74: Chapter 74 Has the situation changed again in the district?

While Zhao Xiaoshuai slept soundly, others were full of energy.

The Brotherhood group chat was bustling.

It was the time when most families had finished their New Year's Eve dinner, a time universally spent across the country listening to the Spring Festival Gala and chatting.

The older generation preferred to play cards, while the younger generation opted to go online.

Of course, many also chose to play games.

Moreover, tonight was the day for their Brotherhood to make a comeback.

Taowu (Xing Tianjie): "@Song Jiang, I'm not around tonight, I've transferred the money to you."

Song Jiang: "I'll be playing mahjong with the brothers all night. Don't worry, once the money is topped up tonight, we'll crush him!"

Qiongqi (Lin Yongbo): "I'll only be free in a while, I'll get on to check it out then. How come I don't see @Heavenly Emperor Boss?"

Song Jiang: "Heavenly Emperor told me he sleeps early and will handle it tomorrow, telling us not to worry."

Qiongqi: "How can he sleep at this hour? Is he some old man? Haha."

Lin Yongbo replied to a few Weixun messages casually before walking toward Ling Rui, who was in the distance.

The Lin Family and the Ling Family were considered family friends.

In the circle of wealthy merchants, the Ling Family's Lingshi Group was a veteran powerhouse, while the Xing Family's Hengtian Group was a nouveau riche that had risen to prominence through real estate.

Thus, although the Lin Family tried to maintain good relations with both sides, they were closer to the Ling Family.

The Ling Family's New Year banquet this time only invited noble families similar to the Lin Family, so Lin Yongbo was naturally circling around Ling Rui.

They had known each other since childhood, and he understood Ling Rui's personality deeply. However, for the sake of his family's interests, he still had to hold his nose and flatter this foul-tempered young lady.

"Ruirui, whose brand is this necklace from? Van Cleef & Arpels? The style is... quite novel."

Today, Ling Rui was wearing a halter-neck backless evening gown, which slightly revealed the necklace.

"I don't know what brand it is, my master... a friend gave it to me."

Although Lin Yongbo felt that the style of this necklace looked familiar, as if it were the same as a necklace from a QQ set he had accidentally seen once.

But how could that be?

How could the apple of the eye of the Lingshi Group wear such a thing? Who would be qualified to toy with her like that?

Moreover, with big shots gathered at this banquet—one could say the accumulation of decades in Chuncheng was all here—how could she dare to play such a big game on such a formal occasion?

"Ruirui, have you dated anyone since returning to the country?"

Lin Yongbo's family had given him a task: to win over Ling Rui at all costs.

Ling Rui was the only daughter of Ling Weiqin, the absolute helmsman of Ling Shi. Although Ling Weiqin had tried for a second child for many years, it might have been due to health reasons that she never succeeded.

And Ling Rui's own capabilities were more or less known to each family.

It could be said that as long as one married this woman, it was basically equivalent to getting half of Ling Shi into the family's hands.

"Not yet. Why, do you want to pursue me?"

In Ling Rui's heart, Master was an existence that transcended boyfriends and husbands, so it was only natural for her to say she didn't have a boyfriend.

It was just that whether she dated, or whether she could date, was not something she could decide on her own right now.

That depended on whether there was a task from Master.

"Ruirui, you are so beautiful, of course I want to pursue you. Give me a chance?"

In Ling Rui's view, Lin Yongbo still met her aesthetic standards; he wasn't a beanpole-type handsome guy, but had a tall and powerful vibe.

His family background was barely good enough for her own family, and they had known each other since childhood. If it were before meeting Master, she might have given him a chance to spend some time together for fun.

But now...

She sent a text message to Master.

"We'll see, it depends on your future performance."

Receiving the cold reply, Lin Yongbo was not surprised; she had been like this since she was a child.

Her family background indeed allowed her to be this way.

After rubbing against her cold shoulder for a while longer without getting a response, Lin Yongbo found a corner and boredly took out his phone to play a game.

As soon as he went online, he saw the server-wide announcement of Taowu drawing cards.

The "three generals kill" Spring Festival event this time was a double event.

A so-called double event meant two events colliding, making spending money more efficient.

In this pay-to-win game, the improvement from spending money normally was very low; one could only improve a little by relying on the gift packs claimed by increasing the VIP level.

The main improvements had to be obtained through various events.

And many events were cyclical, such as once a week or once every two weeks.

These events could provide rare items such as mythical beasts, mounts, divine equipment, and transformation cards.

When these cyclical events happened to collide with holiday events, it formed a so-called double event.

The biggest holidays like the Spring Festival often had recharge bonuses; a recharge tier of 518 could get the amount of the previous 648, equivalent to a 20% discount.

And the cyclical event that collided with this double event happened to be the transformation card event, known as the ticket to dominating the server.

Equipment in this game went from purple to orange, to red, to gold. After gold equipment, one could also embed gems, and gems had different qualities, as well as many rare attributes.

Mounts could also be starred up and tiered up to enable stronger attributes and skills, and the same went for mythical beasts.

There were also generals, from purple generals to orange generals, red generals, and gold generals, all of which were rapid expansions of numerical values.

In short, the path of paying to win was endless, just like an old sow wearing a bra—one layer after another.

However, no matter how much the numerical values of all these things increased, whether it was one hundred thousand, one million, or ten million, they were not the most powerful improvements.

The most powerful improvement was percentages.

You might have tens or even hundreds of thousands more attack than me, but my damage reduction is 100% higher than your damage increase; how will you deal with that, your Excellency?

Once in battle, you could only watch the -1, -1 numbers jumping meaninglessly.

And the transformation card system provided the most of these heaven-defying attributes like damage increase and damage reduction.

The protagonist of "three generals kill" could use transformation cards to turn into all the generals of the Three Kingdoms, and every time you obtained two specific transformation cards with a bond, you could unlock a set of illustrations.

There were vast numbers of generals in the Three Kingdoms, and if your luck with drawing cards was poor and you couldn't draw a complete one, you could only piece it together with fragments.

In that case, the cost of an orange transformation card was about 2,250 yuan.

The cost of a red transformation card was about 9,000 yuan.

So if you wanted to unlock all the transformation card illustrations, even if you were very lucky and often drew complete card-exchange feathers, it wouldn't be a matter of just a few hundred thousand.

There were three colors of feathers in card drawing.

Two-Instrument Transformation Feather: can exchange for one purple transformation card. Five purple feathers exchange for one orange feather, drop rate 0.4%.

Three-Clear Transformation Feather: can exchange for one orange transformation card. Two orange feathers exchange for one red feather, drop rate 0.12%.

Stunning-Swan Transformation Feather: can exchange for one red transformation card, drop rate 0.06%.

When these feathers were drawn, there would be a server-wide announcement, which could be called full-blown prestige.

What Taowu was doing now was exactly this.

[Congratulations to player Taowu, good luck continues, obtained Two-Instrument Transformation Feather!]

[Congratulations to player Taowu, heaven-defying luck, obtained Stunning-Swan Transformation Feather!]

At this moment, the onlookers online in various guilds had only one thought in their hearts.

"This district, after tonight, is going to change again."