Lord of Deception

After coming out of the small temple, Yu Ziqing originally wanted to see the evil king first.

But thinking of what Tiger Tiger said, he thought it would be better to pay attention to the spirit transformation formation first.

There won't be any big changes on Xie Jun's side for a while. It's a long-term project.

The matter of the super-large spirit transformation formation doesn’t seem to be going too well.

After the first experience on the Dazhen side, it stands to reason that it should be easier on the Datu side.

What takes time is just preliminary planning and preliminary exploration, combined with the actual topography and landforms, and choosing how to arrange the super large spirit formation according to actual conditions.

This step actually started a long time ago. When the construction was still under way during the big earthquake, it was almost done.

Later, we will make slight adjustments based on experience and actual conditions. The most time-consuming things have already been done.

Yu Ziqing didn't pay much attention to this matter. Someone could coordinate and do it step by step.

But it's been several years, and there doesn't seem to be much progress.

Yu Ziqing went around and, as Yi Sijiu, went deep into every corner to see for himself.

The progress is indeed slow because there are indeed few corresponding talents within Datui and they have not yet grown up.

Some of the corresponding talents are several versions behind in knowledge and are still catching up.

Fortunately, many people were recruited, and to this day, there are still groups of people from time to time, from big earthquakes to big losses.

There is also a head of the school who takes the super-large spirit transformation formation as his subject, and with the addition of apprentices and cow-horse students, he can still make steady progress.

Yu Ziqing wandered around for several days, scratching his head as he watched. Everything seemed to be going well.

But the overall progress is slow, and there is a trend of getting slower and slower.

Yu Ziqing could probably tell by looking at the progress, working environment, and various details, and there was no large-scale frenzied fishing.

Especially those outstanding students, who struggled to death one by one, and their level of effort frightened Yu Ziqing.

Their eyes were filled with a sense of dissatisfaction and thirst for knowledge, as if wasting a little time and learning less would have no hope of being promoted to the head of the academy in the future.

If he had studied like this, he would have finished studying at least three pages of the book list by now.

Yu Ziqing walked around and talked to Lao Song again, confirming that everyone in the entire project was working hard, and no one was deliberately holding back, let alone sabotage.

After wasting three months here, Yu Ziqing returned to the starting point.

At this time, the message received showed that the progress of the entire project seemed to have suddenly accelerated.

However, the various messages received showed that there was no big change from before.

According to the current speed, this large project can be completed within two years.

Yu Ziqing checked the information personally, but he didn't understand why it went so much smoother and faster.

After thinking about it, he hid his identity and quietly observed.

This time he did not notify anyone and continued to go deep into the grassroots.

It seemed that everything was the same as a few months ago, but when he arrived at one of the workshops responsible for smelting one of the materials, Yu Ziqing was keenly aware that the shipping speed of this workshop was faster than before.

Moreover, the number of unqualified materials has also been reduced.

Why did there suddenly be such a big change in just a few months?

When he came last time, he was very sure that no one working in the smelting was fishing or causing trouble.

Because their remuneration is directly linked to their level.

With too many defective products and a high pass rate, the income level is not different by a few percent, but directly by a single digit level.

So why is this happening?

Yu Ziqing stayed here for three days before he figured out that this workshop was the lowest-level partner in the entire large project.

However, there are many other collaborators under this workshop.

However, these people and forces have exceeded the scope of the entire large project.

Yu Ziqing continued his in-depth search to find more upstream raw material suppliers.

Basic smelting, and then further upstream ore mining.

Only then did Yu Ziqing discover the problem. Some of the raw materials produced in that workshop required many more basic raw materials.

And one of the ores came from the big earthquake.

The Hungry Ghost Company was responsible for transporting it to Dadui.

The Abyss Rift Valley has been making a lot of noise in the past two years, which has affected the transportation lines.

On the other side of the big earthquake, the mining of this kind of ore also slowed down. I heard that something happened and there was a commotion for some days.

One of the most basic ores was slow, the supply of raw materials was insufficient, and some batches of ore had poor composition, so it was delayed to the workshop.

It seems that the workshop is already full of efficiency, but it's just like that.

It continues to hold back progress to a higher level.

The recent demon war in the Abyss Rift Valley has ended, transportation routes have been stabilized again, and the backlog of demand has exploded.

In addition, Daquan's side also wanted to do long-term business and knew the importance of these things. The company that supplied low-quality ore was squeezed out by other people from Daquan's local area.

Yu Ziqing wasn't sure what kind of fight there was in Da Zhen.

Anyway, recently, Yu Ziqing went to inspect in person, and Hungry Ghost Company also sent an inquiry to Daquake. How people within Daquake compete for this benefit has nothing to do with outsiders, but the supply is normal.

Yu Ziqing sent a message to the profiteer Hungry Ghost and asked the profiteer Hungry Ghost to inquire about it.

Only then did I find out that there was a mine on the other side of the earthquake. The family that controlled the mine had been having internal strife recently, but it has now stabilized.

The initial root cause was the earthquake. He had previously inspected the radiation range of the Dadui project, and what he could see was what caused him to see a ghost.

After all, everyone is thinking about their own interests, some want to make more money, and some want to seize the opportunity to improve. If you seize this opportunity, you will be able to do better in the future.

This opened up an idea for Yu Ziqing.

He went to several other places and found that the problem was not in the project.

Projects are directly radiated and can be controlled, and each volume is really better than the next.

The problems lie further out, and none of them seem to be big.

For example, if a mine reduces production and the quality of ore deteriorates, it can still be supplied, but it slows down efficiency.

A place where this little bit is not conspicuous at all.

But ten places, a hundred, each one is just a little bit slower.

Each step was delayed a little.

When you look at the entire project, you will clearly find that the speed is extremely slow, even slower than during a major earthquake.

Yu Ziqing took out a charcoal pencil and started drawing on the slate.

At the top is the entire project, below are the branches, and below each branch there are a bunch of more branches that continue to spread.

When it spreads to the bottom, the smallest unit is just like a small family in the big earthquake.

There are many more, but they are actually directly connected to large companies and larger forces.

There will certainly be more detailed differentiation below.

At this point, with the information he currently has, he can't go any further.

Because most of these are outside Dadu.

Major earthquakes are the most common, but the entire project cannot be completed only with the supply of materials from major earthquakes.

There are also materials from Daqian, Dali, Dadui itself, and some materials from the East China Sea and the South China Sea.

The raw materials required for the entire project include the Four Divine Dynasties, the East China Sea and the South China Sea.

His face was as dark as water, and he kept marking it out.

There are already thousands of branches at the lowest level of the entire branch.

After marking it, it is clear at a glance that there are very few minor problems in the large parts.

However, the part of the big exchange itself only accounts for a small part. Most of the things other than the large exchange and minor problems account for more than 90%.

They are all minor problems that are not serious and seem to be within the normal fluctuation range.

But Yu Ziqing asked people to continue chasing Shuo backwards and forwards, and he could see the problem at a glance.

This year it will fall by 2%, next year it will fall by 3%, the year after that it will rise by 1%, and the year after that it will fall by 3%.

Most of them are like this, not serious, ups and downs, but after a long time, you will find that it is a sharp drop.

Moreover, this situation already existed before the super-large spirit transformation array was built in the Great Earthquake.

The data may not be extremely accurate, but the overall trend will be clear at a glance after being tabulated.

Yu Ziqing's eyes flickered, and he constructed a more detailed and complex radiation branch in his mind.

Questions about every radiation edge flashed through my mind.

It is normal for the output of a certain ore vein or small vein under the South China Sea to drop.

Several raw materials supplied by a certain company in Daqian were affected due to internal fighting in the Daqian court, and no one could do anything about it.

A certain family in Dali supplied a kind of spiritual liquid. Due to the demon war in the abyss and rift valley, it was force majeure and there was no other way.

A certain material supplied by Dali happens to be a very small amount of material in the red clay formula. It has been hoarded in large quantities by a profiteer, resulting in the fact that this material is almost no longer available on the market.

A certain material from the East China Sea, a fight between giant beasts in the sea, affected the source of the material. A certain kind of coral-like material in the sea was destroyed a lot...

Due to the shortage of talents and the refining method of a certain material from Dadui, it has not caught up with the version yet. The craftsmanship is poor and the quality is poor. But you can't say that you won't give the people from Dadui a chance.

Looking at each one, they all make sense.

But just looking at the number of branches that radiate to the bottom, 30% of the bottom branches belonging to Dadui have problems. Outside of Dadui, 90% have problems. They are all going downhill, and they have already gone. It's been years.

For a few raw materials, the output has dropped by 70% compared to a hundred years ago.

This is after demand has surged and prices have also risen.

If this rate of decline is maintained, in another hundred years, normal production will not be enough to maintain the super-large spirit formation, let alone upgrade and build a new super-large spirit formation.

At that time, we must continue to look for new alternative materials.

As for the new materials, they may not fit the original formation, and they will have to be modified.

If you do this during maintenance, 80% of the power of the formation will be affected.

As time goes by, the impact will become greater and greater.

Maybe after a super large spirit transformation array has been operating for hundreds of years, its power will drop to the level of a large spirit transformation array.

Yu Ziqing closed his eyes and ended the deduction. With a wave of his hand, everything on the stone wall in front of him disappeared.

"Ah……

Do you think I am a stick?

More than 90%.

If no one was behind this, I would twist off my head and kick it like a ball! "

If Tiger hadn't told him solemnly, he wouldn't have had enough time to take care of the specific details of the project. As long as it could be progressed steadily, he would just check on the overall progress from time to time.

He didn't know it at first glance, but after digging deeper, he was shocked.

According to this trend, if the first super-large spirit formation in Dadui can be completed, there will be no problem. At most, it will be delayed a little longer.

However, the overall cost of the second one planned in the later stage will be at least ten times higher.

Against the current national strength, if the national treasury were to allocate all this money, 80% of the time it would become, Your Majesty, a spectacle that would harm the country.

After calculating the consumption for a moment, Yu Ziqing felt frightened.

If by that time, Da Li is so enthused and wants to build a super large spirit transformation array, and based on the cost of Da Zhen's super large spirit transformation array, they will definitely make the decision without much hesitation.

But once construction actually starts, the increasingly higher costs will most likely make it difficult for Dali to get off the ground.

If you give up, the sunk cost is too high. Don’t give up. With all kinds of costs rising and materials having to be replaced, it’s probably unknown how much more money will be spent.

According to his current knowledge, Yu Ziqing still has an understanding of the super-large spirit formation.

After a little deduction, my eyelids twitched slightly.

Fortunately, the big earthquake was the first one. If the big earthquake was behind, according to Yu Ziqing's calculation, the cost would have wiped out the big earthquake's finances.

By then, the earthquake is already painful, and there will definitely be a big internal chaos. In addition, all the resources will be consumed elsewhere, and the resources used to cultivate strong people will be gone.

With this series of chain reactions, I am afraid that a major earthquake may really cause collapse.

Yu Ziqing opened his eyes and let out a breath.

Someone failed to prevent the emergence of the spirit transformation array, so they changed directions to prevent the super large spirit transformation array from appearing.

After all, ordinary spirit transformation formations, large spirit transformation formations, and super large spirit transformation formations are not just as simple as expanding the range, but also qualitative changes.

Not only does the opponent want to prevent the super-large spirit formation from appearing, but they also want to use this thing to continue consuming and bleeding.

If the consumption continues like this, hundreds of years later, the first super-large spirit transformation array of the Great Earthquake may not have the right materials for maintenance. It is inevitable that its power will plummet and it will lose its qualitative change.

Moreover, let me make it clear first, it is not that Yu Ziqing looks down on the earthquake.

In their situation, no matter how strong they are and accumulate wealth in hundreds of years, they will never be able to bear the price of building a new one a few hundred years later after the cost has skyrocketed.

By that time, the super large spirit formation will officially become history.

Even if ordinary spirit-transforming formations still exist, the qualitative change brought about by ten thousand ordinary ones is not as good as that of a super-large one.

Yu Ziqing thought for a while and looked again at the information provided by the profiteer Hungry Ghost, the Riddler and others.

Then he got up and left, quietly leaving Dadui and heading straight for Daquan.

He quietly came to the east side of the Hengduan Mountains, close to the southern border of the earthquake.

He has been here before, and one of the basic raw materials needed for the super-large spirit formation comes from here.

He hid his aura and started observing from the workshop, all the way to the mine.

Just sensing the direction inside the mine, Yu Ziqing suddenly felt a tearing feeling.

He closed his eyes and backed away quietly.

He continued to personally investigate and search for various information. A few days later, he came back to one of the mines, took a look, and turned around to leave.

Flying dozens of miles away, Yu Ziqing closed his eyes and mentally confirmed his previous speculation.

History has been tampered with.

He remembered very clearly that he personally provided the materials here.

This can be said to be the starting point for his cooperation with Da Zhen in supplying materials.

He remembered clearly that when the mineral vein was explored, according to past experience, it spread to both sides within the depth range of one hundred feet to one thousand feet.

The reserves are basically within this range.

But at that time, an underground cavity was dug through, and a body-building miner fell in. Under the influence of the power of the veins, he lost his way. After digging down another five hundred feet, he did not escape and ascended to heaven, but found that there was a rich ore. .

However, in the range from a hundred feet deep to a thousand feet deep, the reserves are not high.

But now, after Yu Ziqing came in person, he discovered that the mining range of the miners here is within the depth range of one hundred feet to one thousand feet.

Therefore, the output of this vein is getting lower and lower as time goes by, the quality of the ore is getting worse and worse, and there are more and more impurities.

And in all records, whether it is the channel of profiteers and hungry ghosts or the channel of the Riddler, everything is normal.

Yu Ziqing went to ask the local Riddler spies. There was indeed a miner who accidentally dug into an underground space and fell in. However, he dug through the ground and escaped from below.

This time, he didn't dig in the wrong direction because he was lost.

This is where the initial change occurs.

Only this point has changed, and all subsequent changes will be reasonable and normal development.

In the end, it affected the progress of Dadui's super-large spirit formation.

Yu Ziqing checked it carefully and no one else found anything wrong.

No one even remembers, there is no record in any records, there is actually a record of a rich mine here.

But he remembered because he had been here himself.

In other words, if history is tampered with, others will be tampered with, but what he remembers will not be tampered with.

But if it's something he doesn't remember from the beginning, and the information he gets is tampered with, then he probably won't be able to discover it.

This can be determined for the time being.

The next day, Yu Ziqing came to the mine again. When he saw the mine, he felt a sense of separation, as if he was out of tune here.

That kind of psychological misfit.

He entered the mine and when he went eight hundred feet underground, he found the huge underground space there.

He jumped into the underground space, fell to the deepest point, stretched out his hands, transformed into an excavator, and dug underground quickly.

He kept traveling underground, and within the next five hundred feet, the ore was indeed getting less and less, so pitiful that it had no mining value.

But after continuing to penetrate five hundred feet, there are more and more ores, which are at least two orders of magnitude higher than the reserves currently being mined at depths of one hundred feet to one thousand feet.

A few days later, Yu Ziqing returned to the ground.

I silently wrote down the second item in my heart.

Mineral veins are something that has evolved over many years and belongs to the nature of heaven and earth and cannot be tampered with.

To further extend, things that exist objectively may not be tampered with.