Chapter 26: Hidden Conditions
Every time he thinks back to this node, Liao Ji still sighs a little.
At that time, the in-game forces were in the second half of the rising period, whether it was the scale of the base or the construction of the army, there was still a lot of room for development from the bottleneck period.
Although as the goal of the game, Liao Ji has always wanted to conquer the world, and these other human bases, sooner or later, he will lead his troops to attack.
But the safest plan is definitely to recuperate first, and then break them one by one, and even after seeing the expansion of his own strength later, he doesn't need to come to the door, with the character of most base leaders who are greedy for life and afraid of death, they may be able to take the initiative to surrender to themselves.
In fact, in the later stage of the game, when he occupied half of the territory of the continent, the remaining base forces really didn't need him to fight anymore, and they rushed to join the territory of the Gray Empire one by one.
But at that time, the top combat power under his command was actually Jiuyou and Zero, and Sxiutia, as a wet nurse, was already a little weak in the era of the base and the army.
The combat effectiveness of the Gray Base is indeed very strong, coupled with his own command from the perspective of a "player", it can be said that he is invincible, but at that time, the total population of the Gray Base was only a hundred thousand, and the Gray Army was less than 50,000, of which several thousand were logistics troops.
In comparison, the five bases he has to face, the indigo dye base has a population of about 250,000, and the stone hammer is less, and it is also at the level of more than 100,000, but it can be seen from the name that it is a fortress built based on a rock basin, which is extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack.
As for the Aisen base, not to mention, it was a small regional overlord at that time, similar to the boss in the base, with a population of more than 500,000, of which the number of troops was as high as half, and the panel showed 200,000, although there must be a lot of water in it, but the difference in number was still clear at a glance.
The remaining two bases, although relatively weak, are also at the level of 100,000 people, and the five bases combined, the number of troops is probably ten times that of the gray army.
In this kind of situation of playing more with less, you still have to be the attacker, and you can imagine the difficulty of it, and it is destined to rely on countless "pullbacks" to have a probability of success.
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Yes, it's just a probability.
In the game "Falling", even if the player can save the retracement, it still does not mean that it can solve all problems, such as suffering from natural disasters, being attacked by the tide of turbidity, and it is useless to rewind a hundred times.
On the contrary, Liao Ji has seen too many defense-breaking players who have been angry at the game because of their confidence on the forum, only to find that their previous decisions were wrong, they collapsed completely, and they couldn't go back at all.
Regarding Rena's options, if you want to play a low-difficulty game, it's good to save an extra gear, but the problem is that you only have one gear.
Like the previous options of the succubus, the reason why Liao Ji dared to deliberately accidentally slide down his hand was because the "follow-up" of the options was predictably not long, and there was no need to use the archive function in the middle, which would not cause overwriting.
But this time is different.
To start a war against five bases, it will take at least a week to complete this battle, and it is inevitable to use the save function in the middle, and once you use the save yourself, it is equivalent to overwriting the previous save, which means that you have no chance to go back and choose again.
Finally, under the highest difficulty "Falling" that no one has ever cleared, there is such a start of "Tianhu", once it becomes a "dead gear", it is equivalent to giving up all the previous efforts, and you may brush the start again, and you can't meet the wife of the god of war in the early stage like "Sxiutia".
But...
How to say it...
First of all, it's not because Rena includes "Wanderer", "Fortune Teller", and later "Succubus Princess", etc., at the beginning, there were several more vertical paintings than others.
Liao Ji just felt that if he didn't even dare to play the game, would he be too much of a failure?
Later, it took more time than Liao Ji imagined for this battle, and it took more than half a month to completely win it, and in the middle, it went through countless times to find the optimal solution, and repeatedly read the archives.
The risks are high, and the rewards are naturally great.
After successfully annexing these five bases, he greatly accelerated the progress of the game, and the power of the Gray Base expanded several times at once, and he was really on the road to the Gray Empire.
Moreover, Liao Ji, who was a little hindsight, also discovered another point.
That is, it is precisely because he chose to speed up here that he produced the butterfly effect, so that he could establish an empire before the "World Tree" was corroded and withered by turbidity, and rely on the succubus clan to know the existence of the "elf species" and have the strength to save it.
Yes.
From Rena's diary, the biggest help that Succubus and Anno can learn the truth about the world is from the native World Tree.
While Fall is real-time, all maps are completely random, and each player's world is different, but some of the "foundational elements" that make up the world are all in common.
For example, humans, subhumans, succubi, machines and other races, such as turbidity, such as gathering places, shelters, bases and other upgrade routes.
And "landmarks" are also one of the "basic elements" that make up the world.
Similar are the enchanting forest of the succubus race, the land of bones of the undead race, the orc plain of the subhuman race, and the elven race is... World Tree.
Combined with the truth of the world in the diary, it is not difficult for Liao Ji to understand that each player's world has a "native" world tree, as the incarnation of that starry sky world tree, it feels like a proxy server.
However, if the player's "advancement speed" is not fast enough to contact the elves and save the World Tree before the Turbidity corrodes the "World Tree", then even if the Turbidity successfully defeats the Turbidity and completes the salvation, the native World Tree is still irretrievable, which is equivalent to a complete loss.
Whether the world tree exists or not, whether this "proxy server" is broken, for the game of "One Week", it has no impact, it belongs to the neutral building that the player cannot control, and does not have any special functions, and Liao Ji did not pay much attention to it at the beginning.
But now that I look back...
Liao Ji became clearer again, why among the players of "Falling", he was the only one who turned on the option of "Second Week".
Among them, it is not only because of the highest difficulty that he chose, but also because of Rena, a powerful and profound doomer like Anno.
An equally important reason is that because of Rena, he greatly "accelerated" the clearance process, thus keeping the World Tree.
and the subsequent successful contract with Anno, so that the World Tree was cared for by more powerful elves and was able to revive and grow.
In terms of the concept of gamification, the state of the local world tree is an absolutely indispensable part of the hidden conditions for opening the "second week".
If you think about it this way, my impulse is really huge.
Of course.
At that time, I didn't know so much about the future, and I was very excited and felt that I had gained a lot as an off-screen player.
It's not just because of the victory and the expansion of power, but don't forget, in the fourth option at that time, in addition to declaring war on the five bases, there was another sentence at the end.
Kill the Succubus Forest, capture the Succubus Queen, and save the imprisoned Rena.
Players are actually weird.
When you play butter, you always want to find the plot in it, but when you play serious games, you always want to find the susher.
Liao Ji can only say that at the beginning, he stared at the bloodshot eyes that stayed up all night, and studied for half a month to overturn the five major bases, and the allure of this final reward link was indispensable.
That's all for Rena.
Isn't the Succubus Queen...