<h4>Chapter 276: ck Phantom’s Machinery Box (1)</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>As Studios <strong>Editor: </strong>As Studios


    The benefit that Han Xiao really wanted was to have the yers spread the word of how attractive the arena was as a part of a main city, leading to more peopleing to the sanctuary for it, bringing in arge number of immigrants and, more importantly, customers.


    The Great Mechanic Han had quite a few more ideas, such as opening official bets and creating a PVP ranking system, both of which would attract more yers. However, he thought about it and decided not to do that as neither of those were easy to operate and would only be official if they were made by the game developers. If an NPC like him did it, he felt that there might be some risks and negative impacts.


    Most importantly, if he could give these rewards ‘officially’, he could make these studios and actors lose all their business. Han Xiao would never do that since one of his businesses in his previous life included that.


    Although he was benefiting from the yers, the yers benefitted from him as well, so it was a win-win. Therefore, the safest and mostfortable position for Han Xiao was to be neutral, only providing the venue and justice, letting the yers explore the rest. It could also be considered ‘guiding the Inhumans to use their extra energy’.


    Once the position of the main city was firm and had a high poption, in Han Xiao’s n, the next step would be the sinister real estate!


    As the overseer in charge, other than the ces to protect refugees, the rest of the areas in the sanctuary would all be for him to make a profit!


    Suckers... ahem...rge customers would, of course, be thoserge guilds.


    “Sigh, business...”


    Seeing the moving people in the square, Han Xiao stroked his chin and sighed.


    ...


    Huang Yu was totally convinced.


    He used to think the arena was a total waste of resources, but after more than ten days of observation, he gradually realized the potential benefits. Huang Yu could not understand what Han Xiao’s long-term n was, nor did he know the concept of ‘yers’, but when he was drawing the ounting reports, he noticed the fees that they charged for the Inhumansrgely exceeded what they incurred for repairs. In the long term, the cost would be earned back sooner orter, and whatever else they received would be pure profit, and this was only one of the benefits.


    The Inhumans were the main manpower for the construction of the sanctuary, but they were weird and difficult to manage. Huang Yu did not want the Inhumans to have too much contact with the refugees, so he drew out areas for the Inhumans to use, yet the Inhumans still looked for refugees very often. Although their motive was to help, it did result in Huang Yu’s management measures failing. After the arena was built, Inhumans actively used the arena as the center of their activities. The square and the arena naturally became ‘Inhuman Communities’, which saved him a lot of management effort, and the entire sanctuary became more organized.


    This time, Huang Yu was adting Han Xiao in the office,plimenting on how farsighted Han Xiao was, how he was wise, and any other cringeworthypliment that he could think of. These words came out from Huang Yu’s mouth non-stop and jumped into Han Xiao’s ears, making Han Xiao feel so disgusted he had goosebumps.


    After he finally chased Huang Yu away, Han Xiao started to think of the next step for the yers’ Main City n. Most of the benefits that the arena could bring would only happen in the future, but he was not satisfied with that.


    <i>To make the sanctuary more attractive as the main city, the arena is just one factor. There is another way, to have some recurring events. Other than the festival events from the official game developers, if I want to attract the yers to participate in the events, I have to show them actual real benefits...</i>


    Han Xiao knocked on the table with his fingers and pondered. Suddenly, he had a sh of inspiration, and an idea came to his mind.


    The morning in Karst wastnd was full of sand and fog, giving a feeling of damp and dry at the same time—it was very ufortable. However, the areas near the sanctuary were clean and refreshing, so the haze was blocked. The sanctuary already had a rough foundation, and it was equipped with enormous air filtration devices. The sanctuary ced importance in preventing radiation, pollution, and deterioration of the air quality.


    The yers were taking part in building the sanctuary. On the rebar of the protective wall, a group of yers was welding. This job was tedious and dangerous, and the yers stepped on the rebars wobbly.


    “Be careful, don’t fall down.”


    Just as this person said that, another person beside him slipped. The people looked at him as he fell while the sorry scream that person made descended further and further.


    The protective wall was very tall. It was the most dangerous mission in all of the construction missions, and yers died identally very often.


    “Told you to be careful.”


    On the other rebar, a yer with the ID ‘Half A Cigarette When Lonely’ said resentfully, “Sh*t, those safer and easier missions with rich reward are all controlled by therge guilds. Us normal yers can only do these worse missions.”


    Whenever there were people, there would be conflict. There were many types of sanctuary construction missions, and the easy missions with rich reward were all divided between therge guilds. Most of the solo yers could only take the leftovers. The majority of yers were just ying casually and were not bothered, but there were also yers who did.


    Filled with contempt, Half A Cigarette When Lonelyined, “Theserge guilds possess the resources, so we’ve already lost on the starting line. How can we even fight them in the future?”


    Someone besideughed and said, “It’s just a game. Why so serious?”


    “ying a game means being the strongest is the best. If not, what’s the point of ying?” Half A Cigarette When Lonely rebutted. “That’s why all of you are so weak—you don’t have any dreams.”


    “If you’re so jealous, why don’t you just join a guild?”


    “Humph, only the weak stay in groups; the strong y solo,” Half A Cigarette When Lonely said. Of course, he was not going to tell them the miserable experience of him getting rejected after applying to join a certain guild.


    They looked down from above, and suddenly, they realized that on the sanctuary square, yers that looked like the size of ants to them were gathered. This was the signature sign of Han Xiao appearing. Suddenly, announcements from other yers appeared in the area channel. It seemed like ck Phantom had introduced a new function. The people who were building the protective wall put down what they were doing and went down the wall hastily. Some impatient ones even jumped down directly, died, then revived in the square, saving themselves the time it took to climb down.


    Half A Cigarette When Lonely ran to the square, but it was already full of people. Han Xiao stood in a corner of the square, behind him was arge truck. Like other yers, Half A Cigarette When Lonely also extended his neck and looked over curiously.


    Looking at the crowd, Han Xiao coughed and said loudly, “Recently, there has been a lot of backlog that I need to get rid of. All of it is packed into boxes. If anyone wants to buy a box, I can sell it for a low price.”


    The yers in the square exchanged looks.


    <i>Packed into boxes, what does that mean?</i>


    <i>Since it’s backlog, is it worth buying?</i>


    “Give me ten,” Jade Green Sky said immediately.


    With the thought of ‘ck Phantom only sells high-quality products’ in mind, he was willing to be the first one to try. No matter what new function this was, they would know once they use it.


    “3,000 Aquamarine Dors for one box.”


    “So expensive?” Jade Green Sky was astounded. He braced himself and bought it, spending all the money he had. Although he was the guild leader, it did not mean that he could just bring the guild funds everywhere with him—this was all his own money.


    After Han Xiao took the money, he took out ten boxes from the truck. Jade Green Sky opened nine consecutively, and his face instantly turned ck. The boxes were all filled with broken parts and cheap materials. The yers on the side shook their heads as they saw this.


    “What backlog? This is all just trash. I wouldn’t want any even for free.”


    “Only morons would buy such a thing.”


    Jade Green Sky turned around and gave a vicious stare, then opened thest box without any expectations. However, as soon as he opened the box, Jade Green Sky’s eyes froze, and he stared into the thing in the box.


    A retractable knife was lying in the box.


    In his vision, the name of the knife was shockingly purple!


    This is a piece of purple equipment!


    The crowd saw his expression and were curious as well. They stood on tiptoes to look into the box, and all inhaled deeply after they saw what was in it.


    The exmation of shock expanded outward like a wave.


    Up till this moment, the yers had yet to see any purple equipment. This was the first one to appear before the yers’ eyes!


    Jade Green Sky’s chin almost hit the floor. He looked at the ten boxes before him and suddenly felt a sense of familiarity... then it urred to him.


    “Wait a minute! This function... isn’t this opening loot boxes?”