And although the Chat Group did not have many members, it had plenty of little circles.
There were Yang Jian and Chonglou, Lin Jiu and Xiongba, and female members like Shi Yueyao and Huang Rong. One little circle after another had formed according to how close they were.
That was only realistic.
It was unavoidable, too.
Things were still fine for now. These circles were bound by personal ties, not purely by shared interests.
After all, the members were nowhere near the point of competing with one another for resources.
The Myriad Realms were vast, while the Chat Group had very few members.
Even when doing business in Multiverse City, the members competed in a healthy way. They even banded together.
After all, Multiverse City might have been a marketplace, but it had no antitrust laws.
Anyone with the ability could monopolize whatever they liked!
The Chat Group's Multiverse Investment Corporation, for example, had a complete monopoly on lending in Multiverse City.
It had achieved that through more than fair dealing. It had credibility, too!
What did it mean to be able to open a shop in the central district? Credibility, that was what!
In fact, it amounted to a kind of public trust.
And unlike other products, lending was a service for which public trust mattered most.
That trust had made the members' shops the busiest and most profitable in Multiverse City.
It had created something like a siphon, drawing the entire city's trade into the central district's shops.
There was no solving that problem.
It might have been unfair to shops elsewhere, but absolute fairness had never existed. Besides, absolute fairness was itself the greatest unfairness.
Multiverse City did not offer absolute fairness, but it did offer relative fairness.
That was the best solution available.
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