Within a room, Zhao Fu looked at the four family leaders and asked, despite already knowing the answer, âWhy has everyone come to find me?â
When they heard this, the four family leaders looked quite awkward, but one of them still brazenly said, âYoung master Zhu, the four of us were blind and made the wrong choice. Please forgive us. This time, weâll definitely do all we can to help you destroy Great Shun. Please believe us.â
Zhao Fu coldly laughed inwardly. Believe them? Did they really think he was that stupid? These families only prioritized their own benefits.
However, Zhao Fu still smiled and said graciously, âItâs fine, and I can understand. However, I hope that this wonât happen again!â
When they heard this, the four family leaders felt delighted and understood that Zhao Fu was willing to work together again. As such, they quickly nodded and replied, âDonât worry, young master Zhu. There wonât be a next time.â
Zhao Fu didnât believe that at all â if the situation turned against him, these four people would immediately betray him again. Zhao Fu had only accepted because he wanted to get rid of Great Shun and the other two families first before dealing with these people. Otherwise, it would be quite difficult to deal with six families allied together.
Elsewhere, Li Mu also heard about this, and he received news that ten or so of Great Shunâs people had been killed. Whatâs more, this number was continuously rising. As such, Li Mu immediately put a stop to all of his businesses and withdrew to the Great Shun Town.
These greedy people would do anything for money. No matter how powerful Great Shun was, they wouldnât be able to resist the temptation. One gold coin was worth $100,000 in the real world, and right now, all of the large families and corporations were desperately selling everything they had to purchase things in the Heaven Awaken World. This was because after the Heaven Awaken World devoured the real world, everything in the real world would be worthless, so everything in the real world was devaluing more and more.
Li Mu quickly called Su Yan and told him about this.
Su Yan frowned as he said, âWhy did you break the status quo that we established? Great Shun isnât his match right now, and he should be focused on developing right now. Youâve only hurt Great Shun by doing this!â
Li Mu felt quite unconvinced and retorted, âGreat Shunâs already the number one faction in Green Apricot, and no one would easily act against me. That mysterious faction is just an outside faction, while Great Shunâs roots are in Green Apricot â I donât think weâll lose!â
When he heard this, Su Yan coldly harrumphed, âThen what if I told you that the mysterious faction was Great Qin? Would you still think that way? Right now, you only have one option, which is to abandon everything and move the Great Shun Town to another region.â
After saying this, Su Yan hung up. To him, this chess piece was useless now.
âGreat Qin!â Li Mu was given a great fright, and he could feel cold sweat gathering on his back. There was now a trace of fear in his heart. But how could this faction be Great Qin? Wasnât Great Qin in East Green? It was so far away, but Su Yan wouldnât lie to him like this.
Suddenly, Li Mu realized that the call had ended, and he quickly called back. However, despite trying a few times, Su Yan didnât pick up. This caused a chill to pass through Li Muâs heart.
Did he really have to give up everything and move Great Shun to another region? That would be tantamount to crippling Great Shun â after all, relocating a Legacy village wasnât like relocating a normal village. Once it was relocated, the Fate it possessed would decrease by two-thirds, and its grade would fall by one grade. In other words, Great Shunâs City Creation Stone would fall from Gold grade to Silver grade.
Whatâs more, would everything that he had worked so hard to establish be just destroyed like this? Li Mu felt very reluctant.
As such, he immediately summoned his subordinates to discuss this matter: Li Guo, Liu Zongmin, the Red Lady, and Niu Jinxing. They were all the famed Generals of Great Shun, and Niu Jinxing was SS grade, while the other three were S grade.
Niu Jinxing thought about it before advising, âYour Majesty, I think itâs best to let go of everything and develop elsewhere.â
Deep down, Li Mu also knew that it would be best to relocate Great Shun, but that would essentially cripple Great Shun. How could they do such a thing? Perhaps Great Qin wasnât that powerful, and whatâs more, Green Apricot was his territory. He wasnât necessarily going to lose!
In the end, after thinking about it, Li Mu decided to stay, and he started to discuss how to deal with Great Qin.
Afterward, Li Mu decided to accept anyone who wanted to join Great Shun without any restrictions. After all, since Great Qinâs Legatee was rich and gave out one gold coin for killing one of his members, he would see just how rich Great Qinâs Legatee was. There were six million players in Green Apricot, and Li Mu didnât believe that Great Qin would have that much money.
Once this news spread, not many people joined, as most people werenât stupid and knew that Great Shun was obviously trying to use them as meat shields.
However, there were some who were quite sly â since players wouldnât die true deaths, they would collude in pairs. One person would join Great Shun and be killed by the other person, and they would split the money. After all, the rewards were simply too enticing.
As such, there were still quite a lot of people who joined Great Shun to farm money, and soon, more than 100,000 people had joined Great Shun.
This delighted Li Mu â before, he only had 80,000 people with 40,000 of them being players and 40,000 of them being indigenous residents. Now, with another 100,000 people, he had 180,000 people â did he still have to fear Great Qin?
Whatâs more, the number was still rising, and after half a day, another 100,000 players joined. It could be seen how greedy and crazy these players were.
Now, Great Shun totaled 280,000. By now, Li Mu felt so confident that he didnât have to fear anyone at all.
Even now, the numbers were still rising!
However, it was obvious that this wouldnât last. Soon, people found that the quest to kill Great Shun members had a new rule: âKilling members who only recently joined wonât count.â
This caused the countless players who wanted to make easy money to feel incredibly disappointed, and they immediately chose to leave the Great Shun faction. Even despite Li Muâs promises to treat them well, they were still unwilling to stay. Without sufficient benefits, no one wanted to risk his or her own life. Just like an ocean tide, the 200,000 players quickly came, but they also quickly left.
Great Shunâs 40,000 players also started to act differently. They werenât as loyal as the indigenous residents, and now that Great Shun was in a precarious position, they could only hide within the Great Shun Town. After all, if they went out, it was likely that they would be killed.
They could endure this for a short while, but this couldnât go on forever. As such, players soon started to leave Great Shun.
Li Mu wanted to kill a few people to scare the others into not leaving, but he realized that this was useless against players because they wouldnât actually die. Rather, this might cause players to retaliate, so he could only watch as the number of Great Shunâs players dwindled.
In a secret room, Zhao Fu looked at the ten or so people in front of him and smiled as he said, âGreat Shun no longer has any future prospects, so Iâm sure that you donât want to die with it, right? Join me! Everything that Great Shun can give you, Iâll give you double.â