Ma Lingzhi quickly realized he had been set up by the Dungeon Lord.
The other party already knew he would use the competition videos to plagiarize and replicate.
The other party also knew that as long as Baiye City had a certain product foundation and could create a somewhat decent Battle Royale-type Dungeon, then Battle Royale, this Dungeon, would definitely be restricted in traffic and then gradually taken down.
However, this process would be slow, taking at least a few more days to allow the Adventurers to adapt little by little.
And so...
The other party came up with such a plan.
Taking advantage of the critical juncture when Baiye City's first Battle Royale-type Dungeon was about to be launched, he first cut himself, suppressing the traffic to a point unacceptable to all Adventurers.
Using this opportunity.
To stir up the anger of all Adventurers.
To focus all the blame on the Adventurer's Guild.
The consequence of doing this was that Baiye City's Adventurers would once again feel disappointed.
If the incident during the Battle Royale competition, where ten Baiye City teams ganged up on Tidal Town, could still be defended, then this traffic restriction incident could not be explained away at all.
Coupled with the incidents exposed during the competition.
The credibility of Baiye City's Adventurer's Guild would plummet to rock bottom.
And this.
Was the other party's goal.
After realizing this, Ma Lingzhi slumped into his chair, "Good, good, good, this Dungeon Lord truly has good methods. He's willing to forgo earning a hundred thousand soul crystals a day and directly confront us, isn't he? Good methods, truly good methods..."
That was a hundred thousand soul crystals a day.
No matter where it was, even for the veteran Dungeon Lords of Baiye City, it was an astonishing figure; otherwise, they wouldn't be so anxious.
A city's daily income was only a few million soul crystals.
And there were so many Lords to compete for and divide it.
A Lord from a small town, with one Dungeon, snatched away a few tens of a share.
Such a profit in a small town was simply a miracle.
And such a massive profit, this Dungeon Lord of Tidal Town actually gave it up just like that?
In Ma Lingzhi's conjecture.
This Dungeon Lord should have taken advantage of this opportunity to accumulate as many soul crystals as possible, instead of cutting off his source of soul crystals like this.
Didn't he feel pain over this money?
As soon as Ma Lingzhi voiced this question in his mind, he answered it himself...
Of course, he didn't feel pain.
Because the other party's true aim was not these few soul crystals at all.
What the other party wanted... was for their Adventurers in Baiye City to be dissatisfied with their Guild, and then, taking advantage of this opportunity, to attract some Adventurers from Baiye City to their Tidal Town.
Population was always the most long-term profit.
Of course...
The prerequisite was to be able to retain people.
"However, if the other side were a Level 4 or Level 5 town, I could still understand. But Tidal Town is just a XinXing Town, and such towns inherently represent uncertainty. No matter how much he creates momentum this time, or how he manipulates things behind the scenes, it's impossible for a large number of Adventurers to take such a risk and go to their town, right?"
Xu Gaoyuan raised a question.
This was also what everyone present couldn't figure out.
Unless this wave could have thousands or even tens of thousands of Adventurers transferring to Tidal Town, otherwise, in the long run... it would not be as profitable as continuously earning a hundred thousand soul crystals for several days.
If in the end only a few hundred Adventurers transferred, then for this Dungeon Lord, it would be equivalent to a loss.
After calculating the pros and cons, the expressions of the high-ranking officials present softened somewhat. Because even though the situation seemed very aggressive now, in the end, not too many people would actually migrate.
At most, a few hundred to a thousand, a result they could still tolerate.
Only Ma Lingzhi kept frowning...
"Unless..." Ma Lingzhi's eyes showed contemplation, "this Dungeon Lord is confident in completely retaining people, and confident in making these people feel a future development far exceeding that of our Baiye City."
These words made everyone present fall into deep thought.
The people currently migrating to Tidal Town were actually a group of pioneers.
Recently, there had also been some discussions on Baiye City's forums about Tidal Town achieving a moderately prosperous society for all, and even being on the verge of universal prosperity, but at the time, they were treated as jokes.
But now... because Li Shenyu said some things on and off stage, these forum posts were dug up again.
But...
A moderately prosperous society for all, how could that be possible?
Unless all the Dungeons there were of the quality of Battle Royale, otherwise, this was simply impossible to achieve.
But having one Battle Royale was already a once-in-a-century occurrence.
Could this Lord of Tidal Town truly be as these posts claimed, without any creative bottlenecks?
Furthermore...
The food displayed in these posts was also diverse and uniquely unreal.
No matter how you looked at it, it didn't seem real.
Neither the Adventurer's Guild nor the Adventurers themselves really believed it; they all held a skeptical attitude.
But now, it was precisely such 'false' claims that, unconsciously, became a kind of hope attracting Adventurers to go there.
Therefore...
If these 'pioneers' truly developed very well in Tidal Town, then other Adventurers who were observing would indeed be very likely to be attracted.
Once this gate was opened, it would be like an hourglass.
Constantly draining...
Ma Lingzhi opened the forum and re-read those posts, finally shaking his head.
"No, this is too unreal..."
They still believed these were false messages.
But in reality, whether it was real or not no longer mattered; events had progressed to a point where they could no longer control them.
Loss was inevitable.
Now, they could only gamble that all the chips the other party had laid out were fake.
After all, they had no way to respond.
For now, they could only take it one step at a time, and the most important thing was to first appease the Adventurers outside and calm their emotions.
Vice President Xu Gaoyuan came outside and was already doing his best to use his professional rhetoric to calm the rioting Adventurers.
And he tried his best to explain...
"Battle Royale truly wasn't restricted by us. Our Adventurer's Guild didn't do anything to suppress it; it was the Dungeon Lord himself who restricted his own traffic."
This was the truth, and it was a fact.
But...
"Do you believe this?"
"That's hilarious! Does the Dungeon Lord think he hasn't earned enough soul crystals, so he restricts his own traffic? There's a limit to making up lies, okay? You guys are really going too far!"
"Yeah, yeah."
Facing the overwhelming accusations, Xu Gaoyuan was on the verge of tears.
Everything I said is true, why don't you believe me?