341: Global bigwigs are scrambling for tickets

Dragon Country, the capital.

In the most Advanced secret meeting room, the atmosphere was extremely heavy.

More than a dozen true power holders of Dragon Country looked at the complete plan emergency transmitted back by Zhang Chen on the screen, and each fell into a long silence.

Every single one made their hearts pound.

An entry fee of one hundred million!

Dividing the prize pool!

Two-tenths taken as venue management fees!

This... this was setting their sights on the entire world!

"Nonsense!"

A hot-tempered old General slammed his hand on the table.

"This is taking advantage of others' misfortune! It will cause international disputes! How can our Dragon Country do such a thing!"

"Old Fang, don't get so agitated," the Chief, seated in the main position, said with an unusually calm expression. He raised a hand to signal for everyone to quiet down.

"I, on the other hand, think this plan is feasible!"

Everyone's gaze instantly focused on him.

The Chief slowly began, "Let's think about it from a different perspective."

"What would happen if we simply announced that we would help other countries?"

"Who to help? Who not to help? By what standard? Who goes first?"

"At that time, we would fall into endless squabbles and moral blackmail, making ourselves look bad inside and out."

"But now, Mo Yan’s plan gives the choice to them!"

The Chief's finger tapped lightly on the tabletop.

"Want to live? Want our help? You can!"

"Then show your strength, show your value, and fight a fair battle under the eyes of the whole world!"

"The winner takes the prize money, gains our friendship and help, and gets both fame and fortune."

"The loser can only blame himself for being inferior, eliminated by the times; no one can say a word against it!"

"This is the rule of the apocalypse!"

"As for the entry fee..." The Chief smiled, "This is a Genius idea!"

"This money is both a threshold, a prize, and bait."

"It turns an aid effort that might have been met with resistance into a gamble that everyone wants to participate in!"

"Brilliant! Truly brilliant!"

The meeting room gradually quieted down.

The dissenting voices disappeared.

But their eyes grew brighter and brighter.

They understood.

This plan, seemingly overbearing, in fact, held all the initiative in Dragon Country's own hands.

"I agree!"

"I agree too! Let's do it!"

"Damn it, we've been suppressed for so long, it's time for the whole world to see who is the boss of Blue Star now!"

Unanimously passed!

An hour later.

An important message was simultaneously released to the official forces of all existing nations globally, igniting the entire Blue Star.

【Dragon Country Announcement: To cope with the global catastrophe, promote communication and progress among various Lord forces, and collectively seek a future for humanity.

The official Dragon Country will host the First "Global Lord Grand Tournament" seven days later, in the Holy Land of H City!】

【Participation Method: Register as a country. Each country must pay one hundred million gold coins or equivalent rare resources as a "Tournament Deposit."】

【Tournament Rewards: All deposits will be pooled into the "World Hope Prize Pool." The top three ranked countries will divide all prize money according to ratios of 50%, 30%, and 20%!】

【Supplementary Clause: Countries that secure a top three position will be eligible to hire top Lords and special forces from Dragon Country to assist them in stabilizing their domestic situation.】

【Supplementary Clause 2: The tournament organizer, "H City Holy Land," will provide the venue and security for this competition and will draw 20% of the total prize pool as venue management fees.】

【Supplementary Clause 3: To promote exchange, some spectator seats will be open for this competition. Ticket price is ten thousand gold coins per person. Global live broadcast footage will be charged separately.】

When this announcement, translated word for word into various languages, was placed on the desks of various national leaders.

The entire world first fell into a deathly silence.

Immediately followed by a volcanic eruption of anger and uproar!

"They're crazy! The Dragon Country people are crazy!"

"This is extortion! This is robbery! They've turned the whole world into their ATM!"

"One hundred million gold coins! Why don't they just rob us! Even if our country empties its treasury, we can't gather that much!"

Eagle Country.

The President slammed the report in his hand to the ground, his face ashen.

"This is too much! Immediately organize all allies for a joint boycott!"

"I want to see who will participate in this ridiculous farce!"

However.

His roaring voice had not yet faded.

An intelligence officer stumbled in, his face wearing an expression as if he had seen a ghost.

"Pr-President sir..."

"Those South American countries, within ten minutes of the announcement's release, they... they publicly declared..."

"They... they want to participate!"

"What did you say?"

The Eagle Country President felt there was something wrong with his ears.

"They announced their participation? Where did they get the money!"

The intelligence officer's voice was trembling: "They... they seem to have mortgaged all their last strategic reserve materials!"

"Lunatics! A bunch of lunatics!"

The President roared in anger.

He couldn't understand why anyone would be willing to accept such humiliating terms.

But he didn't know.

For those small countries whose territories were fallen, where mutated beasts ran rampant, whose people were displaced, and whose entire civilization teetered on the brink of extinction.

This announcement was not extortion.

It was their only lifeline!

One hundred million gold coins was indeed an astronomical sum.

But that prize pool, that qualification to hire Dragon Country's top fighting power, was like the brightest lighthouse in the darkness, giving them hope to survive!

Gamble it all!

If they lost, it was merely an earlier demise.

If they won, they could be resurrected!

How to choose required no hesitation at all!

As the first, then the second country announced their participation, the dominoes instantly fell.

More and more countries struggling on the edge of life and death began frantically raising funds.

Selling resources, selling technology, selling mining rights for the next hundred years... They used every possible method, just to gather that one ticket to H City.

The "Boycott Alliance" organized by Eagle Country instantly became a joke.

Even some of their staunchest allies began privately contacting Dragon Country, asking how "equivalent rare resources" would be calculated.

The eyes of the whole world, with unprecedented fervor, focused on Dragon Country, focused on H City... The global situation changed dramatically, but H City fell into another kind of frenzy.

In the task hall, it was bustling with people.

In the past, Lords discussed which mutated beasts were easy to kill.

But now, all topics had changed.

"Have you heard? Wu Rongkang from District D, the one who pushes the trash cart, his territory moved directly to District S!"

"More than that! I personally saw Boss Xie of the Cangming Alliance push his cart for him! And called him brother!"

"The most outrageous thing is, I passed through District S yesterday and saw Wu Rongkang's broken territory. It upgraded to level three overnight! Resources piled everywhere!"

A young Lord with an A-level talent leaned against the wall, listening to the discussions around him, his face full of incomprehension.

Wu Rongkang!

A waste with a D-level talent!

Why?

He couldn't understand, and no one could understand.