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Chapter 371 - 200 The Big Environment_7

Chapter 371: Chapter 200 The Big Environment_7

While people from Major Sects are bound by numerous rules and only have the opportunity to kill others for Experience Points during internal competitions, they have to follow a gentleman’s path at other times, or they will be expelled from the sect.

The good thing is, Major Sects are rich in resources. Even by popping pills, one can howl with joy as their Experience Points soar, thereby enhancing their strength. Plus, their future potential is much greater than people from minor sects, so it’s pretty comfortable after all.

However, joining a Major Sect isn’t easy either; there are all kinds of prerequisites and requirements regarding one’s fate and talents.

On the other hand, it’s hard to get ahead in minor sects. You need to be brave and fierce to become the big brother. One careless move and you could be ruthlessly killed outside, which is extremely risky.

Even though it’s tough on both sides, players still, for some reason, heatedly argue with each other.

Each side sticks to their own argument, blowing up the forum with dozens of pages of topic posts.

Fang Yu thinks, as long as you’re doing well, who cares whether it’s a Major Sect or a minor sect.

Upon closer inspection, he discovers that many topic posts are actually recruiting people.

Yes, it’s the kind of recruitment you see in real-life guilds, not the in-game clan recruitment.

Seems like they’re forming alliances.

Fang Yu inexplicably feels an urgent sense of pressure.

When players are weak, it doesn’t really matter.

But once players grow stronger and swarm up together or play Infernal Affairs with NPCs, who can withstand that?

After scanning through several more posts, he finds that some people are already playing this way.

They even meticulously documented the process in text.

"Sorry, I’m from the Sky Sea Gang!"

"What gang is the Sky Sea Gang? Aren’t you from the Blood Gang?"

"What do you know, Blood Gang is just work; Sky Sea Gang is life! Charge! Demacia!!"

These few lines were the core, after which the NPCs killed them.

No way around it, the player’s strength is too weak; rebelling is futile.

But once the overall player strength increases, it will definitely be a different scene.

This is the full-scale invasion of the wealthy tycoons and big capitalists!

Fang Yu suddenly envisions the future development of the game, as well as the scene of godlike tycoons and their minions charging over.

Damn!

I, as a solo player, seem like I won’t have any room to survive later in the game.

Maybe... I should just find a big guild to take refuge in?

Thinking it over, Fang Yu feels it’s unreliable; big guilds have too many matters to handle, full of deceits, and it’s not as comfortable as being a solo adventurer.

Might as well make less by staying solo.

While solo adventurers still have an early advantage, let’s earn Gold Coins fiercely!

As for the second hot topic on the forums, it’s about the external factor of player guilds.

All sorts of gossip, tales of girls traveling miles to visit, guilds with lots of girls – anyway, it’s all about recruitment.

Just like when the game had just launched, those with large capitals were still observing.

Now that they’ve confirmed the game is worth investing in, they’ve decisively entered the fray.

With such massive investments, they have manpower in spades, which is quite frightening.

In this surge, even Lei Shenhao’s post has been pushed to who knows where.

This shows that individual tycoons still can’t compete with these capitalists.

Wait a minute!

Isn’t that Lei Shenhao!

Fang Yu refreshes the forum, and Lei Shenhao’s post is back on the front page. He refreshes again; it’s still there.

He checks the last page first.

Well, well, well, this bushy-browed tycoon also bought click-farms to bump his post??

A glance reveals it’s all click-farm activity.

Fang Yu suddenly finds this interesting.

Compared to the third hot topic on the forum, the ever-popular topic of adventure mechanics, it’s less enticing.

Most of them are just people who have encountered and benefited from certain things, with others only analyzing it afterward, acting as Monday morning quarterbacks, and making ’experiences’ summaries.

But who knows how reliable these experiences are, Fang Yu doesn’t buy into this experientialism before adventures are mass-produced.

Compared to that nonsense, Lei Shenhao’s post interests him a lot more.

From what he recalls, Lei Shenhao was recruiting people last time, using players with infamous notoriety to lure out demons, then wearing them down with players’ attacks, allowing him to kill the demon.

I don’t know the outcome yet.

Upon closer look, damn, it’s turned into a recruitment post for the Thunder God Gang!

The player expert who had an adventure and left a message in the post before, [Gao Wentian], has unexpectedly become one of the four top officers of the gang.

Damn, that’s some impressive progress.

Could it be that Lei Shenhao has really managed to settle down in Rolling Stone City?

Looking closer, Fang Yu realized that Lei Shenhao might have really found the right way to do things.

He used his bounty status to attract demons, which alarmed the experts of Rolling Stone City, and they had to join forces to kill them.

He did mix in some damage and earned a bit of Experience Points, and with a few adventuring player experts joining under him, his overall strength greatly increased.

Then he started to keep an eye on the city experts, tracking their daily activity routes.

After determining the routes, he would have someone become a bounty target to attract demons to attack, then let the experts quickly rush over to kill the demons.

In the midst of this, he’d blend in the damage and leech some Experience Points.

At first, there was even a fuss about NPC experts being killed.

Later, with experience, the bounty hunters didn’t dare to go too far, and naturally, the demons they attracted weren’t as strong.

But this was just what Lei Shenhao thought.

Here he also left a sigh.

"If I had discovered the hidden dangers earlier, maybe I wouldn’t have ended up in such a dire situation."

Further down, there’s Lei Shenhao’s steady daily increase in attribute points thanks to his tactics.

Then, one day, he found that the rate at which his bounty status attracted demons was slowing down.

By the time he realized what was happening, a Great Demon that blotted out the sky and sun appeared above Rolling Stone City.

NPCs suffered heavy casualties, most of Rolling Stone City was destroyed, and he spent a fortune just to barely survive that nearly city-sieging monster onslaught.

He spent millions just to calm down his subordinates.

And that Great Demon didn’t even die, it was just temporarily repelled, and it looked like it would come back.

It was at this time that he was recruited and became a member of the Foolish Underworld squad in Rolling Stone City.

This motivated Lei Shenhao immensely, the only regret being that too many of his subordinates died, and now there are only about a dozen left.

Of the four top officers, only that [Gao Wentian] survived.

And Rolling Stone City, in need of widespread reconstruction, was busy with building efforts, Lei Shenhao wanted to recruit but couldn’t, so he could only get internet water army to boost posts on forums, hoping to continue recruiting players from around Rolling Stone City to join him.

"I’ve found the path for pay-to-win players to get stronger, if you have the capital, you may follow my route."

Fang Yu faintly felt that something was off, but couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

Isn’t this causing too much of a stir?

Such a massive commotion, could it lead NPCs to trace it back to the players?

If it’s traced back to the players...

There was a thud in Fang Yu’s heart.

At present, NPCs don’t know about players, or they think they’re just demons.

But if NPCs realize that players are players and demons are demons, it would be a deadly blow for these players who are unarmed and have to start from scratch.

It’s like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, with new players not yet familiar with the game being exposed and targeted by NPCs.

Something’s not right, something’s really not right.

If this continues, the game environment will become extremely hostile.

Players without acting skills will be directly eliminated by the environment, unable to survive at all.

If the game’s daily active users drop and fewer people play, the value of Gold Coins will go down, and my dream of buying a house will be shattered!

Fang Yu is somewhat anxious yet somewhat helpless.

After all, this is the trend of the environment, a pay-to-win leveling route tested out by others.

At most, Fang Yu can only denounce Lei Shenhao as a scourge but is unable to prevent this from happening.

"Rich people, they really should die!"

"They’ve developed all sorts of gameplay, how are we average players supposed to survive!"

Fang Yu sighed, he couldn’t change the larger environment, he could only make a post explaining that Lei Shenhao’s approach of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs is wrong, but his post sank like a stone in the sea, completely ignored by everyone.

Seeing this, Fang Yu had no solution.

Better hurry up and get stronger in the game to earn money, and establish a significant advantage before the environment is ruined by these people, lest their actions affect him.

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