Chapter 308 Intelligence and Blackmail

"You understand." As I finished speaking, the surrounding players and NPCs who had originally pretended to be passers-by, A, B, C, and D, all gathered around them. The troops that had been hidden in the alleyways no longer evaded, but all Ran out. The other party obviously felt that he already knew me, so there was no need to hide anything anymore. Of course, under normal circumstances, there is really no accident when this happens. After all, this is their guild city, and their people are everywhere, and I am only one person. Under normal circumstances, if a lone person enters someone else's city and is surrounded, it is indeed a matter of life or death. It's just that...it's not normal right now.

"Okay, I know it's useless to say anything to you now, but if I change my attitude, maybe I can save some trouble." Looking at the faces of the people opposite me, I knew that they would definitely not listen to me and admit defeat. After all, No normal person would admit defeat in this situation. You must know that they have surrounded me now. According to normal circumstances, it is almost enough for me to surrender. If I ask them to surrender and they surrender immediately, it can only mean that these people are collectively mentally disabled. However, when I said this, I asked Amynis to take off the disguise, and then...

Crash... A burst of neat footsteps sounded, accompanied by the sounds of some armors clashing and human bodies falling to the ground. While I was completely disguised, at least half of the people at the scene took a step back neatly. Those who didn't react were either knocked down by the people next to them or were forced to take a step back. Anyway, The scene became chaotic for a moment.

Although he was frightened by my appearance, one of the people who didn't recognize me soon started shouting. "You think you can defeat us by using illusion magic to simulate a set of fancy armor? Are you an idiot?"

"You're such an idiot!" A player next to the guy who just spoke gave him a slap in the face. Then he lectured: "That's Ziri, who dares to impersonate him?"

"Ziri?" The guy who was beaten was stunned for a moment. Then he seemed to have remembered something and said: "Oh, I remembered it. Is it the one who is number one in the combat power list? Damn it, no way? Why did he come to us? Isn't he pretending to be here?"

"Although I don't think anyone would dare to pretend to be him, I can't guarantee that there will be no accidents, so..." The old player directly kicked out the player who just spoke, and at the same time continued: "Then please go and Verified it.”

Although the guy who was kicked out was quite dissatisfied with being kicked out, he probably had a higher status than the one who just kicked him out, so he didn't dare to have an attack. He could only look at me hesitantly, then swallowed his saliva to calm down his tense nerves, then pretended to be awesome again and staggered towards me.

"I said it's not good for you to pretend to be someone. You have to pretend to be that Zi Ri. He is number one in the combat power list. Aren't you afraid of his revenge?"

The guy in front of me started to verbally attack after he walked up to me, hoping to scare me and make me digest the illusion. In fact, at this time, the group of people behind him were gradually retreating. In fact, this kid was kicked out because he had a bad mouth. In fact, those people had no intention of letting him verify my authenticity at all, because they had already used Detect Illusion on me after letting this guy come out. The result returned not only showed that I did not use the illusion skill, but also directly My name is also displayed.

Although the skill Detect Illusion has no damage, it is actually a skill, and you use the skill on others. As long as it is not a buff-type status skill, it will be judged as an attack by the system, so in fact when you throw the Detection spell on someone else, the other party will appear in your battle information column. It is precisely for this reason that the other party saw my name immediately. Although other things can be disguised, the name in the system battle report is definitely unmistakable. So, after seeing this name, those around me already knew who I was. So these people began to retreat neatly together.

The poor guy in front obviously didn't know that he had been abandoned, and he was still arrogantly trying to make me cancel the illusion and "return" to the image of an ordinary person.

Looking down at the poor guy, I reached out and patted Ye Ying's neck. Then Ye Ying suddenly snorted with understanding, and two balls of flames spurted out from his nostrils in an instant, blowing away the hair of the guy opposite. It was lit. Suddenly attacked, of course the guy immediately started working hard to extinguish the flames on his head, but Yeying stepped forward and kicked him to the ground with a hoof. He stepped on the guy's back and pressed down slightly. Only a few cracking sounds of bones were heard, and the guy immediately stopped struggling.

This kid is obviously very weak. I originally just asked Ye Ying to teach him a lesson, but who knew he was trampled to death? But we are enemies anyway, so if we die, we will die, and I don’t feel any pity.

Those who originally had a bit of luck no longer had any doubts after seeing that guy's tragic death. No matter how bad that guy's strength is, he can't be below level 1,000. There are basically very few players below level 1,000 nowadays. Since this is where the enemy ambush me, it's naturally impossible to kill those with the weakest strength. Put it here, so this guy is definitely not the kind of player who is below level 1,000. So, a player above level 1,000 was just spitted out by my mount and then trampled to death. So what is the attack power of this mount? To have such a high lethality, even if it is not me, it is definitely not something they can handle. You must know that Yeying's current identity is just a mount, not a main battle creature, but their normal staff can't even handle a mount, and it seems that they don't contribute much. This gap is really obvious, and normal people know it. This kind of enemy is definitely invincible.

"You, you, you...are you really that Ziri?" The old player who pushed the player out before pointed at me and asked tremblingly.

I turned to look in his direction, and then said, "Do you think I need to lie to you?"

The man thought for a while and calmed down a little. Then he said: "Now that you are here, that means you have already met the people from the Tianji Alliance, right?"

I nodded again. It seems like the guy in front of me still has some brains.

really. He immediately said after I nodded: "Since you have already met them, it means that our mission has failed. We are only hired by others. Since the mission has failed, we don't want to get into too much trouble with you. I think Why don't we all just forget it, we won't stop you anymore, and you can stop making trouble for us, okay?"

To be honest, the other party's proposal is actually in the interests of both of us and has great credibility. first. Those who want to deal with the Tianji League are unlikely to have such a city near the city chosen by the Tianji League. Therefore, it is basically no problem for the other party to say that they are hired. Besides, to block all travel routes in an area, it cannot be done by just a few people. Even one or two small and medium-sized guilds cannot completely block it. What's more, the other party doesn't have the energy to rush out and blockade the Tianji Alliance with the entire guild. Therefore, if the opponent wants to blockade the Tianji League, the most practical way is to hire guilds or scattered players near the target area to blockade them. This method has the best effect and is the only feasible solution. So, look at it based on these circumstances. What the other person said should be the truth. Most of them are hired.

As long as the other party is telling the truth, strictly speaking, there is no direct conflict of interest between me and them. Their employers are not stupid. The task for hiring them is definitely not to attack or intercept our Frost Rose Alliance personnel, because the difficulty of that task is too high, and others would not dare to take it on. Secondly, even if someone takes it, the other party’s offer will definitely make people collapse. so. The mission they issued should be to prevent Tianji League from asking for help from outside.

If this is the mission these people received, then as he said, with my arrival, the mission has actually failed. In other words, the task is now over, and the other party has completed the contract with the employer. Although the contract was terminated due to the failure of the task, the contract was terminated after all. Then, from the moment the contract is terminated, this guild and I are actually in a non-hostile state. I am a helper of the Tianji League. Although they have been fighting against the Tianji League, they are only employed by others. Now that the employment contract has been terminated, they have nothing to do with the Tianji League, so there is no reason to fight between us. .

In this case, the other party suggested that everyone just forget it, which sounds like a good suggestion indeed, and the feasibility of implementation is indeed very high. However, from the perspective of Tianji Alliance, it is obviously a big loss for this matter to end like this. If it were a normal situation, with the current conditions, I could just let it go as the other party said, but the Tianji League is now severely damaged. If we want the Tianji League to stand up again, we must show toughness. Supportive attitude, so now this matter cannot be so simple.

"Your idea is good, and in principle I agree with your plan, but..." I deliberately looked at the other party's long voice, and the other party's face visibly fell.

"Then how do you want to solve it?"

I just stretched out three fingers. "First, tell me who hired you. I need to find the real owner. Second, compensate the Tianji Alliance for supplies worth 100,000 crystal coins. The specific types will be designated by the Tianji Alliance. Third, no one is allowed to do it again before this incident is over. Accept the other party’s employment or join the other party’s camp.”

As soon as my three requests came out, the face of the person opposite immediately turned darker. However, he did not refuse immediately, but asked me to wait for a while, and then ran out. Obviously he went to find their president. I had looked around at the people around me before, but I didn’t find anyone wearing the president’s badge, which meant that their president was not there. But it’s right to think about it. Before, I came out pretending to be an ordinary player of the Tianji League. Of course, the other party's president would not come out to ambush an ordinary player, so it was normal to not be there.

Probably because he was afraid that I would go crazy if I waited too long, the guy who left quickly ran back with their president. To be honest, I was a little surprised when I saw this guy, because their president is actually an old man. It is not that there are no elderly people in the game "Zero". On the contrary, there are actually a lot of elderly people in "Zero", but the problem is that these old people either come to sleep or come to travel. Basically, their games are mainly for leisure and relaxation, even if you become a formal player. Those are also life skills for cultivation, and few old people can use combat skills.

However, the old man in front of him is not only a combat player, but also a president. To be honest, this kind of thing is really rare. After all, the elderly generally have little drive and prefer a dull life. On the contrary, the job of a guild president is extremely busy all day long and requires constant fighting. This is really very different from the behavior habits of the elderly.

Even though it was unexpected. But I don't intend to lower the conditions just because the other party's president is an old man. Respecting the old and loving the young is not that respectful.

After the other party ran to the scene, he introduced himself first. From his introduction, I learned that the old man's name was Jin Datong. This was his name in the game and his real name in reality. After introducing the name, he immediately started talking to me about the withdrawal of the deal.

"President Ziri, regarding your conditions, we can agree to the first and third items. But the second item...isn't it too much?"

"Although you are employed by others, your behavior is equivalent to someone falling into a well. Instead of rescuing someone, you actually put a lid on the well to prevent others from calling for help. You said that if you encountered this situation yourself, What will happen to the man who put the lid on the well?"

"That's not what you said." The other players around me were stunned by my question. After all, there is nothing wrong with what I said. However, the old man was obviously much more experienced than the young people around him, and he could still think of excuses. "After all, people and guilds are different. People have feelings, and guilds are just interest groups, and everything should be based on interests. How can you compete for a moment's morale!"

"President Jin's idea is good, but you may not understand the idea of ​​young people forming a guild. From our point of view, a guild is a group of like-minded people, and we actually act based on the basic principle of emotion. . The profit-based one you mentioned is called a company, or a country, not a guild. The primary purpose of a guild is not to develop and strengthen itself, but to make all members of the guild proud, so you should focus on Wrong. In addition, you may not have thought of it. If we really take profit as the first starting point, we cannot let go of your guild. Think about it! You can be hired by the other party once and then you can have a second one. Time, keeping you is like planting a nail in your side. Your city happens to be stuck on the main road out of the Tianji League. Considering the interests of the Tianji League, it seems that the most correct consideration is to eradicate your guild. Bar?"

"this……"

While the old man was thinking about excuses, I immediately continued: "Okay, don't be embarrassed. There must be compensation. It's a matter of attitude. We can discuss the amount. One hundred thousand crystal coins is too much for you. , then let’s reduce it a bit and give you a 20% discount, so that’s 80,000 yuan, right?”

Upon hearing what I said, the old man immediately said with a sad face: "As you can see, our small guild only has one-third of an acre of land. Let alone 80,000 crystal coins, we don't even have 8,000!"

"Not even eight thousand?" I asked pretending to be surprised: "You mean you can't get eight thousand crystal coins even if all the cities in your guild are sold?"

The old man wanted to nod after hearing what I said, but suddenly he reacted. If he nods, I will definitely tell them to buy the city for 8,000 crystal coins. After all, there is no way this city is worth such a small amount of money. So, this is a trap. The old man couldn't nod or shake his head. He is about to nod, that means the city is not worth 8,000 crystal coins. If I want to buy it for 8,000 crystal coins, they will not be able to decide. And if he shakes his head, it means that this city has more than 8,000 crystal coins, and in this case, the excuse he just made for counter-offer will not be valid. Therefore, he can't nod or shake his head now.

Although the old man reacted, he couldn't make any choice and could only look at me in embarrassment. Of course I knew he couldn't answer, so when he understood, he said directly: "Don't cry about being poor with me. This big guild even has its own guild city. I don't believe you are really that poor." . I will give you another discount, 50,000 crystal coins, which is already the bottom line. If you continue to bargain with me, I will leave the city immediately to apply for the city battle. You can decide for yourself."

This was equivalent to an ultimatum to me. The old man really had no choice but to nod and agree after hesitating for a long time. But he still had some brains, and changed the additional conditions I mentioned before, which stated that the specified supplies must be paid in accordance with the requirements of Tianji League, into direct payment in cash. You must know that there are great variables between cash and materials. The price of the materials they pay to the Tianji League needs to be determined temporarily, and wrangling is inevitable during this determination process. Of course, they are not afraid of wrangling. The key is that when our guild supports the Tianji League, they become a vulnerable group. , under such circumstances, they will only suffer losses if they argue with Tianji League. So the old man would rather spend more money than pay in cash.

I had no reason to refuse the old man's request, so I had no choice but to agree. Anyway, as long as you have the money, it doesn't matter if it's just a little or two. Of course, although this money is said to be compensation to the Tianji Alliance, in fact it will eventually go into the pockets of our guild. Don't forget that Tianji League's revival plan this time depends entirely on our help, and our help is not free, so in the end, Tianji League still has to give it to us after receiving the money.

In fact, if the Tianji League finally decides to transform the guild into a technical guild according to Rose's plan this time, then their guild's dependence on us will probably reach an extreme. Referring to the prices of the things our guild has sold before, it is conceivable that the plan prepared by Rose for Tianji League will definitely not be cheap. Although it is cheaper than buying it individually, the characteristics of wholesale determine that, although the unit price It would be cheaper, but in reality it would only cost Tianji League more. It is estimated that if they agree to Rose's plan, all the funds of Tianji League may be in our hands in disguise in the future, and because the technical system is completely controlled by us, Tianji League will only be our hardcore followers in the future. After all, once they If they leave our camp, they will immediately lose our technical support, and by then they may have already adopted as many technical weapons as our guild. A sudden loss of technical support in that situation would be like running out of supplies in a modern war, and there would really be no room for resistance.

You must know that the difference between these magic technologies in the game and those in reality is actually very big. Many technologies in reality are common. Although different technical systems have their own standards, they can always learn from each other. But magic technology is different. Different systems have different things. If they use our things and change to another technical guild, all the things they bought before will become useless, because other guilds will never be able to repair or repair them. It's about maintaining our equipment.

After our agreement was reached, of course we first signed a formal agreement. After the system guaranteed the acceptance, the agreement came into effect, and then the other party readily took out all the money at once. Obviously, this old man was crying about poverty before, otherwise how could he take out the money so quickly? However, it was quite sensible for him to pay so readily, so I didn’t say anything more.

After the money is settled all that's left is the news. But betraying my employer was not a good thing after all, so the other party pulled me into a hidden room and quietly told me his identity.

I learned from the old man that the employers who paid to hire their guild were actually not one guild but three.

"Three employers? Could it be said that you intercepted the Tianji Alliance and collected three amounts of money? Isn't this too profitable?"

"No, no." The old man was afraid that I would blackmail him again, so he quickly denied: "Three of their guilds formed a temporary alliance, so we took on one mission. As for the money... From the moment you appeared here, Even if our work is completely in vain!"

This is true. My arrival here means that the blockade has failed, and if the mission fails, there will naturally be no reward.

"Okay, okay, don't cry poverty to me. Tell me who those three guilds are." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (reading.)

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