Xu Qi naturally looked full of regret when he heard this.
He clearly understood that Gao Linzhi had deliberately brought him back.
Actually, he should have considered himself lucky. If it had been anyone else, they would have killed him with a single palm strike by now.
But Gao Linzhi was different. He understood the balance of interests all too well.
The Xu Clan had to be wiped out, but before that happened, they had to be squeezed for every last benefit.
Killing them outright would be letting them off too easily.
Death itself wasn't painful. The torment came before it.
"All right. I'll go request the gold from the warehouse right away." Xu Qi had no choice. Remembering Xu Tianlang's earlier instructions, he could only go get the gold.
As a lackey, he naturally didn't have the authority to do that.
One hundred kilograms of gold was worth a great deal.
Before the Skyfall Game appeared, its price wasn't that high: 400 yuan per gram.
After the game appeared, it rose to 1,000 yuan per gram.
And now, ever since a Rogue Player had stolen gold jewelry, the price had climbed even higher.
The major companies had all caught wind of it and started strictly controlling the gold in the cities under their jurisdiction.
They were aggressively confiscating gold from residents and strictly forbidding it from leaving the cities.
For a time, the gold jewelry and gold products still circulating on the market had dwindled considerably.
This had even affected many high-tech industrial products, forcing manufacturers to change their processes and reduce the amount of gold they used.
Gold had become so scarce that even people with money struggled to get their hands on it. It was no longer something that could be priced in real-world currency.
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