Survival Game: Call Me an Honest Businessman

After Li Zhi reached an agreement with the Rong tribe chief, he made a copy of the communication card for him.

I didn't expect it to come in handy so quickly.

Li Zhi quickly began to think.

The Nightwings are numerous and powerful, and although they seem arrogant, they can only inflict 0 points of damage on her.

As long as she stays within her own safe zone, no one can do anything about it.

Moreover, she also has a cheat cloak, so she can change her face and level and no one will be able to recognize her.

What Li Zhizhen really cared about was that even though her membership card had been recharged to 600 gold, this damn game was still delaying in announcing that she had completed the task!

She opened her career panel:

[Shop: Blacklisted Shop]

[Businessman: Li Zhi (Career Path)]

Shop Level: 3 (398/1000)

【店铺锚点：1.荒野集市；2.黑铁港；3.浓绿集市；4.安全区宿舍；5.（+）】

[Shop Status: 2 Free Stalls (Upgradeable)]

[Shop Equipment: Cheating Cloak, Dice Backpack, Scales on the Card Table, Level 1 Business License]

Li Zhi clicked on the career path next to his name, and a new dialog box appeared:

Career Path: Unscrupulous Businessman (Gambler)

[Promotion Path: Gambler - ?]

[Task: Earn 100 gold coins in the Wilderness Market within 12 hours using business methods, or earn 300 gold coins within 36 hours (see details)]

Li Zhi's gaze lingered on the promotion path.

Gambler is just one node in her unique career path; can her career path be upgraded in the future?

What's behind that gambler?

Li Zhi made a note of this matter and would ask Ying about it later.

Her gaze returned to the taskbar, and she clicked to view the details.

[Quest Progress: 60 Silver/100 Gold]

Li Zhi knew what was going on at a glance.

She teleported back to the airship and, after confirming that no one was on board, said, "I have clearly completed this mission. How can you make me unable to trust fairness and justice?"

Li Zhi spoke up as a matter of course, and the dialog box appeared naturally:

The 600 gold obtained from the recharge is a liability, not an asset.

Li Zhi stood his ground: "The mission only says to earn 100 gold coins in the Wilderness Market using commercial means, it doesn't say that these 100 gold coins have to be assets. Tell me, isn't this money what I earned in the Wilderness Market within 12 hours? Isn't recharging a membership card a commercial activity?"

This money comes with future obligations. Although your account has an extra 600 gold coins, these 600 gold coins are not net income that you can freely use. Simply tricking people into depositing money without any actual consumption or service constitutes financial fraud, which is not a normal business practice.

Li Zhi opened the task details and pointed to the line of text: "Please find the words 'normal business practices' in this line of text."

Every task in your career path aims to showcase your ability and process of creating value, not to encourage you to manipulate data through wordplay or exploiting loopholes.

Li Zhi suddenly found it interesting, and his rebellious streak seemed to grow out of him.

"Qiyuan, I really want to know why you made me choose between being a speculator and a gambler. What is the basis for your special career path for me? When you assigned me this task, you must have considered that under such extreme circumstances, I could only resort to special means. So what exactly do you want to see?"

"A friendly, honest trade between a newly formed race and orcs? Is that even possible?"

"You can't put a person in an extreme environment and expect them to maintain good character and use only honest means. This is not only unreasonable and immoral, but also full of the fantasies and criticisms of those in high positions."

"I will not fulfill anyone's fantasies, nor will I demand myself to become a saint in order to avoid criticism, because it is you and the environment that have forced me into this situation. I am just a player who was forced into this situation in order to protect my own interests from harm."

Li Zhi's tone was not agitated, even somewhat nonchalant: "But I will never be a victim, I will only be a disruptor who will stop at nothing to break the deadlock."

"This is true today, and it will be true in the future."

The dialog box appeared after a three-second delay.

This is a one-time exception; there will be no next time.

You say it's only once, then it's only once?

Li Zhi didn't refute, but instead demanded the reward he deserved: "Where's my reward? And when you forced me to choose the highest stake in the mission, didn't you take advantage of a loophole? You'd better reflect on that; I really don't like this."

[Congratulations to the player who gave me back my 3-star, 5-cost weapon!!! Successfully completed the initial quest for the exclusive career path, and received: 1000 gold coins, a set of B-grade equipment with selectable attributes, and a merchant-version mandatory signing agreement.]

[Congratulations to the player who gave me back my 3-star, 5-cost character!!! Main quest "A Little Gambling for Fun" successfully unlocked]

【主线任务1：在任一集市内，升级固定摊位，流水达到10金/100金/1000金，与该区域至少1/2/3个种族达成良好合作】

Please select:

Bet 1: Upgrade your permanent stall in the Wilderness Market within 3 days, achieve a turnover of 10 gold, and establish a good partnership with at least one race in the area.

Successfully gaining 2 points of regional reputation and adding 1 permanent stall qualification; failure deducting 1 stall qualification.

Bet 2: Upgrade your permanent stall in the Wilderness Market and Beast Market within 15 days, achieve a turnover of 100 gold, and establish good cooperation with at least two races in the area.

Success grants 5 points of regional reputation, 3 points of racial reputation, 1 new permanent stall qualification, and 1 business license; failure deducts 1 business license.

Bet 3: Upgrade your permanent stall in the Wilderness Market, Beast Market, and Beast Alliance Market within 30 days, achieve a turnover of 1000 gold, and establish good cooperation with at least 3 races in the area.

Success grants 10 regional reputation points, 5 racial reputation points, 1 world reputation point, 1 new permanent stall qualification, and 1 franchise license. Failure results in the deduction of 1 permanent stall qualification and 1 franchise license.

[Note: This is a tiered task. To choose Bet 2, you must first complete Bet 1. Bet 1 and Bet 2 are parallel tasks, and their rewards do not affect each other.]

This mission is much more reasonable.

It can be said that bet 1 and bet 2 are prerequisites for bet 3.

As long as bets 1 and 2 are completed, even if bet 3 fails, only the rewards from the first two tasks will be deducted.

Li Zhi is essentially not losing any existing resources.

However, Qi Yuan's task, which had extremely low penalties for failure but progressively increasing rewards, was tantamount to blatantly inducing her to choose bet 3.

Li Zhi accepted the inducement.

Regardless of Qi Yuan's purpose, she firmly chose the path that was in her best interest.

"I choose bet 3."