178: Planning and Development
Over the next two days...
Xu Shian and his team secured all the First Kills for the Elite and Hell difficulties of the eight Dungeons across the remaining four main cities of Lin Yue Country!
For Xu Shian, the only thing currently limiting his efficiency was the cooldown of the [Anywhere Door]!
This item was already powerful enough; Xu Shian couldn't ask for more from it!
..."In two days, we've obtained a total of..."
An Xixi almost started counting on her fingers!
Fortunately, Li Zhiwei stopped her from such undignified behavior.
"We obtained a total of 390 free stat points..."
"Hiss, that's way too many!"
An Xixi looked at Li Zhiwei in surprise.
"Too many? This is just the beginning!"
Xu Shian thought back to that sky-blotting giant hand; with his current strength, he wasn't even worthy of shining that person's shoes!
Not only did Xu Shian get those 390 free stat points, but he also completed several achievements... however, since achievements weren't announced, others remained unaware!
Xu Shian didn't plan on taking the initiative to tell anyone either... Checking her own stats, An Xixi leaned toward Xu Shian with a grin.
"Shian, when are we going to Ganpu Country? Didn't you say they were the next target?"
The next target was indeed Ganpu Country!
But Xu Shian was currently pondering how to get the job done as quickly as possible.
After all, the lesson learned from Lin Yue Country was right there.
It would be frustrating to be surrounded and blocked by people again... Seeing Xu Shian's brow furrow, Li Zhiwei remained silent.
An Xixi also noticed the change in Xu Shian's expression and followed up with concern.
"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
"It's not exactly a problem, but if we use the teleportation arrays, it's easy to get besieged in the cities! If we rely entirely on the [Anywhere Door], the cycle will be too long..."
An Xixi thought for a moment, and her eyes suddenly lit up as she slapped Xu Shian.
"Your brain isn't as useful as this young lady's! We can do what we did in the East Dragon Empire—use the teleportation arrays to visit all the cities first! Even if it's only two cities a day per person... it's not that much slower, is it?"
Xu Shian was about to curl his lip in dismissal upon hearing this.
But then he saw An Xixi staring at him with wide eyes.
With that 'fiercely cute' look, it seemed as though if he showed any disdain, she would take the opportunity to explode... Xu Shian quickly straightened his expression!
"Our initial reputation values are all fixed at a 'Cold' start. 'Cold' is -1000 points; we need to reach 'Neutral' to use the teleportation arrays..."
"As for the quests in the main cities, depending on the difficulty, they generally only give 80 to 200 reputation points... or a First Clear gives 1000 points directly..."
"The reason we could use the teleportation arrays right away in the East Dragon Country was that we had already accumulated enough reputation in the Novice Village! But that reputation doesn't affect foreign countries..."
At this point, everyone basically understood Xu Shian's meaning!
If you don't clear Dungeons, you can't use the teleportation arrays... This wasn't specifically targeting foreigners; it was the same for players with domestic citizenship.
However, for domestic players, this restriction wasn't actually that large... a thousand reputation points could be gathered by doing a few random quests!
But for Xu Shian... trying to operate this way made the difficulty quite high.
"Then let's set off together! Those people in Lin Yue Country have already been beaten into submission by you. On the Ganpu Highlands, they probably won't even dare to prick up their thorns!"
"Stop joking, you guys can't even cross the border! You have to go through a teleportation gate..."
"You really have a lot of good stuff..."
Actually, it wasn't impossible, but Xu Shian planned to test the opponent's resolve to resist first!
If they were like Lin Yue Country and tried to resist head-on from the start, then he would take a half-step back!
If they only knew how to protest without taking action, then he would take a First Kill first, then visit all the cities on the Ganpu Highlands... finally, depending on the situation, he'd decide whether to use teleportation arrays or the [Anywhere Door] to travel between cities!
...While the two were chatting, Xie Lingge came over.
As the Secretary-General, she usually didn't have much to do and mostly communicated via voice chat.
After all, the guild was still a makeshift operation, and there weren't any documents that needed Xu Shian's signature to be issued.
"Guild Leader! The expansion of the Elite Team has been completed. There are currently exactly 5,000 people. Besides the over 2,000 who have already arrived at the main city, nearly 3,000 are stuck at the Level 10 level seal."
"Did you tell them? The Elite Team must be at least Black Iron Tier... they need the patience to hone their strength!"
"I've told them all! But..."
Hearing the 'but', Xu Shian looked up at her curiously!
"But what?"
Then, noticing the height difference between them... "Sit down and talk!"
Xie Lingge also sat down on a stone stool by the table... "There's a player in our guild's Elite Team named [Old Man Li]. His strength and influence are both quite good. He wants to buy the item Xixi-jie used to summon players before..."
Xu Shian's eyes lit up.
Although he hadn't heard of the ID [Old Man Li], the man certainly had ideas!
In fact, with just a little inquiry into what happened after An Xixi and the others pulled people to their deaths, one should know that the [unstable partner summoner] was useless once you left the Novice Village!
Dying once costs at least five years of extra lifespan... who would be stupid enough to click 'accept' for a teleport?
The strength of a single Novice Village might not be enough to shake a Bronze Level boss, but what if one could gather the elite forces of the Xia Country?
Knowing that he could shake people from other Novice Villages, those exceptionally talented experts would likely be tempted... after all, once they understood the gap between Bronze and Black Iron, no one wanted to fall a step behind at the starting stage!
Xu Shian thought for a moment.
"Don't sell it! Find a way to trade the item to him, and just have him return it after he arrives at the main city!"
Such a good item, even if he didn't use it himself, couldn't be allowed to fall into the hands of outsiders.
As for whether this [Old Man Li] would take the initiative to give the item back... Xu Shian wasn't too worried! Times had changed; every gift of fate already has a price tag attached in secret!
If I told you to return it and you can't produce it!
Are you prepared for the cost?
...Xie Lingge nodded. She had also been summoned by An Xixi, died twice, and only reached Novice Village No. 12315 on the third try!
She naturally knew that this item was a divine artifact in the Novice Village, but once in the main city, its effect was negligible!
"One more thing, the selection for our Elite Team can only be set with hard criteria. Those who cross the line can join by signing up..."
Xie Lingge didn't finish her sentence, but Xu Shian understood her meaning. However, there was no other way.
The current guild's 'selection' was actually entirely dependent on people who wanted to progress signing up themselves.
Forget background checks; it was impossible to tell if a person was a saint or a demon back in the Blue Star era... because everyone was suddenly brought into this game world.
Forget ID cards; people didn't even bring a cell phone. What was the use of thinking about all that?
Currently, it wasn't just that [Time] had no way to verify the situation of all its members.
Except for public figures like An Xixi, even the state machinery didn't know what a person's true colors were... after all, there was now nothing to prove a person's identity; only a face still had links to the past.
If you didn't want to report your name from Blue Star and chose to spend the rest of your life using a game alias... there was absolutely nothing anyone could do!
And don't even bother asking... the answer would just be: the past is too painful to look back on!
PS: It's over 400,000 words now, and I'm planning a book test. The temperature dropped suddenly these past few days, and my brain is a bit sluggish; could all you great gods help me think of some book titles? Thank you!