My Players Are So Fierce - Chapter 391

Chapter 391: Good Heavens, the Village Chief Is a Cultist

Life Is Pretty Good didn’t need much persuasion to convince Dorothy to participate in the casino’s construction and operation.

This rapid persuasion had two factors. First, Dorothy herself wasn’t firmly against it.

As the leader of the Blood Rat Gang, she had to seek benefits for her brothers and sisters to secure her position. Moreover, with the addition of the “Iron Fist Club”, the Blood Rat Gang’s forces doubled, and the original benefits were no longer enough to share.

Dorothy needed to find new profit growth points to strengthen her authority.

For those living in the grey areas, reality was a necessary and friendly attitude towards life, and the loyalty a leader could obtain was always linked to the profits everyone received. A boss who couldn’t lead their brothers to wealth wasn’t a qualified leader, no matter how righteous they were.

Secondly, besides being the leader of the Blood Rat Gang, Dorothy was also Adele’s descendant, and she bore the task of earning funds for the Shadow Intelligence Bureau.

If the first reason could be explained as considering the future of her brothers, then whether she could earn enough money to help the Shadow Intelligence Bureau develop quickly directly related to her career and status within the Blood Vulture Clan.

Therefore, going along with the flow, she quickly left Village No. 3 with the business plan provided by Old Huo and his secretaries to report to Lady Adele.

After Dorothy left, Old Huo and his secretaries finally relaxed.

“Perhaps I feel the advantage is great, perhaps this is an ominous illusion, but honestly, I think we can open the champagne now.”

Old Huo turned to his “Sinking Fish, Wild Goose, Hidden Moon, and Shy Flower” four beauties and joked:

“With the full cooperation of Lady Dorothy, this ‘local boss’, the probability of this development plan being approved has greatly increased. We’re about to start making big money.”

“I think you’re still too optimistic, boss. We’re currently facing many problems,”

Big sister Sinking Fish, who had been busy with this plan for several days, rubbed her temples while leaning back in her chair and said to the joyful Life Is Pretty Good:

“First, we only have a plan, the main building’s construction still needs time. Second, didn’t we just say that even if we reference the casino city model, the services we can currently provide to gamblers are very limited in both variety and quality.

The locals are too combative and brave, even Transian women don’t take losses. This personality determines that they can be great guards but can hardly shoulder the responsibility of providing services to customers.

We still need to select a batch of people from the Cato region’s refugees who have decent manners, are educated, and are determined enough to resist temptation. We also need to train their etiquette and have Lady Aqua help make their employee uniforms.

We need a professional operating agent, and ordering various gambling equipment through Blood Rat Gang’s connections from Baroness Sharon will also take time.”

“I admit, everything you mentioned is a problem, but I also believe Las Vegas wasn’t in a better situation when it first developed,”

Life Is Pretty Good shook his head and said:

“I’m not trying to bite off more than I can chew, sisters.

The Black Plague is coming.

In such a situation where people’s hearts are unsettled, no matter how well you make the casino, there won’t be more customers coming to visit. Even the most gambling-addicted Northerners and Silanians will keep some funds to flee at crucial moments in this situation.

Simply put, what we need to do now is just test the waters.

When we defeat the Black Plague and peace once again descends upon the continent, that’s when we really start to show our skills. From this point of view, we have plenty of time.

We have enough trial and error opportunities to perfectly ‘localize’ the otherworld experience and find the business model most suitable for this land.

As for the casino operation itself.

After it gets on track, we don’t even need to be involved. Hand it over to locals to operate, and just taking dividends will be enough for us to become one of the wealthiest groups in the game.”

“Knock knock knock”

As Old Huo was speaking, there was a knocking sound at the door, then the door was pushed open, and Little Rich Brother walked in with an unhappy face, saying as he walked:

“I heard you heartless person wants to build a casino to harm the locals.”

“Stop! The trap hasn’t stopped yet!”

“F**k! What trap? Fuck! What is this thing?”

Old Huo’s shout and Little Rich Brother’s scream rang out almost simultaneously. Little Rich Brother, who ran over eager to save his good friend’s soul, ended up stepping on the still-operating wraith trap.

The trap set by Life Is Pretty Good himself triggered with a roar, and four green wraiths sprang up from below ground, bearing their fangs and brandishing their claws as they pounced toward the helpless Little Rich Brother.

Fortunately, Old Huo hadn’t relaxed his spirit energy manipulation practice in recent days. With quick reactions, he made hand seals and threw out the “Wraith Control” technique, gritting his teeth as he controlled the four howling wraiths and returned them to their “Wraith Seed” state.

He panted as he went forward to put those dimly glowing spirit seeds back in his special spirit binding bag, then glared at the sheepish Little Rich Brother.

He said helplessly:

“When will you fix this reckless habit of yours? Didn’t I say before? Don’t mess with my things. A Trickster’s methods are all very hidden and vicious. One wrong move and you’ll have to enjoy a three-day offline package.

Sigh, it’s not without reason that people on this continent call Tricksters cultists. Even I, a genuine Trickster, think the magic I use is too sinister.

Tell me, what did you come here to do?”

“Invest! What else? Don’t you need startup capital for your casino? What kind of relationship do we brothers have? How could I let you go to the Administrative Office to borrow money for your startup?

Here!

The angel round investment is right here.

Take it and use it.”

Little Rich Brother pursed his lips and untied a spirit bag from his waist, throwing it on the table with a bang, then reached out his hand to Old Huo and said:

“Give me some of your Wraith Seeds. I see these things make pretty good traps. I, as a Beast Summoner and Professional Swordsman and Amateur Hunter, will definitely find uses for them in the future.”

Nearby, Hidden Moon curiously reached out to pour the contents from the spirit bag. Clinking and clattering, 40 gold bars bearing the Seicob City Treasury seal crashed onto the table. The weight was so heavy it made the table creak, and this pile of expensive items together made the four girls’ eyes widen.

They had seen gold bars in the real world before, but the problem was this is Transia!

Players had only entered the game for just over 3 months, could someone really already gather such a large fortune at once? Little Rich Brother’s casual move stunned even Old Huo.

He knew his childhood friend had done some things in the game, but hadn’t asked much about the specifics. Now it seems he had really underestimated this old friend who had no talent in business.

“The forums are all saying Little Ashina is the richest female player in the game. Looks like their information channels are really narrow. You, my friend!

You are currently the richest player, no one else comes close!”

Life Is Pretty Good laughed and didn’t stand on ceremony, gesturing for the professional accountant Shy Flower to record these gold bars as startup capital for the casino.

He himself put his arm around Little Rich Brother’s shoulders and walked out of the room to chat in the courtyard under the night sky.

Because he had accepted Little Rich Brother’s investment, out of responsibility to the investor, Life Is Pretty Good used the most concise language to explain his plan to Little Rich Brother. Feel You Poor himself had no interest in doing business, and his ability to produce so much money wasn’t because he had become a goblin in the game.

It was mainly because the Onboard Joy Stick and Tiger Leopard Rider brothers he “kept” were capable enough. From this perspective, although Little Rich Brother didn’t love money, his financial luck was indeed quite good.

After hearing Life Is Pretty Good’s plan, Little Rich Brother frowned and said:

“Your plan is good, but how do you get the Northern merchants to obediently come spend at your place? They’re not idiots. You opening a casino in poor and suffering Transia is clearly meant to fleece them.”

“I don’t need to lure them, I don’t even need to take any action.”

Life Is Pretty Good shook his head slowly and said:

“The Northerners’ first stop when entering Transia must be Bataxin City, and currently Crimson Citadel is Transia’s only major city.

If they want to make money, they can only wander around these two places.

My village is close to Crimson Citadel, and Village No. 2 is close to Bataxin. I’ve already reached a strategic cooperation with the village chief there, ‘Pink Cat Rabbit’.

He plans to monopolize Transia’s logistics and transportation, and these days he’s mass-producing carriages. Once the Northern merchants take their carriages there, the fixed route will pass through my village.

I will set up an official reception center here.

This is required by the Administrative Office, and after they get off the carriage and eat, they’ll naturally want to look around. At that time, a casino right nearby can satisfy most people’s leisure time when they’re bored.

You see, the geographic union of two villages can achieve an effect greater than 1+1=2, do you understand my meaning?

This is geographic advantage!

Then we’ll pull some strings with the Stonemason Guild, have Professor Chen plan the roads to connect Village No. 1 and Village No. 2 directly to Bataxin when designing the roads.

This way, as long as the people in these two places aren’t lazy, isn’t eating well just something that can be easily achieved?

And I’ve observed that this continent’s civilization background is similar to medieval times, they have too few entertainment options!

We otherworld warriors have a responsibility to bring more advanced forms of entertainment to this spiritually impoverished land. Things like baccarat and blackjack, things like Texas Hold’em and slot machines, and even the simplest coin pushers and claw machines, as well as the most exciting dice games.

I specifically consulted Brother Loyalty.

He told me that although these things don’t exist, the principles aren’t difficult. With him and his little mentor learning a bit more, it won’t take much time to make them!”

“Amazing!”

Hearing Old Huo’s complete analysis that showed he had everything under control, Little Rich Brother couldn’t help but give a thumbs up.

He had known since childhood that his friend was very smart and cunning. When he was still studying in school, Old Huo had already entered the family business and started making money. And when he was losing money running his company, Life Is Pretty Good had already expanded a small company of 30 people into a large company of nearly 1,000 people.

The smooth-operating Old Huo’s talent in doing business and playing social circles crushed Little Rich Brother, this was something Feel You Poor admitted himself.

But he really hadn’t expected his friend to be able to bring his business talent to Transia and successfully convert it. This made him happy for his buddy as well.

However, besides being happy, Little Rich Brother came up with a wild idea.

He stroked his chin and thought for a moment, then told his immature idea to Life Is Pretty Good, saying:

“You can’t ignore the medieval way of doing things either. In this environment, hoping to build reputation by improving service quality isn’t impossible, but it’s too slow.

This is an authoritarian society!

A typical feudal system, in this situation all of society’s resources revolve around the upper class, even merchants are the same.

I observed Lady Palen of the Bataxin Chamber of Commerce before. She’s a very capable merchant, no worse than you in business talent, but her thinking is very rigid in requiring herself to find a patron for her chamber of commerce. She never thought about making money for herself, but positioned herself as nobles’ ‘white gloves’.

She feels this is the only way business can both make big money while protecting her own and her family’s lives and property.

Lady Palen’s thinking is the thinking of other merchants on this continent. Merchants without patrons in this kind of society are just meat on the chopping block, nobles can eat them whenever they want.

They can’t even resist.

So my suggestion is, you need to start with the noble circles first.”

“Hmm, good addition, but where are there nobles in Transia?”

Old Huo spread his hands helplessly and said:

“Besides Lord Murphy and Grand Duchess Tris and the Young Lady, all the administrators in this land were previously from the lower class. Regent Miriam herself jokes that she was previously a commoner without a surname.

Transia has been ravaged by many years of war. Now there’s only the title of nobility, there hasn’t been time to establish a social network centered around them.”

“Are you stupid! Why look in Transia?”

Little Rich Brother grinned and said with hands on his hips:

“You’re a new player, you haven’t experienced the old version. Let me tell you, actually Transia now has quite complete diplomatic relations.

In the Goldflower Kingdom, we have some trade relations with the Carpe family.

I heard some old players say that Regent Miriam and the Carpe family heir have some unclear senior-junior relationship from school. This is your casino’s breakthrough point in the Goldflower Kingdom.

And the Northern side is even more convenient!

Have you forgotten, the Wolf Queen’s brother is in the Blood Vulture Halls right now!

Although ‘Royal Brother’ Count Andrei became a vampire, his royal family member status is still there. Want to bet, if you can convince Count Andrei to ‘carry some goods’ for you, whether those Northern merchants want to spend or not, they’ll desperately send you money just to establish connections with Count of White Mountain or even Her Majesty the Wolf Queen through you.”

Feel You Poor felt like a genius at this moment.

He said proudly:

“Although I haven’t run relationships before, I can roughly guess that in a world like this, the difficulty for a merchant of common birth to establish connections with a king is almost impossible. And now, they only need to spend money at your place to connect with the royal family. What do you think those Northern merchants will choose when faced with this opportunity?”

“You’re thinking too simply about this.”

Old Huo didn’t answer immediately. He thought for a moment, then shook his head and said:

“You want me to bind my business with Count Andrei, but you’ve ignored that Count Andrei is from the Thorn Clan, while the Blood Vulture Clan rules Transia.

Let me ask you, if you were Lord Murphy, would you agree to let foreigners control the most profitable industry in your territory? If this goes wrong, I could end up with a ‘treason’ label.”

“Shit!”

Little Rich Brother was startled and said:

“Indeed, I thought too simply.

Although they’re all vampires, the conflicts between clans really can’t be resolved. No matter how good the private relationship between Lord Murphy and Count Andrei is, they definitely won’t show favoritism in matters concerning territorial interests.

Ah, this path is blocked.”

“No, no no no! Your idea is interesting, I decide to use it, but must change the method.”

Life Is Pretty Good stroked his chin and said:

“If I were just a human, then I indeed couldn’t navigate between two Midnight families, that would mean self-destruction, but what if I were a vampire?

If I were already a member of the Blood Vulture Clan, then both the trust issue and risk issue would be perfectly resolved!”

“You want to become a vampire?”

Little Rich Brother exclaimed:

“Just to make some money? Wasn’t this not in your previous plan?”

“Tch, Brother, you really understand the creature called ‘capitalist’ too simply. Never mind something small like changing race.

In the face of such huge benefits, even more terrible prices are acceptable.”

Old Huo narrowed his eyes and said:

“In other words, even in the real world, if getting bitten by a vampire could make you rich, then that world that would inevitably be ruled by vampires would have no poor people!

You may not have heard this saying, it’s crude but makes sense.

If shit were worth money, poor people would have no assholes. Now I’m going to transform from a symbolic vampire into a vampire in the true sense. I just wonder if in all of Transia’s future municipal construction plans, there is a lamppost specially reserved for me?”