Volume 19, Chapter 118: Doing Business Requires Brains

The reason is actually very simple, but also very complicated.

The simple reason is that these people who are attacking our city are actually my clients, so the more they number, the more I will make. And the reason is complicated, which is naturally why the person who attacks me is my client. The relationship is quite complicated.

If you want to know why the person who attacked me is my client, you have to start with the guild power in the United States.

In the United States, the main guilds are divided into several large guilds. Among them, the Spear God's Holy Spear Alliance and Yusina's Rainbow Alliance are the leaders of that kind of guilds, and Terry's Neptune Palace is considered the largest. The top strong fighting guild. Needless to say, the status of these three guilds in the United States is also amazing, and their influence on American players is also amazing.

Precisely because of the instigation of these three guilds, many "freedom-loving" American players have taken up their weapons and launched a war of freedom against our "evil Eastern organization". As for how many people in this army composed purely of scattered players and small guilds are really fighting for freedom, how many are fighting for racism, how many are fighting for American sovereignty, and how many are just joining in the fun, That's not what we need to care about. In short, these people gathered for various purposes, and then, out of dissatisfaction with a Chinese guild building a city on American soil, they participated in this protracted and fruitless war of attrition.

Originally, this war seemed meaningless, but it took on a different meaning due to the participation of three major guilds. On the surface, the meaning promoted by the Paladin and the Rainbow Alliance is that their fighting has prevented the further expansion of evil Chinese forces in the United States. But, secretly, the only good thing about this war is that it promotes consumption. Yes, it is to promote consumption.

Fighting costs money, and it is naturally impossible for the Holy Spear Alliance and the Rainbow Alliance to completely bear this cost. Of course, as a large guild, they cannot afford not to pay a penny, otherwise others will definitely not pay. Therefore, in the end, the external propaganda of the Paladin League and the Rainbow Alliance was to support the war at a loss. All materials consumed in the battle are produced by the Paladin Alliance and the Rainbow Alliance, but for players participating in the war, only the production material fee is charged. The two major guilds pay back the personnel investment to contribute to the war against the invasion of our guilds.

This kind of propaganda can be said to be full of incitement, and the materials sold by the two major guilds are indeed much cheaper than those sold outside. At this price, many people will come to buy these materials and participate in the war. As the most powerful war guild in the United States, the Neptune Palace was naturally the first to step forward and respond to the call, purchasing large quantities of supplies and regularly sending people to directly participate in the war. This pioneering and exemplary role naturally attracted the participation of a large number of people, making this battle large-scale and protracted. But what is the truth?

The truth is that the Holy Spear Alliance and the Rainbow Alliance have not produced any kind of war materials at all, and everything is made by our guild. In other words, the cannonballs, bows, arrows, scrolls, etc. used by American players to attack us, as well as the medicines they use for treatment, are all made by us. Of course, we are not created in vain. Didn’t those players contribute money? Although the price is indeed much lower than what is sold outside, it is not really so low that you lose money. Although calculated based on the price we sell to the Paladin Alliance and the Rainbow Alliance, our profit for each product is only about 8%, but we are wholesale to the Paladin Alliance and the Rainbow Alliance anyway, and we don’t want to sell it ourselves. 8% The profit is low, but it is still profitable. Moreover, although the profit margin of this project is not high, the success lies in the large volume and stable demand, so it is still very profitable.

As for why the Holy Spear Alliance and the Rainbow Alliance are willing to help us do this, isn't it clear? Our guild spends 100 crystal coins to produce something, plus an 8% profit point, and sells it directly to the Holy Spear Alliance and Rainbow Alliance. When they get the thing, they directly add 8% to it, and sell it at 116% of the cost. After deducting the sales channel expenses from this 8%, they can still get 5% to 6%. They didn’t make the thing, but they just changed hands and got 5% to 6% profit. Why not do such a good thing? As for abandoning our own production of materials and eating alone, no one with any brain would do it. It seems that if you produce the materials yourself, you can get 8% more profit, but do you create the materials yourself? Doesn’t it require equipment and labor to produce those things? Don’t you need people to manage these things? Don’t you need to pay for hiring someone? Our guild already has several super production bases. In terms of cost control, the Holy Spear Alliance and Rainbow Alliance are definitely much better. We can get 8% profit from production, and it would be good if they can get 2% from their own production. Besides, the fundamental factor why these supplies were consumed so quickly was the war against *** City. *** City is our industry. If we don't cooperate, they won't be able to proceed with this matter at all. Even if they solve all these problems, aren't they afraid of offending me? Falling out with me and the Frost Rose Alliance for such a small amount of profit, only a fool would do that kind of thing.

Precisely because our guild has such a cooperative relationship with the Holy Spear Alliance and the Rainbow Alliance, to me, the group of people outside the city are not attacking the city at all, but helping our guild generate income. To me, they Not the enemy but the customer. Of course, this kind of customers must not be publicized, otherwise the customers will really become enemies.

Of course, some people may say that our guild will also suffer losses and consumption during the battle, so it is not cost-effective to do such a thing for the 8% profit. However, what I want to say is that this is actually a good deal, because this matter needs to be calculated separately.

First of all, although the defensive war will cause material consumption and property losses for our guild, this consumption itself is unavoidable. Even without the instigation of the Holy Spear Alliance and the Rainbow Alliance, those American players will still not allow a Chinese guild. The city of the United States was built on American soil, which seriously violated the national self-esteem of the American people. Because of this, the instigation of the Paladin League and the Rainbow Alliance only increased the frequency and scale of attacks, and the increase in our guild's investment was not very large.

Secondly, although the defense war is a war, this is a game, a game with combat as the main theme. In such a game, fighting will not only cause destruction and losses, which is different from reality. In reality, war only causes destruction. Although many people can whitewash it and say that without destruction, there would be no construction, but they have to admit that destruction occurs first before construction, and it is quite serious. However, things are not exactly the same in the game. Players in the game can be resurrected after death. Although the level will drop, the loss is relatively small. Furthermore, during the battle, because the members of our guild do not belong to the same national camp as the American players, we gain experience points and various war points for killing each other. This is also the reason why our guild always rotates the players on duty in *** City, not because the players here have suffered heavy casualties, but because they level up very quickly here. In other words, in addition to bringing us monetary benefits, this war also directly created a large-scale leveling venue for the players in our guild.

Different from ordinary outdoor leveling points, the *** City Defense War is an urban war, and it is also a national war between different national camps. Although its scale is small in national wars, the system recognizes it. It is a national war. We can get various guild points in the battle. We can get national war points for killing players from other countries, as well as city defense points, enemy country personnel massacre points, guild comprehensive points, guild killing points, A series of points for guild war points and so on and so forth.

In short, if you look at the money consumption alone, the city defense battle may only be a small profit, and sometimes you may even lose a little money. However, the huge benefits it brings in terms of points and experience points are things you can’t buy even if you have money, not to mention that we can occasionally make some money from it now. Anyone who doesn't do something so cost-effective would be an idiot.

Standing on the city wall and looking at the charging American players below, I said to the Queen of Blades and Ghost beside me with excitement: "Look, these people are here to give us money."

"Hmm. Huh?" The ghost didn't react at first, but after he finished humming, he realized something was wrong. "President, what do you mean...?"

"Hehe, anyway, you just know that these people are just coins to us."

"Then we can't take action against these people?" Queen of Blades asked.

I smiled and shook my head. "How can we make money if we don't take action? Of course we have to take action, just be careful not to make it too exaggerated. It's okay to kill some people or destroy some supplies. As long as it doesn't affect the balance of the battlefield, it's no big deal."

"I do not understand."

"You don't need to understand. Now just follow me." I summoned Ye Ying and climbed up. Ye Ying stepped into the city wall with both hooves and stepped directly on the shoulders of the unlucky guy. With a bang, the guy was stepped directly into the ground like a stake, leaving only half of his head still on the ground. .

As soon as Ye Ying landed on the ground, I grabbed Eternity and swung it to my side. The softened Eternity instantly ejected long gun shafts and hook blades to both sides. The extra-long heavy-duty hook and sickle gun took shape instantly, and then I slammed it to the side. , there was immediately a splash of blood, and three American players who rushed up on war horses with long knives fell to the ground, and were trampled into mud by the horses behind them.

Seeing that I had gone down, the ghost and the Queen of Blades also jumped down. Their fighting methods are different from the players. Although they can also fire various skill effects through the magic devices on their bodies, under normal circumstances they don't like to use that kind of skill. For them, slashing directly with weapons is a common move, and they have to admit that their common moves are quite effective.

Although there are some experts among the players encouraged by the Holy Spear Alliance and the Rainbow Alliance, we have to say that such people are rare, so we didn't meet anyone who was a little bit of a hindrance along the way. Of course, it may also be because we are too strong and we can kill the masters without even noticing them.

After easily killing the American player's offensive force, we left the battle directly from the rear of the battlefield. Although this is a good opponent to earn guild points, there is no need for us to kill the enemy here. The city Naturally, there are many players queuing up to earn points.

Because we couldn't use the teleportation array, we used flying directly after leaving the battlefield to find the Paladin League headquarters. Of course, entry must be done quietly. Although many people in the Holy Spear Alliance know that we have a secret agreement with the Holy Spear Alliance, after all, this matter cannot be seen in the light, and it is always better to be careful.

I took off my disguise only after entering the guild headquarters of the Paladin in disguise mode. Except for the middle and high-level personnel of the Holy Spear Alliance, no one else will show up here, so there is no need to worry about being discovered when you get here.

"Eh? Isn't this President Ziri? Why did you come to me when you had time?" As soon as I took off my disguise, the Gunslinger came out of the headquarters with two people, and happened to bump into us head-on. I glanced at the two people next to the gunman, meaning to ask if it was not convenient for them to reveal our relationship. The Gunslinger is also considered a leader of the guild, and his brain reaction is naturally not slow. He immediately understood what I meant when he looked at my eyes. "Oh, let me introduce you." The Gunslinger said to the man on his left: "This is Miller, the president of the Magic Research Association."

"Hello." After being introduced, Miller immediately reached out to me and said, "President Ziri has always been my idol, and today I finally met him in person."

I shook hands with Miller in surprise, then politely exchanged words, and finally asked: "What about that? I don't seem to have a positive image in the United States, right? This idol...?"

"Oh, I'm talking about technical achievements." Miller quickly explained: "The technical level of your Frost Rose Alliance is really amazing. If I have the chance, I really want to do research with you."

I glanced at the Gun God and said, "I really want to dig you back, but I'm afraid that I'll take you away with my front foot, and the Gun God will rush to Essinger with my back foot."

The Gunslinger just smiled when he heard my teasing, and then briefly introduced the other person. Obviously this person was of low status, maybe just a follower of Miller.

After chatting with these two people, the gunman asked me to wait a moment, then sent the two people out of the gate and handed them over to a member to continue seeing them off before turning back again. "Why do you have time to come to my place?"

"Why do you need to say hello first when you come here?"

"I just feel that a busy person like you shouldn't be so free."

The Gunslinger said as he took the lead to walk inside the guild, and I naturally followed. Seeing me moving, Ghost and the Queen of Blades naturally followed. However, just after we passed through the hall and entered the core area of ​​the guild headquarters at the back, two Paladin players reached out to stop the ghost and the Queen of Blades.

There are not many people in the game who don't know me, and it's even less likely that such a person exists in a guild like the Holy Spear League that has direct dealings with us. So the two guards didn't stop me, but they stopped the ghost and the Queen of Blades. Apparently they thought they were my followers.

Originally, it was okay to be stopped. The bad thing was that neither Blade nor Ghost were easy to mess with. From the moment they showed their personalities, I discovered that the personalities of these two guys obviously belong to the type that is unwilling to suffer losses, and because they have the habit of pretending to be stupid in front of outsiders, After being intercepted by the two men, Blade and Ghost pushed the two people who blocked them at the same time.

If it's just an ordinary person's opinion, it's fine, but can the ghost and the blade be viewed by ordinary people? These two are simply perverted. Just hearing two booms, the two players seemed to have just been lightly pushed, but their whole bodies flew out like cannonballs, and then smashed into the buildings on both sides.

The Gunslinger looked back at Blade and Ghost in surprise. To be honest, he had regarded these two as my followers or new magic pets before, but it was only now that he realized that these two were definitely not ordinary people.

Seeing the gun god's reaction, I quickly turned around and pretended to yell at Ghost and Blade: "Turn off the attack mode. You are not allowed to attack any people or objects before leaving here. If you need to take action, ask me first."

"Command, confirm." As expected, Blade and Ghost began to act stupid again and replied directly in a mechanical and dull voice.

"Ziri, these two are...mobile angels?" The Gunslinger was really surprised. I hadn't noticed them before, but now I heard their dull voices and took a closer look at their appearance. I immediately connected them with the ordinary mobile angels in my memory. After all, the two still have a lot in common in appearance.

I pretended to be helpless and sighed: "Oh... don't mention it! These two are the new mobile Angel technology verification machines just developed by our guild's research department."

"Isn't this great? Why are you sighing? The mobile angels in your guild are becoming more and more powerful every generation. If the production hadn't been increasing, we wouldn't know how we could fight you. This is a new product. , The combat power must be stronger, right?" The gunman said with envy and jealousy.

I still looked helpless and explained: "The combat power is indeed very high, it can be said that it is ridiculously high. You know my combat power, but if the two of them join forces, I can only hold on to one without summoning a magic pet. You will be defeated in an hour.”

"So powerful?" The Gunslinger was surprised for a moment before suddenly reacting. "You are so strong, why are you so frustrated?"

"You don't know! These two guys are really powerful in combat, but I don't know how. The artificial soul used by the original mobile angel will be burned as soon as it is installed. In the end, I secretly killed two gods. I got two Protoss souls and put them in them, and it turned out that it could be used, but the head seemed to be filled with water. Not only did the reaction always fail to keep up with the speed of the body, but it also got nervous from time to time. They are just two mentally retarded children."

"Damn, it's really depressing if you put it that way. But technology will always make a breakthrough."

"Yes, so why don't I come to you now?"

The Gun God looked at me in confusion and said, "What do you want from me? It's not like you don't know that our Holy Spear Alliance has no research on golem technology at all."

"I don't want your technology, I just want the soul, the soul of the Free Gods."

"What? You want me to help you kill gods?"

I pressed the gunman's mouth and said nervously: "Keep your voice down, are you afraid that no one will hear you? Come on, let's go in and talk."