Infinite Weird Game

Guild registration can be done anywhere the World Tree's roots pass through.

After dinner, Qisi took Lin Chen away from the main trunk of the World Tree.

He walked through the buildings built by human players on the ruins and passed the temporary camp where people gathered. He walked for another half an hour until he could no longer see a single person on the desolate land. Only then did he stop.

The area of ​​Sunset Ruins is not easy to walk on. The uneven and cracked ground is interspersed with towering bricks and stones, which is similar to a hiking trail.

Lin Chen followed Qi Si through mountains and rivers, and was covered in dust. He almost stumbled and bumped into Qi Si's back several times.

At this moment, he stood still on a piece of open space that could barely be considered flat, and asked with a heavy breath, "Brother Qi, why do we have to hide from people? I heard that after the guild is registered, it will be announced on the stone tablet, and everyone will know it then."

"But they won't know how our guild was established, how many members there are, and who they are." Qis squatted in front of a ditch half a person's width and reached out to fish out the golden roots lying in it.

He formed a phantom of the Scarlet High Priest card on his fingertips, covering the roots, and silently recited the four words "Register Guild" in his heart.

This is the simplest default process in the forum: first attract the attention of the World Tree through special items closely related to the weird game - such as props and identity cards - and then express your demands to trigger the automatic reply preset by the game mechanism.

[Registering a guild requires 10,000 points]

The silver-white text refreshed and a points payment progress bar appeared on the system interface.

——It is not uncommon for founders to share expenses and build a guild together, so Weird Game has designed a humane fundraising mechanism. Players within a five-meter radius can see the fundraising progress bar and invest points into it.

It is said that there were several incidents in the early days where the founders of other guilds threw points into the wrong places, and people just for fun wandered around and threw points randomly. Fortunately, the guild member list was still based on the contract, so there wasn't any major trouble in the end.

Of course, it would be best to build a guild in a deserted place like Qis, so as to avoid all potential troubles directly.

Qis threw five thousand points into the fundraising bar, and a golden beam of light flowed, filling half of the long groove.

Lin Chen woke up as if from a dream, and began to throw points to fill the remaining half groove.

[Points payment completed, enter the registration process]

The golden liquid in the grooves dispersed into light spots, weaving into the shape of a contract before one's eyes, with gold-plated words floating on the translucent thin base.

A feather pen floated back and forth beside the deed, looking quite lively.

Qi Si turned his head to look at Lin Chen who was standing there stupidly: "You are the president, you fill it out."

"...Ah? I'll be the guild president?"

When Qi Si said, "You will be the president and I will be the vice president," Lin Chen thought he had heard it wrong.

It was not until Qisi repeated it now that he realized it was not an auditory hallucination.

The rules of the weird game simply and crudely define the guild as the property of the president. Although the vice president is also a position recognized by the mechanism, he usually only has the right to make recommendations and management rights.

Although the rights and responsibilities are equal, there is a saying in the forum that "members fly bravely and the president takes the blame", but once the guild develops stably, the president will be the direct beneficiary.

On the one hand, Lin Chen didn't think that Qi Si's character would make him take such a big blame; on the other hand, he didn't intend to forget his principles for the sake of profit and act recklessly by relying on the authority of the president.

But what qualifications does he have to enjoy the greatest benefits from a guild that was jointly funded and registered?

Qi Si said calmly: "According to the so-called convention, all guilds have the obligation to send people to participate in joint operations. As a newly established guild, we are being watched by countless eyes and there is no way to escape.

"If my guess is correct, an old guild will contact us soon and ask us to send people to fulfill the responsibility. The first mission will probably not be easy. Firstly, it will serve as a warning to us, and secondly, it will test our ability.

"For the past 36 years, there has been no reason for the president to handle tasks personally. If we set a precedent, we will appear to be manipulated and inferior, and we will also show our weakness in terms of strength.

"That is to say, if I were the guild leader, when other guilds challenged our guild, you would be the only one left to handle the situation."

Qi Si lowered his eyes and sighed: "Lin Chen, do you think you have enough strength now to deal with the endless variables and crises?"

These words were merciless and were the harshest words Qis had said since they met in Rose Manor.

Lin Chen knew that this was not an exaggeration.

After the "Frog Hospital" copy, his ranking in the newcomer list only climbed by thirty-seven places, to [48], and that was even when he was bound to the identity card [Bird-beak Doctor].

His qualifications in all aspects are mediocre, his knowledge needs to be expanded, his intelligence and martial arts are only at the level of ordinary people, and his abilities tend to be auxiliary... Such a person is undoubtedly not good enough in this weird game where geniuses emerge in large numbers.

Without Zis, he wouldn't even survive the first copy of the novice pool.

Although he was unwilling to believe in the zero-sum game nature of the game world where the strong prey on the weak, after what he had seen and heard over the past month, he would no longer be so foolish as to regard those high-sounding old guilds as good guys as before.

Therefore, he could understand Qi Si's inhumane and serious attitude.

The decision to establish a guild, to get involved in competition and rivalry that has been cultivated for decades, and to try to disrupt the already solidified interest system will inevitably face pressure from all sides.

Every decision from now on must be made with great caution, because one wrong move could lead to total destruction.

Lin Chen whispered: "Brother Qi, you have been helping me all along. I don't understand a lot of things. What if I mess up?"

"It's messed up..." Qi Si narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Then our president and vice president should die together."

"Uh... ah?"

"So you can't mess it up." Qi Si restrained his smile, his eyes as deep as a pool of water, "Not only that, you must try your best to do your best.

"The puppet master should have told you about the 'gate', 'tower' and 'cards'. Now that the 'gate' and 'tower' have been opened, chaos is imminent and order is at risk. In despair and fear, many people are willing to take risks and violate the established rules.

"You hold an identity card, but if you don't have your own power to protect you, you are no different from a child carrying gold in the market. At that time, you will either be forced to join an existing guild and become a dead bone to fill the dead point; or you will be targeted by speculators and fall into endless hostility and targeting.

"You have gone through so many dungeons, and you should have a certain understanding of the gunman game principle and the exclusivity of human groups. Even if those who don't get the identity card know that they can't snatch the identity cards of other players, they will definitely be happy to kill people like you who are suspected to have a higher probability of survival.

"In this strange game, if you don't become evil yourself, you will be swallowed up by the evil of others... You don't have much time left."

Lin Chen nodded hesitantly.

If he followed Qis to register the guild before just because he was in the right mood and agreed without thinking, then now he clearly understood the necessity and urgency of registering his own guild and there was no way back.

Even though it is still unknown what will happen next, even though Sunset Ruins is still shrouded in a veil of peace and tranquility, even though there are still many doubts about the role of the identity card...

But the principle is the same.

If a new player enters an old guild without any special skills, he will certainly not be valued as much as the old players, and he will easily become a pawn discarded in the general trend.

It is imperative to create a new guild. At least, we will not be oppressed internally, and we can bluff externally so that others cannot see through our strength and dare not manipulate us at will.

Lin Chen did not hesitate any longer. He reached out to take the contract paper and feather pen in the air and looked at the first line.

"Guild name?"

Qi Si said, "You decide." He had actually thought about naming the guild "Scarlet" or something like that that could refer to his divine name, but firstly, it was too straightforward and sounded like it was related to an identity card; secondly... it sounded too childish.

As a person who is not good at naming, Qis decided to leave this unimportant issue to the tool man.

"I'm determined?" Lin Chen pondered, "'Hell Front'? 'Reverse Cross'? 'Central Continent Team'?"

Zeiss added: "Don't be too weird."

In the end, after rejecting a bunch of strange names such as "Heaven and Earth Are One Family Love Alliance", "Zuowang Dao" and "Tarot Club", the two naming experts decided to name the guild as "Unnamed".

Well, it's even weirder.

"Then there is... the name of the guild leader."

"Don't use your real name," Keith suggested. "Use an alias that you can relate to."

Lin Chen, who had already written the word "Lin", glanced at the [Bird-beak Doctor] sign in the upper right corner of his sight and wrote the word "Crow" after "Lin".

The mask in Doctor Bird's Beak's hand looks a lot like a crow, so let's just treat it as a crow mask.

In the vice president column, the name filled in was naturally "Siqi".

Since a lot of information has been exposed due to Chang Xu's live broadcast, it would be better to make the best of a bad situation and contact other forces under the identity of "Siqi".

The Weird Investigation Bureau and the closely related Jiuzhou Guild know that "Si Qi" is equal to "Qi Si", but they don't know what the relationship is between "Qi Wen", "Zhou Ke", "Cheng An" and "Si Qi", nor do they know that "Qi Si" has a side job besides being a specimen maker.

So, it's not a big problem.

"Brother Qi, it says here that we can designate an area in the weird game as a guild base, and we need to pay a rental fee of one thousand points per week." Lin Chen pointed to a line of small words on the deed.

Qi Si leaned over and asked Weird Game, "Does it take a base to register a guild?"

Weird Game: [Yes, the base can be used as a place for guild members to meet and communicate, and it also undertakes important functions such as collective decision-making and recruiting new members. It is indispensable]

Qi Si took out the [Director's Special Pass] and [Poseidon's Scepter] from the item column and asked, "As long as it's the territory in the weird game, it's fine, right?"

【……Yes. 】

"The Frog Hospital is a copy of the weird game, and it is actually under my control. Can it be used as a guild base?"

【……OK.】

"Well, then let's use the Frog Hospital. I'll be using my own land, so I shouldn't have to pay rent, right?"

【Yes.】

Lin Chen stared at Qi Si's operations in amazement, and actually heard a hint of gnashing of teeth in the cold system voice.

The crumpled pass turned into a spot of light and disappeared in Qis's hand. A string of incomprehensible coordinates appeared after the "Guild Location" column, with the four small words "Frog Hospital" written next to it.

Lin Chen stuttered and asked: "Qi...Brother Qi, when did you take control of the Frog Guild?"

"This is a pleasant surprise from the last instance." Qi Si touched his chin and said calmly, "My Poseidon Scepter was taken away by the dean for a while. During this time, he probably transferred the control of the Frog Hospital to the scepter in order to establish an anchor point and stabilize his own existence.

"Later, he shot himself in the foot and died during a ritual to extradite evil spirits. Naturally, all his previous actions were to help others... Well, I was lucky and got the upper hand in the end."

Lin Chen blinked and asked, "Does this Frog Hospital still count as a game copy?"

"It should be considered as such." Qi Si raised his eyes to the sky. "Didn't the weird game just now assume that the Frog Hospital was a dungeon?"

Lin Chen's eyes lit up: "If this is true, then our guild will make a lot of money!

"Brother Qi, you may not know that many players will wait for the seven-day countdown to end and spend 5,000 points to enter a designated simple dungeon. However, guild members do not need to pay to enter the guild base.

“That is to say, from now on, if members of our guild don’t want to match into an unfamiliar dungeon, they can go to the Frog Hospital once every seven days and it will be considered as having been into the dungeon.

"Currently, there are only a few old guilds such as Jiuzhou and Tingfeng that have guild bases that are dungeon-like. They are all used as training grounds, and ordinary members are not allowed to enter casually.

"As long as we let other players know that our guild has the Frog Hospital dungeon as its base, we will never have to worry about not being able to recruit new members!"

Qi Si listened to Lin Chen quietly, tilted his head and looked at him: "Why do we want to recruit new members?"

Lin Chen was stunned: "Ah? Aren't we hiring people?"

"How can you be sure that the other party is loyal and not a self-seeking person? How can you judge whether the other party has ulterior motives in joining our guild? How can you ensure that the other party is not an undercover sent by other guilds, or will not accidentally reveal the secrets of our guild?"

Qi Si asked three questions in a row and sighed: "I don't intend to force every player who joins the guild to sign a soul contract, but I am also worried about handing the future of the guild to strangers who don't know their background.

"The innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. You also said that only a few guilds have dungeons as their guild bases. If other old guilds knew that a new guild like us owned the land of the Frog Hospital, would they treat it with a normal attitude and not be jealous and covetous?
“At that time, they can say that we are in cahoots with Weird Game and sold out the interests of humanity in order to obtain the dungeon as a base; or they can directly say that we encountered an accident in the dungeon and have become Weird itself, and then they can take the moral high ground to annex our guild.

"After all, we are still too weak. The right to judge right and wrong has always belonged to the strong, right?"

Lin Chen was indoctrinated with a lecture on the theory of thick black studies. He clenched and opened his hands, and a thin layer of sweat gradually covered the surface of his hands.

In "Rose Manor", Qi Si also said some things to him that were not in line with public order and morality, but in the end, they were close friends.

Now he suddenly revealed all the dirty secrets to him, probably because he had taken the position of the chairman and had to grow up quickly so as not to be embarrassed in the turbulent struggle for interests.

Lin Chen knew that he could no longer retreat into the ivory tower as he had done in the past.

People always have to grow up, either leaving school and entering society and becoming disenchanted with purity and romance; or recognizing the truth of the world and embracing fear and the unknown.

He had to shoulder his responsibilities, learn how to make alliances, and guard against attacks from both sides; what he was betting on was not only his own fate, but also Qi Si's...

Qi Si looked into Lin Chen's eyes and said with a smile, "President Lin, please draw the emblem."

The last column of the deed was printed with an outline of a badge, leaving ample space.

Lin Chen pondered for a long time, then held the feather pen and drew a tilted cross on it, which looked like a twisted fork at first glance.

The contract scattered into the void and disappeared.

Two blood-red metal badges fell into the hands of the only two members of the guild. The black crosses on the surface looked solemn and ominous.

At the same time, all players in the Sunset Ruins heard the system broadcast.

[Congratulations to the player "Lin Wuya" for successfully registering the "Unnamed" guild]

Under the World Tree, at the end of the Guild Power Ranking, the three words [Unnamed] were listed.

[2397, Unnamed, President: Lin Wuya, Vice President: Siqi] (End of this chapter)