PFC Chapter 7272 Taking the Initiative
Chapter 7272 Taking the Initiative
Chapter 7272 Taking the Initiative
According to Chen Xi's original calculations, it should have only taken Zhao Shuang three or four days to figure out the location of the self-aware demon god on the other side. But as Zhao Shuang continued to calculate, he discovered that there was more than one demon god on the other side, and that their actions seemed to be mutually exclusive.
What does that mean? Mathematics is something that, once calculated, is what it is. So Chen Xi could only assume that two self-aware demons had appeared on the other side, and then let Zhao Shuang continue to calculate according to the new formula until today when the exact location was found.
"The current situation is like this: Imperial Censor Zhao has calculated the locations of two demon gods with self-awareness, but according to his calculations, the two demon gods are most likely not on our side. They are just pulling each other apart because of mutual intimidation and the inability to obtain equal opportunities for communication, which has caused a large number of corpse demon gods to be expelled." Chen Xi explained the current situation in a deep voice.
"Should I go and communicate with these two demon gods now?" Huang Tao asked with a somewhat strange expression. What was there to communicate with two enemies?
“Communicating with one of them led to a misjudgment. The current situation is like this: one of the demon gods is at the eighth level, and the other is at the seventh level. The difference in their strength has caused considerable problems.” Chen Xi pointed to two points on the map and said, “What we need to do now is to contact this seventh-level demon god and express our willingness to join forces to annihilate him.”
"Will they believe it?" Huang Tao asked with a hint of curiosity.
"Of course we won't believe it, but we really will attack the main force led by another demon god, and then create a fait accompli, so that the two sides start fighting each other." Chen Xi said calmly, "And once the fighting starts, it will be entirely beneficial to us."
"I remember that the battles between demon gods can cause a devouring phenomenon, right?" Huang Tao asked with a hint of curiosity. "Even if there are some losses in the process, the demon gods born will be more powerful, especially since these demon gods are actually left behind by their grandsons, and they themselves have a special ability to merge."
Chen Xi wasn't puzzled by this, since his grandson had given Huang Tao a lot of knowledge, so it was normal for Huang Tao to know such things.
“The self-aware seventh-level demon god will expel the eighth-level demon god, while the other side is also actively expelling the eighth-level demon god.” Chen Xi said in a deep voice, “In other words, the civil war will eliminate the current scale of the demon gods and cause them to split significantly. Although it may form thousands of eighth-level fusions, if they are scattered in various places, they will be easier to deal with than they are now.”
If the fighting and mutual devouring lead to a large number of eightfold melting and cause the current organizational structure to fall apart, it would actually be a good thing for the current Han Dynasty.
The stronger an individual is, the higher the intensity of the cloud energy they can provide. However, if an extremely powerful individual is much smaller in scale than a weaker individual, the total scale of the cloud energy will decrease.
In other words, as the demons devour each other to gain greater strength, the overall scale of their cloud energy decreases. Once it decreases to a certain level, the difference in cloud energy truly emerges, allowing the Han Dynasty's Breaking Boundary and Inner Qi Leaving the Body to unleash their full combat power. The Eightfold Demon God will then only have its recovery ability left!
Moreover, once the cloud formations change, the regular Imperial Guards of the Han Dynasty will be able to encircle and annihilate these demons. At that time, the number of casualties can be reduced from the four-digit number that Chen Xi estimated to three digits, or even less than a hundred if all preparations are made.
After all, a thousand or so eight-fold demon gods without any organizational power are just a thousand or so ferocious beasts at the level of internal energy leaving the body in the eyes of the Han Dynasty. The problem is that over the years, the Han Dynasty has exterminated no less than a thousand of these things, and the number of veterans who died during the extermination of these things is definitely no more than thirty.
So when Zhao Shuang figured out the truth, Chen Xi had a very clear idea.
"I'll make contact now. The mark that His Highness the Grandson left me should be of some use," Huang Tao said with a hint of skepticism. Chen Xi nodded in agreement. "But we still need to be careful."
"I'll go now." Huang Tao clasped his hands in a salute. He knew that this kind of thing couldn't be delayed, and a quick resolution was the best option.
"Well, there's one more thing I'd like to know." Huang Tao clasped his hands in a salute and prepared to leave, but Chen Xi quickly called out to him. Chen Xi was somewhat curious about the thing Sun Qian had mentioned earlier, and Huang Tao was from Yangzhou, so he should have a good understanding of the area. After all, with Huang Tao's mobility, it was normal for him to spawn anywhere.
"Please enlighten me, Lord Chen," Huang Tao said sincerely.
"I heard that you guys in Yangzhou are working on something like deep-sea salmon, which is supposedly good for brain development?" Chen Xi said casually.
Upon hearing this, Huang Tao frowned deeply. After a while, he managed to glean some information from his mind. "It is true that there is such a thing. I heard about it from other people, but I haven't seen this fish myself. If it really exists, I would definitely bring a few to Chang'an."
Chen Xi nodded upon hearing this. Huang Tao said he had heard of it but had never seen it, which was about the same as Chen Xi's earlier estimate. Conversely, there must be something shameful about this thing. If it were something that could be seen by others, Huang Tao would definitely bring it to Chang'an for Liu Bei to try.
This is probably no longer just a matter of false advertising; there are other issues involved.
However, Chen Xi doesn't have time to delve into this right now. He needs to deal with this bunch of lunatics in Yunmeng. As for other matters, they all have to be put on hold.
“Okay, that’s all. I was thinking that if there’s a big fish of this kind that’s a rare treasure, I could get some to try.” Chen Xi said quite naturally. Huang Tao didn’t doubt him at all. After all, Liu Bei was fond of revelry and Chen Xi was fond of food. All the veterans knew this. In fact, many of the things Huang Tao was currently eating were developed by Chen Xi. So Chen Xi’s behavior seemed normal to others.
"Then I'll take my leave." Huang Tao clasped his hands in a fist salute and left. He then took the seal and headed to the logistics department to collect various supplies. This kind of thing was extremely dangerous. You should know that, so far, apart from the first group of people who broke through the demon god's army, everyone else was killing scattered demon gods. And the demon god that Huang Tao was going to see this time was in the army.
Not to mention that one could easily get trapped, there is certainly a possibility of that. Huang Tao does not believe that his substitution ability is invincible. Even if no one has cracked it at this stage, it is not true that there is no talent in the world that can restrain this special substitution ability.
"Are you sure it's two demon gods dynamically clearing things?" Chen Xi asked Zhao Shuang with a heavy heart after Huang Tao left.
“Well, judging from the current node movement, there should only be these two. But the fact that the Eightfold Demon God encountered a fatal attack and regained consciousness has given me other speculations. The reason why the Eightfold Demon God was exiled is probably because of this. Compared to the Sevenfold Demon God, who is unable to find himself normally, the Eightfold Demon God has the potential to seize power.” Zhao Shuang said with an extremely serious expression.
"Then why don't the self-aware demon gods just devour those eight who are still not clear-headed? Wouldn't that solve the crisis of seizing power and enhance their own strength at the same time?" Chen Xi asked with a hint of strangeness, and Zhao Shuang looked at Chen Xi with the same strangeness.
"Okay, that's beyond your knowledge. I understand." Chen Xi nodded, then changed the subject, asking, "What else did you discover?"
"I've been mainly calculating this these past two days, and haven't done any other side jobs. So I haven't made any new discoveries. But when I came here, I had nothing to do, so I made a formula for calculating the superposition of the God-Slaying Spear's implosion." Zhao Shuang said calmly, "After multiple God-Slaying Spears are launched, how do I create the maximum explosive power at the required location? I came up with this formula."
Chen Xi remained silent for a while after hearing this, and thought that Zhao Shuang really had nothing better to do.
"Let me see the formula." Chen Xi reached out and asked for it. Zhao Shuang simply pulled it out from his sleeve. It wouldn't be interesting to show it to those roughnecks, but it would be very interesting to show it to Chen Xi. After all, showing off is something you have to do in front of people who know what you're doing, otherwise it's meaningless.
"What is this?" Chen Xi looked at the drawing on Zhao Shuang's manuscript, and after a moment's thought, he understood what Zhao Shuang was doing.
"You can explain this to the veterans who practice oscillations. Although they definitely won't understand the formulas, their instincts and experience can help them." Chen Xi quickly glanced through it and determined that the Han Dynasty couldn't currently achieve this kind of comprehensive, pinpoint-based, systematic attack mode, so he gave up on it.
"Tsk, giving up just because you can't do it?" Zhao Shuang said with a hint of teasing. Zhao Shuang had no doubt that Chen Xi could understand this, and it was precisely because he could understand it that he showed it to Chen Xi. If Chen Xi couldn't understand it, Zhao Shuang would not have shown his manuscript.
"For our current technological reserves, this thing is too difficult. If I can do this, the Nine Heavens Palace can be used precisely." Chen Xi said irritably, "Let's do something simpler, something that can be combined with what we're using now. You don't have anything to do lately, so please optimize it mathematically. Our current superweapon is a bit too big for its own good."
Currently, all three empires possess super weapons: the Han Dynasty's Nine Heavens Palace, Rome's Blazing Ring, and the Kushan Empire's Brahma Dream. These are all super weapon level weapons. Of course, if we also include the more underworld-like super-powerful Cloud Qi, the three empires currently have a total of four super weapons.
However, superweapons are not easy to deploy at this stage because they are too disruptive. They are fine for dealing with enemies of humanity, but they are too difficult to use for targeted attacks.
Therefore, most of the current super weapons are just for show. The only one that can be considered usable regularly is the super-model cloud aura. The problem is that the super-model cloud aura has not been accumulated yet. It is only a top-tier secret technique with potential. It will take more than ten or even several decades of cloud aura accumulation to be considered a super weapon.
"Optimize something like this?" Zhao Shuang recalled the energy leakage problem when the Blazing Sky Ring was being operated. At that time, the mathematicians of the three great empires all realized how to optimize it from a mathematical perspective, but there was no time to optimize it, and those were things that could be seen at a glance.
"Anyway, math doesn't really have an expiration date. Other subjects often become outdated in school by several or even a decade, but math doesn't," Chen Xi said calmly.
"Well, more or less. What I'm researching is no longer meaningful to normal people. I estimate that it will probably be several hundred years before the average person can learn to the level I previously studied," Zhao Shuang said with a hint of helplessness. He also felt it was absurd and always thought that mathematics was a trap.
Upon hearing this, Chen Xi wore a smirk. The situation that Zhao Shuang, a math whiz, faced was something that all math whizzes inevitably had to deal with.
In later generations, other disciplines would constantly complain that what they learned in university was too outdated and couldn't keep up with the times, lagging behind reality by ten or twenty years, etc. Only mathematics was truly outdated by hundreds of years, but it had no impact whatsoever.
The foundational advanced mathematics course at the beginning of university, which is also the course with the most failures, is actually something created by mathematicians four hundred years ago. But to date, no normal person who studies this stuff says it's too outdated. Normal people just think that after finishing high school math, it's enough for practical use. Anything more advanced is not for me!
So other disciplines worry about falling behind the times, but mathematics only worries about the times developing too slowly and not being able to keep up with its pace. Most of the time, mathematicians are dealing with what they have studied. Let alone seeing the possibility of application before they die, even if their sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons see the possibility of application before they die, it only shows that they are not top-notch.
This is the situation Zhao Shuang is currently facing, which makes him feel somewhat bored.
"What's wrong? Do you find it boring to walk the path of righteousness alone?" Chen Xi asked Zhao Shuang.
“I would like to invite some people from Rome and the Kushan Empire to the Central Plains,” Zhao Shuang suddenly said.
When the Blazing Sky Ring traversed the Western Hemisphere, almost all the mathematicians from the three great empires appeared. Although Zhao Shuang was among the top group of that group, he knew that it was because he had a path to follow, so he could move quickly and steadily, and explore more things. While those people were inferior to him, they should be able to go much further if given the opportunity.
“What I learn is something they can’t use,” Zhao Shuang added. “But it allows them to see a new world and enables me to go further on this path. With the current training method, I see absolutely no hope.”
“No problem. You will issue the invitation. If they want to come, they can come. If the mathematicians from the Brahmans come, we can provide them with protection,” Chen Xi said in a deep voice.
Beings of this caliber are already a treasure of humanity. Some of their anti-human characteristics are acceptable, but there's no way to just let such talents die. If they were really dead, it wouldn't matter, but they're still alive, so there's no need to waste them.
"Thank you, Lord Chen." Zhao Shuang stood up and returned the greeting very respectfully.
"You've worked hard all these years," Chen Xi said after accepting the bow. Sun Qian was very capable, but without Zhao Shuang, those elevated bridges in the southwest would not have been built.
"I'm quite satisfied with this job, except that Sun Tou is really unconventional. He found me a team of handsome young men to be my cheerleaders, which has led my wife to suspect that I have homosexual tendencies," Zhao Shuang said helplessly. "Other aspects are fine."
After getting everything he wanted, Zhao Shuang left with the manuscript. He actually had a lot of things to do, and Sun Qian also had a lot of work to do. The only reason Zhao Shuang could spare the time was because he was cheating. If Zhao Shuang were even a little bit normal, working an eight-hour day, he could work 700 days a year. Now that things are a bit better, he probably only needs to work about 550 days.
After Zhao Shuang left, Chen Xi went to find Guan Yu personally. The 5,000 heavy cavalry and 20,000 elite shield guards had been arranged, and Guan Yu had also completed the integration. They were just waiting for the mission to be assigned.
"Is the situation clear now?" Guan Yu asked with a hint of caution as he saw Chen Xi appear.
"Let's prepare to launch a test attack," Chen Xi said in a deep voice. "Huang Tao has already gone to Yunmeng. What we need to do next is to launch a coordinated attack with the Yunmeng Demon God, to put on a show for the other Demon God."
"I'm all prepared, and my soldiers are mentally prepared as well," Guan Yu said in a deep voice. He had indeed spoken with his soldiers in batches recently. In such a life-or-death battle, it was essential to make things clear. After all, if someone wavered on the battlefield and tried to run away, the consequences would be far more serious than if he were not around.
Therefore, Guan Yu made a point of talking to all the soldiers in batches, making sure they wrote their wills, explaining the significance of the battle, and clearing out any soldiers who were wavering. After all, this situation was not worth gambling on. It was better to die in battle and block the enemy than to have a mental breakdown, a complete rout, and be chased into Jiangling by the demon god.
"I made it clear to all the soldiers that this is a battle to the death, and there is no retreat." Chen Xi asked very seriously. Although Chen Xi knew very well that Guan Yu would not compromise on such matters, he still asked again out of caution.
"Everything has been explained, and everyone has written their wills." Guan Yu nodded. He even took the lead in writing his own will, because this was no joke. If a major battle broke out and problems arose, he himself would be trapped and it would be difficult for him to get out.
Chen Xi followed Guan Yu into the main tent and opened the newly made map from Yunmeng. It showed the clear marching route of the Binshi Demon God, their current location, and the markings of various dangerous demon gods. Then, Chen Xi pointed to the right side of the map and said, "General Guan, let's intercept them here once, concentrate our superior forces, and at all costs, repel the demon god once."
"Okay." Guan Yu didn't ask why. Ever since he learned that two demon gods had regained their consciousness, as the commander, Guan Yu had considered how to deal with these things. Chen Xi's plan was simple and brutal, but it was within Guan Yu's expectations!
Another month has passed, time to get going.