660 Chapter 660 - Wait Right Here (2/2)

”Don't slap the table,” Gu Fei said. ”Even though you've the numerical advantage, it's not good to do this.”

”This is a table in a place he owns,” Southern Lone Blade reminded.

Gu Fei immediately thought what Southern Lone Blade said made sense. Today's rendezvous location was not a tavern or the barbecue joint, it was actually the actual office for Remarkable Flair workshop, so the furniture in this place were all their own.

”Oh. Slap whatever you like then. But let me just say that slapping the table like that isn't considered proof!” Gu Fei warned with a hint of nonchalance.

”You guys should not go overboard,” Five Nights could barely contain his rage at the moment.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.

The moment Gu Fei saw that the man might really be incensed, he himself got up and said, ”This is just business! There's nothing overboard about what we're doing. This has all been a discussion, and if we cannot see a meeting of minds, we don't have to go ahead with anything. Like now, for instance; let's go!”

Gu Fei led Southern Lone Blade and Glue to leave, as Five Nights slowly said behind them, ”Thousand Miles Drunk, don't be too arrogant. Remarkable Flair workshop isn't just any organization you can casually bully.”

Even though Five Nights had spoken out of anger, the fact remained that he had spent quite a lot of effort with this deal, drawing up the contract in-game and in the real world, thinking up solutions and conceiving ideas, collating the data and information he had just provided, and contacting all the various colleagues from all over the workshop in the various cities. After all, he was just a director in charge of six cities, and there are a total of a hundred cities in the entire Parallel World; just the number of people sharing his rank would already be enough to form a guild together.

This project spanned across all the servers in the game, but the work had all been left in Five Nights's hands exclusively, despite his other colleagues wanting a share of the pie as well! Five Nights had to consider and manage the negotiations with Gu Fei and the people on his end, as well as manage everything that was happening within the workshop. So it was not too excessive to say that the man had been kept busy dealing with internal and external troubles. After settling on every front with much difficulty, and the finishing line in sight once they cleared this final hurdle, Gu Fei ended up toppling everything over in just a few words.

What Gu Fei had guessed was not too far off from the truth either; Five Nights was mortified at seeing his own plan having been seen through so thoroughly by the man, and had been feeling rather guilty right from the start. But no matter how much contrition he felt, there was no way he could stand such a bout of sarcastic ridicule! His tense nerves from these past few days finally snapped after being subjected to such provocation.

Hearing Five Nights making such a cold-blooded threat, Gu Fei turned back and threw a glance in his direction, not saying a word before finally departing. Southern Lone Blade and Glue naturally did not say anything either when they saw this, and the three men stepped out of the office and started walking away.

Five Nights was still fuming, and seeing that Gu Fei had not given any response, Five Nights had even thought that he was in the right, so he grandly walked out to chase after Gu Fei. In the end, the moment he stepped past the transom of the office, a fiery streak came slashing down from his head, down past his face. Before Five Nights could make out what happened, he died.

Gu Fei returned his sword into his dimensional pocket, ”I couldn't kill you since you're the owner of the property. To think you'd dare to give chase, how arrogant of you.”

Even though the property was Remarkable Flair workshop's office, it was still required to assign it to a player, and the lease for this location happened to be under Five Nights's name. When players enter places they own, they are invulnerable to attacks. Southern Lone Blade and Glue were wiping their sweat as they stood by the side, thinking to themselves, no wonder he left the office without any reaction! Five Nights truly deserved his death, to actually be bold enough to give chase as he did; was he not just throwing his life away?

”That person is really sinister, ” Gu Fei sighed to Southern Lone Blade and Glue as they got on their way. ”That's why I say, with how risky he had described this deal to be, even going to the extent of wanting to enroll potential pupils even as they are being taught. It is such a dishonest manner of trade that leaves the consumer without the guarantee of a follow up. To have actually spent so much effort on such a venture, I've always felt he must surely have ulterior motives.”

”Yeah!” Southern Lone Blade and Glue nodded.

”We almost got cheated,” Gu Fei added.

”Uhhh… I don't think you can qualify that as cheating, can you?” Glue said. ”Honestly, we won't really be losing out if we went through with this transaction, though we will be defrauding the players.”

”How would we not be cheated? Just from his plan to completely refund the fees, on the one hand, their workshop has to maintain their image. And on the other, it's specifically against our interest as well. If we include the portion of the revenue they secretly kept, who knows just how much our 20% will be? The point is, it would surely be more than the minimum guarantee amount we were promised in the agreement,” Southern Lone Blade explained.

Gu Fei nodded, ”He keeps talking about this being a collaboration, but where's the teamwork in the collaboration? All he wants to do is treat us as fodder from start to finish, he would have surely have found an excuse to take credit for taking even the 20% that we managed to negotiate for.”

”That's right!” Southern Lone Blade and Glue answered in unison, they do not like the feeling of becoming fodder for someone else as well.

”From how that guy spoke, I think it's more or less a guarantee that the game company would come out and halt the operations, and they might have already gotten wind of this from their own connections. I wonder how long we can keep on doing this,” Gu Fei said.

Southern Lone Blade gave the matter some thought before he voiced out, ”Why don't we do it like how we did it this time from here on out? We'll just get in contact with some guilds and make our deals in private. Let's not announce it up on the forums and draw people's attention toward our venture.”

”That's useless too. If the game company had already taken notice of this matter, there's a very good chance that we're already being monitored as people who are doing this business. I'm sure they have the ability to secretly watch us in the background, right?”

”Most likely…” Southern Lone Blade and Glue agreed.

Gu Fei sighed. How could there be nowhere for kung fu to exist? No one believed it in the real world, while the game world refused to let it be used. On the one side, there was someone hunting him in the game in the name of rectifying him, while on the other side, their act of using kung fu to come up with a bit of routine had resulted in the game company keeping a close eye on them, exerting quite a huge pressure as a result.

When Gu Fei returned, he gave a detailed account of everything that transpired to Eternal Dominion. Actually, Gu Fei had already sent a message and given him a simple analysis when he first realized that there were problems during the negotiation. After all, Eternal Dominion was the biggest and most direct beneficiary of this deal, so he at least had the right to know about what happened.

The values that Eternal Dominion held were the same as Gu Fei's, so anything that Gu Fei disapproved of was also something that he would naturally despise as well. The favorable opinion that Eternal Dominion once had toward Five Nights had him frothing at his mouth now that he knew what was really going on. Deep Waters was equally surprised after he heard about this, even exclaiming about how the new wave of talents surpassed that of the old. he never would have thought Five Nights would ultimately have gotten to such levels! It was no wonder that man had been willing to give Gu Fei and Eternal Dominion a percentage of the overall revenue. Everything had already been premeditated.

As for the threat that Five Nights had tossed out at the end, Deep Waters had determined it to be no more than words spoken out of anger. A workshop sought profits, so a deal that fell apart was not grounds for revenge. It was entirely possible for workshops to suppress one another in retaliation, though Gu Fei was the number one slayer in Parallel World. The man was still just a normal player in their eyes, and there was no reason for them to make a huge fuss over a single person like this.

However, Deep Waters still made sure to remind Gu Fei in all earnesty, ”He should not be bothered with taking revenge, but there's no guarantee he would not do so. If there happened to be another incident that coincidentally puts him in a position to harm you in the future, the man would no doubt have no qualms throwing a kick in while you are down as well.Furthermore, a workshop isn't like a player who only knew how to fight and kill, so their revenge might not even be in the form of a PK attempt.”

Gu Fei was originally quite excited when he heard that there might be revenge coming his way, but the moment he heard that a workshop might not choose to retaliate in the form of fighting, and would choose to pull off some schemes and tricks instead, he instantly felt the energy being sapped from within him.

His day resumed like before. Gu Fei returned to Yunduan City and continued his demonic special training with Sword Demon. He had already spoken to the Thief about the mentality he needed to correct, so all he did was teach him a bit of techniques as Sword Demon continued to slowly adapt to this new style.

Furthermore, their workshop received another business opportunity, and this time it was yet another guild that came knocking. Everybody had analyzed the future of the efficient monster grinding routine and felt that selling their services away from prying eyes was not a bad solution. Perhaps the game company was not paying attention to them, and they could just get away with this.

This time it was an unknown guild from some foreign city, and completely lacking in prior relationships. None of them was willing to offer the cheaper price of 500,000 gold coins any more, so they opened with the 2,000,000 gold coins price tag to the other party. A single level 6 guild would have 1050 members, so a 2,000,000 price point meant each players would end up paying 2000 gold coins. There was no way anyone could afford this, but even if they were to drop the price down to 500,000 gold coins, that would still require every player to foot 500 gold coins per person in a thousand-man guild, which was also a price that people would find it hard to afford. Since either price was considered out of reach to the common player, everyone felt there was no reason to treat themselves shabbily, and decided to open negotiations with the higher amount, and leave the other party with finding a solution on their end.

This guild leader had a really came up with a plausible solution. Since a single guild could not afford it alone, he grabbed a few other guilds along as well. It was unknown how many guilds he ended up getting in contact with, but they ended up with over 10,000 players, and they were able to afford the price if everyone paid 200 gold coins for it.

The whole gang traveled far to the final location, and began to develop the grinding map and the subsequent instructions for the routines. Everything proceeded very smoothly, and there were no players that turned up to create any sort of trouble, nor did the game company step in to halt the operation.

Could the game company be unconcerned with the efficient monster grinding routines? This was the thought in everyone's mind when the game company finally threw out an atomic bomb of a news, announcing the contents of two important changes with the coming updates.

The first change: After the upcoming update, the game would no longer be generating any new currency, and all the currency that was currently in the game would be all that existed for player usage. Furthermore, a portion of the currency in the game were in the hands of the players, and another portion was in the hands of the NPC. The system had completely integrated the currency that was in the hands of NPCs, so be it the barkeeps, store owners, city lord or the citizens that offered quests, all of them now possess a certain amount of currency. Quests, businesses, rewards, fines and taxes were ways in which the in-game coins were circulated. And what was in the NPCs' hands would also be circulated in such a fashion, either ending up in the hands of the players, or in other NPCs' hands.

The moment this announcement was made, the sales of gold coins for Parallel World across the major currency trading platforms online were all cancelled. Everyone had realized that the value of currency would inflate as a result, so it was better to hold on to what they had and watch what would happen next before doing anything with it.

At the same time, plenty of players began wondering: If the amount of currency in circulation becomes regulated, what about items? Would it also be regulated along side the in-game coins and form a fixed industrial chain, and new items would no longer be generated any longer?