Chapter 281: Let bygones be bygones
The sudden change left everyone stunned.
After understanding the situation, most of the players breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that they had not stolen anything from the pharmacy.
But the expressions of a very small number of players changed.
How did Su Xia know who had taken the potion?
There were no surveillance cameras in the store, and it was a mess just now. Everyone was pushing and shoving, and there were heads and hands everywhere, and the voices were noisy. Even high-level players like Binglei and North were helpless.
Could it be that Su Xia possesses some special perception skills?
Thinking of this, some of the players who had just stolen things felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.
When they were stealing things, they were all speculating about Su Xia as an ordinary player, completely forgetting that the man in front of them was nominally the number one player in the entire Coral City.
He has many more special opportunities than other players.
【Evil Bubble: ???】
When everyone looked at Su Xia, they could only see a series of question marks, just like when they saw a high-level BOSS in the wild.
In fact, the powerful perception ability given to Su Xia by advanced psychic power was enough for him to capture the information he wanted in the chaos just now.
His ability to control metal allows him to detect subtle changes in metal shelves, experimental instruments and even a small screw.
In this small pharmacy, he is the boss.
Bing Lei took a deep breath, looked at the player named Lao Liu, and said in a deep voice: "Lao Liu, hand over all your stuff, we are still friends."
“I…I didn’t take…”
Lao Liu's face turned pale and he was still trying to deny it, but his voice was as low as a mosquito and his tone was quite insufficient.
Another player next to him advised, "Brother Lei, we fight monsters and level up together every day, and we have known each other for such a long time. I don't think Lao Liu is that kind of person. Could it be that Pharmacist Su made a mistake?"
Several players around nodded secretly, they couldn't just listen to Su Xia alone.
Everything requires evidence. We can't just listen to Su Xia just because he is stronger. Otherwise, wouldn't the entire resistance alliance become Su Xia's private organization?
We all come from hundreds of different teams and just come together for a variety of reasons.
Bing Lei was in a bit of a dilemma.
He believed in Su Xia, but Lao Liu was a member of his team after all, so he turned to look at Su Xia and asked in a low voice: "Brother Su, do you have a video recording from multiple angles?"
"Yes, I've prepared it for them." Su Xia said with a smile.
As soon as these words came out, the expressions of some players changed completely.
Just now, when they stole the potions and other materials, they were secretly very happy and felt that they had made a big profit. They had no idea that Su Xia had turned on the game's screen recording system.
Their every move was under Su Xia's watch.
Why didn't Su Xia stop it?
Is he doing this to screen out unqualified members in the team?
In the private chat system, Su Xia sent the previous video clip of the pharmacy to Bing Lei, then looked at the player who had just spoken and said lightly: "He also stole something, so he spoke out in support of this Lao Liu."
"What?"
Bing Lei was stunned. Before he had time to watch the video, he turned to look at the team member who had just spoken.
The man looked panicked, shook his head hurriedly, took a half step back unconsciously, and said, "No... I, I just think... Lao Liu is our brother, we can't treat him like this..."
"Yeah?"
Bing Lei felt a surge of anger and a hint of shame in his heart. He didn't expect that the two players who were pointed out were both members of his Frozen Cross team.
He clicked on the game videos that Su Xia sent to him, and soon saw the scenes of this man and Lao Liu stealing things.
In the picture, a look of secret joy flashed across their faces.
In fact, stealing things from NPCs in games is a very common thing, especially in large-scale stand-alone games, many of which have similar functions such as "stealth" and "stealing".
But Su Xia is not an NPC, he is one of us and a core member of the entire resistance alliance.
"How could you do this?" Bing Lei was furious. "How much help did Pharmacist Su provide us? In order to keep this pharmacy, he had to deal with Sijidao and those robots all day long. How much did he pay? Don't you know anything?!"
"us……"
After hearing Bing Lei's roar, some of the players who had stolen things lowered their heads in shame.
Lao Liu and the person who spoke just now stopped talking and lowered their heads. Once the video was released, no amount of explanation would be of any use.
Fortunately, everyone was in the same team, fighting monsters together, participating in activities together, and had a pretty good relationship… Binglei saved their face by not making the video public, but sending it to them individually.
Of course, face cannot be given entirely by others.
If you have no shame, it will be useless no matter how much face others give you.
"Pharmacist Su, I'm really sorry. I was bewildered just now." A player came out, apologized shamefully, and with a wave of his hand, all the things he had stolen just now appeared in front of Su Xia.
More than ten potions, five or six bags of dried herbs, two glass bottles of mixed medicine, half a bug specimen, and two fist-sized pieces of blue ore.
If these things were sold outside, they could fetch at least tens of thousands of game coins.
The current ratio of game currency to real currency fluctuates around 38-41.
Converted into real currency, the items he stole would be worth about one or two thousand.
Many players only earn about 6,000 or 7,000 yuan a month in real life. One or two thousand yuan is not a small amount of money, and it is worth taking the risk.
Soon, several more players came out, including the two players of Lao Liu, and they returned the things they had just stolen.
"Pharmacist Su, I'm so sorry."
"We are used to taking advantage of small opportunities, so please don't mind it."
"This is all the things I just stole, please count them..."
“…”
Various medicines, materials, and instruments were recovered, even the old clock on the wall was returned.
Su Xia was also speechless. These guys even wanted to steal the wall clock.
How much is a watch worth?
The players' own game system will give a general introduction to each item in the game.
Su Xia looked at the wall clock, and a series of introductory data immediately appeared in front of her eyes.
[Old wall clock: non-grade item, auxiliary item, produced 159 years ago, witnessing the changes of the entire century. Many collectors have a special hobby for this kind of old item...]
Most of the players who steal the wall clock think that it is semi-antique and can be sold for some money.
In fact, many things in the pharmacy are older than this clock.
Even the bronze bell at the door is more than two hundred years old.
My dad is something of a collector, but he doesn't collect things on purpose. Occasionally, when he sees something suitable, he buys it and brings it back to the pharmacy. Gradually, the number of things in the store increased, and finally there was no more space, so he had to throw them into the basement.
On the second floor of the huge basement, there are countless priceless antiques, calligraphy and paintings, jewelry, etc., which cannot be measured by money at all. Selling any one of them would be enough for an ordinary person to live on for a lifetime.
Now that Dad is gone, Su Xia has temporarily become the owner of these things.
Su Xia plans to sell one or two items as funds for store expansion, and leave the rest to his father.
If he could defeat the mechanical race and become the master of this planet in the future, Su Xia would also like to build a place specifically for collecting things.
When watching "The Hobbit" in the past, Su Xia envied the dragon Smaug who could sleep in a palace full of gold coins.
At this time, Bing Lei at the door suddenly said to a player outside: "Old Five, I've sent you the video, you should be more self-conscious."
"What self-awareness?"
The player named Lao Wu was not convinced and shouted: "In this game, everyone relies on their own abilities! I stole the things with my own abilities, but he didn't have the ability to keep them. Why should I give them back?"
As soon as he said this, the players around him were shocked. What happened?
Team infighting?
He doesn't want to give it back?
"Old Five, we are all brothers, I don't want to say anything too ugly!" Bing Lei's face darkened.
“That sounds nice, we’re just brothers in the game!” Lao Wu snorted coldly.
"Aren't you going to pay it back?"
"I said, I stole it with my own ability, why should I return it?"
"Is stealing something justified?" Bing Lei glared at him, extremely angry.
"This is not my logic, this is the logic of the game!"
Lao Wu had a tough attitude and looked at Bing Lei, showing no sign of backing down.
In the shop, Su Xia said nothing, just watched quietly.
He remembered the player.
In the chaos just now, the player named Lao Wu was one of the players who stole the most. The things he stole would be worth tens of thousands even if converted into real-world currency.
Everyone would be tempted by such a large sum of money.
Not only the fifth player, but also several other players who stole a lot had flickering eyes, and seemed to have no intention of returning them.
As for the identity of a pharmacist apprentice... this game world is huge, and Coral City is just a small city. There are many cities of the same size in the southwest region. They believe that they can find pharmacies in those cities that are willing to accept apprentices.
What's more, pharmacists are not the only professions that can make money. Doctors, armorers, mechanical repairmen and other professions also make a lot of money.
They don't need to hang on to one tree, there are many options.
"Old Five, are you really not going to hand it over?" Bing Lei was completely furious. "We are all brothers, and you are making such a fuss just for such a small amount of money?"
"Damn it, if it wasn't for the money, who would want to be your brother?!"
"you……"
Bing Lei was furious and drew his sword directly, with the blade shining coldly.
If North hadn't stopped it, the sword might have been swung out, severing the so-called brotherhood.
The current situation makes it difficult for North.
In his own team, there was also a player who refused to hand over the things he had just stolen, and he was one of the first core team members to follow him to fight monsters.
"Brother Guo, there's no need to make such a fuss, right?" North stared at the player, "Everyone's earnings this month are more than this amount of money."
As a professional game studio, North's team members did not make much money in the early days of the server launch, but have gradually started to make money recently.
With the spontaneous promotion by major anchors and players, more and more newcomers are entering the game.
The weapons, clothes, explored maps, collected primary resources, etc. that North and others had previously owned can all be sold for money, and even upgrading new players can make money.
In order to level up quickly, some wealthy novice players directly spend money to ask high-level studios to take them to the wilderness to fight high-level monsters.
"Return the things to Pharmacist Su. We are still friends." North said to the player named Brother Guo.
"If we don't give it to you, then we're no longer friends?" Brother Guo said nonchalantly, "That old man is right. We got it based on our own abilities. What's wrong with making a little more money?"
"What do you mean by taking?" North couldn't help it and became angry. "Taking without asking is stealing!"
"Yeah, I stole it, and then what?"
Guo Ge shrugged, still looking the same, and said calmly: "Are you going to kick me out of the team?"
"you……"
The other party's shameless look really made North angry.
If it weren't for the bit of rationality in his heart, he would have wanted to draw his sword and chop it to death on the spot.
At this time, Master Lu, who was standing in the distance, suddenly laughed and said loudly: "For this little bit of supplies, your so-called alliance is going to split up?"
"Shut up. What's your business?" Bing Lei looked over coldly.
"It's really none of my business." Master Lu spread his hands, "But this amount of supplies is not a big deal within our team. We never have conflicts over such things. After all... we have the support of the Mechanical Clan. You know, we have more resources than we can use up."
"What do you mean?"
"It's nothing. I just feel sorry for those two brothers." Master Lu sighed pretentiously.
As soon as these words came out, Lao Wu and Guo Ge turned to look at him, their eyes flickering, and they were both a little moved.
From what Master Lu said, it seems that he intends to recruit them?
Both of them are standard members of the game studio and are the first players to enter the game. Their current levels are also in the first echelon of the entire game. They are well-equipped and would be experts no matter where they are.
Master Lu laughed again and continued, "Brothers, it's not worth it to make trouble with them for such a small amount of money. Good birds choose trees to roost in. Why don't you change to a better team to develop?"
Lao Wu pondered for a moment and asked, "Is there a place for us in the external army corps?"
"Of course!" Master Lu immediately promised, "With your abilities, if you join our team, your salary will at least double what you have now!"
"Are you sure?"
"I am the deputy head of the External Corps and the deputy director of the Coral City official player management department." Master Lu said earnestly, "What I say can basically be regarded as the official words."
"I recorded this conversation," said Brother Guo.
"Feel free to record the screen, I will never break my promise!"
Master Lu made a solemn promise, and then said to the other Alliance players outside the pharmacy: "People go to higher places, and water flows to lower places. I believe everyone knows which team is more suitable for development. We always welcome everyone to join! The past is in the past, don't take it to heart!"
He said this sincerely, with a smile on his face the whole time.
This guy used to be the president of a big guild, and he was also a rich kid. He had everything he needed, and he was good at winning people's hearts.
Outside the pharmacy, a few players who had not yet handed in their stolen items were indeed tempted.
In terms of treatment, the Mechanical Clan is indeed better, but they started opposing each other very early, and have been fighting since the server was launched until now, so even if you want to join them, you can't.
Today, Master Lu said this on behalf of the entire Coral City official, which is equivalent to erasing previous disputes, letting bygones be bygones, and looking to the future.
"Good! Very courageous!"
A smile also appeared on Lao Wu's face. He turned around and walked straight towards Master Lu and his group.
Seeing this scene, Bing Lei was furious and shouted, "Old Five, stop now. There is still room for turning back!"
"unnecessary!"
Lao Wu walked over without looking back, as if he was heading towards a bright new life.
At the same time, Brother Guo also took action and walked towards Master Lu together with Lao Wu.
There were two people acting as representatives, and several other interested players looked at each other, and then acted together, leaving their original teams and following the two people.
Just like that, a bunch of chaos led to a theft, and a theft turned into a change.
Before this, no one had expected that Alliance players would actually defect in public.
The previous team battles were so fierce, and today's departure is so ironic.
"They...are actually like this..."
Bing Lei was so angry that he couldn't speak, and punched the door frame of the pharmacy.
In the distance, at the end of the old street, Master Lu looked like a winner who had everything under control. He smiled at the people at the pharmacy, and everything was said without words.
From beginning to end, Su Xia did not express his opinion, but just watched quietly and let these people leave.
