Chapter 1316: 428. Profit in chaos
Onboard the Cucumber Slice Team’s battleship.
The team was “popping champagne” for the nearly completed emergency task.
Cucumber Slice suddenly slapped his forehead and said,
“Hey, guys, I just thought of something.”
“Like what?” team members looked at their captain.
As Cucumber Slice pondered, he quickly said,
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“Do you think anyone will want those remaining 19 Artificial Angels?”
Uh…
What does he mean?
The team members were stunned for half a second before one of the faster-thinking players caught up with the captain’s thought process.
“Yeah! Would anyone want those 19 Artificial Angels? If nobody does, we could just notify others to haul them away!”
The other players now caught on, their eyes suddenly widening with realization. noveldrama
However, they quickly came across a technical issue that was difficult to ignore.
Their team could take the Artificial Angels only because they had the Master of the Magic Academy’s favor.
Without the magic curse provided by the emergency task, there was no way they could load Artificial Angels the size of battleships onto their ship.
Under normal circumstances, average players who can’t chant spells or open a Magic Pouch on their ship probably wouldn’t be able to boat the Artificial Angels, let alone warp away with them.
Thinking over this, Cucumber Slice opened the task panel and saw no “Share Task” or “Cancel Task” options.
This meant the task was triggered by hidden elements and couldn’t be shared with players who hadn’t met the conditions, nor could it be canceled.
The so-called hidden elements, Cucumber Slice speculated, might be something like favorability.
The issuer of this task was the Master of the Black Hole Magic Academy.
As it seemed, only the Cucumber Slice Team triggered it.
In the Master of the Black Hole Magic Academy’s favorability list, the highest rated should be the Cucumber Slice Team and Golden Dragon in the Sky.
They were the ones who triggered the expansion and were the first to contact the Master of the Academy, naturally having a favorable advantage in terms of favorability.
So, if the Cucumber Slice Team received this task, then Golden Dragon in the Sky probably could too.
But…
Golden Dragon in the Sky wasn’t online.
He was feeling unwell today and had the vice-guild leader lead the team in his place.
Given that Golden Dragon in the Sky was his current boss, Cucumber Slice felt it was his duty to remind him not to miss out on the task with rich rewards.
Of course, if Boss Jin really had no desire to log in, Cucumber Slice wouldn’t force him.
Cucumber Slice simply wanted to be conscientious; the final decision was still in Boss Jin’s hands.
“Strawberry Juice, you look after the ship and the bros, I’m going to log off and phone Boss Jin.”
After a few operations on the ship’s control panel, Cucumber Slice handed the control of the ship to her, meanwhile saying,
“I think this emergency task was triggered by favorability. Both we and Boss Jin should be able to trigger it. I have to send a message to Boss Jin to remind him, so no one accuses us later of trying to hog the bonuses.”
“Oh, sure, hurry up, Captain,” Strawberry Juice nodded.
Cucumber Slice logged off.
The players on the ship didn’t stop the discussion just because their captain had left.
They were now eagerly discussing an unconventional topic:
Without accepting the task, could other players chant the spells to carry away the Artificial Angels?
The members of the Cucumber Slice Team had the good habit of always keeping their video recording feature active.
They had recorded the entire process of the group chanting and joint casting.
Every word of the spells could be recreated through the video.
After organizing these spells, they wondered if they could hand them over to other player teams; could the players replicate the same magic?
While the onboard players couldn’t figure this out, Noland Lee who was eavesdropping secretly understood it all too well.
Thanks to the Spell Marks he had previously placed in the Cucumber Slice Team, Noland Lee heard every word of the player’s discussion loud and clear.
What he wanted to say was:
The spells were fake.
The so-called group chanting and joint casting were also fake.
The actual magic that provided the spatial pocket and traction to load the Artificial Angels onto the ship was carried out by Noland Lee himself.
Other players could chant the spells perfectly, but it wouldn’t have any effect unless Noland Lee decided to intervene behind the scenes.
As for whether to send a task to Golden Dragon in the Sky, who might log in later…
This…
After careful thought, Noland Lee decided.
He had to send it.
Whether it could be completed depended on Golden Dragon in the Sky’s fortune.
After all, the task was triggered because Golden Dragon in the Sky’s favorability reached the mark. Naturally, only he could accept it, and only he could chant the spell to take away the Artificial Angels.
If he was feeling unwell and couldn’t play today, all Noland Lee could say was a word of regret.
At this moment, Noland Lee was hiding on an Artificial Angel, secretly listening in on the players’ discussion.
He had placed Spell Marks not just in the Cucumber Slice Team, but also had eyes within the player fleet lingering in the uninhabited galaxy.
The players inside the fleet, some were watching the chat channel’s •water war•, others started scanning for monster spawn points in the galaxy.
The uninhabited galaxy could contain anything apart from people.
Its feature of being “uninhabited” stemmed precisely from the potential presence of dangerous creatures.
If they could locate a few spawn points to grind some experience, it would be more than ideal.
Of course, many players hoped that Commander Rice Rice would soon calm down.
Noland Lee couldn’t see what players were posting in the chat channel and could only eavesdrop on the conversations happening inside the ships.