Yuan Shen: After the emperor abdicates, I will be in charge of Liyue

"The world is different today. You don't have the confidence that your sister will still be on the same front as you after the journey, and I also don't have the confidence that I can keep your sister when she decides to take a risk to save you."

"I don't know if you believe in fate or not, but I can tell you that even without this false sky, fate still exists."

"You are destined twins. No matter life or death or time and space, your destiny cannot be separated."

"How will you fight by then? Words? Or force? I'm looking forward to it."

Ai Yi looked at Kong with a smile, and then stepped directly into the space rift.

Kong stood in place, not silent for a long time, turned around and left in a moment.

He won't stop, Kanria doesn't believe in gods, nor in fate.

Chapter 35 Cost

At the gate of Mond, Kaiya finally got the steam tank he was thinking of.

As soon as he saw the black bump in the lead, Kaiya concluded that this son was extraordinary and would become a pillar of Monde in the future.

"team leader!"

The leading knight came out from the top of the tank and saluted solemnly, his face full of uncontrollable excitement.

In the past, when he escorted the caravan, he always hoped that the weather would be sunny, because it was easy to rush on the road in sunny days. After all, life in the wild was boring, and every day made people lose energy.

But only this time, he wished to spend dozens of days in the wild, letting those monsters who had troubled him before have a good taste of the power of the steam cannon.

Whenever he watched the steam tank roaring and pouring out its anger, and groups of monsters were scared away by the roar, Bayek felt a tingle from his tailbone to the top of his head.

It's just that it's fun to shoot for a while, and the logistics are scolding.

Every time he finished having a good time, the colleagues who were in charge of cleaning up the battlefield, replenishing ammunition and repairing the steam tank would catch him and spray him hard every time.

The former is because the monsters are blown to pieces, and the valuable and worthless parts are all mixed together. When they work, they always feel that they are panning for gold in shit.

The latter is simply looking at Bayek unhappy, why should I be responsible for wiping the cannon when you can fire it?

Bayek readily accepted this, and enthusiastically helped his colleagues complete their work every time.

If he is not enthusiastic, many people are staring at his gunner position. If he dares to put on a face, 1 people will rise up and take his place on the spot.

Kaiya asked with a smile: "Looking at your expression, this thing seems pretty good."

Upon hearing this, Bayek immediately became excited, "That's for sure, captain, don't you know..."

Bayek narrated the experience of this journey vividly, full of words like "one shot of a cannon, ten thousand taels of gold", "a hundred kilometers consumes one fire slime".

The narration about the power of the cannon may be somewhat exaggerated due to personal impressions, but Kaia is not concerned with these, and he has already guessed about these.

Something similar to a cannon, Tivat, has already appeared, and even more advanced short-range missiles have appeared. In terms of technical strength, steam tanks are completely incomparable with the latter.

So why is Kaia so concerned about steam tanks?

The answer is simple, because of "cost".

Unlike Blue Star, which is surrounded by labels such as 'brand effect', 'luxury goods', 'status symbol', and 'spiritual needs'.

Take a watch as an example.

The same watch has only the basic function of telling time, but after being put on the shelves with the above-mentioned labels, its price will increase countless times.

But the current Tivat is not like this. Its prices are very simple and are only determined by two factors.

One is the most basic supply and demand relationship, the higher the demand for an item, the higher the price.

There is another one that is more simple, whether it contains elemental power.

Items with elemental power can be sold at high prices, and items without elemental power are just ordinary commodities.

The prices of items with elemental power are ridiculously high, more than ten times or even more expensive than ordinary commodities.

Kaia focuses on cost because of this.

The cannons that appeared in Tiwatt before were all driven by elemental force, so a large number of items containing elemental force must be used for casting.

Such items have been in short supply in the market since ancient times.

Mond's library actually has a manufacturing method for elemental cannons, but the reason why he didn't bring it up is because Mond is facing a very real problem:

Can't afford it.

The construction and maintenance costs of the elemental cannon are a heavy burden for Mond.

When the Grand Master was still there, Mond's situation was pretty good, so everyone didn't think about making it.

Now that the leader of the group is on an expedition, Mond's situation has plummeted, and everyone wants to find something else to support the situation.

But at this time Mond could not afford to build it.

Because the market conditions of elemental items have gotten worse in recent decades, there is a mysterious organization that does not want to disclose its name to buy a large number of such items in the Seven Kingdoms, causing the prices to rise again and again.

If it was said that Mond gritted his teeth and could still afford it, now he can only watch, and he is not even qualified to end.

After all, Mond is in charge of the Knights, assisted by the church, and his income mainly depends on donations from believers and commercial taxes.

Originally, the former would earn a lot of income if it was well managed, but Fengshen is also a god of freedom, who advocated 'don't care if you have it, just believe it a little bit, of course it doesn't matter if you don't believe it', and it is completely closed.

Therefore, the cohesion to believers is relatively small, and the income is naturally not as high as that of the gods who sow miracles all day long.

For example, Lei Movie next door, as soon as the lock-up order came out, it directly wrapped the entire Daoqi with a thunderstorm.

Regardless of whether this policy is right or wrong, at least after seeing this scene, the people of Daozu immediately have full respect for Thor.

Therefore, even with internal and external troubles, Thor's rule in Daoqi is still stable, and it is nothing to charge a small amount of money.

So Mond, who didn't have much money, could only arm himself, and instead recruited a large number of newcomers.

Among other things, the momentum must be sufficient.

This was the previous thinking of the Knights.

But it was different now. Kaiya, who had given up on the idea of ​​armed knights, suddenly found a cheaper and not much less powerful solution.

"You mean, this 'steam tank' doesn't need to consume any elemental power at all during its operation?"

When Kaia said this, the smile on Kaia's face became stronger, and Bayek suddenly became serious.

But he knew the captain too well. The happier the captain smiled, the more serious the situation was.

Bayek put away his hippie smile and stood up straight: "Yes, at least we didn't touch any elemental energy during the use."

Speaking of which, he scratched his head in embarrassment: "Actually, Mr. Abedo explained the principle of this thing to us, but I didn't understand it at all. I just remember that the principle of this thing is similar to boiling water. We only need to maintain the heat of the boiler. Just add water regularly to avoid drying out.”

When Kaia heard this, her eyes flickered.

He didn't think Bayek didn't understand. Perhaps the principle of the steam tank was as simple as boiling water. After all, only such a simple principle could run smoothly without any elemental energy.

It's just that Bayek's thinking inertia made him think that the principle of such a magnificent creation must not be that simple, so he rejected this idea.

but……

Kaiya looked at the steam tank and felt a little unbelievable.

Such a big guy is actually powered by boiling water?

While Kaiya was thinking, Bayek continued: "Also, I think these tanks and tracked vehicles may be newly manufactured, Captain Kaya, remember when I was a quartermaster under your command?"

Kaiya nodded, Bayek was the old man under him, and one of the few capable generals.

"At that time, the knights recruited new people and needed a lot of standard weapons. I often received new swords and arrows. On those swords that were just cast, I could smell... um... the breath of steel, maybe ...the smell of forging oil? Forget it, it’s not important, what’s important is that I could smell this smell when I first took over these machines.”

"Each one?"

"I also paid special attention to it, and indeed there are every one of them."

Kaiya's eyes were deep, and she became more determined in her thoughts.

To produce such a large amount of energy within a few days, even if Abedo is the best alchemist, he shouldn't be able to achieve this level.

Unless the principle of this thing is very simple, even...you don't necessarily need an alchemist. If you master the corresponding skills, ordinary people can also make it.

Kaya suppressed the excitement in her heart.

"I see, is there anything else I need to pay attention to?"

"Nothing."

"Well, let the caravan enter the city first, but don't let too many people know about these...steam products. You should find a place in the northeast corner of the city to guard against any suspicious people."

"Yes!"

Bayek left, and Kaiya walked quickly to the city gate and said to the two newcomers at the gate.

"Lawrence."

The little yellow-haired rookie stood at attention nervously: "Here!"

"Find a night patrol team and help the caravan unload first. As for the specific tasks, someone will inform them later."

"Yes!"

"Swann."

"exist!"

"Go to the headquarters of the Knights. The guerrilla leader should be on standby in the headquarters. Inform her to lead the guerrilla team to the northeast of the city to find Bayek's camp, guard and guard the camp."

"No matter who, in any way, tries to contact or probe the inside of the camp, let me do it directly."

Kaiya stared into Swann's eyes, and the star-shaped pupils were shining brightly: "Catch those who can beat it, kill those who can't hold it back, and if you can't beat it, then make the noise louder. People pick them up."

"Yes!"

"Go."

It was rare for Kaiya to show his indifferent side, and he turned his head to look at a passerby who seemed to be passing by by chance.

The passer-by froze, then walked away quickly.

Kaya looked away.

What he said just now must have been heard by that person, but Kaiya didn't care.

What he said just now was for those people, as long as the conversation with Bayek was not overheard.

Kaiya activated the Eye of God, and as the ice-blue light flickered, his physique and speed increased at the same time.