"I'm going right away!"
Several excited players immediately ran off.
The remaining players, however, began to think seriously.
The difficulty of this quest was not low. The gang members' levels were not high, many even lower than theirs, but the gangs had guns. If they rushed in without any preparation, they would likely be shot to death, losing experience for nothing.
Sure enough, they still had to find a way to get some guns.
But they were treating the gangs as targets, so would buying guns from the gangs reduce Lily's favorability?
"Do you have any difficulties?" Lily asked very thoughtfully.
Super Big Watermelon Rind scratched his head sheepishly: "Lily, do you know where guns are sold in Lynn?"
Lily pondered.
The surrounding players all became nervous. Lily had given them a test quest, but in the end, they still needed Lily's help, which was a bit embarrassing.
Fortunately, Lily did not show any unusual expression: "Four Directions has a batch of eliminated guns. Those guns are usable, but their performance can't compare to new ones."
"Usable is fine!"
"It's better than nothing."
Lily said: "Since that's the case, I'll go talk to Four Directions. Anyway, those guns are going to be destroyed. Asking them to sell them at a low price shouldn't be a problem."
The surrounding players cheered one after another.
It had to be Lily! If it were other NPCs, they would probably have told them to "scram" long ago.
Lily drove away and returned about an hour later. This time, besides Anya, Shino and a pile of guns returned with her.
When Shino first heard that Lily wanted to sell those eliminated guns, she thought Lily had lost her mind.
These guns were despised by everyone in Four Directions. Four Directions once wanted to sell these guns cheaply to scavengers, but scavengers were very shrewd. They would rather spend more money to buy new guns than take these guns that could break at any time.
In desperation, Four Directions could only hand these guns over to her, the Mechanic, to deal with.
But upon seeing the players who surrounded her, Shino realized she was wrong.
"Durability is only 3/4 left, but the price is only 280 credit points, less than half the price of a new gun. Hiss, so cheap."
"This one only has 1/4 durability left, but the price… Holy crap, only 100? Even if I'm unlucky and it breaks, it won't hurt, I'll just buy three and rotate them!"
In an instant, Shino found that each player in front of her bought at least 2 guns from her. Including the money from selling bullets, she instantly earned over 10,000. Before coming, Lily said there were more than sixty such buyers, which meant that this business would bring her 50,000, even if she had to split half with Lily, it was still much higher than her basic salary.
Even Shino, who didn't care much about money, had her eyes light up at this moment. She looked at Lily like a divine being, wondering, 'Where on earth did you find such a group of buyers?'
You little rascal.
Lily pouted. If she were the one selling, she would have even more tricks for the players.
For example, selling the same weapons she used, or drawing weapon lucky bags, or earning points from consumption to buy higher-grade weapons once a certain point threshold was reached. There was always a trick to empty the players' pockets, and afterwards, the players wouldn't even call her a profiteer.
Just like now, she and Shino only invested a little time and earned a large sum, but in the players' eyes, they had become saviors.
"Thanks to Lily and Shino, otherwise, I really don't know how this quest would be completed."
"I think Sister Xia is also beautiful and kind-hearted."
"Charge, charge, charge! Kill those gangsters and bring a bright future back to Lynn!"
The players who bought guns excitedly ran off to deal with the local gangs.
Lily smiled as she watched these players leave. Once these players eliminated all the local gangs, the guns in their hands would be almost scrapped. To participate in new operations, they would have to continue buying guns.
Considering that the gangs were finished and the black market suffered a severe blow, they would only be able to buy guns from Shino. At that time, she would put the guns seized from the gangs on the shelves and earn another sum from the players.
Since these guns were stolen, she could set a slightly lower price and gain another wave of player favorability.
Win!
Lily and Shino stood downstairs at the hotel for two hours. During this time, some more players came to accept quests and buy guns. She told these players that if they wanted to buy more guns, they should go to Shino's workshop, and then she took Shino and Anya back.
She had ordered a set of power armor from Shino with the money she won from the Dark Web. To get the power armor as soon as possible, she couldn't continue to waste Shino's time now.
Just selling things, Anya could do that.
As for herself, she was secretly sneaking into those gangs to get supplies while watching the players carry out their anti-gang operations in Lynn.
The gangs in Lynn Settlement were in a mess.
Not long ago, a group of ruthless people came to borrow money, which made them suspicious, but they didn't expect another group of ruthless people to come today, wanting to kill them without a word.
Don't you know we have backers?
No way.
These people didn't care about them at all.
Having backers is great, but can having backers make you take a few more bullets?
In a short time, the gangs in Lynn suffered a devastating blow. Except for a few who saw the situation was bad and ran quickly, the rest were crushed by the players, and the public order in Lynn was completely cleared.
This incident shocked the Administrator of Lynn.
The reason these gangs could exist was partly because the world was inherently chaotic, and partly because some people colluded with these gangs. Now that the gangs were eliminated, those behind-the-scenes backers couldn't sit still. They quickly found people to lobby Four Directions, asking Four Directions to intervene and manage those players.
Four Directions originally wanted to intervene, but after learning that the players were related to Lily, they immediately dismissed the idea.
"If you want to manage them, go manage them yourself!"
Given the combat power Lily displayed, who would want to provoke her for a group of gangsters?
Three days later, seeing that most players had accumulated enough experience to unlock advanced professions, Lily nodded with satisfaction.
She had these players deal with the local gangs not only to gain player favorability and earn the tens of thousands of credit points in their pockets, but also to use this opportunity to improve the players' strength.
Four Directions had not obtained any useful intelligence from Inoue's interrogation, so their next step was to plan a joint raid with the Gene Primordial army on the Truth Society stronghold they had previously scouted.
Lily intended to join this operation.
After eliminating the second wave of assassins, she accepted a plot quest [The Unknown Truth] aimed at eliminating the Truth Society.
She didn't want to miss such a good opportunity to earn points, but for safety reasons, she planned to bring more players to assist. The players' strength might not have a significant impact on the battle, but they were definitely enough to serve as cannon fodder. Therefore, before the operation officially began, she needed to help the players improve their strength as much as possible, lest Four Directions be unwilling to let these players participate.
"Lily, people from headquarters have arrived!"
That evening, Lily received a notification from Shino.
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