LWGP - Chapter 170
Chapter 170: The Comeback
As soon as Wang Jiu returned to her territory, she invested her personal 250,000 gold coins into it and opened the territory's deluxe gift pack. A huge pile of territory supplies poured out, the most conspicuous of which was a fifteen-meter-tall Spirit Cultivation Tower.
【Spirit Cultivation Tower: An advanced territory resource that can supply the entire territory for spirit energy cultivation. Increases Spirit Energy by 30 points for every hour spent in the territory.】
By calculation, the average player returned around 6 PM and left at 7 or 8 AM, meaning they would spend about 12 hours in the territory. This meant every player in the Gobi Territory could gain an average of 360 Spirit Power per day.
Although this rate of improvement was nothing compared to someone like Wang Jiu, it was a massive draw for the lower-level players in the territory. Even for high-level players, it was a considerable temptation.
More importantly, Wang Jiu's territory had more than just one Spirit Cultivation Tower.
Wang Jiu established a large territory, then added a medium one, along with twelve medium-level magic towers, twelve medium-level arrow towers, three high-level magic towers, and three high-level arrow towers, distributing them along the four city walls.
These were the wall's offensive structures.
Next, she bought the ultra-expensive Black Steel Stone Protective Armor for the city walls and a high-level protective shield.
Tens of thousands of gold coins were spent in an instant.
More than half of her 250,000 gold was gone in a flash. Fortunately, the territory itself had a reserve of 100,000 gold coins. She then built a commercial street, opened shops on three streets, and began construction on an even larger residential area for the large territory—fifty thousand high-level residences and three hundred thousand medium-level ones.
The million bricks and cement she had stockpiled before were all used up. Luckily, she had stockpiled more later. Although the price was higher, it was money she could afford to spend.
As she spent, the money ran out again. Wang Jiu sent Wang Shu a beckoning finger emoji. He took the hint and immediately traded over all of Wang Jiu's share of the profits.
120,000 gold.
"Master, this is the sales revenue from before. I got a better recipe from this dungeon, so I can use that batch of medium-level materials you gave me later. But it'll take time to produce, and our territory only has a little over three hundred sewing masters right now…"
Wang Jiu replied, "I just want the money. You can handle the rest however you want. The shops are already open."
With that, she traded him all the medium and high-level basic materials she had obtained from the dungeon.
Since she didn't have the money to buy them out this time, she didn't have as many as usual, but their quality was high—the kind you couldn't even find in the auction house.
As Wang Shu received the materials, he checked the territory's construction status. So fast?
They had just finished their brutal fight and had already received notifications about the territory's changes. While they were shocked by Wang Jiu's massive investment, they were also more anxious to return. Thus, they grabbed a wave of resources and bolted.
Not long after, Xu Baiyan resurrected and received messages from Leng Rong and the other player.
The commotion from Gobi was too big; both of them were stunned.
"Don't come to me. Stay over there."
Xu Baiyan was decisive, immediately telling them not to leave their current territory, because he had a premonition that the situation in Luoyang was already settled.
Perhaps a merger was coming soon.
So, this was absolutely not the time to quit. Even if you submitted your resignation, you'd have to get on your knees and beg to be taken back.
Nothing was more worthy of sacrificing one's dignity for than the tangible benefits of this apocalyptic game.
Leng Rong and the other player agreed with his decision.
Xu Baiyan's tone was complicated. "Wang Jiu wasn't around just now, and I was insta-killed three times by her team members. Even that Qi Shuanghan has become tough to fight. By the way, is that guy named Wang Shu really the same RNG God who used to play dead and then get up to loot corpses? He ambushed me once."
An old hen turning into a duck?
Leng Rong and the other player were speechless.
A Nightmare Dungeon was truly equivalent to getting a plot of land in the Shanghai suburbs for the price of cabbage through sheer dumb luck.
Once you got it, you had made your comeback.
They had missed their chance.
When Wang Shu and the others returned, half an hour had already passed since Wang Jiu started construction. After they scrambled to buy up the last few remaining shops, Wang Shu, Qiao Xuejing, and Dao Dao—the three members with original permissions—had no choice but to help Wang Jiu process the blizzard of territory applications flying in.
Qiao Xuejing, in particular, had flown back even earlier than Wang Shu and the others. She had just thrown down some traps after emerging from the water before returning to the territory to assist with construction, not even bothering with the resources at the end.
Lin Guiwan had already returned to Shenzhen. She had a long-range Teleportation Talisman and planned to go back and bring her daughter over.
However, while packing her daughter's things, she kept an eye on the chat in the small group with Wang Shu and the others. She knew Wang Jiu had started large-scale territory construction but couldn't see the territory's actual situation.
Lin Guiwan took a shortcut and opened the Territory Construction Leaderboard… She took a look and froze for a moment.
She remembered Wang Jiu was originally in seventh place, but now she was second, and very close to the construction score of the first place.
But the competition on the construction leaderboard was fierce. All sorts of people were crazily dumping resources in the final hour, and the top hundred were constantly changing.
The person in first place was probably getting anxious too. Lin Guiwan checked their information; they were from Japan.
The surname Shenwu?
No, it was probably a title.
Remembering Konoe Kenjin, Lin Guiwan narrowed her eyes. That person had the entire Konoe Clan supporting him.
The number of people supporting Shenwu Mingduan would only be greater.
Thinking of this, Lin Guiwan immediately gathered all the territory resources and funds she had on hand and traded them to Wang Jiu.
She knew she wasn't the only one doing this.
Wang Jiu didn't refuse her trade but sent back some priest-specific resources.
The kind you couldn't buy anywhere.
Alright, this person was filthy rich. She would never take things from others for free, but she wouldn't give things away for free either.
Just after the trade, Lin Guiwan suddenly received several trade requests and private messages.
The content was all the same.
【Congratulations on your upcoming move. Please accept this as a housewarming gift.】
The gifts were all territory resources. Not a huge amount, but not insignificant either.
Their true intentions lay elsewhere.
Lin Guiwan couldn't help but chuckle.
"Mommy, what are you laughing at?" Her young daughter saw her mother smiling and couldn't resist putting down the small schoolbag she was organizing books into. She hugged her mother's leg, rubbing against it, and looked up to ask innocently.
"Nothing. I'm laughing at a few big brothers and sisters."
"What about them? Did they fail their exams like Dongdong?" Innocent as she was, she was also quite the little adult, though she had just exposed the fact that she failed her recent system exam.
"No, they did very well on their exams. Unfortunately, their examiner is very strict, so they're looking for another way. They want to cheat."
The little girl tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said seriously, "Oh, then the examiner must be very angry."
Lin Guiwan smiled, stroking her head, and said slowly, "She won't be angry. I have to ask her first."
Lin Guiwan asked, and Wang Jiu's reply was: "Thanks, will repay later."
This reply was also mass-sent to the dozens of people who had messaged her, half of whom were from overseas.
Only her most familiar old acquaintance, Roy, didn't try to curry favor with Wang Jiu, didn't contact Lin Guiwan, and had no reaction at all.
Probably because she understood Wang Jiu better than anyone else.
The person in first place was using the name Shenwu; one could guess their status. They would definitely gather resources in a short amount of time.
Since she anticipated that her opponent had resource support, yet still used such a rate of investment to alert them… it meant that this alert was just a tactic to lull them into complacency, to set the pace for the Japanese side.
And if she really did accept resources from some of those people… now that would be interesting.
The commotion from the two racing against each other was too great. Besides, the leaderboard for claiming a large territory was rigid—it was a PK of dungeon-clearing speed and also depended on luck. Once you climbed up, your position was set. But territory construction could truly be turned around with the power of money.
The social channels were buzzing, but with nine districts in total, each was discussing its own. The topic hadn't broken out of its circle yet, and the Ninth District's hype was naturally focused on the first and second places.
Later on, any discerning person could see that Wang Jiu was losing steam. But in the last ten minutes, she suddenly dumped a large sum of resources, and her construction score shot up, directly surpassing the first place.
Xie Jiang and the others blindly guessed that this sum of resources was likely the one they had pooled together.
"Wow! Master won, she won, she won!" Wang Shu jumped up in excitement.
But Xie Lu pressed down on his shoulder, holding his nearly two-hundred-pound delicate body down like he was blocking a slam dunk.
"Time's not up yet."
On the Ninth District's social chat channel, many people were blabbering, with comments focused on: "She's as cunning as ever," "Although she seems a bit scummy at times, with her 100/100 looks and charisma, even being scummy is a bonus to her intelligence, isn't it?", "She's so bad, but so charming. When will she accept my friend request?"
All sorts of over-the-top compliments floated up. Wang Shu was a little unhappy, but he told himself there were still a few minutes left. As the direct disciple of the Demon King who never panicked, he had to stay calm.
Then he would show these people who was number one on the Master-flattering leaderboard!
The social channels had only been lively for a few minutes when Wang Jiu, who had just reached first place, suddenly dropped to second.
"Holy shit!"
"Overtaken?"
"A comeback?"
"What's the background of this Shenwu Mingduan from Japan? A major power?"
"Didn't they say she wiped out everyone from the Konoe family? What's this person's background?"
Everyone was discussing it animatedly. The people from Cai Market, as well as Tan Yingzhou and top teams from Shanghai and other places, were all talking about Japan's comeback.
The second-place Shenwu Mingduan had added a huge amount of resources.
The opponent was indeed prepared. They had deliberately shown weakness earlier while secretly raising resources from various powerful families.
It was a huge sum, directly surpassing Wang Jiu, and by a margin of one-third.
"It's no use, time is almost up."
"What a pity."
"If she had been willing to ask us to borrow more resources, we would have lent them."
"Such a stubborn woman. She paid the price, hahaha!"
Although they expressed pity, many were secretly pleased. But after their brief satisfaction, they felt extremely displeased.
To lose to the Japanese… If they had known, they would have given more resources to Lin Guiwan. Even giving them to the Demon King for free would be better than letting the Japanese win.
A miscalculation!
Many people were filled with regret.
Luo Sheng, who had returned home, stood under the showerhead and stopped rinsing. Her expression was very ugly as she muttered, "She actually lost? Don't tell me the Japanese pooled the strength of several powerful families."
She was very annoyed, like a fan leader from outside the circle whose idol had lost a fan war. But she didn't want to admit it. After grumbling to herself in the bathroom, she angrily closed the territory construction leaderboard.
Many people were like her, feeling a sense of rivalry in this personal battle between the two countries. But they had lost, and many in their own country were disappointed and angry, no longer looking at the leaderboard. Meanwhile, people from a certain island nation were ecstatic, spamming all sorts of celebratory messages in the channel.
But soon, they all fell silent.
A moment later, after the leaderboard had been finalized, Zhong Qing suddenly sent a private message, very urgent.
"Look at the leaderboard!!"
Luo Sheng was stunned and quickly opened it.
What met her eyes were the finalized results on the leaderboard.
Second had overtaken first, and fourth had overtaken third. But compared to the urgent back-and-forth PK between the latter two, the two shifts between first and second place had both been very abrupt.
No one had expected that in the final minute, Wang Jiu would place the thirty medium-level territory resources from the gift pack, and then use her remaining funds to purchase various city-guarding NPCs, a medical pool, and a territory-guarding spirit beast for her territory.
Her final 150,000 gold was completely spent.
Wang Jiu's construction score made a comeback, surpassing her opponent by one-third.
Wang Jiu, she was number one in the Ninth District.
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