Chapter 121: Underhanded Schemes
Players can’t keep secrets. After all, players come from all over the world, and offline communication is never as fast as online.
Having entered the game for more than ten days, they had initially adapted to its mechanics and no longer treated it entirely as a regular game of leveling up and killing monsters.
The game was currently at its peak popularity, and any new development would spark intense discussion among them. This concerned their future development. To maintain their advantage, they had to constantly pay attention to in-game news.
In this game, where a single move could affect the entire situation, playing solo was a dead-end.
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"Shopkeeper Lin, about the recruitment event..." Mainstays of the Beggar Gang, such as Lonely Old Man and Crispy Rice, gathered in front of Lin Bai to ask for his opinion.
"You can just make the arrangements. You don’t have to ask me about everything." Lin Bai smiled. "I’ve already laid a good foundation for you; the rest is up to your efforts. If the Beggar Gang wants to grow, you mainstays—the Gang Leader, Vice Gang Leaders, the Nine-Bag Elder—must carve out a name for yourselves in the Jianghu."
"This disciple recruitment event, where you’ll interact with both Righteous Factions and Evil Sects, is an opportunity for you to enter the public eye." He glanced at the few people who had followed him and smiled. "Forcing Daoist Qingming to sit down and negotiate tonight was a good move. Use your advantages, expand the Beggar Gang’s influence step by step, and strive to make the Beggar Gang the number one gang in the world."
After resolving the Beggar Gang’s crisis, the mission issued by the Chief Supporting Role System changed to: help Big Brother advance his career, with a reward of 10 Qi Yun. Consequently, Lin Bai decided to let go.
The main force of the Beggar Gang consisted of Players. He then imparted the ’Nine-Days True Scripture’ and the ’Dragonfall Palm’.
Over sixty disciples of the Beggar Gang had come to Qian City. Most of them had learned the complete ’Nine-Days True Scripture’, and almost half had nearly mastered the ’Dragonfall Palm’. Although Players needed proficiency to use the ’Dragonfall Palm’, their Inner Strength grew quickly, they were numerous, and they were willing to work hard to grind their proficiency.
Lin Bai, with over a hundred years of Inner Strength, could single-handedly suppress and beat seven disciples of the Blood Shadow Sect. One day of cultivation for a Player was equivalent to a year for an ordinary person. So after five days, the sixty-plus disciples of the Beggar Gang would collectively possess over three hundred years of Inner Strength. It was estimated that it wouldn’t take long for their proficiency with the ’Dragonfall Palm’ to increase as well.