111: Be careful when catching mice!

Lin Ye also took a quick look at the Hero Ranking on the Sky Curtain.

His ranking had risen again.

It went from 48th to 46th.

[NO45; Montgomery; Race: Irishman; Level: lv3; Instance Works: "Desert Rose", "Clash Royale"]

[NO46; Lin Ye; Race: Great Xia Clan; Level: lv3; Instance Works: "Earth Online - Raging Sea", "Earth Online: The Five Constants: Winter is Coming"]

[NO47; Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov; Race: White Bear Clan; Level: lv3; Instance Works: "Iron-Blooded Defense War"]

It was clear that at this level, improving one's ranking was truly very, very slow.

This belonged to the pinnacle of Azure Star, with a small number of people, but a very large span in points.

However, Lin Ye was quite indifferent to such things as rankings.

Compared to level, ranking was more like a false reputation.

Although after entering the top 50, the blessings brought to the Settlement would increase with each level up.

But this benefit, when applied to Lin Ye personally, actually had little practical significance.

Furthermore, ranking did not completely represent strength.

Some people had abundant points, but their true strength was terrible; Prince Singh of the Asan Clan was a typical example.

Lin Ye collected his thoughts and directly asked the Sky Curtain.

"Sky Curtain, will Winter is Coming still be reviewed and will the number of Challengers be adjusted this time?"

[Respected Instance Designer, after review, the Sky Curtain believes that the difficulty of the Winter is Coming Instance is basically matched with the Challenger capacity. Unless the Designer actively modifies the Instance, no adjustments will be made.]

Lin Ye smiled.

This time, the Sky Curtain unexpectedly did not increase the number of people.

It made him a little disappointed.

It seemed that because there was no direct confrontation between Mao Xiong Country and the Challenger forces this time, the Sky Curtain had no way to make a judgment.

However, maintaining the number of Challengers at 50,000 was also good, after all, he did not want the Winter is Coming Instance to be like the previous Raging Sea and Surging Waves Instance, where resources were drained in three waves.

He wanted to cast a long line to catch a big fish!

With nothing to do, Lin Ye browsed the internet again, and he found that there was much less news about him and his Instance today.

Today's hot topic, on the other hand, was on the "Strong Clan Plan" of the South Goryeo Settlement.

In fact, it was not uncommon for various Settlements to purchase technology from each other; even the Great Xia Settlement would actually purchase some new technologies from other Settlements.

But it was rare for a Settlement like the Korean to secretly and stealthily buy tank blueprints and then secretly modify them.

Settlements that usually do this mostly have ulterior motives.

Once such a thing is exposed, other Settlements cannot help but be wary!

For a time, accusations and curses against the South Goryeo Settlement on the internet were endless.

[Buying tanks, secretly developing, what does South Korea really want to do?!]

[In recent years, South Korea has been buying a large number of weapons from various Settlements, which is truly insidious!]

[Where do the points for buying weapons come from? South Korea's chaebols must have exploited a lot of the people's blood and sweat!]

[Is South Korea's chaebol-controlled Settlement model really reasonable? It is recommended that the Sky Curtain directly investigate strictly!]

[If it weren't for Lord Ye's strength, who knows which Settlement South Korea's blade would have fallen on.]

[...]

Seeing the overwhelming accusations and curses, Lin Ye could only silently mourn for Kim Geun-seok.

"Do you think this is all of it? No... you still have to continue challenging this Instance."

"Heh~ the fun is yet to come."

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South Korea Settlement.

Kim Family Manor.

Kim Geun-seok had just been teleported out of the Instance, gasping for breath.

The terrifying scene of the Dongfeng Missile bombing was still echoing in his mind.

"Damn it! Siba! Siba!"

This time he was truly too aggrieved; he felt like he had eaten a dead fly.

If it was a normal Instance challenge failure, it would be fine, but the grievance was that he lost inexplicably.

His proud tank army was just played with and completely wiped out.

He was about to vent his frustration when he noticed a figure had been sitting in front of him for a long time.

Looking closely, it was his father, Kim Chan-hoon.

From the looks of it, his father had been waiting here for a long time.

"Fa... Father?"

Slap!

Before Kim Geun-seok could finish speaking, Kim Chan-hoon gave him a big slap, causing him to stumble and almost fall onto the sofa behind him.

"Father, I..."

"You useless fellow!" Kim Chan-hoon's eyes were wide with rage, his face as pale as paper, and his whole body was trembling slightly with anger.

He looked as if he was about to devour someone.

"Do you know that because of your incompetence, hundreds of people in the corporation died, and my Kim family became a laughingstock!"

"And our Settlement was disgraced because of it!"

Kim Geun-seok covered his face, looking displeased, and couldn't help but try to explain himself.

"Father, I couldn't help it. In the Instance, I tried my best to be wary, but I still fell for Lin Ye's trick..."

"It can only be blamed on Lin Ye being too cunning."

Slap!

Another slap landed on Kim Geun-seok's face. He let out a wail and dared not retort anymore.

In the Kim family, hierarchy was everything. Although he was now the head of the Kim family, much of the company's power was still held by his father.

If he made his father unhappy, his father could completely reclaim the points inherited by him in various ways.

"I ask you, what were you thinking?!"

"Did you even forget the most basic military common sense?"

"Since you were going to launch a land battle, why didn't you designate Ma Country and War Chariot Country as spawn points? Even a Challenger of LV1 level should understand this common sense!"

Kim Chan-hoon's tone was full of the helplessness of someone who despairs of improving a bad situation.

"I... I... I was afraid there was a trick." Kim Geun-seok answered honestly, his face flushed. "Lin Ye is good at using such tricks. I was afraid that his choice of spawn point was a trap."

"You're confused!"

"The basis of any Instance must be logical. Even Lin Ye's special mechanisms can only be approved by the Sky Curtain if they have perfect logic."

"If you were tricked because you chose a spawn point he explicitly gave, then that Instance would be illogically creating problems for Challengers, and the Sky Curtain would not even agree to such a thing!"

Kim Chan-hoon became angrier and angrier as he spoke, his voice even trembling slightly.

"Your current state, if described using a Great Xia Settlement idiom, is 'afraid to touch the rat for fear of breaking the dishes'!"

"Do you understand?!"