Ye Ci went offline. It was still early, and there was still some time before dinner. She took advantage of the fact that Bai Mo was still online to take a shower. When she was done, Bai Mo was already sitting in the living room, waiting for her. Ye Nantian and Zuo Xiaolan were still online. They were probably still figuring out how to make a profit.
Ye Ci sat on the sofa next to Bai Mo while drying her hair. She looked at Bai Mo's face. His face was very calm, so calm that no one could predict what he was thinking. Ye Ci didn't say anything, and Bai Mo didn't say anything either. The two of them just sat there quietly. Only the boring program on the TV made noise and added an inexplicable contrast to the silence.
"Is the result what we expected?" After a long time, Bai Mo asked as if there was no one else around.
"Yes, and …" Ye Ci paused and didn't continue.
"The Setting Sun is also wrapped in it." Bai Mo smiled. In fact, he had already expected this. How could a little girl who had lost her power and wealth have such great ability to hire thugs to beat people up and still manage the relationships so well that even a person like Bai Zixuan could not find out.
"You already knew." Ye Ci didn't find Bai Mo's foresight strange at all. Bai Mo's father was an official in a nearby city. His position wasn't low. Since Bai Mo was young, Bai Mo's career had been smooth. It could be said that Bai Mo had climbed through the ranks of officials since he was young.
Bai Mo had Bai Mo's past, which Ye Ci didn't know. And Ye Ci also had Ye Ci's past, which Bai Mo didn't know. When they were together, they were just brother and sister. But when they turned their backs on each other, who was the ghost and who was the demon, only they themselves knew best.
Ye Ci sometimes thought that a child from a family like Bai Mo's was definitely not a child from a small family who had not seen the world. Ye Ci couldn't guess what Bai Mo was like on the other side, and she didn't want to guess.
She only needed to know that Bai Mo treated her very well.
"Green Hill's Moon told me a very boring story. Do you want to hear it?" Ye Ci used her fingers as a comb and gently shaved her hair. There was a cold smile on her lips. "The result is very old-fashioned, and the process is very melodramatic."
"Let's hear it. I happen to be bored." Bai Mo took out a pack of cigarettes from somewhere and skillfully lit one. After being here with Ye Ci for so long, Ye Ci had almost never seen Bai Mo smoke. But now, looking at his skillful lighting and holding of cigarettes, she knew that Bai Mo had probably been smoking for a long time.
She curled her lips and repeated the boring story that Green Hill's Moon told her to Bai Mo. Bai Mo didn't say anything from the beginning to the end. He just maintained a very attentive attitude. When Ye Ci finally finished the story, he laughed. "No wonder you said it was boring. This story is indeed very boring." Then he curled the corners of his lips. "I was wondering why my dad couldn't do anything about it. It turns out that a county official is better than a local official."
"What do you plan to do?" Ye Ci suddenly asked.
"You don't have to worry about that." Bai Mo shook his head. There were some things that he didn't want Ye Ci to know.
Ye Ci saw that Bai Mo insisted on not telling her, so she didn't ask anymore. She only told Bai Mo what Green Hill's Moon had told her. "The Setting Sun's family business is very big. It's not as simple as just being rich. With our current ability, we might not be able to deal with him. Dong Yin's family should be making a comeback now. We have to think twice before we do anything …"
Bai Mo waved his hand, indicating that Ye Ci should stop talking. It seemed that he didn't want to continue this topic. Thus, Ye Ci stopped talking and didn't continue.
"Clear Moon managed to get his hands on a good recipe for enchantment, but the ingredients are hard to come by." Bai Mo changed the topic.
"What kind of enchantment recipe?" Clear Moon was the guild's only Advanced Master Blacksmith. There were tens of thousands of enchantment recipes for weapons and armors forged by him. Every Moonlight item was made by him and could be sold in the Exchange Hall for a large sum of money. It was one of the main sources of income for Up Everyday.
"It's a weapon armor plate that adds 38 Strength and 50 Accuracy. Other than that, it also has a mysterious property. However, the recipe is kept in suspense." Bai Mo's expression became much better when he talked about the game. However, after he reported the properties of the armor plate, he let out a long sigh. "However, there's a material that we're lacking right now. Even for Up Everyday, there are only two pieces in the entire guild."
Ye Ci raised her eyebrows. She knew what Bai Mo was talking about. Although she did not pay much attention to the items stored in the guild storage, Ye Ci knew what it was when Bai Mo mentioned the rarity of the item. Although Bai Mo only knew that it was difficult to obtain, he did not know how important this item would be in the future development of the game.
"You're talking about Mithril, right?" Ye Ci smiled.
"Heh, I didn't underestimate you when I said that you're a god. You know everything in the game as long as I mention it." Bai Mo wanted to keep Ye Ci in suspense. However, he did not expect Ye Ci to say the name of the item directly. This surprised Bai Mo.
Ye Ci could only smile bitterly. She was not a know-it-all. If Bai Mo was also reborn, he would not be unfamiliar with this item. One had to know that Golden Age had almost been destroyed by fate back then because of this thing.
Mithril was an extremely precious metal in Western mythology. Not only was it light, but it was also very durable. More importantly, Mithril had a very mysterious property. It could greatly increase one's own attributes. In other words, Mithril did not have any special effects. However, it was like a magnifying glass. If it was used to create equipment with Fire attribute, then the damage of the equipment would be greatly increased. If it was used to create equipment with Holy Light attribute, then the damage of the equipment would be greatly increased.
More importantly, after the release of the new expansion pack "A New Continent", the use of Mithril would be infinitely magnified.
At that time, all players would discover that all equipment dropped from Level 70 and above dungeons would require a close-fitting Mithril Shirt to equip. As more and more players reached Level 70, the number of players challenging Dungeons would also increase. As a result, the demand for Mithril would also increase.
After all, if a player could not equip the equipment dropped from level 70 dungeons, then even if they reached level 80, they would not be able to enter level 80 dungeons to adventure. This way, Mithril's use would be infinitely magnified.
It was precisely because of this limitless magnification that Fate almost collapsed. Of course, Ye Ci thought that the reason why Golden Age wanted to expand Mithril was because they wanted to have a group of top players. However, they did not expect Golden Age to take advantage of this and farm Mithril without restraint. In the end, it almost caused the game to collapse.
Even though Mithril was very useful ….. it was not trash that could be found on the streets. It was a rare material. Thus, until now, Mithril was only dropped by Bosses in dungeons. Apart from that, no one knew of any other way to obtain this precious material.
Of course, in the current game, there were very few players. In other words, only the major guilds with high level Life Skill players knew of the rarity and value of Mithril. For the majority of ordinary players, let alone understand, they had never even heard of it.
However, was this really the only way to obtain Mithril?
Of course not. If Mithril could only be obtained from boss drops, then Golden Era would not have been able to use it to do so many amazing things. Mithril, as a mysterious and precious mineral, had always been hidden from everyone's eyes.
However, as long as it was a mineral, no matter how precious it was, there would always be a mine that could be excavated.
Mithril was no exception.
This was how it was designed in the game. In the entire Fate continent, there were only four Mithril mines. They were located in the North, South, East and West Continents. This had never been changed. Even after ten years, when a new continent was opened up and a new domain was opened up, this point did not change at all. Back then, the game developers had designed the Mithril ore veins in such a way so that the four main continents wouldn't be devoid of players due to the release of the expansion pack. That was why the four Mithril ore veins were placed in the four main continents.
However, no one would have thought that after Golden Age entered the game, they would use some unknown method to find out the exact location of the four Mithril mines. They would then send out a large number of troops to guard the mines and control the trading of Mithril in the entire game.
With this control, the price of Mithril was completely controlled by Golden Age. The price of Mithril was extremely high, to the point that it made people's hair stand on end. Players from large guilds could spend their days in dungeons, and they would more or less be able to obtain Mithril. But what about individual players? In order to continue playing the game, they would have to work hard to earn enough Mithril for themselves to continue playing the game.
Individual players outnumbered guild players, and the price of Mithril in Golden Age was constantly changing. In order to earn more money, individual players had no choice but to switch to Life Professions. Once the number of Life Professions increased, the economic structure of the market changed. As the price of items became cheaper and cheaper, the in-game currency became less and less available. Players had no choice but to invest a large amount of real-life currency into the game, and the influx of real-life currency into the game led to even more real-life currency being invested into the game …
It was a terrifying chain, and the source was in the hands of Golden Age. Golden Age, who had always relied on numbers and massacres to bring the game to its knees, did not kill anyone in Fate, nor did they use the human wave tactic. Instead, they used an economic restriction that was even more terrifying than the human wave tactic, and almost brought the entire Fate to its knees.
When the situation was almost unsalvageable, Wang Jiangnan stepped forward bravely and made a military order. With his own strength, he finally withstood all the pressure in the sea of rage. This was a story that was widely circulated in Glory Corporation in her previous life. Ye Ci had also heard about it from the people in Glory Corporation.
Although the story was interesting, those who had not experienced it would never know how the dark storm began, how it spread, and how it ended. For those who had heard the story, it was just a story. However, for those who had experienced it, it was a frightening experience that made them tremble in fear when they recalled it.
Ye Ci took in a deep breath. She did not even want to think about the storm.
In the midst of the economic collapse, human nature seemed to have been taken into consideration.
There were times when Ye Ci would think that it was because of that storm that the players were no longer able to tell the difference between reality and the game. In his previous life, wasn't he also one of those people who was at a loss?
"What's the drop rate of this item?" Ye Ci asked Bai Mo after recollecting her thoughts.
"Don't even mention it. The drop rate of this item is ridiculous. When the first piece of Mithril was first dropped, I found out that it was a Purple item. But there were no instructions on how to use it, so I had no choice but to keep it in the guild storage. I forgot about it until Clear Moon excitedly came to me with the recipe and asked me for the mithril. Only then did I realize how useful it was! That's why I've been collecting Mithril. But the drop rate is just too low. We've been clearing dungeons for half a year, and the most we've gotten is 5 pieces. I've already given 3 pieces to Clear Moon, and the remaining 2 pieces are just decorations in the guild storage. "Bai Mo sighed as he shook his head.
Ye Ci laughed. She did not tell Bai Mo that it was impossible to earn Mithril by clearing low-level dungeons. She also did not tell Bai Mo that she knew the exact location of the Mithril ore vein in the Eastern Continent. Not only did she know the location of the Mithril ore vein in the Eastern Continent, she also knew the locations of the ore veins in the other four continents.
It was best to pretend that she had discovered it by chance. But time was of the essence. Golden Era was getting closer and closer to entering Fate. If she waited until they entered Fate, it would be too late.
"Don't worry. These things will happen naturally in the future. If the game developers were able to design something like this, they wouldn't let it happen without a reason. There's no need to rush. Besides, even though the Mithril Plate is precious, it's a waste to use it on our lvl30 to lvl40 weapons. Isn't it better for everyone to level up to lvl60 and use the Mithril Plate when it drops? "Ye Ci explained to Bai Mo. After all, this was not something that could be rushed.
Bai Mo took in a deep breath and nodded.
Bai Mo was very calm after learning that Dong Yin and The Setting Sun had teamed up to deal with Ye Ci. It was as if nothing had happened. Since Ye Ci had promised not to interfere with Ye Ci's plans to deal with Dong Yin and The Setting Sun, she naturally would not interfere. She was only thinking about how to use someone else's hands to get rid of these disgusting people and things. For example, stealing from storage units. Even though it was very satisfying at the time, it would leave her with too much trouble. Moreover, it would not be able to hurt the other party. More importantly, these little tricks would definitely attract the other party's attention. Then, they would be more cautious when dealing with the other party.
This time, Ye Ci would either not do it or not. Once she decided to do it, she would eliminate the source of the problem.
And before that, there was only one thing that she needed to do. She had to keep a low profile, conserve her energy, and wait for the opportunity to come.
Golden Era was coming. But before Golden Era arrived, every player and every guild would still live their normal lives. No one would be unable to eat or sleep because of this news. Everyone's life continued Up Everyday, and so did Ye Ci.
However, it was worth mentioning that during this period, the officials organized a player photography competition. There were two categories. One was for videos, and the other was for photos. The majority of players could actively contribute to the competition. For example, in the video category, there were three categories: Story, Competition, and Publicity. In the photos category, there were three categories: Scenery, People, Team, and Miscellaneous. This event was only a test for the officials. They didn't give the players much time to prepare. However, even the officials didn't expect so many players to participate. The enthusiasm of the players was so high. This also inspired the officials to organize a similar event the next year. Of course, this was all in the future.
The most important thing was that in this year's event, there were several categories of works that were too much for the eyes to take in.
According to statistics, there were hundreds of thousands of works in the video category, and millions of works in the photos category. The officials even organized a large panel of judges to look at these works every day. It took them a full two weeks to make a final decision.
The most popular category in the video category was, of course, the Story category. Men and women, old and young, naturally paid special attention to the sentimental, comedic, and tragic stories. However, the Competition category was no exception. Most of the videos in the Competition category were recordings of the battles between experts. Although they did not receive as much attention as the Story category, they were still very popular. After all, experts were rare, and videos of experts fighting were even rarer. As for the Publicity category, it was not as popular compared to the other two categories.
The most popular category in the photos category was the People and Team category. Most of the photos in this category were made by the large and small guilds to promote their own guilds. It was especially eye-catching. The second category was the Scenery category. There were too many players in Fate. Their goal was not to level up, but to explore the mountains and rivers of Fate. Fate's designers were indeed very good. Even in a bleak graveyard filled with bones, there would still be beautiful scenery that would move one's soul.
As the saying goes, the world never lacked beauty, but it lacked the eyes to discover it.
And these players acted as the eyes that discovered the beauty. Their footprints could be found all over Fate. It did not matter if the map was extremely dangerous, or if the map was barren. They took countless beautiful pictures with their eyes that found beauty. Every player, even the game's designers, could not help but gasp in amazement. Wow, this map actually had such beautiful scenery.
It was precisely because of this that most of the comments after the photos were left by the players asking for the coordinates of the map. It seemed that many players could no longer resist the urge to leave behind their best memories in the map.
Logically speaking, the photos category was not as popular as the videos category. In the Photos category, the other miscellaneous categories were not as popular as the People and Scenery categories. However, there was something strange about this year. The other miscellaneous categories received a lot of attention from the players, and it even affected the Videos category.
The reason for this was actually related to Ye Ci. When she met Fleeting Time that day, there was a girl in the party who was good at discovering gossip. That girl was Glistening Moonlight.
Glistening Moonlight had recorded everything that happened between Ye Ci and Fleeting Time, and took many photos as well.
One of the photos that attracted the attention of the players was a series of photos taken at the end of the duel between Fleeting Time and Ye Ci. It was a clear record of how Fleeting Time missed his attack on Gongzi You, and how he was kicked to the ground, along with Gongzi You. If the photos up to this point were the only ones that recorded the duel, then the rest of the photos were enough to make the players speculate.
The rest of the photos were taken in a series of dozens of photos, but the scenes and angles were all the same. The only difference was the time recorded by the system, and the words written by Glistening Moonlight at the bottom of the photos.
The scene went like this: Fleeting Time was lying on the ground with Gongzi You by his ankle, and Gongzi You was lying on the ground as well. Yellow sand billowed around the two, and it was a desolate scene.
The words written by Glistening Moonlight at the bottom of the photos were as follows: The first photo: "Gongzi You and Fleeting Time have been lying on the ground for 5 seconds, but they did not move at all. According to my party, Gongzi You is still alive …"
For the next dozen or so photos, the captions were basically the same. The only thing that changed was the time. Especially in the last few photos, the photographer Glowing Moonlight's uncontrollable desire for gossip had already been vented out. She wrote, "What are they doing lying there? What are they talking about? I want to know! Do you guys want to know? "
"Oh my God! They didn't even push them down! Why are they still lying on the ground? Could it be that the two great gods were looking at the stars and the moon, talking about romance and poetry, and then from trivial matters to life's ideals? I'm going crazy! I want to know! "
"How long are you guys going to lie there for? If you guys must lie there, can't you guys do something more dramatic? Don't just lie there like corpses! Can't you guys hear the voices of the audience? We want more scenes! We want more scenes! "
… …
After these few photos, the next one was a photo of the two of them after they stood up. The battle had already ended, and the two were about to bid farewell to each other. The photo was accompanied by a caption, "Do you think this is the end? Have you thought of a post? You're not a qualified gossip player! Remember, the highlight will always be at the end! "
And it was because of this caption that many players who were about to leave the thread remained until the very end.
The last photo was of Fleeting Time talking to Ye Ci. But due to Glistening Moonlight's position and angle, it was easy to misunderstand. And there were only a few words at the bottom of the photo, "You can only understand, but not explain."
That was the end of the photo, but Glistening Moonlight added a caption that she had taken the photo by coincidence. If the players wanted to see the update, they could find the video she had uploaded at the same time.
It was originally a boring piece of gossip shared by a gossipy girl who could not hold back her excitement. But in a screen full of fictional stories, the real events brought about by such a real character were like a huge bomb exploding among the players. The ripples it caused could only be described as stormy waves.
In just a single night, dozens of pages of replies had been added to the post, and the replies were stacked on top of each other.
And there was no lack of explosive news in the replies.
"Raise your hand weakly. Are they kissing in the last photo?"
"Spoiler above!"
"Highlight."
… …
"What a godly caption from the girl who took the photo!"
"Adultery is indeed everywhere!"
"Even the people of the Eastern and Western Continents can be together. Even Fleeting Time and Gongzi You can do the same. I believe in love again."
… …
"I don't believe it! Fleeting Time is the best player in the Western Continent. How can someone like him be interested in Gongzi You? Gongzi You's back is flat! Fleeting Time is not gay! Gongzi You is not Gongzi You! "
"That's right! We don't believe this photo! The last photo only shows Gongzi You's back. It looks like there's something between them from our perspective, but there's nothing between them! Don't you dare blaspheme our Great Fleeting Time! "
… …
"What's wrong with Gongzi You? He's skinny! What part of him is not good enough for that silver-haired bastard! Do you think that the Western Continent is that strong? Let me tell you! Even if someone like Fleeting Time was given to us, Lady Gongzi You would not want him! "
"Support! Our Gongzi You would never want Fleeting Time! Think about it! If they were to form a party, their equipment would clash! I support Gongzi You! I look down on that silver-haired bastard from the Western Continent! He's trying to take advantage of the Eastern Continent! "
… …
Any post, as long as it was too popular, would eventually turn into a huge fight. This post was no exception. It started off as a source of gossip, but it quickly escalated into a fight between the players from the Eastern and Southern Continents, with the players from the Northern and Southern Continents adding fuel to the fire.
By the time Ye Ci found out about the matter, it was already too late. The players from the Eastern and Southern Continents had been fighting for three days by then. Ye Ci felt that the world had gone dark after reading the post. She did not respond to the requests of the gossipy players to clarify the matter, and neither did Fleeting Time.
In the face of the huge enthusiasm of the players in the game, the two people in the center of the vortex were surprisingly calm, as if they were dead. However, the more silent it was, the more uncomfortable it was for the players, as if a cat was scratching their hearts.
Ye Ci knew that the players would get tired of the matter sooner or later if the silence continued. That was why she decided to ignore them. Ye Ci knew that she was innocent. She was herself, and there was no need for her to live under the tongues of other players. Besides, she had more important things to do.
But Ye Ci did not expect Fleeting Time to appear at the end of the farce.
He posted three replies in a row on the post in that tall building.
The first one was: Ah, the quality of the OP's gaming cabin is not very good. The photos are obviously blurry. It's not professional ~
The second one was: Why are you guys so curious about what I discussed with Little Gongzi? Actually, it was just an unremarkable little agreement.
The third one was: Also, did you ask for the opinion of the person in question when you posted the photos and videos? If Little Gongzi agrees, I will raise both hands in approval. If Little Gongzi disagrees, you better not let me see you, or else …
It was these two replies that caused the gossip photo incident, which had already come to an end, to rise to a new climax. Moreover, the climax this time was even more intense than the previous one. It was so intense that Ye Ci had no choice but to request for the post to be deleted.
The reason was that these photos and videos were taken without his consent at all, so he requested to delete them. In fact, the post could have been deleted, but it was obvious that the officials were deeply interested in this gossip.
When Ye Ci requested for the photos to be deleted, the customer service lady who answered the phone asked in a whisper, "Gongzi You, did you really kiss Fleeting Time? In the game? "
Ye Ci almost screamed at the top of her voice, "No! What's your employee number? I want to file a complaint! "
Ye Ci was so shocked that she immediately called for her customer service manager to deal with the matter. It was apparent that the customer service manager was much more experienced than Ye Ci in dealing with such matters. He told Ye Ci that since there were two people involved in the photos, the post would be deleted immediately if Fleeting Time agreed. If Fleeting Time disagreed, the post would be deleted. If Fleeting Time disagreed, the post would be dealt with after a discussion between the two of them.
Ye Ci almost cursed out loud when she heard the answer. Where am I supposed to find Fleeting Time? Isn't this a blatant scam?
In the end, Ye Ci did not get her wish, and the post went down in history as the most trending topic of the year in the Fate forums. The incident came to an end when the photography competition came to an end. Gongzi You was the biggest winner of the competition.
She had single-handedly won the first place in the photo category, and received a generous amount of prize money. The video was originally a hot topic in the competitive category, but it was not included in the list of winners as it overlapped with the photo. However, Gongzi You was awarded a special prize for the post, the "Gossip of the Year Award".
Fleeting Time was the winner of the Glistening Moonlight Award, but he was also awarded with the "Best Instigator" award for this incident …
Ye Ci was also awarded the "Most Silent Protagonist Award".
Despite the generous prize money that was awarded to her by the officials, Ye Ci was still in a dilemma. This was probably the first time in her life that she felt that money was a hot potato. Especially when she saw the amount of money in her mailbox, she really felt like everything was going to be a tragedy.
She clearly didn't do anything, so why did it seem like she had done something extremely heinous, causing people to avoid her like the plague?
Jelly had a very insightful opinion on the matter, "Why do you care so much about it? As long as you get the money, nothing else matters. Don't worry about it. "
Alright, everything else was bullsh * t.
That was why even though Ye Ci was extremely frustrated by the incident, it was nothing more than a fart in the end. It could be considered as a small interlude in her stressful gaming life. Ye Ci had always been a person who would not be affected by her surroundings. Even though the incident had caused a huge uproar, it did not affect Ye Ci's quest for the Undead Medallion, nor her quest for the Mithril ore vein.
Just as the gossip was spreading like wildfire, Ye Ci had already obtained a full set of Bai Mo's equipment. Bai Mo's eyes widened when he saw the set. However, Bai Mo was only lvl44 at the moment. He still had a long way to go before he could equip the set.
Ye Ci did not slow down in her search for the Mithril ore vein either. However, in her past life, she only knew the exact location of the Mithril ore vein. She did not know how to enter it. In her past life, Golden Age had never revealed the secret of how to excavate the Mithril ore vein. Even though Ye Ci was standing outside the vein, she still could not find a way to enter it.
Ye Ci sat on a dead tree stump outside the Mithril ore vein. She took out a bottle of wine and gulped it down. She looked at the ore vein …
Of course, it was now a very large mountain. But in the future, it would become a huge mine. It would continuously produce the rarest and most precious ore in the game – Mithril. There would always be all kinds of killing and PvP around the ore vein. Their goal was always to obtain the ore.
Ye Ci could almost see the bloodstained roads that had taken place on this map in her past life. But what about this life? Would it happen again in this life? In her past life, Golden Age had spent a lot of resources to guard the ore vein. But what about this life? The number of players Up Everyday could not be compared to Golden Age. Even if she discovered the Mithril ore vein, how would she defend it Up Everyday?
Time was of the essence, and Ye Ci felt an unprecedented amount of pressure. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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