487.Chapter 485 484 Opportunity is something you have to fight for yourself.

Chapter 485 484.This thing called chance is something you have to fight for yourself, dumbass!
In fact, when they saw the service-wide announcement announcing that the dormitory sextet had been inducted into the Hall of Fame after the attack and defense of Plague Town, the leaders of the other guilds had vaguely guessed where this third stronghold belonged.

However, when the development team confirmed that the third stronghold, “Wolf Castle”, had been delegated to the Scarlet Beasts in a forum announcement that night, many players still let out a cry of anguish.

Currently, there were only three player strongholds in Transylvania!

The fact that they had already been allocated meant that other guilds would have to wait for the game’s plot to continue before they could unlock more strongholds if they wanted their own.

But this wasn’t really a bad thing.

After all, although the number of players will be increased every week, but so far in the game is close to a thousand people, and this thousand people in the light of the number of Knights of the Riptide accounted for more than a quarter of the number of other guilds are not enough to support the construction and planning of a complete stronghold.

Even if Lord Murphy really gave each guild a stronghold to manage, most of the strongholds would probably end up being taken back by the administration due to poor management.

It would be too humiliating then.

Besides, Transylvania had unique management units like collective farms in addition to player strongholds.

With more and more stragglers, the second batch of seven collective farms were already on their way to being compiled into a register, and the administrative professionals who wanted to experience the feeling of being a government official had plenty of places for them to play, and didn’t need to deal with such a difficult unit as a stronghold right off the bat.

The Riptide Knights who are currently building Fort Riptide have a special thread on the forum to record their journey of building the stronghold, in which Tepal lists the problems of stronghold construction one after another from his own perspective, and just by looking at that list of problems makes ordinary players feel arduous and discouraged.

Thinking about it, the difficulty of building your own city from scratch in a 100% realistic game is definitely not easier than taking a group of people to reclaim the land in the real world.

There were no shortcuts to this kind of work, and it was simply impossible to do it well without experience.

However, the discussion about strongholds had always been a hot topic on the forums, and many players would think about how they would plan and decorate their strongholds if they owned them, and those wild ideas always made newcomers come in and take a look at them and be dumbfounded.

Those who know are you playing the game, those who don’t think you are ready to gather 500 people to rent a big ship to sail to the new world.

In short, the biggest label attached to the “urban legend” of “The Real Other World” in the small circle on the Internet is “hardcore” in addition to “real”.

This label is also effective in preventing the play ticket party to run to make trouble, at least normal people will choose to reject the set of 199 test application questions when they see that the number of questions has increased to 199.

People are so busy working day in and day out!
There’s still so much residual value that needs to be squeezed by the boss, those who have girlfriends after work need to go lick their girlfriends, those who don’t have girlfriends need to go look for girlfriends, and those who already have wives need to cover their waists and worry about tonight’s food rations, so how can they have so much time to go and do the damned questionnaire survey ah?
At the same time when the forum was in full swing because of the belonging of the third stronghold, the position outside the Plague Town, which had already reached dawn, had also lit up bonfires and presented a hot gesture.

Various equipments found in the ruins of Plague Town were placed in wooden crates and piled up by the bonfire, and all the players who participated in the copy of the raid would go to pick up weapons and armor that fit their hands.

This equipment distribution session is completely free, so take whatever you see.

There is no lack of some small smart ghosts want to take more than a few kinds of no one to stop, mainly because the real game of the “weight system” is really a pain in the ass, but you have to carry a few more weapons in the battle of the rapid movement is a problem, and even if there is a psychic bag to assist, but the capacity of this thing is also very limited.

Even with the assistance of the psychic bag, the capacity of this thing is very limited. It is a bit tight to load daily necessities, and no one will throw these weapons that they can not use into it, that is purely to find pain for themselves.

As for the weapons and equipment that were left over, they would not be wasted, they would be collected in a unified manner, and would be sent to the logistics department of the Cadman People’s Army to be exchanged for money to be divided equally amongst all of them.

This is the old rule.

As for those weapons and gauntlets that were famous and had very good attributes, this time the auction method was used again, right next to the biggest bonfire, the articulate Lin Bei dog shaving was once again chosen as the auctioneer.

Those who hadn’t gotten offline sat around the fire and ate while watching those rich brothers and sisters fight over the good stuff.

“It won’t do to keep going on like this!”

By the student party’s campfire, Niu Niu sat cross-legged and maintained his flail, he looked at the noisy rattling over the auction table and complained to the three dormitory brothers beside him:

“From the opening of the service until now, we haven’t been able to come up with a reasonable plan for the distribution of the loot, and every time it’s always an auction, so if we keep going on like this, it’s going to hurt the brothers’ peace.

New players to get a good thing are struggling, but the small reed name of the tent of all kinds of weapons can open the exhibition, the old Huo side even more exaggerated, he gave his own Treasure Bay VIP room filled with all around the collection of loot to pursue style.

It’s really a drought of drought and a flood of flood.”

“Why are you worrying about this?”

Caught shrimp households have a taste for throwing swamp berries into the mouth, while savoring the strange sour taste, while full of concern, said:
“People small reed name and old Huo get those weapons are not stolen to rob, people spend real money to buy, buyer and seller are satisfied, which monster can gossip?
We grew up playing a lot of online games, the problem of class within the game you see which developers can come up with the perfect solution?

This is called ‘game ecology’, do you understand?
It’s a part of online games with strong social attributes. You think it’s bad, but I think it’s great, at least everyone gets paid after the auction.

This is much better than a situation where the strong eat everything and the weak can’t even lick the bones.”

“That’s right, Bull likes to fool around ever since he got a kissing wife!”

Kachitonitai held up his own finely crafted lion spear, giving it two crocodile legs skewered on top of it to flip around the barbecue by the campfire, and Mud to Luda Oil holding the spice jar to sprinkle seasoning on it.

The two of them worked well together looking like proper adventurers, especially after Khaki finished, and the old oil chimed in with a quirky tone:
“Of course the bull is going to think blindly~ He is now afraid that someone in the game is messing around to make this game stop service and shut down, so he will never see his paper man good wife again.

Hey, Ox, I saw a few new players offering their love to your wife today, why don’t you hurry up and keep watch? In case people’s favoritism at Ambos exceeds yours, won’t you lose both your money and your family?”

“You two know nothing! If you’re capable, you guys shouldn’t go brush those female NPC’s favorability in the future, ch-ch.”

Niu Niu skimmed his mouth, not intending to continue chatting about this topic with these two detractors.

What a pathetic mortal!
The moment I gave out the ring, my favorability with Ambrosia was locked up, you idiots, if it wasn’t for the fact that Ox’s ox was under Lord Murphy’s control, it could have been further along by now.

He now has another thing in mind to continue to think about, that is about the future construction and planning of the 003 stronghold under their feet.

Although Pigeon Treasure is the head of the Beast Troupe, but now the dormitory group of six all hung up and have to wait for three days to resurrect, Niu Niu, this “executive deputy head” with more muscles than brains, can only hold up this stall.

He knows his own family’s business.

Compared to the talented Riptide Knights and the semi-professional Scarlet Hammer and Sickle, their Beast Troupe was nothing but a haystack.

Groups made up of young people were certainly hot-blooded and righteous, but when it came to specialized knowledge and insight, they were far behind the system made up of socialites.

At the moment, Niu Niu is worried about the future management of stronghold 003, he and Pigeon Treasure can certainly pull helpers from the school’s management department, but the problem is that those helpers are also students with empty knowledge and no practice.

If we really let them mess around, it would be a “sample of large-scale social experiments in other worlds”. The environment of the swamp is already poor, and if they mess around again, it is estimated that this stronghold will probably be recovered by the administrative department in a few months’ time.

Then it would be a disgrace to the adults.

“I say, can’t you guys really come over? Even a cameo would be good.”

Niu Niu was chatting with the Traveling Scholars quartet who were far away near Scarlet Fortress in the Computing Pearl, and he said to Traveling Scholar Xiao Zhou, who was now the “Village Chief of Misty Island”:

“Just come over and help our guild set up a stall first, and then go back after the subsequent management department’s buddies enter the game one after another.”

“Bullshit, you’re easy to say, but are you just going to leave my village alone?”

Traveling Scholar Xiao Zhou very directly refused.

He said:

“My village was already in poor condition, and now it’s hard to find a coal mine in the mountains with three buddies in my dormitory who are preparing to dig out the mine shaft for development!
This is a major event related to people’s livelihood, how can I leave here to go and help you?

Of course, not that we brothers put their lives on the line to get the stronghold is not important, the main thing is that Niu Niu you have to sympathize with the four brothers.

It took us a lot of effort to get the villagers to trust us and work with us, but if we give up now, the future of Misty Island will be over.

This is our first village in the game!

My brothers are still counting on the process of building this mine to water a few papers for graduation, so please spare us.”

“Then what should we do?”

Niu Niu said with a face of egg pain:
“Those of us who fight are okay, you’re asking us to run things is really not okay, we’re sports students f*ck! It’s not our job at all.

Give us a suggestion.”

“How about ‘joint governing’?”

After pondering for ten seconds or so on the side of Traveling Scholar Cho, he gave an answer and said:

“Doesn’t the Silver Moon Sisters group want a stronghold as well? You guys share the management of Stronghold 003 with them, or simply trust it to them.

Those girls are all capable people, they can definitely handle the management and planning, and then you just need to sit back and eat the profits.

But I doubt that this model of joint governing will be recognized by the Administrative Office?”

“Ugh, it just doesn’t sound reliable, just one Auntie Shui can package us together and sell us off with the move of a hand, and we still have to count the money for them.

How can our poor students play with their hearts and minds better than them?
Forget it, I’ll discuss it with Pigeon Treasure again.”

Niu Niu sighed and hung up the communication.

He really couldn’t say that the traveling scholars weren’t righteous, after all, the situation in Village No. 4 was obvious to everyone, and it was true that people weren’t enjoying their blessings over there.

But to really hand over the territory that his guild had worked so hard to take to other guilds to manage, this matter alone was enough to hurt the fragile self-esteem of all the young people, including Niu Niu.

“Recruitment! Damn it.”

Bull fumed, grabbing the roasted crocodile meat from Khaki’s side and taking a bite into his mouth while speaking to the three fellows beside him:
“Start by posting on the campus website! Recruit a group of knowledgeable brothers and sisters in the management department to come in, as for having no experience . Lol, we’ll talk about that later.” “How dare you post on the campus network? You’re tired of living.”

Caught Shrimp Household spat:

“The counselors over at the finance department have talked to Badger and the others, just in case they go astray.

Our previous recruitment spree in the school has already been noticed by the school leaders, and I bet your post will be deleted in less than ten minutes after it’s posted.

Alas, not every forum administrator is as generous as Fat.

This will have to be done privately and slowly.”

“Then go to another school!”

Bull gritted his teeth and said:

“Go to a specialized management school to recruit people, we need management professionals now, we can’t just hand over all the land we’ve fought in the future to someone else to manage for us, right?
That would be too lame!

Just follow the model of the Riptide Knights and slowly build up our logistics and management team, we are at least one of the top few guilds in the game, we can’t keep emphasizing on just being able to fight, right?”

“F*ck, it gives me a headache just listening to it, it’s better to leave this brainstorming to Badger and the others.”

The three gym students looked at me and I looked at you, and then very tacitly chose to swing for the fences.

This attitude made Niu Niu want to kick them a few times, but just when the students were worried, an “unexpected visitor” suddenly found them.

“What? Chief Hogg asked me to come over for a secret talk?”

Bull was gnawing on the barbecued crocodile meat and looked at Nash the Jackal, who ran beside him, nodding his head and carrying a few rough gifts.

He froze for a moment, completely unable to understand what this unique NPC, Chief Hogg, wanted to talk to him about, but he had sent three lower level Command Scepters as a gift for his visit, and this “sincerity” was immediately perceived by the player.

Therefore, after eating the oddly flavored snack in three bites, the bull followed Nash to the swamp near Plague Town.

On a flat terrain, Hogg was sitting under a tattered tent, pondering over a map of animal skins, while several heavily-armed barbarians guarded the surroundings and bloody hyenas released by the hunters were roaming around.

This scene let the bull lamented Hogg this guy now row is also more and more big, he still remembered Hogg just rescued by the girls that the downtrodden look it.

It’s true that people can’t be underestimated, and jackals can’t be underestimated.

Still, Ox was curious about what Hogg was going to talk to him about until he sat down under Hogg’s tent as the representative of the student party, and the scrawny jackal chief grinned and said:
“Mighty Midnight Warrior Lord Ox, I would like to do business with the Warrior Guild you are a member of.”

Hogg rotated the map in front of him over and handed it to Bull to look at, and he wagged his bald-furred tail and said:

“I know that the great Governor Murphy has taken the plague town uh, now called ‘Wolfsburg’, what a name, anyway, Governor Murphy has given the reigns of Wolfsburg to the Warrior’s Guild of which you are a member, and I would like to congratulate you on your victory.

But what I am concerned about is, can humans like you really put up with the terrible environment of the swamp for a long time and station yourselves here?

I’m not doubting your courage and will, there is no one who understands your strength and bravery better than I do, however different races have different preferences in the end, and the swamp has never been a zone that would be favored by humans”

“What are you trying to say?”

Bull, the gym student, though not stupid, he really didn’t like Hogg’s way of talking outside the box, and without looking at the map in front of him, he asked directly:

“You might as well make it a little more clear! You see, we’re warriors, Chief Hogg, so let’s be direct.”

“Good! Then I’ll be direct.”

Hogg let out a long breath as it whispered:
“I want to ‘buy’ control of Wolfsburg from you.”

“No way!”

Bull balked:

“This is a stronghold that our brothers have taken at great cost, it is not a commodity that can be bought or sold, this is exempt from negotiation!”

“No, no, no, it’s not the kind of sale you understand, warrior.”

Hogg explained, shaking his head:
“I mean uh, escrow!

That might be a better word, since you humans don’t have the means to live in the swamp for long, and we jackals are very well adapted to the swamp environment, how about you hold the administration of Wolf’s Keep in trust for my clan.

I will help you repair the town, dig a moat and shape the walls!

If you need it, the Dogheads of Clan Bloodclaw will even help you build a new mage tower, all at no cost to you other than enough food for the Dogheads!
Once the town is built, you will have full control of the town, and we will only need to gain the right to move about it and deliver supplies.

I will run the town for you!
I’ll have my own arrangements for it, and I’ll give you 60% of all profits generated by all businesses in the vicinity of the town!

You see, this wouldn’t be a money-making deal, I’d be losing money to help you run it.

The main thing is that Lord Murphy has promised me the other two thirds of the Tainted Swamp territory, but the remaining third chokes off the vital passageway, and without it it would leave my territory completely divided from Transylvania.

This is a result that I, who admires kingship, can’t accept at all!

I really don’t covet your territory, warriors.

I just want to acquire the nominal management and rule of the Filthy Swamp as a way to fulfill my little ambition of being that ‘Swamp Lord’.

Rent me your strongholds.

The profit sharing aspect can be completely renegotiated, I just need this town to fulfill my plans for the entire Filthy Swamp.”

“Oh, you have complete plans for the swamp?”

Bull came to be interested.

He took a serious look at the animal skin map that Hogg had just handed over, and after a few seconds, he scratched his head and said:

“I can’t read this, explain it to me in words, Hogg, what do you plan to turn the Filthy Swamp into?”

“Huh.”

Hogg let out a cunning laugh as it wagged its tail and said:
“When I met with that noble colonel from the Kingdom of Goldfinch earlier, I had asked him about the journey from the Cato region to the bustling port of Chardo, and he told me that it would take four days to cross the mountains of the Chardo Peninsula even by steam train and enter the cities of the Halflings and Brass Dwarves.

And the trains are so expensive that small merchants are unlikely to transport goods by such means, which is why the Smuggler’s Woodlands used to be the largest local smuggling route.

The route to the Chaldo Peninsula is much shorter by taking the Filthy Swamp!

And with Dwarven brass forts along the way to maintain security, the only problem with this route is the risk you will encounter when entering the Filthy Swamp.

The beasts in the swamp are secondary to the fact that once you get lost you’ll just die here.

However, if a unifying force emerges from the Foul Swamp and shapes a path for traders traveling from the south to the north that leads straight from Transylvania to the Brass Fortress .
Ah, Bull Warrior, my plan doesn’t really change anything from the previous rules, I’m just replicating the pattern that Smuggler’s Woodland once had throughout the Foul Swamp.

I’m sure the halflings’ steam trains won’t be the only answer to connecting the center of the continent with the southern regions.

‘The Swamp Road’!
Yes, I would call it the ‘Bloodclaw Road’!
This road will surely be more popular with certain bold merchants, Transylvania is bound to prosper under Governor Murphy, and it is up to us servants who creep in Lord Murphy’s shadow to add to that prosperity.”

“Is this really the kind of planning a jackal could come up with?”

Bull exclaimed:

“Take off this jackal holster of yours, it’s no fun, shrewd halfling Hogg.”

“Ha, what a funny joke! I could laugh all day.”

Hogg laughed out loud as he quietly removed a jackal-style voodoo serpentine shortsword from the torn pouch behind him, and without moving, he slipped the seemingly “good” thing into the bull’s hand.

Poor pure sports student this is the first time in his life encountered “bribe”, quite a bit at a loss, he would have wanted to righteously loudly scolded Hogg not to engage in such evil things, but the item identification start to find that this is a Commander level precision voodoo short sword, the bull suddenly said no words of refusal.

He didn’t lack weapons, Ken Potter’s Shackle and Bone Shield were both Mastery Grade Elite equipment, enough for him to use until Silver Rank or even Gold Rank.

The main reason was that the conditions over at Ambo were tough, and it was too dangerous for his delicate wife to go on a mission alone without a “specialized weapon”.

The bull reddened.

In his heart, he cursed himself for not being strong-willed, but he still put away the short sword that was very suitable for Ambrosia to use.

Hogg was rather cheeky.

The Jackal Chief looked smilingly at Niu Niu who squirmed and accepted the gift, it then continued:
“This is certainly not my idea either, the last time I met Prof. Chen I asked him where the way out for my clan was. That honorable scholar only said a few words of mention, but I also understood that kind of visionary and great thinking.

Clan Bloodclaw can share the benefits of this path with you, warriors!

As long as you are willing to trust Wolfsburg to me, we can have a bright future together.”

(End of chapter)