Chapter 703 - City Building Suggestion
"Build a city? Oh my G.o.d! Our Nightless City is going to build its own city!" a surprised Dai said. One Pillar Skyward, who was standing beside her, had a similar reaction.
"Brother Feng, did you say our Nightless City Club? Does this mean that Brother Feng, you..." asked Rose Thorns. She perceptively detected from Feng Luo"s words some hidden message, which surprised her.
"Brother Feng, does this mean that Nightless City will be leaving the Lu Conglomerate City? Did the big boss agree to Brother Wu"s plan?" asked Mu Zi.
Since he was related to Mu Wu, he seemed to know already some things in advance. And so, his delight was also mixed with some questions.
"Chairman Lu has already transferred owners.h.i.+p of the Nightless City to Mu Wu and me."
"But, I was supposed to be the one asking you guys for your suggestions or thoughts regarding our building a city here. None of you seems to have answered me."
Feng Luo deliberately paired his comments with a wry smile.
There were no outsiders here. The four of them were all employees of Nightless City. News that Feng Luo is now one of the new bosses of Nightless City would be announced very soon.
As such, Feng Luo decided to just tell them about it.
At the same time, he wanted to hear their thoughts and doubts about his idea of building a city on the site.
"Building a city here... If we can get the help of the NPCs to deal with the problem of exploring the area like what Brother Feng mentioned earlier, then this is certainly a great choice."
"Particularly right now, when there"s a huge flow of investments coming into the game, the cost of exploring and building a city will undeniably increase by at least a few times. I heard that the price of hiring a player well equipped with Excellent Grade items has already reached 5,000 credits per day!"
"But building a city itself will require a lot of capital in and of itself. I heard that the Lu Conglomerate, including the investment by the September Guild, has already spent over 10 billion credits on their city, and it isn"t even completed yet."
After hearing Feng Luo"s comments, all four of them agreed with his idea of building a city.
However, because they have lived in Lu Conglomerate City, they knew very well just how much capital was needed to build a city.
Lu Conglomerate"s original plan was to use a billion Star Coins to build a city. In the end, after acquiring the investment from the September Guild, they still had not completed building the Lu Conglomerate City.
The cost of building a city in the game was actually a lot lower than building one in reality. However, it was still a game of burning cash.
"We can think of something if it is about money. Even if we can"t, we"ll get the ground plans laid out first," said Feng Luo.
Money was indeed a problem, but the issue could be resolved.
"Right, we"ve exited the combat mode. You guys wait here. I"ll go offline and discuss the matter with Mu Wu," Feng Luo said after looking at his screen interface.
After that, he went offline, and his body began to dissolve and disappear.
"Hah! Brother Feng is going to join our Nightless City Club! With that, our guild is going to become incredible!"
After Feng Luo had left, Dai and One Pillar Skyward laughed heartily.
"Of course, we"re going to be incredible. In the future, we can say that our guild has the number one Sniper in War. No one would dare look down on our Nightless City Club."
One Pillar Skyward was ecstatic.
"Ugh, though Brother Feng is certainly the strongest Sniper player I"ve seen, but isn"t that t.i.tle a little too…"
Dai stopped to think for a moment, and it looked like she hadn"t decided yet what word to use.
"Hmm? Am I wrong?"
"Come on, when have you ever seen a Sniper shoot like Brother Feng"s two shots earlier. And tell me, which Sniper can deal over 50,000 damage in a single shot?" One Pillar Skyward asked. He seemed quite annoyed by Dai"s doubts.
Although it was the first time he worked with Feng Luo in the game, he definitely had become a Feng Luo fan in these three days.
"Heh, even we"re going to build our own city now. Just thinking about it is exciting!"
"Friggin" h.e.l.l, I"ve been annoyed by the people from the Lu Conglomerate and September Guild for a long time. With this, we finally are no longer a.s.sociated with them!"
One Pillar Skyward became excited again, as he brought the topic back to the city building.
"Building a city?"
Offline, Feng Luo already connected with Mu Wu. The reason was that the others that had died earlier, including Chairman Jiao, had notified Mu Wu about the latest developments.
As such, the moment Feng Luo went offline, he met with Mu Wu, who had also logged out of the game through the 3D projector inside his house.
However, Chairman Jiao and the others had no idea Feng Luo was thinking about building a city.
And so, when Mu Wu heard Feng Luo, he was also quite shocked. After that, he went into deep thought.
"This is most certainly a great opportunity. It is also a suitable location. But, there are just too many problems that we will encounter. The NPC factions, water resources, the amount of capital needed, and also, how we are going to attract NPCs and players at the current stage?"
Mu Wu was certainly a person who had amazing strategic planning skills.
In just half a minute, he saw the strengths and weaknesses of building a city at the ruins site. He even considered a few more things than Feng Luo.
It was not surprising at all, as after all, Feng Luo conjured up the idea of building a city on the spot.
However, Mu Wu, from his previous conversations with Feng Luo, had been thinking about building a city for Nightless City for a long time.
"Capital, water sources, and NPC factions. These three aren"t major issues."
"If we don"t have the s.p.a.ce battles.h.i.+p, building a city there would be too difficult. Moreover, we would have to face a serious threat from the NPC faction. But, if we can lure the NPC factions interested in the s.p.a.ce battles.h.i.+p over there in advance, then the Federation Government probably won"t mind helping us get rid of them," Feng Luo said with a smile.
"As for the water source, it is true that it isn"t found easily in the desert, but the distance between the ruin and the edge of the Death Forest is only around a hundred miles."
"The Death Forest has an abundant source of water. As long as we eliminate the NPC faction over there, building an underground pipe that connects to the city won"t be a problem."
"Yes, that is possible. But what about money?" Mu Wu nodded and then looked at Feng Luo again.
In the end, money was the real problem; it was more serious than the other two issues.
One could even say that if they had enough money, the other two wouldn"t have been a problem to begin with.
As long as they had the money, they could easily hire millions of players, and with the advantage of not fearing death, their numbers could easily crush the NPC faction.
Star Coins were ultimately almighty in the game!
"On this, I have two ideas: First, let some of our old clients in the club, who are also in the game, own some shares for building the city. People like Boss Meng or Chairman Jiao, they will help us raise some of the needed funds."
"I believe they"ll see the potential of this opportunity, and a number of them would be willing to invest. It will help us solve the gaps in our funding," Feng Luo spoke of his first idea.
"This plan is feasible, but..."
"Although they are clients, most of them are businessmen. If they become shareholders, the guild will be a lot harder to manage."
Mu Wu at first nodded but then quickly shook his head.
Feng Luo was not surprised by Mu Wu"s reaction and continued to talk about his second idea.
"The second idea is: First, get a loan to explore the ruin. Then, after Huan Yu"s auction, I"ll receive the money for selling the Boss biochip, even though the chip doesn"t belong to me alone. That should be enough for the first phase of building the city."
When he spoke, his eyes were focused on Mu Wu"s face as he observed his reactions.
Mu Wu"s expression stiffened. It stayed that way for a while before he became very thoughtful.
"This plan could work. But, a Boss pet biochip is worth at least a billion credits now. By the time you invest, we"d have to re-arrange the shares!"
Mu Wu did not grimace as he brought up this rather "serious" issue directly.
However, if Feng Luo were to inject new capital to build the city, an amount that exceeded Nightless City"s current capital, it was natural the shares would have to be re-allocated.
Of course, they could separate the city building from Nightless City itself, as Feng Luo first suggested, and allocate shares for the city building alone.
However, Feng Luo simply shook his head, looked at Mu Wu and said, "No! Treat that money as a loan from me to the guild. Or maybe to you. When the guild has more cash, you can pay me back with interest."
He wanted his shares in Nightless City to be at 49% because he wished for Mu Wu to make the decisions for Nightless City. He also wanted it that way because it would allow him to relax and become a boss who doesn"t have to do too much work.
However, they needed to grab this opportunity; they could not let the chance slip, and so they had to throw money into it.
Nonetheless, with regard to the guild and the completed city, he still did not want to manage either.
If he only lent the money to the company, they would not need to re-allocate the shares. In that case, he wouldn"t have to worry too much. He really didn"t like troubles.
"But even if I invest the money, Nightless City isn"t one that"ll grow with money alone. You should know that I have no interest in managing any guild matters!"
When Mu Wu was thinking deeply, Feng Luo added another line.
What Feng Luo said was not a ruse nor was it meant to make Mu Wu feel better.
It was true that the big boss gave him half the shares in the Nightless City company. Moreover, the Nightless City Club was under the Nightless City company, meaning Feng Luo owned half the shares in the in-game a.s.set of Nightless City — the Nightless City Club.
However, in truth, the Nightless City Club was an organization that Mu Wu had spent a lot of time and effort building up.
Before this, Feng Luo was not at all a.s.sociated with the club.
As such, for various reasons, he had no intention of increasing his shares in the Nightless City Club.
After a few more moments of silence, Mu Wu finally spoke again.
"If you insist, then all right. We can do it via a loan."
"But, with regard to the shares in Nightless City, we still have to adjust them."
"Old Feng, you have forgotten to include yourself in the valuation!"
"Even though you don"t want to deal with any of the guild"s matters, you have to remember that you are a combat player who once dominated the search rankings. Do you know the price of someone like this to join a guild?"
"Even if it was a top-line guild with hundreds of thousands of members, it"ll still use shares as part of its negotiations. There"s no need for me to mention just how poor Nightless City is!"
Mu Wu looked at Feng Luo with deep respect.
"Moreover, truth be told, I don"t care about the shares in the guild as well. I only care about whether we can grow Nightless City into one of the top guilds in the game. At the same time, surpa.s.s "some" of the other guilds along the way."
Mu Wu sounded very calm. However, his gaze was full of ambition.
"Wu"s personality surely takes after his mother. For things that he cares about, he would never back down. Moreover, he always wants to do something to prove himself."
Feng Luo suddenly remembered the words of the big boss.
He had to admit. They were father and son. On understanding Mu Wu"s personality, the big boss was still above him.
After looking at each other for a while, they laughed.
"All right then, I"ll go online!"
After further discussing a few details with Mu Wu, Feng Luo turned around and returned to the game capsule and logged in once more to War.
Ta, ta, ta
Boom! Bam!
As soon as he logged in, sounds of battles entered his ears!