“You’re asking me what I think of this Dungeon?”
“Naturally, it’s excellent…”
However, Xu Gaoyuan couldn’t say such a thing.
He could only awkwardly say, “President, I don’t know either! I just entered the Dungeon and then exited, so I didn’t really understand it…”
Hearing this, Vice President Qi frowned, “That’s not right, Vice President Xu. We’ve been looking for you many times. If you really exited as soon as you entered, you should have appeared here much earlier. So, what have you been doing for the past half-day?”
Xu Gaoyuan’s heart sank.
But he still feigned a relaxed expression and said, “I wasn’t doing anything. I was just maintaining order in the Land of Emptiness… I wanted to wait for a while to see if any Adventurers would re-enter the Land of Emptiness. If so, I would certainly persuade them to turn back from their misguided path, wouldn’t I, President?”
“Really?”
Vice President Qi was still a bit suspicious.
“Of course it’s true. What… what’s with your doubting attitude, Old Qi? You’re not suspecting me, are you?”
Xu Gaoyuan immediately put on an indignant expression, “I say, Old Qi, I know you’ve always been unhappy with me, but… we are both Vice-Presidents of the Guild, and we are both striving for the development of Baiye City. You can doubt my character, but you can’t doubt my loyalty to Baiye City, can you?”
“Vice President Xu, I haven’t said anything yet, why are you getting so agitated?!”
Xu Gaoyuan: “…”
Seeing that the two were about to argue again over such a trivial matter.
Ma Lingzhi had a headache.
He decisively said, “Alright, both of you, shut up!”
He had spoken.
Vice President Qi stopped talking. He had only said those words because he was targeting Xu Gaoyuan. Since Ma Lingzhi didn’t care, there was no point in him continuing to speak.
Xu Gaoyuan was even less likely to speak.
In fact, he was indeed feeling guilty, sitting in such a position, yet his mind was still filled with his opponent’s Dungeon.
He even had the urge to go back and play.
This put him in a very conflicted state. If he went back to play, it was very likely that people in the Guild would notice, and then his position as Vice-President would not be so secure.
He would certainly have to endure some gossip in his daily life.
But if he didn’t go back to play, sometimes a lifetime would just pass by, and the Adventurer’s soul that had just ignited in his heart might be extinguished because of it. It would be unknown when it would ignite again.
Was he willing?
Xu Gaoyuan was a little unwilling…
But also a little afraid.
This was his point of dilemma, caught between a rock and a hard place.
And at this moment.
Ma Lingzhi’s subsequent words once again stirred Xu Gaoyuan’s desire.
“If you want to argue, argue later. What time is it now? Don’t you understand?”
Ma Lingzhi said coldly.
“President, what exactly happened…?” Xu Gaoyuan asked cautiously.
Ma Lingzhi glanced at him, “You’ve been staying in the Land of Emptiness all this time, haven’t you noticed a big problem?”
“...Well, um, it… it seems a little bit off…” Xu Gaoyuan could only use such awkward words to cover it up.
“What do you mean ‘a little bit off’? Haven’t you noticed that the number of soul crystals for Fighting World has stagnated?” Ma Lingzhi sighed, “If it weren’t for Elder President Sun Mingde telling me about this, I wouldn’t have known. Now the soul crystals for Fighting World are stuck at 3360 and not moving. Do you know what this means?”
3360…
Everyone present could understand what this number represented.
It meant:
After the first round of the Dungeon, the Adventurers of Tidal Town had not entered the Land of Emptiness again, which meant that Fighting World likely held no attraction whatsoever for the Adventurers of Tidal Town.
How could this be…
The other members of the Baiye City Adventurer’s Guild had more or less played the Dungeon Fighting World and had given it high praise.
In their opinion.
This ‘Dungeon Duel’ was a sure win. The final score of Fighting World should at least be around 15,000, which would surely bring a shock to Tidal Town.
The result.
Who would have thought that it would get stuck at 3360 and not move?
The number of challengers was 3500, and Fighting World was also a hundred-person scale, a four-person battle royale Dungeon.
So the final number of escapees was 140.
This meant that after the game ended, not a single person went back to participate in this Dungeon again, which is how this number was obtained.
This truly left everyone perplexed…
Of course.
This ‘everyone’ actually didn’t include Xu Gaoyuan.
Because Xu Gaoyuan, as the only Adventurer’s Guild administrator who had played Endless Calamity, understood the quality of Endless Calamity too well.
Facing the ‘incomprehension’ of Ma Lingzhi and others.
Xu Gaoyuan could only secretly respond in his heart, there’s nothing to misunderstand. If I were an Adventurer from Tidal Town, I wouldn’t play a second time either.
Everyone is going for the profit. Endless Calamity is clearly more fun, yields more profit, and the quality of the food obtained in the end is better.
Under these circumstances where it’s superior in every aspect, who would settle for second best?
Of course.
Xu Gaoyuan couldn’t say these words either. He could only stand on the same front as Ma Lingzhi and the others. All he wanted now was to quickly send these people away, and then see if he had a chance to go back and have a blast playing again.
Should I ask for leave?
Or just say I went to the restroom…
Xu Gaoyuan was still thinking.
Ma Lingzhi then said, “This situation is truly very strange. According to Elder President Sun Mingde, someone in Tidal Town must be preventing their Adventurers from entering the Land of Emptiness, intending to control the score this way.”
Xu Gaoyuan: “...Then, President, what do you mean?”
Ma Lingzhi said solemnly, “We cannot sit idly by. We must use their own methods against them. Therefore… we plan to have you return to the Land of Emptiness to continue supervising our Adventurers, to prevent them from ‘giving away points’. This task is very important, and you must keep a close eye on them for me. As for what to do with the Adventurers from Tidal Town, we will figure that out later…”
When Xu Gaoyuan heard this, his mind was full of questions.
Me?
Go back and stop those Adventurers…
President, are you trying to kill me?
Xu Gaoyuan found it hard to imagine if he really went to stop them, whether he would be beaten to death by the enraged Adventurers.
After all, even he wanted to play this Dungeon, let alone other Adventurers.
