Chapter 201 A Fortune of Tens of Millions, Choosing a Faction

Whether it was the pirates or hunters Chen Qing encountered, they always seemed to enjoy excitement.

They always need companions.

Perhaps it's because this world is too cruel to people. No one can truly live freely in this world; everyone is always caught up in something.

"Chen Qing!"

Yougu had excellent eyesight and immediately spotted Chen Qing standing on the deck.

She smiled and waved to Chen Qing, inviting her to come down and join her.

They seemed to be in a good mood.

That's normal. I just snatched the Mechanical Island. I wonder how much money I made. I should celebrate and have some fun.

"Your necklace is fixed."

Chen Qing walked up to You Gu, opened his hand, and the repaired necklace fell from between Chen Qing's fingers.

The warm light from the campfire illuminated the pendant, and Shangjia and the others, who had been playing around, quieted down.

Many of the pirates who couldn't hold their liquor were already fast asleep on the beach, leaving only a few pirates still sober.

The banquet was drawing to a close.

On the empty beach, only the sounds of waves and sparks popping from the wood could be heard.

Occasionally, there were also a few snores and the pirates grinding their teeth and talking in their sleep.

Not far away on the sea, quite fittingly, a sea monster leaped high from the water and then fell back into the sea.

"real?!"

Yougu looked up at Chen Qing in surprise; she had actually fixed it!

Yougu hadn't held out much hope, but Chen Qing unexpectedly gave her such a pleasant surprise.

"Is the necklace fixed?"

Among the pirates piled up haphazardly on the beach, several suddenly sat up, their eyes burning with intensity.

These people were the original members of the Ghost Bone Pirate Gang. They had followed the Ghost Bone Pirate Gang all the way and had never left or betrayed them.

The image on this necklace is that of Yougu's companions, and also their companions.

Yougu and the others were pleasantly surprised to receive the necklace and quickly examined it.

Chen Qing was pulled to sit next to Shang Jia, while on Shang Jia's other side were Hai Bo Qi Luo and Lan Gui, both with bruised and swollen faces.

These two were badly beaten by Shangjia, especially Haibo Qiluo, whose two hands couldn't beat Shangjia's two hands.

"Want some drinks?"

Shang Jiaduan offered Chen Qing a glass of wine and asked.

"Special products of Misty Sea".

"Thanks."

Chen Qing politely accepted the drink and took a sip; it tasted like cheap liquor.

And it was the very, very cheap kind; to be honest, it tasted awful.

However, it seems that these pirates really like it; all the bottles on the ground are the same kind, and the smell is a bit pungent.

"Is it hard to drink?"

Blue Ghost sidled up to him with a cheeky grin and asked.

"fine."

"Really?"

Haibo Qiluo glanced at Chen Qing suspiciously. This Guangjiu, known in the outer seas as the exclusive domain of the poor, was produced in the Misty Sea and sold far and wide to the three impoverished seas.

Its taste is really not good.

Even many people who come from impoverished backgrounds resolutely refuse to touch alcohol after they become wealthy.

Chen Qing actually felt it was alright.

Chen Qing genuinely believed this; although the wine tasted inferior, it wasn't unpalatable.

At least it tastes like alcohol.

During the period after the old woman who adopted Chen Qing passed away, Chen Qing was locked in the house for quite a long time.

Unable to bear the hunger any longer, she tried every means to break down the door and escape, which led to her life as a homeless person.

Life on the streets was tough; sometimes you'd go hungry, sometimes you'd get enough to eat, and even clean water was hard to come by.

It's good enough that we can survive.

What's the point of lying to you?

Chen Qing countered with a question.

"That seems to be true."

Blue Ghost stroked his chin and thought about it seriously.

"But you actually like this wine."

Haibo Qiluo couldn't help but complain, and then opened a new case of Hikari sake for herself.

The liquor was cheap, but for them, the taste wasn't that important.

They can afford any kind of expensive alcohol if they want to.

For them, alcohol holds more significance, permeating their entire lives.

This specialty of the Misty Sea is even sold as far as the Crimson Sea.

"It doesn't matter, since Chen Qing likes it, let's drink together!"

Shang Jia grinned and put his arm around Chen Qing's neck, then produced a new set of dice and a dice cup from who-knows-where.

This was promoted by Zhao Fuli.

"bring it on."

They handed the dice cup to Chen Qing, and the three of them wore blatantly cunning smiles.

Their shoulders swayed with laughter, their smiles bright and infuriating.

"The rules of the game absolutely forbid the use of mental power and supernatural abilities."

"Sure."

A faint smile appeared on Chen Qing's face, hidden in the darkness of the night, making it difficult to spot.

The three of them were unaware that they were up against Chen Qing, the most famous dice master on the night market street in Rongcheng, Longguo. Chen Qing had never lost a game of dice.

The sound of the dice shaking quickly echoed across the beach, and the loud shouts continued until the members of the Ghost Bone Pirates returned.

At this moment, dawn was just breaking.

"Aren't you guys done playing yet?"

Yougu's eyes were a little red as she looked strangely at the three people above her who seemed to have lost all will to live.

"What's wrong?"

She turned to Chen Qing and asked.

"nothing."

Chen Qing smiled slightly. Gambling is indeed a very sinful activity.

This drink was worthwhile; I never expected such a pleasant surprise.

"Remember to send the items to my ship."

Chen Qing dusted off the sand, waved his non-existent sleeve, and left with a large amount of treasure.

However, she was also prepared to get nothing at all.

After all, they were pirates.

"What did you three lose?"

"Aaaaaah—I've lost my memory! I can't remember anything!!"

He yelled loudly, covered his head, and started pretending to have amnesia.

Pirates are masters at defaulting on debts.

Blue Ghost and Haibo Qiluo packed their things at lightning speed, preparing to escape with the pirate crew.

Let them spit out the meat they've already put in their mouths? You're kidding, dream on.

Shangjia wanted to run away, but she was thinking about Chen Qing's cooking fruit grass and those little rabbits.

She can't run away, and neither can Lan Gui and Haibo Qiluo.

Fortunately, Chen Qing was also quite sensible and didn't win by too much.

In total, there are only 6 Class B auxiliary machinery factories, 8 Class C+B food machinery processing factories, and 2 Class B pharmaceutical machinery processing factories.

It also includes an A-class cannon.

not much.

There really aren't many.

They could still afford it, even though it hurt their hearts a little.

The three women wore masks of pain; how were they going to explain this to the helmsmen on their respective ships?

Of course, none of this concerned Chen Qing; she just needed to wait to receive the gifts.

Chen Qing calculated the number of factories currently operating on the ship.

Fortunately, we had spent a lot of money to customize this ship beforehand, and with the ship upgrade scroll, the Mechanical Heart and Blood Spirit provided a lot of energy.

That's how her ship could hold so much stuff.

Currently, on Chen Qing's ship, including those that they are about to send over.

There are a total of 11 Class C factories, including 3 military factories, 3 food factories, 2 parts factories, and 3 metal smelting factories.

Class B factories are the most numerous, including 1 parts factory, 1 unassembled military factory, 5 food factories, 6 auxiliary combat machinery factories, 1 living machinery factory, and 2 medicine factories.

There's also a mini factory that can finally retire.

The pharmaceutical factory was also stolen by them from the machine island; it was truly obtained without any effort.

All things considered, Chen Qing's current assets are quite substantial.

She is definitely a multi-millionaire with a net worth of tens of millions of gold coins.

Unfortunately, all she has left with her money is a paltry 20,000 goldfish.

Chen Qing planned to use the remaining money to buy a scroll factory, but he estimated it would still be far from enough.

Haibo Qiluo, after drinking too much, revealed the information that her sea creatures secretly stole it.

She needs to hurry up and make money; just keeping this ship running every day costs an astronomical sum.

Fortunately, Chen Qing doesn't handle the accounts; these are all left to the mechanical heart to deal with, so let it worry about them.

Upon returning to the ship, Mechanical Heart immediately reported the news to Chen Qing.

"An intruder appeared on the ship and has been killed. His body is now in the morgue in the medical area."

There were six intruders at once.

The faint smile on Chen Qing's face disappeared.

It seems the Red Serpent Clan hasn't given up after all.

Speaking of this split in the Mechanical Association, the Red Serpent family left the association along with Vice President Yolandi, while the Rose family, which Chen Qing had always remembered as the Red Serpent family's lackey, sided with President Shifangtu.

When we attacked the Rose Family before, the Blue Jade Green Ivy that disappeared was on the side of the Mechanical Association.

Three more people have been added to Chen Qing's kill list. The hatred of wiping out a clan is not so easy to forget.

Whether it's the Mechanical Association or the side of the defecting vice president Yolandi, it seems that Chen Qing has mortal enemies in both.

The Red Serpent Family, the Delugu Family, and the Rose Family.

Aside from the members of these three families, Chen Qing's remaining mortal enemies are the people from the Cross Star.

Chen Qing had been tracking them, but it was as if they had vanished from the face of the earth; he couldn't find them at all.

She originally wanted to buy information from the Survivor Observation Group, but unfortunately, they did not offer that service.

They don't plan to carry it out either.

They don't care at all if there's no news about the Cross Stars.

This is quite in line with the Survivor Observation Team's style of doing things; they only focus on the news.

Upon arriving at the morgue in the medical area, six bodies were neatly arranged on a table.

The mechanical heart also followed Chen Qing's local customs, covering the corpse with a white cloth.

After removing the white cloth, Chen Qing checked the identities of the intruders.

Three of them were barbarians, and of the remaining three, one was probably a bounty hunter, and quite famous one at that.

She's not quite on par with bounty hunters of Shuang Weifeihuo's caliber, but she's still managed to make a name for herself.

Judging from the wounds on their bodies, they must have been caused by Bai Can.

Bai Can was incorporated into the new Tiger Legion by Chen Qing. Like the Rabbit Legion, it was a combat mechanical legion.

Besides these four people, the identities of the remaining two are unknown, and Chen Qing has never heard of them.

Chen Qing estimated that these people had all received bounty orders from the Red Serpent Clan.

The orcs' bounty posters are rather simple: they just offer money, but not much money, as they are relatively poor.

The Red Serpent family is wealthy and powerful, possessing many valuable items.

If these people were short of money, they wouldn't necessarily take such a big risk to kill her, especially with them all here.

The Red Serpent Clan must have promised them something to persuade them.

However, it's also possible that those few deserters were simply trying to rob her.

"Send the news of these three barbarians' assassination attempt to Blue Ghost."

The Blood Cult on the isolated island, composed of numerous wild people, is extremely vicious and warlike, making them difficult to subdue.

Blue Ghosts basically suppressed them with force, which is how the loosely organized Blood Cult on the isolated island came to be.

Among those deserters, there are probably others keeping an eye on her.

As Chen Qing has already reminded me, so have I.

When someone else comes, she is short of extraordinary points.

Chen Qing's warning will most likely have the opposite effect.

She was aware of this, but she didn't care at all; it was good that he was here.

"Let's leave it for now, I'll deal with it later."

Chen Qing has a lot of work now: assembling factory equipment, debugging factory machines, experimenting with forage processing, repairing broken machinery, disassembling blueprints, and so on.

She was alone and couldn't handle everything.

Chen Qing even considered hiring the mechanics from Demon Dragon and Ghost Bone to help her handle these matters.

Leaving the task of preparing the fruit to the Mechanical Heart for the time being, Chen Qing devoted himself entirely to repairing the Assistant Bee's hive.

As expected, we still need to repair the hive first and increase the number of cooperating bees.

Chen Qing's seclusion was rushed, and the members of the Ghost Bone Pirate Gang who came to give him a thank-you gift were turned away.

She only briefly stepped away from the repair work when the war activity update ended.

The game system was a bit cheeky. After this game update ended, Chen Qing suddenly heard a barrage of gunfire and cries of agony.

Her voice was so realistic, it was as if she were truly on the battlefield!

When the survivors heard the update completion notification, they almost thought they had been transported to another time.

I was almost scared to death.

The world is full of wonders; some survivors were genuinely terrified and died—that's incredibly unlucky.

This is enough to show how utterly depraved this so-called system is.

The game update ended and the war event began, allowing Chen Qing to briefly detach himself from his work.

Upon opening the system panel, a huge faction selection option immediately appears.

The red camp, the Mechanical Association side.

The blue camp, the side of the traitors in the association.

Both sides have provided detailed lists of the various factions to which they belong for the survivors' reference.

Survivors have only 72 hours to decide which faction to join. Before they decide which faction to join, no survivor can use any of the system's functions.

Only after deciding on their own faction can they find out exactly what this system update has changed.

Unlike other survivors, Chen Qing has an additional faction to choose from besides the red and blue factions.

[Congratulations, dear survivor. Based on your skill and reputation, you have an additional option.]

The neutral party, the gray faction, is independent of the red and blue factions.

The faction selection for this event is quite interesting.

Neither black nor white, neither side can represent justice; they merely represent their own stance.