Chapter 45, The Hypocritical Paradise (Part 2)
On the roof of a sentry box outside Kahn Village, several kittens of different colors were lying there lazily like real cats, overlooking the villagers who were extremely happy for a moment because they had received free food. People couldn't help but reveal a sarcastic smile.
"...Meow! What a bunch of stupid guys! They are so happy for such a pitiful little favor. Don't they know the reason why wool comes from sheep? It is used to buy these foods. The coins may be their original savings, meow!”
Ma Tong, a cat thief who appears as a cat in this world, muttered while chewing dried fish to replenish his physical strength.
As one of the planners involved in this operation to win over people's hearts, she knew very well that Lich King Ainz's expenditure on purchasing food for the residents of Karn Village came entirely from the fortress city that had become a city of death. Lantel, every coin was unearthed by the undead from the corpse-smelling ruins - in fact, out of the consideration of saving money at the beginning, Ainz planned to directly build the fortress city. The food in Lantier City was moved out and distributed to these refugees. Unexpectedly, after some inspection, it was discovered that they were originally stored in Ye due to being corroded by the miasma of the undead. The food in Lantier City has been generally contaminated and spoiled, and is no longer suitable for living people to eat, otherwise there will be a risk of poisoning, so he gave up angrily.
Therefore, although in the process of purchasing this batch of food, the cunning grain merchants in the Bajas Empire charged a very high price, and the cost of transporting the food by land and carriage from such a far away place was also exaggerated, and in the end, most of the food was spent. The goods are given to residents as welfare. But the purchase cost was originally the wool from the sheep, derived from the legacy after the city's destruction, so no matter how much money was spent, Lich King Ainz would not feel distressed.
"...If you can give a little bit of the wealth and water you exploited to the poor people in addition to exorbitant taxation, you can already be called a benevolent king!"
Political Commissar Guo, a Persian cat scholar, said calmly, "...Since ancient times, hasn't the wealth of every country been distributed like this? The upper class eats meat, and the lower class poor eat soup. Only in this way can society be stable. Like Ainz. This method can definitely be regarded as a high welfare. A qualified ruler can do this. It's enough to be kind to your own people. As for how they were treated when they were not your own people, that's another question. Aren't our US military and the European Union acting like devils killing people, setting fires and dropping bombs, and playing angels at the same time in the Middle East? Send food and water to the refugees? ”
"...What's more, as the saying goes, 'Those who are close to vermillion are red, and those who are close to ink are black.' Look at what kind of guys are in the Great Tomb of Nazarick? Liches, demons, cockroaches, insect warriors, vampires... Each one's evil value is higher than the last, and there are many cats who like to eat people and kill people, and whether they eat people or not, it doesn't matter. Everyone looked down upon the weak humans in this world and regarded them as low-level creatures. Not to mention killing people, even massacres of cities were not taken seriously. No matter how innocent Lich King Ainz was, he was under the influence of these evil people. How can one become kind over time? ”
Wang Meiling, Wang Qiu’s mother, who logged into the other world with the Sanhua Cat Priest account, casually picked up the conversation, "...There may still be some residue of human beings in the mind of this Lich King. But. After a while, I guess you will only be like the evil devil, right?”
"...Well, in fact, if you want to play politics, you have to be evil. If you follow the judgment method in the tabletop game, in the history of human civilization, most of the rulers who can be called heroic and strategists probably belong to the lawful evil camp. . Just as the Italian politician Machiavelli described in his famous work "The Prince", a qualified ruler should be as cunning as a fox and as fierce as a lion, but the result of letting a good old man take charge is ultimately the result. It will probably lead to a disaster. Of course, there are many rulers who belong to the good camp, but most of them are like Song Xianggong or **********, who are evaluated as naive and romantic and achieve nothing. , even fools who harm others and themselves. Because the political circle is the most cruel, if a person swears to do good in everything, he will be destroyed if he is among many unkind people. "
Political Commissar Guo commented, “...If you think about it carefully, although many things are based on our suggestions, our protagonist, Mr. Anz, has really been acting strictly in accordance with the essence of the views of "The Prince" recently. Meow! For example: 'Crime should be committed once, so that the people will suffer less losses and reduce their grudges; and favors should be given little by little, so that the people can better appreciate the taste of favor.' Be sure to delegate responsibility to others and leave favors to yourself, and be a great liar and hypocrite. At the same time, you must tolerate the cruelty and greed of the army. ''A wise monarch will do it when he has the opportunity. You should create certain enemies in order to subdue them and make yourself greater. '...Should we say that Machiavelli's ideas have also been carried forward in other worlds?"
"...Ahem, everyone, our most important topic of discussion right now shouldn't be Lich King Ainz's Imperial Academy, right?"
Wangqiu, the tabby cat, who was looking at the personal game panel with a sad face and silently calculating his points, "...the increase in reward points has been slower and slower recently, meow. The total score is still 750,000 points away from rescuing all the time travellers." It’s still half done, meow! What do you think?”
As a result, all the cats were silent for a moment.
——As mentioned before, in order to rescue the fifteen newcomers trapped in this plot world, based on the escape score of 50,000 reward points for each person, Wang Qiu and other rescuers must collect 750,000 reward points. Astronomical numbers...it takes almost no time to complete this Possible missions, they racked their brains to twist the main plot line, just lost the adventurer journey of the protagonist, and frantically set off a natural disaster of the undead that did not exist in the original work, turning the plot upside down, and then the reward points were as follows Erupting violently like a volcano. However, when the seventh trapped person was rescued last month and earned 350,000 points, the growth rate of reward points began to slow down significantly. Until now, the reward points after clearing have not returned to 20,000, and the 50,000 points for rescuing the next person are still far away.
As a result, they have to carry out more intense destruction in this world in order to change the plot and earn points.
However, it is currently impossible to further expand the war between the undead and humans. Although the high-end combat power of the Great Tomb of Nazarick is invincible, the number of low-level zombies, skeleton soldiers, goblins, cockroaches, and lichs is limited. After deducting the minimum manpower left behind in the main base, the number of undead that can be drawn out to fight is limited. The total strength is only about six thousand. Even with the addition of the Terror Lord's demon cockroaches and the undead creatures summoned and tamed on the spot in this world, the frontline commander Demon Gentleman Demiurge only has more than 20,000 troops. If there are any more, his command will fail.
Of course, it is not impossible to continue to tap the potential and increase troops. For example, the Lich King Ainz has a horn that can summon an army of five thousand goblins. It is in the library of the Great Tomb of Nazarick. There are also many magic scrolls about group summoning.
But for Ainz, who was cautious by nature, sending out so many undead creatures and several powerful NPCs who were guardians of the guild to fight was already a big gamble. As for the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Laowa, sufficient garrison strength must be reserved no matter what, just in case, and the troops must not be exhausted. No matter how powerful the deception experts of the central organization were, they could not completely make him dance with his baton.
If "foreign players" like Wang Qiu and others were to find places to earn points on their own, small-scale ambushes and sneak attacks might be okay, but it would be very difficult to engage in large-scale dungeons such as city sieges and national wars. The key problem is also the serious shortage of troops.
After all, even with the server created by "Book of Time Travel", there are only twenty player accounts in total that can use cheats to reach full level. The rest have to slowly gain experience and accumulate equipment from a first-level rookie, even if they want to top up money to become a RMB player! In fact, Wang Qiu and the others, these tough cats, have been fighting monsters in the big forest near Kahn Village to get points. Now they have almost wiped out all the monsters in this area, and there are no points. Depressing problems that can be refreshed - this is a real fantasy world, not an online game world that can be refreshed regularly. Even if real monsters can reproduce and migrate, it is impossible for them to reproduce in such large numbers within a few dozen days.
Of course, this forest is so vast, there are still wild monsters to hunt in the distance. For example, in the fourth volume of the original work "Overlord, King of the Undead", there is a tribe of lizardmen who once appeared, and they also live in this large forest that stretches thousands of miles. But the problem is that this lizardman tribe is not only far away, but also has a population of tens of thousands. It cannot be dealt with by just a few dozen catmen, goblins, slimes or iron golems. On the contrary, There is a risk of setting himself on fire and luring the enraged lizardman warriors back to Karn Village. As for the dwarf towns and elven tribes further away, without a large army to open the way and transport supplies, a handful of twenty cats would not even know how to walk through the forest.
"...The current situation is very obvious. In order to satisfy the increasingly anxious urging of the higher authorities, we must further speed up the score accumulation in this world. But Lich King Ainz can no longer fool him - this guy has always He is timid, and even the current war situation seems to be progressing too fast. He is afraid that someone who is unlucky will be taken advantage of. It is simply an impossible task for him to spread all his remaining troops to kill everyone.
If we just rely on ourselves to earn points, there is no risk in fighting wild monsters, but there is too little oil and water and the speed of earning points is too slow. If you switch to a large dungeon with rich oil and gas, high-end combat power will be no problem, but without the cooperation of low-level soldiers, it still won't work, meow! ”
Seeing that no one else could come up with any ideas, and carefully studying the current situation, Wang Qiu concluded this to everyone, and then came up with a ridiculous idea, "...In this case, let's do something violent." Soldiers! Anyway, we don’t have much in China, we just have a lot of people!”
"...violent troops? Hey, how are you going to send troops to this world, meow? For us, this fantasy world is just an online game. Even if there are a million uncles of the People's Liberation Army and an aircraft carrier battle group, you Is it still possible to deliver it?" Ma Tong asked.
"...But as long as we have that extraordinary server, we can allow one million players to create character accounts in another world!"
Wang Qiu raised his eyebrows, "...Although we still have to solve some confidentiality problems, it is not a big problem..."
Everyone suddenly realized it, but immediately discovered the loopholes in this idea:
"...The premise is that so many people are willing to play!" Wang Meiling, her mother who was a hardcore World of Warcraft player in the past, pointed out the biggest drawback, "...Based on my experience during this period, I really can't How interesting is this game? ”
"...If the fun is not enough, make up for it with money, meow! How many people in the world work for fun, meow?"
Wang Qiu smiled and said, "...all the previous investment has been spent. The central government should still be able to come up with such a special fund. No matter how bad this real-world version of an online game feels when played, As long as they are willing to put money in, there should be people who will come to play!" So, with the full cooperation of the government departments, a new online game was released on the Internet in just the next day...< br>