The Company Executive's Helplessness, the Beginning of the Collapse
The Fourth Prince sighed, "That's right. Our Crown Prince is always so cautious, never daring to interfere in this or say anything."
"How long has the Crown Prince been on the throne?" Player 1 suddenly asked.
"It should be over 40 years." The Fourth Prince actually knew the exact number, but deliberately spoke vaguely to avoid giving the impression that he was still eyeing the other party's position...
"Hehe, no wonder. This is a world of extraordinary Crown Prince. The crown prince still has a long way to go. Actually, the Crown Prince position was created to create trouble. Every time the emperor sees the Crown Prince, he feels that someone is reminding him that he should step down." The player shook his head and said.
The other two players also shook their heads.
This feudal system is truly awkward and full of deception and fraud; it's far worse than a corporate system.
The company's system also contains a lot of deception and fraud, but at least on the surface, it's structured in a way that's for the benefit of the market and consumers.
The feudal system, even in its overt structure, is riddled with contradictions.
The emperor appointed a Crown Prince to ensure the stability of the empire, but the position of Crown Prince itself could cause instability in the court, as the crown prince might constantly plot to overthrow the emperor and seize the throne for himself...
This problem doesn't exist within the company's organizational structure.
Companies of all sizes compete with each other; whoever can make money gets promoted.
At the same time.
Location of the United Association's headquarters.
The United Association's top brass had already learned of this, and they were all furious.
But after the anger came helplessness.
How could they not realize how foolish they were to do this?
Second only to feudal emperors who relied on everyone's loyalty...
Chairman Shi Tiansheng was even more furious. "How dare someone do this?"
"Have they lost their minds?"
Why did they dare to do this?
How could they do this?
"It seems that the people in our organization have become utterly corrupt."
The senior executives didn't want to speak.
Because they understood that this kind of thing meant there was a major problem with the entire United Association's system.
The higher-ups can no longer control those below.
Just like at the Great Ming Dynasty, when the higher-ups wanted to collect taxes, the lower-ups would collect ten times more.
Or perhaps they simply can't collect them at all.
This directly led to the total crash.
Shi Tiansheng never expected that a small number of these people would take advantage of the registration information to collect players' talents.
The implications behind this are self-evident.
"Those bastards, they're both stupid and wicked!"
"Even when doing bad things, there's no method to it. They just do bad things and get caught and exposed immediately!"
Shi Tiansheng was utterly at a loss for words when it came to cursing.
He now understands the feelings of an emperor at the end of a feudal dynasty.
Not sure where to start?
The harder they tried, the worse the situation became for the imperial court.
The worse you are, the harder you should work; even on the last day, you should still ring the bell and go to court.
"These bastards, they can't even be bothered to cover up their evil deeds!"
"They are simply fearless."
After a moment of anger, Shi Tiansheng immediately ordered, "Send men to arrest those corrupt officials right now!"
"No matter who they are!"
"Have our headquarters security personnel arrest him!"
"Let the heroes investigate, let the good men make the arrests!"
The executives finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Despite the Wind and Cloud, they still have to live their lives.
They immediately sent people to the platform to begin arresting people.
However, just as the headquarters security personnel arrived in Forest City, they discovered that the other party had already received advance notice and had directly hidden in a game Safe Zone controlled by a large company.
This made it impossible for them to arrest anyone.
"Damn it, this Safe Zone in the game has become a city of sin!"
"These bad guys won't be expelled as long as they keep quiet once they're inside."
"As long as you have enough gold, you can continuously acquire supplies and stay there."
"A security guard sighed."
They sensed something was very wrong.
An organization that loses its ability to punish criminals is not far from its complete demise.
Faced with this situation, Shi Tiansheng had no choice but to issue a public statement.
"This matter was not done by the United Association."
"It was a very small number of people who infiltrated the United Association and impersonated United Association to do this."
"This is to tarnish the reputation of the United Association."
He could only grab a few scapegoats who were already guilty, and ordered them to be arrested and punished.
However, his statement cannot be said to have had no effect, but rather to have absolutely no effect.
Because everyone has realized that the United Association is finding it increasingly difficult to punish those with powerful connections within the organization.
The other party is deeply entrenched; even if they've done something wrong, they can simply log back into the game's Safe Zone.
This tactic is unusable for solo players... because the Safe Zone is too small to self-circulate and requires external resource input.
Individuals entering Safe Zone without financial support from a powerful organization cannot stay there for long.
Every Safe Zone is small to begin with, and the rent is ridiculously expensive.
If you think you can afford to pay your rent by working in the Safe Zone, that's practically impossible.
Unless you have a special talent for creating items that sell extremely well.
Most players can only use the Safe Zone as a temporary refuge.
Save up some money for a few months, so that if something happens, you can go inside and hide for two or three days.
Of course, you can go in as a consumer.
But don't even think about spending the night here.
Some might say, "If I just stay in the Safe Zone and hide there, no one can hit me, so can't I just stay there indefinitely?"
The problem is, you still need to eat and sleep.
Others can't hit you or drive you away, but they can order others not to sell you anything.
Some might say, "I have Game Backpack, so I stocked up on a lot of supplies in advance."
However, the Safe Zone is built on the foundation of the ancestral hall, so the other side has one last trick up their sleeve: to pray to their ancestors to drive you out.
If you have no identity in the village, you can be expelled after a joint sacrifice by the village elders and villagers.
The Safe Zone in the game incorporates the protective function of the ancestral hall, so it must accommodate the ancestral hall.
After much effort, the United Association also came up with this idea.
However, they soon discovered that this tactic wouldn't work.
Because it was eventually discovered that two people were responsible for this.
These two audacious individuals turned out to be related by marriage to Company Executive.
The large company controls the island, and the other party pretends not to know of the two men's existence and does not expel them.
Within the Safe Zone, force cannot be used.
This left them helpless.
It is precisely because of this relationship that, deep down, they don't care about Ordinary Player at all.
On the surface, it appears normal, but in reality, it is lawless.
Even before Gao Linzhi rose to prominence, they had already been hunting down large numbers of Ordinary Player.
In their eyes, ordinary Rogue Players are nothing special.
Even if one or two occasionally rise to power, ultimately they will still be in control of this world.
In their view, the previous problem stemmed from insufficient control.
By registering all players and taking away the talent of any skilled Rogue Players in advance, the rise of Rogue Players can be easily suppressed.