[Hero of the Troubled Times: "Brother Mo! The news is already out, and quite a few people have signed up."]
[Hero of the Troubled Times: "Also, following your instructions, Brother Mo, we only recruited ten experts ranked within the top 100 of the Heavenly Ranking from each of the four main cities: Shadowless, Bloodmoon, Rakshasa, and No Hope."]
[Hero of the Troubled Times: "Brother Mo, if there's nothing else, then the candidates are settled."]
Looking at the message Wang Junjie had sent, Lin Mo immediately felt relieved.
The candidates actually weren't important.
After all, having Wang Junjie recruit people was itself just a gimmick.
The purpose was simply to let the "Boss" and Nether's group know that the map fragments of the Divine Forging Cauldron were sealed in four places: the Divine Forging Tower in Shadowless City, the Blackrock Hall in Rakshasa City, the Blood Castle in Bloodmoon City, and the Isle of No Hope in the City of No Hope.
He had deliberately gone through Wang Junjie just to make things more confusing.
Now that the news of Wang Junjie offering ten million to recruit Heavenly Ranking experts was known across the entire internet, with such a huge commotion, it was only a matter of time before Nether and the "Boss" found out.
They might have already seen the news by now, and might even have taken the bait.
So if he was going to put on an act, he had to go all the way.
He had to make Nether and the others believe that Lin Mo really intended to gather these Heavenly Ranking experts to conquer the four maps and obtain the fragments through them.
Thus, Lin Mo replied to Wang Junjie, ["Yeah. Send them their deposits first. Give me your account number."]
The final payments most likely wouldn't be necessary.
He only needed to pay the deposits, one million per person. Forty people would only cost forty million, which Lin Mo could still afford.
At this moment, Wang Junjie said, ["No need! Brother Mo! Just let me do it for you."]
["Otherwise, I really feel bad about how I kept targeting you back in the secondary main city."]
Seeing Wang Junjie had gone this far, Lin Mo didn't refuse this time.
After all, compared to the investment Lin Mo was about to make in Wang Junjie, a mere forty million in kickbacks was nothing.
Yes, that was right.
Considering Wang Junjie's recent performance had been pretty good, Lin Mo planned to invest in him.
Of course, he wasn't going to invest Lin Mo's own money.
He was going to invest Wang Junjie's own money.
Based on the memories of his previous life: Once every secondary main city in the entire server had produced one hundred players at the King rank, the King's Championship would begin.
At that time, the Oracle official website would simultaneously launch a "Betting" event.
It would be divided into two forms: gold coin betting and RMB betting.
In other words, players could bet gold coins or RMB on any of the contestants participating in the King's Championship.
Low odds meant simply betting on wins and losses, or betting on the champion, runner-up, and third-place finisher.
The chances of winning these bets were higher, but the returns were also relatively low.
High odds could go as far as predicting the exact score of a specific match between two players.
The chances of getting those bets right were low, but once you hit one, the returns were high.
Lin Mo remembered that in his previous life, as an insignificant nobody at the bottom, he had wanted to get rich overnight and finally turn his life around.
He had taken the fifty thousand yuan he had saved by playing Oracle for over eighteen hours a day for two months, grinding himself to the bone, and bet it all on the King's Championship.
In the end, after the entire tournament, the fifty thousand yuan he had worked himself to death to earn was completely wiped out.
However, the benefit he gained in exchange was that Lin Mo had recorded every detail of all the matches.
And because the incident had hit Lin Mo so hard at the time that he had even considered taking his own life, he remembered the scores he had recorded extremely clearly, as if they had been etched into his mind.
So in this life, once the King's Championship opened again, Lin Mo planned to teach Wang Junjie how to bet.
He would follow the history of his previous life and bet on the high-odds outcomes.
Every bet would hit.
Of course, Lin Mo would bet himself as well.
But his starting capital definitely wouldn't be as large as Wang Junjie's family fortune.
The King's Championship would begin in less than a month at most.
Within that time, Lin Mo would be lucky if he could build a net worth of ten billion.
As for Wang Junjie, his net worth exceeded fifty billion.
As long as nothing unexpected happened, Lin Mo was confident he could help Wang Junjie turn the Wang family's assets from fifty billion into five hundred billion, multiplying them tenfold.
Make Wang Junjie go from Ning'an's richest second-generation heir to the richest second-generation heir in the Dragon Nation.
Later on, if such an enormous sum of money were all invested into Oracle, once Oracle descended into the real world, Wang Junjie would become the number-one RMB god player in the world of Oracle, personally built up by Lin Mo.
Thinking about it this way, it seemed that scamming Wang Junjie out of forty million was actually a little too little.
["Okay, then thanks."]
As soon as Lin Mo finished speaking, Wang Junjie said, ["Brother Mo! Why are you being so polite again? Didn't I tell you!"]
[Wang Junjie: "Brother Mo's business is my business!"]
[Wang Junjie: "Brother Mo's parents are my parents!"]
[Lin Mo: "Okay, stop there! I get it!"]
[Wang Junjie: "No! I have to say it! Brother Mo's wife is my wife!"]
[Wang Junjie: "So, Brother Mo, please! Our two families are practically one family! Stop being so polite with me!"]
Lin Mo: "…"
The chessboard had already been set.
Next, it would depend on how the "Boss" played this game.
Of course, no matter how he played, Lin Mo would be the ultimate winner.
So Lin Mo didn't need to worry about any of this.
What he needed to do was quickly finish all of Ah Li's growth quests together with Ning Xi and raise her to the Ancient Immortal level.
Then, with Ah Li's help, clear the Serpent King Island secret realm and obtain the Divine Forging Cauldron map fragment in Inferno City.
Following the map's guidance, Lin Mo soon arrived at Level 77 Peach Blossom Mountain with Ning Xi.
The place lived up to its name.
Peach blossoms covered the entire mountain as far as the eye could see.
As the territory of the ordinary [Cat Demon Tribe] of the Oracle Continent, Level 77 black cat demons could be seen moving around Peach Blossom Mountain.
Besides that, several white celestial foxes could be seen being driven by a group of cat demons, transporting logs from the foot of the mountain to the summit.
According to the prompt for Ah Li's third-stage growth quest, [Traces of the Tribe]: when the Celestial Fox Tribe was destroyed, some survivors were captured by the Cat Demon Tribe and brought to Peach Blossom Mountain to work as laborers.
These celestial foxes were obviously the targets that needed to be rescued for the quest.
At this moment, one of the celestial foxes collapsed to the ground from exhaustion and was attacked mentally by two cat demons.
The two cat demons' green pupils began to glow with a faint light.
The next second...
Boom!
A mass of black fire erupted from the celestial fox, burning the little celestial fox as it let out a miserable scream.
Seeing her fellow tribesman being bullied like this, Ah Li, the rare-grade Six-Tailed Demon Fox lying on Ning Xi's shoulder, leaped down and shot forward at an astonishing speed.
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
She pounced onto one of the cat demons that was releasing demonic fire and launched a rapid barrage of attacks.
-15365!
-15365!
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It could be seen that when facing a monster as high as Level 77, Ah Li's damage had become extremely limited.
After all, the monster was six levels higher than Ah Li.
With Ah Li's 19,000+ attack power, without any armor penetration bonus, she was already unable to break through the cat demon's 22,000 defense.
She was relying entirely on her talent's percentage-based true damage.
Being able to deal five-digit damage was already quite impressive.
Ah Li launched a fierce barrage of attacks, but it wasn't enough to pose much of a threat to the cat demon.
Instead, she attracted the aggro of several cat demons.
"Meow~"
Several cat demons' eyes glowed green as they surrounded Ah Li.