Anya hurried to the meeting spot she had arranged with Lily.
"Boss, you're amazing! You didn't spend a single credit point and yet you got them to willingly run off and work!"
She began to suspect if Lily had the legendary succubus physique.
If that were true, could they open a factory and let those Outsiders work for free?
Lily patted Anya's head: "Calm down, calm down."
Just as she expected, after assigning Anya a quartermaster quest, Anya was indeed able to issue quests to players. This was great; now there was another way to harvest players.
This success was due to both the quests Anya issued and Excavation Princess's wild imagination.
If analyzed carefully, Excavation Princess's contribution was even greater. Not only did she brainstorm wildly in her live stream after receiving the quest, but in the days leading up to it, she had also continuously instilled the idea of "hidden quests on Lily" into other players.
If it weren't for that, those players in the live stream wouldn't have believed her nonsense so readily and come to work for free.
"Excavation Princess's gaming skills are weak, but her imaginative ability alone makes her worth cultivating."
Lily's attitude towards players was to make them her leveling boosters. She would extract all sorts of benefits from players, but if she encountered a player with potential, she wouldn't hesitate to cultivate them, because only then could she better obtain benefits from these players.
Of course, her premise for cultivating a player was that this player would not betray her for a small personal gain.
Clearly, Excavation Princess met this requirement. As a game UP and streamer, Excavation Princess's popularity was now deeply tied to her. The stronger she became, the higher Excavation Princess's viewership would be.
Besides Excavation Princess, her propaganda captain, Lily also planned to cultivate a few players who could provide a certain amount of combat power, making these players role models to attract other players to fight for her.
Relying solely on popularity to maintain a good relationship with players was a bit unstable; it was better to add some exchange of benefits as seasoning.
"Let's go back first. In two or three days, they should be close to completing the quest."
Lily didn't plan to just wait.
When the next day arrived, she took Anya back to yesterday's "shopping street" and found Excavation Princess and others who were shopping on the street.
"Lily, why are you here?"
When she saw them, Excavation Princess was stunned.
She noticed Anya had her head down, looking wronged. Could it be... "I already know from Anya about how you helped me." Lily sighed.
Indeed.
Excavation Princess had a flash of inspiration—wasn't this an opportunity to increase Anya's favorability?
She quickly stepped forward a few paces, shielding Anya behind her: "Lily, the child is still young, she shouldn't be hit. It was my idea to help you. She's just concerned about you, what wrong could she have done?"
Excavation Princess felt that she must look incredibly cool right now, perhaps already becoming the Giant of Light in Anya's heart.
Heh heh, what's the use of others only knowing how to do quests? Increasing favorability means paying attention to these seemingly insignificant details!
Lily gently shook her head: "Since things have come to this, I can only accept your kindness, but I cannot offer nothing in return. I will buy the venom sacs you collected from you, at a price of 200 credit points each."
Huh?
Excavation Princess and Patrick Star and others around her quickly refused: "No need, no need, how can we let Lily spend money."
Lily said: "Just take it easy, these aren't my money, they're from the Wildfire Gang. It's free money, why not take it? You all need money right now, don't you?"
Of course they did, who wouldn't?
These words moved the players to tears.
[Damn, this is Lily, a true friend to players. If it were any other NPC, they'd probably be too happy to know we're working for them for free, so why would they give us the money from the Wildfire Gang?]
[Brother, no regrets joining the Lotus Sect in this life!]
[It's over, it's over. After meeting Lily, I feel like I can't look at anyone else anymore. Am I going to be single forever?]
[Wake up, you were single before you met Lily.]
Lily secretly chuckled.
If she had put these 200 credit points in the quest reward from the beginning, the players' reaction would never have been this strong; they would have taken it for granted.
This time, she made a huge profit.
Collecting 50 venom sacs, she would give the players 10,000 credit points, which seemed like a lot, but she would still earn 40,000 from the Wildfire Gang. However, she didn't plan to be so absolute; she planned to leave 10,000 credit points for the Wildfire Gang, demonstrating her ability to save money.
"You've helped me a great deal, and just giving you this money isn't enough to express my gratitude. You can make any other requests, and I will try my best to fulfill them."
These words once again caused a stir among the players.
"Uh, no requests."
"It seems there's really nothing we want."
"Um... can it be a professional knowledge book?"
"Hey, why are you asking about that?"
The player who raised their hand was immediately pushed down.
"Professional knowledge book?" Lily frowned slightly, "I remember the Wildfire Gang's library has them. Although they're hard to get, I'll find a way."
As soon as she said this, all the players were stunned. This was possible?
No, no matter what, this was too dangerous. What if Lily was arrested while stealing the professional knowledge book?
Some players tried to persuade Lily to give up, but Lily insisted on doing it, so they could only silently put this move in their hearts.
[I'll steal the Wildfire Gang's professional knowledge books to support you all.jpg]
That night, a player Photoshopped an image and posted it on the community forum. The post immediately rocketed to the top of the community's real-time hot topics.
Lily couldn't help but secretly smile.
The benefits brought by this operation were far better than she had imagined.
She waited another day, and the players finally collected all 50 venom sacs.
Before she could be happy for too long, some not-so-good news reached her ears.
"Yesterday, when we followed the Boss to capture Outsiders, we successively killed two Outsiders who looked exactly alike."
Lily: "Is it possible they were twins?"
"At first, we thought so too, but after a while, we saw him for the third time."
"Triplets?"
"That's unlikely, right?"
Lily realized that the secret of players being able to revive seemed about to be exposed.