After that, Yuriel introduced Fang Zheng to the situation, and he finally understood what was going on.
The Army had been founded by a player named Shinka. However, he was not merely a player; he also ran Japan's largest well-known gaming website.
According to Yuriel, Shinka's original intention in creating the "Army" had been to gather enough people to hunt monsters, collect supplies, and distribute them equally among every player...
Well, Fang Zheng was stunned when he heard that. Old Marx probably never imagined that a japanese friend would put his theories into practice in an online game!
Was this guy some member of Japan's left-wing party?
Of course, no matter how nicely it was put, the Army was simply an organization that relied on safety in numbers and won through sheer manpower.
The logic itself was sound. If ten people fought ten monsters, one of them might die. But if twenty people fought ten monsters, they might get less experience and money, but at least no one would die.
In the beginning, the Army did not have many members, and sticking together for warmth was quite effective.
But the problem was that Shinka had absolutely no understanding of the relationship between productivity and resource distribution. Everything in the Game World had to be gathered and collected by the players themselves; even sowing seeds required them to scatter them by hand. In the real world, that would have been medieval agriculture.
When there were only a few dozen people, following Marx's ideas was not much of a problem.
But then the guy got carried away and began expanding the guild's recruitment. Its members grew more and more numerous—the noobs had not been wrong. The Army truly was the largest guild, and neither Dark Nebula nor the Red Knight Order would