Chapter 128 All Linked (2/2)
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In the Western Capital, Frenzied Sword felt exasperated. In the last few days, he had no appetite for anything. Days without Han Xiao were like a day without sunshine—each passing day was torture.
As Frenzied Sword randomly scrolled through the forum, he came across a bunch of posts by the players from Big Horn Village. The posts were about Han Xiao and the goods that he was selling.
”Lightweight Mechanical Arm‽”
With a look of pleasant surprise, Frenzied Sword stood up suddenly.
He remembered that Han Xiao had previously exhibited this Mechanical Arm. Han Xiao was, too, always wearing a mask. As such, Frenzied Sword hazarded a guess.
Could Black Phantom be Han Xiao?
I have to find him!
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In order to raise the reputation with Han Xiao to more than five points, many players had moved to the assembly point at Big Horn Village to do the quests and earn money. As such, the number of players surrounding Han Xiao increased significantly.
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Your product [Lightweight Mechanical Arm] has been sold!
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Han Xiao was shocked.
He had previously set the high price of 20,000 for this item, yet someone was able to afford it. He surveyed the surrounding players and found their leader. His ID was 'Jade Green Sky'. The moment Han Xiao saw this name, he was immediately enlightened. Jade Green Sky was the chairperson of a guild named 'Sky Territory', and with the wealth of the guild, he would naturally be able to afford the item.
Jade Green Sky was wearing a set of hand-sewn leather armor, and his equipment was at least a grade better than the open-beta players. That was because he was a close-beta test player. During close-beta testing, he had brought some of the core members with him to explore the other places on the map. Through the mouths of the other open-beta players from his guild, he learned about Black Phantom, and he quickly brought the core members back to the village.
Even though Jade Green Sky had yet to advance in his class, he was preparing to be a Pugilist. He was immediately drawn to the stats of the lightweight mechanical arm. Although he was unable to equip the item as of now, he decided to purchase it first and keep it in his storage, just in case Black Phantom disappeared suddenly and the opportunity was lost.
”There are quite a lot of good items.” Members of the Sky Territory guild muttered praise as they browsed through the list of items.
Unfortunately, in order to raise the reputation to five points, each member of the guild would have to spend 2,500 dollars. Despite being a large guild, the money that Sky Territory had was limited. The purchase of the lightweight mechanical had used up the majority of the guild's cash.
Out of a blue, Han Xiao spoke. ”There will be a troop from the Germinal Organization passing by here in a few days, and I need some people to help me set up the traps in the forest. Are you free to do so?”
With that, he set a quest and released it.
E-Level difficulty. The description was ”Set up any kind of trap in the forest, and you will gain 500 EXP.” Additionally, Han Xiao offered three reputation points as part of the reward, just what the Sky Territory guild wanted.
Jade Green Sky responded decisively. ”Everyone, accept this task!”
Han Xiao smiled to himself silently. By luring players to complete his quest using reputation points, he could both complete his quest and gain more business. It was killing two birds with one stone.
He could arbitrarily attribute the reputation points with a certain value. This method was like the theory behind paper currency, whereby something was made to appear valuable, but in actual fact, it was worthless. This could be effective in attracting the Sky Territory guild, Destroyer guild… any guild's players into picking up the quest.
Han Xiao had always felt that the currency system was built on a bubble. With this thought in mind, he would spend any cash he earned.
Unspent money could become a hindrance to one's motivation to work!
Most of the players went into the forest to set up traps. The traps that they could use were the more elementary ones—they were monster traps. Han Xiao took some time off and visited the forest. The forest was so full of traps that anyone with claustrophobia would have been triggered and covered with goosebumps instantly.
The retreating troops from the Germinal Organization would definitely be horrified when they entered the forest.
The monster traps that the players had set were very much useless and were mainly to attract attention. Han Xiao set up some other traps by himself, and those traps were the ones that would be the deadliest.This comes from the idiom ”There are always fish willing to be caught by angler Jiang Taigong.” (