Chapter 460: Chapter 399: The Consecrated Mouth of Phoenix Mountain
"No way, Old Li, did you ever mention anything about starting an organization?" Phoenix Mountain scratched his head, "How come none of us heard about it?"
"It’s not that we didn’t hear about it..." Yan Guang was speechless, "He never mentioned it in front of us at all!"
"Indeed." Zhan Zhouzhou nodded, whether it was Li Zheng or Xiao Siyuan, neither of them had mentioned anything about secretly founding an organization.
"..." Lin Fengjiao looked up, thought for a moment, then continued to keep her head down and remained silent.
She felt with her level of strength and status, she should just listen quietly and not speak up.
Even though she wanted to fight alongside Li Zheng, her strength was too weak, so... it was best to just think about it.
"Oh... it seems like I really didn’t mention it." Li Zheng recalled carefully, back then, the idea of going against all the red players in the entire Matrix seemed too dangerous, so he didn’t want to drag others into it.
Not only that, neither he nor Xiao Siyuan had thought about giving this joke of an "organization" a name, they both just assumed this was... a nameless existence.
Li Zheng explained the whole situation to them, and Phoenix Mountain was the first to express his dissatisfaction: "I say, Old Li, that’s a bit too much, using the excuse of it being too dangerous to keep it from us?"
"Exactly! You’re not treating us as your own, right?" Yan Guang said, "If you were talking about some unavoidable danger in the Outer City, it would be fine for you to protect us from it. But here in the Matrix, we’re all players from the same time period, how dangerous could it be? Can’t we just hide if things get tough? Who do you think you’re looking down on?"
Zhan Zhouzhou seemed thoughtful: "No wonder you gave up so soon on taking revenge on those who framed you, after you left for a little while. You were afraid that if you went too hard on them, they couldn’t beat you and would take it out on our channel?"
This was where Zhan Zhouzhou got it wrong, Li Zheng simply thought it was too tiring to keep going on a revenge spree, and he was too lazy to continue.
Plus, he was already infected with a rage emotion at the time, continuing to kill would only hasten his own death.
Li Zheng gave an awkward smile and didn’t explain further.
"Just in time, might as well take advantage of the opportunity and make a verbal agreement to join this... unnamed organization of his." Phoenix Mountain eagerly suggested, "Even though these organizations are not recognized by the Matrix Terminal for now, who knows when they’ll update a similar function?"
At that moment, the Matrix System Terminal suddenly issued an announcement to everyone.
[System upgrade, new function "Legion" now available.]
[Players can submit ten Diamond Level Power Cores to establish a Level 1 Legion, which can accommodate up to five hundred people, a Level 2 Legion two thousand people, a Level 3 Legion five thousand people, a Level 4 Legion ten thousand people... a Level 9 Legion can accommodate one hundred and fifty thousand people.]
[In the Legion, there are Military Merit Points, and each member in the Legion earns one Military Merit Point for exploring a room. (Warping items that traverse rooms do not accumulate Military Merit, and exploration times increased by special items only accumulate fifty percent Military Merit.)]
[To upgrade from a Level 1 Legion to Level 2 requires twenty thousand points, Level 2 to Level 3 requires fifty thousand, Level 3 to Level 4 requires one hundred and fifty thousand... Level 8 to Level 9 requires five million military merit. (Points reset with each upgrade)]
[New leaderboard available, Legion Power Rankings, only counts the highest tier kills of members within the Legion. The board refreshes every morning at 8 am, and different rankings will provide different benefits to each Legion. (Restricted to the top ten Legions)]
[For more Legion-related content, players are encouraged to explore on their own.]
[New chat channel open: Legion.
Members of the same Legion can send chat messages across channels within the Legion.]
[Following system features have been upgraded: Trading Hall]
[In the Trading Hall, each player can only put up to "ten" items at a time for sale.]
[Packaged goods will occupy a certain quota based on the types of goods sold.]
[Tonight at midnight, items exceeding the listing limit will be forcibly returned to the corresponding player’s capsule residence based on listing time. Please be prepared to vacate space to avoid insufficient room.]
[Each player can only list "five" rental items at the same time in the Trading Hall.]
[Items exceeding the limit will be uniformly returned at midnight tonight... ]
[More high-difficulty "special rooms" are now open, along with more leisure "recreational rooms".]
[The difficulty that each player encounters during daily exploration has been adjusted; it will not be lower than one tier below their overall combat power, and not higher than one tier above.]
[For example, a player with a comprehensive score of Gold will no longer encounter Black Iron and Bronze tier creatures. The difficulty of environmental rooms will also be adjusted accordingly.]
[Note: When encountering a special room, difficulty will not be adaptive based on player strength, so players are encouraged to find strong allies to conquer special rooms together.]
[Advance notice for the next mass event: The next event will start the day after the current event ends.]
[The upcoming event is a legion-based joint entertainment activity: Fishing Competition!]
[Specific event rules will be announced on the day the event starts, please prepare in advance.]
[Matrix Terminal reserves the right to interpret this update. Future adjustments to the update cannot be ruled out, and no further notice will be given if adjustments are made.]
[All opinions, dissatisfaction, suggestions, and grievances... keep them to yourselves!]
[Players who curse at the terminal will face severe punishment!]
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"..."
All the announcements popped up, broadcasting back and forth three times, Li Zheng and the others were already dumbfounded, the whole team stared at Phoenix Mountain who seemed to be in a dazed state.
Li Zheng couldn’t help but tease, "Did you get a blessing on that mouth of yours? Mention an update, and here it is? Is the Matrix Terminal your godfather?"
"This... I... No... Hey? How... Wow!" Phoenix Mountain’s mind was in a mess, he was starting to question reality himself, and was at a loss for words.
Yan Guang looked at him, her bright eyes sparkled, thinking: No wonder he’s the man I’ve set my eyes on, just one sentence and the system opened a new function just for him!
"The Chosen One’s got nothing on him." Even someone as calm as Zhan Zhouzhou couldn’t help but make a small wisecrack.
Lin Fengjiao quietly tugged at Phoenix Mountain’s sleeve and asked softly, "Brother Mountain, can you ask the terminal to help me find my brother Xiao Xuan?"
"If that’s not possible, can you ask on the World Channel?"
"No, really, this is just a coincidence!" Phoenix Mountain showed a mixed expression of disbelief and helplessness.
"How about this, I’ll prove it by sending a message on the World Channel, wouldn’t that be fine?" Phoenix Mountain, as if trying to prove something, edited a message on the World Channel.
[World Channel0000879 Phoenix Mountain: Xiaoxuan, are you there?]
In the next second, a name suddenly popped up on the previously messy World Channel.
[World Channel0000001 Lin Longxuan: Huh? Looking for me? Only my sister calls me Xiaoxuan.]
"!!!!"
"Is it him?" Lin Zheng turned to ask, only to see Lin Fengjiao had already frozen, her ancient tech-produced eyes misty with tears.
Phoenix Mountain freaked out, "Damn!!!"