With the Cheng Family's cooperation and support, the White City Alliance's reputation quickly grew.
Even the surrounding city alliances, which were stronger than the White City Alliance's, paled in comparison to them.
Of course, seeing the cities of the White City Alliance becoming more and more prosperous, the alliance leaders were naturally envious.
Moreover, the White City Alliance had hitched a ride on the Cheng Family's fast ship and was now rising so strongly that it even affected the interests of their cities. This made the alliance leaders very dissatisfied.
It was not impossible for the White City Alliance to rise, but it was intolerable if it had to be built on their losses.
Hence, the leaders of the city alliances who were affected by the White City Alliance's rise began to take their own measures.
They knew how powerful the Cheng Family was and the fact that the White City Alliance was able to cooperate with the Cheng Family meant that they had a close relationship with the Cheng Family.
Hence, they did not dare to attack the White City Alliance or the Cheng Family directly. However, this did not mean that they were out of options.
Half a year after the White City Alliance's prosperity, the city alliances tacitly sealed off all the passages leading to the White City Alliance.
In other words, it was impossible for anyone to enter the White City Alliance through their territories.
This incident was definitely a heavy blow to the White City Alliance.
Although the city alliances could not seal off all the passages leading to the White City Alliance, the actions of the city alliances still dealt a heavy blow to the White City Alliance.
The city alliances' influence was larger and broader than the White City Alliance's, so they definitely controlled more passages. Now that they had agreed to seal off these passages, although there were still passages leading to the White City Alliance, there were not many.
Now that they had agreed to seal off these passages, although there were still passages leading to the White City Alliance, there were not many left.
City Lord Bai was worried sick about this situation.
The fact that these fellows had joined forces to deal with the White City Alliance caused him to suffer huge losses. In just a month, the White City Alliance's population had dropped by 50%.
Since the alliance forces did not want their forces to lose population, they only restricted people from heading in the direction of the White City Alliance. However, people from the direction of the White City Alliance could still enter their forces.
After all, they were here to give them money, so how could they refuse?
What's more, many of these people had accepted a mission. If these people accepted the mission but couldn't get out, when they returned to the Cheng family and reported them, wouldn't they directly offend the Cheng family?
This was clearly not their original intention. They also did not want to offend such a powerful family like the Cheng family.
Therefore, the direction of the White City Alliance only allowed entry, not exit.
As a result, City Lord Bai could only watch helplessly as the people who were originally in the White City Alliance left one by one after they accepted the mission. However, the number of people returning to the White City Alliance was decreasing day by day.
To City Lord Bai, this pain was like a knife stabbing into his heart, causing his heart to bleed.
He had already promised the Cheng Clan that he would give them 1.3 billion Spirit Stones for this collaboration.
Now that the alliance had scammed him like this, he might not even be able to take out the 1.3 billion, let alone benefit from it.
"City Lord, those fellows are too hateful. Seeing our White City Alliance prosper and prosper, they can't take it anymore.
Now that they have sealed off all the passageways leading to our White City Alliance, many people have to take a detour to get here. This is a huge loss to the cities of the White City Alliance. We have to think of a solution! " The group of Deputy City Lords naturally didn't feel good when they saw the originally bustling city suddenly become deserted.
He hated the actions of the Alliance to the extreme.
However, they were too powerful and the alliances had banded together to deal with the White City Alliance, so they did not dare to go against them.
However, if they could not come up with a good solution, the crisis that the White City Alliance would face would be even worse than before they had cooperated with the Cheng Clan.
After all, even though the White City Alliance had begun to decline at that time, it had not reached the point of despair yet.
However, now that these forces had sealed off all the passageways leading to their territories, it was extremely inconvenient for outsiders to enter the White City Alliance. As such, most people naturally gave up on coming to the White City Alliance.
People were leaving every day, but not many people were coming back. How long could the White City Alliance last in this situation where only people were leaving and no one was entering?
In another month or two, all the cities of the White City Alliance would be empty.
Once there were no people in these cities, not to mention how great the loss would be, it was even possible for their cities to directly collapse and become empty cities.
"We can only look for City Lord Zhou now! If he is willing to help, this matter should be easily resolved! "City Lord Bai said solemnly.
These days were definitely terrible for him.
He was as anxious as ants on a hot pan as he read the news from the various cities every day.
He had been thinking of countermeasures during this period, but it was definitely impossible to go against these alliances head-on.
Even though the White City Alliance had become prosperous, it was only in terms of economy. In terms of strength, they were still far inferior to these alliances, let alone when these alliances joined forces.
Therefore, it was impossible to look for these alliances to solve the problem.
Even if they were willing, he would probably have to pay a hefty price, and they might even demand an exorbitant price from the White City Alliance.
This was because they had sent him a letter before, believing that the prosperity of the White City Alliance was due to the people within their sphere of influence being lured away.
Therefore, they wanted some compensation from the White City Alliance.
However, he had rejected these greedy people at that time, because the situation they were facing now was basically the same as the situation the White City Alliance had faced due to the rise of the Cheng Family.
He had never thought of seeking compensation from the Cheng Family back then, so he had only thought of cooperating with them.
Of course, he knew very well in his heart. Even if he wanted compensation from the Cheng Family, they would not give it to him. Therefore, he was not stupid enough to ask for compensation from them.
However, things were different now. The White City Alliance was not as powerful as the Cheng Family, so these alliances wanted to join forces and ask for compensation from the White City Alliance.
However, he did not expect that after he had rejected them, they would go so far as to seal off all the passages leading to the White City Alliance, making it impossible for anyone from the outside to enter the White City Alliance.
It had to be said that they had the White City Alliance's lifeline in their hands.
Without the Cheng Family's strength, he would not be able to resist at all. If he were to compromise with these alliances now, the price they were asking for would definitely not be the same as before.
Needless to say, no matter how much they were asking for, he would not be able to pay them.
This was because if he did so, the White City Alliance would basically not have any profits to speak of.
The only solution now was to look for the Cheng Family and not compromise with these alliances. Otherwise, they would be nurturing a tiger that would only invite trouble in the future.
After all, they were currently in a cooperative relationship with the Cheng Family. If they did not help, he would definitely not be able to fork out 1.3 billion.
Presumably, the Cheng family would step forward to help him out on account of this 1.3 billion, right?
"How will we know if we don't try? No matter what, we are still in a cooperative relationship! "City Lord Bai said to the deputy city lords.
"City Lord, do you want us to go with you? Perhaps it will be easier to convince the Cheng Family to help us! "one of the deputy city lords suggested.
"There's no need for that. The situation in each city is not good, especially the merchants in each city. Many of them are even trying to escape from the White City Alliance.
This is the time when we need you to maintain the stability of each city.
Furthermore, the other alliances may have other plans to deal with the White City Alliance. Therefore, you must not leave the White City Alliance at this time. "City Lord Bai shook his head and explained.
"Alright then, I only hope that the City Lord can bring us good news!" The deputy city lords thought about it and felt that the City Lord's words made sense.
At this time, many of the merchants in the cities were extremely anxious. Without manpower, there would be no business, and without business, there would be no profits. Of course, they would not be willing to stay any longer.
If they were to really let these merchants escape, it would be difficult to find them again. Even if they were to return, it would be difficult to find so many merchants at once. That would still be a great loss.
"Remember, before I return, no matter what the situation is like in each city, all of you must hold your ground. Nothing must go wrong, understand?" City Lord Bai said to all the Deputy City Lords with a serious look on his face.
"Don't worry, City Lord, we will take care of everything. We won't let the White City Alliance descend into chaos!" The deputy city lords vowed.
"Alright, I'll leave the White City Alliance to you for the time being. I'll bring the Cheng Family back as soon as possible!" Governor Bai left a few more instructions before leaving White City with a few of his followers in the direction of the Cheng Family.
In fact, it had been more than a month since the other alliances had sealed off the White City Alliance's passageway.
After such a long time, news of this had spread to many places, including the Cheng Family.
However, it was clear that the Cheng Family had no intention of interfering. After all, those who had accepted the mission from the Cheng Family were able to leave without any trouble.
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