Bottomless Abyss, Stone Forest City.
The moment Shi Feng logged in, he discovered more than a dozen unread messages piled up in his inbox. They had been sent by Melancholy Smile, Orchid, and Heizi. Melancholy Smile alone had sent five or six messages in a row, clearly in a great hurry, so Shi Feng immediately contacted her.
"What happened? Why were you in such a rush to contact me?" Shi Feng asked curiously as he looked at Melancholy Smile in the video call.
Zero Wing was now flush with funds. Even after recruiting a large number of new members, the income from Stone Forest City alone was enough to cover the expenses with plenty left over.
As for Star Ring's constantly issued bounties, there was even less need to worry. Thanks to Stone Forest City, almost all of Zero Wing's core members were now grinding in the Bottomless Abyss, greatly reducing Zero Wing's burden for leveling resources. This allowed Zero Wing's elite and ordinary members alike to level peacefully on their own turf. Even if Star Ring's experts launched covert attacks, the casualties they could cause were quite limited.
Instead, Star Ring had suffered considerable losses because of its bounties. Every day, a large number of players came to Zero Wing to claim bounty rewards for kills.
If this continued, it might not damage Star Ring's foundations, but it would drain a great deal of the guild's liquid capital and hinder its development.
Especially now, when all the major powers were fighting over neutral map resources, they needed enormous quantities of advanced consumables every day. The output of these advanced consumables from superpowers themselves was far from sufficient, and a large portion had to be bought with Gold. If they lacked sufficient liquid funds, development of neutral maps could easily