Chapter 611 The Four Who Steal Electricity (Part 2)
Whether the efficiency of energy acquisition is high or not can be compared to oil.
Global daily oil production is calculated in 10,000 barrels. The daily oil production in Saudi Arabia alone is about 10 million barrels. As of March 2022, global daily oil production is about 100 million barrels. Although it is now 1989
In 2017, the output will not reach this high level for the time being, but it will certainly be quite a lot.
As I said before, the size of dark owls is similar to that of real owls. One hundred thousand or so owls sounds like a lot, but if you pinch them together, they may not produce less than the global daily oil production in one minute. In this way
How can the efficiency be achieved?
As a result, Schiller began to organize everyone to further improve production efficiency. The main plans were to compress time and cost on the one hand, and to automate the entire process on the other.
In terms of time and cost reduction, it is really difficult for these children to concentrate for a long time, and if they are unwilling to sing and mess around with pronunciation, there is no way to attract owls.
Moreover, it is difficult to ensure that all these children attend work on time. Sometimes someone has something to do at home, and sometimes someone is sick. The essence of doing this is to protect the children, so you cannot put the cart before the horse and exploit them. In this case, time
The cost is incompressible.
The use of human employees has such shortcomings, so everything falls back on the development of mechanization. If humans can be replaced by machines, then as long as there is enough energy, they can work all the time without problems of absence or poor condition.
In this regard, Constantine was almost driven crazy by Schiller. He said: "You want the robot to use magic??? Do you listen to this?"
"They don't even have souls! Even if you can use a recording device to produce those syllables, it's impossible to attract owls!"
"That's why I need you." Schiller looked into Constantine's eyes and said, "Now you have to figure out how to make something that won't tire, and then let them trick the owl."
Hal looked at Constantine with some sympathy. He had never seen Constantine looking so embarrassed and haggard.
Normally, Constantine is a scumbag, but he still takes care of his image, otherwise he can't go around for fun. In the past, he always looked like a British yuppie, but when he was serious, he had a unique charm that made people laugh.
I was attracted to him unconsciously.
Although he occasionally appears crazy and decadent due to excessive drug use, he is filled with a punk aesthetic, and some people still fall in love with this.
But now, Constantine can no longer be called a punk. There is only a homemade spear between him and Robinson.
Among the plans proposed by Schiller, Constantine was the most tired because he had to arrange hundreds of grids around the entire school room into magic circles. He had not slept for more than a week, and he was unshaven and extremely haggard.
If Schiller hadn't promised to give him 10% of the energy, he wouldn't have done this kind of work. But now, even if Schiller promised to give him 10% of the energy, he wouldn't want to do this work anymore.
Constantine scolded: "You damn capitalist, vampire! Give me a little benefit, and you want me to work hard for you like this..."...
Schiller stretched out another finger, waved it in front of him, and said: "Add another 10%, and you can have 20% for yourself. Hal and I can only share 10%, and Bruce doesn't even have 10%.
"
Constantine was really going crazy. He felt that a demon called greed was coming to him again. He could almost see the black flame burning behind Schiller, which made him crazier than any demon.
He gritted his teeth and said, "You forced me to do this. It seems I have to go talk to my old friend."
After saying that, Constantine left. Schiller didn't know that he knew exactly who his old friend was, but he knew that there might be a devil who was going to cause bad luck.
Two days later, an even more haggard Constantine came back, and at the same time brought back a small voodoo doll. He said: "I contacted all the friends I could get in touch with, and finally found a way.
"
He put the voodoo doll in his hand, then placed it in front of several people, and said: "This is a kind of evil magic from Africa. It is somewhat similar to the magic used by ghost mothers. They are both aimed at children."
"Among African tribes, they will put the soul of a child who died in infancy into a special voodoo doll. The special devil will sense this soul and then send power into the voodoo doll in exchange for the soul. The tribe
Priests can use this energy to cast spells."
"But where can we get the child's soul?" Hal asked: "Don't tell me, you want..."
"I never thought that I was a good person." Constantine sighed.
Bruce glanced at him, seeming a little surprised, but Constantine was telling the truth. Whether it was about his career or his heart, Constantine was actually a good man. On issues of principle, he was as unshakable as Batman.
.
"I contacted the devil who responded to this spell. He told me that human sacrifices are really cunning. With the development of modern medicine today, fewer and fewer babies are dying, but the priests still want to continue to use spells. They came up with the idea
Find another way."
"It may be possible to kill innocent children, but the efficiency is too low. They chose to deceive the devil and use a special ritual to forge the children's souls, attract the devil to them, and then trap them there, so that they can use the devil's power.
Strength."
When Constantine said this, he didn't think there was anything special at all, but Hal looked at Schiller, who looked at him and said, "Why are you looking at me? This can only show that human beings are like this.
, I’m not special either.”
Constantine nodded with deep understanding and said: "If you ask me, the best thing human beings are good at is deception. We have many tricks in deception. Even cunning devils will occasionally fall for it."
"However, their deception has been eliminated, because once the devil was fooled once, he will not be fooled again. At most, he will only lose a little strength. Therefore, they have developed many other versions now, but we
None of it is needed.”
"I contacted someone who knew how to use this version of the trick. He told me how to forge a child's soul. The other materials required are relatively simple, but there is only one thing that is a bit difficult, and that is the need for breast milk."…
"This is easy to handle." Schiller looked at Bruce and said, "The Wayne Group should be able to collect breast milk from the society for a fee in the name of medical experiments. As long as the price is high enough, it should be able to collect it quickly."
"There is another question..." Schiller looked at Constantine again and said: "Can the soul of a forged child sing?"
"Of course not, it's just a bait, so I have to use another kind of magic to control this voodoo doll to sing."
"Do you need to control them all the time? What if you get tired?" Schiller asked a question again. Constantine took a deep breath and said: "Although I don't need to control them all the time, you really have a little
You're too greedy, you don't even want me to take a break..."
Schiller turned his head away, not looking at him, and then said: "On the extremely efficient production line, no one can take a break, including me."
Several people shook their heads, obviously they couldn't stand him. Even Bruce, who likes to pursue efficiency, felt that this was a bit too extreme.
Fortunately, it was not them who were exploited by Schiller. In the end, it was still the owl that suffered the most.
After a few more days of preparation, Constantine started making raw materials with all his strength. In order to prevent Constantine from dying from exhaustion, Schiller asked Hal to treat him with green light energy.
As long as Constantine was tired, Hal would give him a healing spell, so that he would be full of energy again. Under such inhumane exploitation, Constantine created thousands of witches in a few days.
Poison doll.
Then, he began to cast puppet control spells on each doll, the same kind he used to control ghosts before. After casting it, he could make the voodoo dolls sing by themselves.
Then, after placing these dolls in the center of those formations and starting the same process again, the efficiency doubled again, but Schiller was still not satisfied.
What he is dissatisfied about is that every time he needs to manually clean the magic circle and then inject energy into the Ark Reactor, although he is not tired or afraid of boredom, it still wastes time. In terms of other time
It’s money, and no waste is allowed in the extremely efficient production mode.
So, he forced Constantine to start technological reforms, asking him to establish automatic energy transmission lines between several magic circles, and then connect the lines to the Ark reactor, so that he could fully automatically extract the dark energy of the owl.
plan.
Constantine was really unlucky. He tried to run away several times, even without sunk costs, but Schiller was still able to catch him.
Finally, he broke the pot and began to study how to create energy pathways between the various magic circles.
As we all know, optimizing circuits is the biggest difficulty in automation games. Constantine was stuck on it for more than a week, but in the end, Constantine, who was inspired to his full potential, came up with the most efficient version.
Finally, this huge device that automatically extracts Dark Owl energy was completed. When the entire assembly line was running, the efficiency reached its highest level. Even one storage module of the Ark Reactor was no longer enough, so Bruce temporarily added a few more
.…
If you look at it from the perspective of the spiritual world, the entire living hell has become a huge oil drilling rig. Countless magic circles are connected in lines to form a ball emitting red light, and countless dark owls are rushing towards it like moths to a flame.
There, everything was finally annihilated in the light of the magic circle, and the extracted energy pulsed along the energy channels like blood vessels into the Ark reactor and was stored.
Until one day, all the owls disappeared, and Schiller, standing in the monitoring room, turned around and said to everyone: "...It seems that this plan has come to an end."
"It's not surprising." Bruce came to a conclusion. He said: "Even if this kind of rule runs automatically, judging from the efficiency of this device in extracting energy, they will react quickly."
"I'm more inclined to think that they ran out of power." Hal said thoughtfully: "If they could have discovered it, they should have discovered it as early as when we completed the automation. After all, so much energy was suddenly extracted. If anyone really saw it,
If it does, it will definitely brake urgently."
"As early as the first time I swallowed energy, I knew that this kind of rule should be unsupervised." Schiller shook his head and said, "And the reason why it stopped this time is that the energy was drained by us.
Already."
The reason why Schiller dared to extract this dark energy so unscrupulously without worrying about Barbatos coming here was because he discovered that this energy should not be Barbatos' original energy, but had undergone some kind of special processing.
In other words, they were not gathering Barbatos' wool in real time. The Dark Owl Priest had already finished gathering the wool for them, and had even woven the wool into blankets. What they were stealing was actually the blanket in the inventory.
As for why Schiller feels that this kind of rule is unsupervised, it is not only because when Elsa and the others swallowed energy before, the dark owl did not actually react, but also because, according to Gotham's historical records, the era of owl nursery rhymes has passed.
For a long time.
In modern history, this song is no longer popular, and few children can sing it anymore. In other words, this set of rules has been abolished for a long time.
And it will still take effect when awakened again, probably because the battery that was thrown here still has some remaining power, and Schiller's purpose is to drain this remaining power as soon as possible.
Some people may think that since the batteries have been discarded, it is not okay to steal electricity at any time? However, this has to talk about Schiller's previous arrangements in Metropolis.
He had long known that there were owls in Metropolis, so he deliberately gave the medal to Pikachu, and then used Clark to tell Rex about the illegal intrusion of the agents, and then asked Rex to find the CIA agents.
Schiller, who had experienced the incident at the Mayor's Mansion in Metropolis, certainly knew very well that after Benjamin's death, the CIA's resident director in Metropolis was replaced by female agent Kayla, and Kayla was a KGB member and Alfred's
student.
After Keira knows about this and gets the medal, she will definitely notice that there are other mysterious forces in Metropolis. According to the KGB's way of doing things, one month has passed, and the owl in Metropolis may be in bad luck.
.…
In a secret meeting room under the sewers of the metropolis, a mysterious man wearing a black robe and a bird's beak mask said: "Those godless lunatics are almost here, although the great Lord of Darkness is nowhere to be found.
Not here, but for the sake of his career, we need to stay out of the spotlight..."
"But where are we going?" asked another mysterious man in black robes.
"At the beginning, we would leave Gotham just to develop the power of Metropolis. But now, we have several secret bases in Metropolis, as well as many members of the Owl Council staying here... It is time to return to Gotham.
.”
"That's right." Another low and hoarse voice said: "When we left, we left the most precious dark statues there. Because of our departure, the people of Gotham have not chanted our names for many years.
, I can just use that essence energy again when I go back this time..."
"Remember that spell?" a shrill female voice intoned: "Mulitz...Mulitz..."
Suddenly, she paused and said: "What's going on? Why didn't the statue respond to my call?... Come... Owl... come to me, and I will return to the land of promise under your guidance.
place……"
"Mulitz...Mulitz..." All the men in black robes began to chant.
However, no owls flew over. They gradually stopped singing, and silence returned to the room. The leader waved the staff in his hand, and the magic circle in the room was lit. Everyone disappeared instantly, and then came a man with
The room with the giant owl statue.
This room is not only located underground in Gotham, it is also protected by mysterious spells. It is inaudible and invisible. You can only get here using a special teleportation array. This is a concealment method set up by the owl priests to protect their own efforts.
.
The leader of the Dark Owl Sacrifice was stunned as soon as he landed, because the black owl that was originally full of dark energy had turned gray at this time. They had prayed to the Lord of Darkness for many years and used the dark energy purified by their own bodies.
Not a trace left,
While they were going crazy, the four electricity thieves, Schiller, Bruce, Hal, and Constantine, stood in a row in the underground room.
Schiller took the first step forward and asked: "Recently, the energy of the Dark Owl Priest has been greatly lost. Do you have any clues?"
Then, he raised his head, looked at the dark energy storage modules piled into a hill, and said: