Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 39: Li Zhi, You Are Really Wasting Your Talent
Tang Zheng came out of his safe house and saw a long dense forest with only a small path in the middle that could be passed through.
He walked slowly, erasing traces as he went.
If it hadn't been raining, with the leaves wet and drooping, even someone with Tang Zheng's strong ability to survive in the wild wouldn't be able to find such a path in the dense forest.
When Tang Zheng and the others came over just now, the rain stopped for a while, but now it is raining heavily again. The weather in the jungle is like a child's face, which is impossible to judge.
"No one should want to enter this seemingly impenetrable forest..." After Tang Zheng erased all traces, he quickened his pace and left the forest which was extremely dangerous in the thunderstorm.
As soon as he returned to the place where the battle had just taken place, he saw that Fang Xu and the others had already left, leaving only a pool of blood on the ground.
The blood gradually sank into the soil under the heavy rain.
The entire rainforest seemed very quiet in the pouring rain, but Tang Zheng could hear all kinds of rustling sounds hidden in this silence.
Half a day has passed, and now most of the candidates should have re-recognized the reality of the rainforest combat. They will get injured, hungry, and encounter all kinds of situations that they can't imagine.
Although they would not really die here, once they summoned the instructor, it meant that they had given up the assessment.
Liu Xingjiu had a certain anti-reconnaissance awareness, and the traces he left behind were few and rather fragmentary. Tang Zheng first followed a clearer path, which was the trace left by Li Zhi and the others, and followed him calmly.
Not long after walking, Tang Zheng saw the change in the traces.
Judging from the traces they left behind, Li Zhi's team, which had just escaped unscathed from the battle with them, had two new members added.
During the short period of time when Tang Zheng sent Xiao Lingdang and the others to the safe house for temporary rest, Li Zhi's temporary team actually grew stronger!
"There's something strange indeed." Tang Zheng lowered his footsteps and gradually approached.
He leaned against a half-man-high stone and could already see the figures of Li Zhi and others not far ahead.
Li Zhi's strength is really not that high, and his three teammates are not that good either.
However, the more their makeshift team works together, the more coordinated they feel!
Tang Zheng looked over from behind the stone and saw the six of them surrounding the three lone warriors...
"Two brothers." Li Zhi said to the three lone warriors, "There are six of us and only three of you. You have no chance of winning anyway, so why not just hand over your nameplates to me so that we can become friends. Moreover, if you are willing to form a team with us, we can help you make up the points later..."
Why did Tang Zheng feel that this sounded very familiar?
Li Zhi said the same thing when he faced them.
The difference is that the three warriors Li Zhi met this time did not actively fight and resist like Tang Zheng and his men, but looked at each other and asked, "Since we want to cooperate, why should we give you the nameplate?"
"Because you have no choice now." Li Zhi replied with a smile: "You have run into us. Whether you join our team or not, you will not be able to keep your nameplates... Joining the team is just a chance for me to give you to continue the assessment."
"..."Although the three warriors were unwilling, they also knew that it was impossible to cooperate on an equal footing when they encountered each other with equal strength.
There were four nameplates hanging on the three of them.
Li Zhi accepted two of them and handed the other two to the two people who had joined to expand their team from four to six people: "There are new substitute members joining, you have become regular members!"
The three warriors who had just joined the temporary team asked, "Can we get a nameplate after becoming a regular member?"
"You have made contributions to the team, so of course you will get distribution." Li Zhi said with a smile.
“But they… can this be called a contribution?” The three warriors looked at the two warriors who had just been “promoted” in shock, “They didn’t even do anything.”
"When they are needed to take action, they will certainly take action!" Li Zhi looked at the two warriors who had just been regularized with a "trusting" look.
"That's right." The two warriors who had just been promoted to regular soldiers each took back a nameplate, and their trust in Li Zhi immediately exploded.
The three warriors looked at each other again.
Li Zhi continued, "The greater your contribution, the higher your rank. After becoming a regular member, if you are strong and perform well in combat, and you attract more substitutes, you can be upgraded to a Secret Bronze member and receive additional allocations... There are also Flowing Silver members, Purple Gold members, and so on..."
A few people continued to move forward while talking along the way.
Li Zhi's temporary team has expanded to nine people. Under normal circumstances, Tang Zheng should not continue to follow.
However, he was quite interested in Li Zhi's team model, so he simply followed them.
…
Li Zhi and his group of nine people soon met four warriors who were traveling together.
However, the strongest of the four warriors was a high-level two-star warrior, and he also had a bad temper. He did not accept their threats and started fighting directly!
Of course, the three "substitute" players who had just joined the team were arranged by Li Zhi to be at the front, followed by the regular players, and finally the original four people including Li Zhi.
Their battle was extremely chaotic, and many people were injured. Two of the three substitutes were almost fatally injured. They were seen by the instructor not far away, who stopped the attack in time and took them away...
Finally, on the chaotic mud ground, only three of the four warriors were left, and of the three substitutes on Li Zhi's side, only one was left.
The remaining three warriors on the opposite side lost their strongest leader and knew they could no longer resist, so they simply surrendered, handed over their nameplates, and joined Li Zhi's team.
"The four of you brought six nameplates, give them all to me." Li Zhi smiled and stretched out his hand.
Soon, six nameplates fell into Li Zhi's hands.
He handed one of the six nameplates to the only remaining one of the three substitutes who had just joined the team, and said, "A new substitute has joined, and you have been promoted to a regular member."
Then, when the new substitute asked what it meant to be promoted to a regular employee, Li Zhi repeated the team rules he had mentioned.
"Then if we recruit new substitutes, can they also become regular members? After we become regular members, will you return our nameplates to us?" Those new substitutes didn't believe that they had clearly lost the game, but there was still a new chance of life.
Moreover, it is much easier for them to rely on Li Zhi's team than to fight alone...
Li Zhi's team has expanded to a double-digit size in a short period of time!
Tang Zheng, who had watched them fight twice from a distance, could not help but nod his head: "It is indeed a problem. It is really a waste of talent for Li Zhi not to engage in MLM!"
…
It was getting dark.
Li Zhi's team didn't even have dinner and merged two more teams.
Most teams still have to play a game when they meet them, so their loss of substitute players has always been huge. They get four or five substitutes each time, but no more than two of them become regular substitutes.
And just when they were resting, Li Zhi promoted one of the first regular team members to a "Secret Bronze Team Member" on the grounds of "strong strength and fighting enthusiasm" and issued him a nameplate.
Then, he summarized all the nameplate numbers: "All the numbers are here. If you want to change back to your own nameplate, or see if there is a number you drew before the assessment? You can change it."
All the team members gathered around immediately. Although everyone was drooling at the sight of so many nameplates, no one dared to grab them.
"Captain Li Zhi, you already have so many nameplates in your hands, why don't you just end the assessment?" asked one of the warriors.
"Since I have formed this team, I have the obligation to lead everyone through this." Li Zhi's face was serious and generous. "If I leave alone with the nameplate, what does it mean? Then what is the meaning of our team?"
Many warriors were moved by Li Zhi's serious expression, and some even thought he was a little silly.
However, Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "Okay, we want to maximize our benefits, so let's start the exchange."
Those warriors whose nameplates were robbed by Li Zhi and his men before, but later got nameplates that were not their own, now that they have a chance to change them, they will of course change their nameplates back immediately.
Other people's nameplates only have one point on them, but mine has three points on it.
In addition to getting their own nameplates back, there were also warriors who saw the numbered nameplates they had drawn.
However, most of them now only have one nameplate in their hands, and the substitute players don’t have any nameplates at all. Even if they see the nameplate they want, they can’t exchange it.
However, everyone understands that the advantage of Li Zhi's team is that they will grow bigger like a snowball. What is important is not how many nameplates they can get, but that their resources can be exchanged and distributed!
A nameplate can only be counted as one point in Li Zhi's hand, but when it flows, it can become three points.
"Um, I need this one." The warrior who had just been promoted to a member of the Secret Bronze Team pointed to one of the nameplates.
"Of course." Li Zhi readily exchanged it with him.
In this way, the two nameplates in the hands of this member of the Secret Bronze team already have six points marked on them.
As long as he worked hard to get four more unrelated nameplates, he could finish the assessment and leave this damn place.
A warrior who was still a substitute player also took a fancy to one of the nameplates: "That... that is the number I drew in the lottery."
"Don't worry, we will exchange names every night at this time from now on. In a few days, everyone will have their own nameplate and the nameplate they drew by lot. To do this, we need more and more people. Ten are not enough. We need twenty, thirty, or even a hundred people to work together..." Li Zhi painted a big pie for them in an excited voice.
"That's right." One of Li Zhi's initial teammates said with a smile: "In the future, the number plates of these candidates in the jungle will be more and more concentrated..."
Li Zhi glanced at him warily, and he immediately realized that he had said something wrong and shut up.
Afterwards, Li Zhi gave some more specific details to motivate the team members to become more positive.
They sang, danced and shouted slogans together without any reservations.
It was as if their team had become the strongest team in the jungle!
Tang Zheng, who was hiding aside, had been laughing for a long time: "Oh oh oh, what a great harvest..."
