After Bobby was killed by the players, the remaining armed forces on the ship were unable to resist the players' offensive.
In fact, the defensive force deployed by Ingrid is really quite considerable.
The old wizard who was killed by the delicious wind goose before was probably also a fallen person.
Then these are three fallen people who are equivalent to the peak of Silver level, plus "Bobby" who has the ability to restrain the players.
Poppy's strength is at the serious gold level, but it must be inferior. Even if the Fallen's ability is cultivated to the highest level, its ability priority is still not as high as the power of elements, so she was borrowed by Husky.
Annan's power was instantly destroyed...
But she seems to have no problem beating the swarms of silver. Among the players' forces, the only gold-level player who can move freely is Annan - Isaac's existence is a secret, and it is not related to players who can infinitely resurrect.
Compared to them, Annan would not dispatch him easily.
In order to prevent Annan's brain from twitching, Ingrid sailed the ship to the sea far away from the shore. She also sent someone to reveal the news about the devil's blood.
Although extraordinary beings have a very strong oppressive force when they are on land, if they are trapped in the sea by a ship, they will also feel helpless because of the power of nature.
If you are a disabled wizard, you can freeze the water into an ice road; the idol wizard can let you breathe in the water; the shaping wizard can not only shape the water into ice, but also directly shape the water into a pallet, starting directly on the sea
Shrimp catcher...
…But that’s all these people.
Once other people are on the ship, surrounded by sea and far away from the shore, if they are directly sunk remotely, they will probably be dead.
After all, until they reach the silver level, extraordinary people still need to breathe, eat, sleep and excrete...if they don't focus at all, they will still drown in the water.
As long as the ship is sunk or burned from a distance, any lifeboats and other small boats are destroyed, and she is not given a chance to grab the ship, then in the end Poppy can only die in the sea with hatred.
…That’s why they claimed that the ship was filled with demon blood.
Although the players and Annan didn't believe it, they still had to come and take a look.
Demon's blood is the most cherished "golden" grade among the cursed materials in this world - although it is the easiest to buy among the golden-grade cursed materials, it is also the cheapest.
On the black market, a portion of demon blood can be sold for eighty pounds.
In a relatively normal year, a farmer or fisherman's annual savings would be about one or two gold coins.
According to the current exchange rate, almost one gold coin can be exchanged for twelve or thirteen silver coins, which can buy about five books, or twelve or three subway rides, a small bag of bullets, two iron daggers, two bottles of poison, and one-fifth of a handful.
A finely forged steel sword, one-twentieth of a young war horse, one-fortieth of a rifle, and one-eightyth of a full set of metal armor.
The most expensive hotel in Noah cost more than 100 gold coins per night; before Annan succeeded to the throne, the Principality of Winter suffered a loss of 40,000 to 50,000 gold coins every year.
A portion of devil's blood is equivalent to the savings of fifty years of work for the lower class people...but it may not be enough to stay in Noah's top hotel for one night.
In that hotel, whether it was the hand-woven wool carpets on the floor, the paintings on the walls, or the sculptures placed at the door, they were all made by famous artists. The guarantee was also at the level of Bishop Yaweng.
Even the chandeliers are crystal chandeliers inlaid with gold.
Of course, big businessmen are not fools either.
If it was just decoration, they wouldn't spend this kind of money.
When staying in that hotel, it actually comes with some high-end drinks and top-notch food. If necessary, there are also very beautiful singers and dancers who can perform shows at any time, or enter the room to serve at any time. It also has built-in
An opera house, a hot spring, a library, a hunting ground, equipped with extraordinary guards, and a barrier to isolate the ritual.
However, these services still cannot match this expensive price.
Because they are not selling goods, but services - of course, more importantly, they are selling concepts.
When Noah's "guarantors" meet, they will choose this hotel for safety reasons.
When the news spread, it became a treat.
In other words, it is not for the accommodation, nor for the entertainment services that can be provided during the stay, but precisely because "this is the most expensive", "here has the most luxurious enjoyment", "this is where the real big shots come"
The concept of "place" only became famous when its price was so high.
The small nobles from other places, in order to compete with the nobles of the royal capital, will try to live frugally and find ways to live there once; and the big businessmen hope to get to know some big shots so that they can turn their wealth into power; and
Those big shots in foreign countries will not show timidity - since you can live here every day, how can we not afford it?
It's closer to a club than a hotel itself.
Zhi Ji took Annan to live here before.
At that time, he even felt sorry for Zhi Ji's money.
It was only when I met Ya Weng not long ago that I learned that it was given directly to Zhi Ji by the manager of the hotel.
Not just Paper Princess. All the churches that may come to Noah always have a room in this hotel, which is cleaned carefully every day. This is used for the pope, cardinal, or wandering gods to stay.
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And the most powerful nobles in various countries...including the "Lin Dong Family" themselves actually have a room here.
Zhiji also took Annan to live in her room.
These occupied rooms accounted for 60% of the entire hotel rooms. But it did not make the boss lose money at all. Instead, it became some kind of advertising, allowing the boss to make more money...
Annan was also shocked at the time.
What kind of business acumen was this ahead of its time?!
After careful inquiry, Annan learned that this was the store opened by Lord Silver's previous pope, and it is still operated by the Chamber of Commerce controlled by Lord Silver's church. The old man had written several books during his lifetime, specifically explaining
Various business techniques and marketing methods...
Compared to such truly wealthy people, demon blood is not expensive at all, it can even be said to be cheap.
After all, it does not become precious because of "rare production", "secret formula" or "extremely potent"...
Part of the reason why smuggling demon blood is a capital crime is that it can quickly turn someone into a corrupt person; and part of the reason is also because the raw material of demon blood... is human beings themselves.
Only a fallen person with a pure soul can be transformed into demon blood. The determination of the purity of the soul is relatively broad... that is, after the fall, if there is still no intention to harm others, it can be determined as a pure soul.
After all, the process of degradation itself will amplify negative emotions.
Many social animals who originally seemed to be honest and honest may suddenly turn into serial murderers after falling. On the one hand, it is because they suddenly gain power and know too little about the world and become swollen. On the other hand, it is because of the path to depravity.
It is a test of will and morality in itself.
——The road to sublimation tests one's desires, while the road to degradation tests one's will.
In other words...
Every time a piece of demon blood is produced, it means that an innocent "good person" will pay his life for it.
If this ship really is filled with demon blood...
Calculated based on the six bottles of demon blood that can be put into a suitcase with each embedded package with shock absorption and light protection, which are bundled together and can be put into the suitcase. Excluding the number of guards, this ship will be at least
It can release six to seven hundred units of demon blood.
Excluding the failure rate of nearly 60%, this means that nearly 8,000 people will die as a result.
... The population of sparsely populated towns and villages is roughly the same. There are even some underground cities that cannot reach this population.
Even if you let her go and arrest people at will, you won't be able to arrest 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 inspect the hull.
And got a good news and a bad news.
The good news is that there really is demon blood on this ship.
Eight hundred units of demon blood!
...In other words, eight hundred units of containers used to store demon blood.
The bad news is that most of them are empty.
Seven players carefully inspected it for more than two hours.
I found that there was almost always something in the outermost layer... but the further inside, the more empty it became.
It is estimated that the final amount of demon blood that can be found is about a hundred units.
No matter how hard you try, you will never get a thousand copies.
If there are more than 80 units with items in the boxes, it would be good to get 500 copies of Demon's Blood.
The problem 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... many of the boxes were empty at the beginning. It can be directly determined that Ingrid stuffed a bunch of empty boxes into them.
And using this method must be to cover up how much demon blood she took away!
If you think about it carefully, Ingrid has pulled the same trick twice.
She had the "Vicious Hands" plunder the cargo ship, nominally allowing it to be hijacked by pirates and the cargo lost...but in fact Denisoya's navy was still guarding it, proving that it was never really stolen.
It's just that this pot must be thrown to the "poisonous hands", so that Ingrid and a certain force behind her who can be on the "advisory committee" can monopolize this wave of wealth.
And her second level plan is to use this string of demon blood to lure players into being fooled.
Let's see if the "Poppy" she specially cultivated can restrain the player's resurrection - if possible, it would be best to use Poppy's ability to hijack some players for subsequent plans.
But what if some unexpected situation occurs and Poppy fails to kill the players, but is killed by the players instead...
That's her third level plan.
She stole a batch of demon blood herself - and because the number of empty boxes exceeded the norm, it was impossible to tell how much she had taken... and at the same time, it could lead to Annan.
Annan immediately thought of a joke.
This is like Uncle Yu Qian being hijacked by Somali pirates. The pirates wanted three million U.S. dollars, but he gave them four million U.S. dollars and asked for an invoice for ten million U.S. dollars...
At that time, she told the person behind her that the demon blood had been stolen by "unknown forces". Then there was no way to verify the batch of demon blood that she had secretly purchased.
Although at this time, Annan only needs to admit that he is causing trouble and hand over these things to Denisoya. Then he can get the correct data and directly dismantle Ingrid's allies in Denisoya's top management.
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——But it is impossible for Annan to do this.
Because this is not a small sum after all.
Even based on the market price, regardless of supply channels, this batch of demon blood is worth nearly 10,000 pounds. Even if the Principality of Winter now has Noah's investment, it will not be short of money for the time being... then
Wouldn't it be okay to distribute it directly to the players and let them buy houses, weapons, horses, etc.?
What's more, it's impossible for him to admit his identity. In that case, it would be equivalent to his defeat in advance.
Just like it was with Noah.
It was impossible for him to continue to control Denisaw after exposing his actions.
There is only one chance to steal the country, and Annan must seize the opportunity to take Denisoya into his pocket. Before that, Annan must ensure his clean status as an "outsider."
And because Ingrid put in a large number of empty boxes, Annan was unable to match the correct number with the demon blood on hand. So this was equivalent to putting Ingrid's plan, the size of her organization, and even
All the information on where the demon blood was obtained is hidden.
Since she dared to leave these boxes here, she must have undergone ritual masking treatment. Annan could not track her through the ritual.
Investigating this information also takes time.
What Ingrid lacks is time.
"After confirming that the ability of the 'Wither Demon' can restrain players, I conducted an experiment on the 'Youth Version of Living Desert', hid it from both my superiors and Annan, and stole a batch of demon treasures that were difficult to obtain in large quantities through normal channels.
Blood...her plan should be considered a success."
Annan whispered.
He soon realized... why Ingrid took the risk and stole a batch of demon blood.
Her ability to mass-produce the fallen through the purification power of the sky wheel 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... Demon
Blood is the most stable source of curses.
So at this time, if Annan sells a large amount of demon blood - the people who buy it must be Ingrid's people.
If you follow the clues, you can find her base.
That is to say...
She stole this batch of demon blood not to take risks and gain money - but to hide her existence!
Once you figure this out.
Annan's thoughts suddenly became clear.
Attracting hostility to Annan from the top brass of Denisawyer...
Throw Annan out to attract other people's attention...
Create a "power of wither" aimed at players, creating a youthful version of the living desert that seems to have no use other than cooperating with the wither demon to fight the players...
So much so that she took risks and swallowed a batch of demon blood...
It was almost superfluous, leaving a large number of empty boxes to hinder Annan's investigation.
——All of these have one thing in common.
It's not about defeating Annan, it's not about defeating players...
But drag! Hard drag!
Smash out all the forces, followers, and accumulated political connections that he has managed for a long time, and hold back Annan at all costs - to make him hesitate!
This is her fourth plan in addition to her three plans.
It's an honest conspiracy.
In other words... Ingrid actually had no plan to defeat Annan from the very beginning! All her plans were smoke bombs.
She has only one real purpose.
Try your best to hold back Annan - there is only one possibility.