After a brief meeting, a major problem lay before Long Yuqiong and the other two.
"How many people do we have now?"
Long Yuqiong asked, "Even if we know Jiao Zeiou's whereabouts, and even know that Land Lord is in the Border Abyss, we've worked under Lai Anding for so many years. Naturally, we know how powerful her forces are..."
"Lai Anding's forces include three large guilds, 200,000 core players with skill levels equivalent to Level Two Esports Athletes, over a million casual players, and twelve studios bound to her by cooperation agreements. Like a financial conglomerate, she tightly controls the three strata of full-time samurai, middlemen, and basic production."
Yu Tianxiao spread open his notebook and rapidly made marks on it. "After eight version updates, From the Star Abyss has seen a huge increase in full-time players thanks to Lai Anding's constant mobilization. The proportion is so high that we have no choice but to regard all players as combatants..."
"So, based on that conclusion."
Ye Zhangjian raised a brow and worked it out with a calculator.
"At least 245.89 million players are willing, or likely, to become Lai Anding's direct or indirect supporters."
"And that's the daily active population. Even after excluding 22 million AFK accounts and 10 million bot accounts dedicated to production, their actual numbers still exceed 200 million."
"And we have..."
Yu Tianxiao brought up a panel, glanced at it, and said:
"1,400 people."
"Huh? There's actually one more than before?"
"Sorry, I haven't removed Teacher Xia yet."
Yu Tianxiao found "Account Deleted" and removed her from the list. "Now it's 1,399. Over the past fifteen years, we've constantly recruited and secretly developed our forces, removing the Recognition Filter. Including Teacher Xia, who sacrificed herself, there are 1,400 of us willing to follow us in