That day, after Neff and the others logged out, they flew to Donghai and moved into War Studio's temporary residence without attracting any attention.
This villa district had more than two hundred triplex villas. Most of the residents were foreign players and members of a special legion Lu Yang had recently been assembling.
Back during the level 100 national war period, Lu Yang had ordered Eight-Armed Spider, K, and the others to return to their respective countries and operate in secret. Now that the New Continent era had arrived, their original mission had become meaningless, and the guilds Eight-Armed Spider, K, and the others had established in other regions of the New Continent had been wiped out one by one.
By all reason, Lu Yang should have abandoned the guilds they had built. But the game would return to a national structure in the future. If the Elite Players under them joined other guilds, it would be difficult to recruit them back. To ensure sufficient protection along the borders in future national wars, he had no choice but to spend heavily subsidizing the guilds established by Eight-Armed Spider and the others.
The Indian and Korean regions were the same. The guilds in those two regions could not support themselves either, and all required Lu Yang to pour in a substantial amount of money every month.
That was why Lu Yang had been so poor recently. Not even counting the number of people receiving external subsidies, War Studio alone now had nearly 350,000 players, while several hundred thousand players above regiment level outside also had salaries to be paid. Monthly payroll was measured in hundreds of millions.
Although the Iron Blood Brotherhood now had more than a hundred fortresses, along with numerous auction houses, wealth-management products, and other operations, it was