Chapter 71: Conflict deepens

June 5, 2023Ai Hrist

Other life-skills players were joining in the crusade: “That’s right, we can’t beat those monsters. With this food, they can get a lot of money from fighting monsters. It’s not much faster than our hard work in small businesses. It’s not that we don’t want to sell it, but you can buy it with a little more money.”

These words also express the purpose of many life-skills players, wanting to earn a lot of money from professional players.

In the eyes of many of them, professional players will have money and materials by killing wild monsters outside every day, and can even a good deal of meat.

This gave them a feeling that professional players were just picking up money for nothing and that their lives were much better than theirs.

The professional players couldn’t listen anymore: “We are also fighting outside with our lives, those wild monsters are not just standing there and waiting to be killed by us. We have to fight for our lives, and we have to spend a lot of money to buy life-saving equipment and items. No one lives an easy life.”

Even though some professional players were indeed unfriendly to life-skills players, most of them were not so hostile to life-skills players.

Someone from the life-skills player said: “You are willing to spend a lot of money on equipment and props, why not spend a little more on food?”

Cheng Yunshi unconsciously leaned over there to hear what to say next. She was a professional gamer, and to be honest, she felt uncomfortable hearing the other party say that.

It was true that life-skills players were weaker, but their living environment was not bad. They don’t need to face those wild monsters. Professional players also rely on their skills to get the money and materials.

From the start of the dooms day to the present, among the people she was familiar with, many professional players have lost their lives in the game against wild monsters. On the other hand, life-skills players hardly have such sacrifices.

Behind Cheng Yunshi, other members of the city owner’s team also slowly stopped their movements and paid attention to the situation over there.

It was hard to say whose fault it was because there was nothing wrong with wanting to live.

Now some life-skills players just let professional players spend more money than before to buy food in their hands, and professional players want to collect it themselves, but this has caused dissatisfaction among lifestyle players.

“Then we want to collect it ourselves, but you criticize and scold us. The grain in these fields is not marked by you life-skills players, so why we can’t collect it? Can’t everyone do their own thing?”

“Yo, I remember before that there were professionals who said that ordinary people like us just gather plants in the fields and were worthless. Why did we become worthless?”

This was the conflict between professional players and live players. Even if there were not many such things, it was still a thorn in the hearts of some life players.

“No matter who told you, we apologize, and you also understand that most of us don’t have that much malice.”

“Who knows if your apology is sincere? Anyway, collecting food is what we ordinary people have always done. We don’t care if you go out to kill wild monsters, but don’t compete with us for territory.”

Cheng Yunshi wanted to laugh angrily when she heard this. They can’t snatch the wild monster territory outside even if they want to.

The city lord’s team can see that the hostility of some life-type players affects other people. If they form an opposition with professional players, the two parties will have deep hatred, at most there will be some verbal contradictions.

“Every resident can collect food, whether they are ordinary people or not. Of course, we don’t care if you want to go out and fight wild monsters together.”

These words seemed to hurt some life players.

“It’s easy for you to say. Fighting wild monsters is not like collecting food. If you accidentally die, do you want us to die!”

The professional player who spoke just now looked a little impatient, “You also know that you will die if you are not careful when you fight wild monsters? Then why do you act like we owe you because we can kill wild monsters? Why do you think of cheating on our money? Why don’t you also kill wild monsters to delay the formation of the beast tide, and I’ll give you a lot of copper coins?”

These words were not rough, but the contradiction also escalated.

One of the young men, with a gloomy face, said: “Look, you just look down on us, you can’t move this food. Go fight wild monsters!”

He was jealous of professional players. After all, who doesn’t want to have more power?

Who knows who pushed the other person, but it seemed to be a signal, like a drop of water falling into the oil pan, igniting the flames on both sides.

Many life-skills players will occasionally go out to clear the field and buy low-grade weapons, which will be used to fight professional players.

But how could they be opponents of professional players? The opponent could cut two-thirds of the vitality of the life player with a single slash, and that person fell to the ground in fright.

“They kill people!” The life-skills player who was slashed sat on the ground and wailed. The slashed part of his body recovered instantly, but his HP dropped below 30%.

Seeing the difference in strength, the life skills who were still angry seemed to have been poured with ice water, and they all stopped fighting and surrounded the man.

The city lord’s team couldn’t stand it anymore and walked over there.

Seeing that the deputy captain was going there, Cheng Yunshi hurriedly followed, but Cheng Yunhong shook his head helplessly.

This place doesn’t belong to the city-state. The NPCs who fight and patrol among players will not care.

At this moment, the man was still sitting on the ground, his legs were weak, and his face was very bad. Team Leader Xiang went to squat down and frowned and asked: “Are you okay, drink this.”

What he took out was a bottle of potion, which he bought in Xuantian City.

The man quickly raised his head and drank the potion, and his HP was replenished to more than half in an instant, so he felt more at ease.

Team Leader Xiang also got up, and reprimanded the professional player who hacked the man: “Everyone is a resident of Wuyu City, no matter what happens, you shouldn’t hurt others.”

Then he turned his head and looked at those life-skill players: “Even if you are ordinary people, this is not the reason why you can fight with them. Good thing, he doesn’t want to be cruel, otherwise, he can cut you a few times more. It’s this world that is cruel.”

Even if the man just now died, the city lord will not be held accountable. Each resident can only be considered as a temporary residence here. Even if the city lord drives him out, he can go to other city-states to settle down.

Ordinary players seem to have thought of this too, so they didn’t make a sound. Team Leader Xiang could only shake his head secretly. Even though they won’t quarrel now, the conflict was buried in their hearts.

The farce finally ended. The man who drank the potion ran away without saying a word of thanks.

Cheng Yunshi can see that the conflict has not been resolved, but deepened, “Brother, I always have a bad feeling.”

Cheng Yunhong could only comfort his younger sister: “It’s okay, I’m here. There is also mom and dad.” They were both professional players, no matter how bad the world turned into, they can protect their families.

Team Leader Xiang went back to inform the city lord of the situation. These two days, the city lord didn’t leave the city lord’s mansion. She doesn’t want to face the complaints of the residents.

Team Leader Xiang thought about it, and then said to Yao Bingan, “City Lord, if this continues, there will be bigger conflicts. We have to find a way to solve it.”

Yao Bingan sighed, “I know that too, but I didn’t buy grain before, and now I’m paying for it, and I’m afraid ordinary people won’t be satisfied with the price.”