Chapter 21 They're Here to Discuss

Bai Shi Jing Lun had also arrived at the 9527 Rock by this time. Facing an even more surging and enthusiastic crowd than yesterday, he was extremely excited. He didn't show any of the resistance Gu Fei had. He grabbed a small monster from outside and charged in, leaping onto the 9527 Rock, rolling up his sleeves and shouting, "Let me handle this!"

Gu Fei had just finished another round of teaching, let out a long breath, and retreated a couple of steps before collapsing on the ground. Bai Shi Jing Lun, full of energy, took over Gu Fei's shift. The players below were also invigorated, their goodwill toward Gu Fei's team deepening. To have two teachers who could rotate shifts – how powerful was that! With such a strong faculty and a minimum price of 99 gold coins, some people were so excited that they shouted out an advertisement for Gu Fei and his team: "Cheap, plentiful, and we all love it!"

"You love it! I need to lie down for a bit..." Gu Fei muttered, listening to the shouts from below the giant rock.

The clamor at the 9527 Rock grew louder and louder, gradually impacting the pirated market again. A legitimate version that was more than half the price of the pirated version – everyone figured that had to be competitive! For that, many people were willing to wait a little longer. Facing the pirates trying to drum up business, "scram" was the only word they got.

The pirates had fewer and fewer students. Gradually, the only ones willing to learn from them were players who wanted to save time and didn't care about the money. This was completely unsatisfactory to the pirate syndicate. They missed the prosperous days when they were treated like VIPs. But now? Not only did they have to actively solicit business, but many people were still chased away with a "scram."

"What's going on?" These people had previously been competitors, but now that they saw something was wrong, they couldn't help but get together and mutter. In fact, after working for so long, the gold coins in these players' pockets were also super abundant, surpassing even Xi Yao Wu. But who would ever complain about having too much money? Seeing that there was still so much money to be made, but it was all going into someone else's pocket, everyone was, of course, very unhappy.

"It's the 9527 Rock over there. They're still charging 99 gold coins like before," someone said, having already gone over to find out what was happening.

"Qian Li Zui and the others are back!" someone exclaimed. The later players weren't very clear about the situation, but these pirates were all involved from the very beginning and knew the whole story, including Gu Fei's initial long-range weapon agility set.

At first, these people's thoughts were simple. They figured that Qian Li Zui and his team couldn't possibly be teaching 24 hours a day, so they would just drink a little of the leftover soup after they had eaten their fill of meat. But after they started doing it, they realized that the meat was too much, and even if Qian Li Zui and his team worked 24 hours a day, they couldn't finish it. So, of course, they were unwilling to just drink soup. They all rushed out to grab the meat, getting happier and happier, and almost forgetting Qian Li Zui, the originator.

As a result, now that Qian Li Zui had come out again, although they still had meat to eat, it had instantly gone from braised pork to minced meat, which was really painful.

"That guy! The situation is so good now, how can he still maintain the price of 99 gold coins? What an idiot!" the pirates condemned.

"If he keeps doing this, our business will be difficult!" one person said gloomily.

The prices of these pirates were all maintained at the same level, which looked like they were advancing and retreating together. In fact, there was no collusion between them. At first, everyone played the low-price card. If one lowered the price and the other didn't, they wouldn't have any business, so they all tried to bite down as hard as they could. Later, when the era of great prosperity came, someone tried to raise the price a little and found that there was still no shortage of students. Of course, the others were even more eager to follow suit and make more money, so you raised, I raised, and everyone raised. As they raised, they had already reached more than 200, and some greedy people were preparing to speed up to 300 when Qian Li Zui suddenly appeared with his 99, which was as depressing as it could be.

"There's no way around it, we have to lower the price too!" one person said dejectedly. He had only received four players in the past half-day. Although everyone was willing to pay more than 200, teaching four people at a time meant earning only 800 gold coins for half a day. Under normal circumstances, anyone would have been laughing their head off at that rate, but this guy, who had experienced the great prosperity, felt that it wasn't even enough to fill his teeth. Perhaps lowering the price to 99 gold coins and having more students would actually result in higher income.

"Don't panic!" one person waved his hand and said, "I don't think this Qian Li Zui has figured out the situation yet. Does he think this business can last for a long time? Just take us, for example. We haven't even practiced our levels much after learning, and we immediately rushed over to make money. There will only be more and more players like us. When the competition becomes more and more fierce, this business will eventually become worthless. If we want to earn money, we have to take advantage of the present and grab all the big bucks. At this time, not to mention 200, even if we ask for 300 or 400, won't players still learn? This Qian Li Zui is really confused. He's still sticking to 99 at this time. Isn't he just making trouble for us? Let's go talk to him."

After saying that, this person took the lead and walked away, but the others didn't move. This person turned around and looked at the others in confusion. They looked at each other, and one person said, "Have you figured out the situation? That person is Qian Li Zui. You want to go negotiate with him? Negotiate with your mouth or with a knife?"

That person smiled slightly and said, "What's there to be afraid of? He's doing this business for money too, isn't he? I'll analyze the pros and cons for him. It'll also benefit him and help him earn more money. What am I afraid of?"

Everyone thought it made sense, so they nodded together and said, "Let's go, let's go." But one person still hesitated and said, "I still have three people waiting to learn!"

"Teaching three people is a waste of time! After we finish talking in a while, there will be a lot of players lining up to wait for you to teach. Let them wait first." The previous person was arrogant, obviously knowing how much resources he had.

At the 9527 Rock, the players stood obediently on the left and right, leaving a passage in the middle to guide the small monsters. Everyone was very harmonious and didn't occupy the passage. When the pirates came over, Jian Gui and the others were dizzy from collecting money elsewhere. There were really too many people, and the three of them couldn't figure it out at all. They estimated that there were countless people who had slipped through the net and gotten into the pile without paying, but the three of them couldn't care about that anymore. Seeing a few more people coming over and heading straight into the crowd, the three of them were too lazy to go over and greet them.

The pirates walked straight in along the monster-guiding passage. The surrounding players frowned at their unruly behavior, but didn't say anything for a while. The pirates reached the front, looked up at Bai Shi Jing Lun, who was teaching at the forefront of 9527, and without saying a word, grabbed the rock and climbed up. After all, they had to communicate privately. If they shouted in front of so many learning players, they would be skinned alive.

The crowd burst into thunderous applause when the pirates climbed up, scaring three of them so much that they slid back to the ground from the rock.

The crowd was discussing: "That's awesome. There are so many teachers. No wonder it's cheap and plentiful!" The players saw the pirates climbing up as soon as they arrived, and associated them with Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun, who had climbed up the giant rock before. They also regarded them as teachers who had come to help.

Of course, the pirates didn't understand what was going on. Looking back, they saw the earnest blessings and expectations in the eyes of the players. The pirates were very puzzled. The things they were going to do should have been hated by them! Why were they happy? With a question mark on their foreheads, the pirates finally climbed up the 9527 Rock.

On the 9527 Rock, Bai Shi Jing Lun was teaching seriously. Han Jia Gong Zi was holding a wine bottle, standing two meters away behind him, looking very leisurely. A few steps further back, there was a black-robed mage lying on the ground in a very ungraceful manner.

Han Jia Gong Zi's attention was mostly on the wine at this time, and he didn't pay much attention to the situation below the rock. He only saw the pirates after they climbed to the top. Bai Shi Jing Lun had seen them long ago, but waited for them to climb to the top with great effort before asking, "What are you doing up here? Can't you see clearly below?"

The leader smiled slightly and said, "No, we're not here to learn. We have something to discuss with you."

"What is it?" Han Jia Gong Zi asked.

Bai Shi Jing Lun saw that Han Jia Gong Zi had taken over, so he ignored them and continued to teach seriously.

"May I ask which one of you is Qian Li Zui?" the person asked, his eyes already locked on Gu Fei, who was lying on the ground. Everyone knew that Qian Li Zui was a mage, but Bai Shi Jing Lun and Han Jia Gong Zi's fighter and priest attire were very obvious.

Gu Fei had already propped up his head to look at the people when they were talking. When he heard that they were looking for him, he quickly put away his messy posture and stood up properly. "I am. What do you want?"

The other party felt respect for them from Gu Fei's actions and was very happy. The leader spoke again: "Hehe, don't laugh at us. We teach this stuff over there." The person pointed to the wilderness in the distance and then to the thing that Bai Shi Jing Lun was demonstrating.

The word "stuff" made Gu Fei very unhappy. Although this set of tactics wasn't kung fu, it was also summarized using the knowledge of kung fu. Otherwise, why couldn't ordinary players discover it? Now, being casually referred to as "stuff" made Gu Fei very dissatisfied.

"Just say what you want!" Besides that, Gu Fei didn't care much about these guys learning it and using it to make money.

"It's like this. Over here, it seems like the price is still 99 gold coins, right?" the person asked.

"That's right."

The person smiled honestly and said, "Actually, why bother? In the current situation, this monster-fighting method is still in the hands of a small number of people. It's definitely a seller's market. Over there, the price is still 200 gold coins, and there's still more demand than supply. But over here, you're still keeping the price at 99 gold coins... Hehe, actually, everyone can raise the price to 200, 300, or even 400, and there will still be money to be made. But this situation shouldn't last too long. You should hurry up and take advantage of it. There are so many people on your side. I think there are at least three to five thousand, right? Think about it. If one person isn't 99, but 299, how much would that be?"

As the person described it, he swallowed. The number he calculated was terrifying. Thousands of people! His business hadn't reached that scale yet. Don't look at him being the leader of these pirates now. In fact, the area he operated in was geographically poor, and it couldn't be compared to the 9527 Rock.

Before Gu Fei could answer, Han Jia Gong Zi floated over like a ghost and patted the guy on the shoulder, saying, "This brother knows how to talk!"

This person had noticed Han Jia Gong Zi's enchanting face when he came up. Now that he was so close, if it wasn't for the pure man's voice, he wouldn't have believed that this was a man. He calmed himself down and said, "You're too kind."

"But, everyone, do you know where this set of tactics came from?" Han Jia Gong Zi asked.

"Uh?" the person was stunned for a moment and then replied, "As far as we know, it seems that Brother Qian started teaching this method here yesterday, right?"

"Not teaching, developing. This method was completely developed by Comrade Qian Li Zui himself," Han Jia Gong Zi said.

Bai Shi Jing Lun turned his head and said, "The two most commonly used methods now were developed by me."

Silence, tranquility.

"Cough!" Bai Shi Jing Lun coughed, turned back, and continued teaching.

Han Jia Gong Zi continued as if he hadn't encountered this interlude: "So, Qian Li Zui just forgot to say 'All rights reserved, violators will be prosecuted.' As a result, you plagiarized it and used it to make money. It's already good that we didn't pursue you. But now, a bunch of pirates are questioning our official price. Frankly, I personally don't agree with your approach."

"Who are you?"

"I'm an official retailer," Han Jia Gong Zi replied with a smile.

The other party scoffed at him: "It's true that Qian Li Zui researched it, but is this thing very complicated? Does it have a lot of technical content? Isn't it just figuring out the attack patterns of the little monsters and then matching them with a few attack methods? It's just a way to fight monsters. Are you even bringing up copyright? Have you played online games? It's the official version when he uses this method to fight monsters, but it becomes pirated when we do it?"

Han Jia Gong Zi spread his hands, turned back to Gu Fei, and said, "It's up to you." After saying that, he stepped aside.

The guy immediately broke out in a cold sweat. Being despised by Han Jia Gong Zi as a pirate and being told that he wasn't qualified to earn this money made him a little impulsive, and he forgot that the person standing in front of them was the most terrifying killer in the game.

Han Jia Gong Zi's sentence "It's up to you" made the pirates feel like they were about to die.

But Gu Fei didn't pay attention to them at all. Seeing that what needed to be said seemed to have been said, he nodded and said, "If there's nothing else, leave!"

The pirates saw that there was no point in discussing this matter and didn't dare to be too tough with Qian Li Zui, so they had to jump down from the 9527 Rock one after another. Han Jia Gong Zi was very surprised: "Are you kidding me? They said your kung fu doesn't have much technical content!"

"What kind of kung fu is this? It's just fighting a few mechanical monsters. It doesn't have much technical content to begin with," Gu Fei said.

"Damn, you kung fu kids, I really don't understand your thinking!" Han Jia Gong Zi cursed.

Gu Fei smiled wryly: "I've worked hard to learn something for twenty years, but I can only use it to do this kind of thing in a broken game to subsidize my family. Such a tragic thing has happened. Do I still have the strength to be angry?"

"It's not tragic. I think it's pretty good. How many people are here today?" Bai Shi Jing Lun suddenly turned his head back, looking forward to it.

"Listen to his awareness! What are you whining about? Do you still want to maintain world peace?" Han Jia Gong Zi said.

Gu Fei was depressed. Bai Shi Jing Lun was troubled by life. He felt very happy that kung fu could be used to earn living expenses. As for Gu Fei, earning some living expenses with kung fu was no longer enough for him. He hoped that kung fu could have earth-shattering uses, but now he was just reduced to hacking and killing monsters in the game, developing efficient leveling methods. Gu Fei felt that this was a complete tragedy.

This is exactly what the saying says: "When you are well-fed and warmly clothed, you think of lust." Bai Shi Jing Lun was in the early stages of urgently solving the problem of food and clothing, while Gu Fei was worry-free in this regard and was pursuing a higher realm of applying what he had learned. Originally, both of them were tragedies, but the location of the tragedies was different. Now that kung fu had a market in the parallel world, at least it could make a difference in earning money. Bai Shi Jing Lun's tragedy could be said to have been resolved, while Gu Fei continued to be tragic.

Those guys didn't dare to act presumptuously in front of Qian Li Zui. After being despised, they left in a panic. After walking far away, they turned back and made a middle finger gesture hatefully.

"What do we do now?" one person asked.

"Damn, those who pretend will be struck by lightning. Since that's the case, let's just go for broke. They shouldn't think of having a good time either. I'm going to price it at 80 gold coins. You guys can do what you want!" the leader said.

"That's right... I'd better lower it to 99 gold coins," one person said.

"Hmph, are you afraid that Qian Li Zui will come and make trouble for you?" the leader asked.

The person didn't answer. In fact, that was what he was worried about. Now, shouting out a price lower than 99 gold coins was equal to challenging Qian Li Zui. Who would dare to offend the number one killer?

"I'm just going to do it this way. He can come if he wants! Anyway, I've earned enough money. It wouldn't be a waste even if I dropped a level," the leader was determined. The key was that he had been confidently leading the others to persuade Qian Li Zui at the beginning, but Qian Li Zui basically didn't say anything. He was ridiculed by a person next to him who was neither male nor female. He really couldn't swallow this breath in his heart. He immediately came up with the means of price competition, which wouldn't kill you but could disgust you.

"Well, I'll also lower the price and grab as much as I can! To be honest, I don't think shouting 99 gold coins can compete with them. Look at their territory. They can teach about two thousand people at a time. What about us? I'm afraid we can't even teach a thousand at a time combined, right?" another person said.

"Then I'll also lower the price. What's there to be afraid of!" another person figured it out.

After the final consultation, only one person was still hesitating. The others ignored him and discussed it. They felt that the strength should be greater, so they simply lowered it to 50 and grabbed a sum from him fiercely. Other things could be discussed later.

The spring breeze of 50 gold coins immediately began to blow towards the wilderness. The majority of players didn't care about the official or pirated version. As long as it was cheap, it was a good version. The prosperity of the 9527 Rock began to fade again. Hearing that there were 50 gold coins, most of the remaining people, except for those who had paid, slipped away.

"Slipping away is good, slipping away is too good!" Jian Gui and the other two were overjoyed to climb back to the 9527 Rock to rest, seeing that no one would come now. This was the first time in their lives that they had received so much money that they wanted to vomit. What kind of sentiment was this?

Han Jia Gong Zi also heard the news that they had started to attract customers at a low price again. He continued to smile coldly and said, "Those guys are really useless. They can't even see our trump card. They're the ones who don't understand the situation, right? Master Qian, how is the development of the Bai Mo Fang side?"

"The tactics are all mature. But, I think our manpower is a big problem," Gu Fei said.

The person isn't here. This chapter was written in advance and automatically updated, so I'll just release it early. Alas, I don't forget to update even when I go out. I personally admire this spirit very much and think it should be rewarded with monthly votes. What do you think?