Chapter 106: The Situation of Space X

"Right, I'd like to ask, what are teams in the Realm generally like?"

Faced with this question, Red Electric pondered for a moment. "I don't know too much. As for other teams, I only know their publicly available intelligence."

"Well, tell me whatever you know. I'll give you one thousand contribution points per hour. What is your team's management style?"

"Actually, everyone's just trying to survive," Red Electric replied. "Dragged into the Realm inexplicably, fighting, adventuring, growing. The lucky ones survive, but most die. You do whatever it takes to stay alive."

"Before in the Realm, I'd never met anyone as deliberate as you."

"Heh." Hearing this evaluation, Wang Luo smiled. "A philosophical shut-in always has their unique qualities."

"I met Dart in the first few scenarios, met Blooming Flower, fought several battles with Big Soldier and Black Fiend... and many others, but only a few of us are left alive now."

"They all had their respective talents and luck, surviving the newcomers' and early scenarios. So we chose to cooperate, forming a small team, struggling to survive a few even harder scenarios. After that, we met her, our commander, during the Battle of Antietam. Oh, that was a battlefield scenario from the American Civil War."

"Was she on your side?" Wang Luo asked.

"Well. She's not as capable of tolerating prisoners as you are," Red Electric flattered. "Blooming Flower hit it off with her, and later, before we won, she asked us to join her team."

"Did you accept right then, or after some time?"

"After some time." Red Electric shook his head. "Back then, not everyone agreed. As a result, we lost our combat capability before the final showdown and couldn't participate in it. Upon returning to the Realm, she came to invite us again and showed us the gains she'd obtained in combat. Blooming Flower suggested that everyone join."

"And that's how Wuzhou came to be. I heard... did she enjoy that kind of hedonism from the very beginning?" Wang Luo asked.

"No." Red Electric recalled. "At the start, she was the best commander. We didn't trust her before. But she always managed to lead everyone to victory; in scenarios, she always made the right decisions. Gradually, many people gained confidence in her and were willing to entrust their lives to her."

***

But not you. Wang Luo looked at the sorrowful Red Electric and propped his chin with the back of his hand.

Red Electric continued in a mournful tone. "Later, after a victory, she drank a lot of alcohol, laughed heartily, and pulled a young man who had just joined the team into her room. That man stayed by her side for about a month. Eventually she got tired of him, but the man still wanted to cling to her, and then he died."

"Random, messy entanglements are always repulsive," Wang Luo commented.

"Yeah," Red Electric echoed. "Later on, gradually, both the people and the tricks started multiplying. We discussed it and felt it was no big deal, just private life. In battle, we still supported her. It's just..."

It's just that this hobby finally evolved to the point where it affected your victories—such things happening is entirely normal; it would be strange if they didn't. And your loyalty to her was probably limited to victory alone.

Wang Luo smiled. "Then after a victory, how are equipment and universal points distributed?"

"She takes the lion's share." Red Electric's brow furrowed as he said this. "Over 80% goes to her. The remaining 10% is kept as team funds, and we split the last 10%."

So once the opportunity arises, you will take action without hesitation. I can understand. "What does she need so much for?"

"She says it's to guarantee victory," Red Electric said. "It seems her skills are related to universal points. They are immensely powerful, but casting them requires a massive amount of universal points."

I see. "Even so, you all just accepted this ratio?"

"There are other safeguards," Red Electric said. "The team's skills tend to lean toward the economic side, and the safeguards for restraining team members aren't very high. But she adopted other methods, seemingly through Blooming Flower. So far, it seems there are no living people who have successfully left Wuzhou."

"Charles and Zhou Suyan?"

"Charles hasn't left either. He's still a Wuzhou member, just changed factions. As for Zhou Suyan..."

When Red Electric uttered this name, he hesitated slightly. Wang Luo narrowed his eyes. "Speak freely."

***

"She is also one of the commander's toys," Red Electric carefully chose his words. "Or rather, she used to be. Because her combat effectiveness is very low, if she were a regular member, she wouldn't be qualified to join us. It seems there were some bad things in the past..."

"Oh, but in the Realm, status shifts happen all the time, don't they?" Wang Luo wore an indifferent expression. "Who knows what tomorrow will bring?"

"You're right." Red Electric didn't dwell on the issue further. "Anyway, that's generally what Wuzhou is like. Commander Lin is very competent, her skills and talents are formidable, and previously we clashed with another team, barely escaping with our lives thanks to the commander's strength."

"Crimson."

"Right, one of the most famous teams in the Realm scenarios, with an extremely high win rate. Then there's Team and Team. They are all famously powerful teams in the Realm. The Successors team has 80 people, normally the scale of two teams; the Ace team only has eight people, but every single one of them possesses extraordinary strength."

"Do you cross paths often?" Wang Luo wrote down these three names on paper and asked.

"No," Red Electric replied. "In our case, the commander used an item to forcefully enter battlefields continuously of late. But there hasn't been much gain; most of the universal points won were used by the commander to cast skills."

"In your opinion, what should a team look like?" Wang Luo posed this question.

"In my view, it should be mutual support, helping each other, like a big family," Red Electric answered without the slightest hesitation. "Everyone works hard together, hand in hand, to get through the difficulties in the scenarios."

And you truly acted that way. Backing the commander you disliked during hard times, while demanding your due share of the profits after victory. "Hypothetically, and I'm just speaking hypothetically." Wang Luo's eyes locked onto Red Electric. "If I were to have you serve as the deputy commander of my newly established team, do you think you're up to the task?"

"Let me..." Red Electric's mouth dropped open in astonishment. "If this situation were to actually happen, I guarantee I'll do my utmost to complete the required work."

"There you go. Very often, the key to a matter lies in finding the right question. Do you have any questions you'd like to ask me?"