Three Kingdoms Mythology World.

Chapter 2605 The Prevalence of Evil Winds
While Lin Mu was conquering the Yamata no Orochi, the war between the Japanese and Chinese regions also began to intensify.

The trigger was the volcano that erupted lava.

Volcanoes that erupt can yield incredibly rare resources, such as treasures for cultivation breakthroughs, fire-attribute spirit beast eggs, fire-attribute spiritual objects, and even divine swords!
Players from the Chinese region, who witnessed and were even affected by the volcanic eruption, resulting in the deaths of millions of players, began to seize the volcanic opportunities.

Players in the Chinese region also employed the tactic of besieging a point to ambush reinforcements. They surrounded the volcano, then spread rumors that there were treasures on the mountain to attract the Japanese players and native inhabitants. They then launched a surprise attack to wipe out the Japanese players and native inhabitants who came after hearing the news.

This approach didn't work very well at first because it was still uncertain whether there were resources on the volcano.

Several Japanese players have reported discovering divine swords and blades unaffected by lava on remote volcanoes!

Then began a bloody and fierce battle, with players from both Japan and China getting involved. Japan fought China, Japan fought Japan, and China fought China... It was complete chaos.

As each scene was broadcast live, it ignited the battlefield of the national war.

The Japanese players, who had been hiding and waiting for an opportunity, suddenly erupted and began to besiege the Chinese players.

Various conspiracies and schemes began to surface.

The dangers of traitors, ambushes and counter-ambushes, and other such tactics emerged one after another.

However, what deserves special mention is not how brutal the war was between the two sides, but rather the scenes of peaceful coexistence.

That's right, it's Chinese players and Japanese players making trades.

After Chinese players plunder resources from Japan, most of them cannot be moved, and there is a limit to the size of the backpack, so a lot of resources are wasted.

Now, some people have started trading with Japanese players, and after gaining initial trust, the word has spread like wildfire.

Players in the Chinese region directly sell to Japanese players at 20%, 30%, or even 50% discounts, thereby acquiring currency.

Coins do not require backpack space; they can be converted into a set of data.

This action brought both of them to a climax.

Selling resources to Japanese players at low prices might seem like an act of treason, but if you think about it, Chinese players actually benefit. After all, those resources were obtained through plunder.

You can't take the resources with you, but you can take the coins!

The amount of currency in each region is actually limited. If players in the Chinese region take a large amount of currency from the Japanese region and return it to China, they are essentially plundering the national strength of the Japanese region and bringing it back to China.

What's more, if they rob once, they can rob a second time, a third time... Who knows, while they're robbing, the resources they sell will be snatched back and resold...

Even worse, some directly used this low price to lure players from the Japanese region, resorting to double-crossing tactics and harming many Japanese players...

In short, many of the methods used in this invasion and expedition to Japan have become more sophisticated... and various fraudulent schemes have also been innovated, causing many people to suffer heavy losses.

Among them, Muhuang Group's trading market is the most active!

That's right, Lin Mu's group has also started doing this kind of business.

It was done openly and honestly, and they even invested a lot of money in advertising, sending people to promote it among Japanese gamers.

At first, some people even called Lin Mu a traitor, saying he sold resources to Japanese players at low prices and even used up real-world skill learning quotas to trade with Japanese players.

This is blatant treason!
But their trading market not only didn't stop because players cursed them as traitors, it thrived instead.

For example, the General Promotion Token, while not incredibly cheap, is really inexpensive in the Eastern Kingdom region. The Muhuang Group paid double the price for it; why wouldn't they sell? Although most of it uses basic resources as currency, it's still a real profit.

Basic blueprints for various purposes, such as tailor shops and residences, are very cheap, yet people buy them at high prices. Why not take advantage of this opportunity?
As long as there's profit to be made, it doesn't matter if you're the mastermind behind the invasion of Japan or a beneficiary of the existing system; as long as you can make money, that's all that matters!

The operations of Muhuang Group have made them incredibly wealthy, making many people envious.

Jiang Chenglong, Xuan Yuan Changying, and others also couldn't escape the "it smells so good" rule and started imitating it.

The two players actually started exchanging items...

In short, this "evil wind" has taken root and spread across Japan.

As a result, the ones who suffer the most damage are not the Japanese players, but the NPCs.

Their resources and wealth were plundered by players from the Chinese server, then sold to players from the Japanese server, resulting in a win-win situation for both sides. Those NPCs, however, were left homeless and penniless…

What's even more bizarre is that some Japanese players secretly colluded with players from the Chinese region, with the former providing the latter with intelligence so that the latter could easily carry out the robbery, and then the two sides split the loot...

The methods used by players can truly lower many people's standards and cause them immense suffering...

If the interests of NPCs are affected, then they will resist. Although they are quite quiet for some reason and haven't taken any major actions, they can issue a royal decree strictly prohibiting transactions with the extraordinary people of Shenzhou, with the death penalty and the confiscation of all wealth for anyone discovered!
The harsh orders did curb some people's actions, but where there's a will, there's a way. They had plenty of ways to circumvent the strict laws of the state. They began to make contacts in the real world, even going so far as to plunder, negotiate a price, and leave the loot somewhere for others to take back…

As the profits grew, some Japanese players came up with even more outrageous proposals.

That means having Lin Mu open a teleportation channel so they can let players from the China region go back, and then bring back local specialties to Japan for trade, achieving deeper commercial exchange...

Lin Mu, who was still aimlessly drifting in the sea of ​​blood, was stunned when he received this application.

"You said that some Japanese player clans regretted destroying the teleportation channel and want us to reopen it so that players from the Chinese region can go back?" Lin Mu replied to Jiang Chenglong with a puzzled look on his face.

Indeed, an evil aura was emanating from Jiang Chenglong and his group...

"This feels absurd. Are they plotting something?" Lin Mu was speechless.

"This matter is actually your fault. You let Muhuang Group set up a trading market that directly led to a distorted trend," Jiang Chenglong said with a strange expression.

Lin Mu: "..."

He actually tasted the benefits of making a contract with Orochi, and then started exploring other avenues. Unexpectedly, this avenue became even more popular than the raiding avenue.

Of course, the main theme of Chinese players invading the Japanese region remains the same: a scorched-earth policy. But after looting, exchanging the loot for some extra cash is certainly a good thing…

"There's nothing we can do about it. Those guys implemented a scorched-earth policy. The tough guys are gone, and even the soup is bland..." Lin Mu shrugged.

"Moreover, the players and NPCs in the Eastern Japan region definitely have good stuff. Good stuff is hard to get through plundering, so why not try a softer approach?" Lin Mu said in a low voice.

"Your ideas are always both baffling and refreshing... I'm speechless," Jiang Chenglong joked.

"Actually, it's good. This will greatly reduce the animosity of Japanese players towards us... and divert the hatred of plundering away," Jiang Chenglong added.

"Be careful, if we stab them in the back, they might do the same... Don't let your interests blind you!" Lin Mu warned.

"That teleportation channel..." Jiang Chenglong inquired.

"It can be opened, but it consumes a lot of resources, you know!" Lin Mu wasn't the kind of blindly loyal hothead. This kind of subtle approach was actually more effective at plundering the national strength of the Japanese region!
Do the top-tier lords in the Eastern Kingdom region not know the drawbacks of this? They do know, but there's nothing they can do about it.

In other regions like China, so many people sell their servers for profit. In the world of ordinary people, they don't think about the future of ascending to the throne, the cold, hard data on national power, or the vast global announcements. They think about what to eat tomorrow, whether to spend their life savings on a house, what happens when their savings are gone, their child gets sick and needs money, and how much more work they need to do tomorrow…

"Of course, the temporary chamber of commerce has already reached an agreement that both sides will pay a certain price as a teleportation fee," Jiang Chenglong nodded.

"A temporary trading guild... formed together with players from Japan?" Lin Mu was dumbfounded...

"Yes... Anyway, some players who are good at business can't plunder much, and they don't have much combat power. Why not take advantage of their strengths and plunder the resources of the Eastern Japan region through business!" Jiang Chenglong said firmly.

The top executives in the China region are not incompetent; they have a much longer-term vision…

"Ahem... I have a list of resource requirements here..." Lin Mu said meaningfully.

"Send it over..." Jiang Chenglong, with an air of wealth and arrogance, readily agreed without even glancing at Lin Mu's list.

"Lord Lin Mu, do you have some inside information? Are the General Promotion Tokens really that scarce later on? You've been buying them up... Does that mean the military camps can't be expanded indefinitely?" Jiang Chenglong saw a familiar name again and immediately asked.

"As long as you have the territory and blueprints, you can build as many as you want... But military camp blueprints are limited after all..." Lin Mu didn't explain much and just brushed it off.

However, upon hearing Lin Mu's explanation, Jiang Chenglong frowned even more deeply.

It should be noted that Lin Mu's desire to purchase cultivation techniques was definitely lower than that for a general's job promotion token, which was worth more than ten times less!

"Looks like I'll have to stock up on some general promotion tokens too..." Jiang Chenglong said meaningfully.

Upon hearing this, Lin Mu smiled slightly and said nothing.

"There's a crafter in the Eastern Japan region who makes Military Officer Job Change Tokens... Help me find out, I need them," Lin Mu said softly.

"What? There's such a side profession? If we capture him, we can make an unlimited number of general promotion tokens!" Jiang Chenglong had never heard of such a side profession before.

Lin Mu was actually out of options. While he was traveling around various cities destroying temples and shrines, he had been trying to find out about the crafter of the general's job change token, but to no avail.

Since a lord from Japan has joined the temporary chamber of commerce, and Jiang Chenglong and his group have 'connections' in the Japanese region, they might be able to find out.

"Ahem... Lord Lin Mu, do you truly possess the sacred artifact of the Eastern Kingdom, the Yata Mirror?" Jiang Chenglong abruptly changed his tone and asked in a low voice.

"No... There hasn't been an announcement yet, of course there isn't one... But if we kill Orochi, maybe there will be one," Lin Mu joked.

(End of this chapter)