My players are all acting

At 10 o'clock in the evening, the Fortress of the Ordered.

Zhao Haiping walked out from the portal and found that the place was crowded with people and it was very lively.

In front of the blacksmith shop in the city, many people had already gathered.

As the players recover more and more historical slices, the area of ​​the Fortress of the Sequencer is also increasing, and there are more and more NPCs such as craftsmen and merchants in the city.

Even the blacksmith's shop has changed from a few places to dozens of places, large and small, all over the town.

After all, this Sequencer Fortress can accommodate nearly 100,000 players in its extreme state. If there are too few merchants, it is simply impossible to provide services for so many players.

And the products sold by these merchants are also different.

Take blacksmith shops for example. Although the weapons and armor sold are basically the same, they are all the standard equipment of Qi Dynasty or Sheng Dynasty, but blacksmith shops in different regions will also have different emphases.

For example, some blacksmith shops are more inclined to armor, some are more inclined to weapons, and some are more inclined to firearms.

In addition, there are many specialized workshops for the production of other special equipment.

At this time, a large number of players had already gathered at the door of one of the workshops.

These players are frantically snapping up the new equipment that has just been released in this version update-the Qi Chao Fusila.

Although it is called the Qi Dynasty flintlock gun, it has nothing to do with the Qi Dynasty. It is all created by the players in the historical slice.

After this weapon entered the Fortress of the Sequencer, players were surprised to find that not only did it not have any cut corners or weakening, but it also had a certain improvement in workmanship and details.

As for the price, although it is more expensive than the original matchlock gun, considering the huge improvement of the flintlock gun over the matchlock gun, it is totally worth the money.

In addition, these flintlock guns are also equipped with upgrade kits, such as paying more prices to make certain structures of these flintlock guns more solid.

It can be said that it is hard for people's wallets to refuse.

"Bring me a flintlock!"

"I also want!"

"Looks like there's an upgrade kit? Put it all on for me!"

Players have gone on a buying spree, with no sparing of their wallets.

As for the cavalry players, watching these players frantically snapping up flintlock guns, they had mixed feelings in their hearts.

Seriously, a little bit of a bummer!

Because these cavalry players still have a kind of pride in the cold weapon era.

Think back, how much everyone suffered in order to pass the cavalry trial!

In the ensuing battle, their suffering was indeed rewarded.

Cavalry has always been the most important arm in the cold weapon era. In the historical slice of the Great Sheng Dynasty, they followed Sheng Taizu to charge and beat the northern barbarian cavalry to pieces. How hearty it was.

But now, other players who have not passed the cavalry trial can actually play flintlock, which makes these cavalry players a little uncomfortable.

Because these flintlock players seem to be superior to them in many ways!

You don't need to clear the difficult dungeon of the cavalry trial, and you don't need too much training, just get familiar with the process of loading projectiles;

In terms of equipment, although flintlocks are not cheap, these people have no other expenses except for flintlocks, bayonets and ammunition. On the other hand, cavalry not only have to buy weapons and armor for themselves, but also have to buy armor for their horses. , These things add up to be much more expensive than flintlock guns.

The key is that if the two sides face each other, the cavalry will really be beaten by flintlock guns.

This makes people very uncomfortable!

There are also some cavalry players considering whether to apostate on the spot, buy a flintlock gun quickly, and join if they can't beat it.

But more cavalry players still haven't done so.

On the one hand, even with the advent of flintlock guns, cavalry is an irreplaceable unit because of its high mobility—unless players can create tanks;

On the other hand, it is because, with the update of the game "Dark Sand", the more you go to the ancient times, the more you will go to the fantasy style of painting, and the cavalry will definitely have a chance to turn around.

Therefore, the cavalry players still retained their pride and did not succumb to the lust of the flintlock.

Zhao Haiping also didn't plan to use a flintlock gun. After all, his skills were all about cold weapons. He was not particularly good at shooting guns, so there was no need to look far away.

He came to the blacksmith shop and renewed a piece of heavy armor for himself.

The Qi Dynasty was the pinnacle of heavy armor in the cold weapon era. Whether it was the infantry armor of the Qi Dynasty or the Iron Buddha of the Jin Kingdom, they were all the top heavy armor.

It's just that although this kind of heavy armor is of excellent quality, it is indeed too expensive.

The Kingdom of Jin was founded on cavalry, and it has always been proud of cavalry. But after the Tiefutu, which was raised with all the effort of the whole country, was defeated by General Han Fuyue, it was no longer possible to raise such a powerful armored cavalry.

Later, although the Northern Man and the Sheng Dynasty also paid more attention to armored cavalry, they shrank a little in terms of armor.

After all, the great battles in ancient China often involved a large number of people, not village chiefs fighting with hundreds of people. All weapons or armor are standard equipment for tens of thousands of people. Both performance and cost must be considered.

After finding a balance between cost and performance, things like steppers are no longer the best choice.

But in the Fortress of the Orderer, this is not a problem.

There is no shortage of money, and there are no restrictions on the physical strength of the horse and the physical strength of the player. Of course, the performance of the armor is as high as possible.

After putting on the new armor neatly, Zhao Haiping rode his horse and left the Fortress of the Ordered Ones.

Outside the city, players are also busy with construction work.

The first is the walls of the Orderer's Citadel.

After updating the equipment such as the flintlock gun, divine arm bow, infantry armor, bed crossbow, and new artillery, many large-scale equipment were installed on the city wall by the players in charge of city construction.

For example, on the city wall at this time, many shooting holes were planned, and the cannons were placed among them.

In addition, a small amount of equipment such as bed crossbows and trebuchets were also arranged.

This is mainly because players have to consider the cost-effectiveness of equipment. Although cannons are powerful, the cost of both the cannon itself and the shells is relatively high, while the cost of bed crossbows and trebuchets is lower.

Especially the trebuchet, its ammunition is the bricks and stones that can be seen everywhere in the city, and its range is extremely long, it may be able to play a miraculous effect in the future.

Saved money, of course, there are other uses.

For example, start planning other cities; another example, build a navy that belongs to the player.

After conquering the previous historical slices, players can use construction points to purchase loach boats of different sizes.

These loach boats have already played a huge role in the battle of Niuzhu.

The original concept of the fortress of the sequencer has already reserved the position of the navy.

The fortress is surrounded by water on three sides and mountains on one side, especially on the north and south sides, with steep slopes, and the mountains go straight into the water, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

On both sides, the players have reserved naval docks. After the warships are parked, they can transport troops directly through the city walls to build a three-dimensional defense system for the waterways.

At that time, players can continuously transport soldiers to all corners of the battlefield through warships, and can also use cannons to bombard the enemy directly on the water.

At this time, the Navy Wharf is already under construction in full swing.

Zhao Haiping originally wanted to leave the city and go for a walk on the plain outside to see if he could be lucky enough to meet a bandit or a barbarian for some money, but he didn't expect that just after he left the city, he seemed to be met. He reached an air wall and separated him.

Immediately afterwards, there was a rumbling vibration in the distance!

I saw that the terrain outside the city had begun to change drastically.

The earth cracked, and some places continued to rise, while others began to sink and water poured in.

The entire landform has undergone earth-shaking changes in a short period of time!

Of course, this change only happens in areas that are almost new and not systematically developed by the players. The original scope of the Fortress of the Orderer was basically not affected.

Obviously, this is the new plan of Li Weiyi and other players.

After the violent shaking of the terrain, a second site suitable for building a city appeared.

In fact, Li Weiyi and other players originally considered two different plans, one is two cities guarding each other, and the other is three cities, fighting each other.

But for three cities, too many manpower, material resources, and financial resources need to be dispersed.

So in the end, the players chose to build only one new city and try to make it as strong as possible.

After the terrain is generated, the surrounding air wall disappears, and Zhao Haiping can continue to gallop around in the wild.

...

In the Stronghold of the Sequencer, many players have found that everything in the Stronghold seems to be more organized.

Many people still thought it was their own illusion, but after they arrived near the city lord's mansion, they found a change that was obviously different from before.

Beside Beichen, there was a middle-aged man with rough appearance.

And this middle-aged man is constantly dealing with political affairs, discussing with the players, re-planning the entire Linyuan City, or finalizing the construction plan for the new city.

This is what appeared in the state of a heroic spirit, Zaizhi Wang Wenchuan!

After clearing the historical slice of "I want to talk about it", Wang Wenchuan's heroic spirit was activated. But unlike General Deng Yuanjing, he can only be summoned in a non-combat state.

Therefore, at this time, Wang Wenchuan is mainly helping the players to sort out the internal affairs of the Fortress of the Sequencer.

With the increasing scale and more and more NPCs, the various affairs in the entire sequencer city are naturally becoming more and more chaotic.

Although the players headed by Li Weiyi also have certain plans for the city, this kind of planning mainly focuses on the city defense plan, and does not actually have much participation in the internal political management of the city.

As for Bei Chen, he is just Meng Yuan's clone, a pure tool man.

In name, he is the city lord, but in fact it is just a decoration, mainly responsible for collecting players' opinions and suggestions for Meng Yuan.

The appearance of Wang Wenchuan at this time allowed the internal affairs of the entire Fortress of the Orderers to be well sorted out, and everything became orderly.

As time goes by, this state will not only be maintained, but there is still room for further improvement.

Wang Wenchuan's talent, after all, was the head of the dynasty. When he was young, he managed a county and made excellent achievements, which made it impossible for the emperor and officials to ignore him. At this time, managing a city is even easier.

...

In the open space outside the city, apart from patrolling players like Zhao Haiping who wanted to make money by fighting monsters, there were also many players who had just received flintlock guns.

At this time, these more than 10,000 players were training with flintlock guns in the wild.

Li Hongyun and several players who participated in the Battle of Niuzhu naturally became their "instructors", starting from the most basic how to load a flintlock gun, to the necessary content of combat such as array tactics and steps.

"Stand in a dense array, everyone stands in three or five rows, with a gap of half a meter between each row.

"Attention, during the process of loading bullets, it is necessary to use the cleaning rod to clean the barrel or compact the ammunition. These are all necessary operations. After using the cleaning rod, you must insert it back, and don't throw it on the ground!

"After shooting, if possible, try to confirm whether the bullet has been fired. If not, then hurry up and change to another gun, and don't continue to reload it stupidly..."

Under the command of Li Hongyun and other players, these players equipped with flintlock guns began to practice basic tactical skills such as loading ammunition and marching pace.

Only by being skilled in tactics and prohibiting orders can we ensure that this team has a strong enough combat effectiveness.

However, Li Hongyun is still very optimistic about this. After all, the players are much more reliable than the aborigines in the historical slices of the Qi Dynasty.

Those aborigines took ten years to practice. After all, it is very difficult to let them understand why they can’t retreat after being shot by an arrow, and they have to wait for the enemy to get close enough to shoot. Disaster.

Their education level is too low, and they have their own selfishness. It will take a long time to train them in this way beyond the times.

Although players have a fast-forward function in the history slice, which allows them to quickly jump to key nodes, such things as training the aborigines still make Li Hongyun feel a little tortured.

Well now, it's much faster to train as players.

Seeing that the team of flintlock guns grew stronger and stronger, Li Hongyun couldn't help feeling proud.

What if you didn't pass the cavalry trial?

If we use flintlock guns, we can also suppress demons!

Shenjiying will never be a slave!

...

At this time, Meng Yuan was in the sequencer space, observing the situation in the sequencer city fortress with the merchants.

Looking down from a high-altitude perspective, the players are like a group of hardworking ants, constantly busy around the fortress and various resources around it, which makes Meng Yuan feel the joy of a good harvest.

To be more precise, it is the joy of others helping to move the bricks and giving him a good harvest.

It's so fun to be a hands-off shopkeeper!

However, after seeing the various behaviors of the players, Meng Yuan suddenly realized a problem that he had overlooked before.

"Should I unlock a new subsidiary identity for the players?"

Meng Yuan suddenly realized this.

So far, the game "Dark Sands" has only unlocked one subsidiary status, which is cavalry.

This is mainly because the status of cavalry is too important, so as soon as the conditions allowed, Meng Yuan started the exclusive trial, allowing players to obtain the status of cavalry and win the battle afterward.

But after opening the cavalry status, there is basically nothing lacking in the battlefield, so Meng Yuan didn't think about what other subsidiary status to open in a short time.

Meng Yuan suddenly realized this problem when he saw players buying flintlock guns one after another and practicing queuing up shooting tactics.

It's not because the flintlock is very strong, so it needs to be a subsidiary status to strengthen it and balance it out, but to consider the issue of future combat power upgrades in advance.

The further we advance to the ancient times, the lower the lethality of thermal weapons will definitely be.

So, if the tactics that the players have worked so hard to train at this time are useless, wouldn't it be very hurt?

Moreover, the flintlock represents not only a style of fighting, but also a type of fighting.

That is to say, the type of combat that focuses on the use of equipment.

Even in ancient times, there must be many kinds of equipment that can be opened to players.

Therefore, Meng Yuan felt that another subsidiary status should be opened, so that these players who are good at building and using equipment can obtain enhancements in their natural skills.

In this way, even if a big monster really appears in the future, the matchlock guns or crossbows in the hands of the players can still play a role.

Not all players can only fight hand-to-hand with cold weapons in the end.

The merchant nodded and agreed: "Well, it sounds really necessary.

"However, you forgot to mention it in the new version update announcement before."

Meng Yuan didn't take it seriously: "It doesn't matter, anyway, it's all planned by the dog.

"Players won't think that I forgot about things like this kind of increase in quantity but not in price, they will only think that this is a surprise I prepared for them.

"Anyway, I'll go to the bulletin to make up for it!"

...

Not long after, players saw a new supplementary announcement on the official website of "Dark Sand".

The content is as follows.

"New update:

"Fifth, Subsidiary Identity Unlock: 'God Machine'.

"On top of the four basic identities of soldier, assassin, scribe, and ranger, unlock the subsidiary identity 'God Machine' that is parallel to the subsidiary status of 'Cavalry', and open the exclusive trial copy of God Machine: Ingenious Workmanship.

"After clearing the exclusive trial copy of the Divine Machine, you can obtain the subsidiary identity of the Divine Machine and obtain the exclusive talent skills.

"Remarks: There can only be one subsidiary status, 'cavalry' and 'magic machine' status, you can only choose one of the two."

At the same time, this new content has also been added to the new version update announcement.

Soon, the players began to discuss.

"Huh? There's a new subordinate status!"

"I thought it was gone in this version update, why is it added?"

"Could it be... that the production team of "Dark Sand" forgot?"

"It's unlikely. This is a trial dungeon anyway. Even if the production team of "Dark Sand" is very skilled, it will take a long time to develop it? How could it be possible to add it after forgetting it? In my opinion, this is very likely to be a surprise. !"

"Shenji, you mean Shenji Battalion? Then, can this sub-talent increase the power of muskets? Or increase the hit rate!"

"The dungeon name is ingenious? Well... the name of the cavalry trial tells me that this trial must not be easy..."

"Whatever, isn't this dungeon already out? Go challenge it and see!"