Deceitful Game

Chapter 123 There's another suspected tomb!

"Hey, where are you guys going? Going out to play?"

Ai Shiping was somewhat confused.

He was squatting in the living room looking through DVDs that could be played when he saw Mingpo and Gao Fan walk out one after the other.

So he instinctively stood up, intending to go out with them: "Can I come with you?"

Upon hearing this, Mingpo stopped in her tracks.

He turned to look at Ai Shiping and pondered for a few seconds.

"Speaking of which, shouldn't you be due for a promotion?"

Mingpo suddenly asked, "You already have the Pseudo-Gold of the Sun, right?"

"Anytime is fine."

Ai Shiping laughed heartily and gave a thumbs up: "The 'materials' are all gathered, and the title has been upgraded..."

There are two main factors that prevent charlatans from rising in rank.

One is upgrading the title, and the other is acquiring chips.

To advance to the level of Pseudo-Gold of the Sun, one must acquire the Time Chips of the Pseudo-Gold of the Sun level; to advance to the level of Azure Lead of the Week, one must acquire the Chips of Azure Lead of the Week level.

However, only by achieving the best performance in the highest difficulty level of the same tier can one potentially gain access to the next tier ahead of time. This is somewhat humorous, reminiscent of the analogy of finishing Karazhan and then immediately resuming play.

Just like the promotion matches from Platinum to Diamond in a game, you often need to carry several Platinum players to beat the opposing Diamond players and win... So you can't advance to the next level just by touching the threshold; you have to be "significantly stronger than the next rank" to advance.

Even if most people max out their titles, they usually don't have that level of power.

They can only advance their own careers by buying high-level tokens from higher-ranking con artists through price gouging. But high-level tokens aren't readily available... middlemen have to take a cut, otherwise ordinary people would have a hard time getting to know these high-ranking con artists.

We must also consider the possibility that the other party might renege on their promise, or that we might be murdered and robbed.

After all, being able to scrape together enough money to buy chips at a higher premium means you undoubtedly have a lot of "cash." And taking down a charlatan of a lower level is definitely much easier than fighting a charlatan of the same or even higher level... yet the rewards are much higher. Although many people will trade honestly, this is not absolute.

After all, there is no law among charlatans... it's purely a survival-of-the-fittest relationship.

And that is precisely the benefit of joining a large organization.

If you buy chips directly from senior members within the organization, both of these problems are naturally solved. If the relationship is good, you might even be able to buy them at the original price without paying a premium—consider it change.

In any case, even if these people are promoted to higher privileges, they basically won't participate in high-risk combat games. They just use relatively safe survival games to "run knife fights" and earn a ticket fee.

While higher privileges mean more expensive admission tickets and greater difficulty, they also allow you to earn more "time".

Because in survival games, there's no need to completely resolve events like Minpeer did.

Its real main plot is simply surviving to the next stage.

In other words, you can also avoid all side quests and explorations, only doing the minimum main quests and avoiding combat as much as possible... This way you can still get a little bit of resources, and in the worst case, it will just cover the entry fee, which is equivalent to not playing this round.

Even if the mission fails, at worst you'll just lose your ticket money; you might not die. Like Lin Ya, who almost lost all her chips but still survived. It's hard to say whether that's lucky or unlucky.

Therefore, the pseudo-gold of the sun represents the first stage of qualitative change.

Even at the lowest level of completion... such as "one chip in, two chips out", the income is directly increased by twenty-four times compared to "Time's Red Copper" with the same level of completion.

Now that Ai Shiping has met the promotion criteria, it would be best to promote him as soon as possible.

Otherwise, every time Mingpo plays a game with him, it's equivalent to losing more than twenty times his income in the same amount of time.

Although I don't know what the countdown in the living room, which only I can see, means...

But Mingpo instinctively felt that it was better to pay a little more attention to it.

Mingpo said, "If there's nothing else, then let's get promoted now. I can't help you with that."

"Now?"

Ai Shiping was somewhat surprised: "So soon?"

"It's not really a rush. It's just that we both happen to have something to do and need to go out—I feel restless when you're all idle at home."

Mingpo confessed.

"...Okay, okay."

Ai Shiping stood up somewhat helplessly: "Sigh, I was planning to have some fun... You know what, Aper! There are movies here... I looked, and they're all classic old films, seventy or eighty movies in total. There's even the complete Tom and Jerry series—youpin, Xiaofan!"

Gao Fan just smiled and said gently, "Don't rush to start the game. Let me buy you a Coke as a farewell drink."

He could tell that Ai Shiping seemed to really like this drink. And coincidentally, he had quite a bit in his refrigerator.

Although charlatans can drink beverages and sleep and rest... in reality, as long as they don't reveal themselves, they don't need to sleep, let alone eat or drink. Of course, if they do reveal themselves, they are just like ordinary people.

If happiness and joy can be found simply by satisfying one's appetite, then that is a talent—the talent to survive for a long time in this hopeless, endless black-and-white world.

"Okay, I won't stand on ceremony!"

Ai Shiping agreed without hesitation and followed Gao Fan into the kitchen: "Then I'll have a large cup and a small glass!"

After showing Ai Shiping where the refrigerator, coffee machine, coffee beans, tea leaves, kettle, and other items were located, Gao Fan quickly came out.

He gave Mingpo a wink, and the two quietly opened the door and left.

obviously.

Neither Mingpo nor Gao Fan wanted Ai Shiping, who was still at the Time Bronze level, to get involved in this incident.

Gao Song was a high-ranking charlatan with authority at the level of Zhou Zhiqingqian, while Ai Shiping had absolutely no combat ability.

Although Gao Fan doesn't have much combat ability... at least he's good at running. Besides, this is his family matter, and he can't just not go. If he gets injured or even killed because of Gao Fan's request... without a doubt, their newly formed team might fall apart. Although Ai Shiping is the lowest-ranking, not very good at fighting, and lacks experience...

But his personality is what holds the team together.

Once they reached the bottom of the stairs, Mingpo finally spoke, "Where are we going?"

"My uncle owns four properties in Shanghai, but I don't really know where his real home is..."

"Yao, how extravagant! No wonder you're from a family with a throne to inherit."

Mingpo exclaimed, "There are even suspected tombs!"