Ouyang Shuo was silent for a long time before he said, "Tell them that I will distribute the treasures on the island. They will also be allowed to burn down the houses, ports, and other facilities on the island. As for the old, weak, women, and children, they can be reduced to servants or even slaves. However, slaughter is not allowed. This is the bottom line of Shanhai City. "
Ouyang Shuo would never lose his bottom line just to win the gratitude of the other party. If that was the case, even if he won for now, he would inevitably be despised in the future.
On the contrary, his gentle and forceful attitude would only make the other party more respectful.
"Understood!"
Zheng He felt relieved and nodded solemnly. He then went to make arrangements.
Ten minutes later, Zheng He finished negotiating with the players' representatives. The Somali players did not dare to defy Ouyang Shuo's ban. Both sides took a step back and reached an agreement.
Tens of thousands of players and the Divine Martial Guards arrived on Heavenly Wolf Island as victors.
…
Ouyang Shuo was not in a hurry to disembark. Instead, he stood on the deck and silently looked at the island in front of him. Less than half an hour after the players arrived on the island, smoke rose from the island.
The victors were cheering, and the losers were crying.
One house after another was engulfed in flames, and the entire island was engulfed in a sea of fire. The old, weak, women, and children on the island were rudely driven to the open space in the port. All of them were trembling in fear, and their eyes were lifeless.
In this chaotic world, the people were like rootless duckweed, trampled by others.
Seeing their homes burned down, the people's eyes revealed unconcealable pain and sorrow. Some of the children in the crowd even looked at the Somali players with a trace of hatred in their eyes.
In the eyes of the children, they were the real bandits.
The players looted the houses one by one, and anything of value was collected. After the looting, they set the houses on fire and burned them to ashes.
Boxes after boxes of gold and silver were carried to the port and piled up high.
It was inevitable that the players who participated in the looting would hide some of their belongings and secretly put them in their storage bags. As long as they did not go overboard, Zheng He, who was in charge of supervising them, would turn a blind eye.
Participating in the looting was a benefit for the players.
There was not much in the ordinary houses, and the truly valuable ones were the pirate group's headquarters. The treasury, the secret chamber, the armory, and all the other important places were swept clean by the army one by one.
These places were all searched by the Divine Martial Guard. Players were not allowed to interfere. Otherwise, who knew what these players would do once they were tempted by the treasures?
After looting the headquarters, they naturally gave them a big fire.
The raging fire incessantly stimulated the players' desire to kill, causing it to burst out completely. Some of the players became hot-tempered and even disregarded Ouyang Shuo's ban and waved their butcher knives at the residents of the island.
In an instant, two old men fell to the ground, and their blood flowed everywhere.
Under the illumination of the fire, their faces looked particularly ferocious.
The accompanying Divine Martial Guards saw this and firmly stopped them. The two sides almost clashed on the island. Fortunately, Zheng He appeared in time and prevented the bloodshed.
When Ouyang Shuo received the news, his expression became gloomy. He ordered for the player to be soaked in the sea to sober him up.
…
As the saying goes: It is easy to destroy, but hard to build.
In less than two hours, the entire island was completely turned into ruins.
Even in the humid environment of the island, the fire did not extinguish. Towards the end, the fire continued to spread, burning the plants, crops, and everything else on the island.
The entire pirate island became bare, and it was an eyesore.
The pirate captives that Shanhai City handed over to the Somali players to be executed were also executed by the players on the island. Their heads were chopped off and strung on bamboo poles, forming a circle around the island. It was a shocking scene.
Seeing this, Ouyang Shuo was silent.
Faced with such a dead island, Ouyang Shuo no longer had the intention to go to the island. He ordered the entire army to spend the night on the ship and return the next morning.
The Somali players, on the other hand, were full of enthusiasm.
When night fell, they even set up bonfires on the island and held a lively bonfire party to celebrate this hard-won victory. They did not care at all about the pirate heads that were strung on the side.
The players even invited Ouyang Shuo to celebrate together, but Ouyang Shuo tactfully declined. Thinking about the families of the pirates who were brutally escorted onto the warship, Ouyang Shuo could not integrate into such a lively atmosphere.
It was too strange!
For the whole night, Zheng He was in charge of counting the looted treasures. As the nest of the largest pirate group in the Gulf of Aden, Heavenly Wolf Island had accumulated a considerable amount of treasures over the years.
In the end, they had looted a total of 520,000 gold coins, six boxes of jewelry, and more than 4,000 pieces of various weapons and equipment. As for the ordinary resources, they had already been completely burned by the fire.
In addition, there were three treasures found in the secret room, which were sent to Ouyang Shuo by Zheng He alone.
Ouyang Shuo took a look and saw that it was a scroll, a pair of boots, and a telescope.
[Name]: Group Resurrection Scroll
[Type]: Special item
[Restriction]: One-time use item, only available to players and lords
[Attribute]: Can spend a certain amount of gold coins to resurrect the dead. There is no upper limit. Below 10,000 will cost 10 gold coins per person. For every 10,000 increase in the upper limit, the cost will increase by 10 gold coins per person.
[Note]: Generals of high rank and above, including historical generals, cannot be resurrected.
There was no doubt that this was a very expensive scroll. Ordinary people could not afford to use it. According to the settings of the scroll, it would cost as much as a million gold coins to resurrect 40,000 soldiers, and the more it went, the less worth it it would be.
When it came to 50,000 soldiers, it would cost as much as 500,000 gold coins to resurrect 10,000 soldiers.
Even with Shanhai City's wealth, it could not support such a consumption. According to Ouyang Shuo's estimation, resurrecting 50,000 soldiers was basically the upper limit that a lord could bear.
More importantly, the scroll was a one-time use item. It would not be used unless it was a critical battle or a life-and-death situation.
With this scroll, it was equivalent to having another trump card.
Ouyang Shuo put down the [Group Resurrection Scroll], picked up the pair of boots, and looked at its attributes. The boots were very exquisitely made. There were dragon patterns carved on the surface, and there was even a faint metallic luster, which made them look very colorful.
[Name]: Cloud Dragon Nine Stripes Boots (God Tier)
[Type]: Heavy Armor
[Weight]: 10 kg
[Defense]: 90
[Toughness]: 90
[Characteristics]: Light Body (Reduces the weight of the body by 50)
[Ultimate Skill]: Swimming Dragon Body (Infuses True Essence into the boots, increases movement speed by 150, increases agility by 100, lasts for half an hour, cooldown time of one month)
[Restricted Professions]: General, Swordsman, Bailiff, etc.
[Remarks]: Sewn from the skin of a real dragon, nourished by dragon blood, and forged by heavenly fire. Only a tyrant can wield it. Bind it by blood, cannot be traded, cannot be dropped, and can be evolved again.
[Remarks]: The Cloud Dragon Nine Stripes Boots are a part of the God Tier set [Dragon's Battle]. When a complete set is assembled, the set's attributes can be activated.
"What a pleasant surprise!" Ouyang Shuo said with a smile.
He had not expected to find the second part of the [Dragon's Battle] set so quickly. It could only be said that Ouyang Shuo's [Source of Fortune] was really starting to make a comeback.
Finally, there was the telescope.
The telescope was very simple, and looked to be made of bronze.
[Name]: Nautical Telescope (Dark Gold)
[Type]: Support item
[Restrictions]: Only usable by seafarers
[Attributes]: Increases nautical vision by 50, increases sea visibility by 40.
[Remarks]: This is a special telescope. If used properly, it will have endless uses.
"Interesting thing," Ouyang Shuo said, and directly handed the telescope to Zheng He. "Take it!"
"Thank you, Marquis, for your reward!"
Zheng He was also very fond of the telescope, so he did not reject it and immediately accepted it.
According to the Somali players, the defeat of the pirates was due to the great contribution of the ocean fleet, and they had made a great sacrifice. Hence, in order to repay Shanhai City, they did not participate in the distribution of the treasures.
Ouyang Shuo naturally would not go to the extreme. He only planned on taking the two treasures, the [Group Resurrection Scroll] and the Cloud Dragon Nine Stripes Combat Boots. The rest of the treasures would be given to the players.
Hundreds of thousands of gold coins were nothing to Ouyang Shuo.
After all, Ouyang Shuo had a total of four million gold coins in his storage bag. Other than the two million gold coins from the North Sea Bay's treasure trove, Ouyang Shuo also had the two million gold coins from the sale of the island in Star State County with him.
With the Bank of the Four Seas supporting it, the territory's finances temporarily did not need the funds.
Ouyang Shuo brought the funds with him to prepare for Gaia's auction in the fourth year. He did not want it to be like the previous auction, where he had no luck with the treasures due to his lack of funds.
If history did not deviate, Gaia's auction in the fourth year would be very different from the previous three auctions. This was because from the beginning of Gaia's fourth year, the various countries would no longer hold their own system auctions. Instead, they would combine them and hold a global auction, allowing players from all over the world to compete on the same stage.
Without sufficient funds, it would be impossible.
Gaia's arrangement was also to further prevent the spread of treasures.
As such, the strong would become stronger, and the weak would become weaker. Gaia's law of survival in the jungle, where the strong preyed on the weak, was applied to the competition between players to perfection.
Secondly, if everything went smoothly on this trip to England, they would have to spend a large sum of money.
…
The moment the distribution of the treasures was announced, the Somali players were extremely excited.
To them, although the [Group Resurrection Scroll] and the Cloud Dragon Nine Stripes Combat Boots were precious, they were not practical and they could not afford to use them. Furthermore, there were too many of them, so it was difficult to distribute them.
It was not as practical as the five hundred and twenty thousand gold coins, six chests of jewelry, and more than four thousand pieces of equipment. The ten thousand or so Somali players who were lucky enough to survive each received a sizable amount of money.
The Overlord players split the captured pirate ships.
As such, everyone was naturally happy.
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