"Dragon, today we have opened branches in the five main cities of the 421st district, and so far, in the entire Great North District, every district has our second branch in the world." At the dinner table, Liu Zi said to me very happily.

"Sister Liu, you have done a really good job, after forming our sales network, we can sell Tiegu's products in a steady stream." I sandwiched a large piece of chicken for Sister Liu, put it in her mouth, and said.

"It's just that although we have a lot of chain stores, our profits are not much, and the main reason for this is that the freight of our goods accounts for a good part of our profits." Liu Zi said.

"Who's going to help us deliver the goods?" I asked.

"It's an organization called the Cattle Gang, and they have a very good reputation. Moreover, they can guarantee that the goods we escort by them can reach their destination safely, and if our goods are robbed, they will compensate according to the price. Liu Zi said.

"Aren't there any other organizations?" I asked.

"Yes, there are, but there are very few, and every time those organizations want our goods out, they will always be robbed by others, and there is no choice but to find the cattle gang." Liu Zi said.

I didn't speak, this cattle gang obviously has an unclear relationship with Hao Wenqing, maybe it is just a branch of Hao Wenqing's organization. Since Hao Wenqing marched into Tiegu, they bought half of the land auctioned off in Tiegu, and the signboards of their Hongtu industry were erected everywhere. Although we are the second in the world to develop earlier than them, they have gone ahead of us and set up their own branches in various districts one step ahead.

Hao Wenqing's appetite is very big, their business, including almost all the business in the game, according to the information we got from Nameless, we know that their organization has a weapon manufacturing group that is the second largest in the game, a professional mining team with a number of about 7,000, and a super chain pharmacy called Hui ** store all over the entire Northern Region. We've even learned that they have a Shadow Killer Order. The killer organization is ranked according to Nameless, and it actually occupies the 5th place in the killer world in this game! Don't underestimate this number 5! The killer organization, the comparison is not the number of people, nor the level, but the success rate of the mission, listen to Nameless, the number one killer organization, his members are all composed of those top killers in the real world, and their assassination skills are not what can be achieved by relying on the skills and equipment provided by the game.

Although Hao Wenqing has blatantly organized so many groups, until now, we still don't know how big Hao Wenqing's power is, and what groups are theirs, and how much power they have hidden underground? But we can know from all kinds of clues that as long as Hao Wenqing is willing, she can still come up with another organization that is as domineering as the previous Jiangshan League, and that organization, we will have no hope of defeating it as before.

Compared with the aggressive Hao Wenqing, we are the first in the world to be quite pitiful, all our net worth is clearly touched, the people around us, I don't know how many are Hao Wenqing's people, we sneeze, Hao Wenqing can also know clearly, our development is completely under the control of others.

"Long, Sister Hua asked me to tell you that Hongtu Industry asked the smelting school to expand the number of students enrolled in the smelting major, but she had reached an agreement with the dean of the smelting college, and the college rejected Hongtu Industry's request on the grounds that the faculty was insufficient. In return, we must increase the capital investment of 10% to the college every month, and the dean forced Sister Hua to research proposals for their two basic theories, the cycle of those two proposals is very long, and the cost of investment will be very large, Sister Hua is afraid that this proposal will involve too much, so she didn't dare to agree immediately, and wanted to talk to you, but you don't know how to do it, there is no way to communicate. Liu Zi asked me.

This Hao Wenqing actually put his hand into my bowl to get rice and eat, I can't let them succeed, so I said to Liu Zi: "Sister Liu, you tell Sister Hua that you must do everything you can, and you can't let this piece of smelting fall on someone else's head, especially Hao Wenqing's people." ”

"I see." Liu Zi nodded, and then she asked me again: "Long, just now when I talked about that smelting academy, I remembered that we sent so many NPCs to study in various majors of the academy, do we want to increase the faculty of that academy!" ”

"That's exactly what we planned to do in the beginning." I nodded.

"But Dragon, if all those people are promoted, then the amount of investment required by the academy will rise to a huge number! If you add the research funds of those proposals, we in Tiegu can't afford it! Liu Zi said with some concern.

"Sister Liu, you're really worrying, those NPCs, if they want to become assistants in the academy, I don't know how long it will take? First of all, they have to complete all the courses of a single major in the college, which requires a full two years of game time, and secondly, they must make discoveries in that major in the year they are promoted, and complete their dissertation before it is possible. You see, the smoothest case scenario will take three years. So, in the past three years, we don't have to worry about this at all. I said with a smile.

"But three years later......"

"Three years later, our Iron Valley has long been completely different, don't you feel at ease about this?" I interrupted Liu Zi and said to her. Seeing that she still wanted to say something, I sandwiched another piece of chicken for her and said, "Sister Liu, don't worry about so much, let's talk about your group of smelters, have their levels been promoted again?" ”

Liu Zi nodded and said, "The days of their smelting work are also close to 1 year, and their current smelting skills are all above the 5th order, and some of them have even risen to the 7th order. The housekeeper's management skills have also risen by two whole levels, but it still can't be qualified for more work, if there is a management school, we can spend a little money to let them learn, just like those smelters, after learning back, the level rises rapidly. ”

I nodded with great satisfaction, the level of our smelters has improved, as long as we firmly grasp the smelting major in the smelting college, the smelting technology of our NPCs, will always be ahead of others, as long as someone stops catching up with this major, then others will always pull down a large distance than us, and there will be no way to fill that distance back, and the ore market will become ours from then on.

"Sister Liu, you have to constantly urge the professor who studies smelting, let him get the results as soon as possible, and we must improve our smelting level as much as possible." I said to Liu Zi.

"I forgot to tell you, that professor, after more than half a year of hard work, its research has finally been a little eyebrow-raising, with its technology, the smelting time of our smelting technique will be shortened by 5%." Liu Zi said.

"It would be even better if it was a 5% increase in metal conversion. I said.

"The professor gave us a proposal for follow-up research, and this time his proposal is to further optimize the smelting process, according to his idea, the smelting speed can be 10% faster." Liu Zi said.

"It's still a proposal to speed up! Isn't there anything more substantial? I said with some dissatisfaction.

"This is already very good, this smelting is to come step by step, I believe that the professor will continue to study, and those aspects will come out." Liu Zi said.

"Hey! That's the only way, Sister Liu, it's been really hard for you during this time. I said apologetically.

Liu Zi was silent, and after a while she said, "Dragon, it's been more than half a year, when will you come out of that cave!" If you don't come out, no one will remember your name in this game. ”

"I don't think there should be many people who remember our names now, Hao Wen wanted to eliminate our influence in the minds of players early in the morning, they did it very successfully, and the ranking of their personal comprehensive combat power, I heard that it is very popular now?" I said with a sneer.

"Yes! They held a martial arts competition for the whole game in Iron Valley, and they did their best to publicize it, and the prize money was also high, which made many people sign up. You weren't there, you didn't know how spectacular it was. However, their judges are quite fair, the ten masters of each of the three major professions that came out of the competition are all very powerful guys, and some people even say that those masters of various professions, any one of them comes out, can be compared with the strength of the dragon back then. Liu Zi said.

"Is there still so many people paying attention to our blacksmith's leaderboard?" I said nonchalantly.

"The watch we made is still the most authoritative blacksmith of its kind. That Hao Wenqing is really hateful, after she successfully held the martial arts competition of the three major professions, she even wanted to take advantage of the east wind to hold another blacksmith fighting competition like us, and wanted to come up with another ranking to replace our leaderboard. Liu Zi said indignantly.

"Humph! The blacksmith guild is under our control, do they still want to pry into our corners? "I can't help but snort and say, this Hao Wenqing, her ambition is really too big, and she wants to intervene in everything, but even if she has enough money and manpower, she can't rob us of the blacksmith profession. But it's really dangerous! If we hadn't formed a union, it wouldn't have been clear who would have killed the blacksmith!

"Dragon, don't be angry, Sister Hua has completely foiled their plot, in the name of our union, she has made a stand to all players, the future blacksmith ranking will be formulated by the blacksmith union of Iron Valley, please don't be misled by other, non-authoritative rankings. Hehe, you don't know, after Sister Hua issued this notice, how embarrassed Hao Wenqing was for the organizers of the fighting skills competition, although their bonuses were also very high, and there were many blacksmiths who went to participate in their fighting skills competition, but few people paid attention to their competitions, and finally they hurriedly came to Sister Hua to come forward to save the field, but how could Sister Hua agree to them, and as a result, the fighting skills competition held ended in a hurry without even ranking. Liu Zi said very excitedly.

This is a doomed result, there is such an advantage of having a trade union, without the recognition of the trade union, all kinds of efforts will become futile, I think through this matter, Hao Wenqing should also know, the formation of a huge trade union, the kind of advantage that firmly controls a professional person, however, they want to form another such trade union, without the same conditions as us, it will be extremely difficult.

"Sister Liu, among the various forces in our Iron Valley, is there an organization that can confront Hao Wenqing's Hongtu Industry?" I asked Liu Zi again.

"Why not? Our Iron Valley, although it is not very big, but there is no shortage of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and those powerful gangs are like stars in the sky. Among these gangs, one of them is called the Ten Thousand Tigers, they account for 20% of the land we auctioned off, and the number of their craftsmen is also very large, and they never buy Hao Wenqing's account, but Hao Wenqing's people dare not mess with them. Liu Zi said.

Seeing that I was silent, Liu Zi continued: "Dragon, if you can't come out yet, I'm afraid we won't be able to control the situation in Iron Valley, now although Iron Valley has gone through the stage of its great development, but inside it, all forces are entangled with each other, and the situation is extremely complicated, now, the armed personnel in Iron Valley are already 3 times that of all craftsmen, and if this continues, Iron Valley will not be able to become Iron Valley." ”

"Isn't that bad? There are more forces, and they contain each other, so that they can maintain the balance of power in Tiegu, think about it, does Hao Wenqing dare to blatantly harass Tiegu now? We can't completely control Iron Valley, and others can't interrupt the development of Iron Valley at will. I burst out laughing and said.

"But our power to be the first in the world is too small! Hao Wenqing, that woman is really vicious, from the time you went out to the present, half a year has passed, but the encirclement and suppression of the world's number one has not been less, although there are many people in Cairo's Shengong Brigade now, but those people, three days and two heads of the split, let Cairo have a headache to death, Fangfang is even more miserable, her magicians, more than 3,000 people, every time they go out, they will always be wiped out. Next, the people who joined will soon be more than halfway there, and now, every time she recruits people in the Iron Valley, she can't find a few people who are willing to join. Liu Zi said with some pain.

"Sister Liu, in fact, our strength is not as bad as you see." Seeing Liu Zi's somewhat sad eyes, I know the grievances in Liu Zi's heart, you know, in the game, if there is no strong team behind it, it is very angry, and others can trample on you without scruples. As the owner of Iron Valley, Liu Zi's feelings are of course even more profound.

Liu Zi looked at me with a wry smile and said, "Do you say we still have the power that I don't know?" Isn't that the team they expelled from Cairo to get promoted! They do have a lot less distraction, but what's the use of their little people? ”

"Hey, hey! Sister Liu, those are actually for others to see, Cairo they have already sent their henchmen to more places to develop their own team members and form small groups. Like Fangfang, although the magician team she led was miserable, there were 30,000 peripheral team members authorized by her, and the peripheral team members from Cairo were close to 50,000. I said smugly.

Liu Zi's eyes widened, and she said anxiously: "Dragon, why don't I know about this?" Although the number of their peripheral forces is large, how strong they are, sometimes, the number does not mean anything. And if they're faithful enough! ”

"Sister Liu, their leaders, they are all recognized by Cairo, so we don't need to worry about their loyalty. Also, the number is very insignificant, but if we have more players, we will have more chips in the future battles. Hao Wenqing has a lot of forces that we don't know about, and we must also use the way of others to govern others, and we must also hide our true strength. I said.

Liu Zi nodded and said: "We should have our own hidden power, otherwise, like before, once a certain organization deals with us, we will almost be swept out by others." ”

Seeing that I was nodding my head, Liu Zi smiled and said to me: "Actually, as long as you return to your original appearance, even if we don't have a team at all, we don't dare to say that we are the weakest in the world." ”

"Haha, that's the same! Not to mention me, just the combination of Lan Zhan and Dragon Hunt can challenge any team in this game. I laughed out loud.

"Dragon, how are you doing now, I heard Cairo say that the dragon hunt has found a solution to the love poison, you have practiced for so long, do you feel that method is effective?" Liu Zi said.

"Hey, hey! Sister Liu, in fact, I wanted to give you another surprise in the end, but I decided to tell you now, but after you hear it, don't tell others! I said smugly.

"Dragon, have you recovered?" Liu Zi was about to jump. "If you want to talk about recovery, how early is it? However, the toxicity of the emotional poison in our body has been suppressed by us at about 75%. Xunlong is right, increasing physical fitness really helps to resist the toxicity of love poison! I was very happy to say.

"Then your attributes are still only 25%! That's still very low. The joy on Liu Zi's face faded.

"It's already good, Sister Liu, maybe you don't believe it, our mining skills, everyone has reached the 10th level or above, like me and Lan Zhan, our mining skills have reached the 12th level. The phantom kid is not very tall, but his mining skills have even reached the 11th level! Sister Liu, do you know how much strength and physiness the 12th-order mining technique increases? I looked at Liu Zi, who was shocked by the 12th-order mining technique, and said.

Liu Zi shook his head, and I continued: "The 12th level of mining art, mining speed increases by 20%, constitution increases by 40, strength increases by 41, and agility increases by 15. The extra attribute points I get from mining are 204 more Constitution, 215 Strength, and 26 Agility. ”

"Good luck always seems to be on you, dragon! You practice mining, and others practice mining, but I don't think others will be as good as you even if they practice for a whole year. Dragon, what the hell is going on? Do you have any special tricks? Just like the tactics of the machine at that time. Liu Zi said very enviously.

"Sister Liu, we are honest leveling, we practice so fast, we are also a little confused, however, Xunlong has explained to us this possible reason, she said that in addition to the reason why we dig most of the rare ores, the title of the honorary elder of our blacksmith association also plays the most important role here, under the halo of the glorious title of honorary elder of the blacksmith association, even the phantom and dragon hunting around us are also stained, otherwise, their mining skills, There is no way to approach us. But that's not that fast! It didn't take me long to reach the 12th rank of my Gathering Technique. I shrugged my shoulders and said.

"You're amazing!" Sister Liu looked at me helplessly and said. Then she asked me, "Dragon, how are your attributes now, after being suppressed by 75% of your attributes by love poison, isn't it rubbish?" ”

"Sister Liu, although we are only 25%, but that is also quite good. You see, my strength is 558, my agility is 394, my constitution is 609, and I still have 180 free points that have not been added, and there is about the experience value of a warrior who can increase 2 levels. In that way, the love poison will be much more suppressed. I said with some smugness

"According to our current 25% attributes, my strength will have more than 100 points, kill a few monsters, there is absolutely no problem, we have discussed, as long as our strength reaches about 200, we can also come out, at that time, we wear some equipment to increase strength, we can also increase the strength to about 250, by that time, the attack power, there are also about 200, in that way, we can also break the defense of a warrior of about 200." I continued.

"How long will it take!" Liu Zi said.

"It won't take long, as long as our mining skills are upgraded to another level, we can also meet the requirements." I said.

"Phantom, you're already here! What about them? "After eating, I went into the game, and when I came in, I saw the Phantom digging for ore. Looking at the Phantom, I really admired him, he was the most diligent of us, every time he went down to eat, he could solve it in 5 minutes.