Chapter 251 - Tipping Point
Shop expansion was almost the default task in Fang Qi’s System Interface.
The target for this task: A full house.
Fang Qi glanced at the data and found that the average computer utilization rate was 70% and barely reached a full house at peak hours in Jiuhua City’s Shop. In Half City’s Shop that had a little more than 100 computers, there were only about 60 to 70 customers, which meant that the utilization rate was only a little bit better than 50%
It seems that I don’t have to worry about the issue of shop expansion in the short term, Fang Qi thought. Of course, he didn’t know how naïve his thoughts were.
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The number of the players of the Legend of Mir 2 grew gradually. For example, the disciples of Shengjing Academy and Xiyi Academy were suppressed in the old games by the disciples of Lingyun Academy, and they thought that the new game might give them a chance to turn the tides around.
In the new game, everyone was on the same starting line, and they didn’t have to worry about being at a disadvantage!
They showed more interest in the new game than the old players and had begun playing it on the first day. Moreover, they had more luck than Gong He, who was killed by others viciously and dropped his items while he was at a low level.
Also, they had discovered the pattern and uniqueness of this game while they played. Despite the greater speed of cultivation strength growth in this game compared with the single-player games, they had to fight with others over monsters and make money, which slowed down their speed of growth to the same level as the single-player games.
“Royal Sister…” The Second Prince was now a little warrior who was wearing sky blue light armor. The members of Royal Team were among the earliest players, and they were all above level 10 by now since they didn’t encounter other malicious players.
Ji Wu also chose the profession of warrior, and they were now fighting monsters and leveling up in the Viper Valley. Led by the royal masters, Ji Wu’s level got close to average and reached level 10.
In the early stage of the game when everyone was an ordinary person, the warriors had an advantage of knowing some combat techniques, and some players also knew close-range combat skills and could use it in the game. It was why the warriors had the least worry about money among all three professions in the early stage of the game.
Despite all this, they still found that they were short in funds.
The only reason that they had money to buy potions and fight more powerful monsters was that a few of them went hunting yesterday and got a lot of animal meat. Obviously, they desperately needed money.
What could they do now? Go hunting? Since their levels were much higher than the animals, they didn’t get that many experience points from killing them.
To rob others? As the majestic Royal Family of Dajin, they couldn’t lower themselves to become bandits.
“Maybe… we can go and buy some coins with crystals?” Royal Princess Ji Yu lifted her exquisite chin while pondering, and this idea dawned on her.
“The problem is that everyone needs money to buy potions and kill more powerful monsters to level up. Who will sell coins to us?!” The Second Prince didn’t think this method was plausible since none of the players in the new game were poor.
The ones who were short on money would play the old games and see if the new game was worth the money.
Ji Wu said thoughtfully, “I’ll summon a few teams of guards from the Royal Palace.”
Ji Wu had discovered the difference between the new game and the old ones. In other games, only the old players could help the new ones gain levels quickly, but in this game, the new players could help the old players!
Since everyone is trying their best to level up and increase their strength and thus have no gold coins to sell to us, we can bring new people into the game and get them to earn money for us!
After having a group of people earning money for us to buy stuff to kill monsters, we don’t need to worry about having no money in the game!
Right now, Ji Wu’s idea was different from people like Huang Shan but was just as effective!
As long as they had money in the game, their speed of strength growth would be greater than everyone else.
Increasing their strength in this world quickly wasn’t just for the short-term gains and profit.
For example, he had had no interest in the TV series, Wind and Cloud, since the characters in it were only on the Grand Ancestral Warrior Realm. If he had stopped watching, he wouldn’t know that there would be the sword technique, Sword 23, in the later episodes!
He could catch up with the TV series later on, but all the players were in the same world in this game. The strong ones would get stronger while the weak ones would be suppressed!
To ensure their future advantage over others, he must be prepared.
“But… Father, isn’t it overkill to summon your guard teams to earn gold coins in the game?” the Second Prince said, “They are the most elite warriors of our Dajin…”
“Let our guards do it then,” Royal Princess Ji Yu said, “Father’s guards are elites; wouldn’t it be better to use them to explore high-level maps?”
“Good point!” Ji Wu’s warrior character stroked his non-existent beard in the game and nodded after a short pause.
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The Royal Gold Hunting Team wouldn’t come until dozens of minutes later.
Meanwhile, the united army of the Yuanheng Pavilion and the Huang Family, which had about 60 to 70 players, began a detailed, wide-range search outside the newbie village while killing monsters and leveling up.
For better communication, people like Tang Yuan, Tao Kun, and Huang Shan established a chatroom for the Yuan Huang United Army in QQ.
In the chatroom was a channel named ‘Exterminate the Jiuhua Army’. In the channel, there were ten players with the prefix of ‘Huang’ in their names, and the rest of the 50 plus players’ names began with the prefix of ‘Yuanheng’. Their names were neatly placed in order.
– In Jiuhua City –
Gong He was very proud over the big victory against the people from the Morning Star Sea Realm yesterday.
However, Wang Qiang was in a different situation. He was sneak-attacked by four girls, and a lot of his items dropped. Although he went to Red Name Village, he had a few good friends left in the newbie village.
In the chatroom of the Jiuhua Army, Wang Qiang was talking with his buddies in the channel called ‘Jiuhua Elites’, “Keep an eye on them for me, especially the girl named ‘Condense Frost’ among those four girls! They dared to sneak-attack me!”
“Got it! We have about eight people here! We’ll get them if they dare to come!”
Meanwhile, a disciple from the Huang Family glanced at the guys who were killing spiders. Those guys look familiar…
“Are they the guys who blocked us yesterday?”
In the ‘Exterminate the Jiuhua Army’ channel, someone yelled, “I found the Jiuhua Army! They are here!”
“Where?!”
“How many?!”
“Seven to eight!”
“Don’t alert them!” Tao Kun said, “I’ll bring people and surround them!”
About ten minutes later, about eight members of Jiuhua Army lay on the ground, surrounded by about 30 players of the Yuanheng Pavilion.
Two members of the Huang Family walked over and spat while they said, “Yuck! You’re so weak! You dare to claim that you’d kill us whenever you see us?!”
“F*ck! Don’t run if you dare!”
“Run?” Tao Kun sneered. “Your granddaddy will wait for you here! You can summon all your people here if you dare!”
Someone yelled in the ‘Jiuhua Elites’ channel, “How many of us are here? Come and gather at Viper Valley! We were killed by people from the Morning Star Sea Realm!”
“How many do they have?”
“About 20 to 30! They claimed that they will wait for us here and told us to summon people!”
“Outrageous! Really outrageous!” Gong He heard the conversation and roared in fury, “Gather everyone at the entrance of the village! Send messages to the brothers who aren’t online and summon them!
“They only have about 30 people and dare to taunt us?! If we don’t kill them and bury them today, I, Gong He, will quit my job and go back to my hometown to become a farmer!”