188: Earning 480,000 through tears and blood

While major factions across the country were holding urgent discussions, Xu Shian was having a headache in the City Defense Force's mission hall!

【Shi Chuan】

【Title: Private Second Class】

【Military Merit: 2195】

【Ding, Qixia Town City Defense Force Captain Cheng Junyi has issued you a daily mission: Patrol Qixia Town. Mission Reward: Military Merit +10, Silver Coin +2, Experience +100】

Do you accept?

“Accept!”

Xu Shian felt a bit unlucky.

If this mission had been received from a regular NPC, Xu Shian would have directly refused.

Missions... players certainly have the right to refuse, and under normal circumstances, refusing a mission has no impact.

But he couldn't refuse missions issued by Cheng Junyi... this guy held grudges and had the authority to deduct Military Merit on the spot.

More importantly, he was a Golden Grade expert, and the deception ring's disguise effect was useless against him.

A few days ago, when Xu Shian came to do a Military Merit mission, he felt that a map-running mission was a bit Time-consuming. After refusing, that bastard deducted 50 Military Merit from him!

Patrol then, it's only half an hour... “Captain Cheng, deducting a thousand Military Merit a month is too harsh! You can't make us bleed and cry!”

Cheng Junyi was speechless.

“If you don’t want your Military Merit deducted, you can directly sign up to join the army! Not a single point of Military Merit will be lost. You need to understand, you are part-timers! You come and do a job when you feel like it, and when you don’t, you go home and lie down. In the end, you can still keep getting promoted. Where is there such a good thing?”

Xu Shian: ...At the same Time, quite a few players came to take Military Merit missions.

Apart from a small number who, like Xu Shian, were after Military Merit, a large portion were after money and experience... Don't think that doing Military Merit missions is purely altruistic... myriad realms online is no longer just a game; it's a real world!

A world vast enough to accommodate all of Blue Star's inhabitants... Here, one needs to adjust their mindset and live it as real life.

And getting promoted in the military official system really does give you official positions... For people from Xia, passing civil service exams and entering the system is a deeply ingrained obsession.

It's just that... a patrol mission gives ten Military Merit... just accumulate it, and you'll accumulate it without a sound!

To get promoted by Military Merit, one can only do hostile faction missions... just like Xu Shian in the Vast Mountain of Iron Spine Fortress, slaughtering all sides in the Mountain Tiger Camp, killing ten gives five hundred... Only by fighting hostile forces can Military Merit be rapidly increased!

Originally, Military Merit missions could be accepted directly from the personal panel.

But those were daily fixed refreshes, with no 'hidden' good missions... like pursuing bandits.

He just didn't expect to encounter Cheng Junyi, which disrupted Xu Shian's plans!

While Xu Shian was patrolling Qixia Town, the auction for the second companion summoner was nearing its end.

“See? No one will buy it if the price isn't lowered!”

“Please, this is too expensive, lower the price! If you don't lower it, my son really won't come back!”

“Why is Shi Chuan so heartless?”

...As the companion summoner was five seconds away from being unsold.

The auction price at the Auction House took a triple jump.

A player from Fenghou Ridge in Lin Province clapped their hands!

“Now it's stable, I knew that a little instigation would make these idiots only know how to morally blackmail... You don't even look, does that Shi Chuan look like a moral person?”

【Ding, your bid for the 'unstable partner summoner' has failed. The bid amount has been refunded to your personal account!】

This person's face darkened.

These old sixes... Chen He didn't expect that even after bidding seventy thousand, someone would bid higher than him!

It seems they are also from those big families... Can't wait, there are countless hidden big families in Xia. If he doesn't get it, it will be a big problem!

So, when the third unstable partner summoner was placed on the shelf by Xu Shian.

Chen He immediately wanted to buy it at a fixed price!

Unfortunately, he was still a bit slow... “No way? Didn’t everyone agree not to buy it and let him lose money? What are you all doing?”

“I'll say something fair: this kind of thing, not making it available for everyone to use for free to help more people in need... and actually listing such a high price in the Auction House! It's simply inhumane!”

“Exactly! We must unite to boycott Shi Chuan, boycott Time...”

Shi Chuan: Don't be Anonymous! Show your tail, let me see what species you are... “I merely spoke a fair word, and you want to launch a personal attack? Is there still justice?”

...Since the other party didn't dare, Xu Shian lost the desire to continue arguing with him.

After successively listing the last two summoners, Xu Shian received 480,000 gold coins.

Not bad, he could only say he made a small fortune with tears of blood!

The money of these people was also obtained by exploiting other players, so Xu Shian took it with a clear conscience!

As for whether they would continue to exploit the lower class without restraint after losing such a large sum of money... one could only say that Times had changed, and if they weren't willing to save themselves, no one could save them!

For example, the 33 female college students who were imprisoned by Sima Heng of Jingan Department.

They have now entered the main city and escaped from the control of the Sima Family!

Recently, it's been heard that players have been hunting down the entire Sima Family... Thief class players secretly kill, and others gather forces to openly kill!

The most active were these 33 female college students and their families...

One could only say that no one in the entire Jingan City wanted the Sima Family to live... and no one wanted them to rise again.

As soon as they left the city, someone would surely come to kill them!

For one person, three or four would come to kill you; for three people, more than ten would come to kill you... The whole group moves out?

That's fine, in that case, people really can't do anything to you!

But you'd better always move out as a whole group, and never get separated... So, after entering the main city, the entire Sima Family's life became difficult.

How many lives do they have? Can they squander them like this?

At this moment, they also understood in their hearts.

It was probably everyone from Jingan who had come to target them!

So, now any member of the Sima Family guild will be indiscriminately hunted... Having reached this point, basically, except for those with blood on their hands or subordinates too deeply bound to the Sima Family, those who could run have basically run.

Unfortunately, most of the Sima Family's thug groups could no longer turn back!

...In the past few days, the matter of the Sima Family in Yan Province has been trending, even staying on the hot search list without coming down.

When the wall falls, everyone pushes it!

When the Sima Family was on Blue Star, they were a notoriously problematic family.

Unfortunately, at that Time, they held absolute power and controlled public discourse, so the people below had no way to seek justice!

Now, in a different world, decades or even centuries of accumulation have been lost overnight.

Otherwise, for those who targeted their family, the Sima Family would have simply crushed them with money.

“These commoners... these commoners!”

In a small courtyard in Loulan City, Yan Province.

The Sima Family patriarch paced back and forth, grinding his teeth in hatred.

Now was a critical moment for the main player forces to enter the main city!

One step slow could mean being slow every step of the way!

Sima Zhong, who once stood at the pinnacle of Xia's aristocratic families, clearly knew that if their development was truly hindered, the Sima Family would likely face utter destruction!

“Why is it that killing people in the main city doesn't make you a red name?”

...“Father, something bad happened! Third Uncle was forcibly killed in the Auction House! The summoner he bought for 100,000 gold coins was also dropped...”

“What? Where's the killer? Did the City Defense Force catch them?”

“No... all those commoners took patrol missions today. They tracked Third Uncle's whereabouts and booked all the patrol missions for several streets near the Auction House! The NPCs also turned a blind eye and didn't intervene in our players' grievances...”

“Go pressure the City Defense Force...”

Before he could finish speaking, he remembered that they were no longer on Blue Star... Sima Zhong slumped into the grand armchair, lost in thought!

(Name changed to Sima Zhong, previously revised!)

He only felt the family's future was utterly bleak.