Chapter 53: New Dungeon Gameplay
Inside the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Flo’s words also made all the players present boil with excitement.
“Sister Wu, it looks like the new plot is going to unlock a new dungeon.” Twilight of the Gods looked at the proposing Flo and said excitedly, “Although the number of people in this dungeon is a bit small this time, only ten people, those who participate will definitely receive a lot of rewards. If all our team members take part, then we might finally be able to rent a transport vehicle afterward.”
Although the tricycle’s transport capacity was decent, after these days of hauling, the three teams had started to look down on it. They all felt that the medium transport vehicle parked in the hall was much better.
Just the size of the medium transport vehicle alone was equal to four tricycles, its speed was much faster than the tricycle, and it could better defend against attacks from apprentice-level experts.
If they could rent it to transport ore and logs, then earning contribution and points would be incredibly satisfying.
Unfortunately, the rental fee for the medium transport vehicle was too high. One week cost forty thousand points, and they also needed inner disciple status to be qualified to rent it.
“At the moment I am still a bit short on contribution for inner disciple status. This is indeed an opportunity.” Luo Wu Shang nodded, her gaze sweeping toward Fang Zhen and the others who had just logged on not far away. “But taking all ten quotas will be a bit difficult. The other two teams can at least take four quotas.”
Luo Wu Shang was very confident about the deathmatch gameplay of the new dungeon, but trying to swallow all ten quotas at once was indeed difficult.
Since Li Ranxing had joined Fang Zhen’s team, the team’s overall strength had improved by leaps and bounds. Li Ranxing had now also become an apprentice-level expert, giving Fang Zhen four apprentice-level experts.
On Yi Ye Fu Yun’s side, he had taken in many players who liked freedom, making them the most numerous among the three teams, and among those free players there were several experts whose physical fitness had reached apprentice level.
Calculated this way, even if their Heavenly Might side had three top experts sitting in town, plus three members who had just stepped into apprentice level, being able to secure half of the quotas would already be pretty good.
“Why do these members of the Gray Robe Gang seem so excited? Could it be that they are thrilled just because they can get 5% of the energy vein?” The young winged tribe guard looked in great surprise at the players whose mood had suddenly become heated.
For an ordinary gang, ownership of 5% of an energy vein was indeed a huge wealth, but that was for the gang. For the members of the gang, the ten death match quotas for apprentice-level fighters were a death list; whoever went would die.
No matter how you looked at it, it was not a good thing for the gang members. Yet the members of the Gray Robe Gang seemed excited, and from what they were saying, they even wanted to compete for these quotas. It was simply bizarre.
At this moment, not only was the young winged tribe guard surprised, but even Flo, who had taken the initiative to make the proposal, was stunned.
“The rumors are really true; the Gray Robe Gang is full of lunatics.” Flo watched Luo Wu Shang and the others still discussing how to fight for quotas, and could not help feeling very curious about the Gray Robe Gang’s management methods.
He completely could not understand how the senior officials of the Gray Robe Gang had managed to make their members so loyal and so considerate of the gang’s profit.
Even those large gangs in the suburbs that brainwashed and trained their members from childhood were likely inferior by several levels.
But it was precisely because of this that their Green Sparrow Gang had come to the Gray Robe Gang. Apprentice-level experts were not easy to cultivate. Each one was a mid-level cadre for a wilderness gang; they could not casually be thrown away as sacrifices. Only the Gray Robe Gang’s death-defying lunatics might be willing to send out ten apprentice-level experts at once.
“I am not interested in this contract of yours.” Lin Qi shook his head. “If you have nothing else, you can leave.”
With one sentence from Lin Qi, everyone present was stunned.
“What is the master of the pavilion trying to do?”
“Don’t! Master of the pavilion! I’ll kneel to you, just sign this contract!”
“Did we trigger the plot the wrong way?”
“Could it be that we stepped in with the wrong foot when we entered today and made the master of the pavilion unhappy?”
“Oh no! Our contract is gone!”
The players in the hall looked at Lin Qi, who had taken the initiative to refuse, and each of them was about to go crazy.
This scene left Flo and his two companions dumbfounded for a moment.
Clearly it was Lin Qi who had refused. The ones who should have been the most puzzled and speechless ought to have been them, yet somehow these members of the Gray Robe Gang looked even more confused and in more pain than they were.
“Respected leader of the Gray Robe Gang, is there something wrong with this contract?” Flo was not planning to give up and asked proactively. “Perhaps you feel that only 5% ownership of the energy vein is too little, but you should know, not just any gang can occupy this energy vein.”
“After offering a portion to that lord, there is only half left at most. Not to mention that your esteemed gang is not the only external support gang participating in this death match. Five percent is already quite a lot.”
“I understand that what you said is true.” Lin Qi nodded and did not deny Flo’s words. “But our Gray Robe Gang is no worse than those other external support gangs you mentioned. If we are going to cooperate, we might as well be honest with each other.”
“I will provide twenty quotas, and I want 20% of the energy vein’s share, with each person accounting for 1%. I think that is very fair.”
He did not believe a single word of Flo’s nonsense.
Although he had not been in the high martial arts world for long, he had heard quite a lot from Luo Qi about wilderness gangs, especially regarding energy veins.
Energy ore was a good thing. It could not only provide a large amount of electricity, but was also excellent for speeding up the improvement of physical fitness.
One could say that the richer the energy in a place, the better the results of people’s training and improvement. This was also why the major cities in the high martial arts world were all built atop large energy veins, and why housing prices got higher the closer you were to the city center.
In the City of Light Chasing, people who did not own property in the city center were not allowed to stay in the city center for long. Once discovered, they would be fined one thousand bits per day, enough to make even official residents swear they would not dare come again next time.
As for energy veins in the wilderness, since there were too many monsters and the risk of mining was too great, the gangs in the suburbs did not even look at anything below small energy veins. Only the death-defying wilderness gangs were interested in miniature energy veins and would fight over them.
As for offering 50% of the share to that big shot, that was absolutely impossible. That would be equivalent to working for free. Let alone a big shot in the suburbs, even if they offered it to those big shots living in the city center, those big shots would be happy to take it.
The so-called big shot mentioned by the Green Sparrow Gang might indeed have received a portion of the share, but it would not exceed 20%. The main purpose was simply to deter the White Feather Gang from making trouble afterward.
This meant that the Green Sparrow Gang held at least 80% of the share in their hands, definitely not as little as 50%.
“Twenty people? Each person gets 1% of the share?” After hearing this, Flo had not expected the Gray Robe Gang to be even stronger than he had imagined, actually having twenty apprentice-level experts. But he quickly smiled. “You really are asking like a lion. I admit that the Gray Robe Gang has some strength, but compared with several other external support gangs, you are still quite lacking. This death match is of great importance. It is not just about having many people on one side; strength matters more.”
“Of course, if the Gray Robe Gang can send twenty people, I can, on behalf of the gang leader, grant the Gray Robe Gang 10% of the share.”
“Flo, do not be in a hurry to refuse.” Lin Qi waved his hand and said with a smile, “Since you said it depends on strength, why don’t we show you what we can do and then decide?”
Lin Qi admitted he was opening his mouth like a lion, but that was business; you had to haggle. If he agreed to Flo’s offer without a word, would that not make him a fool with a club for a brain?
“How do you propose to show it?” Flo was somewhat curious.
Right now, among these people from the Gray Robe Gang, aside from Lin Qi who had reached intermediate apprentice level, the others were all beginner apprentices. What could a group of beginner apprentices possibly show?
“How about two matches?” Lin Qi glanced at the two people behind Flo and smiled. “Did you not bring two experts? Let us have two matches, stop at the point of contact, and decide the winner in three moves. I wonder if you dare, Flo?”
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