Wang Xiaoming was very puzzled.
“Our cards all use special encoding during production, and they can only be used after being scanned. Could they have pirated our encoding?”
Orario doesn't have any knowledge sovereignty, so when Wang Xiaoming makes cards, each card has a unique code. When inserted into the duel disk, it will be scanned directly, and then the projection will appear.
“Counterfeit card makers cannot steal our encoding, but they can make cards that look very similar to ours. Because some cards have a very high rarity, which leads to our cards having a high value, the price of second-hand cards circulating in the black market is very high, so some people take the opportunity to make counterfeit cards for sale.”
“And then those people found our legitimate store?”
“Yes, they don’t know the difference between counterfeit and genuine products. They just feel that the cards they bought after spending a lot of money cannot be used, so they want us to give them an explanation.”
Meli reported expressionlessly.
“This afternoon, the message I received was that someone spent a lot of money to buy a card, and then came to the store to demand compensation.”
“We can explain the difference between genuine and counterfeit products, but adventurers are unwilling to accept this explanation. They only care about the large amount of money they paid and need a corresponding compensation.”
“This is a bit troublesome.”
Wang Xiaoming had considered the appearance of counterfeit products, so he took anti-piracy measures. However, this world has no police or laws. The security of Orario relies entirely on the Ganesha Familia.
And the Ganesha Familia only manages basic security, otherwise Orario would be even more chaotic.
Those who bought counterfeit cards spent so much money and feel cheated. If they can't find the seller, they can only find Wang Xiaoming's legitimate store, because this store can't run away.
Wang Xiaoming will definitely not pay compensation, but if Wang Xiaoming doesn't pay compensation, and the other party doesn't get any compensation, they will definitely cause trouble. One or two people is nothing, but it will be very troublesome if there are too many people.
“So, I have to be responsible for cracking down on piracy?”
Wang Xiaoming had a headache for a while. Orario is so big, and he doesn't know who the pirates are. It's a bit troublesome to deal with this.
“I understand. Starting tomorrow, I will pay attention to this matter.”
Without the help of a security system, Wang Xiaoming chose to rely on himself.
639. Little brother, buy a card?
Wang Xiaoming never thought that he would have a day to go out and catch counterfeit merchants.
When he decided to sell cards, Wang Xiaoming considered the issue of piracy, made preparations for anti-theft, and also prepared to let the piracy action go.
After all, the pirated cards cannot be linked to his own duel disk, and can only be collected in hand, and then look at it, or those poor people who can't afford genuine cards can use pirated cards to duel on the ground.
After all, he can't kill everyone with one stick. He has to leave some food for other people in Orario, and although he can't receive the money from the pirated cards, his subsequent income is very high.
This is equivalent to me releasing a genuine work, and then I allow everyone to release secondary creations. If your secondary creation is popular, it will drive the popularity of my own body.
As long as the piracy is not excessive, Wang Xiaoming does not intend to care.
But the current problem is very real. Some big fools spend a lot of money to buy pirated cards, and then come to his own store to make trouble.
Opening a business, public relations must be done well. Wang Xiaoming certainly can't beat up these big fools who come to his store to cause trouble. Oh no, it's Meli, the general manager of the Hestia Familia.
Meli certainly can't just beat people up and be done with it, that would only bring unnecessary trouble to the Hestia Familia.
So Wang Xiaoming can only come and search for the counterfeit card manufacturer.
Manufacturing counterfeit cards is okay, but don't sell them at such a high price, you are deliberately causing me trouble!
Early in the morning, he peeled Hestia off his body, put on his underwear, and then put on his coat. After leaving the room, he told Lamia and Lamia to follow and protect Hestia when she went out during this time. Wang Xiaoming left the Familia's residence alone and began to act on the streets of Orario.
From the moment he went out, Wang Xiaoming didn't speak, so his presence was quickly weakened, and he began to sneak around in Orario.
In order to find the counterfeit merchant, after Wang Xiaoming's main body sneaked, he directly used the Shadow Clone Technique to release many clones, and then let these clones transform one by one, becoming card players, carrying duel disks in their hands, and began to wander around Orario, specifically picking those dark alleys, walking in places where it looked like there were bad people.
And Wang Xiaoming's operation did have an effect. Less than half an hour after the clones were released, they came into contact with a counterfeit merchant.
“Little brother over there, do you want to buy a card?”
When one of Wang Xiaoming's clones was passing by a small alley, a man in black in the alley whispered to Wang Xiaoming. There was no way, the duel disk on Wang Xiaoming's arm was too conspicuous. Everyone could see that Wang Xiaoming's clone was a card player.
“Huh?”
The clone pretended to look over in confusion and saw a guy wearing a hood walking out of the alley.
“Little brother, looking at you, you should be a very ambitious duelist, right? I have a lot of super-strong cards here. Do you have any ideas?”
“Oh? You have super-strong cards?”
The clone raised his eyebrows and asked curiously.
“Can you let me see what cards you have?”
“Of course, no problem, come, let me show you.”
The cloaked man's dry arm emerged from the cloak, holding a stack of exquisite cards in his hand.
“Come and pick one.”
“Only pick one?”
“Of course, these are all very rare cards, it is impossible to sell you too many.”
Wang Xiaoming looked down at these cards. Good guy, not bad. Jar of Greed, Harpie's Feather Duster, Mirror Force, are all very useful cards. These guys are good. The pirated cards are really rare cards.
“What if I want to buy several?”
“That won’t work. These are all very rare and powerful cards. If you buy too many at once, it will affect other duelists.”
Speaking of this, the clone felt that this counterfeit merchant was quite principled. He couldn't let one person be too strong and knew how to maintain balance. As a result, he suddenly changed his tone.
“Of course, it's not impossible if you have to buy several, but...”
“But what?”
“You have to add money!”
Good guy, this is the first time I've encountered someone adding money to my own head.
The clone glanced at the other party, and then suddenly shot out, grabbed the other party, and lifted him up from the ground.
“Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing!”
The cloaked man, who was suddenly lifted up, suddenly became anxious.
“Shut up!”
The clone scolded, directly opened a space channel to the air, and then threw the counterfeit merchant directly into it.
The main body, far away on the other side of the city, immediately felt the movement in the portable space, directly opened the space channel, and let the cloaked man inside fall out.
Although the clone has not been released, Wang Xiaoming already understands that this person is a counterfeit merchant.
I didn't expect my clone to find it so quickly.
Wang Xiaoming raised his hand and directly grabbed the other party's collar and lifted him up. The cloaked man, who had been suddenly lifted up and thrown out, was lifted up again after landing, and was very confused for a while.
“Who are you? What are you going to do to me!”
“Where did your cards come from?”
Wang Xiaoming asked coldly.
“Do you want a card? If you want a card, you must buy it with money!”
Even when Wang Xiaoming grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up, the cloaked man didn't give up on asking for money. He truly valued money over his life.
"Are you mistaken about something? You don't have the right to ask for money right now. Tell me, where did your cards come from? If you don't tell me, I'll show you what true cruelty is!"
As Wang Xiaoming spoke, he glared at the cloaked man.
The illusion was activated on the cloaked man, and he immediately saw the thing he feared the most.
"Sannes! I wasn't slacking off, I've been selling cards! I really wasn't slacking off, please don't hit me!"
With the use of the illusion, the other party immediately revealed his boss, and through these words, Wang Xiaoming could basically determine that this person named Sannes should be the cloaked man's boss, and also the one who made him sell cards, and he seemed to be very strict with him.
Sannes, this name, how does it feel like I've heard it somewhere before, but I can't quite remember.
"Sannes, don't hit me, I've really been seriously selling cards!"
Good heavens, how pitiful, does this pirated merchant even have KPIs? If he doesn't complete his KPIs, he'll even get beaten. How pitiful.
But this doesn't prevent Wang Xiaoming from wanting to know who exactly Sannes is.
Another new illusion was thrown over, and the cloaked man began to constantly throw out everything he knew. Soon, Wang Xiaoming knew who this Sannes was.
640. Soma Familia
Sannes, full name Sannes Rustra, is an LV2 adventurer. Most importantly, this adventurer is also the leader of a Familia, and this Familia is called the Soma Familia!
Good heavens, how long has it been since I killed Lily? I didn't expect to run into the Soma Familia again now.
Soma Familia, Orario's truly garbage Familia. The god Soma is garbage, looks down on his own Familia, is addicted to brewing alcohol, and then leaves all the affairs of the Familia to the leader, Sannes.
And the leader Sannes, in turn, looks down on Soma, and then manipulates the entire Soma Familia.
The god looks down on the Familia, the Familia looks down on the god, what an interesting Familia. Wang Xiaoming doesn't even know what Soma came to the surface for. Since you don't want to do anything, then you should go back to Heaven, why stay on this surface and cause trouble?
And Sannes, who controls the Soma Familia, isn't very strong in combat. As an adventurer, he's a weakling, but his ability to stir up trouble is first-class. He started swindling, and even led people in the dungeon to scam those adventurers who returned from the dungeon. People fought to the death in the dungeon, were exhausted, and didn't have much vigilance on the way back. He would lead people to suddenly rush out and rob them, take all the spoils, and then kill them.
Sometimes, he would even deliberately lure monsters over to kill the adventurers, and then get rid of the monsters and take the spoils.
Lily's methods of scamming people were completely learned from Sannes, or rather, the entire Soma Familia is good at such methods. They use this method to collect money. As for relying on their own strength to go to the dungeon to grind monsters, forget about it.
If Sannes, as the leader, had a little courage, he wouldn't have been stuck at LV2 for so many years.
Recently, because of the sudden rise of the Hestia Familia, Orario suddenly became more competitive. Everyone ran to the dungeon to grind monsters, and because of the increase in the number of adventurers, the Soma Familia's methods of scamming people became a bit useless, because there were too many people. Once they failed and were discovered, they would be targeted by the Ganesha Familia.
So Sannes set his sights on another path to wealth: piracy!
What is the hottest thing in Orario now? Magic stone phones, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters cards! And the gods' leisure card rooms.
Card rooms are not attractive to Sannes. Magic stone phone technology is too high-end, he can't understand it at all. Only Yu-Gi-Oh! cards are something he can slightly understand.
Those cards that look smaller than his palm, the most expensive one can actually sell for nearly ten million. This made him unable to understand, but at the same time, he was greatly shocked. So he tried every means to create super high-quality replica cards. For this, he also spent a lot of money to hire a magician who could use magic to copy the cards.
After spending a lot of money, naturally he had to sell them for a high price. So Sannes let the Soma Familia spread out throughout Orario and start selling cards.
In order to prevent selling too many at once and attracting attention, they didn't sell too many rare cards. Instead, each person had a set of rare cards, along with some other common cards. The money they sold would be handed over to Sannes after they went back. If they didn't complete the quota, and Sannes felt that he was losing money, Sannes, as the only LV2 in the Familia, would teach them a harsh lesson.
This is the current Soma Familia.
From the cloaked man, Wang Xiaoming learned everything about the current Soma Familia. After learning all of this, it was convenient for Wang Xiaoming to take action.
According to the cloaked man's information, Sannes was at the Soma Familia's residence, directing the Familia members to go out and sell cards, and waiting at home to collect money. At the same time, he was also keeping an eye on the artist at home.
However, today, he didn't wait for his Familia subordinates to come back, but instead waited for an explosion.
Boom—
The gate of the Familia's residence suddenly flew up, flying horizontally past Sannes, who was drinking, and smashed into the wall next to him. This stunned Sannes, who was holding his wine glass. The wine glass was almost to his mouth, but he stopped abruptly, quickly put down the wine glass in his hand, and stood up to walk towards the gate.
Now in the Familia's residence, besides that Soma who was still holed up in his room brewing alcohol, there were only three adventurers including himself. One was cooking in the kitchen, and one was watching at the gate. Now the gate suddenly exploded, then the one watching the gate, I'm afraid...
When Sannes came to the gate, he indeed saw the gatekeeper lying on the ground, and at the same time, he also saw the man next to the gatekeeper.
"Magic Sword Knight Wang Xiaoming!"
Sannes immediately recognized the other party. One of the most popular adventurers in Orario in the past few months. Although in terms of popularity, he can't compare to the beautiful girls of the Hestia Familia, but as a leader, he has risen from LV1 to LV6 in these short few months, becoming a top adventurer in Orario. Wang Xiaoming's face, now everyone in Orario knows it!
Most importantly, Wang Xiaoming is the real boss of the cards he pirated and plagiarized!
He was discovered by the other party, and then they came to his door!
Sannes made a judgment in the first moment and turned around to run.
However, after turning around, what he saw was not the passage to escape, but Wang Xiaoming standing in front of him!
"What!"
Sannes turned his head in surprise to look at the gate, and found that Wang Xiaoming, who was originally at the gate, had disappeared, and only a Familia subordinate was趴着on the ground. Turning his head back again, he confirmed that Wang Xiaoming really disappeared from the spot and appeared in front of him in an instant.
How is this possible!
"Leader Sannes, where do you want to go?"
"Leader Wang Xiaoming, I have something I want to go out for."
"Is that so, but before you go out, I have something I want to chat with you about."
Wang Xiaoming directly reached out and grabbed Sannes's neck,掐住him with one hand and lifted him up. Sannes grabbed Wang Xiaoming's arm with both hands to borrow strength, and struggled constantly, trying to get rid of Wang Xiaoming's hand.
"Leader Sannes, selling Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, is it very profitable?"
