Chapter 415 - 387: What is China Region Doing?
The Dragon Slayer Guild’s bold move instantly rocked the various large and small guilds and working studio groups in the China Region.
What exactly does Dragon Slayer want to do? Is Dragon Slayer planning a massive city-building project? In the early stage of the game, liquid funds are so precious that stockpiling supplies in large quantities is definitely not a wise move. However, Dragon Slayer has started to hoard, indicating a must-win determination for their grand project! What to do?
At this time, the chairman of the Star Guild, Eternal Star, immediately called for an emergency meeting with the senior think tank, where each member expressed their opinions:
"I think, it’s very likely that the Dragon Slayer Guild wants to immediately build city walls with a huge quantity of stone as soon as they enter the New World, instantly claiming a large piece of land to establish an absolute advantage!"
"But, at this time the highest-level players in Dragon Slayer are only level 45, far from entering the New World. Dragon Slayer still has many places to spend money on, isn’t it somewhat unreasonable to start hoarding stones so early?"
"Perhaps it’s precisely because it’s unreasonable, which is why Dragon Slayer decided to use an unexpected strategy? Moreover, we can’t rule out the possibility that they are building the city in the Old World, but it’s worth considering how much benefit can be gained from building a city in the Old World."
Eternal Star spoke solemnly: "The key is, what should we do?"
The think tank unanimously said: "Stay put!"
"If they are building a city in the New World, it’s way too early for them. Since they are starting to prepare now, it’s uneconomical and not our concern. If they are building a city in the Old World, that’s even less of our concern."
Indeed, being led by the nose is not Star’s style. But Eternal Star was feeling very conflicted internally. To be exact, Eternal Star actually wanted to do something. Otherwise, Dragon Slayer will make a big splash that shakes the entire server while their own guild doesn’t make a sound, looking much less impressive in terms of momentum and grandeur. To ordinary players, this appears not cool at all, and that’s an invisible loss of popularity for the guild!
That’s right! As a large guild, it is necessary to always lead the trend, and once they fall behind, it becomes extremely passive! To follow or not to follow is the dilemma.
At this moment——
——World Channel [Bloodrose Rosa]: Hello friends, to celebrate the Bloodrose Guild becoming the world’s second-established guild and the first in the China Region, the Bloodrose Guild is buying gemstones and crystals at 4 Gold Coins per unit, 440 Gold Coins per bulk from across the server at the goblin casino Las Vites storage in the neutral city. Players willing to sell can come to trade with my guild’s buyers and we will reimburse the teleportation fee. If there are players who want to directly trade resources for RMB, we warmly welcome you...
The world was abuzz once again!
Eternal Star was bewildered, what is this woman trying to do? Crystals and gemstones? Is she planning to fully develop Angels?
That’s right! The Bloodrose Guild was officially established at 4 o’clock this morning and had also carried out internal reward distribution, dining, drinking, and other celebration activities. They received congratulations and consolation from various guilds and studios, made a publicity stunt on the forum, and even made the headlines on TV and websites. The display was spectacular, but the big sister Zhou Qing always felt something was missing, not feeling fully satisfied?
Now, Zhou Qing finally understood what was missing—the "joy of sharing with the people"!
And coincidentally, Dragon Slayer Guild triggered a buying frenzy throughout the China Region, so there was no hesitation. Riding on the momentum they created, they would take advantage of the situation to stockpile rare resources like gemstones and crystals, preparing materials in advance for mass-producing Angels in the future.
Of course, for Zhou Qing, a non-profit oriented working studio, this was truly for the sake of publicity and celebration!
Now, Eternal Star could no longer remain calm: "I think, should we also liven things up a bit?"
The think tank members looked at each other, stupefied, and said: "Then, let’s take the opportunity to stockpile some wood at a low price. It’s always right for the Elf Clan to hoard wood."
Eternal Star’s ideas were finally settled: "Alright, let’s do this to celebrate the establishment of grand guilds in the China Region!"
——World Channel [Eternal Star]: Hello friends, our Star Guild...
Then Ninth Heaven couldn’t sit still anymore!
——World Channel [Divine Emperor]: We will buy any resources they don’t at 20% higher than the NPC’s buying price!
When the Star Guild’s Ninth Heaven made a statement, the atmosphere in the entire China Region exploded to its peak! Players everywhere exclaimed, "Today really feels like a holiday!"
Ma Yinglong, the big brother leading the pack in the China Region, was utterly puzzled and terrified! What are they doing? Why is Star buying wood? To confront? To follow the trend? To stir things up? To troll? To join in the fun? But no matter what they were doing, as long as they weren’t competing with me for stones, it’s fine!
The frenzy in the China Region’s market immediately caught the attention of large guilds from other international regions. What exactly is China Region up to? Initially, only the instigator Ma Yinglong knew, but now even he was clueless—no one knew what China Region was doing!
Market trends are an invisible hand, but sometimes, it’s the blind following of the masses that steers this hand.
Ever-watchful, the Indian Zone was the first to wake up! If the goal of the China Region was to circle mines with walls on a large scale upon entering the New World, then wouldn’t that put the Indian Zone at a disadvantage? Therefore, their Eight Heavenly Dragons Guild also immediately took action, their appetite even bigger, directly buying all kinds of resources from ordinary players!
Then the European Union Zone followed suit. With many countries and teams in the European Union Zone, when one national team took the lead, could other teams remain indifferent? Then the Japan Zone acted, and the Russian Zone as well. When most of the countries and regions were in motion, the United States and the self-proclaimed detached South Korea, who had been observing rationally, also had no choice but to act! Just like stocks, when others are frantically selling and you’re laughing at them, the downtrend has already taken shape, and you have no choice but to sell with them!
The entire Hero World went crazy today!
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At this time, Da Fei, who was exploring the map in the Blood Sea, saw the suddenly lively World Channel and knew something big was about to happen. Though it seemed unrelated to him, he still felt a sense of urgency that time was of the essence, and Da Fei was eager to leave this place to head home for construction.
As for the map, it could be explored or not—Da Fei didn’t care about the completeness of the mission reward anymore, it was enough to report to Makar. The key was that the Vine Space had yet to be found, and that was something Da Fei would not easily give up!
As for how to find the Vine Space? This was a real test of Da Fei’s intelligence as the world’s number one amateur player! This space was sealed, with none of the so-called instance entrances. Everything depended on teleporting at the "correct" location using this unreliable Magic Wand—so where was the "correct" place?
Sail the little ship around and try every single area of this map? Impossible! It’s not minesweeping! Da Fei had seen Tai Da use the Space Magic Wand, which clearly didn’t need a specific geographical coordinate—it seemed to work as long as you were in that space. In other words, if you couldn’t get in here, then you wouldn’t be able to get in anywhere on this map! How stupid would it be to sail around this vast sea and try spot by spot? Not to mention the possibility of exhausting the Magic Wand’s magic power with too many attempts.
There were only two methods: one, to seek out special scenic architectures, like, by the game’s habit, finding various dilapidated altars, the remains of Teleportation Arrays, etc.
Two, because this space was so-called twisted and broken, there had to be hidden entrances to other dungeon spaces on this map. Find the entrance, go in, then use the Magic Wand to teleport! This was what Da Fei considered the most reliable method.
Time ticked by second after second, Little Fei continued to circle this vast dungeon space. Aside from the Demigod found initially and the two gemstone mines near it, all other areas of water and the surrounding islands had various unknown monsters of different sizes, but no more gemstone mines were found. At the same time, no distinct facility or scenery was discovered, no entrance to other spaces was found.
At this point, Little Fei’s Stamina was running low, and Da Fei was feeling increasingly anxious and lost! No way, if even a high-tech player like me, with the scouting Flying Eagle, couldn’t find any clues, what about ordinary players who take on this mission? Should they really sail around looking for it? Would they find anything at all? They might just get killed by Water Monsters!
Although I believe that the system has no integrity, I still trust that the system has a bottom line. The task method of exhausting players’ time definitely does not exist! Wasting players time is equivalent to wasting the host computer’s electricity. It’s impossible for the game server to accompany me burning electricity and running resources for such a vast map scene—so where exactly is the trick?
Just as Da Fei was frowning in thought, ding-dong—a sound rang out!
—System Prompt: Congratulations! Your mission item "Magic Map Drawing Device" has finished drawing the map of this scene, you can go to the next area to continue drawing maps. The more maps you draw, the higher the reward for your mission completion...
Da Fei was suddenly shocked, have I made a mistake! I’ve explored the entire map? It’s all been explored and still no hidden space entrance has been found? Could it be that this Demigod is blocking the entrance? Damn, is this a joke? If that’s the case, how high is the difficulty level of this mission?!
What should I do? Should I die and return? Then, after discussing with Makar how to kill the Demigod, come back and search slowly?
Da Fei couldn’t help but let out a long sigh to the sky, unwilling, so unwilling! Does it mean that when my high-tech is useless, I’m just an idiot with only 5 intelligence?
And just as Da Fei sighed to the sky, he suddenly saw a silver disc-like blood-red full moon in the sky above the Blood Sea!
Da Fei was taken aback— the moon? Such a familiar moon! Wasn’t this the same one I encountered in the Abyss Blood Pool? Wait! Speaking of which, after visiting several World Tree Spaces and experiencing several game days and nights, this was the first time I’ve seen the moon in a World Tree Space, what does this imply? A mirror projection caused by the overlapping of spaces?
Of course, that wasn’t important anymore. What was important was that every time I encountered the moon, there would be a tide, and the last time at the Abyss Blood Pool, after the tide subsided, there was significance. What about this time?
Da Fei had an epiphany—perhaps the trick here was just one, to wait! Wait for the tide!
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