After I quit the team, they chased me

This asking price has increased tenfold compared to before it grew.

And, this is the upfront cost.

The later costs are incalculable because the Hound Adventure Group does not know what kind of resistance they will encounter in the future.

Simon felt okay with the offer.

Money is something that should be spent when it is needed.

Moreover, the people and events involved are all very important and cannot be investigated by a small team.

If you are not careful, someone may die.

"You said that the Four Heavenly Kings' team is involved. They are dissatisfied with their own resources and want to kill me and take my resources?"

Simon was not a fool. He thought about the possibility and felt that it was very likely.

"There are two possibilities. The first is to kill you and take away your resources, but smart people will definitely not do this. They should have anticipated that the assassin would fail. You probably won't die, but your life will definitely be in danger, so they will seriously pursue the responsibility.

“The second possibility is to force you to expand your manpower, quickly arm each resource area, and immediately begin developing the resource areas.

“Where will these short-term and urgent recruits come from? They can only be selected from full-time adventurers. It is impossible to recruit a group of two-star apprentice adventurers and slowly train them to full-time positions. We must find capable people, otherwise they will easily die on the tenth floor. Not only will it waste money, but it will also waste a lot of time.

“Among these people, many are spies of the Great Adventure Group, or simply informants.

“The reason why I emphasize the second possibility is mainly because this is a common control method used by the Four Heavenly Kings, infiltrating the newly born adventure group through a large number of idle people in society.

“You won’t see the effect in the beginning, but you’ll know after a while.

“As the head of a group, you can’t possibly be in charge of everything. With so many resource areas, there are bound to be areas that you can’t manage.

"Many adventure groups without any background were secretly sidelined in this way. They grew very fast and had no time to train their own people. If they wanted to covet resource areas, they would be sidelined instead."

After listening to him, Simon felt that he was right.

The team of the Four Heavenly Kings has been able to stand in Haizhen for so long. Twenty years have passed and they are still the same four teams that dominate the world. It turns out that they have a trick up their sleeve waiting for them.

If you don't want to be caught by this trick, you can only sell the resource area, streamline the number of personnel, and focus on being a small but beautiful adventure group.

But they don't know it.

Simon didn't care about the benefits of this little piece of land, and a year later he was ready to climb the mountain.

Things that he couldn't take away were of no use to him. At most he could make some money from selling the land.

Chapter 220 Negotiation

Of course, the one year Simon planned in his mind was just a vague concept of time.

Once everyone in the team reaches four stars, we can start climbing.

You don't have to wait a year.

It may take a few months, or it may take more than a year.

Now knowing that the mastermind behind this was most likely the Four Heavenly Kings team, Simon fell into deep thought.

As a person, one is destined to fight for interests. Simon's snow mountain adventure team suddenly rose to prominence and naturally would be targeted by the four big sharks.

The Snow Mountain Adventure Group was not mobilized before, mainly because no one expected that the Snow Mountain Adventure Group would succeed.

At that time, many people were more optimistic about the Red Rose Adventure Group.

As a rising star, the Snow Mountain Adventure Team cannot make up for the time gap in intelligence no matter how fast it is.

But they didn't expect that with just a sudden inspiration and a bit of luck, Simon could quickly find the axis to pass the level.

Looking back at the key operations that Simon performed to clear the Earth Dragon Secret Realm, none of them could be missed. The Earth Dragon BOSS's health line was very tight, and its blood recovery ability was too strong. If it was delayed for a few days, it would have been impossible to kill it.

Now the speed of rise is too fast, and the backlash will follow. The four big crocodiles are watching covetously and secretly raising their butcher knives.

Do you want to be assassinated, or slowly infiltrated and sidelined by us?

"Simon, which one will you choose?" the Hound Leader suddenly said, as if he guessed what Simon was thinking.

Simon shook his head and threw five million blue crystals onto the ground.

"Trace it down as soon as possible and get the evidence."

"Very good, you chose the third way. Fight to the end, eh? I am very optimistic about you."

The leader of the hounds took the blue essence block, grabbed several weapons with his big hand, then sat on the big yellow dog and ran back to the base.

In less than a few seconds, the people inside got on the carriage, rushed out of the camp, and chased in the direction of the Earth Dragon Secret Realm.

Simon was watching them go when he felt the edge of his clothes move.

When he turned around, he saw Xiao Qian holding the corner of his clothes.

"Don't worry, they do their thing and we do ours." Simon patted her palm gently.

Xiao Qian didn't understand what this sentence meant.

Soon.

Simon went to the local newspaper branch to publish an urgent contract news.

The newspaper staff was very shocked and asked, "Are you sure you want to contract it all out?"

"Of course, but the specific terms will be discussed in person," Simon said.

"Okay, I'll make a note of it." The newspaper staff was a little confused, but still did as he was told.

"But why don't you develop it yourself? It's such a good resource. If you contract it out, the profits will be dispersed." The newspaper staff asked in confusion.

"Because these are external things." Simon gave a smile that met social expectations, then turned around and left with Xiao Qian.

The newspaper staff suddenly felt that Simon's words were very courageous and he did not take these things seriously at all.

He seemed to be pursuing something higher.

What could it be?

……

Up to now, not many people have a deep understanding of the meaning behind the name of the Snow Mountain Adventure Team.

Everyone just thought that the base was close to the snow-capped mountains, so they named it the Snow Mountain Adventure Group. After all, many large adventure groups are named like this casually without any deep meaning.

Simon did not return to the base, but stayed briefly on the tenth floor.

He will get the job done in the next two days and contract out the land.

Whoever loves it can take it.

Simon now only wants to examine the historical information contained in the Earth Dragon Secret Realm.

He will directly specify the ownership of the unearthed cultural relics in the terms.

Except for materials with commercial attributes such as minerals and plants that are contracted to outsiders, things with cultural attributes cannot be sold, or at least he has to look at them before deciding whether to sell them.

That evening, the small publication "Tenth Floor Evening News" began to circulate in the city on the tenth floor.

Newspapers were shipped to other places in large numbers of freight wagons.

This is a publication unique to the Tenth Floor, which records what happened on the Tenth Floor.

Almost everyone in the adventure group living on the tenth floor will subscribe to it to learn the most cutting-edge industry information.

Moreover, this newspaper is produced locally and does not need to be published on the ground, so the scheduling is more flexible, so Simon chose this publication.

Just after six o'clock in the evening, within ten minutes, someone knocked on the door of the pub.

Today, Simon booked a bar on the tenth floor, including tomorrow. He booked the venue to discuss business.

"Please come in." Simon said to the people outside.

The door of the pub is not completely closed. It is hollow at the top and bottom, with two doors in the middle that can be easily pushed open.

The first person to come in was Aaron, the warlock from the Far North Adventure Group.

Today he was wearing a black light vest, a white top, black trousers, a bow tie at his collar, and his hair was combed neatly, looking like he had prepared something special.

When Simon saw Aaron coming, he knew who was behind it.

"Captain Simon, long time no see. How have you been resting recently?" Aaron politely took off his cap and sat at the bar, one seat away from Simon.

Xiao Qian, wearing a black and white maid outfit, took the place of the bar owner, took out the drinks, and without saying a word, filled up the two people's glasses. She then used frost to freeze the drink in Aaron's glass into ice cubes.

Aaron was just about to drink, so he raised the glass and took a sip, but before he could drink a drop, he realized that the glass was icy cold, and the wine had turned into ice cubes, with wisps of cold ice mist, and there was no sign of melting at all.

He chuckled, not paying attention to Xiao Qian's troubles, but asked Simon with a normal look how to contract, what types of contracting methods there are, whether it is a full package or a half package, and whose people to use...

Simon's ears moved slightly and he heard footsteps outside the tavern. Someone else was coming, but they stopped and did not come in, as if they had heard Aaron's voice.

"One price, one-year contract, all inclusive, except for the cultural relics..."

Simon responded to Aaron's questions one by one.

Aaron first frowned, then relaxed his brows, and then frowned again.

After a while, his brows relaxed again.

It's just a cultural relic. I'll give it to you. It's not something very valuable.

This is something that archaeologists love, but not many people in the local area have this demand.

Of course, this does not rule out the possibility that some group leaders have such a collecting hobby, and if you sell it to them, you can naturally get a pretty good high price.

But on the other hand, if we don't give up some interests, it is obvious that the negotiations will not go on.

And Aaron keenly realized through this half-hour conversation that Simon's only bottom line was these cultural relics with historical and cultural attributes. Everything else could be negotiated, the only difference was the asking price.

In this way, Aaron's eyebrows relaxed.

The members of the adventure team who were waiting and eavesdropping outside were also smiling, as if they saw a large amount of rare supplies waving to them.

As long as they pay, the development rights will belong to them. Whatever they dig out will be theirs, except for the cultural relics!

The adventure team that still had some conscience all looked anxious and began to feel worried for Simon.

They felt that Simon was too irrational to sell his resource area at such a low price.

Do you know how much these things are worth? If you sell the contracting rights at a fixed price now, you will lose a lot of money.

Chapter 221 What is the priority renewal right? Tactical retreat

Not long after.

A resource map of the Earth Dragon Secret Realm was drawn on the bar’s blackboard.

The several large resource areas owned by Simon have been divided into hundreds of small resource areas for contracting.

At this point, most of the conditions and details have been negotiated, with only the final term condition to be agreed upon.

“One year is too short.

"At least five years!" Aaron raised five fingers.

Simon shook his head and said to the person outside the door:

"Everyone has been standing outside the door for a long time, please come in."

As soon as Simon's voice fell, the door of the bar opened instantly, and the bar was filled with people.

It took less than an hour for the newspapers to be sold out.

Maybe someone got the news from the newspaper in advance and held a meeting for a whole afternoon, so they came here prepared.

Simon thought secretly and found that some people in these contracting groups looked anxious.

"Simon, how can you just give a flat price for the contract? You should at least get some profit sharing."

"Yes, Simon, this is not a good idea. How about this? Let us contract those resource areas. We are willing to give you 20% of the share!"

"I'll give you 30 percent!"

A few people felt unwilling for Simon. They felt very sad when they saw Simon suffer a great loss.

Except for these few good guys, everyone else looked as if they had eaten a fly.

Aaron had originally negotiated very well, but these new adventure groups who had no foresight broke the reserve price and even called out the share of the profits.

Aaron's face looked a little bad, but he was still calm. He just glanced at the captains to see what they looked like.