eternal glory

It took three days to complete the drawing of the teleportation array with a diameter of five meters. Most of the savings of the princes of Duolu City were spent in it, but the return on investment was unknown. It must be said that it was an unprecedented daring gamble.

The teleportation array will not work until the tenth level version opens. Mu Ning, who originally planned to bring the water-hoofed deer directly to the tree, changed his mind. It is more cost-effective to fly a banyan with dozens of tons of water.

Duolu City covers a very large area. It takes at least an hour and a half to walk from the east of the city to the west of the city. There are about a dozen hotels in the city alone. The hotel where Mu Ning and the others stayed is close to Duolu City Square. In the afternoon, there is a lot of people. extraordinary.

Hongyun and Luhua competed with other people in the training ground in the provincial capital, and they performed very well. Many people thought they were free NPCs, or even players.

The fighting skills of the old lady Hongyun have gradually become mellow after a long time of honing. The instant molten fireball move can be played freely, and the opponent can hardly find a suitable solution; Both the big sword and the long-distance throwing spear can achieve very good results. After a few battles, he has accumulated a lot of popularity.

Where there are players, there are rivers and lakes, and the gambling habit of players has also been brought over. In the past, there were few people who could not gamble, but now there are many people, and the smoky gambling is also popular outside the training ground. "Squatting on the side of the road and yelling, trying to attract players and NPCs to participate.

The so-called gambling house is actually a small group of one or several players. You can bet with them on who will win, or you can fight with your own money like a black market boxer. If you win, you will take the opponent's money, and if you lose, you will lose your money If there is no return, the casino will take a part of it and hide it in his own pocket.

Players have a weak concept of contracts, and they don’t even know that there is such a thing as swearing to the Great Gyre. They mainly believe in the reputation of the gambling house. Under such a lack of constraints, the gambling house disappears with money almost every day. , However, players have been cheated many times but still enjoy it.

It’s not that I’m unprepared, it’s just that “every day, Dangdang is different”, some people want to get rich and want to take risks, do you have a fart solution?

This kind of gambling seems harmless, but it is extremely destructive to the atmosphere of the training ground itself. In many cases, the chaos of the city spreads from the training ground and the square where many players set up stalls.

"You also took a look at the central area of ​​Duolu City. How do you feel?" Mu Ning asked Aishwarya leaning on the small cabinet of the Duolu City Hotel.

"In just one day, the atmosphere in the city has changed a lot. I saw four or five frictions between players. There are also many frictions between local NPCs and players. People on both sides are not very disciplined, and they are playing side-by-side. "Aishwarya told the truth, because she was really disappointed with the attitude and quality of most Whistler players in the game. This is not the lower limit of players from a certain country in reality, but the shame of people from all over the world in the game together. Now, how can people not have mixed feelings?

Mu Ning raised his eyebrows: "I want to keep you in Duolu City to maintain the order of Duolu, what do you think?"

"Me?" Aishwarya didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Doru City has its own city defense and patrol team, why do you need me to maintain order?"

"It's not the same." Mu Ning tapped the wooden cabinet rhythmically with his fingers: "The city defense and patrols have blind spots, and I let you stay to make up for these dead spots."

According to the principle of "the people don't sue the officials, don't investigate", as long as the player does not sue another player to the arbitration institution, the arbitration institution to which the NPC belongs will not and has no right to intervene in the dispute between the players, that is to say, two players stand in the square Eighteen knives were slashed at each other. As long as the two sides have no objections, the city defense army can only watch, and has no right to force them blindly, let alone actively interfere.

Players don't want to bring NPCs to play, which has formed the unspoken rule of "hacking to death without complaint" and no NPCs are allowed to sue. Once anyone is bullied, please ask the NPC to find a place to go back. No matter whether it is right or wrong, it will be scolded by others. As time goes by, no matter how chaotic the small town is, the NPC patrols can only see that they can't intervene.

After tens of thousands of players flooded into the provincial capitals, this trend was soon brought in. It turned out that there were players fighting in the streets in the provincial capitals, but after all, there were few players in the beginning, and it was difficult to meet in such a large provincial capital. Now it is not necessarily the case. Get together The grouped player organizations are small triads with their own rules, they can solve problems by themselves, and NPCs can't get involved at all.

"Maintaining the city defense... just to protect our flowing lake water veins?" Aishwarya didn't understand: "Actually, even if we tear down the flowing lake water veins now, Duolu City won't mind too much. Why do we need to spend so much effort? So A big city needs to waste a lot of our manpower, and besides, we don't have the stomach to swallow the entire Duolu City..."

"You just want something deeper?" Mu Ning poked his head with his hand. Aishwarya is most likely to be unable to turn at a critical moment.

"What's the meaning?" Aishwarya thought for a while but still couldn't figure it out.

"Small villages and small towns are easy to take care of. Now Jurong Town has a few thousand people. It seems that it is not difficult to sort out, but if one day it is upgraded to a city level, the number of people is tens of thousands, or even more?" Mu Ning asked Aishwarya.

"..." Aishwarya fell into deep thought.

"Under normal circumstances, the experience of managing large-scale forces cannot be obtained from other places. All player forces have to cross the river by feeling the stones and groping for themselves slowly...but now you can participate in the management of a city with millions of residents. "Mu Ning simply explained clearly, I want you to learn scriptures in big cities in advance.

Aishwarya suddenly realized!

"The sausage city lord has agreed with you to bring sixty winged men to temporarily hang in the name of the patrol team in the form of 'militia'. Although there are no privileges, there are 'city order' and 'flowing lake water vein security' as the axis. Law enforcement power." Seeing that Aishwarya seemed to understand, Mu Ning added: "You can manage all the places where the city defense is difficult to manage, as long as you spend a little time on the city order and the safety of the lake water veins."

Aishwarya was silent again, she figured it out, the mayor was using the venue of Duolu City to train soldiers. As for whether the trained soldiers will go back to manage Jurong Town or have other uses, she doesn't know. .

Affinity has not been opened, and Aishwarya and her winged men have not been able to really join the city defense force. Obviously, the terrain of Biya Airport will need the support of winged men when it is constructed. The mayor still decided to send [-] winged men. The Winged Man and himself are stationed in Duolu. After the teleportation array is opened, it is unknown whether the number of Winged Man patrols will be expanded. If it expands, the mayor's plan will be really hard to imagine.

Aishwarya couldn't see clearly Mu Ning's ultimate goal, but she knew that it was definitely not as simple as just training soldiers and going back to serve in Jurong Town. There must be other considerations in training winged men.

"How do you want me to arrange them?" Aishwarya asked Mu Ning.

"Work in two shifts, patrol one day and go out of the city to practice leveling. After the tenth level version is opened, you and the winged men of the patrol team should both reach level ten," Mu Ning continued: "As for the players and NPCs in the city, they will be severely punished. , You can catch or not catch, you can kill or not kill, as long as there is no objection from Duolu City, you will demand every player and NPC who enters Duolu City according to the norms of moral models."

Aishwarya nodded, she understood what the mayor meant.

What the mayor wants is very simple. Soldiers training and learning experience are only one aspect. The other aspect is to use her means to make Duolu City a "special case". Unaffected, when the time comes, other provinces and the princes above will naturally stand against Duolu invisibly. The Lord of Sausage and his subordinates should stop thinking about being fools, and obediently stand in the team of Jurong Town.

In fact, the transfer of part of the power of city defense and patrol is not only a supplement for Duolu City to the areas beyond its control, but also a voluntary "supervision" of them by Jurong Town. Big moves in the city will not escape the eyes of the winged people. The city defense army was the first to be mobilized in the big operation. The initiative was in the hands of Duolu City from beginning to end, but they gave Jurong Town a certain amount of executive power and right to know. This arrangement is conducive to the cooperation between Duolu City and Jurong Town close co-opperation.

Duolu City used the teleportation array and the oath to restrain Jurong Town to fulfill its promise, and Jurong Town in turn alienated Duolu City from the Principality, and both parties knew the price to be paid.

It's not that Duolu City never mentioned the idea of ​​arranging people to Jurong Town, but Mu Ning flatly refused. He made it very clear: "If you are willing to take the lead in the rebellion instead of us, you can send as many people as you like."

The city lord of Sausage Mouth thought and thought but could only give up this tempting idea.

After Aishwarya agreed to stay in Dulu City, she led a team of "temporary workers" to take office quickly. That afternoon, the winged people flapped their wings in groups and took off into the air. The assigned "tasks" were also strictly carried out. stand up.

This patrol detachment, which doesn't even have a name, has only two tasks. One is to protect the Liuhu crystals on the buildings of Quanduolu City from being coveted and touched by any players and NPCs. The problem.

The announcement in the name of the city lord quickly caused an uproar in the huge city. The players were the first to resist fiercely, because the NPCs "govern too much"!

"Why do NPCs need to intervene in the grievances between players?" The players were indignant!

The requirements of Duolu City's new announcement are very simple. Duolu City's Liuhu water vein network is privately owned. No one is allowed to approach or touch the Liuhu crystals inlaid on the buildings in any form. Violators will be killed unconditionally.

The second is to 'initiate' Duolu City players and NPCs to strive to be 'moral models'. Disputes can be handed over to an arbitration agency, or they can be resolved privately outside the city limits. Any 'uncivilized' behavior in Duolu City may be punished. be warned and punished.

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What is "uncivilized"?

It doesn't matter what the players say, but what the city defense army's "new detachment" says.

The Sausage City Lord did not give his subordinates the same power as the people in Jurong Town, because he knows his NPCs too well, and they have as many bad problems as players. If they are given too much power, they will be more corrupt than players. Still tough.He was also watching, if the winged people in Jurong Town used their power to run amok in the city, then he would be merciless in punishment, and Jurong Town would not have the face to plead with him.

Players never expected that they would be stabbed into skewers by spears falling from the sky when they met their enemies on the street and slashed at each other, let alone that they would be warned for setting up a gambling game outside the entrance of the training center, and just said a few words If something is not clean, a few female NPCs with wings will kill without saying a word, regardless of the enthusiastic players.

The patrol team in Duolu City has nothing to do all day long, so it can be regarded as an elation!They are waiting anxiously for someone to attack the new temporary workers, because temporary workers are also part of the city defense. Once someone uses force against the temporary workers, it will rise to the level of a 'vicious incident'. Everyone's swords will rust I can finally pull it out and use it.

Among the [-] winged men, [-] were eagle-winged men, [-] were butterfly-winged men and [-] were flying-winged men. A group of five patrolled the sky and killed nearly [-] players and [-] to [-] NPCs in just one noon. For a moment, the players were panicking, and in Duolu they didn't dare to breathe loudly, for fear that the lunatics flying in the sky would kill them.

They didn't dare to speak in the game, and there was a lot of scolding in the forum. Some people found that the new winged people came down from the big tree next to the city, and they scolded Jurong Town for being shameless, colluding with Duolu City to persecute innocent players!

Liu Zhe almost died from laughing. Although the patrol soldiers in Jurong Town are only level five, they are equipped with the most luxurious equipment. Whether it is the eagle-winged spearman, the butterfly-winged archer, the butterfly-winged mage and the healer, they all have Excellent cooperation, appearance and appearance are several blocks away from the regular patrol team of Duolu City. It has strong mobility and wide control, and it is much more active than the city defense army.

With this team hovering over Duolu City, coupled with the lack of confidence of the players who are newcomers, it is easy to be suppressed into little sheep.

Aishwarya is also very strict about the management of her air patrol team. All incidents must be recorded, and must comply with the regulations or be carried out with her consent. He did not hesitate to expel the team members and sent them back to Jurong Town.

Mu Ning was thinking about something alone, Liu Zhe opened the door and came in with a happy face: "Ning Ning! The Gem Fairy's mineral explorer ceremony is about to be completed!" After speaking, he opened the diary and showed Mu Ning the photos he just received. Inside is a polygonal gemstone altar, and goblins carrying rings of gemstones of various colors are floating in their respective positions, and a vague shadow in the center is becoming clearer and clearer.

"Obsidian said that in three hours our jewel fairy's ore source explorers will be selected. At that time, the ore source explorers can find out the location of ore sources in a mine every day, and they can dig out as long as they send miners there!" Liu Zhe couldn't help being excited Well, these little guys are the lifeblood of Jurong Town, and the deal with Duolu City depends entirely on their performance!

To be honest, Mu Ning only knows about mineral sources, but he doesn't know what it looks like, what effects and functions it has. Liu Zhe has only a half-knowledge now, and can only wait for the results of the gem fairies.

The night is getting darker and the moon is bright, and the sound of running water in the sky of Duolu City is very clear in the silent night. In the video, a little goblin boy with a dark gem ring on his back floats on the table to the mayor for popular science: "Mine sources are a special form of gemstones. , it has the powerful power to catalyze the crystallization of surrounding materials and transform them into ores and gems, which can instantly cause huge damage to flesh and blood." The little boy pointed to the purple light stone puppet not far away: "Then the stone puppet will be responsible To mine the mine source, we gem goblins are in charge of escorting, and the lives of other races must stay as far away from the mine source as possible to avoid being affected."

The goblin said that the ore source is extremely lethal. In theory, only the stone puppets can recover slowly after being irradiated, and the subsequent excavation work mainly depends on them.

Mu Ning never thought that the mine source would be such a fierce and dangerous thing: "I want to arrange a mine outside Duolu City first, when will you be ready?"

The little boy with the black gemstone ring floating behind his head bowed his head after thinking for a while and replied: "Tomorrow we can start. First, we need to choose the mine to get the ore source, and we have to dig a deep hole outside the city in advance. Although we can use special methods to restrict the mine veins." spread, but getting too close to the ground could damage surface structures."

This thing sounds really scary.

"You and the stone puppets are preparing in the town. I will find a mine to get the ore source and set off early tomorrow morning." Mu Ning said.

After jumping up and down in the game for so long, Mu Ning almost forgot that he was still a student. If he hadn't seen Liu Zhe climb out of the game room to dig through his summer homework, Mu Ning would have completely forgotten about it.

"Zhezi... because I haven't studied for 15 years..." Mu Ning's eyes wandered.

"What do you want in exchange for me?" Liu Zhe raised his eyebrows and smiled wickedly.

"..." Mu Ning rolled his eyes. The teacher doesn't know how to check summer homework. Just write something random to block the blanks. Why should I care so much?

"Kiss me and I'll copy it for you." Liu Zhe had a businesslike face, clearly marked the price, and he was innocent.

"..."

"Copied or not? I wrote it with great difficulty. You have to respect intellectual property right?"

"Just a kiss?" Mu Ning felt that it would be a good deal to just kiss.

Five minutes later... Mu Ning was blushing and scolding his mother while copying homework, what a fucking loss!After a few minutes of gnawing, I only copied one mathematics course, what about the remaining ones?

"...Copy the chemistry for me later." Mu Ning's voice was muffled.

"The price has risen, you have to kiss twice, chemistry is difficult." Liu Zhe licked his lips beaming.

"Fuck!" Mu Ning quit, this bastard sits on the ground and raises his price, and he doesn't know how to wait for physics and biology.

Mu Ning thought over and over again. He felt that even if he could copy his homework with two kisses, he would still be earning a steady profit. He also wondered if this would make him appear too proactive and eager, which would show Zhezi some clues...cough!Let's see it again.

Liu Zhe was full of anticipation for the whole afternoon and afternoon, and he was absent-minded even when he went to water the flowers in the yard, but this bastard Ningning refused to take the bait, and he was also very sad, otherwise the price would be reduced to one and a half?

With the start of school approaching, the students contacted each other more frequently than before. Liu Zhe was in a good mood today and was very active in chatting with the group of nine. Mu Ning was also in a good mood. He specially asked Brother Bin and the Mosquito Siren Clan about the latest news.Mosquito said that their Siren tribe has become more and more lively recently, and some player organizations even tried to parade, but they failed.

"Are you connected with the orcs?" Mu Ning asked.

"Well, the orcs are also engaged in sports, but there are not as many people as our sea monsters, what's the matter?" Mosquito is very surprised that this kind of news is only circulated in a small area of ​​their sea monsters. knew.

"It's nothing, I saw it on the forum, just curious." Mu Ning laughed, but he knew that a storm was brewing, and the first catastrophe that shocked the game world was not far away.

After logging into the game in the afternoon, the sun in Duolu City had not yet risen. After Mu Ning sent a message to the gem goblin, the small logo on the video screen jumped out of the log, and Mu Ning chose to connect.

Opposite the video is still the black-haired little boy with the obsidian ring from yesterday: "The mayor, the mine source explorer and the rock puppet miner are all in place and ready to go!"

"Okay," Mu Ning and Liu Zhe walked out of the room, "Meet under the tree, we'll be there soon."

When Mu Ning and Liu Zhe arrived under the dragon blood giant banyan tree, the white belly of the sky was revealed. All the gem goblins gathered together and floated among the tall rock puppets, and in the center of the gem goblin team floated a very special little puppet. figure.

The little girl who was not much taller than a palm had a round bead in the emerald green gem ring floating behind her. The little girl kept her eyes closed from the beginning to the end, and she only nodded slightly when Mu Ning and Liu Zhe came.

"The eyes of the mineral source explorer cannot be opened at will. Her eyes contain magic power, which will hurt flesh and blood." The little boy Obsidian explained to Mu Ning.

Not all gem goblins will go to the mine. There are four gem goblins accompanying the mine source explorers. They will transport the ore source later, because the ore source cannot be put into the pocket, and only the gem goblins can pick up the ore source and avoid harm.

Mu Ning didn't plan to re-dig the mine in Duolu City to place ore sources, because the two Liuhu spar mines outside Duolu City have already belonged to Jurong Town. The ore source in the lake spar mine will be replaced, the source of the flow lake spar will be taken away by the dragon blood giant banyan, and the original flow lake spar mine will start to produce new minerals.

Jurong Town itself has already made preparations for evacuation, and all creatures are not allowed to approach the ore source within 1000 meters. Otherwise, according to the estimation of the gem fairy gate, the flesh and blood of the light ones will be necrotic and the skin will form ores, and the severe ones will directly turn into crystallized ores after long-term exposure statue.

Once the mineral source leaves the ground and is not covered by rocks and soil, it will emit a powerful destructive "radiation". This terrifying force has a great impact on rock puppets, and only gem goblins can overcome it.

More than 40 rock puppet miners and five small gem goblins, led by Mu Ning, boarded a carriage and went to the nearest village in Lidolu City. Surrounding players who are willing to be with the same faction as themselves have started a large-scale purge.

"What?" Liu Zhe frowned: "Amber City has already reached your Pale Wind's residence?" Isn't Amber City expanding too fast?

"Amber City has recently been upgraded to a town level, and the speed of absorbing players is very fast," the female wind magician in the video said helplessly: "I'm afraid we can't last long. I heard that you have gone to Duolu City. Can you take us in?" In extraordinary times, I don't care about face anymore. Now Amber City is full of arrogance, and everyone is no match at all.

"Can you hold on for another three days?" Mu Ning poked his head and asked the female player of Pale Wind in the video: "As long as it survives three days, we will clean up Amber City."

"...Are you serious?" Although the female player on the opposite side was delighted, she didn't quite believe it.

"We will do what we say, just let your people persist for another three days."

To be honest, people from Pale Wind Bailai now would be a big problem if they persisted for two days or even one day, let alone three days. But now that they see hope, they have to fight hard to be reconciled. A small resident is built with a tile, and some of it is everyone's sweat and hard work, and I really don't want to give up easily.

It doesn't matter if you are desperate, or if you are in a hurry to go to the doctor, the wind mages who were roasted to death by the fire mages sent by Amber City rolled up their sleeves and put their heads on their waists to resist desperately. Xiangke repelled the menacing fire mages, and they deserved their lives. The leader of the fire mages said harshly: "Come back in four days and burn you bastards to death!"

"Zhezi, what do you think?" Mu Ning asked Liu Zhe in the carriage.

"It's unrealistic to destroy Amber City directly. If they can't recover in a short period of time, there will be other player forces rushing to deal with them."

In all honesty, although Amber City acts domineeringly, the urban environment within its sphere of influence is really better than other places, and there are not many disadvantages other than ugly food.If Amber City hadn't taken the initiative to seek death and provoke Jurong Town, which had little conflict of interest with them, Liu Zhe would have even wanted to make friends with the people of Amber City.

"I also want to try the quality of Amber City," Mu Ning said with a playful smile: "I hope they don't get too much fun."