Chapter 119 Creating Needs

The shelter has issued management regulations that prohibit fighting everywhere, just like prohibiting defecation anywhere. Guards and rangers patrol, and violators will be arrested and detained for a period of time. Player main cities need to form safe areas so that players can rest assured. Technician Han let Huang Yu stay up late to work overtime and grind out perfect regulations.

Players who want to PK can only go out of the city or go to the arena.

The arena is built near the square, very close to the player's respawn point. Sometimes players can stop in time when sparring and PK, but sometimes accidents will kill the opponent, dropping some experience. Even so, it cannot extinguish the players' bellicose blood, because going out of the city is very far, so the arena has become the first choice.

The general structure of the arena is a huge square, with the highest and largest platform in the center, surrounded by small arenas like stars surrounding the big arena, and stadium-like stepped stands around. Players can PK at will in the square without spending money, while the large and small arenas are locked. After inquiring, I learned that they are arenas dedicated to gambling fights. The gambling house is the arena, and they are only opened for a fee, and reserved for the gold masters who pay.

Although this function is novel, most players are poor, so no one uses this function for the time being, and only wants to fight for free in the square, so the arena is very lively and soon became a recognized dedicated PK venue, just like the city gate of a certain game.

But in Huang Yu's view, this is a great waste of resources. No one is willing to pay, which not only fails to achieve the effect of increasing revenue, but also requires the shelter to bear the cost of repairing the venue. He thinks Han Xiao's decision is very problematic, and it is better to let the Inhumans go out of the city to fight by themselves.

He feels that building the arena is superfluous, but on the surface, he dare not disobey Han Xiao, and can only complain silently in his heart.

This situation surprised Han Xiao slightly, but he understood it after thinking about it.

"The current players are in the exploratory stage, and arena gambling is obviously only for players who are confident in their strength... Arena gambling can attract audiences, so there is exposure, then guilds and professional high-level players are the most likely group to pay for the arena."

The arena function needs to be explored by the players themselves, which will take some time, but he is not a person who waits obediently.

"Then let me add fuel to the fire and help them understand what arena gambling is for."

Han Xiao's eyes flashed.

…

Every few days or so, Han Xiao would wander around in front of the players and impart his skills in order to reap experience. Most of the skills he put on the skill shop are basic skills that players have. Training the basic skills they have already learned with experience here can greatly improve proficiency, which is more cost-effective than directly upgrading skills with experience.

This is where Han Xiao earns most of his experience from players.

He did not impart important skills, after all, he still had to maintain the gap between himself and the players. However, he selectively imparted some skills that were not so important, or that players would eventually learn, such as the Mechanic's exclusive [Electromagnetic Factor Refining Method] and [Precision Repair], to help the Mechanic players improve their abilities, act as a Mechanic mentor, and attract more players to join the Mechanic class. You must know that on Aquamarine, only Mechanic players have a reliable mentor like him.

After experiencing the [Qi Strength Refining Method] incident, the players generally understood that the powerful skills taught by Han Xiao could be learned by themselves after they reached a high level, but most people were still willing to learn high-level skills at a low level, because it could improve their current abilities, and the long-term benefits were even greater.

As for stealing the psionic and martial arts advanced knowledge from Meng Ya, Han Xiao has not sold it for the time being. This thing is equivalent to Wang Zha, and he wants to make a lot of money after the players have stronger purchasing power.

Every time he appeared to teach, he would earn a stable income of more than 10 million experience points a day, which was many times faster than doing quests. The tens of thousands of players in the Third Shelter accounted for about 5% of the total number of players on Aquamarine (and many new players have entered the game), so the market potential is very huge, and the future prospects of the player main city plan are promising.

On this day, Han Xiao appeared in a corner of the square as usual, surrounded by players, and after swiping a wave of experience, he suddenly saw a large number of guild players with prefixes on their heads appear. They were players from Sky Territory, and the leader was called "Huang Tian Dang Li", the vice-leader of the core team.

"The opportunity has come."

Han Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly. After teaching the skills, he suddenly pretended to talk to himself, saying, "Sigh, I've been out of luck lately..."

Huang Tian Dang Li was excited. As an experienced old player, generally speaking, if an NPC suddenly talks to himself, it means that a new task can be triggered.

"Your Excellency Black Phantom, I wonder what your troubles are, maybe we can help you solve them." Huang Tian Dang Li asked tentatively.

Glancing at him, Han Xiao pretended to be embarrassed and shook his head, "No, no, at least ten people are needed to help me."

The Sky Territory members were immediately excited. It was indeed a task, and it was a multi-person team task!

This was a task given by Black Phantom himself. When has he ever cheated us?

The guild has a lot of people. Huang Tian Dang Li formed a team of ten people. Seeing this, Han Xiao slowly said, "Sigh, one of my robots has malfunctioned and is out of my control. I want you to bring its chip back to me..."

As he spoke, he set up a task.

[【Retrieve the Faulty Chip - 1】]

[Task Type: Team Serial Task]

[Task Introduction: For some reason, a defense robot has malfunctioned and lost control]

[First Ring Requirement: Defeat Ranger No. "x204" and return the chip to Black Phantom]

[First Ring Reward: 25,000 experience, Black Phantom Favorability +1]

"Running Ring Task?" Huang Tian Dang Li was pleasantly surprised. The first ring reward alone was a lot. If it continued, the reward would definitely be more generous, and it could also increase Black Phantom's favorability. You must know that after Black Phantom's favorability reaches 10 points, no matter how much money you give, it will no longer increase. This opportunity is rare.

All the players are in an extremely thirsty but helpless state for his favorability. He put a lot of powerful machinery in the item store, blue equipment, purple equipment, etc., but the favorability requirements for purchase are all above 10 points, which is equivalent to only being able to watch but not touch, which is his "bait" for fishing.

Favorability itself is not valuable, but he assigns value to it. This is the origin of equivalent and currency...

Sky Territory accepted the task and left happily. Seeing this, the surrounding players also formed teams with great interest, but Han Xiao was indifferent to them.

The players were puzzled. Why could Sky Territory trigger the task, but they couldn't?

However, they had long been accustomed to the randomness of Black Phantom's task triggering mechanism. They were not surprised and did not struggle much. They could only secretly envy those lucky Europeans.

Suddenly, a group of familiar IDs and guild names came into view. Han Xiao's heart moved, and then he opened his mouth and repeated the words he had fooled Huang Tian Dang Li with.

"Huh, there's a hidden task?"

The Divine Clan guild members who passed by looked surprised.

The ones who came were the official guild of the e-sports giant Divine Palace Club - Divine Clan.

Han Xiao was very familiar with them, which was exactly the other target he was looking for.

After Han Xiao's identity was exposed, the Divine Clan guild members realized that the No. 0 they were looking for was Han Xiao, and that they had repeatedly missed the target, so the task naturally failed.

Guild Leader Jupiter was so angry that he beat his chest and stamped his feet, unable to eat or sleep well, and was almost constipated from depression.

But there was no way, Han Xiao had too many benefits here. In order not to fall behind other guilds, even if they were depressed, the Divine Clan guild could only come to the shelter to make a living, and various guild teams were gathered in the shelter.

"This task is good." Jupiter was overjoyed. He could encounter a hidden task just by walking on the road. This was good luck!

With a wave of his hand, the Divine Clan guild directly formed a team and accepted it.

…

An hour later, the northern district of the shelter.

A chase was in progress. The ten-member team of Sky Territory was panting and chasing a Ranger that was speeding like lightning.

"Quick, quick, chase, don't let it run away!" Huang Tian Dang Li was out of breath, and he was about to vomit out his bile.

According to the task instructions, they came to this area under development and chased this out-of-control Ranger. The Ranger's firepower was fierce. Several members of their team died before they managed to grind the Ranger's armor value to the last layer of health. At this time, the Ranger suddenly turned around and fled.

"Damn it, how can it be so flexible!"

The Sky Territory members looked bitter. "It's more familiar with the environment and terrain than us. Is this robot becoming a spirit?!"

At this time, in the high-level room in the center of the shelter, Han Xiao was lazily half-lying on the sofa, holding a tablet computer, swiping his finger on the screen at will. The screen was the perspective of the "out-of-control" Ranger.

This Ranger was actually completely under his control. He restricted the Ranger's strength and removed a large number of weapons and ammunition from this Ranger yesterday before letting it out. It was actually a castrated version, just to allow the Sky Territory people to win with difficulty. If it was a complete 2.5-generation Ranger with full firepower, it would basically kill most of the players as soon as it met them. The Sky Territory players naturally didn't know, and thought it was their good cooperation and strong strength that allowed them to grind this "out-of-control" robot to death... This was exactly the illusion Han Xiao wanted to give them.

Out of control? That doesn't exist.

"It's about to be caught!" The distance was constantly closing. Sky Territory forcibly mustered their spirits and brewed the final blow.

Han Xiao looked at the radar map and suddenly smiled slyly. He controlled this Ranger that was about to be scrapped and suddenly accelerated, turned several corners, and immediately threw off Sky Territory, rushing towards the Divine Clan guild who were searching for the task target who had come late.

As soon as the Ranger appeared, Jupiter and others were taken aback, and then overjoyed.

"It's the target, quickly focus fire!"

In a round of attacks, the Ranger fell apart, and parts fell to the ground with a clatter.

The Divine Clan guild members looked dazed. They hadn't exerted any effort yet, so how did this robot explode?

Suppressing their doubts, Jupiter picked up the task item from this pile of parts, [Chip of the "Out of Control" Ranger].

At this time, Sky Territory finally arrived late and was furious when they saw this scene.

"Damn you Divine Clan, you dare to steal our kill!"

Huang Tian Dang Li was furious.

The task target they had been chasing for more than a dozen blocks was picked off by others. The roast duck in their hands was snatched away by a dog. Anyone would be angry.

Moreover, Divine Clan and Sky Territory have always been old rivals who don't get along.

…

The screen went black.

Han Xiao threw the tablet computer aside, lit a cigarette, exhaled a smoke ring, and chuckled.

If players don't have the need for gambling, then create the need for them. This has always been Technician Han's service tenet.

I'm a professional at making trouble!

ps: (Wow, I'm very uncomfortable, the next chapter is not finished, I will send it later, brothers don't have to wait all the time, it will probably be done around 11 o'clock, I haven't eaten yet)