Chapter 122 - World Weekly (1/2)
Chapter 122 World Weekly
The five people signed a contract and it was already 10:30. Xiao Lou wanted to know more information so he used the hotel telephone to dial Mo Xuemin’s number. The call quickly connected. Old Mo looked at the number on the caller ID and wondered, “h.e.l.lo? Who is this?”
Xiao Lou told him, “Old Mo, it’s me. Is it convenient to come find you? I’ll give you the consultation fee.”
Mo Xuemin heard the familiar voice and immediately said, “It is convenient! I live in 507. You can come here!”
Xiao Lou took his teammates to knock on the door of 507.
The door soon opened. Old Mo had bathed and changed into pyjamas. He saw their faces and looked surprised. “Hey, I thought your words about giving me a consulting fee was a joke. Yet you really came personally to give it?”
Xiao Lou smiled. “You rely on selling information to do business and there are rules. We can’t always find you to gain information without giving a consulting fee.”
Old Mo smiled and waved his hand. “Forget it, I’m embarra.s.sed to receive such a small amount of money.”
“Don’t be embarra.s.sed. We have many things we want to consult you on. Can we go in and speak?”
Old Mo opened the door. “Please come in.”
He invited them to come in and sit down. Xiao Lou looked around and found that Old Mo was living in a big double room. Xiao Lou’s group had many people so booking a double room was more cost-effective. Meanwhile, Old Mo was actually living alone. He didn’t have any teammates? Thinking of this, Xiao Lou couldn’t help asking, “Old Mo, do you live alone? Where are your teammates?”
Mo Xuemin was pouring water for the group. He heard this and his back slightly stiffened before he sighed. “My teammates all died in the previous secret room.”
He poured the water into disposable cups and handed them to Xiao Lou’s group, the smile on his face very bitter. “There were 15 people on my contract book but in the last World Weekly, we met hunters and were wiped out. I was the only one who escaped.”
Yu Hanjiang frowned slightly. “Hunters?”
Mo Xuemin sat down on the rattan chair. “Have you met free people aiming to kill challengers in 3 of Spades?”
Yu Hanjiang replied, “You mean the one who joined with the boss of the illegal inn to destroy the challengers?”
Mo Xuemin nodded. “They are called hunters and can receive a big bounty after killing challengers. The organization, called the Hunter’s Alliance, was said to be established by the locals. They believe that the existence of foreigners seriously threaten their living environment and they want to expel all of us.”
Xie Qi’s face was shocked. “Will there be hunters in the World Weekly secret rooms?”
Mo Xuemin rubbed his temple. “That’s why every week is a life-and-death challenger. I remember in last week’s World Weekly, nearly three million people were eliminated.”
He settled down and looked at Xiao Lou. “Are you looking for me to consult about the World Weekly?”
Xiao Lou smiled and nodded. “Yes, we just pa.s.sed the fourth level and don’t know a lot about the World Weekly. We wanted to ask about the experience of a senior.”
Mo Xuemin told them, “You are new so I suggest you team up and upgrade your contract book. It is better to rise to the advanced book to form a team of 8-15 people. The more people there are, the greater the probability of clearing the instance. It is because the World Weekly instances will randomly send a large number of challengers to one room. There will be internal fighting among the challenger teams. The big guilds and big teams are likely to attack small guilds and small teams.”
He was afraid they didn’t understand and gave an example. “For example, you only have five people while another team has 15 people. 15 against 5, the odds are great. If the team leader has a bad heart, he will kill the five of you and take your cards as his own. This will enhance the fighting power of his team. After all, in the Card World, cards are weapons.”
Xiao Lou and his team members looked at each other, a chill going down their spines.
No wonder why the World Weekly secret rooms were so difficult. Apart from the existence of hunters, the most terrible thing was actually infighting among challengers. They currently only had five people. In the eyes of other teams, they were weak and could be slaughtered by others. As long as they were killed, their cards could be obtained. Usually, people could live in harmony if there were no conflicts of interests. However, in a life and death moment, who would have the leisure to take care of other people’s lives?
Eliminating the weak and increasing their strength was the most instinctive human response.
Xiao Lou frowned. “Is there a place to recruit teammates?”
Mo Xuemin replied, “There is a professional challengers forum set up by the Intelligence Bureau online. You can go there and recruit some great teammates, but there are risks with recruiting. It will be a headache if someone betrays the team or drags everyone down.”
He once again mentioned the Intelligence Bureau. Xiao Lou wondered how the Intelligence Bureau could be so powerful. It not only collects information from challengers, providing services such as ‘looking for people’ and ‘consulting’, it also helped everyone establish an internal exchange forum?
Yu Hanjiang asked with interest, “The internal forum has a review registration system?”
“Yes, the bureau’s forum needs to confirm the ident.i.ty of every challenger. Before registering, you need to fill in your information from reality and can only enter after receiving approval. That’s why there are many challengers looking for people on the forum or issuing a team recruitment post.”
This registered forum was a critical reason for why the Intelligence Bureau could collect such a large amount of information. Members filled in real-world information when signing up, allowing them to facilitate communication and discovering the situation of challengers.
The thing that made Xiao Lou curious was the significance of the existence of the Intelligence Bureau. Was it purely to make money by selling information? Or was the boss of the Intelligence Bureau playing a big game?