The female mage looked at the three people who were unable to move, and walked towards the depths of the tunnel.
She had been able to join the Fearless Village two days earlier because her combat skills had reached level 72. But that was only her apparent level; if she only considered attack output, she wouldn't be up to par with the average level 72 melee mage. But if she only considered control...
Deng Wei may be the most amazing player among all the players in the T City map.
Before the apocalypse, she was a pickpocket police officer. After the apocalypse, everyone gained skill levels based on their original jobs. Many of Deng Wei's fellow police officers were warriors, but she was assigned the role of melee mage, starting at level 55. She quickly acquired a skill seemingly suited to a police officer: vine entanglement.
This is a purple-quality control skill. At the beginning of the apocalypse, most players have limited combat power and monsters are quite high-level. Having a decent control skill can effectively save everyone's life in many cases.
So at that time Deng Wei thought that maybe it would be nice to be a powerful assistant!
So, in the days that followed, she diligently collected control skills. Now, nearly two months later, she only had one attack skill, but had accumulated five control skills, in addition to an advanced healing skill for health recovery.
Therefore, when the three people Xu Wu sent out just now wanted to kill her, although she knew she could not deal with them, she was not afraid.
The next morning, after waking up, Ye Miao lazily stayed in bed while opening the panel to check the messages.
Lately, every morning when she wakes up, her inbox is overflowing with messages, the vast majority of which are applications to join the village. Since there aren't many territories currently upgrading to villages, the few that do manage to do so stand out. Many players simply assume that quickly upgrading a territory means strength, and so they rush to upgrade and join.
Considering that the upper limit of the number of people in the territory is now high, Ye Miao was more straightforward when approving applications. He no longer had to be as picky as before. As long as the attributes were not too outrageous, they could basically be approved with one click.
Therefore, it did not take too much time to process the approval application, and the remaining messages were basically notifications of payment after the grocery store completed the transaction.
The grocery store was bringing in money much faster than she had expected. After a quick glance at the message, Ye Miao remotely opened the grocery store's purchase panel and found that all materials and equipment were basically sold out. Among the medicines, all levels of blood-replenishing potions and stamina potions were also sold out. Only a small amount of magic potion remained.
Turning the page further, she unexpectedly discovered that furniture sales far exceeded her expectations. It seemed that there were far more players who wanted to improve their quality of life than she thought.
If you think about it, this isn't hard to understand. While survival becomes difficult in the apocalypse, many of the pressures we once faced in the normal world are also alleviated—things like school district housing for children, medical care for the elderly, and mortgage and car loans—all vanish with the collapse of order.
As a result, saving too much money doesn't seem to be very useful. Especially under the premise of a reliable territory, players usually set aside a reserve fund for emergencies, and the rest can be used for immediate enjoyment.
In contrast, two-story and three-story buildings did not sell well, with only one of each type sold.
"It seems we can buy more furniture to sell." Ye Miao thought to himself, "As for the villa, it may be priced too high. But there is no need to rush to lower the price. Let's wait and see, and give everyone some time to save money."
She pondered this as she opened the system store again. The prices there weren't cheap, so she didn't mark up too much. Basically, she'd add 50-100 gold to furniture priced at a few hundred gold, and 100-500 gold to furniture priced over 1,000 gold. While the profit margin wasn't very high, the added profit was still considerable, so this business was still worth continuing!
Ye Miao bought some more cheap, good-looking, minimalist furniture, marking up the price by 50-100 each before putting it on the shelves. Then, before the system store refreshed for 72 hours, he dug out the Advanced Fire Arrow Blueprint and bought it.
Gold coins - 30,000.
To be honest, she felt very distressed. Spending an extra 30,000 as interest after already paying back Chu Cheng's 80,000 principal seemed a bit exaggerated, but she felt that the help Chu Cheng provided her was worth this amount!
Adults do things separately. Chu Cheng’s “intent” once made her irritated, but actual help was another matter.
After putting the expensive blueprint into his backpack, Ye Miao went out to find Chu Cheng.
It was still early, and Chu Cheng's five-member team was all buying breakfast at the market. The territory had expanded after the upgrade, and there was nothing else in the southeast corner besides the small market, so the members had spontaneously expanded the market. Some food vendors even bought tables and chairs from the grocery store and placed them on both sides of their stalls for customers to eat. From a distance, it looked like a decent food stall.
When Ye Miao went over, five people were eating rice noodles at a rice noodle stall. The seller was a new member who had just arrived two days ago. Perhaps he was intoxicated by the good atmosphere of the village that had become rich overnight, so he started a small promotion today, offering a poached egg and a fried sausage with every bowl of rice noodles.
Yi Hang slurped down a mouthful of rice noodles and gulped down the noodle soup. Hot sweat broke out on him, and he sighed with joy, "Comfortable! A delicious breakfast cures the whole day! Just for this breakfast, I'm willing to stay in the "Get Rich Overnight" world until I die!"
"I still miss the old xiaolongbao." Chen Qibin smacked his lips. "Have you ever eaten those low-quality xiaolongbao from school? The dough was thick and the meat filling was coarse, but they were delicious dipped in vinegar and chili! Any filling with a little more flair wouldn't taste like that!"
"Wild boars can't eat fine bran!" Yi Hang expressed his disdain without giving any face, then added, "But you can wait. I see there are new stalls in the market every day these days. Maybe one day your low-quality dumplings will be there."
Chen Qibin licked his lips: "I still want to drink the old low-quality soy milk with more sugar..."
"Chu Cheng." Ye Miao's voice came over, finally interrupting Chen Qibin's reminiscence of the cheap street food. The five of them suddenly became serious. Chu Cheng: "Hmm?"
"Here, interest." Ye Miao smiled and took out the blueprint. Chu Cheng frowned when he heard it, and without thinking, "No interest..."
The next second, his eyes fixed on the scroll.
[Advanced Fire Arrow Blueprint].
Chu Cheng was choked by the word "rest" and subconsciously took a deep breath.
The air froze. Taking advantage of the two seconds Chu Cheng was struggling, Yi Hang jumped up from his chair and stretched out his hand: "If you don't want it, then I can..."
"Thank you." Chu Cheng immediately took the drawings.
“…” Yi Hang withdrew awkwardly.
Ye Miao laughed: "You are all archers, you can use them together. I'm leaving now, bye!"
"Boss, take care!" Yi Hang smiled, then rubbed his hands and looked at Chu Cheng expectantly, "Boss said we can use them together! Let me see first!"
"Your hands are full of rice noodle soup, don't get them dirty." Chu Cheng said indifferently and carefully put the drawings into his backpack.
Yi Hang: “?”
To be honest, there is no such thing as "dirty" in the game! ! !
Ye Miao left the small market and went to the post station. After the settlement was upgraded to a village, the post station could also be upgraded.
The system displays:
Do you want to spend 10,000 gold coins to upgrade [Post Lv1] to [Post Lv2]?
After upgrading, the inn will have 8 more rooms and 16 more beds.
Simply put, the number of people that can be accommodated has doubled.
Ye Miao pressed the upgrade button. The appearance of the inn did not change, but the interior space had obvious changes.
In a red brick house in a residential area, Fang Yuming first put the furniture in the bedroom into his backpack one by one, then stood at the door and made a rough plan, and then took out the new furniture he bought yesterday and arranged them.
He didn't like the room to have too many different colors, so all the furniture he bought was white and simple. He had already arranged the single bed, wardrobe, desk, mirror, table, and chairs, along with a pure white vase on the windowsill. Just as Fang Yuming was about to breathe a sigh of relief, a system prompt popped up:
"Your current room Feng Shui rating is [Medium-Dangerous], gaining the effect [Total Health Reduced by 20%]."
Fang Yuming frowned, seeing that his total health points had decreased. He looked around and pondered for a while, then tried to move the single-person mirror.
He had just placed a single mirror there because he felt there was more space at the end of the bed. Now, remembering the Feng Shui saying that mirrors shouldn't face the bed, he moved the mirror to the corner facing the door, out of the way of the bed.
The system prompt immediately updated: "Your current room Feng Shui rating is [Minor Auspicious], gaining the effect [Attack Speed Increased by 5%]."
The previous effect of [total health reduced by 20%] was covered. Fang Yuming glanced at the health bar and it had instantly returned to normal.
In another red brick house not far away, Tan Kening was also arranging furniture.
He had never played a matching game before. When he played online games, he would match clothes and equipment based on the attributes, without caring at all whether they looked good or not.
So the process of buying furniture yesterday was very new to him. He bought a lot of things in a mess with the curiosity of playing a matching game for the first time: a big red bed, a green cabinet, a black carpet, a white desk, a yellow round table, and purple chairs in the bedroom; an orange sofa and a blue coffee table in the living room.
After everything was arranged, Tan Kening stood at the door of the house, his eyes darting across the living room to the bedroom, and he thought to himself with satisfaction, "It's not hard to tell if it's a mess!"
However, the next second, a pop-up window appeared: "Your current room Feng Shui rating is [Very Unlucky], and you have gained the effect [Reduced Mana Limit by 40%]."
Tan Kening: ???
He's a mage, and his mana limit is reduced by 40%. Why not just kill him???
Two days later, no new accidents occurred. Ye Miao was completely relieved and confirmed that his judgment of "soil erosion" was correct.
Back at Sun Chen's farm, the farming team continued their work methodically, maintaining a stable soil moisture level. If nothing unexpected happened, they could shorten the planting period, just like they had during the insect nest attack, and the yield wouldn't necessarily decrease.
Su Xinran and Lu Weiwei walked to the fence in the morning and were surprised to find that the ducks were mature!
"A duck grows up in seven days, is that reasonable?!" Su Xinran exclaimed.
Lu Weiwei counted on her fingers, "When the game system comes out, chickens and ducks can be raised in three or four months, but farming will take half a year. The typical farming time is 15 days now, but if we plow the fields every day, that can be shortened to 10 days. So, growing chickens and ducks in three days seems about right?"
"That's right." Su Xinran seemed to be thinking about something. "I'm impressed by this system. Besides destroying everything, it actually pays attention to details."
"Hahahaha." Lu Weiwei laughed as she tried to harvest the ducks. Perhaps because they were her own, harvesting them didn't require reading a progress bar like picking plants from the wild, nor did it require killing monsters first like spawning them. At the touch of a button, the system automatically popped up two prompts:
"Congratulations on your successful harvest of an [Adult Drake]."
"Obtained duck wings*2, duck legs*2, duck neck*1, duck head*1, duck body*1, duck liver*1, duck heart*1, duck intestine*1, duck gizzard*1."
"...and you even cut it for me. That's awesome." Lu Weiwei's mouth twitched slightly. She accidentally discovered that the experience points gained from harvesting ducks were also added to the "Beast Taming" column instead of the "Combat" column, so she called all the team members over and let them accumulate experience points.
Although this kind of mission gave a lot of experience, it was practically free, and the team members were delighted with each harvest. Sun Yuanyuan collected two ducks, and out of the corner of her eye, she noticed something in the nest. She took a closer look and said, "Hey! Duck eggs!"
"What!" Everyone gathered together.
Indeed, the neatly arranged rows of duck nests were filled with duck eggs. Everyone's eyes lit up, and some even drooled: "Can we give them to the chefs to pickle and salt the duck eggs?"
"Should be possible?" the person next to him pondered. Because pickling salted duck eggs didn't sound difficult, and the territory already had a wide variety of stir-fries.
Sun Yuanyuan asked: "Is it possible to leave one or two pairs of adult ducks to continue laying and hatching eggs?"
"Hmm?" Su Xinran paused for a moment. "That makes sense. We can give it a try." Then he looked at Lu Weiwei and discussed with her, "How do you think we should do it?"
Lu Weiwei pondered, "How about keeping three pairs of ducks and half of the eggs?"
"I think it's okay." Lu Weiwei nodded.
Anyway, in the game, only finished food has a short shelf life, while food ingredients have a very long shelf life. If the duck eggs cannot be hatched, they can come back to harvest them.
The two men then temporarily moved the three pairs of ducks and half of the duck eggs to a place nearby, and let the team members harvest the rest separately to avoid any mistakes.
After the members finished harvesting the ducks, they spontaneously went to tend to the cattle, sheep, and geese. Su Xinran gave Sun Chen one-tenth of the harvest to eat. Sun Chen was sweating profusely in the fields. Seeing the various ducks Su Xinran had sent him, his eyes widened: "Do you harvest things so quickly?!"
He couldn't help but feel a little envious!
Su Xinran explained with a smile, "Only the ducks are ready. The geese, cattle, and sheep are not ready yet. Now, are you thinking about selling them or making them yourself? I remember your cooking skills are pretty good, too."
Sun Chen said in a complicated tone, "I have some cooking skills, but I don't really have a skill card for cooking duck..."
If you have it, make some sour radish and old duck soup or duck blood and vermicelli soup, and drink a bowl of it in the evening. Otherwise, roast duck, pickled duck, and salted duck are all delicious too.
"Then let's see if we can sell it." Su Xinran shrugged. "There are more people in the village now. If you have ingredients but no skills, there might be someone else with skills but no ingredients. I don't think it will be difficult to sell this thing."
"Okay, I won't be polite with you then." Sun Chen subconsciously rubbed his hands on his clothes, took the duck, put it in his backpack, and reminded her, "Don't forget to save some for the boss!"
Su Xinran smiled and said, "How could I forget? Weiwei has already gone!"
When Lu Weiwei found Ye Miao, Ye Miao was about to go out to kill monsters. Lu Weiwei caught up with her when she was only a few steps away from the door: "Boss!"
Ye Miao stopped and looked back, seeing Lu Weiwei running breathlessly but smiling brightly: "We've harvested the ducks, come, I'll give you a share!"
After saying that, Lu Weiwei took out her backpack.
The ingredients were handed over one after another, divided into very detailed categories, and each group had a lot of them. Ye Miao felt something was wrong when she received half of it, so she stopped and asked her, "How much is this?"
"Fifty percent!" Lu Weiwei said, "Xinran and I saw that the farmland was divided in the same way, so we just did it. If the boss thinks..."
She thought Ye Miao thought it was too little, but Ye Miao laughed and said, "It's too much. Farmland takes up a lot of land, and I'm going to spend a lot of money to buy it, so it's only natural that I take half. Your animals don't take up much space, and I only contribute to the work and take up a lot of space. Charging 50% is too much of a tax."
"Oh..." Lu Weiwei realized she had misjudged him and smiled awkwardly, "Then Boss, how much do you think is appropriate? We're the ones making more money anyway, so you can take whatever you want!"
Ye Miao thought about it: "About 20%!"
"Okay!" Lu Weiwei agreed readily and continued to search the bag. Ye Miao divided up the items he had just received and returned the appropriate amount.
The exchange was complete, and both parties were very happy. Lu Weiwei returned to continue watching the team members take care of the livestock. Ye Miao went out with Chu Cheng's team. Chu Cheng said sincerely, "I'd like to request to come back early tonight. Is that okay?"
"Hmm?" Ye Miao looked at him, "What's wrong?"
Chu Cheng: "I happen to be able to make two dishes using duck. If you don't mind selling me some of the ingredients, I'll treat everyone to a meal."
"No need to sell!" Ye Miao was overjoyed. "I'll provide the ingredients, you'll provide the cooking skills, and we'll treat everyone to a meal!!!"
"Great!" the teammates cheered.
Under the temptation of delicious food, everyone seemed to travel faster. Before eleven o'clock, they entered the first copy of T City and fought the blood corpses with ease.
The level of the blood corpse boss was not too high, and it was not difficult to fight. Ye Miao could defeat it alone. In addition, the six people had been cooperating for a long time, so they ended the battle without any injuries in less than ten minutes and walked out with ease.
"It would be great if I had some time today to find a businessman so I could buy some more farmland." Ye Miao muttered to himself when he came out.
Before he finished speaking, the earth suddenly shook!
The already shattered streets shook violently, the buildings swaying, glass and billboards falling, and many players who were searching for monsters and supplies nearby were startled and fled screaming. Ye Miao quickly supported himself against the wall and half-crouched to prevent himself from falling. The other five people did the same, trying their best to keep their balance while looking around cautiously.
The shaking lasted for a full half minute before it stopped. Some buildings on the street had completely collapsed, but the shopping mall near the team didn't seem to be in any significant condition, except for the already flimsy billboards that had fallen to the ground.
A lone female soldier not far away asked in shock, "Was that... an earthquake?"
Before he could finish his words, a dull sound was heard from a distance. The sound was so loud that every player in T City subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound.
Everywhere he looked, several giant tentacles like octopus claws pierced the ground, frantically attacking the surrounding buildings. The surrounding reinforced concrete buildings suddenly seemed fragile, shattering like dead leaves under the tossing of the tentacles, and a new scream was raised.
"What is that?!" Yi Hang was dumbfounded.
Ye Miao also frowned, staring at the tentacles and trying to call up the panel, but because the distance was too far, he could not directly view the information.
She had probably never seen this monster in previous games, but it felt strangely familiar to her.
The urban area of T City was in chaos, and the players outside the suburbs had no idea what was going on and were still busy with their own things.
In the blink of an eye, Deng Wei had already been in the Get Rich Overnight Village for two days. Since the apocalypse, she had already changed five or six territories. Some were destroyed, while others she had quit because she didn't like them. But even if she added up all the territories, she still felt that the Get Rich Overnight Village was the best.
When she first heard about this territory, she disliked the name, thinking that a territory with such a bad name must not be very good.
But now, she felt that this name was most suitable for this territory.
This place is thriving. As long as you manage your life steadily, no matter who you are, you can probably "get rich overnight" here.
Over the past two days, Deng Wei had even felt several times that this territory seemed too good to be true. She even suspected it was a system-generated territory, its members not real players. But after thinking about it, it didn't make sense for the system to do such a thing.
At noon, Deng Wei walked into the small market, found a deserted place, and set up a stall to sell pancakes.
When she was a child, her family was not well off, so her parents took her to T City and set up a stall to sell pancakes for a living. It was not until she started working that her parents returned to their hometown to spend their retirement.
Later, the apocalypse arrived, and she lost contact with her parents, leaving her devastated. Until, by chance, she got a pancake skill card. The familiar taste seemed to bring her some solace in her despair, and the pain in her heart was healed a little.
It was the time when players who had gone out to hunt monsters were returning for lunch, and several people quickly gathered around Deng Wei's pancake stall. Zhang Tingting had originally followed the aroma, but when she saw that it was Deng Wei making the pancakes, she almost fell to her knees. "Boss! What kind of pancakes are you selling?! Did I neglect you by not paying you enough yesterday?"
While Zhang Tingting was breaking down, she began to seriously reflect on herself.
Yesterday, when she was out killing monsters, she happened to see that Deng Wei had control skills, so she invited her to join her combat team and dragged Deng Wei to kill monsters for the whole day.
Deng Wei's damage output skills were ridiculously limited, leaving her with little combat power, but she possessed a wide variety of control abilities. Throughout the entire day, she'd personally killed only a handful of monsters, yet the team members all felt the monster spawn rate had increased significantly. When Zhang Tingting offered to give Deng Wei one-fifth of the team's loot, no one objected.
Now it seems that Deng Wei feels that the amount she gave was too little? It doesn't seem excessive. Apart from anything else, just getting so many control skill cards is not easy!
So Zhang Tingting stood beside him like a child who had committed a crime, lowering her head and said cautiously, "Boss, why don't you come with us to kill monsters this afternoon? I'll give you 30% today..."
Deng Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You misunderstood, 20% is a lot! I just want to make some extra money at lunch and make something for myself."
Is that so? Zhang Tingting felt relieved and said cautiously, "I went to look for you this morning, but you weren't there..."
"I'm going to find the ingredients!" Deng Wei said frankly.
She had been busy that morning, first looking for Sun Chen to buy wheat, then looking for a cooking player with the flour-grinding skill to produce the flour. She had only been in the village for two days, so finding Sun Chen was easy enough—she could just head to the farmland. But finding someone to produce the flour took a lot of effort.
Then she also had to buy onions, eggs, sauce, sausage, and make crispy pancakes. Fortunately, she picked up a pancake maker from the ruins of the riot at the beginning of the game, otherwise she might have to draw one herself and then find a forging player to help her make it.
By the time she finished her various "purchasing" matters, the entire morning had already passed. Zhang Tingting came over just as she was setting up her stall, and she had no intention of hiding from her.
In the middle of a few words, Deng Wei made a pancake for the previous customer who had paid, handed it to her in a brown paper package, and casually asked Zhang Tingting, "Want to eat?"
Zhang Tingting had been craving for a long time and asked with a smile, "How much is one?"
"Just eat it. I'll give you one for free." Deng Wei said as she scooped the noodles and skillfully poured them onto the griddle, scraping them evenly. "You have to fight monsters in the afternoon, right? I'll come with you."
"That's great!" Zhang Tingting was overjoyed.
In less than three minutes, the pancake was ready. Deng Wei handed it to her, and Zhang Tingting thanked her while taking a bite.
The chewy dough and crispy crackers, mixed with the aroma of eggs, chopped green onions and sauce, hit Zhang Tingting's lips and teeth. She was so happy while eating that even her steps became lighter.
Deng Wei smiled as she watched Zhang Tingting skipping away. Just as she was about to make pancakes for the next customer, the message window popped up twice.
Deng Wei clicked on it casually while busying herself. The message was sent by someone from the Fearless Village.
She has a cheerful personality and always makes a lot of friends. Although she has only been in the Fearless Village for a few days, she has made quite a few friends.
[He Bing] Deng Wei, Deng Wei, have you really gone to the Pure Land?
He Bing: Did you really go there by yourself? And did you arrive safely?
[He Bing] I haven’t seen you these past two days and was wondering where you’d been. When we talked today, they said you’d gone to the Pure Land on your own. I was totally shocked!!!
"Sorry, reply to the message." Deng Wei apologized to the customer and quickly replied: Yes, I really arrived and I am selling pancakes here now.
"Oh my God!!!" He Bing exclaimed.
Deng Wei didn't know that there were seven or eight players surrounding He Bing at this moment, waiting for her response just like people trapped on an isolated island were eagerly waiting for a rescue signal to be responded to.
The moment he received the affirmative answer, the atmosphere around He Bing became boiling.
"Does this mean that Xu Wu won't hunt down players anymore? Maybe too many of them have escaped, so she's given up? Then we can go straight over there?" A female priest was so excited that her voice trembled.
"Maybe Deng Wei is the one who can fight?" The female assassin next to her was very cautious.
The male priest on the other side disagreed: "Come on, we've teamed up with her to fight monsters. Her control skills are amazing, but her damage output is useless!"
Finally, everyone hurriedly urged He Bing: "Hurry up, hurry up, ask specifically how it happened!"
He Bing followed everyone's wishes and sent out another series of messages, asking Deng Wei if she had encountered the killer.
This time the reply was not so timely. It took about three minutes before Deng Wei said: Xu Wu sent people. Three people followed me as soon as I left the Fearless Village, but I controlled them.
[He Bing] Just control it? That's it?
Waited another three minutes.
[Deng Wei] Yes, I didn’t want to fight and left quickly. They didn’t chase me anymore.
[He Bing] So what happened next? Did anyone from Fearless Village bother you these past couple of days?
Three minutes passed.
[Deng Wei] Not really... Is Xu Wu that paranoid? I don't think it's necessary.
She said this simply because she had only been in Fearless Village for so short a time that she didn't know much about Xu Wu. But to the older members, it seemed like she was speaking for Xu Wu.
So a nervous male assassin started to get suspicious: "That's not right. Is this really Deng Wei's reply? Is she being controlled by someone? Look at the reply times, each one takes over three minutes. Isn't that weird?"
Fortunately, He Bing was thinking straight. "It's just a guess, not necessarily correct." She turned her head expressionlessly to look at the male assassin. "She's selling pancakes. Does it take her exactly three minutes to make one?"
Male assassin: “…”
A small group of people chatted animatedly, and before they knew it, the news spread. Whatever the specific details behind Deng Wei's "successful solo escape," the news gave hope to many members who were already eager to try. The new members, who hadn't been too influenced by PUA, decided to act faster, and several of them left together on the spot.
When they left, Xu Wu was outside killing monsters. She was stunned when she heard the news.
If Ye Miao wasn't counted as coming to mess things up and pick people up, this large-scale exodus would be unprecedented.
She couldn't help but stare in amazement: "How could this happen?!"
The old members can't be retained, and the new members are also leaving? They are one of the most powerful villages in T City. No matter how arrogant Ye Miao is, the overall combat strength of the territory is still not good enough. Aren't they afraid that their overnight wealth will suddenly disappear one day?!
In the apocalypse, isn't survival the most important thing?!
A female pastor among the core members solemnly advised, "I think we need to change the rules appropriately."
"We've clearly been doing well!" Xu Wu argued indignantly, "Until now, our combat effectiveness should be ranked among the top three in T City!"
"Indeed." The female pastor did not deny it and nodded slowly, "But if this continues, it may not be the case soon."
After all, two fists are no match for four hands in a fight, and the number of members is also an important factor affecting the combat effectiveness of the territory.
"But that doesn't make sense." Xu Wu shook her head in astonishment. "Everything we do is to make the team stronger and to survive longer! That Ye Miao...what did she do? She doesn't care about the strength of the team at all..."
Outside the village, four groups of merchants met at the gate and exchanged friendly greetings: "Hey, are you here to trade in Pure Land too?"
"Yes, yes, what a coincidence."
"It's fate."
But the false friendship was extremely short-lived. At a certain moment, everyone seemed to be suddenly touched by a switch and rushed to the post station like crazy.
The settlement inn can accommodate 16 people. Even if it is completely empty now, it will definitely not be able to accommodate four teams. So whoever arrives first will get it!
"Don't fucking push! I was here first!"
"You're talking nonsense! I was the first one to arrive at the door!"
"I'm the fastest! Don't compete with me!"
The small living room of the inn fell into chaos in an instant.
The captain of Team A pulled hard on the back of the collar of Captain B, while Captain C grabbed Captain B's head with his hands, and at the same time, Captain D grabbed his legs.
"Damn it, let go!"
"You go first!"
"I'm not! I was here first!"
"Hey hey hey hey you're digging my eyes!!!"
The chaos began to escalate.
The team members, who hadn't gotten into the groove yet, started fighting in the back, just as refusing to give in as the captains. There wasn't a real front desk clerk at the inn, but everyone still shouted to the front desk, "I was here first! I was here first!"
Amidst the struggle, Captain B finally reached the panel first. Regardless of the pain in his eyes caused by Captain C's pokes, he booked a room and paid in one go.
Gold coins -3000, all six members of Team B get a bed.
Captain C, seeing this, had no choice but to let the man go and continued to fight with the remaining two teams. Captain B, humming a little tune, walked towards the room with his team members with a ruthless pace.
Perhaps because they saw that there were six fewer beds, the remaining three teams fought even more fiercely. After a full five minutes, no one successfully clicked on the booking panel.
If the post station was not in "non-combat mode" and players could not actually injure each other or cause them to lose blood, there would probably be a river of blood by now.
Until Captain B, who had gotten there first, ran out and said, "Stop fighting, stop fighting!"
The group of people continued to fight, and no one paid any attention to her.
Captain B raised his voice, "The inn has been upgraded! The number of beds has doubled! I just counted them, and even if you all move in, there will still be four or five spots left!!!"
"?" The chaos ended in an instant.
Everyone in the hall looked at each other, their faces a little embarrassed, and then the three captains lined up silently and focused on checking in.
At the same time, Wang Yong, who is also a business player, was taking his teammates to visit the market, smiling with a smug look on his face.
Last time, he made a wrong decision, which prevented everyone from joining the overnight wealth movement. After a few days of insect attacks, they had no choice but to hide in their original territory for the time being.
Today, they finally successfully joined the village of getting rich overnight!
Wang Yong raised his glass of orange juice and said, "Come on, clink! Congratulations to everyone on becoming residents of the Rich Village!"
"Tsk." Zheng Sisi laughed at him. "'Rich Village' sounds so corny! It's better to say the full name! Come on, let me say it again—" She knocked on the bowl twice as she spoke to enhance the atmosphere. "Congratulations to everyone on a successful pilgrimage! Successfully joining the 'Pure Land'!"
"Hahaha!" Wang Yong laughed and retorted, "You're not unsophisticated! You're talking nonsense! What? Pure Land and pilgrimage? It's a good place, but you've made it sound like a cult!"
"I didn't make that up!" Zheng Sisi sighed with laughter. "It seems like a lot of people say that. Didn't you notice when we were doing business elsewhere? At first, only people on the north side said that, but then I heard it called that in the south the day before yesterday!"
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