Chapter 233 Blood Money
"He's back."
In the dark room, a figure sat in the corner and spoke in a low voice.
After a long while, another figure directly opposite said:
"I know."
"Faster than expected."
"So what."
After a short silence, another voice continued:
"The latest news is that he purchased a standard division-level fleet in Shanhaiguan!"
"What? Is the news true?"
"If you send someone to the military base on the edge of Jialan, you will know that it is indeed a standard division-level fleet, and it is full of standards, with two Titan super flags, two super aircraft carriers, and twenty-five flagships. .”
The shadowed room fell into silence, followed by a rustling sound.
"Crack!"
A flame lit up and he approached a delicate-looking cigarette. The fire also illuminated his face. If Li Qing were here, he would definitely recognize it as Gu Shenzhou and Feng Lixiu.
After taking a long puff of cigarette, Gu Chenzhou said in a deep voice:
"The situation has changed, his strength has increased significantly, our risks will also increase, and we need more support."
"Don't worry, their financial resources are stronger than we thought, and support will not be a problem."
Having said this, Feng Lixiu was silent for a moment and asked Gu Shenzhou, who was puffing away the clouds:
"Do you really want to fight him to the end?"
Gu Chenzhou glanced up at him and said with a smile:
"Someone supports resources for free, why should I refuse?"
After a pause, he said:
"I will fulfill my agreement, but if he is too strong to defeat, then there is nothing I can do."
"What if it's possible to succeed?"
Gu Shenzhou asked:
"Isn't that just right?"
"You're such a bastard."
Gu Shenzhou moved for a moment, then said quietly after a long while:
"In this world, how can you achieve anything without being a jerk? Only if you are bad enough can you get what you want."
“Besides, we can’t help ourselves!”
After two long sighs, the room fell into silence.
At the Lord's Mansion, Li Qing returned to the Lord's Office where he had not stayed for several years after a tour. Yu Yuefei usually took charge of the territory work on his behalf. When he came over, he saw a large number of unfamiliar administrative officials, some of whom were from Qinghe. Some of the Li clan members are from the Jinmen Yu clan, and a small number are recruited from ordinary players.
It is impossible for a territory to be dominated by one faction. It must be checked and balanced by several factions. If one family dominates, there will be chaos in the future.
It's okay when there is a powerful lord with great prestige, but if the lord is absent, or if the lord becomes a hands-off treasurer, and the successor lacks prestige, there will definitely be trouble in the future.
Of course, these will not have a great impact on Li Qing. In the future, he will definitely convert the main management officials of the territory into servants of light, which can directly eliminate most of the problems.
Sitting in the huge office, Li Qing gently knocked on the bell beside the luxurious desk. After a while, Yu Wanyue, who was wearing a hip-hugging skirt that highlighted her beautiful figure, walked in. She held the position of senior governor in the territory. Assistant, territorial personnel manager, director of the governor's office, equivalent to Yu Yuefei's assistant.
After many years of holding power, she has acquired a resolute and resolute temperament.
Li Qing didn't say too much, mainly because he was afraid that she and his wife would misunderstand. After listening to the work report, he praised and affirmed her work during this period, then reached out and turned his palm, and a bright light appeared in his hand, saying:
"This thing can transform you into a new person, and you can be forcibly promoted to a golden name like the two brothers Li Lie and Li Qi. But the consequence is that you will always be loyal to me. Are you willing?"
Yu Wanyue immediately showed a hint of joy and said without hesitation:
"I do!"
"Very good!"
Judging from the speed of her response, Li Qing was very satisfied.
Among the many core members of the territory, she is the only one who has not yet been transformed into a servant of light.
Although she was born in the Yu family and held a high position in the territory, it was impossible for the Baji Consortium to offer higher conditions, but some things are uncertain. No one is perfect and there are always weaknesses. In the Star Sea Era, there are many To instigate a person to rebel.
Therefore, Li Qing still considered giving her a place as a Servant of Light, which would not only guarantee her loyalty, but also improve her abilities and enable her to manage better.
In this way, the two sisters Yu Yuefei and Ding Youran are still ordinary humans in the territory.
Li Qing had already thought about it. After defeating the Shata Tribe United Civilization, he would squeeze all the captives' civilization points. By then, he could squeeze out two to three thousand points, and then exchange them for two static streamers to transform them into Star Negatives. .
The reason why it is not now is, of course, that the civilized points are not very useful.
Now he needs to condense the battleship mother chip on his own, and then the Doomsday Light mother chip also needs to be upgraded, which requires a lot of civilization points to speed up the cohesion process.
There is already a dreadnought mother chip. If you get a battleship mother chip, you can immediately reverse engineer the dreadnought battleship blueprint. Don't be too excited then.
The conversion was quick and didn’t take long.
But he didn't know if it was an illusion, but after the transformation was completed, he felt something was wrong with Yu Wanyue's eyes.
After she left, she was alone in the huge office. Li Qing sat on the luxurious chair, put his feet up on the desk, and turned on the territory's channel.
"Hey!"
After staying in Shanhaiguan for a long time, Li Qing immediately felt uncomfortable when he came back to watch his territory channel.
"Too small!"
Shanhaiguan's channel has hundreds of branch channels, and its scope of influence covers thousands of light years.
What is the concept? It means that players can communicate in real time anywhere within a radius of 500 light years with Shanhaiguan as the center without any delay.
The channel in his territory is still an initial channel established at the time. There are only two branch channels, one is the territory branch and the other is the expeditionary force branch. Players can only advertise, seek team formation, or trade, etc. Speaking in these two channels, the information inside was mixed and looked extremely confusing.
"This won't work, we have to expand it."
Li Qing opened the lord panel without hesitation and started editing the territory channel.
The territory panel is just a panel for comprehensive control of the territory, but this setting is only a preset. It does not mean to change the territory immediately. If you want to change anything, you must invest manpower and material resources to implement it after the preset.
For example, if he wants to change the channel of his territory, he must first preset the template in the lord panel, and then invest civilization points according to the scope and difficulty of the template before it can take effect.
Territory channels are just average if we say they are important, but if we say they are not important, the experience will be better if the channels can be expanded. Moreover, in the future, if the territories are expanded and the channel with Jinmen is opened, a large number of players will gather. If the territory channels are good, there will be certain benefits. The role of attracting players.
So.
Li Qing looked at the phantom of the territory channel projected in front of him. The first step was to expand the range. He grabbed it with both hands and pulled it outward, directly to a diameter of a hundred light years. Then he naturally knew in his heart that 50 civilization points were needed.
This means that players can communicate in real time in any galaxy within a hundred light years.
But this is not enough, at least Li Qing feels it is not enough.
The hands pulled again, expanding the range ten times again, reaching a thousand light years.
Then he sensed in his mind that a full 200 civilization points were needed this time.
“It’s okay!”
He thought he would need 500 civilization points before, but he didn't expect it to be much less than he imagined.
It seems that this expansion increase is not one light year per civilization point, but another algorithm.
"A thousand light years."
Li Qing opened the star map and looked at the range of a thousand light years. The north was close to the isolation interference zone, the west was close to the original Quelta Fortress, and the east had passed the Locke Fortress of the Shata Civilization and entered the interior of the Shata United Empire.
“It can be bigger.”
Li Qing stretched out his hand again, and this time the stretched range directly exceeded the galaxy where the expeditionary force was once headquarters. The south covered part of the Lester Pirate Group, and the east had touched the capital star of the United Sand Tower Empire.
Looking at the civilization point requirements, 650 points are needed.
"Well, it's okay."
This consumption is a bit outrageous. The regional channels in Shanhaiguan are not that big.
Shanhaiguan is under the jurisdiction of the Senate of the United Empire of Humanity and does not belong to anyone's rule. It cannot obtain civilization points, so the civilization points of the three core fortresses are provided by the major lords.
Civilization is not a big deal. Every military leader is hoarding it, so of course he is reluctant to spend too much on it.
Li Qing thought about it briefly and decided that Jialanling's territory channel would only be that big.
The reason is very simple. The coverage area of the territory channel is the territory of the territory by default. Now the territory channel covers the vicinity of the capital of the United Empire of Shatta, which means that his territory will also expand there in the future.
"No, it needs to be expanded."
Li Qing once again expanded the territory, consuming a total of 850 civilization points, including the entire central province of the Shata United Empire.
In this way, if the Shata United Empire is captured in the future, the covered central province will be his territory by default, and the few living planets in it will naturally belong to him by default.
Although Zutar defaults that individuals can only grab two life planets, this is also the default rule, but I don’t know which default priority is higher.
Li Qing thought he could find an opportunity to ask the old patriarch. If the default rules of the territory had a higher priority, then he would have to spend a lot of civilization points to cover the entire Sand Tower United Empire to complete the default ownership.
As for now, let's do this.
A total of 850 civilization points are consumed, and the territorial channel coverage is 4,600 light years.
To the east: Covering the central province of the United Empire of Shatta.
Going south: Covering the Lester Pirate Group, approaching the transit base at the junction of the Zutar Star Region and the Tianjin Star Region.
Going west: It has surpassed the original expeditionary force base and is hundreds of light years west.
Heading north: It has crossed the isolation interference zone and is more than a thousand light years north.
Then, Li Qing began to consume civilization points again and began to add branch channels to the territory channel.
Adding branch channels will also consume additional civilization points, and the amount consumed depends on the size of the channel. The larger the channel range, the greater the consumption.
Li Qing tried to separate the first channel, but found that it took a full 85 civilization points to separate one.
In other words, a branch channel is equivalent to one-tenth of the main channel.
"Terrible!"
But it has to be divided into several channels, otherwise it will still be a bit useless.
After thinking about it carefully, he has ten branch channels in addition to the main channel——
The first and second channels are player team channels: there are two in total. All individuals or small groups of players in the territory form a team on channel one, and large teams and chambers of commerce recruit escorts, mercenaries, etc. are classified in channel two.
Channels 3 and 4 Business Transaction Channel: No need to explain, all kinds of transactions are advertised here.
The business channel is also divided into two channels: Channel 1 is for players’ personal transactions, and Channel 2 is dedicated to transactions between teams and commercial companies.
Channel 5: War Channel: War related content is discussed here.
Channel Six: Army Channel: This channel is only open to Army players.
Channel Seven: Life Career Channel: This channel is only open to life players, such as shipbuilding engineers, scientists and other life career players.
Channel 8: Casual Player Channel: The vast majority of players have no talent or capital and can only be ordinary people. They work and run around for life like ordinary people. Their lives are not very good, and they are not good in most territories. There is a dedicated channel for them, but Li Qing considered that there will definitely be many ordinary players in the territory in the future, so he provided them with a place for them to communicate.
Channel 9: Anonymous channel: Anonymity can be set in this channel, anyone can enter and speak, and a message box is set up where players can leave messages and make various suggestions to the territory.
In addition to these nine public channels, there is also an internal channel for the territory, which is designed for communication among members within the territory.
Of course, the channel of the Expeditionary Force is still there, but it is the channel of the Expeditionary Force. He cannot expand it and will not expand it.
It just serves as a foil. If a normal person sees that the Expeditionary Force channel is limited to one galaxy, while the Jialan Territory channel covers a real-time communication area of 4,600 light-years, it is self-evident which side he will choose to stay.
It is worth mentioning that the player's personal communication range is also determined by the local regional channel. His territory channel covers 4,600 light years, and the distance within which players in the channel can communicate in real time is also 4,600 light years.
Of course, it is only for Jialanling players. If they want to enjoy this benefit, they must join Jialanling and obtain a status similar to a household registration.
This kind of player who belongs to the Jialan collar will be able to provide civilization points to the lord.
Except for public channels like Shanhaiguan, which belongs to the Senate of the United Empire of Mankind and is open to all human players. It does not require a Shanhaiguan account.
The ten branch channels cost 850 civilization points, plus the main channel 850 points, for a total of 1,700 civilization points. Most of the remaining civilization points were used up in one go.
But Li Qing felt that the expense was worth it, no matter from every aspect.
Less than two seconds after the 1,700 civilization points were hit, he received a message from Li Lie:
"Damn it, boss, please look at how the territory channel has changed?"
Li Qing asked:
"How did you know so quickly?"
“I don’t know how many people watch the channel all the time to communicate. How could they not know about such a big change?”
"Okay, nothing happened, I just expanded the channel."
"Good guy, the coverage is so wide, boss, you have spent a lot of money!"
"Of course."(End of Chapter)