Volume 4 Chapter 16 Beauty Pageant
Since all the materials have been obtained, Da Qiao will retreat to start her plan of weaving the golden brocade dress, and I should also take this time to work hard to level up and improve my strength in preparation for going to the wilderness again and breaking into the barbarians' lair.
I had intended to invite the two Qiao sisters to join the Thunder Alliance. Xiao Qiao's Tai Chi swordsmanship was a rare master. If she had not participated in the martial arts competition, she would have become famous long ago. Da Qiao's Weaver profession was even more rare, because she could make equipment that was rarely dropped by monsters in Fantasy: cloaks . Ordinary tailors could also make cloaks, but most of them had no attributes. However, those made by Weaver Girl were not ordinary products, and each one had good attributes. It just so happened that I was planning to unify the clothing of the members. If all members of the Thunder Alliance wore the same standard cloaks made by Weaver Girl, it would be so cool, and their strength would also be improved. It was really both face-saving and substantial.
However, the two Qiaos declined my invitation, saying that they had no plans to join the gang at the moment. I knew they were waiting for the appearance of the Golden Threaded Clothes, and their value would certainly increase by that time. However, I already had a good relationship with them, and I believed that as long as I showed enough sincerity, it would not be a big problem to recruit them next time.
Therefore, the two parties set a date to meet again and parted ways very amicably. I returned to the Jinglei Alliance, which I had left for quite some time.
When the brothers in the alliance saw me coming back, they naturally greeted me warmly. I also found that during the time I was away, the brothers had built a prosperous base, and many buildings of various types had been added. The number of alliance members had expanded to more than 20,000. In terms of scale, it was considered a large gang in Fantasy. More importantly, the profiteer reported to me that this week, for the first time, the alliance's income exceeded its expenditure, which means that the Thunder Alliance finally began to make money! Although the amount is small, with the further development of business, wealth will continue to flow in. It seems that the day when I can sit and share the dividends is not far away!
But before that, I still have to spend a lot of money. Everyone unanimously decided to upgrade the Thunder Alliance to a large gang. The cost of this upgrade, as well as the improvement of the headquarters building level, will cost nearly a million gold coins in total. The gang funds cannot withdraw so much, so they asked me to subsidize it from my private treasury. The profiteer also grinned and said, "This may be the last chance to obtain shares of the Thunder Alliance through cash investment. I have invested all my 300,000 gold coins!"
So I, as the leader, applied to the system NPC for upgrading the gang. As for the upgrade task, the members of the Thunder Group, who had been trained by Lonely and the others to be full of murderous intent, had already been rubbing their hands and couldn't wait. There was no need for me, the leader, to take action!
I also suffered an additional loss. When I fulfilled my promise of three big meals, and the brothers heard that I had not completed the appraisal task in the wilderness, but only met two girls, they looked down on me and insisted that I take them with me when I go to the wilderness again! I said all the good things and promised to give them three more big meals and a cloak made by the Weaver Girl to each person, and only then did they agree to continue to manage the gang affairs when I left next time.
Seeing them looking so happy as if they had gotten a great deal, I secretly laughed in my heart. If I could really successfully recruit Da Qiao, then cloaks would be provided to all alliance members. They should all have one, so my favor would be in vain.
After a lot of commotion, I started leveling up like crazy the next day. Haha, there aren't many people who can be as leisurely as me as a boss. Look at how many people who are ranked high on the level list can be the boss? This is all thanks to my good brothers. Thinking of how I perfunctorily dealt with them about the cloak, my conscience really feels a little ashamed (I don't know when the profiteer, lonely and others stood behind the author with murderous faces, holding a brick in each hand, and angrily said: "Are you really ashamed? Do you have a conscience? We do all the hard work, but you take all the scenes. We strongly protest this discriminatory treatment. We demand a pay raise! Otherwise, we will go on strike...")
Ten days later, I successfully reached level 55, and at the same time received a notice from the system: A rare treasure has appeared in the world! Congratulations to the player "Da Qiao" for successfully making the Holy Spirit equipment Golden Threaded Clothes!
Aha, she finally succeeded. She didn't expect that this incident would alarm the system and issue a notice to the whole server. Now, everyone in Fantasy knows the name of the Weaver Girl!
According to the original agreement, after Da Qiao came out of seclusion, we would go into the wilderness together again, find the barbarian tribe, and complete the artifact identification. So I immediately returned to the city and contacted Er Qiao.
We should have set off immediately, but after my brothers heard me say that the two Qiao sisters were both beautiful girls (in fact, they had long been famous, but lived in different cities, and almost none of our brothers had ever seen them), they insisted that I introduce the two sisters to them. I also wanted them to make friends with my brothers, and perhaps be able to convince them to join the Jinglei League, so at my strong invitation, the two Qiao sisters first came to the Jinglei League as guests.
As soon as the two Qiao sisters appeared, the brothers were immediately shocked by their beauty and praised the boss for his vision. All the girls he made friends with were stunning beauties. I could only touch my nose and smile bitterly. Did I do it on purpose? In fact, I rarely interact with girls in the game unless I have to. My acquaintance with Wanxing and Xiaoyi was purely coincidental. Meeting the two Qiao sisters in the wilderness was an unexpected surprise. But I was also surprised. Why are these "accidental" friends all beauties? Could it be that because my account is lucky, it also has a hidden attribute of "romantic luck"?
However, Er Qiao got along well with everyone. Although the brothers' praise of them was a bit cheesy, it was thanks to the gentle elder sister Lan Shuijing and the cute younger sister Qian Shan Fei Niao that the atmosphere was naturally coordinated. Otherwise, the group of perverts would have scared Er Qiao away. Women always have endless topics to talk about. In a blink of an eye, the four of them gathered together and chatted, whispering and laughing from time to time. The four charming smiles made everyone stunned!
After visiting the Jinglei League's headquarters, Er Qiao also praised the Jinglei League's good development, bright prospects, well-organized league rules, and good quality of league members. When I sincerely proposed to take the position of chief fashion designer of the league, give her a shop for free, and appoint Xiao Qiao as the deputy head of the Rolling Thunder Hall under Shuijing, Er Qiao agreed to join after a little consideration. Hehe, Jinglei League has added two super powerful masters, and has also included Zhinu, the only one in Fantasy who can make holy spirit equipment, under its banner, which is really beneficial to future business development!
But as a result, my wild plan has not been realized yet.
Because just during these few days, a piece of news spread in Fantasy, which was news that the vast majority of the more than 100 million players in the entire Cang Continent were looking forward to.
A gang called "Tianxianglou" decided to hold an Oiran competition!
The so-called selecting the most beautiful woman is actually a beauty pageant, but it just borrowed a classical name. It is said that this time the purpose is to select the most beautiful female player in the Eastern Continent. No wonder it has aroused the excitement of a group of perverts.
Speaking of Tianxianglou, I am not unfamiliar with their leader, the one who held the song and dance performance and sent me the invitation, "Xiaokan Hongchen". I admire her management skills very much, and I believe that this event will be a classic by her - if the current player level is not convenient for traveling between continents, I have no doubt that she is capable of holding a beauty pageant for the entire server!
In fact, there were rumors about this event as early as July, but then the system was upgraded and there was an official monster siege event. Unfortunately, the Blue Continent failed and all the players were downgraded. For a period of time afterwards, players were focused on how to make up for their levels. It would definitely not have been possible to achieve good results if such an event was held at that time. Now basically everyone’s level has recovered, the frustration of failing to defend the city has faded, and they are willing to spend time on curiosity. It is just the right time to hold an Oiran Contest!
There is no doubt that the two Qiaos also received an invitation to participate, but they had no intention of participating.
But since they had joined the Jinglei League, the brothers began to instigate them. The most convincing reason was that Ah Wei and Huai Huai said in the name of justice: "Since you are already a member of the Jinglei League, you have the obligation to sacrifice your own interests for the benefit of the League. Our Jinglei League is the number one gang in the fantasy world. How can we not participate in such a large-scale event that shocked the entire server? But our league has few female members, and there is no one who is better looking than you two sisters. Even if they participate in the competition, what if they don't get a good ranking? People will say, 'Look at the Jinglei League, such a big gang, there is not even a beautiful woman. Such a gang must have no future.' Will there be new people joining our league in the future? If you two go to participate in the competition, we all have confidence in you. The 20,000 brothers of our league are your strong backing, and you will definitely get a good ranking! If you win the championship, how face will our league have? You know, this is related to the image of a gang. You are the best candidates for the image ambassador of the Jinglei League..."
Under the continuous bombardment of the crowd, Er Qiao was also somewhat tempted, and with the help of Crystal and Bird, the two sisters finally surrendered and agreed to participate. In fact, they had another reason. During these ten days, Da Qiao devoted all her efforts to making the Golden Threaded Clothes, and the original duo had to level up alone. After Da Qiao succeeded, the experience gained from making a piece of Holy Spirit equipment was an astronomical number. Her level suddenly rocketed to level 52, and she was squeezed into the top 10 of the level list. However, although Xiao Qiao was strong, she was good at defense, but her attack power was not very good. The efficiency of single training was not high, and she only reached level 48, which was still a little far from our original goal. Therefore, we decided to wait for two more days and find some brothers in the alliance to help Xiao Qiao quickly reach level 50 before going to the wilderness.
Well, since it’s already been delayed , I’ve got nothing to do anyway, so there’s nothing wrong with joining in on the fun!
So everyone got busy. In addition to finding someone to accompany Xiao Qiao to Kunlun Mountain to level up (naturally, many people would scramble for such a good job), the rest of the discussion was around Da Qiao: what kind of clothes to choose, what kind of jewelry to match, what kind of performance moves to design...
Da Qiao studied fashion design, so it was a piece of cake for her to handle all these. And since she had so many enthusiastic people to help her, she could choose the materials as she pleased. Although she proposed to use the East China Sea's special pearls as earrings, star diamonds as brooches, and white peacock feathers as raw materials to sew her own competition costume... everyone patted their chests and promised that there would be no problem and that they would get all these things for her. If she couldn't do it, she would be ashamed to face the brothers and elders in the alliance and would have to come to see them with her head on.
I was sweating profusely as I listened to her. Was she doing that on purpose? Dongzhu was already a rare treasure, but she also required a thumb-sized product produced by a thousand-year-old clam. The old clam was a D-level boss and grew on the bottom of the East China Sea. Without the right equipment, a person could only exert 70% to 80% of their strength in the water. Was it that easy to deal with an old clam? Star diamonds were not produced by monsters, but were distributed in the mineral veins. However, they were very rare, and only master-level mining skills were required to mine them. They were even rarer than Dongzhu. Peacock feathers… ordinary ones are fine, but white peacocks are level 84 monsters. Although they are produced in Kunlun Mountain, you can only get a few feathers from a white peacock at most. If you want to get enough to sew two clothes (Xiao Qiao also wants one), you have to hunt them on a large scale. There are only a handful of members of this alliance who are capable of hunting such high-level monsters. It’s really difficult for them… These things are actually rare and hard to find. They may not have much practical value. Even from the perspective of beauty, with the almost endless things in Fantasy, you can find equally beautiful and common items. Why didn’t I realize that Da Qiao also has the potential for spoofs?
The more I listened, the more frightened I became. I was afraid that she would ask for something like Phoenix tail feathers. Then we would all commit suicide to apologize! So I laughed and said, "It suddenly occurred to me that with my attack power, who is more suitable than me to help Xiao Qiao level up? I should go to help her. There are so many people here to help, and it seems that I can't be of any use. I won't get involved. I'll go after Xiao Qiao. Bye, everyone..."
Although Erqiao had only joined the Thunder Alliance not long ago, everyone could see that Xiaoqiao and I were not compatible. But in a hurry, I could not care less. I used this excuse, which was so lousy that it couldn't be any worse, and ran away.
