778 Chapter 778 - The Night Falls (1/2)
Deep Waters had given his long winded exposition, and Gu Fei vaguely understood what he had heard. But in order to be courteous, he made sure to keep nodding his head as he listened. When Deep Waters was done and saw Gu Fei show the look of being educated, he was obviously very satisfied as he nodded, \”That is why you guys have to be extra careful. Not one of these workshops is anything good!\”
Gu Fei turned his gaze over to Aural Valley Wind, who was currently speaking to Sword Demon, and he could not help but feel a feeling that something was strange. If that man did have ulterior motives as well, then he would truly be more insidious and sly than Five Nights.
\”I have no idea if this guy has such a ploy, but I dare say there would most definitely be workshops who have set their sights on such a delicious piece of cake like you guys. Even if it is not Soaring Clouds, it would ultimately be another workshop out there,\” Deep Waters shuffled up next to Gu Fei and added this when he saw the man looking at Aural Valley Wind.
\”So why don't we go over there and hear what they are talking about?\” Gu Fei suggested.
\”Let's go!\” Deep Waters gladly accepted his offer.
And so, Gu Fei, Deep Waters, and Coco made their way over to where Sword Demon and Aural Valley Wind were at. When the two men saw the three walk over, Sword Demon and Aural Valley Wind both greeted them off-handedly as they continued with their conversation, completely without any intention of wanting privacy. Meanwhile, Brother Assist and the others were standing to one side, a grim expression on all their faces as they listened to the conversation between Sword Demon and Aural Valley Wind.
Gu Fei and Deep Waters did not make any noise either, quietly paying attention for a short while and more or less had an understanding of what they were talking about soon enough. However, Gu Fei actually heaved a sigh of relief; Just as Deep Waters had said, the workshops were all envious of the huge benefit that Extremely Heaven Defying now had since they held a monopoly of the six Precincts that were available in Yunduan City, and Soaring Clouds workshop was no exception to the rule. But they were not planning on backstabbing or sly schemes at the very least, sending Aural Valley Wind as their representative in hopes of negotiating a collaboration between them and Extremely Heaven Defying.
Meanwhile, the content of this collaboration was to help the guild manage the Precincts.
Presently, the management and business rights for the six precincts had been awarded to Extremely Heaven Defying, and it was no easy affair to properly manage these six Precincts. They must most definitely spend a large amount of time and effort on getting themselves on the right track, so with how Extremely Heaven Defying happened to be a newly established guild, its foundation was not stable enough, nor did they have people whose hearts were in the right place. The guild itself had not even properly bonded. Moreover, while none of the other guilds had made mention of the fact during the City Wars event, all of them had most definitely considered Extremely Heaven Defying as a target; be it openly or on the sly, everyone was thinking of ways to suppress them. The current Extremely Heaven Defying was most definitely in a situation where both opportunity and danger intermingled! While they might possess both Thousand Miles Drunk's earthshaking kung fu skills and the economical support afforded by the city Precincts they had been awarded with on their side, there were also plenty of internal and external problems that they had to deal with at the same time.
Aural Valley Wind had set his sights on this very fact and hoped to cooperate with Extremely Heaven Defying by letting their workshop put in the work and help the guild in the management of the Precincts. Aural Valley Wind had offered a comprehensive overview of the terms and details, which evidently showed how prepared he was coming here. Sword Demon patiently heard him to the end, but he nevertheless mentioned how he was unable to make the decision at the moment, and would need some more time to mull things over.
Of course, Aural Valley Wind expressed his understanding as well, so he did not bring up the subject for the moment and began recommending the barbecue pitmasters that he had brought over.
This topic was a lot more low stakes than what they had been discussing before, so there was hardly even a need to hesitate. Sword Demon asked for a price quote for those pitmasters and the two parties very happily went ahead and worked together this time.
\”What do you think?\” Gu Fei whispered to Deep Waters.
\”How depressing. This Aural Valley Wind person actually shares the same views as I do! I also feel that it might be too much for you guys to juggle all six Precincts you had been placed in charge of as your reward. I've already taken a tour and scoped out my Precinct earlier this afternoon, and even I felt that we might not be able to take good care of everything despite our Deep Freeze being a level 6 guild. Conversely, you're just a level 4 guild that is filled with new members who barely knew each other. It's completely impossible for you guys to manage six Precincts all at once just like that!\” Deep Waters exclaimed.
\”Just what do we have to do managing these Precincts?\” Gu Fei was a little lost.
\”You have no idea… One of my fellow guildmates had spent the afternoon with me expressly to take a look at this, and he said the present state of cities in Parallel World could only be said to have finished the initial building layout, and a majority of them were empty properties, with the previous operation the system had engaged in was for players to do whatever they wanted. But now that players could be in charge, in order to maximize profits, we would be expected to assess the Precincts adopting various angles, making considerations for its integration, economy, security, aesthetics, and society. It is essentially the discipline of urban planning, and that is an education in itself. Do you know anything about such things?\” Deep Waters elaborated.
\”Of course I don't. Do you?\” Gu Fei asked.
\”I don't know either, but there was someone in my guild who does, and he's now euphorically drawing out plans for our Precinct,\” Deep Waters said with pride.
\”What you guys got is called a city Precinct as well? Isn't it more like a village?\” Gu Fei had been to Linyin City, and the place did not even have city walls surrounding it. It was like a tribe that was founded in a huge jungle, and yet it was still called a city.
\”So you see, every city has its own terrain conditions, as well as the quality of the players in terms of their standard when it comes to their levels and the proportion of job class distribution. The economic conditions were different as well; we need to be a lot more hands-on with Linyin City and do our planning properly. This way, the construction work for our Precinct would then be able to develop in a healthy manner!\” Deep Waters said.
\”Is this what that guildmate of yours had told you?\” Gu Fei asked.
\”Of course.\”
\”You've got quite the good memory!\” Gu Fei complimented. It was rather impressive how Deep Waters was able to retain such concepts and terminologies that were completely foreign to the layman after hearing it once.
Unexpectedly, Deep Waters had actually scratched his head, \”There's no memory at work here. I'm just reading my chat log from earlier to you.\”
\”Is it really so outrageous?\” Gu Fei exclaimed.