SEC Chapter 16: Creating a Guild? Isn't this a scam?!
Chapter 16: Creating a Guild? Isn't this a scam?!
"Su Nian, you'd better speak less in the future!"
Su Ran rubbed her temples, her face full of helplessness.
Her younger sister first drove the car into a tree, and then made one shocking statement after another, a string of jinxing remarks.
If they hadn't met Lin Xuan today, the two of them would probably have either died in the sandstorm or become food for the Licker!
"sister!"
Su Nian blushed and buried her face in Su Ran's arms, her deep voice coming from those two soft mounds: "I understand!"
"It should be truly safe now!"
Lin Xuan took a deep breath, then took out the treasure map.
After such a long journey, he was getting closer and closer to the location marked with the treasure.
We expect to arrive before noon tomorrow.
Lin Xuan put away the treasure map and casually opened the full-screen chat.
The pale blue screen lit up, and the comments scrolled by one by one.
He casually flipped through a few pages, but after seeing the contents, his lips began to twitch.
"Brothers! We haven't encountered a single mutated creature tonight! I drove all the way without seeing a single hair!"
"Me too! Those zombie dogs scared me so much last night I couldn't sleep a wink, but there aren't any today. Is there a bug in this game?"
"Great, I can finally catch my breath. I thought I was going to be chased around again tonight."
"Me too, it's eerily quiet. Do low-level mutated creatures get holidays?"
"..."
"Depend on!"
Lin Xuan mentally complained.
So it turns out that none of the people in the chat room encountered anything tonight, and all the misery has befallen me!
Thinking of this, he glanced silently at the girl with pigtails in the rearview mirror.
The latter noticed the look coming from the driver's seat and gave an awkward smile.
Lin Xuan took a deep breath, preparing to turn off all channels.
But then, a message caught his attention.
[Dawn Guild Recruiting: Our guild is recruiting. We share resources and support each other. If you're a true brother, message me privately.]
"Dawn Guild?"
He frowned, a strange glint flashing in his eyes.
Creating a guild is indeed a good approach in the early stages of the game.
Sharing resources and helping each other within the same guild is definitely better than figuring things out alone.
However, it still depends on whether the guild members are united. If some people take more resources but do less work, the guild will quickly decline.
Moreover, and most importantly,
Most of the lower-level members of a guild serve the interests of a small minority at the top.
Such things were commonplace in the online games he had played.
Just as he was deep in thought, a private message box popped up in the lower right corner of the screen.
The person who arrived was none other than Sun Ze, with whom he had previously conducted several transactions.
"Hey bro! Did you see that Dawn Guild message? I just messaged them privately!"
Lin Xuan raised an eyebrow; this guy's movements were pretty quick.
Before he could reply, Sun Ze sent several more messages in quick succession.
"There are quite a few people in this guild, more than twenty already. The guild leader said they'll organize everyone to find supplies together and distribute them according to contribution. Do you want to join, bro?"
"With your abilities, you could definitely be a manager!"
"However, before joining, you have to pay five upgrade cores as a membership fee, which is said to be used for the initial construction of the guild and will be returned when the guild grows stronger later."
"Brother, what do you think?"
Looking at the information above, Lin Xuan's lips twitched slightly.
Isn't this just the same old trick from online games where you "pay first to join"?
It's just that the game coins have been replaced with upgrade cores.
If each person contributes five upgrade cores, then ten people will contribute fifty cores.
Moreover, there is no legal protection whatsoever. Isn't this just a classic case of getting something for nothing?
Lin Xuan took a deep breath and tapped his finger on the screen.
"No, be careful not to get scammed!"
Sun Ze's reply came quickly.
"Huh? Bro, do you think this is a scam? It looks pretty legitimate to me. The guild leader even had full-screen voice chat, and he was speaking so well, saying things like 'Many hands make light work' and 'Unity is strength.'"
Lin Xuan's lips twitched even more violently.
Aren't these typical pyramid scheme tactics?
He took a deep breath, forcing himself not to complain, and continued typing his reply.
"Add it if you want, I won't stop you. But let me remind you, five upgrade cores are no small amount, think carefully before you hand them over!"
After sending the message, he closed the private chat window with Sun Ze.
Everyone has their own choices, and he never interferes.
If you insist on dissuading him, and what if the guild wasn't lying, and he didn't join? Later, seeing others thriving in those guilds, his resentment will eventually turn into bitterness.
Those who need to vent their resentment are often the very people who prevented them from joining the guild in the first place.
Lin Xuan had seen this kind of thing countless times, both in games and in real life; it happened everywhere.
If you make decisions for others, you have to pay the price for their regrets.
Moreover, if the other party falls for the scam, it only proves that they are not suitable for this survival game.
A survival game for five billion people: the law of the jungle, survival of the fittest.
This is the only truth in this game.
Lin Xuan pulled himself out of his thoughts and looked at his center console.
It was only the second night of the game, and they had already encountered Lickers, mid-level mutated creatures capable of easily destroying level 2 vehicles.
Fortunately, there was only one. If there had been two or more, even with his Desert Eagle, it would have been difficult to deal with them.
The most important thing now is to search for supplies and upgrade this vehicle to level three as soon as possible.
With that in mind, he brought up the "Game Panel!" and opened the vehicle upgrade interface.
[Core Upgrade: 100/100✓]
[Refined Iron: 100/100✓]
[Timber: 200/200✓]
[Upgrade Core Hub: 0/1]
"Upgrade the core hub..."
Lin Xuan took a deep breath and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Now he has everything ready, except for this one thing, which he has never even heard of before.
Moreover, as early as daytime, he had asked a question on the public channel, even offering a high price for the buyback, and proposed a deal.
But so far, no one has contacted me privately.
"It seems I still have to rely on myself!"
Lin Xuan frowned, then took out a search device from his storage space.
This thing allows him to see the location of treasure chests within a ten-kilometer radius.
He turned on the search device, and a light screen appeared in front of him.
Several golden dots appeared on it.
These are all locations where treasure chests are located.
He glanced at all the locations and finally chose one about eight kilometers away.
This treasure chest happened to be on the path I had to take to reach the treasure map.
In this way, we can avoid some detours!