Volume 3 Chapter 11: Small Conflict
After the meeting, everyone had their own work to do. As the boss, I was free for a while. What should I do? Go level up by myself? That's a good idea, but when I think about the busy Ji Mo and the others, I feel ashamed. Although I have also made efforts for the development of Jinglei League during this period, I rarely do specific work and directly face the grassroots members. For these matters, Ji Mo and the others gave up most of their own game time. Their level has been rising very slowly recently. They have been reduced from the level of being able to enter the semi-finals of the martial arts competition to being just an average master!
Of course, it is my job to ensure level advantage, maintain the image of the number one master in Fantasy, and make the members feel proud when they mention their boss. But if I can't do something for the members, can't get closer to them, understand them better, and bring them more fun in the game, I can't be considered a qualified leader!
I thought to myself, what can I do? Take some low-level members to level up? I am not a supernatural being, how many people can I take with me? Don't say something as silly as "take as many as you can". If I take Zhang San but not Li Si and Wang Wu, it will not have any other effect except that most of the members will feel that I am partial to some and not to others.
Go and help Lonely organize training? Well, now Lonely is in charge of the military forces of the Thunder League. Under him are the four hall masters, and under the hall masters are the captains of each team. A fixed command system has been formed. My task should be the overall strategic planning. If I insist on joining in the specific training, it would be like the Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army personally commanding a division. It is simply meddling. Wouldn't that cause trouble for them?
It seems that there is no room for me to intervene in the construction work and financial operations of the profiteers... Alas, so I am useless as the leader, and even dispensable. Do I really have to learn from those government officials who have nothing to do after eating and go to the countryside to send warmth all day? Think about it, I am the top master of fantasy, wearing a majestic Tiger King suit, riding a noble unicorn, holding a tiger soul, walking towards a store in a certain station, and after entering, I said: "Boss, I come to visit you on behalf of the gang and the alliance members. You have worked hard to serve everyone..." "Ah, it's not hard, thank you for your concern, the party... Oh, I'm wrong, it's the good policies of the alliance that have created a good business environment for us. We now have food (potions) to eat and clothes (equipment) to wear, and we live a good life..." "There, there, serving the people, this is what we should do..."
Oh my god, why do I have such a weird idea?
In fact, I didn't realize at that time that a virtual reality game like Fantasy is a mirror of the real society. In the early stage of the game, it was in a state of disorder. After people started to build gangs, a social structure appeared. With the development of gangs, this structure will inevitably evolve into the prototype of a country. The so-called league rules are actually national policies, and the leaders in the gangs are equivalent to government workers. Because the starting point of the Thunder League was very high from the beginning, the goal was to build a city. To be honest, building a city in Fantasy is similar to building a city-state in ancient Europe. Therefore, in the whole process of building a gang, we are unconsciously developing towards standardization and institutionalization. In this system, everyone's responsibilities and division of labor are very clear. As the leader of an alliance, my task is to formulate development plans and assign work to my subordinates. Therefore, I feel that I have no way to intervene in specific matters. This just shows that our organizational structure is rigorous and orderly, which is the guarantee for the future development and growth of the Thunder League.
Of course, for a successful leader in reality, in addition to prestige, it is also very important to have great affinity with the people. My thinking is also in this direction, so it is not surprising that I have such an idea.
I thought about it for a long time and finally came up with an idea, which is to hold an event in the alliance.
The content of the activity is also easy to handle. I have long promised that the alliance will organize people to level up and fight for treasures regularly or irregularly. They are already very well organized, so there is no need for me to interfere. However, I also thought of adding some new tricks to it, such as holding a leveling competition within the alliance at an appropriate time and place to see who can gain the most experience points among the participating members, and then give a good equipment as a reward in the name of the gang... In fact, this kind of activity is also held officially in many online games, but the New Era Group is quite conservative in this regard. So far, it has only held one official event of a competition. Many players have reported this to the company. The company's reply is that this kind of trick cannot be abused, and that each official event launched must be a high-quality one, so it will not be held often.
There are many technical details to consider when holding a leveling activity. The conditions are not yet mature. I am afraid that I need to apply to the GM and obtain the help and support of the system (such as how to verify the experience value). So I will consider the treasure hunting aspect first. Since I killed so many D-level bosses in Kunlun Mountains in the past two days, I am very familiar with the refresh points of these bosses, the terrain of various places, and the distribution of monsters. In a week, which is exactly the next weekend, these bosses will refresh. By then, there should be many alliance members whose levels are high enough to go to Kunlun. We can organize a large-scale treasure hunting in the mountains, and even fix this activity and hold it once a week. Of course, the premise is that there are not too many outsiders coming to Kunlun Mountains.
Having made up my mind, I put aside my worries, rode on Coco and rushed away to continue leveling up.
The next day, I killed people all day in Kunlun Mountain. When it was almost evening and I was enjoying killing people, the profiteer suddenly sent a long-distance communication. Before I heard the content, I knew that something must be wrong, and it would not be a small matter. Kunlun Mountain is beyond the communication range of general calls from the station, but long-distance magic communication can be carried out through the NPC of the headquarters. This is a privilege only for high-level positions in the gang (for example, the leader is a first-level position, the deputy leader is a second-level position, and the hall masters are third-level positions, etc. Only positions above the third level have this communication authorization), but this kind of communication will consume the energy of the headquarters. The headquarters is not only a building, but also a magic circle, which can collect the vitality of heaven and earth as energy to play some special functions. However, the level of our gang is limited now, and the headquarters can't absorb much energy every day. If you frequently communicate remotely, you will be disconnected because of energy exhaustion after a few words. Therefore, it is strictly forbidden to use this function unless there is a major situation. Otherwise, you use it as a chat tool. What if it happens to be disconnected when an emergency occurs?
The profiteer said there was something important and some trouble, and asked me to go back to the headquarters immediately.
Well, I was about to be promoted, so I had no choice but to go back first because official business was more important.
Back at the headquarters, the profiteer was negotiating with Lonely, Bad, Awei, Badao and several other alliance members. When he saw me coming, he came up to me and said, "Boss, what you fear is coming true. We are in trouble."
Everyone started talking at once, and I couldn't help but frown after listening to them. This matter is really difficult to handle!
It turned out that a wonderful thing happened in the dream today. In Shenghua City, a song and dance performance organized by players for the first time was held.
I don't really care about this kind of romantic things. Although I knew about this news two days ago, I just heard about it and never thought about going to see the performance in person. It's just that it is said that the organization that organized this performance is a woman whose leader is said to be extremely beautiful and charming, and most of the members of this organization are young and beautiful girls. It's easy to imagine how much attraction such an organization would have among the players of Fantasy! The influence of this performance is definitely not less than the auction held by the profiteers at the time, and the excitement is even more incomparable.
Most of the people who play online games are young people, and young men naturally account for a considerable proportion of the members of Jinglei League. The game has not been open for long, and very few have found a partner. How can you miss this opportunity? Not only can you see many beautiful women, but you may also find your ideal partner by chance!
As a result, tickets for the show became hot commodities. Not only were they sold at sky-high prices, but they were simply not in demand! Speaking of this, even a profiteer once told me in a casual chat that he admired the management skills of the organization. Not only was the publicity in place, but they also rented a small-scale opera house in the system as the performance venue, which only had 5,000 seats! Although this may result in low income, or even a loss, it has raised the level and reputation of their organization, and stimulated the comparison psychology of customers, so the future profits will be an astonishing figure. They are making long-term plans. And this also shows that they have strong artistic talents. Otherwise, if the players spend a lot of money to watch a rubbish performance, it will only have a counterproductive effect. Unscrupulous businessmen even believe that the emergence of games like Fantasy may lead to changes in the world's business model. For example, this kind of performance can have many special effects that cannot be achieved in reality (this involves a very special type of professional skill professions such as singers, dancers, goddesses, magicians and other performing professions. As their levels increase, they have many skills that can produce wonderful sound and light effects, which are unpredictable and gorgeous. Of course, this kind of profession requires a high level of quality from the players themselves. It is difficult for you to imagine a dinosaur dancing on the stage, even if her dance is graceful. It can only make people want to vomit more strongly. Or a person who is born tone-deaf becomes a singer. Even if the skills can give you a voice of various styles, but you are out of tune when you sing, it will only be a torture to the audience. But if you are a professional singer or dancer, choosing the corresponding profession in the game will complement each other and can bring out your artistic talent to the fullest), it brings more sensory enjoyment to people, but saves a lot of costs on costumes and props. It is more advantageous than a real song and dance troupe and is likely to develop into an emerging industry.
Of course, this is just something we can talk about. We are just small people. Even if we have such foresight, we don’t have the ability to grasp the pulse of the world’s progress. But the leader of this organization is very remarkable. Maybe she is the kind of person who leads the trend!
This lady whom I admired very much sent me an invitation two days ago, and also attached five tickets to the show (and they were VIP seats). At that time, I was still killing Boss in Kunlun Mountain with Xuehai Wuya and others. I was the messenger received by the profiteer. I read the invitation later, and the content was very polite, saying that it was a great honor to invite the top masters of Fantasy and the heroes who founded the top gangs of Fantasy to come to the show. And through the signature, I also learned that the lady's name was "Xiao Kan Hong Chen".
Because I am not interested in this kind of performance, I have a lot of things to do and don't want to waste time on leveling up, so I gave these tickets to people like Bad Bad who have worked hard. They were naturally overjoyed, and after flattering me a lot, they went in a group today, along with a dozen members of the alliance who got the tickets.
The performance was wonderful, but when it was almost over, one of our members had a verbal conflict with a member of the audience next to him! The member saw a very beautiful girl performing on the stage and said to himself, "If she doesn't have a boyfriend, I will chase her and make her my wife!" The person next to him immediately mocked, "What kind of toad wants to eat swan meat!"
The ally naturally became furious and responded with insults. The two then started arguing and were "asked" to leave by the security guards of the opera house.
This was originally a trivial matter, but the man was a member of the Ao Shi family! After leaving the opera house, he continued to insult our members, and finally challenged them: "If you have the guts, come outside the city and let's fight!"
Our ally was careless for a moment. He did not realize that he could apply to the system to hold the duel in the arena in the city. Without thinking, he agreed and followed that person out of the city. As a result, that person secretly called no less than ten members of Ao Shi to set up an ambush outside the city. As soon as the ally left the city, he was besieged and killed instantly, and a piece of equipment on his body exploded.
After the member was resurrected, he was naturally furious. At this time, the performance was over, so he invited the members of the alliance who went with him to take revenge. Fortunately, Bad Bad and others were also there. Although the member thought that this was a personal grudge and it was not good to involve the leaders of the gang, so he did not inform them, but when he saw several members of the alliance running out of the city with angry faces, he naturally understood that something was wrong. He stopped them and asked them about the cause and effect. Among them, Ah Wei was afraid that the world would not be in chaos, and Ba Dao had the same temper as Ji Mo (fortunately, Ji Mo was strictly controlled by Shui Jing and did not dare to go to the performance. Otherwise, if he expressed his opinion as the deputy leader, there would definitely be a fight at that time). They all clamored to kill these arrogant and despicable villains, but the most loved to eat fish was a steady person. He temporarily suppressed the matter and immediately rushed back to the headquarters to report to me.
After hearing what happened, the first thing that came to my mind was not how to deal with it, but to find out if there was any hidden motive behind this incident?
Taking advantage of some minor disputes among the lower-level members, escalating the situation, and finally using this as an excuse to start a group fight is a very simple but practical skill. If Ao Shi intends to attack Jing Lei League, is this an event that has been planned in advance? Or is it that the top management of Ao Shi itself has no predetermined plan, but because of this incident, they think this is an opportunity that can be used?
But on the other hand, this kind of conflict is so common in the game that it could be an isolated incident. Even those members of Ao Shi would not report to the higher-ups after killing our members, and their bosses might never know that their subordinates had had friction with the members of Jing Lei League. Especially since the Ao Shi family is made up of players in Internet cafes, the quality of the members varies, and some are even hooligans in society. They play games for fun, such as PK and killing, and it is common for them to cause trouble everywhere.
But no matter what, I have to respond to this incident. I can easily compensate the member for his lost equipment with better equipment, but if I stop here and ask the members not to retaliate, then my prestige as the leader will be destroyed, and the members of the Thunder Alliance will never be able to raise their heads in front of the Ao Shi Family. Maybe this is the effect that the Ao Shi Family expects.
After thinking for a while, the alliance members around me were already impatient and said, "Boss, declare war on Ao Shi. Even though they are a big organization, we in the Jinglei Alliance cannot be bullied like this!" Especially the party involved in the conflict said, "Alliance leader, those rubbish not only scolded me, but also said a lot of insulting words to the Jinglei Alliance..."
I was moved again. Insulting the Thunder Alliance? Could this conflict really be a conspiracy planned by Ao Shi?
Seeing everyone's excitement, I knew I had to speak up. After waving my hand to quiet everyone down, I said, "Bad, go to Ao Shi's headquarters and tell their boss that I will host a banquet for them at Taibai Restaurant in Shenghua City at noon tomorrow."
After a pause, I said to the slain member, "Don't worry. Although the rules of the Thunder Alliance require everyone not to cause trouble, if someone bullies a member of the alliance without reason, the Thunder Alliance will definitely seek justice, even if the other party is stronger than us! But we can't act blindly. Don't seek revenge on those people privately. Tomorrow, I will give you a satisfactory answer!"
I spoke with confidence, and naturally exuded a domineering aura. The alliance members were all impressed by my aura. Although they all wanted to go to war with Ao Shi immediately, they did not dare to disobey my orders and nodded in agreement.
After these grassroots alliance members left the headquarters, my face darkened and I asked everyone, "What do you think of this?"
The Swindler, Lonely, and Bad Bad all expressed their opinions, and they all thought the same as I did, that this matter was very worrying. If things went wrong, it would be a fight between the Thunder Alliance and the Ao Shi Tian Xia gangs, rather than a minor conflict between individual members.
The profiteer said, "Fortunately, our first line of defense has been upgraded, but unfortunately, we haven't conducted tactical training for our members. After all, Ao Shi's strength is beyond our reach, and we don't know if we can defend our base if they attack it. Xue, you proposed to meet their leader tomorrow, what are your plans? Do you hope to solve the problem through negotiation? But if they really have ambitions for the Thunder Alliance, it's impossible for them to reach an agreement with us!"
"No, I haven't thought about negotiating." I sneered, "Even if we can reach an agreement, it's still our ally who was bullied. Even if the people from Ao Shi are willing to apologize, what's the use? Unless we kill those guys once, we can't get back this face. Bad boy, when you go to Ao Shi headquarters later, you must mention that we hope all the people involved in this incident will be present."
The profiteer frowned and said, "Boss, do you want to set up an ambush in Taibai Tower to get rid of Ao Shi's people who came to the banquet? Not to mention that the PK penalty in the city will be doubled, it will also lead to a worsening of the situation..."
"Haha, don't worry, I have my own plan, I think..." I told everyone my plan, and they all said it was a great idea. This might be the best way to both get justice and make the people of the Ao Shi family give up the idea of attacking the Jing Lei League.
"Anyway, I can only do my best. Whether we can avoid the gang war in the end, I can't be sure now. So you have to pay attention, Ji Mo, and strengthen the defense of the base. In case the worst result occurs, we will have a grand fight with Ao Shi. We may not lose!"
