Chapter 21 The Secret of the Ghost Army
The black steel hammer had already begun to burn due to the high-speed friction with the air. It dragged the long red tail flame, and the self-weight matching speed of the hammer of 100,000 tons produced nearly ten million tons of impact. All things that dared to stop it from returning to the earth were easily destroyed under this irresistible force.
Just like a trailer driving into the crowd with the largest accelerator, the steel pillars and the surging ghost army came into contact with each other without any pause, and smashed the large number of ghost army out into the ground. From us, we can see that the steel hit the hammer and then disappeared into the ground. Then a shock wave centered on the impact point immediately spread out in all directions. Although we were ready to resist the impact, our people were still overturned by the shock. All the buildings in the city that survived the attack just now could not escape this catastrophe. Wherever the shock wave passed, the walls fell and the house collapsed, and there was nothing to be spared.
As the rolling earth waves rushed out of the city and spread out, our formation was swept by shock waves one after another. The giant mosquito outpost shook and almost lifted me off the top. The middle city where Matsumoto Masaki was located was not spared, and the shock wave rushed all the way to the edge of the city wall. Although the distance was too far and the shock wave was no longer as powerful as it was at the beginning, the city wall still shook violently, and many soldiers standing by the city wall fell down. Masaki Masaki also shook a little and almost fell down.
After the shock wave ended, the loudspeaker on the Spider Fortress immediately rang out loud: "Get up quickly, rush."
The soldiers got up crazily and rushed towards the impact point. The Spider Fortress and the Military Ant Fortress quickly stuck on it, but they did not see any enemy except the wounded soldiers. The hammer created a huge impact crater with a radius of 100 meters and a depth of four or five hundred meters near the impact point. There was a large hole in the center of the pit, which stretched down like a well. This large pit was caused by the air pressure around the hammer, and the well in the middle was caused by the hammer itself. The high-speed rotating hammer drove the ghost army manufacturing machine deep underground like a pile driver.
Originally, everyone was looking down around the ground, but suddenly the ground began to vibrate. The Spider Fortress stood directly on the top of the big well with its long legs and looked down. As a result, they only saw a red thing under the dark deep well. We also saw this scene at the giant mosquito outpost here. A player was still asking stupidly: "What is this?"
Su Mei suddenly jumped up and shouted at the crystal communication machine: "Flash! It's magma!"
The spider fortress's loudspeaker sounded a warning that had changed tone, and all the soldiers scattered and ran towards the direction of the formation. As soon as everyone arrived outside the city, there was a bang in the big hole in the middle of the city, and a fountain-like red lava flew up more than 300 meters high, almost knocking down the giant butterfly city that was descending.
Ying looked at Rong in surprise and shouted: "Damn? Why did you hit the magma layer? The crust is not so thin, right?"
I explained naturally: "South Korea also rubs against the Pacific Rim volcanic earthquake zone. There are several volcanoes here, and it is normal to have a shallow lava river. That guy hit at least one kilometer deep, so he must have drilled into the lava layer."
"Why did it erupt now?" Ying still didn't understand.
"Because the hammer hit the exit blocked," Sumei explained: "The hammer hit was melted during that time. So it only started to erupt now. Judging from the situation, the volcano still erupted, we are completely saving trouble now."
The method of the heavy hammer attack was too powerful. Although the manufacturing machine was successfully destroyed, the heavy hammer even destroyed the city indirectly. The rolling lava erupted for half an hour before it ended. A large amount of lava gradually cooled down. The city no longer existed at all. A piece of semi-condensed volcanic rock with a pungent sulfur smell replaced the city's location. Matsumoto Masaga and Tanaka Masata looked at the big volcano speechlessly, and we were almost the same. We didn't expect such a result.
"I'll make a fuss, we're losing money this time!" Rose looked at me and said.
"Loss?"
"The material and transportation fee for that hammering ground are not cheap. It seems that there is no possibility of recycling. Alas! One hundred thousand tons of raw steel! What a pity!"
"If it's gone, it's gone. Anyway, we have a lot of steel. It costs almost so much money to transport it back, and recycling may not necessarily save it."
"But there is still there!" Rose pointed to the lower side.
I slapped my forehead: "Oh my God! Why did you forget them!"
The city where the Korean Guild was responsible for attacking must have achieved no results. The Japanese Ghost Army and the troops of the Korean Guild launched a tug-of-war on the city wall. You snatch it and I snatch it over, which is completely consuming personnel. According to the manufacturing speed of the Japanese Ghost Army, the only result of this war of attrition is that the Korean players are completely collapsed.
Ying asked the operator to turn the display lens to the battlefield over there. Looking at the fierce battle on the screen, we felt so distressed. Hongyue couldn't help but ask: "How many are there left of the 3 billion crystal coins that the Koreans bought this time?"
Rose looked roughly at the battlefield and said, "No more than one-third. They do not have our war fortress to suppress the enemy's firepower. And they are unwilling to destroy the city walls. This kind of strangulation battle is the most intensive! Why are there so many damn Japanese ghost army?"
"When it comes to the ghost army, do we need to figure out what the Japanese are doing?" Ying took the message from Ling Yuanbuki and said: "According to the analysis, this machine also needs to consume certain things to create the ghost army, which means that this is not a free manufacturing. Why did the Japanese build such a large army? Do they use their own money to fight for our money? It doesn't look like it!"
I thought about it for a while and suddenly I had a solution. "You guys wait a moment, I'll ask an acquaintance to help me check it out." He pulled Rose: "Get off the line with me."
Ying asked curiously: "Why are you asking for an acquaintance? How do you check this?"
"You will know when we come back. Don't worry, it will be almost done in one hour. Let the team gather to count the damage first."
He quickly got off the line and took off his helmet. I pulled Rose directly to the main management room. Rose asked me curiously: "What the hell are you doing?"
"Check the account." I pressed my hand on the identity recognition terminal as I said.
The electronic sound quickly rang: "The highest access permission is approved. What do you need to do for you?"
"Inquiry into Longyuan's capital flow in the last 10 hours shows the remittance of funds in all Asian regions."
The data on the big screen was displayed in a mess, and because the speed was too fast, there was no time to read it. I immediately narrowed the scope again and said: "Check the capital flow in the online game "Zero" and search and import it."
"Searched to 374.4 billion operation records. Will all of them be displayed?"
“Search the section from the Bank of Japan.”
"There are 1.2 billion records left." Electronic voice quickly answered my question.
"It's still too much!" I shook my head and worried.
Rose already understood what I meant, she walked to the screen and said in place of me: "Retrieve, according to the trading party's identification, and filter the five trading units with the most frequent transaction records."
"Warning. Unauthorized voiceprint capture. Please verify when using the service." The resource computer is not as intelligent as the central host, and its services are relatively rigid.
I pulled Rose's hand over and pressed it on the recognition screen and pressed one of my hands on it: "High-end authorization."
“Welcome to high-end resource computer systems by.
I compared Rose to Rose. Rose immediately repeated the words just now. The computer immediately replied: "The highest frequency trading account retrieved 700 million records. 99.99% of the operation records came from the same trading item."
“What is the name of this project?”
"Ghost Army soldiers create fees."
Rose and I laughed face to face. I'm afraid no one can do this with a high-level cheating like me, and we found it.
Rose looked at the screen again: "Select some entries randomly and display them on the screen, just fill the screen, don't scroll the screen."
Hundreds of records immediately appeared on the screen, and rows were quite clear. Rose pulled me and pointed at the screen and said, "Look at this. The transaction records of the ghost army are in formations. The ghost army is not produced by numbers, but in formations, but in formations of production sites. No wonder the speed is so fast."
"The unit price of a formation is only 1 crystal coin. No wonder Japan is so willing to use soldiers to pile them up with us. It turns out that they are all such cheap troops."
Rose also frowned and said, "Based on this calculation, we will lose money when we use artillery shells to attack them. The soldiers killed by a shell are not as expensive as shells, and it is really a big loss."
I clicked one of them and said, "Show this one separately. Please record it in the most detailed way."
The screen suddenly displays this screen and the relevant information is written to fill the screen.
Rose pointed at the data on the screen in surprise: "Look, a formation base is twenty, and a soldier is worth five silver coins!"
I said again: "Change the operation. Show the transaction time of ten consecutive operations."
The picture changed again, and the ten records that came out were continuous, and they were all this purchase record.
Rose counted downwards along the time: "The first one is 20:7:15, 336, the next one is 337, and the next one is 338, each transaction is only 0.001 seconds apart, which means that this manufacturing machine can create 20,000 ghost soldiers per second. No wonder it emerges like a fountain. That machine can produce more than one million troops in one minute. It would be strange if it can be fought in!"
"Wait, wait, look here." I pointed to the record below: "The transaction numbers of these two are different. This is not a machine. The Japanese have two ghost army manufacturing machines, so the time is separated. It should be that ten thousand ghost army can be made per second instead of twenty thousand."
"Ten thousand is too much. Really, how could such a perverted thing come out? What should we do later? Koreans will definitely not be able to deal with that city. If we have to send troops, the losses will be too great. If we create another heavy hammer, will the price be too expensive?"
I looked at the screen and said, "The Japanese can get such a powerful thing. We can't let it exist. We must deal with it. Fortunately, the Japanese only use it to defend this time. If they release the soldiers out to run around the mountains, our army can't stop them."
Rose suddenly looked at me and said, "No! Since the Japanese have such powerful army-making aircraft, they have no reason not to send troops out to sweep them? These ghost troops have very weak combat power. Instead of fighting with us, wouldn't it be more advantageous to let them fight sports wars? There must be a reason for the Japanese to do this, unless..."
"They can't get out at all." Rose and I said it at the same time.
Rose said with certainty: "The things in the game should be balanced. Since there is such a powerful machine, it must be disadvantages. The soldiers who make this machine must not be able to get too far away from the machine, otherwise there will be other restrictions."
I nodded: "Have you noticed that our team did not enter the city. There are not many ghost troops. In theory, the Japanese have discovered us a long time ago when fighting in large corps. But why didn't they create some ghost troops defense in advance and had to wait until we attacked before starting to create?"
"I think it's not that they don't want to build it, but that they can't build it." Rose inferred: "This machine may only be activated if the city is attacked. It may be similar to the point war array of our guild, and it must be allowed to start in critical moments."
Suddenly I thought of another question. "Do you remember Park Eun's first counterattack?"
"Is this your first fight back?"
"According to Park Yin, there was no ghost army participating in the battle field when they first launched an attack. That is to say, the ghost army could not be created in advance. They attacked the city in the backstage and encountered the ghost army, and more and more. This shows that the ghost army has a direct relationship with the enemy's attack. Think about it, the situation when we entered the city later? When we first entered the city, the refreshing speed was not fast at all, and we were forced to the near-the refreshing point bit by bit? But what happened? Later, the speed was completely out of control, and soldiers came out like a blowout, which was simply abnormal."
Rose said: "We'd better go back and discuss. Su Mei may be able to analyze and nod. This girl is very smart."
"Okay." I turned around and closed the terminal and went back to go online again.
Rose and I appeared inside the giant mosquito outpost and told everyone about our information and analysis results. Everyone immediately agreed with our point of view. I waited for Sumei to finish listening to it before asking her: "Can you analyze what?"
Su Mei thought for a while and said, "First of all, this machine is definitely changing with the changes of the attacker. The more we attack, the faster it works. If I guess well, it may be working with the will to fight. The more courageous we are, the stronger it is. In addition, we can summarize a result from what you said."
“What’s the result?”
"The number of people in this machine is capped."
"Upper limit? Do the soldiers who are produced still need energy support?"
Sumei shook her head: "I don't know why. Anyway, there are restrictions on producing soldiers in this thing. Although its manufacturing speed will change due to our fighting will, it cannot exceed the upper limit of the number. When the number of soldiers reaches a balance point, every time a soldier dies, the machine can create another soldier. If there is no death of the ghost army, it will not be able to continue producing soldiers."
Rose immediately said: "That is to say, if we have a way to block all the ghost troops outside the machine and not kill these ghost troops, we can go in and destroy the machine in a big way, right?"
"It's theoretically. But in fact it's almost impossible. It's very easy to block the enemy outside and prevent them from getting close to the machine, but it's another matter to not cause harm to them in this process. Once you kill a ghost soldier, the internal machine will create another soldier, and the encirclement plan will be in vain." Su Mei looked at us and continued: "In addition, the inference that your analysis of the enemy cannot leave the city is also wrong. There have been several times in South Korea that the ghost army launched counterattacks and killed the land, so they can leave the city. The reason why they don't use the strategy of attacking all over the mountains and fields that you mentioned is because the machine has a support limit. The number of soldiers that appear at the same time is limited to death. If the number of ghost soldiers without combat power is not advantageous, they will die when they go out. On the contrary, they can defend the city and fight the time difference, and they just get a local advantage."
"It's indeed our Zhiduoxing, and all this has been analyzed."
Su Mei shook her head and said, "It's a pity that it's useless to analyze it. If you can't block the enemy outside the machine, you can't destroy the machine. However, if you block these people, you will inevitably suffer casualties. Once there are casualties, it means you don't block them."
Everyone fell into deep thought when they heard this, and only I laughed. Everyone was confused by me. Rose looked at me and said, "Why are you laughing?"
"I laugh because I have a way."
"Tell me quickly." Eagle couldn't wait to listen to the solution.
"It's actually very simple. Isn't the Ghost Army very weak in combat?"
"Of course we know this." Hongyue said impatiently: "They died in one night and only killed tens of thousands of our heavenly soldiers. They were not of the same level at all."
"Then you understand very well." I explained: "Let the heavenly soldiers bring ropes, and when they find the enemy, they put them on and tie them back."
"You mean to capture prisoners?"
"Yes. The prisoners captured alive are still members of the Ghost Army and still have to occupy the population limit of that machine. As long as we capture it slowly like this, we can always catch all the population limits. At that time, there is no soldier to brush the machine out, and we can smash it whatever we want."
"Yes! Why didn't you think of such a simple method long ago?" Ying complained.
Su Mei smiled and said, "Without the information brought back by Brother Zi Ri, we can't analyze the principles of the machine at all, so we naturally can't think of a solution. This machine seems to be very garbage. This kind of ghost army has a very bad combat power and is easy to capture prisoners. It won't take long to get caught. The machine will be scrap iron at that time. But we have been making mistakes in tactics, so it's so troublesome. The things in the game are basically balanced, and there won't be such abnormal things. Just like our war fortress, it looks amazing in combat power, but the cost is even more amazing, and it can't be mass-produced."
Ying said, "We will do the rest of the city."
"Don't worry, at least you have to wait until the Koreans get enough." I smiled and pointed at the command center of the Koreans: "Don't forget that we have a bet to not let them understand. They will not appreciate our assistance this time."
After determining the combat strategy, we started to wait for the Koreans to finish the battle. We didn't want to touch him in the city in the middle where Matsumoto Masaga was in the city. Our troops also need to rest. The Koreans are so strong that they fought from the first dusk to the next day. Our army was standing next to them, but they refused to give in. We had already agreed that as long as they didn't ask for help, we wouldn't reach out. The Koreans fought back and forth on the city walls for dozens of in and out, and were beaten back every time, but they just didn't ask for help.
We simply let the team rest on the spot, and the NPC army was also tired. In the past, it didn't matter if it was undead, but the heavenly soldiers were living creatures. Not sleeping for a long time would affect their combat effectiveness. We rested until after ten o'clock in the morning, and the Korean troops finally lacked their success. One after another, players were forced to kick out of the game to the top of their fatigue. The NPC army was almost tossed by them. We couldn't buy many heavenly soldiers when the price of the more than 3 billion crystal coins was raised. After a few tenth of them, we had tossed this night.
When lunch time was almost time, the Korean troops finally retreated one after another. The presidents who were very awesome at the beginning all gathered quietly to have a meeting. Meigui and I stood outside their military camp and watched them. If you have the ability, you can continue fighting. In the end, we still want to ask me for help.
Maybe I was embarrassed. The presidents forced Mushroom for more than an hour before finally turning back and walked towards my camp. Rose smiled and turned back, "Call the troops to get up and eat something, it's our turn to perform."
Chapter completed!