My Players Are So Fierce-Chapter 400

MoeHaha quickly went offline.

This frightened Little Ashina and the other girls.

They had already heard about what happened earlier from the anxious Little Ashina. After hearing that MoeHaha had personally disassembled the Computation Bead, Lady Aqua and Fatal Orchid Huahua, who usually handled matters calmly, exchanged glances.

They both saw the seriousness and shock in each other’s eyes.

On one hand, they were surprised that this physicist had some real skill, managing to disassemble the notoriously complex Computation Bead after only being in the game for a few days. On the other hand, they were shocked at how reckless this girl was.

In fact, from what they knew, quite a few players currently had doubts about the authenticity of Transia, but everyone maintained a cordial facade while quietly investigating.

Only MoeHaha had boldly made observations about the special nature of the Computation Bead right after entering the game and started operating on it. She successfully did what many wanted to do but didn’t dare to, and now it seemed she had paid a small “price” for such rash behavior.

“Are all physicists this straightforward?”

Lumina Yanghen complained angrily and anxiously:

“Sister Concrete is also like this normally, whenever she encounters a problem she can’t help wanting to solve it, not willing to wait even a minute or second! This idiot got herself logged out, I suspect her account was banned?”

“No, that’s not it.”

Sister Pomegranate walked in from outside the tent and said to the other girls:

“I just called her. Moe said she logged out because there was an issue in her real-world lab that needed her attention and it had nothing to do with the game progress. She also said that because Murphy saw her potential when she disassembled the Computation Bead, he wrote her a recommendation letter to join the young lady’s Spirit Mage guild.

It triggered a hidden quest.

She told us not to worry, she’ll be back online by tomorrow at the latest.”

“Oh, so that’s what happened”

Little Ashina sighed in relief.

However, when she looked around, she found everyone’s expressions were grim.

“Who does she think she’s fooling with that?”

Lady Aqua showed her genuine displeasure for the first time. She crossed her arms and said sternly to Sister Pomegranate:

“I can accept the process of slowly becoming friends with strangers, I can also tolerate others’ quirks, but I cannot accept this kind of insincere and dishonest interaction. I don’t want to maintain this pretense anymore, so I’ll speak plainly!

Pomegranate, you must immediately clarify this with your mysteriously-backgrounded friend! Either she tells us her true identity, or she leaves the Silver Moon Pride team!

I cannot put others at risk because of her, and I also don’t want to ruin this nice place I finally found to relax and have fun over issues that are unrelated to me and that I don’t care about at all.

Understand?”

Lady Aqua’s tone was questioning.

But judging from her frost-like expression at this moment, this was clearly a command that couldn’t be defied.

Sister Pomegranate didn’t want to pry into her friend’s secrets, so she hesitated, but Fatal Orchid bumped her wrist and gave her a meaningful look.

Pomegranate could only nod reluctantly.

Seeing Lady Aqua get angry for once, she was actually a bit scared. Pomegranate and everyone here knew very well that while Silver Moon Pride was established by Lumina, she wasn’t really the core figure of this team.

Currently, it appeared that Lady Aqua was leading this team and had taken on the role of “parent.”

However, Sister Pomegranate soon didn’t need to hesitate anymore. Less than 10 minutes after this team meeting ended, her phone rang.

After answering, she heard MoeHaha say from the other end:

“Sorry, my rash behavior today must have caused you trouble. I don’t even need to think hard to know how much you must have been blamed by that deeply hidden companion of yours. I won’t be logging in for the next few days.

I need to go to the capital.

There’s a high-level emergency inquiry meeting that needs me to attend as a witness. The good news is that things immediately progressed after I joined, the bad news is that I actually didn’t really want to see this kind of sudden ‘progress’ myself.”

“Huh?”

Sister Pomegranate was stunned, she asked:

“What’s going on here?! Explain it clearly to me, why suddenly there’s this kind of-”

“Don’t ask too much, Pomegranate, don’t ask too much.”

MoeHaha’s voice was full of fatigue caused by overthinking and shock, she said quietly:

“When I get back, I’ll explain everything clearly to you. Also, tell Lumina to pack up and return to the country immediately! Don’t delay.”

“But Lady Aqua’s private plane can’t go over there now, they can’t get flight path approval and can’t take off, there’s air traffic control in place due to the pandemic over there.”

“The embassy will arrange a return route for her tonight, someone will contact her specifically, remember what I told you, tell her not to ask too many questions, just follow the instructions.”

Meanwhile, in the office of Transia’s First National Armament Factory, Brother Loyalty was preparing to log off with a pained expression.

He also didn’t know what went wrong, but a phone call from his direct superior ordered him and his team members to immediately head to the capital with all materials related to 《Reality Realm》.

Damn!

Something big must have happened.

Just which “little darling” caused all this?! I was almost done with these drawings.

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Murphy wasn’t aware what kind of waves his “impromptu performance” had caused in another world, he didn’t even consider it something that needed attention.

After giving a small “warning” to the audacious MoeHaha, Murphy was in an unusually good mood from his mischief and took a rare tour around his territory.

Now all of Transia was his territory, he could go wherever he wanted without anyone stopping him, but the problem was that currently there weren’t many places to go play in Transia.

With the Crimson Citadel in its current state of reconstruction, it was already the most “prosperous” place in Transia, one can imagine how desolate and ruined other places were.

Currently the deal with Hog at Plague Town wasn’t complete yet, the defensive line construction near the swamp hadn’t started, while population inspection and territory construction were steadily advancing, according to the current progress the residential areas should be settled before winter arrives.

Murphy suddenly found himself with free time.

This feeling of everything getting on track and progressing smoothly was just too great. Although the crises at Seicob City and Foul Swamp still existed, with solutions in place it was just a matter of following the steps systematically.

“I now have 700 spare slots in hand.”

Murphy soared freely spreading his wings under the twilight sky, calculating:

“Releasing 50 each week can last until the Black Plague arrives, and currently the territory’s population is still increasing, by the time the last two months come, this number can be appropriately increased further, to 100 per week!

Yes, that’s decided.

According to Miriam’s statistics, new players under normal circumstances need about half a month to enter the Black Iron Trial process, which means the ambition of having 2,000 Black Iron warriors forming an elite cavalry when the Black Plague arrives is not unattainable.

Finally fate has favored me again, making everything turn for the better!”

Murphy wanted to laugh heartily in the sky.

But considering his dignity and character setting he ultimately didn’t do so. He planned to make a round of the farms before returning to the halls to “date” with Tris tonight.

Recently Tris had been doing who knows what, always staying locked up in her laboratory.

Being all mysterious.

His initial intention of not wanting to disturb her was good, but always keeping this distance would make their relationship seem cold, tonight he’d celebrate with two bottles of good wine with the Crimson Witch.

“Trust me! Investing in my project definitely won’t have any risks, I have a complete plan and have already started preparing physical production, I need support from you now.”

Just as Murphy was flying over “Lion’s Pride” village, his keen perception let him hear the conversation coming from the village chief’s office.

The content of this conversation immediately attracted the curious vampire lord. He silently landed on the roof of the village chief’s office, listening carefully to the voices coming from inside.

In the office lit up like daylight by several gas lamps, Pink Cat Rabbit, the village chief of Lion’s Pride village, was holding a black cat from who knows where, putting on a godfather air, sitting in his chair listening to this uninvited “guest” speak eloquently.

And the one who came to visit the village chief was Vomit Sauce, son of Half Off With Full Coverage, one of the “three administrative player stars”.

This guy’s story of coming to the game to “search far and wide for relatives” had already become a meme on the forum, becoming one of his dark histories, spreading widely along with his embarrassing incident of getting stabbed in the butt by skeleton soldiers in his first battle.

Every time Vomit Sauce showed up on the forum someone would tease him about this, which annoyed Vomit Sauce to no end.

However, although he had completed his mother’s request to find his unreliable father in the game and successfully resolved the precarious family situation, new problems appeared.

That is, Half Off With Full Coverage’s “gaming addiction” wasn’t cured yet, and Vomit Sauce had also developed a new “gaming addiction”.

Now he spent almost all his time except for work and eating in Transia, not only getting himself a logistics officer position in administration, but also achieving breakthroughs in combat professions.

He was already a level 10 hunter, just needing to polish his skills and collect equipment to start his Black Iron Trial.

However, at the moment, Vomit Sauce’s energy clearly wasn’t on skill improvement. His eyes were shining as he held the plan book in his arms, trying to persuade the smiling Pink Cat Rabbit in front of him:

“Trust me, Brother Rabbit, this plan book of mine absolutely has no problems!”

“I understand, and I also believe in your professional ability.”

The very steady and diplomatic Pink Cat Rabbit stroked his black pet cat named “Pochi” that he picked up from the wild with some frustration, and curiously asked back:

“But what I’m more curious about is, why did you come to me for investment when you thought of this genius idea? By logic, you should have gone to Little Ashina or Little Rich Brother first, I’ve clearly been keeping a low profile.”

“Hey, others might not know your reputation Brother Rabbit, but how could we administrative players not know? Currently you’re the only talent that Regent Miriam personally tried to retain, right?”

Vomit Sauce grinned, saying:

“Of course I also asked my old man, his advice was that finding you would be best, because you set the development direction for your village as logistics and transportation industry, your demand for vehicles is the largest among all player and NPC groups.

I naturally have to show this good idea to someone with vision.

Aren’t you the best ‘angel investor’ I can find right now?”

“Oh, Half Off’s suggestion, that explains it.”

Cat Rabbit finally nodded, the naturally cautious him took the drawings Vomit Sauce handed over and opened them to look, then frowned, saying:

“I’m not a vehicle professional, but this truck you designed looks quite different from the vehicle I imagined! Such a big chimney, does it need to add coal while driving?”

“Yes, it’s actually the same principle as a steam train.”

Vomit Sauce stepped forward to explain to Cat Rabbit:

“Look, I put a high-power boiler in the engine position. Although steam engines’ thermal efficiency is far inferior to internal combustion engines on our side, because of the magical Combustion Gold Catalyst on their side, the steam engine’s thermal efficiency has achieved a qualitative leap.

It can even rival third-generation internal combustion engine power.

And don’t look at this thing seeming very unreliable, but I’ve actually specifically consulted professionals in this field, Lady Sharon the little countess definitely told me that the halflings have been using steam engines for several hundred years without many malignant explosion incidents.

The properties of that Combustion Gold are really magical!

It not only can act as a catalyst to enhance steam engine efficiency but also stabilize its internal high temperature and high pressure to prevent violent reactions.

In short, I didn’t just randomly grab a picture from the internet to scam investment, trust me, I drew this design with my heart.

Although it’s different from the trucks we use and does look a bit strange, I’m certain that as long as it can successfully go into production, your village won’t have to worry about vehicle problems anymore.

We’re going to do modern logistics industry, right?

You can’t have your villagers delivering packages and mail by donkey cart, can you?”

Pink Cat Rabbit didn’t answer immediately.

He looked at the design drawings and that very detailed plan book in front of him quite cautiously, after several minutes, he put down the plan book and looked at Vomit Sauce, saying:

“But you deliberately avoided the most important problem, little friend Vomit Sauce, where does the steam engine come from? Transia’s current industrial level can’t make this thing. Look, I actually did research before deciding to enter the postal and logistics industry.

If you want to mass produce trucks you need to find a supplier who can stably provide you with steam engines, either find the Carpe family from the Goldflower Kingdom, or go to the Genoa Peninsula to find halflings.

These two sources have one thing in common, distant and expensive!

According to your plan, the profit you can get from each vehicle will be compressed to the extreme, basically equivalent to not making money, and if you can’t make money doing business then you can only keep losing money.

I guess, you must have tried to apply for startup funding from administration before finding me, but were rejected by Regent Miriam, right?

Look!

The NPCs here are really smart.

The problems I can see, they can see too.”

Cat Rabbit shook his head saying:

“You can’t solve this problem, so no matter how beautiful your plans are they can only stay on paper.

Trust me, my desire for new vehicles is stronger than anyone, but this isn’t reason enough for me to carelessly squander my first bucket of gold that I’ve finally saved up.

If you want me to invest in you, you need to come up with practical solutions.”

“I can hand-craft one!”

Vomit Sauce gritted his teeth, saying:

“Not following halfling standards, I’ve seen the steam engines that the Carpe family sent to the armament factory, that thing is too complicated and complex, we’ll directly use the mature designs from our side, modify it to add Combustion Gold Catalyst mounting points

Okay, I’ll tell you the truth, Brother Rabbit.

I’ve already invited several engineers from our factory to come ‘do big things’ together, they’ve all filled out test applications, but our ‘Transia Winterwind Vehicle Factory’ now needs startup capital.”

“!”

Cat Rabbit was startled, he reflexively asked in a low voice:

“Isn’t your factory a state-owned enterprise, won’t this cause you trouble?”

“It won’t, everyone’s just playing around in their free time, besides, even if we brought over those drawings from our factory, you couldn’t get halflings to make such precise products.

The processing precision is far too different.

Those are special vehicles.”

Vomit Sauce waved his hand dismissively.

After he confided in Cat Rabbit, the latter no longer hesitated, he pulled open a drawer and took out a black Spirit Bag from it, placing it in front of Vomit Sauce, saying:

“I can’t use the village’s public funds, that’s reserved for later road construction and hotel building, this is my personal sponsorship for you guys, let’s sign a contract.

After your Winterwind Vehicle Factory officially figures out the truck design and manufacturing, you have to sell to us first at preferential prices.”

“But there’s going to be war.”

Vomit Sauce said with some frustration:

“I estimate that once war breaks out, no matter how much production capacity we have on our side it will all be converted to military use.”

“That counts as an acceptable accident.”

Cat Rabbit smiled with narrowed eyes saying:

“If Transia doesn’t exist anymore, what use is there in earning more money? I don’t think Wolf Queen or King Louis would treat us defeated ones and refugees well, I don’t want to be a conquered slave let alone be mocked as a homeless exile, so I suggest you lean a bit towards military applications when designing vehicles.

Therefore if I were you, I wouldn’t go to administration to apply for startup funding, I would go directly to Lord Maxim and get enough research and development funds through military orders.

Medieval steampunk motorized infantry, tsk tsk, just thinking about it feels exciting, right?

But Lord Maxim is a very stubborn person, if you want to convince him you need to show some actual products first, trust me, this is the path you vehicle engineers should take.”

Murphy, hiding on the roof, listened to Pink Cat Rabbit’s guidance to Vomit Sauce below with quite an odd expression.

There were indeed hidden tigers and crouching dragons among his little players.

Come to think of it, according to the confidential report he received from Adele, the village chiefs of the five collective farms seemed to be getting connected and trying to twist into one rope to give birth to a political group.

He previously thought that was Old Huo secretly causing trouble, but now it seems, the real “behind-the-scenes mastermind” is you, this low-key Lion’s Pride village chief, right?

Good!

Ambitious! Energetic!

Want to be Transia’s Second Regent?

No problem!

The position is right there, perform well, strive for it well.

Murphy silently broke into a smile and flew into the night sky, beating his wings while looking back at the brightly lit office below in the dim moonlight.

“I’m watching you all, keep it up, my otherworld warriors!”