Summoning Players into My Game

Chasing Light City, Abandoned Area.

The sun was just rising and the weather in October was already getting colder. Inside a dormitory on the sixth floor of the Cyan Sparrow Gang's abandoned building, Fluo was organizing files at his desk when he suddenly felt a cold breeze coming in from the window, causing the wings on his back to tremble slightly and his whole body to shiver.

"The weather is really getting colder."

Fluo put down his pen, stood up, and walked over to a heater, grabbing a tennis ball-sized energy stone from a nearby wooden bucket and putting it directly into the heater.

Within just a moment, the desk-sized heater began emanating waves of heat in all directions, warming the area like sunshine.

"Luckily, we got a share of the energy ore vein from Red Moon Mountain this time, otherwise, who knows how many Bits would have been spent on buying these energy stones this year."

Looking at the energy stones in the bucket, Fluo felt quite proud of his vision and choices.

If not for the help of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, the Cyan Sparrow Gang would have to spend 30% of the gang's annual income on buying energy stones. Aside from using them to enhance training effects, a considerable portion was used for heating.

The harsh winter of Chasing Light City is not something everyone can live comfortably through.

Apart from urban and suburban residences, which are specifically supplied with heating by the city, other places have to find ways to keep warm. Most vagabonds in the abandoned area can only use firewood for warmth; only those with some Bits use energy stones for heating.

As for the major gang bases located outdoors, burning wood certainly wouldn't suffice. Those sites are too rudimentary and can't retain heat, so the only way to stay warm is by using energy stones, which is a significant daily consumption.

Having the ability to mine your own energy stones, along with owning a heater, makes the consumption negligible.

But compared to obtaining a share of the energy ore vein from Red Moon Mountain, Fluo felt his greatest gain was being able to cling to the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

Especially recently, with the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall planning to set up an outdoor transfer market at Red Moon Mountain, that's the real treasure, incomparably greater than a micro energy ore vein.

A micro energy ore vein would be considered good if it had 20,000 tons of energy stones, and the deeper you go, the harder the extraction becomes, requiring more manpower the further you dig.

But an outdoor transfer market is a long-term business that can earn a significant margin by playing middleman for outdoor vagabonds. The annual income will not be inferior to those small businesses in the suburbs, and his personal gain might even surpass that of the gang leader.

With just three million Bits, he could join the Martial Artist Association to learn a Martial Artist Level training technique, and then hire a martial artist from the association to teach him.

Not to mention breaking through to become a martial artist in the future; at the very least, there would be no problem becoming an extreme quasi-martial artist.

Just as Fluo was contemplating what goods to trade from Red Moon Mountain, a Feather Race woman hurriedly pushed open the door and rushed in. Her face looked anxious, and her forehead was as sweaty as if it had been soaked in water. This woman was none other than Fisher, an elder of the Cyan Sparrow Gang.

"Fluo, something big happened outside yesterday!" Fisher, with panic all over her face, stammered as she spoke.

"Don't rush." Seeing the panic in Fisher, Fluo knew that something significant must have happened, but he still poured a glass of water, gently reassuring her, "Sit down and have a glass of water to calm down, then tell me slowly what's going on."

"There's no time." Fisher set the water aside immediately, "It's about the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall!"

"The Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?" Fluo's face also showed a trace of tension. "Something happened to the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall? That shouldn't be; I just returned from Red Moon Mountain. What could possibly have happened to the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall? Could it be that the transfer market plan has been exposed already?"

The transfer market at Red Moon Mountain is only in its embryonic stage and has attracted at most ten thousand outdoor vagabonds, that number is negligible compared to the tens of millions outside Chasing Light City. Moreover, Red Moon Mountain is over a hundred kilometers away from the city, so it would hardly draw any attention.

Besides, even if suburban gangs received the news, it would take more than ten days for any action to be taken.

"It's not about that matter," Fisher said, looking extremely nervous, "I got the news on my way back from outside that last night, experts from the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall attacked the Great Ape Gang's headquarters."

"Attacked the Great Ape Gang's headquarters? What's going on with the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall? That's the Great Ape Gang!" Fluo's voice rose several pitches in disbelief, "Attacking the Great Ape Gang's headquarters, is the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall planning to go to war with the Great Ape Gang?"

The situation with the Great Ape Gang might be unknown to the ordinary outdoor vagabonds, but the top hundred outdoor gangs are well aware; the Ape Race is one of the top ten great tribes in Chasing Light City. The Great Ape Gang has intricate ties with the Gorilla Gang in the suburbs; even the top three outdoor gangs dare not provoke the Great Ape Gang.

The Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had just established itself outdoors, and they hadn't long ago stirred up trouble with the White Feather Gang, yet now they are turning their attacks towards the Great Ape Gang.

Fluo couldn't understand at all what kind of game was being played by Hall Master Lin Qi.

Is this how relationships between outdoor gangs are managed?

"I don't know either." Fisher shook her head and continued, "I heard it from a passing Ape Race vagabond. The Great Ape Gang's headquarters was attacked by a group of human experts wearing silver-gray long-sleeve T-shirts, completely wreaking havoc there. It's estimated that four to five hundred members of the Great Ape Gang were killed, and their deputy gang leader Noko was slain on the spot."