Chapter 247 - Incident on the Forum and the Attempt to Welcome Newcomers
Chapter 247: Incident on the Forum and the Attempt to Welcome Newcomers
“I’ve been chosen! Haha! I’ll become a celebrity!”
“Lord, thank you for choosing your believer. I’ll be at your service at the Land of Inheritance.”
“Great! Our country already has two Extraordinary Rank-8 settlements! Jaipen is truly the best in the world!”
“Hehe. You should feel lucky that there are no ‘civil wars’ among Earth humans on the Land of Inheritance, or I’ll teach you what it means to be the best in the world for thousands of years.”
The forum of the Land of Inheritance was particularly lively.
Especially in the World Section, many players who had been selected couldn’t hold back their excitement and made posts on the forum.
Unlike the first batch of players who were frightened and the second batch who were uneasy, the third batch of players were excited and eager.
Apart from the fact that human beings had gradually got used to the Land of Inheritance which had existed for a few months, a more important reason was that the harvest of the players in the first and second batches had been turned into substantial profits on Earth.
For example, on the forum of the Land of Inheritance, the content on pages from different countries had been turned into the language that the reader was familiar with so that they could discuss freely.
It was a “Super Translator” that an Ameagle settlement with a tech background exchanged from the Land of Inheritance. It was much more accurate than Gaagle Translate. As a result, Gaagle Company spent ten billion dollars on the app to acquire it before authorizing the Confederate government to use it for free.
Ten billion dollars overnight. Such a story of becoming a billionaire stirred most players who were qualified to join the third batch and filled them with hope for their trip into the Land of Inheritance.
Those who weren’t chosen could only discuss other things in disappointment, such as the levels of the settlements of various cities and countries on the Land of Inheritance!
“It’s been confirmed. Guan City’s best settlement, where Miss Panda is at, has also stopped at Extraordinary Rank-7!”
“The best of the seed settlements of the entire southwestern province are just Extraordinary Rank-7? Why is it so bad?”
The atmosphere in the sections related to the southwestern province was rather grim.
It was because not one of the settlements that had been publicized and exposed by authorities and players that belonged to the southwestern province was even Extraordinary Rank-8. There were only two that were Extraordinary Rank-7!
It must be noted that as a populous province of Chidragon, the southwestern province had more than ninety million residents.
Considering the ratio, even if it was so unlucky that it didn’t get any Extraordinary Rank-8 settlements, there should’ve been more than fifteen Extraordinary Rank-7 settlements!
“Hehe, you ask for the reason?”
“Just go to the forum of Yang City and read the most heated thread.”
At this moment, certain grumbling replies attracted the disappointed residents of this province to the forum.
“A Furious Indictment of the Twin Dragon Mount Fort’s Atrocities on the Battlefield of Providence. @Authorities, are you really not going to do anything?”
On the forum of Yang City, a thread, which was displayed as heated and had ten times more views and replies than the most heated thread earlier, was stuck to the top of the homepage.
“I’m a player that entered the Land of Inheritance in the second batch. My settlement defeated nine alien tribes and won the qualification to enter the Battlefield of Providence in the City of Humans…
“However, taking advantage of their early access, the Twin Dragon Mount fort controlled all the hero projections, monopolized the resources that were supposed to be given to all the settlements from the southwestern province, and even looted our settlement’s central equipment. As a result, the other settlements couldn’t make use of the power of the natives on the Battlefield of Providence at all…
“The settlements of the southwestern province are lower in level exactly because of what the Twin Dragon Mount fort did… The Twin Dragon Mount fort shamelessly fed on other settlements.
“@Yang City Authorities, if you don’t punish them for what they did, the Twin Dragon Mount fort will definitely attack other human settlements for resources on the Land of Inheritance someday. By then, Earth and humankind will be doomed…”
In the base of Yang City players, Ji Ye, sitting before a computer, clicked the thread’s poster whose ID was “Lich King’s Legacy” and read the titles of the threads he posted before.
Those threads included “How I Got Picked as a Player”, “My ‘Lich King’ Legacy!”, “A Powerful Special Weapon: Viral Staff”, “If I Have Five Million Followers, I’ll Give Away an Item From the Land of Inheritance To You At Random…”
Obviously, the post was made by the short black-robed player who provoked Ji Ye at the Hundred Flowers Valley only to be robbed of his Viral Staff back on the Battlefield of Providence!
Also, he was one of the players who sought fame!
However, his little giveaway was quite attractive, and he did get a million followers.
Probably in order to win the prize, many people replied to his threat and criticized the Twin Dragon Mount fort’s heinous behavior.
“I’m a player from the second batch. Just because I expressed my doubts about the fairness of the management of the Twin Dragon Mount fort, they forced us to charge before the NPCs as cannon fodder in a battle against aliens, even though there were ten times more NPCs than players. I died twice within a week. F*ck! New players aren’t even as valuable as NPCs in the Twin Dragon Mount fort!
“Not just that. I only killed a caged wolf by accident, and I was publicly punished. It turned out that even the monsters in the Twin Dragon Mount fort are more valuable than the new players. Those who look forward to arriving at the Twin Dragon Mount fort, I hope that you will be corralled, because your life will be better that way!”
On the other hand, in this highly-heated thread, Ji Ye read the replies from other second-batch players and found them rather familiar.
“No way?!”
“Seriously? I didn’t expect the Twin Dragon Mount fort to be like this. I wanted to meet the heroes from Water Margin such as Wu Song and Lin Chong…”
“Don’t listen to his nonsense. My brother is in the Twin Dragon Mount fort. The truth is not what they said at all…”
While those players were trolling, all the threads were filled with criticisms against the Twin Dragon Mount fort.
Even though some players from Yang City were trying to refute, they could barely hold back the barrage.
It was because many of the replies were players who had a lot of fans.
Also, the “truth on the Battlefield of Providence” that the threat posted raised the dissatisfaction of the players from other cities of the southwestern province.
“We demand the Confederation Office investigate the truth!”
“Such behavior should be severely punished!”
“I’m a little bit scared. What if I end up as cannon fodder too after arriving at a settlement on the Land of Inheritance?”
Some of the players who had been picked in the third batch also replied to the thread, adding to its heat.
Of course, were the people, who were typing on their keyboards, accusing the Twin Dragon Mount fort of its atrocities, really standing up for the players who suffered injustices?
The answer was certainly no.
They were only afraid that they would be suppressed by the old players upon entering the Land of Inheritance.
It never occurred to them how the first batch of players passed the trial by risking their lives, and how the second batch of players worked hard to let their settlements win the Ten-Species Competition.
They were simply concerned that they wouldn’t get the resources and position of the Chosen Ones after they arrived.
The resources and power in most settlements had clearly been controlled by the first and second batches of players, and the new players could only count on the public opinion as well as the influence of the authorities on Earth!
Of course, not all the new players were against the Twin Dragon Mount fort.
“I don’t know the details of the Twin Dragon Mount fort, and it’s not my place to comment on it.
“However, in my opinion, there is something wrong with the argument of this thread.
“According to the authorities’ statistics on the settlement levels, the settlements that have participated in the Battlefield of Providence have roughly received an equal amount of power of providence.
“Since the other settlements received little power of providence, which made you blame the Twin Dragon Mount fort for ‘stealing’ your power of providence, do you not wonder what level the Twin Dragon Mount fort is at right now?”
At this moment, a reply from a player in the third batch easily stunned the readers of the post.
“Right, what level is the Twin Dragon Mount at right now?”
“I remember that the information that popped up earlier in my head stated that the highest level of settlements was not Extraordinary Rank-8 but Extraordinary Rank-9. God, is it possible…”
“I don’t think so. The Twin Dragon Mount fort is merely a historical novel settlement; it can’t have many advantages in the battles in the current phase. Someone said that the Extraordinary Rank-9 settlement is one from Ameagle because their settlements are mostly tech ones, which gave them an edge at the early battles.”
“That can’t be right. If they have many tech settlements, those settlements won’t have many advantages against each other in battles.”
“Shoot. Is it true that the only Rank-9 settlement in the world is in Yang City?”
As if someone threw a piece of ice into a pot of boiling water, it simply seethed after a brief pause.
Then, the discussion in the thread became “whether or not the Twin Dragon Mount fort was the only Extraordinary Rank-9 settlement”.
Even though “Lich King’s Legacy” and his fans tried to bring the topic back, it was impossible for him to do so.
That was because the news that the Twin Dragon Mount fort was likely the only Extraordinary Rank-9 settlement was so shocking that it deserved the attention of the world!
“There’s something that I’d like to say in the end.
“The Twin Dragon Mount fort is a settlement from Yang City and the southwestern province, but it’s also a settlement from Chidragon and Earth.
“Judging from the current trend, the people who belong to the same civilization will likely be concentrated on a few settlements on the Land of Inheritance. The Twin Dragon Mount fort will have more advantages in the next round of competition if it’s powerful, which is beneficial for mankind!”
What the man, whose ID was Fishing At Sunset and who was officially recognized as an old professor from the southwestern province, said made the angry players think for a while. They then quickly pinned the news that the Twin Dragon Mount fort was likely the only Extraordinary Rank-9 settlement to the top of the forum of Chidragon as a response to the mockeries from other provinces!
It was true that the people of this country often fought each other, but they would stand united when faced with external enemies.
“You do have a point, mister. I hope that we can cooperate in the future…” Ji Ye, who observed the whole folly, replied to the old professor.
Firstly, it was because he remembered that this old professor was the person who pointed out why it was fair that the beta testers had higher-quality talents.
Secondly, it was because he wanted to do an experiment.
Of the second batch of players who arrived at the Twin Dragon Mount fort, about half were connected to him one way or another.
So, was there a similar hidden mechanism behind the distribution of the third batch?
If there was, by voluntarily getting in touch with the people who had been picked in the third batch and who had great potential, would he increase their odds of being allocated to the Twin Dragon Mount fort?
Ji Ye wasn’t worried that getting in touch with him via the forum was ineffective.
It was because An Quan, who had just received a talent skill, was never involved with him until he posted the CG of Crossgod versus Black Serpent on the forum!
That was why Ji Ye logged off after the meeting and replied to someone on the forum for the first time ever.