Chapter 161 Ingrid's 4-Fold Plan (2 in 1)
After Bobby was killed by the players, the remaining armed forces on the ship could hardly resist the players' offensive.
In fact, the defensive force deployed by Ingrid is really not small.
The old wizard who was raised by the delicious wind goose before was probably also a fallen person.
Then these are the three fallen people who are equivalent to the peak of the silver rank, plus the "Bobby" who has the ability to restrain the players.
Bobby's strength is said to be a serious gold rank, so it must be inferior. Even if the fallen person's ability is cultivated to the highest level, its ability priority is still not as high as the power of the elements, so she was borrowed by Huskies to Annan's power and gave her a second...
But she didn't seem to have any problem hanging and beating groups of silver. Among the forces on the player's side, the only Golden Rank that can move freely is Annan - the existence of Isaac is a secret, and compared with players who can resurrect infinitely, Annan will not send him out easily.
In order to prevent Annan's brain twitching, Ingrid also specially drove the boat into the sea far away from the shore. They also sent someone to reveal the news of the devil's blood.
Although extraordinary people have a very strong oppressive force when they are on land. However, if they are trapped in the sea by a ship, they will also feel helpless because of the might of nature.
If you are a disabled wizard, you can freeze the water into an ice road; an idol wizard can let you breathe in the water; a shaping wizard can not only shape water into ice, but also directly shape water into a pallet, and start directly on the sea Shrimp catcher...
...but that's about it.
Once the other people are on the ship, surrounded by the sea and far away from the shore, if they are directly sunk remotely, they are probably really dead.
After all, until they reach the silver level, extraordinary people are still mortals who need to breathe, eat, sleep and excrete... If they have no focus at all, they will also drown in water.
As long as the ship is sunk or burned from a distance, and any lifeboats and other small boats are destroyed together, and she is not given a chance to snatch the boat, then in the end Bobby can only die in the sea with hatred.
...that's why they claim that the ship is full of demon blood.
Although the players and Annan didn't quite believe it, they still had to come and have a look.
Devil's blood is the most cherished "golden" level of magic materials in this world - although it is the easiest to buy and the lowest price among gold-level magic materials.
On the black market, a serving of devil's blood can be sold for eighty pounds.
A farmer or fisherman, in a more normal year, has nearly a guinea or two in his savings for the year.
According to the current exchange rate, almost one gold coin can be exchanged for twelve or three silver coins, which can buy about five books, or take the subway twelve or three times, a small bag of bullets, two iron daggers, two bottles of poison, one-fifth of a Precisely forged steel swords, one-twentieth of a young war horse, one-fortieth of a rifle, and one-eighth of a complete set of metal armor.
And Noah's most expensive hotel cost more than 100 gold coins a night; before Annan succeeded to the throne, the Principality of Winter Winter lost 40,000 to 50,000 gold coins every year.
A piece of devil's blood is equivalent to fifty years of savings from the people at the bottom...but it may not be enough to stay in Noah's top hotel for one night.
In that hotel, whether it is the hand-woven wool carpet on the floor, the paintings on the wall, or the sculptures placed at the door, they are all from the hands of famous masters. The guarantee is also at the level of Bishop Javon.
Even the chandeliers are crystal chandeliers inlaid with gold.
Of course, big businessmen are not fools.
They wouldn't spend this kind of money just for decoration.
When staying in that hotel, in fact, some high-end drinks and top-notch food are also included as a bonus. If necessary, there are extremely beautiful singers and dancers who can perform shows at any time, or enter the room to serve at any time. It also built an opera house, a hot spring, a library, and a hunting ground, equipped with extraordinary guards, and a barrier to isolate the ritual.
However, these services are still not as expensive as the price.
Because they are not selling goods, but selling services - of course, the more important thing is actually selling concepts.
When Noah's "guarantors" meet, they will choose this hotel for safety reasons.
When the word got around, it became a trendy treat.
That is to say, it is not for the purpose of accommodation, nor for the entertainment services that can be provided during the stay, but precisely because "this place is the most expensive", "here is the most luxurious enjoyment", "this is where the real big shots come The concept of "place" is famous only when its price is so high.
Small nobles from other places will find a way to live here once in order to compare with the nobles of the royal capital and live frugally; while big businessmen hope to get to know some big people and transform their wealth into power; The big shots in foreign countries will not show their timidity - since you can live every day, how can we not afford it?
It's closer to some kind of club than the hotel itself.
Zhi Ji brought Annan to live here before.
At that time, he felt sorry for Zhiji's money.
It was only when I met Yaweng not long ago that I learned that it was given to Zhi Ji directly by the manager of the hotel.
Not just paper girls. All the churches that may come to Noah always have a room in this hotel, which is carefully cleaned every day. This is used to accommodate popes, cardinals on business, or gods at leisure.
And the most powerful nobles in various countries... including the "Rin Dong Family" itself, actually have a room here.
Zhi Ji also took Annan to live in her room.
These occupied rooms occupy 60% of the entire hotel room. But it did not make the boss lose money at all, but instead became some kind of advertisement, making the boss earn more...
Annan was also shocked at the time.
What kind of business acumen is this ahead of its time? !
After careful questioning, Annan learned that this was the shop opened by the previous Pope of the Silver Lord, and it is still operated by the Chamber of Commerce controlled by the Silver Lord Church. The old man had written several books during his lifetime, specializing in explaining various business techniques and marketing methods...
Compared with this kind of real rich people, the blood of the devil is not expensive at all, and it can even be said to be cheap.
After all, it is not because of "scarce production", "secret formula" or "extreme potency" to become precious...
The reason why smuggling devil's blood is a capital crime is partly because it can quickly become a fallen person; and partly because the raw material of devil's blood... is human beings themselves.
The fallen must be pure in heart to be transformed into demon blood. This determination of purity of heart is relatively broad... that is, after the fall, one still has no intention of harming others, and one can be judged as pure of heart.
After all, the process of depravity itself will amplify negative emotions.
Many seemingly honest social animals may suddenly become serial murderers after they fall. On the one hand, it is inflated because of the sudden gain of power and too little understanding of the world, and on the other hand, because the path of depravity itself is a test of will and morality.
——On the contrary, the road of sublimation is a test of one's desire, and the road of degeneration is a test of one's will.
In other words...
Every devil's blood made meant that an innocent "good guy" would pay for it with his life.
If the ship is really full of demon blood...
Calculated in units of six bottles of Demon's Blood each bundled together in a shock-absorbing, light-resistant snap-in package that fits in a suitcase. Excluding the number of guards, this ship can hold at least six or seven hundred units of demon blood.
Excluding the nearly 60% failure rate, this means that nearly 8,000 people will die as a result.
...The less populated towns have almost the same population. Even some underground cities cannot reach this population.
Even if you let her go and arrest people casually, it is impossible to catch so many people.
Therefore, players have long realized that there must be a problem here. Although they are not sure where the problem is.
After the players took over the ship, they began to check the hull.
And got a good news and a bad news.
The good news is, there really is demon blood on board.
A total of 800 units of demon blood!
...or in other words, eight hundred units of containers used to store the blood of demons.
The bad news is that most of them are empty.
The seven players carefully checked for about two hours.
I found that the outermost layer is almost full of things... and the more you go inside, the more empty it becomes.
It is estimated that the blood of the devil that can be found in the end is about 100 units.
It will definitely not reach a thousand copies even if it is full.
There are more than 80 units with something in the box, and it would be good to get 500 copies of Demon's Blood.
the question is that……
How much demon blood did Ingrid get?
Did she bring these empty boxes to scare Annan, or did she really empty out the contents?
But soon, Annan noticed a detail.
That is... there are quite a few boxes that are empty to begin with. It can be directly judged that Ingrid stuffed a bunch of empty boxes into it again.
And using this method must be to cover up how much demon blood she took!
Thinking about it carefully, Ingrid has played the same trick twice.
She let the "bad hand" rob the cargo ship, and in name it was hijacked by pirates and its cargo was lost... But in fact, Denisawia's navy has been guarding it to prove that it was never really stolen.
It's just that this pot will be thrown to the "poisonous hand", so that Ingrid and a certain force behind her who can go to the "Advisory Council" can monopolize this wave of wealth.
And her second plan is to use this string of devil's blood to lure players into being fooled.
See if the "Bobby" she specially bred can restrain the player's resurrection—if possible, it's best to use Bobby's ability to hijack some players for subsequent plans.
But if something unexpected happened, causing Poppy to fail to kill the players, but was killed by the players instead...
That's her third-tier plan.
She stole a batch of devil's blood by herself - and because the number of empty boxes was beyond common sense, it was impossible to judge how much she took... At the same time, she could lead the finger to Annan.
Annan immediately thought of a joke.
It's like the second uncle Yu Qian was hijacked by Somali pirates. The pirates wanted 3 million dollars, but he gave them 4 million dollars backhanded and asked for an invoice of 10 million dollars...
At that time, she told the person behind her that the blood of the devil had been stolen by "unknown forces". Then there is no way to verify the batch of devil's blood that she ignorantly poured.
Although at this time, Annan only needs to admit that he is messing up and hand over all these things to Denisauer. Then he can get the right stats and directly dismantle Ingrid's allies at the top of Denisaua.
— But Annan couldn't do that.
Because this is not a small sum after all.
Even at the market price, regardless of the supply channel, the batch of demon blood in this hand is worth nearly ten thousand pounds. Even if the Duke of Winter has Noah's investment now, there is no shortage of money for the time being... Then, can't you just distribute it to the players and let them buy houses, weapons, horses and so on?
What's more, it is impossible for him to admit his identity. In that case, it means that he lost in advance.
Just like in Noah.
It is impossible for him to continue to control Denisaua after exposing his actions.
There is only this chance to steal the country, and Annan must seize the opportunity to get Denisaua into his pocket. Before that, Annan must guarantee his clean identity as an "outsider".
And because Ingrid put in a large number of empty boxes, Annan couldn't match the correct amount with the devil's blood he had on hand. Then this is tantamount to hiding Ingrid's plan, the scale of her organization, and even where the devil's blood was obtained.
Since she dared to leave these boxes here, she must have done a ritual cover-up. Annan was also unable to track her through the ritual.
Investigating these materials also takes time.
What Ingrid lacked was time.
"Confirmed that the ability of the 'withering demon' can restrain players, conducted an experiment on the 'youth version of the living desert', concealed the truth from both my family and Annan, and stole a batch of demons that were difficult to obtain in large quantities through normal channels." Blood... her plan should be considered a success."
Annan said in a low voice.
He soon realized...why Ingrid took the risk to steal a batch of demon blood.
Her ability to mass-produce the fallen through the power of purification through the sky cart must be supported by the blood of demons. There are countless nightmares in a town, and it is impossible for her to obtain a batch of curses out of thin air without being discovered... Devil's blood is the most stable source of curses.
So at this time, if Annan sells the blood of the devil in large quantities-the ones who buy it must be the people under Ingrid.
By following the vine, you can find the base where she is.
That is to say...
She stole this batch of devil's blood not for the sake of taking risks and getting rich - but to hide her own existence!
Once you figure this out.
Annan's thoughts suddenly became clear.
Attracting hostility to Annan from Denisauer's high-level...
Throw Annan out to attract other people's attention...
Create a "power of withering" for players, and create a youthful version of the living desert that seems to have no eggs except to cooperate with the withering demon to fight the players...
So much so that she risked the layout and swallowed a batch of demon blood...
Even almost superfluous, leaving a large number of empty boxes to hinder Annan's investigation.
- All of these have one thing in common.
Not defeating Annan, not repelling players...
Instead drag! Hard drag!
Smash out all the forces, followers, and accumulated political connections that you have operated for a long time, and hold Annan at all costs—make him hesitate!
This is her fourth plan in addition to her triple plan.
It is an open conspiracy.
In other words... Ingrid actually had no plan to defeat Annan from the very beginning! All plans are smoke bombs.
She has only one real purpose.
Do your best to hold Annan back - there is only one possibility.
That is……
——Her ceremony is about to succeed.
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