garrison, the reserve corps has been established, but each fortress needs at least one team to garrison, which adds up to a lot of people, and the reserve corps is not well trained, which is really unreassuring. ”

"Oh, and the communication module thing, it's just starting to test it now, and it's also having problems with energy......"

As the hammer spoke, the robot next to him, which had been looking like a dead thing, suddenly moved.

"I'll tell you about this," Yuzan shot a silvery glow from the telescopic lens of his hemispherical head, and the image on the workbench suddenly changed to a cross-sectional diorama of the teleportation fortress cut open by the longitudinal axis.

"The energy problem is a big and crucial issue, we can only use small magic wells to support the portal now, and the defense of the teleportation fortress itself still has to rely on the divine power conversion circle, and even use the divine crystal to guard its own divine power, so we must have so many people. ”

"The small mana well technology obtained from the Storm Islands is quite old, and in this part of the Godfall Plateau, the mana field is greatly disturbed and much less efficient. This kind of energy cannot support the entire transmission network, let alone protect it, and it is only a temporary transition. ”

With the guidance of Youzan's "Divine Light Pen", the cylindrical space under the stone tower in the center of the teleportation fortress was still empty, which was tightly protected by copper plates and black iron plates.

"When we designed the teleportation fortress, we had already reserved space for a new energy system. In the future, teleportation fortresses will integrate teleportation and communication functions, and can also support protective enchantments, making the fortress the core hub of villages and towns. ”

In the office, there were Tarence, Tess, Sardar, Stan, Asuna and others, all looking at Yuzan with a longing expression, waiting for its next sentence, but I didn't expect it to be followed by only one sentence: "The new energy system is under development, and the progress is gratifying!"

Nicole pulled her ponytail and sighed: "Our treasury is almost empty, and the divine crystals and magic crystals are flowing out like fountains, but there is not much income." On the other side of the Cheandia mine, the veins are already full of magic metal. ”

"I could have expected to sell a lot of magic metal, but the sales to the outside world are not ideal. Timmy and Zold's side didn't go much, and other channels couldn't sell at all. I suspect that the High Council has secretly ordered the mages not to procure our magic metal. ”

The long hammer said dissatisfiedly: "Since the fundamental problem has not been solved, the problem of manpower cannot be solved." ”

Sardar complained about the long hammer: "Speaking of manpower, your infrastructure committee is still drawing people from the reserve corps! The engineering corps was originally working for you, and now you can't fill up another brigade if you want to expand it." ”

"I don't think girls have the privilege of not being on the front line", Asuna also shouted dissatisfiedly: "But many girls clearly have the potential to grow into priests who specialize in healing, and you just because she has stimulated her divine powers, you gave her a magic guide gun and kicked her into the legion, this is irresponsible behavior!"

The old man's cough rang out, and Tarence, who had been in charge of discipline all along, was finally about to give his opinion.

"Don't forget our faith, all for one, one for all! Don't forget what the cardinal said before he left, the issue of development should also be considered together in this war!"

The old man said very seriously: "We have done a good job in military, technology, propaganda and organization, and we have also established a youth war group in accordance with the instructions of the goddess, and closely united more people with potential, but we have forgotten one thing, that is, to mobilize the people!"

"What are we doing about this? Just thinking about getting the masses well fed and clothed, so that they don't make trouble, and then we can choose proactive people to join the war, and that's enough?"

"Shouldn't it be for the masses to deeply understand the significance of this war, and realize that it is not only a matter of life and death for everyone, but also a great opportunity to temper themselves and control their own destiny? ”

The old man directly named: "Stan, this should be the direction you pay the most attention to, but you are busy like a nanny all day long for the immigrants to eat, drink, and Lazar." It's not that we shouldn't care about the masses, but we should be in the right direction? We must not treat the masses as children who stretch out their hands for food, but let the masses understand their rights and obligations and know how to fight for themselves. ”

He glanced at the robot again, but the guy was turning his head to make an innocent appearance and couldn't meet his eyes, so he had to cough dryly and continued: "Whether it is material, manpower or technical problems, the first thing that comes to mind should be to mobilize the masses, don't isolate them from this war!"

The old man sighed: "When I was giving a lecture to the Conrad orphans at the preparatory college a few days ago, the children were very eager to go to the front line, even if they couldn't go to the front line, they had to do what they could. They said they wanted to defend their hometown and the Red Revolution, but they haven't even reached the age of ten!"

"After the lecture, I walked around the immigration area of Beta City, and I found that although the immigrants who moved in were happy, they were still complaining about this and that. A lot of people complain about the hard bed, the big window, or something. Some people dislike the unappetizing nature of free food and say why not give out free ingredients to cook for themselves. Some people dislike everyone wearing the same clothes, why not open a tailor shop to make clothes that they are satisfied with for free. ”

"Most people don't think that the war going on has anything to do with them, and the only way to prove that they care about the war is to pray to the Night Lady or some other god to keep the undead out of the way and make them have no good life. ”

"Don't you understand the gap between Conrad's orphans and immigrants?"

"The one-month immigration course only taught them some rules and common sense of life, but did not educate them to become real people. They don't realize what they have to do with the land, and they don't know what the treatment they receive means as a reward from us or the gods. ”

The old man rarely rambled at the meeting, but everyone was not bored, and Stan bowed his head guiltily.

"Tarens said it well, and it inspired me a lot," Youzan was the first to echo: "There are some issues that really need to mobilize the masses and rely on the wisdom of the masses. ”

Aurora also said: "I did omit this propaganda work, Stan, Asuna, we need to do this work from the aspects of immigration management and civil security, and the manpower is ......."

"Conrad's orphans can't go to war, they can help," she said, looking at Tarence, who nodded in agreement.

Aurora puffed up her chest proudly: "Let Tricia and Hathaway see how powerful our soldiers and civilians can burst out with less than 200,000 soldiers!

People nodded at the same time, and the heat of battle surged in their hearts.

..................

Beta City, next to the eastern part of the core area, has just been developed, with a few stone buildings hidden in the jungle and hills, which is unusually inconspicuous.

"Welcome to the Supercomputer Institute," said a white-bearded old man, the deputy director of human resources, handing two strange pieces to Katamon and Rezling, who had come to report.

"This is a hand-made calculation board, also called an abacus. If you learn to add, subtract, multiply and divide in one day, you will be qualified. ”

And what about qualification tests......

The two of them didn't think it was weird, and it was really weird if they didn't test, but this calculator ...... No, abacus, why is it so weird?

There is only a wooden frame, divided into two compartments, and the hollowed out part is vertically composed of more than a dozen thin strips, each of which has a number of beads that can be slided, can this be calculated?

Rezlin said proudly, "We don't need this to ......"

Then he followed the direction of the old man with the white beard and obediently followed Katamun.

Following the instructions to enter a room, the magician, who looked like a mentor, looked at the posture of the two of them lifting the calculation board, and said in a familiar tone that I don't know how many times: "Think you have no problem with mental arithmetic, and you don't need tools?"

Both nodded at the same time......

"Okay, let's test it out", the instructor handed them a note: "Calculate the result of multiplying these two ten-digit numbers, and start now." ”

The faces of the two of them were straight, and their eyes rolled at the same time.

The instructor was not surprised by the result: "Fifteen seconds and seventeen seconds...... Yes, you used to specialize in teleportation?"

There were dozens of people sitting in the room, all with their heads crackling and fiddling with the beads on the abacus.

The guru called one and said to them, "Give me two tens and let him do the math." ”

Katamon and Rezling each wrote a ten-digit figure on the paper and handed it to the fellow, who was supposed to be an apprentice, and then the guy looked at the note, his fingers like tentacles of an octopus, and the swift movement of the abacus made the beads fly up and down, containing a strange beauty.

As soon as the two of them had this feeling, their fingers stopped, and the result came out.

The instructor said, "Seven seconds." ”

The result was correct, and the two were dumbfounded.

Shocked by the magical function of the abacus, I felt that something was wrong.

Rezlin came to his senses first: "He seems to be a civilian, since civilians can use this calculation...... disk, do such a quick calculation, then what are you looking for a magician?"

"Commoners can't do more complex calculations with an abacus, so magicians are different," said the mentor, "Our Holy Highness has created the abacus, and the magic net has approved it." ”

"As long as you are familiar with the abacus and can use a virtual abacus to calculate in your mind without the help of a physical object, it is possible to master this spell. Once this spell is mastered, casting spells can be calculated automatically. ”

The two of them first took a cool breath, and then looked at each other excitedly, this is really a powerful spell!

The instructor continued: "After learning this method, you must serve in our Institute of Planning and Research for at least three years. ”

The two nodded their heads repeatedly, and the price was small. Anyone who is good at spatial, prophetic, or even transformational spells knows that calculation plays a vital role in magic. The reason why those plastic magicians who can only throw fireballs can't cross the system is because their stupid brains are not good at calculation.

Just for teleportation spells, if you don't count the anchor position correctly, teleportation is extremely dangerous. The more computing power there is, the more precise the delivery range and the less risk.

Now there is an abacus to do calculations, you only need to understand the principle, do a certain amount of training, you can make extremely complex calculations, such a spell, it is simply a super magic skill!

Three years is worth it!

The instructor said, "But you have to learn how to use the abacus first, and then you will learn to sign this agreement today." ”

Learn to learn!

It's a pity that there is no calculation, and the mentor sent an apprentice to take them to the warehouse to get it.

"Abacus is not the most powerful", the apprentice on the road bragged to them: "Our Institute of Planning and Research is still studying the ethereal spirit calculation, I heard the instructor say that it is developed from the simplest and most core light and dark dual code system in the magic language, and the speed can be ten million times faster than the abacus!"

Katamon and Rezling laughed out loud, the abacus is terrifyingly fast, can it be ten million times faster?

"Don't laugh, our director, Her Royal Highness Vicky also said that it is not something that mortals can bear, so it must be carried by ethereal spirits. ”

The two of them only listened to it as a joke, but they were very interested in the apprentice's highness of the Holy Maiden.

Walking down the corridor to another stone building, a group of magicians who are supposed to be full-fledged researchers can be seen busy through the window.

Some of them shook their heads, some nodded their heads, and some drooped their heads, in different postures. But there is one characteristic of the people who can see it, that is, their eyes are straight and their mouths are full of words.

The apprentice said: "The institute has just sent a project, and we want everyone to try to calculate the results......

The two were curious, what subject?

"It is said that there will be a total of fifty teleportation fortresses around Beta City in the future, if one team is asked to deliver a boxed lunch to the guards of all fifty forts, and finally return to Beta City, how many routes will there be, and which route will have the least number of teleportations. ”

The apprentice's question made the two of them laugh, what's so difficult about this......

As soon as he started laughing, he saw a magician in the room scream, and he fell backwards, and two long lines of scarlet blood erupted from his nostrils.

"Damn it!

"Who's going to knock him unconscious!?"

"He's going to get a headshot——!"

There was chaos in the room, and I don't know who shot an ice arrow into the guy's head, which made the situation even more confusing.

The apprentice sighed: "Abacus is also very dangerous, if the calculation is too complicated, it will be like this if you don't stop in time. ”

Katamon and Rezlin looked at each other again, both swallowing their spit, and suddenly felt that their steps had become extremely heavy, and they even wanted to turn away.

Three-year ......

If there are such problems on a regular basis, will you be able to get through them?

In addition to being afraid, I am still very puzzled, is it really that difficult to send such a problem as a boxed lunch?