It is now two o'clock in the morning, and all the major guilds and players have basically completed the first step of opening up the land, which is to find a place to occupy their own land first.
Jiang Qiao floated above Brand Island in the form of a ball of light, along with Hai Lan.
"We have to activate all the portals they built?"
Hailan was full today, which was rare. She was holding a can of Wangzai milk in her hand and drinking it through a straw.
"Whoever builds it first will be put into use." Jiang Qiao looked at the bottom of Brand Island. Even when he was floating high in the sky, he could only see a corner of Brand Island.
But in this corner, players have built strongholds one after another. Currently, there are thirty-seven strongholds on Brand Island, twelve of which were built by the seeds of the Stone Stronghold.
The most radical stronghold among them is the stronghold of the Abyss Temple. The stronghold built by the Abyss Temple is the farthest from the initial stronghold. It is located in a completely crystallized forest and is surrounded by various lord-level monsters.
The second place is the stronghold of the Leaping Nuclear Guild.
But judging from the current completion of the stronghold, the Abyss Temple's stronghold is unexpectedly much more complete than the Leaping Nuclear Guild's stronghold.
The Leaping Nucleus is still in the stage of building the city wall. The Abyss Temple has not only built the city wall, but it is also ten meters high. In comparison, the five-meter-high city wall of the Leaping Nucleus seems more like a decoration.
Because the bases of other guilds are close to the safe zone of the initial base, building walls is the least important option. They are busy researching other things, such as portals.
Jiang Qiao is now above the guild base of the Coke Fanatic Guild. Coke Fanatic is very timid, and their base is built almost right next to the initial base.
Although they were timid, the things they built were also very strange. The first thing they built was not a city wall, but a bottle... a super giant Coke bottle, a commemorative glass bottle from 1991.
"Nuka-Cola Cult?" Jiang Qiao floated in the air and watched the builders of their guild pile up piece after piece of building materials on the giant bottle of Coke.
Coke is the symbol of their club, as well as their club's emblem and flag. Jiang Qiao sees that they are planning to build a Coke bottle as tall as the Eiffel Tower in their base.
'An unknown civilization has built a wonder.'
For some reason, this sentence popped up in Jiang Qiao's mind, but Jiang Qiao still focused on another building constructed by Coke Mania.
That is the main portal of the mission.
The portal is a scam used by Jiangqiao, a real scam, and its targets are the mother crystals collected by the players.
Everything on the Brand Island can bring creative energy to Hai Lan. From the corpses of those lord-level monsters, every time the players kill one, Hai Lan can absorb less than 20 to 50 points of energy from each one.
The mother crystals contained in the monsters' bodies are the most essential part of the energy. The lord-level mother crystals are around fifty points.
If players hoarded all the mother crystals in their backpacks, or used them all for farming... Jiang Qiao would definitely feel that he was losing out.
So they use the portal to 'recycle' the players' mother crystals, just like the decomposition machine.
The Coke Fanatics Guild is the one that has made the highest contribution right now.
"Should I say that you are worthy of being the chief president of the Freya Protection Association?"
Jiang Qiao floated down from the sky and sat on the portal of the Coke Fanatic Guild.
This portal is the most common circular building, about five meters high. There is a glowing energy pool underneath the portal.
This portal is a main quest building given for free by the system. You just need to bury the portal fragments given by Freya in the soil and it will grow out automatically.
"President, I asked around in the guild, and it turns out that most of the mother crystals have been thrown into the charging pool of the portal, with a few epic ones left to be used as seeds."
A member of the guild took out his bag and tipped it over, and three mother crystals emitting a scarlet glow fell out.
This mother crystal and the Flame Roar mother crystal are epic seeds of the same level produced in the bodies of lord-level monsters.
"Throw it in." Bubble looked at the energy pool with bubbles in front of him and had the illusion that he was some kind of villain.
"President, this is our guild's start-up capital. If we throw it all in, there won't be enough resources to build the guild base."
"Resources can be purchased directly with money, so throw them in." Bubble felt more like a villain after saying this, especially when the members of the guild behind him were looking at the three mother crystals with heartbroken eyes.
"Yeah, the president is rich anyway."
That member also came to his senses and threw the three mother crystals directly into the energy pool.
The progress bar in the energy pool rose by 0.3. This increase in number…
"According to this progress, only one thousand epic mother crystals are needed." Bubble half-crouched in front of the energy pool and looked at the data in the energy pool at this stage.
The members of their guild threw nearly two thousand ordinary and inferior mother crystals into it, and now the energy pool is only charged to one percent.
As expected of a rich man's thinking, Jiang Qiao was listening nearby. Logically, the other guild leaders' thoughts should be "We only need to kill a thousand epic lord monsters."
Bubbles are bought directly with the intention of purchase.
"Sprite, what's the current price of the epic mother crystal in 4396?" Bubble asked the player standing behind him who was an ice master.
The Ice Master is one of the transformed jobs of the Elemental Mage. Its characteristic is that it is a magic warrior, a mage who has cultivated agility, strength, and intelligence. Of course, its spell damage is definitely not as high as that of a real mage, but the special feature of the game is that the Ice Master can beat people with his fists.
"There is only one epic mother crystal for sale on 4396 right now, and the price is 110,000." The role played by Sprite seems to be a secretary-like role.
"Buy it." said Bubble.
"President, the mother crystal is something that every epic lord monster must drop. I don't think it's worth the price. Even if it's reduced tenfold, I still don't think it's worth it." Sprite said.
Bubble didn't answer Sprite. He opened the web browser and started browsing 4396, and typed in the item "Epic Mother Crystal".
Sprite's face darkened and she grabbed Bubble's arm with both hands.
"President! I think you've spent too much money on this game, especially on meaningless things like this!"
"This... this is considered an investment! Just like when I built the club... didn't I make back the capital?"
Bubble is just a weak elemental blaster, and his power is certainly not as strong as Sprite's ice master. In order to stop Bubble from doing stupid things, Sprite even turned on the PK state.
"The club has investment prospects. I accept that you spend a lot of money on the construction of the base. It is very useful for the club's publicity, but... the mother crystal is a prop that will inevitably depreciate in the future. You spend money on it and fall into the trap of the game officials! If you want the mother crystal, we can go and kill the epic lord on this map."
"If I work hard...if I kill four a day...it will take at least half a year to...open this portal! Let me go! Sprite!" Bubble's hand trembled as he tried to click on the purchase interface.
"President, you have really been acting a little abnormal recently."
"Let me go...I want krypton gold! Ah!"
The bubbles were forcibly removed from the bubbling energy pool by Sprite. Under the silent gaze of a group of guild members, Coke's shouts spread throughout the camp.
"Friya...Friya still lives in the tree hole!"
"Does this mean that reality and the game are indistinguishable?" Jiang Qiao sat on the portal, scratching his head helplessly as he looked at the scene below.
"This is the reality." Hai Lan emphasized.
"Reality..." Jiang Qiao stood up from the portal and looked behind him. From here he could see the sea on the other side of Brand Island.
At this moment Jiang Qiao just saw a ship sailing towards Brand Island. If nothing unexpected happened, this ship should be the ship of Miss Leila.
"The efficiency of buying groceries is beyond my expectation." Jiang Qiao glanced at the guild president again. Bubble was kneeling on the ground and being lectured by Sprite about things like 'You are not a child anymore, and you are a successful businessman. How could you fall into such a childish krypton gold trap?'
"President! There is dried meat from another world for sale at 4396!" Someone in the guild shouted.
"What?!"
After hearing the news, Bubble, who had previously said "I can control myself", immediately opened the official website of 4396.
(End of this chapter)