Chapter 459

"Purple Moon. Where are you?"

"Sumei? When did you go online?"

"Just Just now. I heard that you hired some people to do intelligence work?"

"Well. You just hired, do you have any plans?"

"I heard you put They have all joined the guild. I don’t think this is great."

"Why?"

"Because once they join the guild, they are easily recognized by others, and they sneak into the guild. Our hostile guilds may be very inconvenient."

"I know it’s inconvenient, but it’s not easy for me to command if I don’t join the guild! And it’s not easy to handle our equipment or anything like this? "

"You guys come back first, I know a way, I used this method before in Hundred Blossom League."

"Well then!" Switch the voice to the secret channel: "Attention everyone, now return to Isengard."

Everyone heard the order and immediately unfolded the scroll of returning to the city. When we returned to Isengard, So Mi was already waiting for us. "You finally came back. These are the new recruits?"

"En." I nodded: "Didn't you say there is a good way? Hurry up."

Sumei immediately nodded and said: "Open the guild function interface and set the options to be visible to people around."

I immediately opened the settings list and set it to visible mode. People around were shocked to see the list. The huge interface is full of densely packed options, and each option has a subordinate directory. Su Mei was dumbfounded when she saw this interface. "Why are there so many things in the interface of our guild?"

"What's the matter? Isn't the interface of Baihua League like this?"

"Of course it's not like this anymore, I think By the time there is not much on it. Was it caused by the later revision and upgrade?"

"No, it has been like this since the establishment of the city, probably because there are too many things in our guild Come on!"

"Forget it, let me find it!" I used this interface by myself. No one knows what this interface looks like except Rose. The guild operations of Ying and Hong Yue are based on the position of Vice-President. Many of the functions above me are not available, so my guild is the most complicated operation interface in the guild.

Sumi watched for a long time and then pointed to the control button on the interface: "That guild power."

I tapped the operation button and a new interface appeared stacked on top of the original Front of the interface. Su Mei was surprised: "How come there are so many lower-level directories?"

"Our guild is so big and complicated to operate is normal. Without Isinger's functional interface, our guild has a total of There are 7 keys, and one of them is quit!"

"Otherwise, you don’t use many guild functions, but you can’t find it! It seems that you were wronged before!"

< p>"Long live the understanding!"

"Here, here, don't feel it."

I walked down a little bit according to Sumei's request, and I quickly found the one to use. Function. Although the operation interface of our guild is more complicated, the location of specific functions is the same as that of other guilds, but there are too many buttons to find.

Sumi pointed to the interface and said: "Did you see this? This is the most suitable, so that you will not be found out for the convenience of commanding."

I took a closer look at Sumi Function. "Subsidiary guild? What is this?"

"It is a kind of alliance, but there are many differences from the alliance in the guild relationship setting. The alliance is based on the balance of power. Although the affiliated guilds are also cooperative, there is often a huge power gap between the two parties. All these intelligence personnel are compiled into a new guild, and then set up as an affiliated guild of our guild."

"How do I command?"

Sumi explained: "The protection guild, that is, the president of our Frost Rose League can hear the guild channel of the affiliated guild at any time, and You can speak in it yourself, so you can command it?"

"What about other aspects? For example, funding?"

"Subsidiary banks will have many benefits. First, the affiliated guilds are politically independent, which means that we are hostile to a guild, and our affiliated guilds are not affected by this and will not be attacked even if they enter the other’s territory. Our affiliated guilds cannot enter their territory as well, so we must also set our affiliated guilds into a hostile state. Second, the affiliated guilds are equivalent to within the sphere of influence of the guild they are attached to. Get a 7% proportional bonus. Third, the affiliated guild can obtain a special place in the city where the guild is attached, and accept the protection it wants."

"What about the disadvantages?"< /p>

"The shortcomings basically have no effect on us. For example, affiliated guilds are not allowed to establish their own cities. Anyway, we don’t need them to expand their territory. They are our department anyway, would you not give money? There are also affiliated guilds who have to pay protection fees to the leading guild. Does this mean nothing to us? Just set the protection fee to zero? Others are all right. There are some similar restrictions, but they are of no practical significance, because this is the guild that our guild splits out, not a guild established by outsiders. The function of this subsidiary guild is equivalent to a kind of ruling relationship, which is very unfair to the small guild. , It’s oppressive, but the department you have set up is a subsidiary guild. You don’t write all kinds of rules at random?"

I thought about it for a while and said: "This thing is good, but in addition to Outside of the spy department, I seem to think that this feature has greater use."

"Greater use?"

"Yes. We can receive a lot of others in the future. The guild becomes our affiliated guild, and we only need to collect protection fees. If we want to expand the scale in the future, we can also merge the affiliated guilds with good performances directly into our guild. How convenient is it?"

"Is it dark?"

"This is called fair trade. There is nothing black or black. You tell Rose about my plan and let her design it. I also want to quickly establish this affiliated guild."

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Sumi’s suggestion is really good. I didn’t know before that it was possible to establish affiliated guilds. I blamed our guild’s interface for being messy, and I couldn’t find many useful functions! I talked about this matter to Granite, and then asked them to apply for withdrawal. I will pass the request one by one. If I knew it, I wouldn't be so troublesome to add one by one! After all quit the guild, a new guild was established by Granite as the president. The name is Hell's Eye. Anyway, we, Isengard already had an Hell's Eye. However, I did not let these 860 people join the Eye of Hell, but only let 600 of them form the Eye of Hell. The remaining 260 people were reorganized into a guild named "Fang Fang", and a captain named Sabre was in charge of the game. In the future, the Eye of Hell will be responsible for intelligence work, and the part that requires martial power will be completed by Fang.

Set the eyes of hell and the fangs as subsidiary guilds of our guild, and set all the places that need to be set to zero. The affiliated guilds cannot use our standard equipment, and even the guild guardian beasts cannot use it. This is probably the biggest trouble. In terms of equipment, I plan to collect it from people in the guild by purchasing it. If there is no suitable one, I will buy it from outside, but the guardian beast may not be easy. After all, it is not easy to find a guardian beast.

After making a new look, we returned to Goddess City. The last time we came here was to gather information, but So Mi called back, and now we start again. The guild logo and attire have been changed, and we will not be recognized when we walk on the road. The target of this investigation is the Light God Palace in Goddess City. Renjiu will definitely come here with the token to redeem it. I want to see if I can investigate anything to prevent Light God Palace from sending troops.

After dispersing everyone, I waited in a restaurant diagonally across from the temple. As long as Renjiu wanted to enter the temple, I would be spotted immediately. The people from the Eye of Hell were scattered, some were scattered in Goddess City, some went to the Wizard City of the Green Grass League to continue collecting intelligence, and some were sent by me to track down the mysterious person. There is no identity restriction this time, and their reconnaissance mission can be completed more smoothly.

I received a report after sitting in the restaurant for less than ten minutes. A member of the Eye of Hell found the mysterious person in Sunshine City. What makes me feel uncomfortable is that this Bright Sun City is the main city of the Bright Alliance of Shadow Dancers. Speaking of which The Bright Alliance has more cities than our guild. According to Windy Misty, this guild has 13 large and small cities, but 13 cities combined are only two Isinger’s area. But this shows that these cities are no longer small, because Isengard is so huge, the area of ​​the two Isengers is divided into 13 cities, and these 13 are definitely large cities.

The area of ​​Yaori City is almost the third largest of Isengard, and it can be regarded as a super city. Unlike Isinger, although the development direction of Yaori City is a war fortress, it is not closed. This city allows outsiders to enter and exit. Our people discovered the mysterious person while collecting information here.

The scout tracked all the way to the guild hall in the middle of the city. After the mysterious person entered, the guard outside immediately stood at attention and saluted. It seems that this guy is the head of the guild. Our people made a circle and sneaked into the conference hall from behind, and then found a mysterious person in a room. I can see the situation in the room through the video of the private video chat, but because our spy is hanging upside down on the eaves with a tool, the picture is all reversed!

The guy still turned his back to the camera. He took off his helmet and then began to take off his armor. There were two people across from him. One of them said: "President, I don't think Purple Moon is a kind person. Can we not get into this kind of thing?"

The other also said immediately: "Xiaofeng said Yes, I don’t approve. This Purple Moon is a disaster, so we’d better touch less."

The mysterious person who took off his armor turned around and picked up another set of equipment from the table and started putting it on. I I recognized this guy at a glance. "Shadow dancer! This is the eldest shadow dancer of the Bright Alliance. I picked up a set of Divine Item during the last guild tour, and he threatened to take revenge at the time. He was still looking for opportunities to take revenge on me. !"

The shadow dancer who put on his armor turned and said to the two people: "Stop talking, I have decided on this matter. You should think about how to defeat the Frost Rose League when you have time. Okay. Now, I have something to do, let's talk about it later!" He turned around and walked out of the room. The remaining two looked at each other and then sighed and walked out.

Our spy returned to the roof and climbed to the back window. He turned over and walked into the corridor on the second floor of the guild headquarters without paying attention. I saw it clearly through the video, professionals. It's just different.

The spy just walked along the corridor, and suddenly heard the door opening, a room in the corridor opened, and a player walked out of it. I thought it was going to be exposed this time, but I didn't know that he just walked over so indifferently, nodded with that person who didn't care when he was wrong. The other party also nodded as a greeting, and walked over without asking anything. What an expert!

When there was no one in the hallway, our spy turned and entered the room. It seemed to be a document room. The spy quickly opened the document on the desk, and after confirming that it was useless, he went to look for the file on the cabinet. Suddenly heard footsteps outside the door, he quickly put the papers away, turned around and stepped on the cabinet on the roof, supporting the corner of the wall with both hands and sticking it down on the roof like a gecko. The guy who just went out came in, took a file from the cabinet next to it, and ran out. As soon as the spy landed lightly and flipped over the cabinet, it was all worthless things. After opening the door a small slit, he returned to the corridor after making sure that there was no one outside.

I just wandered around for a long time, and searched several rooms continuously, but I couldn't find the information but took a copy of technical information. The Bright Alliance has a large-scale siege weapon code-named Qunxing, which seems to be still in the research stage, but it is close to completion. Since I saw it, I couldn’t stay. I asked the spy to bring it out. Even if they had a backup, at least we would have the same weapons.

After confirming that there was nothing to collect, I asked the spy to leave there first. From beginning to end, more than 20 people saw the spy, but no one found out that he was not from their guild. After all, the general guild does not have the uniform clothing of our guild, and the guild badge is so small. Besides, no one can think of being a spy if you meet someone in this kind of place, so our spy is so easy to follow this secret, and No one knows yet.

After successfully leaving the constituency of the Bright Alliance, I asked the spy to send the information back to Isengard. In addition, I mobilized more than a hundred spies from the surrounding area to stare at this side. I believe this time. Jiu's plan of revenge must have something to do with them.

Although the espionage work of Yaori City has gained a lot, our garrison in Goddess City has not gained anything. Instead, the granite that went to the Elf City to collect information first informed me that I don't need to stay here. That damn token turned out not to be borrowed from the Central Temple, but directly to any Light God Palace to borrow from it. When I was squatting here, the 200,000 army had already drove to the Fairy City, and we were still waiting here!

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Granite just finished the report. On the other hand, the members of the Eye of Hell I arranged in Yaori City also reported that 200,000 troops had opened from the Light God Palace in Yaori City. come out. Our guild built chaos in the Temple of Order, and the Light Alliance is a guild that supports the Light God Palace. There is the Light God Palace in their city. Compared to Ren Jiu who had to borrow troops from nearby cities, the Shadow Dancer could bring troops out as long as he was in his own city.

I quickly issued an instruction to the spy who was guarding Yaori City: "Watch everyone who enters and leave Yaori City, pay special attention to whether there are Japanese in it. This guild can come together with Renjiu, I probably know Japanese people. I don’t believe that the Japanese will not take the opportunity to intervene on such a good opportunity."

"Understand, we will keep an eye on every suspicious person who comes in and out."

There are spies staring at both cities, so I can get out and return to Isengard first. But I just arrived at Isengard and received another message. Our spies discovered that these two guilds were not the only ones participating in the battle. Our spy discovered that the Shadow Dancer had left Yaori City and followed it out. It turned out that he was in contact with several people in the guild, and the content of the discussions turned out to be related to us. He used various methods, including bribery, to let these guilds declare war on us with them, trying to bring us down at once.

To the opinions of the shadow dancers, the reactions of these guilds have nothing common with each other. Some guilds didn’t want to offend and we all rejected them, and some guilds were more tempted by the wealth of our guilds. As a result, many guilds were drawn into this team. According to this result, what we have to face is definitely not. Simple things.

According to the collected intelligence statistics, it is determined that there are almost 400 guilds participating in this operation, and we don’t even know the ones we haven’t collected. After a rough calculation, the number of people in these guilds together is about 1.5 million, and the player’s battle strength is generally higher than that of NPCs of the same level. If you count the familiars of those people, this force may be comparable to the Light God Palace. It’s been a fight. We had the support of Dark God Palace and Dragon Clan during the last battle. Now we and Dark God Palace have completely fallen out, and Dragon Clan is back to Dragon Island. We have to deal with it all by ourselves!

The Shadow Dancer doesn't seem to have any plans to stop. Since leaving Yaori City, he has constantly shuttled between cities to lobby those guilds to participate in this operation. Many guilds at first are still hesitating, but as more and more guilds join, those guilds who were afraid of failure gradually become bolder.

"Zero" is developed and operated by Longyuan. It is definitely the most popular in this country. There are currently nearly 600 million players in China, and there are 400 million people excluding non-combat professionals. Even if 1% of these 400 million people participated in this battle, it would be 4 million people. Even if these people are all 500-level people, they can peel us off!

After I got the news, I hurried to discuss with Rose and the others. I told everyone about the matter first. Everyone was taken aback.

Hong Yue suggested: "They are looking for help, why can't we? I'll get my brother to help, how can I say that the Hot Blood League is still the largest guild in China."

< p>Eagle grabbed Hong Yue and said: "Don't be impulsive. It's definitely necessary to find someone to help, but you have to discuss it first."

Su Mei also said: "I agree with the eagle's big brother. Shadow The condition for dancers to pull people is to divide up the fixed assets of our guild after victory. What can we ask for help?"

Ziyue asked: "Can't we carve up the Bright Alliance?"

Eagle shook his head: "Our guild has so many big cities and thousands of fleets to divide up. What do they have? People wouldn't be willing to send troops for that. No one would be willing to participate with a big bet and a small profit. "

Ross said: "It is definitely necessary to pull people, but not everyone needs it. Soldiers are quality but not quantity. The Hot Blood League and the Iron Crusade are both good choices. We have a good relationship in itself, and afterwards It should be enough to give some benefits to compensate for the consumption of others. Other guilds will be carefully considered. It would be unlucky if you can bring in a gangster!"

"Speaking of gangsters, don’t you think Can we just take advantage of it?" Su Mi said.

"You said that we also arranged for people to pretend to participate in the plan of shadow dancers, and then give them a completely unprepared from behind?"

Sumi shook her head: "I mean the Japanese Side."

"Over there in Japan?" I suddenly reacted. "You said Ling Yuan was blowing?"

Sumi nodded: "Although letting them go to Japan to develop Raichuan City is to support our economic development, it's not bad to get some benefits this time. You say It is possible that the shadow dancers will attack our city with the Japanese, and there will be no one in the guilds in Japan. Wouldn’t it be great to take the opportunity to close a few cities?"

"No." Rose Shake Shaking his head: "Lei Chuan does not have this battle strength, and they will act as front-line merchants in the future. Reputation is very important. They should not be allowed to enter this plan prematurely. At present, it is better to let them behave a little more detached. Purple Moon’s opinion is relatively good, but instead of playing a siege and counterattack with them, it’s a trouble will completely vanish."

"Maybe you all think things are complicated." Woma suddenly Talking surprised us all. Every time she talks about tactics, she seldom talks. Chinese people are better at planning strategies. Germans are not very suitable for planning. But because of their personalities, Woma thought of a plan that no one had thought of. . "We can do this." Woma was shocked to listen to us like this. "What do you think?"

General Wu opened the mouth and said after a long pause: "Different nations really have different ideas. Although this plan is a bit more straightforward, I believe that Chinese players will I don’t think of this plan. A strategy is a good plan only if others can’t think of it. I think it’s the way to do it."

Since the experts have spoken, we can’t oppose anything. None of the people here has participated in the formal Military command training, and General Wu is also a generation of famous generals, since he is optimistic, it should be good, and we also think it is indeed good.

Although the plan is special, the basic preparations are still the same. The first task is to try to find some partners to help, no matter how good the plan is to have someone participate! Of course Hong Yue contacted the Hot Blood League. Ying also said that he knew the presidents of several big guilds and wanted to contact him to be an insider. Asura purple clothed said to go to the Northern Alliance to see if there is any hope to get them to help. In the United States, we just stood firm and it is not suitable to ask for help. I still go there by myself in Germany, but Woma said that the women's federation had some partners before, and now I want to see if I can get some help.

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After planning, everyone dispersed to complete their own tasks. After arriving at Tianyu City together with Woma, Woma went to contact the guild we knew before, and I went to Ashford. What surprised me was that Ashford came to Tianyu City. I was about to enter Transmission Formation and he came out first.

"Well? Purple Moon? What a coincidence? Where are you going?"

"It's a coincidence. I'm going to find you, so you just run Here comes."

"I'm also here to find you."

"Then let's find a place to sit down and talk."

Take Ashiu Fude walked to the guild hall of Tianyu City and found a reception room to sit down and talk. "You can tell me about you first."

Ashford is a German and doesn't like to be polite. He opened the mouth and said immediately when I asked him to say it first: "Actually I I’m here to borrow money from you. Our guild fought a battle with the British last time. As a result, we lost a lot of battleships. Now we need to rebuild the fleet, but we don’t have enough money."

"You need How much is it?"

He reached out a hand and made a gesture: "80 million crystal coins."

I nodded: "The amount is not small!"

Ashford said frustratedly: "I also know that this amount is too large. If you can help me decide a part of it, I am very grateful. If you are willing to help, I can pay the interest, and the interest rate is..."

I stretched out my hand to stop him: "You ask for money to build ships, right?"

"Yes. My fleet was crippled by the British, and now I need to restore battle strength immediately. "

I am nodded. "How many battleships do you plan to build with this money?"

"1000 medium-sized battleships."

"First of all, I definitely can't get 80 million crystal coins. I am very short of money myself." Ashford had already started to bow his head in disappointment and prepared to sigh to leave, but quickly said: "But I have a battleship."

Ashford lifts instantly. the head looked at me: "What did you say?"

"I said I have a battleship."

"battleship? Isn't the battleship you built yourself not enough?"

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"For you, I can speed up the production schedule temporarily, and concentrate on providing battleship. But 1,000 ships are too much, I don’t have this production capacity. Do you think this is good? I’m in my steel City builds a 50-berth Super Dock Base, and then builds the Super-Teleportation Formation system in Steel City and Isinger respectively. Ships built in Steel City can be directly transported to Isinger, and then launched from Isinger to Germany. Although there will be a delay of two days on the road, our construction speed is faster, definitely faster than your own construction. And our side is a steel base, rich in minerals, direct shipbuilding costs will be lower."

"Good or good, the question is how to calculate the price?"

"You plan to have 1,000 boats of 80 million, which is 80,000 crystal coins per boat. I do this with you. Super Dock is for you Built, but we will also use it later, so the price each person gets half. A dock with 50 berths costs about 30 million crystal coins, and you pay 15 million. Those built boats are priced at cost, 10,000 each. Sell ​​crystal coins to you. The transmission fee will add 100 crystal coins to each ship. 1,000 crystal coins are 10.1 million crystal coins. If you add the 15 million dock fees, the total is 25.1 million crystal coins."

" etc. Click." Ashford yelled to me: "Do you only need 10,000 crystal coins to build a boat?"

"I haven't finished yet. I mean I produce standard ships. Body, weapons, you go back and install yourself, I just build the ship, you build the cannon at home, and you can lift it when the ship arrives."

"Sorry, you wait for me to do the calculation." Ashford began to whisper. Murmured: "If you produce your own artillery, the cost of a ship’s armament is about 20,000 crystal coins, and if all 1,000 ships are armed, it’s 20 million crystal coins, plus the 25.1 million on Purple Moon, for a total of 45.1 million crystals. Money, it’s worthwhile!" He immediately said excitedly: "This method is good. If I have money, I will definitely accept it without the slightest hesitation, but I No cash! "

I smiled and said: "I know you have no cash, and I also know that you must be satisfied with this method. According to my method, you can save 34.9 million crystal coins and get the ship at least 1 week in advance. As for the money! "I deliberately delayed for a while before continuing: "I can let you take credit, but not all of it. You give me 15.1 million crystal coins for the first volt, and we can install the remaining 30 million. What do you think? "

"I should be able to raise 15.1 million. But the other 30 million, how to calculate the interest? "

"The repayment method is to repay at least 1 million crystal coins each time. If it is less than one month, it will be automatically repaid for one month. The interest rate is 0.5‰ per month, what do you think? "

Axiu Fude thought for a while and said: "30 million a month for 15,000 interest, right? "

"This is an international interest rate, and we are an arms transaction. Can't we provide interest-free loans as the United Nations Food Program does?" "

"I didn't mean that. I mean how to set the repayment time. "

"It's almost three months, right? "

"It should not be used. "

"Then flexible change. Whenever you have money, you can pay it back. If you pay back earlier, you will get less interest. "

"Okay, I agree with this method. "Axiu Fude said very excitedly: "Give me so many benefits because there are places where I need my help, right?" You say it. I will definitely help if I can help. "

Axiu Fude is a long time after all. I have given him such a big policy tilt, obviously there is a bargain. "I won't go around with you anymore." Our guild opponents are now planning to unite some neutral guilds to bring us down in one fell swoop. As far as we know, the number of opponents participating in the battle is definitely more than 1 million. My number of people is not enough. "

"Doesn't your guild have a temple of chaos and order?" I heard that Goddess has a good relationship with you, can't you borrow troops from her? "

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"It used to be possible, but now it is not. The system stipulates that the army of any temple is not allowed to participate in the war at will, unless the temple itself is attacked, otherwise it cannot take action. "

"But there are not many people on my side! We in Germany are not as populous as yours in China. My guild is already considered a super guild, and it is only 100,000 people. Your guild has tens of thousands of people at every turn, and the larger ones are known as hundreds of thousands of members. , How can someone like me help? "

"I don't want you to have a head-on conflict. In fact, we are not defending the city, but siege it. "

"Siege? "

"Thank you too. "

"Thank me for what?" "

"We only have three cities in China. A Yunxiao City is now hosted by another guild, and no one knows that it is our property. There is also a steel city that is completely underground. No one but us knows that there is such a city, so it is very safe. "

"Where is your Isinger!" "Ashford suddenly remembered. "Oh! I see. Does Isinger have an anti-gravity device! As long as it rises to mid-air, it is completely safe. If it doesn't work, you will rise above the clouds. Your long spear can continue to attack the ground, but they can't help you! "

I smiled and said: "So I said that defense is not necessary, I want you to help attack the city. Those people left the city, and their own city became vacant. After the battle started, I first blow up the Transmission Formation. They wanted to go back to the rescue and only ran back by themselves. China has such a large land area, when they come back, the city is already ours. "

"It is said that you Chinese have a lot of strategies, and now you have finally seen it. Fortunately, we are not enemies! "

"Don't get me wrong, this is an authentic German plan, because it was created by Woma, and Woma is an authentic Aryan. "

"It turns out that we also have such a great military strategist in Germany!" "

"Don't let Woma hear, or she should have command with me!" "

Axiu Fude said with a smile: "In this case, I can send troops to help, but only 70,000 people, but there are enough weapons. "

"No weapons, just people. Our guild also has a lot of arms. When the time comes, I will send you a few guides, and then you will be responsible for several cities individually, and you will immediately occupy them after you strike them down. Because you are participating in the battle in a defensive manner, if you occupy the attacking city during this period, the city will automatically become the property of our guild. If you can occupy more than 5 cities, starting from the sixth, 3 million crystal coins will be deducted from the 45.1 million crystal coins for each additional city. If you can occupy 20 cities, I will wipe out the 100,000 fraction. Drop, battleship, I give it to you in vain. If there are more, starting from the 21st, a city I will give you 2 million crystal coins, and it is cash, never credit. "

"This is what you said. "Axiu Fude jumped up.

"We can make a contract now, and there is system verification, so don't worry about me going back. "

"Okay. "Ashford can't wait to open the system contract function and start filling in, quickly complete the contract and show it to me. "That's it, just confirm it if you agree. "

I checked that there was no error and then I confirmed my acceptance. The contract took effect immediately. Ashford immediately asked: "When do I need someone?" "

I checked the time. "It's 10 am Beijing time, and they will have tomorrow morning at the earliest, about 22 hours later. "

Ashford rushed out of the room when he heard the time, leaving only