Volume 4: People who challenge the light Chapter 54: Killing the Chicken to Scare the Monkey
On April 1, 2016, the eighth month after the official operation of the game Tianxia, the Dark Camp announced the list of dark and neutral players who had officially joined the "Resistance Alliance" in accordance with the procedures. There are now more than 12,000 formal members. Also attached is a comprehensive evaluation of their overall performance and a complete leadership list of 30 players generated based on this evaluation.
There were no changes to the three chairpersons and the 18 dark-professional council members who had already taken office. They were still the same candidates as last term, but the rankings among the council members had changed slightly. For example, I, who originally occupied the first place, had spent most of the past month in the "Dead Soul Space" to develop. I had neither extensive interpersonal relationships to introduce more members to join nor took any actions against the Church of Light. Apart from participating in the dragon-slaying mission and showing a certain strength, I had made few achievements in the human world. The system evaluated that I had "negative performance" last month. I was surpassed by Qiu Shui Chang Tian, Tian Xing and other "activists" who were trying to recruit people everywhere. My ranking actually dropped out of the top five, which made me feel a lot of pressure. Although I was not in danger of being squeezed out of the council, for me, the famous "world's number one wizard", it was inevitable that I felt a little embarrassed.
Bai Yunjian naturally became one of the nine neutral professional directors according to his strength and performance, ranking second. The first place was occupied by the leader of the Blue Falun Mercenary Group, Ganges War God, who was guaranteed by Qiu Shui Changtian. He was also a player who was unwilling to be lonely, but his profession was a berserker, which was not suitable for the transformation to the Knight of Light. If he wanted to participate in the ultimate mission of the battle of light and darkness, he could only choose to join the "Resistance Alliance". Following closely behind were Lie Ri, Kuang Feng Juan Sha and Nomadic Tribe, all of whom were top masters from the southern continent who participated in the "Four Continents Elite Challenge", and all of them were guaranteed to join the alliance by the Desert Eagle. With the rising tide, he also gained a relatively high evaluation from the system, and had the potential to surpass Long Xing Tian Xia. There were also three players from the northern continent, who were also top masters representing their continent in the elite challenge. The dwarf warrior Nu Xiao, the elf archer Qing Qing Liu Shui and She Yue, were all guaranteed to join by another vice speaker Qing Wu Fei Yang. Ah Zhizhi took the last train with great difficulty and occupied the last neutral profession director seat. There was still a slight gap in his strength, and several players with higher reputations than him also participated in the competition. However, he relied more on the help of Bai Yunjian and others. He gained a lot of merits in the harassment operations in the previous month, and finally squeezed in with an extremely slight advantage. He must not be careless and must step up his performance and strive to make more contributions, in order to hope to keep this hard-earned director seat.
In addition to Afeng, the other eight neutral professional directors are all prestigious masters who participated in the "Four Continents Elite Challenge". There are three directors from each of the three continents, East, South, and North. On the surface, they seem to be evenly matched, but in fact, they are turbulent inside, full of secret competitions between different interest groups. The six directors of the South and North continents are all guaranteed by two vice-presidents and have the same interests, while the three directors of the Eastern Continent are guaranteed by three people respectively, and the power is dispersed, which makes Long Xing Tian Xia, the chairman, obviously at a disadvantage in the competition with them. Especially the Desert Eagle, whose power in the council has already surpassed Long Xing Tian Xia. If he is a little careless, he may be robbed of the position of chairman. Under the big alliance, there are several small interest groups, either competing for the top or protecting themselves, each with their own plans. It is definitely not an easy task to sort out various relationships and operate the entire alliance. Seeing others trying so hard to recruit members to join the alliance, I even began to doubt whether Long Xing Tian Xia's ideas and practices were too conservative. If they continued like this, they might take the opportunity to surpass us.
The other members of the alliance were also rated. Yue Linglong received a four-star rating. Her own strength was not very outstanding, but she had good performance in several missions thanks to her mount, the level 5 magic beast White Dragon Horse. It was said that she was almost able to reach the five-star standard. The higher the star rating, the more important tasks may be assigned to the group mission, and thus there is a higher chance of obtaining system rewards through accumulated merits, which is quite beneficial for both the player and his guarantor.
Shortly after the list of members of the "Resistance Alliance" was announced, Long Xing Tianxia urgently met with Xue Wuxia, Yun Wuying, me, Afeng and Long Kong. Bai Yunjian and Bajiugaoge were also present. He proposed a plan and hoped that the Tongxin Alliance would cooperate. After preliminary consultations , we reached a consensus.
On April 2, the Council of the "Resistance Alliance" held its first formal meeting, with three chairpersons and 27 directors all present. The main purpose was naturally the growth and development of the alliance, but the most pressing issue was how to deal with the growing "lightening" tendency among knight and magician players.
Since the Church of Light sent the Cardinal and the Knight of God to various continents to preside over the job transfer prayer ceremony, it has shown the strong strength of the Light Camp in front of all the players. Naturally, the players of our Dark Camp have no ability to fight against these super NPCs, and cannot directly destroy them. They can only carry out some small-scale harassment actions, which invisibly exposes the weakness of the Dark Camp - without strong support from the NPC, it is obviously at a disadvantage compared with the strength of the Church of Light, which is quite unfavorable for the development of the players who have devoted themselves to it. In particular, the great traitor Ye Ban Wu Ren, whose own strength is already good, is willing to transfer from the elite magic knight, which indirectly proves that even the internal division of the Dark Profession has occurred, and a considerable number of players are not optimistic about the struggle with the Church of Light. Players who have passed the prayer ceremony and successfully completed the job transfer task have also appeared one after another. Although they have become the first-level apprentice profession and need to start again, they will not be able to compete with masters for a long time in the future, but they can retain one-third of the attribute values before the job transfer, which is quite beneficial for the development of the later stage of the game and does not affect the participation in the final decisive battle between the two major camps of light and dark.
With the top NPCs sent to the three continents to temporarily suppress us, the Church of Light fully launched a public opinion offensive and created momentum among the players. The first batch of players who successfully changed their jobs to join the Church of Light came forward to tell their stories and widely publicized the benefits of changing jobs. Even "Tian Media" used a lot of pages to continuously follow up and report, which attracted widespread attention from players and shook the will of many knights and magicians. The situation of top masters is better. As the saying goes, every profession has its own top talents. The advantages between professions may not be so obvious. Moreover, with a few more months of development time, whether to change jobs or not is a matter of opinion. No one can be sure, and most of them are unwilling to take risks. But those players of the middle and low levels, who make up the majority, have been greatly affected. According to the public opinion survey conducted by "Tian Media", a considerable number of them are willing or are considering changing jobs. Changing the development environment may allow them to make a breakthrough and achieve a more ideal result.
For a while, because the Church of Light took advantage of the situation to suppress the Dark Camp, which was originally in high spirits, was forced to remain silent for a month. Coupled with the effect of propaganda and public opinion, the Church of Light successfully took the initiative again, far surpassing the newly established "Resistance Alliance" which had not yet done anything, indirectly curbing the development of the Alliance. Most of the neutral professional players who could have been won over are still watching and unwilling to make a choice easily. The situation is very unfavorable to us. Taking advantage of the convening of the first formal meeting of the Council, we must formulate effective countermeasures to create momentum and expand influence, showing the strength and determination of the "Resistance Alliance" to compete with the Church of Light.
The board of directors was naturally held in the "Castle of Mind", which can actually be called a "round table meeting", with the speaker Long Xing Tianxia at the top, and the two vice-speakers, Dame Feiying and Qingwu Feiyang, sitting on the left and right. The seats of the directors were arranged according to the ranking of the comprehensive evaluation. The two directors ranked first in the dark and neutral professions were seated after the two vice-speakers. After Dame Feiying were the eighteen dark profession directors headed by Qiu Shui Changtian, and below Qingwu Feiyang were the nine neutral profession directors headed by Ganges War God. They sat around a large round table, and in front of each of them was a wooden sign with their name, profession and position marked on it.
Long Xing Tianxia presided over the meeting and first welcomed the nine neutral professional directors who joined and were elected. Of course, he also congratulated the re-election of the 21 dark professional players who attended the previous informal meeting, including him. After the initial polite words, the topic turned to the struggle against the Church of Light and what actions to take to fight back while the NPC masters sent to various continents have already evacuated.
As the speaker, Long Xingtianxia first proposed a plan of "killing the chicken to scare the monkey", concentrating the alliance's strength to attack one target, striving to weaken the Church of Light while openly displaying the sign of "Alliance of Resistance Forces". Only through continuous and powerful struggle can we establish and enhance the confidence of the vast majority of neutral professional players that darkness will surely defeat light, so that they will enthusiastically participate and quickly expand the alliance.
The choice of target is quite diverse, and there are many plans to be determined. However, after discussing and reaching a consensus with our Tongxin Alliance, Long Xing Tianxia chose to target Ye Ban Wu Ren, attack the Ang Yang Mercenary Group he formed and headed, and completely destroy the forces behind this "famous" traitor. You must know that under the influence of Ye Ban Wu Ren, almost all the backbone members of Ang Yang who meet the requirements and conditions for job transfer have defected to the Church of Light and have been completely "illuminated". This move not only punishes the traitors, but also severely hits the arrogance of the players who rely on the Church of Light, so that they don't think that they can unify the world by finding a big backer, and they are too complacent and ignore the threat of our "Resistance Alliance". The Church of Light is the one that is harmed by attacking the church and killing NPCs. Only by directly threatening the players can they be deterred.
When challenging a mercenary group, you cannot launch a surprise attack, and you must declare war twelve hours in advance. Especially for medium-sized mercenary groups like Angyang, which have close relations with the Church of Light, Huadu of Huamantian, and the Sun Never Sets of Yamato Spirit, and which may receive support from many parties when starting an incident, they are extremely difficult to deal with. Launching a group battle requires taking huge risks. If we fail, not only will we suffer heavy economic losses, but as the first major action of the newly established "Resistance Alliance", its impact will definitely be huge, and will put us in an extremely unfavorable situation.
In order to maximize the success of the "kill the chicken and scare the monkey" operation, Long Xing Tianxia has formulated a careful plan. The "Resistance Alliance" does not appear publicly, but selects some players who have no direct relationship with the alliance to recruit people in front of the stage. We secretly support them to form a temporary huge force, and then issue a challenge to the Angyang Mercenary Group. At the same time, the Tongxin League and Longteng secretly recruited troops. Of course, even if the action is careful, such a big move will inevitably not be hidden from the enemy's eyes and ears. The conclusion drawn from this is obviously that the Tongxin League, which has a grudge with Ye Ban Wu Ren, took advantage of the fact that many backbones of Angyang participated in the job transfer and their strength was greatly reduced to seek revenge. As an ally, Longteng is naturally a strong supporter of the revenge action. Once successful, it will naturally gain considerable benefits. The probability of obtaining "Ten-man Order" and "Hundred-man Order" in the game is not high, which directly limits the increase in the number of mercenary groups and cannot meet the growing demand, forcing many forces with the intention of forming groups to turn their attention to the already established mercenary groups and secretly plan to attack them. Moreover, by eliminating Angyang while it is still a small mercenary group, a potential powerful enemy can be reduced, which is really killing two birds with one stone.
Because of the relationship between Long Xing Tianxia and me, it was more logical for Tongxin League and Longteng to deal with Angyang who was alone in the middle of the night, which should be able to confuse many people. Even if the other party had doubts, their arrangements must have been based on the strength of Tongxin League and Longteng and then overestimated by a few percent. They certainly could not imagine that the "Resistance Alliance" would go all out to deal with Angyang. In fact, the actions of Tongxin League and Longteng were just a cover. They did not participate in the battle to attack Angyang, but just made a feint to jointly fight for treasure, so as not to increase their hostility in the records of the Church of Light and be retaliated.
The base of a small mercenary group like Angyang cannot accommodate too many reinforcements, so most of them can only ambush outside and join the battle one after another. This gives us a good opportunity to defeat them one by one. The player standing in the foreground will launch the attack first, and then the coalition forces of Tongxin League and Longteng will pass by nearby to attract the enemy's attention. At the same time, we will gather our most elite forces to quickly defeat the enemies on the periphery, while most of the alliance members will be involved in the attack on Angyang. Concentrate to break the scattered, and be deliberate and unintentional, there is a great chance of success.
Of course, the council of the "Resistance Alliance" has been formally established, and we cannot sit idly by on the surface. Moreover, it is difficult to keep the transfer of personnel completely secret. We can claim that we are going to attack a certain church. This is also a very normal action. It can not only cover up our true intentions, but also distract the attention of the Church of Light so that they don't pay too much attention to the group battle crisis facing Angyang.
