Hu Die Lan

Chapter 390 Exploitation

Which guilds were secretly plotting behind the scenes? The suspects should be ranked in order of suspicion. Weaker guilds that wanted to avoid these conflicts would have a lower degree of suspicion, but they couldn't be completely ruled out. As for guilds like Blue Brook Guild and Tyrannical Ambition, who were originally enthusiastically participating in the revolution with everyone but then went silent, their suspicion was naturally the highest. Although no one dared to say it was 100%, the suspicion was so high that no further proof was needed.

"We can't let them get away with this!" one guild leader said.

"Right! If they're willing to compromise, fine, but after compromising, they want to become lackeys? Absolutely not allowed!"

"Not allowed +1!"

"Not allowed +2!"

"Not allowed +10086!"

The leaders of the seven major guilds were all furious, but their branch leaders in the tenth server seemed more calm. They silently watched the seven leaders discuss how to deal with Blue Brook Guild and Tyrannical Ambition, and suddenly felt like they had nowhere else to vent their anger. They really couldn't do anything about Ye Qiu, so Blue Brook Guild and Tyrannical Ambition had become convenient punching bags!

"What? You died?" Blue River was furious after receiving this message from Raging Flames and Lightning. This god was starting a guild, and as expected, he was becoming despicable, insidious, and untrustworthy! Thinking this, Blue River clicked on Lord Grim's name, sent an angry emoji first, and then questioned, "What's going on?"

"Hmm?"

"Why did you kill our people!" Blue River said righteously.

"You must have seen wrong?"

"Shameless!!" Blue River didn't expect the other party to be so blatant in their excuse. Just then, he received a new message, and it was still from Raging Flames and Lightning. The new message told him: he wasn't killed by Lord Grim, but by a team from Herb Garden.

"Herb Garden..." Blue River was dazed.

"Were you killed by another guild?" Ye Xiu's message arrived just in time.

"How did you know?"

"You betrayed them, and you're not allowing them to take revenge?" Ye Xiu retorted.

Blue River choked and almost suffocated to death. This betrayal couldn't have happened without this guy's instigation! Now he was acting like nothing happened. After feeling grief and indignation, Blue River suddenly realized something: "You guessed this long ago?"

"Who couldn't guess that?" Ye Xiu replied.

"You deliberately asked us for information to cause us to fight each other like this!" Blue River deduced decisively.

"You're overthinking it. Asking you for information is a mutually beneficial thing, and it should be done this way," Ye Xiu said.

"You got the benefits, and now we're in trouble!" Blue River said.

"I'm also in trouble!" Ye Xiu said.

"What trouble are you in?"

"I... I've been red-named for a whole day and haven't washed it off yet..." Ye Xiu's reply seemed forced, making Blue River very sure that this "trouble" was something this guy had to work hard to come up with.

"Too insidious!" Blue River shouted.

"How many people in your guild have died?" Ye Xiu asked in a serious tone, discussing serious matters.

"Isn't one enough?"

"Whether it's enough or not isn't up to me to decide!"

Blue River was spitting blood.

"I've accepted your materials, so I should help you with something. If you're attacked again, you can come to me," Ye Xiu continued.

Blue River deeply understood that it was too superficial to think of this as just sowing discord. After sowing discord, there was this follow-up! Now all the people from Blue Brook Guild had become bait released by this guy. What should Blue Brook Guild do? If they left it alone, they definitely wouldn't be able to deal with these guilds joining forces to vent their anger. If they did what this guy said, they would establish hatred with many guilds, which would also be difficult to handle!

Moreover, the tenth server was now almost entirely overseen by the presidents of the main guilds. The struggle here could directly spread to the Heavenly Domain. Although there had always been constant infighting between the major guilds, there had never been such an act of absolutely a minority provoking the hatred of the absolute majority. Everyone had been careful, never attracting the hatred of more than two guilds at the same time. But now, they had provoked seven at once! No matter how strong a guild was, it couldn't resist on its own.

"What should we do?" The matter was important, and Blue River didn't dare to make a decision lightly, so he went to find the guild leader, Chun Yi Lao. He also felt that the situation was complicated this time, and Chun Yi Lao's concise messages couldn't explain it clearly, so he simply went to Chun Yi Lao for a voice chat.

The same situation also happened to Tyrannical Ambition. After one of their elite players was killed, and they learned that it wasn't Lord Grim who did it, Ye Du Han Tan quickly became alert.

Of course, he didn't run to Lord Grim to question him like Blue River did, but directly contacted the guild leader, Jiang You, to discuss it.

"Asking us for information is a trap..." Ye Du Han Tan said painfully, "It's my fault, I was too eager for quick success and didn't notice such an obvious development."

"No..." After listening to Ye Du Han Tan's report and self-criticism, Jiang You was silent for a long time before saying one word.

Ye Du Han Tan didn't quite understand what the "no" meant, but he didn't ask, and just continued to wait for Ye Du Han Tan to continue.

"From the moment some of our guilds compromised and some didn't, we were already caught in a trap," Jiang You said.

"As expected of the most experienced god in Glory... a textbook? It's not just professional competition, even the guild struggles in the game are giving us a good lesson."

"What he has been using is the biggest problem between our guilds. In the end, we are all competitors, and there is only profit between us, no friends..."

"From the moment we had different choices, we were destined to suspect each other. Asking for information is just a method, even if he doesn't do this, there will be other ways to make us suspect each other. This... is completely unavoidable, our system determines our nature, and this cannot be changed." Jiang You's messages were sent one by one, and no one interrupted. Everyone could see the helplessness in them.

"Then what should we do now?" Ye Du Han Tan asked.

"Now that things have come to this, those guilds won't stop, and we can't explain it, unless we join them in dealing with Lord Grim again," Jiang You said.

"This..." Ye Du Han Tan felt aggrieved. They had already paid the materials to exchange for a peaceful leveling environment. They didn't want Lord Grim to cause trouble for them, but the other guilds wouldn't let them go. Now they were running to deal with Lord Grim again, and of course, he wouldn't hold back just because they gave him materials. Everything had returned to the starting point. The guilds that had compromised ultimately wasted their materials, while the guilds that hadn't compromised continued to endure the pressure and the occasional losses from being killed.

Tyrannical Ambition had always had the fighting spirit of the Tyranny team. Retreating was never their style. They had chosen to compromise once when facing Lord Grim, which was already a great concession, and they were mainly thinking about having a backup plan. But now, this situation was forcing Tyrannical Ambition to compromise with the allied guilds, and it was hard to say what backup plan they could have. This situation made Ye Du Han Tan feel like he had swallowed a fly. He believed that Guild Leader Jiang You was feeling no better than he was at this moment.

"Since that's the case, why not go all the way?" Jiang You suddenly said.

"Oh?"

"Let's join forces with Ye Qiu!" Jiang You said.

"This... that's not very good, is it?" Ye Du Han Tan said quickly, "What about the other servers in the Heavenly Domain?"

If it was just the tenth server, then joining forces with Ye Qiu to bully the other guilds would be a very comfortable thing, but the problem was that the tenth server was only a part of the major guilds' forces. Ye Qiu could currently cover this area, but he couldn't affect other places. Once the whole body was affected by pulling one hair, the consequences would be serious. In the other old servers and the Heavenly Domain, if these guilds joined forces, Tyrannical Ambition's life would definitely be very difficult.

"Then we'll have to try it," Jiang You said.

"Guild Leader, don't be impulsive!" Ye Du Han Tan quickly advised. In his opinion, Jiang You couldn't stand this humiliation and was about to act rashly.

But Jiang You sent a smiling emoji: "It seems you still don't understand."

"What?" Ye Du Han Tan was at a loss.

"This link is probably also within Ye Qiu's calculations," Jiang You said.

Ye Du Han Tan paused slightly, and his brain immediately began to work at high speed.

"The balance between the guilds has been maintained for many years. With everyone's current foundation, it's impossible to uproot anyone, so guilds have always avoided large-scale conflicts. Killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of your own, even if you win such a conflict, it's hard to say whether you'll get any benefits. Weighing it, it's definitely better for everyone to develop peacefully together. If the seven guilds join forces to deal with us, it will indeed be difficult, but they will definitely not have an easy time either. Only an idiot would do something that would cause a fight between a snipe and a clam, benefiting the fisherman. Do you think any of the guild leaders are idiots?" Jiang You said.

"This... what if there's an accident..." Ye Du Han Tan was still a little worried.

"There's no such accident. A guild that would cause such an accident has already been eliminated," Jiang You said confidently.

"Then what do you mean?"

"Let go and cooperate with Ye Qiu. If you discover a target, tell him that they're being targeted, and go find him! Our people should try to stay together. Whether they dare to stay together depends on their courage," Jiang You said.

"Okay... I understand." Ye Du Han Tan wasn't a noob either. Once the specific direction was set, he would naturally consider the details.

"First, use Ye Qiu's hand to severely suppress these guys and let them be the Huang Gai in the bitter-flesh ploy, taking the opportunity to help Ye Qiu build momentum. I don't believe that the people from Excellent Era, who forced Ye Qiu to retire, can really watch him return to the professional circle with such momentum. He wants us to fight each other, so let's take the opportunity to play a double-edged sword. Ye Qiu is actually a good hand of cards!"