Early the next morning, Xia Duo arrived at the alliance headquarters early. After checking the operating status of the computing power pool as usual, he returned to his office and prepared to wait for news while continuing to communicate with Rodas.
Time often flies by when working. It was almost noon when Shado finally received a crucial piece of news, but it was not related to Jamdas or Kalish, but from him in Termino.
Sri Lanka's "broiler chicken" Person.
Since the last time he helped the Illuminati transport supplies, Person was once again completely manipulated by the Illuminati. However, because of this, he gained the trust of the Illuminati. This time, Person received an order again——
Attack and destroy the magic weapon factory invested and built by Shado and Yeerlan in Elan!
After receiving this news, Xia Duo felt very angry. Before he went to the Illuminati, those guys came to his door first. He wanted to close the net immediately, but he couldn't let go of the big fish that hadn't taken the bait yet.
The best we can do now is to catch some peripheral members of the Illuminati, and it will also expose Person.
But if the network is not closed, will they be allowed to attack the factory they built in Elam?
Sha Duo suddenly fell into a dilemma. After thinking about it, he still sent a message to Oripus, who was busy building a factory in Elan. He asked the other party:
"How many of us are in Elam now? Where are they?"
"There are currently forty or fifty people in Elam, including the ones from my family. Some of them are following me to handle some clerical work, some are scattered around construction sites as construction apprentices, and some are
As a magic technician training instructor, train local technicians in the established magic weapon factory."
"How many factories have been built so far?" Xia Duo asked again.
"Two, one produces computing power pool connectors, and the other produces gateway components. Now the local elf technicians in Elan have started trial production under the training of our people, and will soon be able to independently carry out related production activities.
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"Have there been any unusual signs on your side recently? Including Ye Erlan's side."
"It seems not. I have also heard about the situation in Everesca, but Ellan has not made any small moves here. They have different opinions from you, Lord, on the issue of new artifacts, but in the development of Ellan
But they are completely consistent, and they will never be in trouble with their interests."
"One more thing, how many people on your side are planning to return to the territory for the festival?"
The reason for asking this is that the time point of the Illuminati attack that Shado obtained through Person was on Midsummer Day, which made him feel particularly angry.
Although he is not a believer of the Lord of Light, Midsummer is a day of grand celebration recognized by the territory and even the entire Netheril. The Illuminati chose this day to launch the attack, which was obviously full of malice.
And the next answer from Oripus also made Shado feel worried——
"None of them. They said that the lord is so kind to them, so they don't need extra vacation. Taking the time to train and study is the best way to repay the lord."
Xia Duo was not surprised by such an answer. When he was still an apprentice, many of the apprentices in the Tower of Time could not pass the Midsummer Festival.
After he took over the Tower of Time, he did not force everyone to attend the Midsummer Celebration. Instead, he closed some facilities in the tower on the day of the celebration. In this way, he indirectly encouraged apprentices and mages to go outside and relax.
But even so, there are still a lot of apprentices or new mages who are not willing to waste this day.
And this time, although there may be an attack by the Illuminati in the future, Xia Duo still did not force the people to return to the territory. On the one hand, this was the wish of the people, and on the other hand, it was also because the cost of a round trip was not low.
Moreover, the cost of downtime must also be taken into account. After all, the elves cannot survive the Midsummer Festival. Once the people on his side evacuate, the elves will most likely have to stop work as well.
In addition, doing so may also cause misunderstandings on the Erlan side.
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After understanding the situation in Elan in detail, Shado interrupted the communication. At this time, he still had not made up his mind whether to close the network immediately. Fortunately, this was far away from the time when Person was notified of the attack-that is, Midsummer Day.
, there are still two or three days left.
If the attack was imminent, then he would probably rather miss the opportunity to catch a big fish than close the net immediately. After all, the lives of dozens of territorial residents are not a trivial matter.
But since he was given time to prepare, he still hoped to achieve the best of both worlds as much as possible - not to allow the people in the territory to be harmed by the attack, but also to allow the attack to continue, so as not to expose Person's "broiler" attributes.
After weighing it up, Shado finally found a solution that was close to the best of both worlds. First of all, Person's attack plan was difficult to change. After all, the Illuminati was not his subordinates and could not completely avoid his leaders during the attack.
civil.
Secondly, even for the territorial citizens, it is impossible for me to equip them with too abnormal protective measures. In this way, when the Illuminati attacks, they will know that the territorial citizens are well prepared, and then they will suspect every participant in the plan.
It was only a matter of time before suspicion would come to Person's head.
Therefore, the Illuminati's attack plan can only be carried out as scheduled, and the factory must give the illusion that it is unprepared. In this case, if it were on earth, the only option would be to close the network immediately.
But in the magical world, Shado has another choice -
If those territorial citizens are allowed to be attacked, even if they are killed by the Illuminati, they can find a way to resurrect them afterwards.
Although it would be unethical to allow the people of the territory to be attacked and killed once, this is the only possibility that Xia Duo can think of after weighing it.
Only in this way can we protect the people while not exposing Person, and then get the opportunity to catch big fish in the long run, at the cost of only frightening the people.
Thinking of some details of police handling cases on TV in his hometown, Xia Duo gradually solidified his idea. It would be best if he didn't take any risks at all, but how could everything go as planned in reality? After all, he still had to take certain risks.
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In the next two days, Shado activated the soul summoning circle at the Tower of Time, and asked Oripus to lock down the subjects in Elam one by one. This is also the maturity in [Projection Plane·Remnants of the Empire]
plan.
In fact, he also had a "Soul Amulet" plan, but the features of this plan were too obvious and would inevitably be noticed by the Illuminati, so he chose remote soul summoning.
Both options have their own pros and cons -
"Soul Amulet" has a higher safety factor, but the cost is also higher;
The safety factor of "Soul Summoning" is slightly lower, but the more people die, the lower the overall cost of preserving souls. Of course, if there is only one soul, then "Soul Amulet" is still cheaper.
After all, the cost of building a soul summoning circle is not a small amount.