Volume 5 Chapter 26: Holy Favor Qilin (1)
I felt much more relaxed when the profiteer came back. He took over the internal affairs and used the business channels he had built before to quickly distribute the goods that were brought back to various places for sale. Of course, he also kept some fine products and prepared to hold an auction by the Thunder Alliance.
It is true that everyone has his or her own expertise. Let's not talk about the profits from trade. After the rectification of the unscrupulous businessmen, the profits and taxes of the shops in the alliance, the income from housing and land sales, etc. have increased by 30%. I really can't figure out what method he used to stimulate consumption!
Gold coins poured into our gang's account like running water. It was rare that the profiteer was so generous this time. He approved the construction budget for the fourth branch that I proposed!
With millions of gold coins to support it, the construction progress of the four branches was greatly accelerated. Within a few days, the Thunder Alliance had a total of six branches! Moreover, teleportation arrays were opened between the branches and between the branches and the headquarters, so that if one side was attacked, the other six would come to its aid!
After the branch was built, the Jinglei League was reorganized again, and the Thunder Group was transferred back to the headquarters as the direct subordinate unit of the leader. At the same time, the six halls were moved to the branches. Except for the Tiandi Hall, the four halls were given a certain degree of independence. In this way, the Jinglei League became a structure similar to a group company. The headquarters exists as the highest leader, and the branches below are like branches under the enterprise, operating relatively independently, which is easier to manage and can cultivate more talents. The disadvantage is that it weakens the direct control of the headquarters, but the leaders of the four halls are all my old brothers for many years, and there is no problem in trusting each other. The hall masters of the Tiandi Hall and the God Realm God are also my old subordinates who followed me at the beginning of the establishment of the gang and have always been loyal. What's more, these two halls are directly led by the headquarters.
From then on, new members of the alliance would first enter the two halls of heaven and earth (called the outer two halls). After a certain amount of training in the outer two halls, they would be promoted to the four halls of God, Thunder, and Wrath (called the inner four halls). Members who performed well in the inner four halls and accumulated certain achievements could be promoted to the newly established Elite Hall at the headquarters and enjoy the treatment of senior members (such as more discounts on consumption within the alliance, subsidies for purchasing housing within the alliance, etc.). Generally, members would stop at the Elite Hall, but those with outstanding performance had two ways out: one was that those with high levels and strong strength could apply to join the Thunder Corps (the Thunder Corps implemented a last-in-first-out system); the other was that those with special skills in organization, command, planning, etc. could be reassigned to the Six Halls to hold more senior positions. Members of the Thunder Corps and senior cadres of the Six Halls all received weekly salaries!
This reorganization cost a large amount of money, and required a lot of persuasion work on the four members originally stationed at the headquarters, but the price was worth it. After this reorganization, no matter how large the Thunder Alliance grows in the future, the general framework will not need to be adjusted until the city is built. Moreover, the members can be flexibly deployed, and in the event of a war, they can quickly gather a large army and disperse to attack.
With this reorganization, we took the opportunity to expand the size of the Thunder Corps to 10,000 people. This is the upper limit of the number of professional military forces that the Thunder Alliance can currently support.
It is not easy to maintain such an army. First of all, the equipment subsidy invested in each person is at least 300 gold coins, the weekly salary payment is 100,000 gold coins, and the weekly training expenditure is another 100,000 gold coins. In case of battle, the death pension and military merit rewards are even more considerable. In the end, the gang's daily income is basically all invested in this. We have to make money mainly through trade and NPC promotion fees.
In addition, the newly built Elite Hall also has a scale of 10,000 people. Now there are 20,000 permanent members at the headquarters. Although the Thunder Group will not expand for the time being, the number of people in the Elite Hall will slowly increase. Moreover, these are the most elite personnel of the alliance, and they are more than enough to deal with occasional crises that may occur in the headquarters.
The total profit from this round of trade by unscrupulous merchants after tax deduction is a whopping 21 million!
I paid back
Business opportunities, we must seize the first opportunity, this truth is clear to me and the profiteers, there is no guarantee that other gangs will soon form caravans to trade, once there is competition, profits will definitely drop sharply. The Thunder Alliance must establish its absolute dominant position in this market before then, so we dare not neglect it, while selling the goods in our hands, we began to purchase oriental specialties, even at the expense of part of the profit to implement barter, at the same time as the shipment was completed, the Pioneer Caravan was ready for its second journey!
This time we are familiar with the route, so there is no need for the profiteer to lead the team himself. However, we still arranged a steady and down-to-earth subordinate to be the person in charge. Anyway, the profiteer is an expert in business operations, and he has arranged everything last time. The game company also has special rules for trade, so there is no need to worry about corruption or fraud. He just needs to lead the team and ensure they come and go safely.
The only regret is that the profiteer failed to bring me a few more NPCs this time.
Originally, my archer class was the Magic Archer, which is also a Western class. Last time in the Fantasy Continent, I was also promoted to Sniper. However, because there was already a reward for the Knight promotion, the system cancelled the reward for me bringing back the Archer NPC.
This time when the profiteer went to the West, I specially picked a group of level 60 masters of various Western professions to join the guard group, hoping that they would be the first players to be promoted across the continent. If I can't say I can catch them all, at least bring most of the NPCs back to me, right?
However, I later found out that only the first three professions to be promoted across continents could receive such rewards. Xiao Yi and I had already taken up two places, and the other one was snatched away by Piao Miao Xing Ge, a gang in Shenghua City.
I was quite depressed about this matter, but fortunately, a piece of news came soon and completely diverted my attention.
This is a piece of news that makes me very happy: the egg of the sacred beast Qilin appeared on Yuxu Peak of Kunlun Mountain!
Haha, this is the opportunity I have been waiting for for a long time!
In Fantasy, under normal circumstances, it is impossible for a holy beast-level pet to appear. The so-called holy beast actually refers to those SS-level super bosses!
The ultimate boss is definitely not a joke. In the last siege event, an SS-level boss appeared in each of the four continents. All players in the city attacked by it were wiped out. Now the average level of players has increased a lot, but if there is another siege, as long as there is an SS-level boss, it will still be impossible to defend.
During the internal test, tens of thousands of masters over level 100 went to kill the Seven-Winged Dragon King, but they didn't hurt a single dragon hair. Instead, they were trapped by the Dragon King and were completely wiped out!
The ultimate boss is not only extremely powerful, but also extremely intelligent, possibly even smarter than the players!
Of course, this does not mean that current AI technology can really surpass human intelligence, but I suspect that the system rules allow the ultimate boss to directly call up some information in the database for analysis, so he knows every move of the player.
In order to obtain a holy beast pet, you must first obtain the holy beast egg. The holy beast egg can only be dropped by killing the ultimate boss. Who has such ability?
Another way is for high-level thieves to risk their lives to steal from the sacred beasts. If they are lucky, they may have a one in a million chance to steal the sacred beast eggs, artifacts, etc. However, such experiments have been done by someone. With the current level of thieves, even if they use the invisibility technique, as long as they are within ten meters of the sacred beast, they will definitely be discovered and there is no chance of stealing. The sacred beast can send you back for free with just a sneeze. Maybe in the future, when there are thieves above level 100, they can try it.
However, as an internal test expert, I discovered a secret by accident.
It’s not that New Era Group didn’t make a pet function before, it’s just that the player level was still very low when the public beta was first launched, so there was no need to open it immediately. Therefore, pets were also included in the closed beta.
When I was exploring the map during the internal test, I once encountered the sacred beast Xuanwu laying eggs!
From then on, I knew that pet eggs did not necessarily have to be dropped by killing monsters, as monsters themselves could also lay eggs.
But what puzzles me is why it seemed that other beta testers didn’t know this at the time?
After careful research, I found that ordinary monsters will not lay eggs. Only S-level and SS-level bosses have this function. The role of this function is to replace the refresh of this type of monsters.
Bosses of this level are extremely rare. Most of the ultimate bosses, such as the Monkey King and the Dragon King, have only one in the entire Fantasy World. Normally, they will not be killed by players. So if a batch of them are spawned at regular intervals like ordinary monsters, then in the end there will be holy beasts running all over the world. Which player dares to go online?
Of course, the programmers are not so stupid. For example, ordinary monsters have an upper limit, and they will no longer refresh after reaching this limit. For the Super Boss, after each monster dies, a new one will be spawned every week to replace it.
But if the holy beasts also adopt this method, it seems that their noble status cannot be reflected. Moreover, with the strength of the holy beasts, it is basically impossible to kill them before the players can mobilize tens of millions of masters over level 100. So, it can be said that in the first year or so of the opening of Fantasy, the holy beasts are a meaningless setting.
Therefore, the company designed another set of procedures. Each sacred beast will lay an egg at a certain time. Once the egg is laid, it will be hidden. If the old beast (most sacred beasts are unique, so there is no gender distinction, and they cannot be called male or female beasts, with a few exceptions, such as the phoenix, which is one phoenix and one phoenix) has not been killed by the player after a long time, the egg will hatch and the old beast will ascend to heaven, ensuring that the number of sacred beasts in the game remains unchanged. If the old beast dies, the egg will hatch automatically after the old beast dies.
It takes a long time for a newly hatched animal to mature. During this period, there is a certain gap between its abilities and those of an adult animal. That’s when players have a chance!
However, although the little holy beast has the same chance of dropping a divine weapon, the younger it is, the lower the drop rate. But every day, its strength increases by one point, and the drop rate also increases a little, until it reaches adulthood.
If the young beast is killed before it reaches adulthood and lays its own eggs, the old beast that has ascended will reappear in the dream and lay eggs again. But if the old beast is killed before it ascends , then the holy beast is declared extinct and will no longer appear in the dream.
Of course, it is impossible for me to get such detailed information, but through the analysis and speculation of the information I have, I can guess that it is almost right.
If I want to get a sacred pet, I have to get around this rule!
I know that there are two sacred beasts in Kunlun Mountain, the Qilin and the Phoenix. And when I entered the mountain to level up, I once encountered the Phoenix, and I died at that time, but later I found a way to steal three Phoenix sacred trees from the Phoenix's nest, which was also a revenge. Another group of alliance members encountered the Qilin when they entered the mountain, and of course, that group of alliance members were all killed. But we also figured out the location of the Qilin and the Phoenix, and from then on, the area near the two peaks was designated as a restricted area. When the alliance organized people to enter the mountain to level up, they must absolutely avoid them. Of course, anyone who wants to see something strange and wants to get close will bear the consequences!
However, in absolute confidentiality, I sent out two groups of intelligence agents to take turns monitoring the two mountains - Yuxu Peak and Shenmulin - around the clock!
These two groups of people are all high-level thieves. Although the thieves who can perform invisibility cannot get close to the holy beast, they are still safe if they are hundreds of meters away.
Judging from the time when the dream opens, the Qilin and the Phoenix should have laid eggs a long time ago, but the eggs will be hidden by the old beast and will not be found. But a few days before hatching, the old beast will keep the eggs with it and stop going out. He will always guard his children until they break out of the shell. After a period of time, when the little beasts have a certain survival ability, the old beast will fly away.
I sent out intelligence agents to monitor when the beast eggs appear!
Now, the opportunity has come! Without further ado, I will take my men and head straight to Yuxu Peak!
The atmosphere along the way was a bit weird. There were obviously fewer monsters than usual, and I brought only elite experts with me, so we arrived at the foot of Yuxu Peak very smoothly.
An intelligence officer from the LC01 team had come to greet me. He whispered to me, "Alliance leader, don't speak too loudly! Based on our long-term surveillance experience, Qilin has very sharp ears. It's okay here, but when we get up the mountain, it's best to communicate everything with gestures!"
Everyone climbed up the mountain quietly. Near the top of the mountain, there was a place where several huge rocks several tens of meters high were stacked on top of each other, forming a natural stone house-like space underneath. It was chosen by the LC01 team as their surveillance post.
There was another member of the team who stayed in the stone house. When he saw us coming, he nodded to me but didn't dare to speak. I whispered, "It doesn't matter. The Qilin probably knows we are coming. We don't know how to be invisible! But it is guarding the eggs at the moment. As long as we don't take the initiative to provoke it, it will not bother to pay attention to us!"
