The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 92 Gang Fight
Although Abner spoke casually and calmly, Flo's expression changed slightly. He looked at Abner in astonishment. It was obvious that he did not expect Abner to do such a business.

"Monopolizing trade routes isn't easy." Lin Qi was surprised, but with the help of his stellar explosion visualization technique, his expression remained calm. Even his voice remained perfectly calm, without the slightest fluctuation. "We at the Black Obsidian Martial Arts School need to build Red Moon Mountain, so I'm afraid we don't have enough manpower to do other things."

Monopolizing trade lines usually means robbing transport convoys traveling between cities, allowing only transport convoys on one's side to pass safely. The benefits brought by this can be said to be very huge.

Many businesses and companies in the suburbs have handed over this kind of transportation work to the wild gangs. Once they have a monopoly, these businesses and companies in the suburbs can only choose the wild gang that can transport safely, unless these businesses and companies are willing to pay a higher price to let those suburban gangs do the transportation. I am afraid that few businesses and companies are willing to bear this kind of thing.

The trade competition between cities is very fierce, and often it is a price war. When transportation costs increase greatly, prices will naturally soar. When the goods are sold in other cities, it will be difficult to be competitive. Therefore, the final choice is to find those wild gangs that can transport safely.

However, if you want to monopolize the trade lines, you need to mobilize a large amount of manpower. After all, there are a lot of caravans traveling between cities, and you don’t know how many caravans you rob in a day. It is impossible to do it without enough manpower.

"Master Lin, rest assured about this," Abner said with a smile. "As I said before, I'm here to make friends with Master Lin. Therefore, the trade routes between Myriad Stars City and Chasing Light City will be handled by our Demon Star Gang. We will rob the wild gang convoys heading from Chasing Light City to Myriad Stars City."

"Although our Demon Star Gang can't rob every convoy, over time, the number of gangs willing to take orders will likely decrease. When that happens, the Obsidian Martial Arts School will begin accepting commissions from those traveling to and from Myriad Stars City, and I believe many companies and enterprises will come knocking on our door."

"Then what can our Obsidian Martial Arts School do for the Demon Star Gang?" Lin Qi also smiled and couldn't help but look at Abner, who was over two meters and five in height.

This unilateral monopoly of trade lines is of no benefit to the Demon Star Gang. It may even make the wild gangs of the City of Chasing Light hostile to the Demon Star Gang in the future, and cause the Demon Star Gang's convoys transporting goods to the City of Chasing Light to be attacked in various ways. It can be said that it is a thankless task.

The gangs in the high-level martial arts world are all motivated by profit. He totally doesn't believe in things that only bring disadvantages and no advantages.

Abner looked at Lin Qi and said cautiously, "After I came to Red Moon Mountain, I was very optimistic about it. So I hope that Master Lin can allow our Demon Star Gang to build a large store and a large warehouse. We will only sell no more than ten kinds of goods unique to Myriad Star City. We don't ask for anything else."

The benefits of the transit market are huge. Once it is established, the unique products of Wanxing City can be sold at a cheaper price in the transit market. At that time, there will definitely be a large number of vagrants from Zhuguang City who will buy them, instead of transporting the products of Wanxing City to Zhuguang City without being eligible to sell them.

Although nomads in the wild don't earn much, their number is far greater than that of city residents, so there is no need to worry about the unique products of Wanxing City not being able to sell.

However, there will be a huge problem in doing so, that is, it will affect the interests of the Obsidian Martial Arts School. After all, the Obsidian Martial Arts School has worked hard to create a transit market that can serve the vagrants in the two cities. Once the Demon Star Gang sells the unique products of Wanxing City, it will naturally affect the Obsidian Martial Arts School's sales of Wanxing City's products.

So Abner didn't dare to ask for too much. The ten kinds of goods unique to Wanxing City were only a small part compared to the hundreds of unique goods in Wanxing City.

"If this is what you want," Lin Qi paused, concealing his inner joy, and then said, "I can agree to it, but only for ten unique products that are not too expensive."

He did intend to take advantage of the urban homeless on both ends, but the current Obsidian Martial Arts School simply did not have the manpower and funds to go to Wanxing City to purchase goods and sell them back to Chiyue Mountain. It would even be good enough for him to just hold on to the Chiyue Mountain.

If someone could come to Chiyue Mountain and open a shop, making the market there more prosperous and attracting more vagrants, he would be so grateful to that person that he wouldn't have time to thank them.

"Thank you, Master Lin." Abner couldn't help but clench his fist slightly after hearing this. If this deal was done, his status in the Demon Star Gang would greatly increase, and he could even make a lot of money personally. "Regarding the issue of monopolizing the trade line, I will start taking action after I return this time. I believe I will give Master Lin a satisfactory result soon."

"Okay, this is the Red Moon Mountain trade zone map." Lin Qi nodded, took out the Red Moon Mountain map he had drawn for the players yesterday, pointed to an area far away from the mines, and said, "From these locations, you can pick two plots of land to build a shop and a warehouse. If you find one you like, just let me know when you start building."

"Are these areas all available?" Abner was surprised when he saw the areas on the map where shops could be built. He didn't expect that Lin Qi would be willing to give up the area near the mountain road. This was a very good location, which would normally be reserved for his own family and would never be given to other forces.

However, when Abner looked at Lin Qi, who had a smile on his face, he suddenly understood what Lin Qi meant.

That means the Demon Star Gang has to work hard, and only by doing so can they have such a good shop location. If they don't do well, or the cooperation breaks down, then the Obsidian Martial Arts School can take back these shops at any time, and then the Demon Star Gang can only watch.

"The person in charge of the Obsidian Martial Arts School is indeed not a simple person. No wonder he can be in charge of the Obsidian Martial Arts School at such a young age." Abner looked at Lin Qi who left to transport the energy ore, and his evaluation of the Obsidian Martial Arts School also increased a bit. He decided that the people he would send to Red Moon Mountain in the future must be smart and clever, and must not make Lin Qi unhappy, otherwise he would die without knowing how he died.

As the sun began to set, Lin Qi finally returned to the Obsidian Martial Arts School with the first batch of energy ore before it set. As Lin Qi returned to the Obsidian Martial Arts School, he saw that the training grounds were filled with players practicing the Shocking Spirit Breathing Technique, just like real martial arts disciples.

At the front of the training ground, there is a humanoid robot over two meters tall, which is the trainer B6 training machine rewarded by the system.

This Coach B6 training machine can be said to be the best companion for new players. It can teach up to people to practice the Jingshen Breathing Method at a time. The effect is no less than that of real-life guidance. It can detect various problems of players in the first time and give correct instructions.

This method can help players correct training errors in a timely manner. It not only allows new players to improve their proficiency in training more quickly, but also allows Lin Qi to harvest all the players. If players want to speed up the progress, they must pay a teaching fee of 100 points per hour, which is considered to make new players spend money to catch up with the progress.

Of course, the Coach B6 training machine is not without its shortcomings. The recorded and taught training methods can only allow the proficiency to reach the entry-level proficiency level. After that, it can no longer be taught. For subsequent improvements, players need to find ways to do it themselves.

But even so, the new players at that time were very excited. They didn't expect that new players would have such benefits.

But before the new players could be happy for a while, they found that there were not many places to earn points and contributions in the new version of the martial arts gym. If new players wanted to earn points and contributions, they could only dig holes and farm, or help old players harvest blood rice. The old players would reward them with some points, which was also a way to get extra points, but compared with the old players in the past, the points earned were still too few.

Only by reaching the apprentice level as soon as possible and going to the new map can you better earn points and contributions.

It was also because of this that the old players at that time felt relieved that their previous efforts were not in vain.

Just a while after Lin Qi issued several tasks to the newcomers to transport energy ores, the advanced smart watch on his wrist suddenly rang with a communication prompt tone, and the person who contacted was Luo Qi.

"Have you chosen a new store?" Lin Qi said with a smile after answering the call.

Just two days ago, he persuaded Luo Qi to become the owner of a shop in the suburbs, specifically responsible for managing the processing of future wild harvests.

Originally, he planned to hand it over to the players, but considering that the players could only hear human language and were not clear about many things in the City of Light, Luo Qi was undoubtedly the best choice.

Not only is he a mechanic who is familiar with all kinds of materials and products, but he is also a full-time resident living in the suburbs of the City of Light all year round and is fluent in multiple languages. He is simply the perfect candidate to be a store owner.

"I've already chosen it. It's a three-story building in the downtown area. The monthly rent is 100,000 bits." Luo Qi said.

"A three-story shop in the downtown area is only 100,000?" Lin Qi was quite surprised. He didn't expect that Luo Qi was so resourceful and could get such a cheap shop. Normally, a one-story shop in the suburbs would cost around 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. It would be impossible to get one in the downtown area without 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, not to mention a three-story building.

"It's a good deal, really. The owner of the shop had an accident, and now only a mother and daughter are left. To avoid any trouble, they wanted to rent it out quickly." Luo Qi nodded, then sighed, and said with a somewhat helpless tone, "But I also heard a lot of bad news in the suburbs today."

"What news?" Lin Qi asked curiously.

"I heard from a friend who works in a suburban enterprise that few of the many enterprises and companies in the suburbs of the City of Light would entrust the Obsidian Martial Arts School. Even for those that do, the transportation routes are extremely dangerous. All this is because the Baiyu Gang has passed some information to these suburban enterprises and companies. As long as a company or company entrusts the Obsidian Martial Arts School, the Baiyu Gang will not accept the commission from that company." Luo Qi said with some concern.

Without the transportation commissioned by these suburban companies and enterprises, the Obsidian Martial Arts School would not be able to bring back some unique goods from other cities or towns and sell them in suburban shops.

The income of the top 30 gangs in the wild mainly comes from the profits from the sale of these unique products. Once this aspect is gone, the income will be reduced by at least %.

But the most important thing is that her shop will have nothing to sell...

(End of this chapter)