Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 239 Leader's Buff
Family member Li Yue completed her captain-level monthly main quest this month, earning 500 contribution points, bringing her total to 1100 points. She has successfully been promoted to family elder.

Family member Liang Yuzhi completed her captain-level monthly main quest this month, earning 500 contribution points, bringing her total to 900.

[Family member Leon completed his main quest this month, earning 200 contribution points, bringing his total to 654 points]

[Family member Thomas completed his main quest this month, earning 200 contribution points, bringing his total to 750 points.]

[Official camp member Zhang Jinjun completed his main quest this month, accumulating 375 points]

[Official camp member Zhao Xuanxuan completed her main quest this month, accumulating 325 points]

[Li Wei, the head of the family, will continue to serve as the leader. The lingering effects of the dictator buff have completely disappeared. However, the head of the family still possesses considerable power and prestige because he has never been ousted. Therefore, from now on, unless he is removed from his position as head of the family, the current camp will passively gain the leader buff.]

[Friendly reminder: Under the Leader's buff, any leave taken under the pretext of illness or injury must be approved by the head of the household; at the same time, no family member may deviate from the current main mission and do something unrelated without prior notification to the head of the household, otherwise it will trigger a mandatory impeachment (unless there are unforeseen events); furthermore, no family member may collude in private, attempting to use public opinion to influence the monthly main mission. Once the head of the household determines that they are colluding, they will have one opportunity each month to declare a state of emergency in the camp, hold the colluders accountable, and impeach them at the end of the month.]

[Friendly reminder: The maximum amount of family contribution points you can earn has been increased to 14500. Your family has currently earned a total of 12004 contribution points.]

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Good guy!
We're ranked third!
That's a really fast rise!

Li Wei was delighted, but not smug, because it turned out that there must be similar underground bases near other exploration branches. Everyone's starting conditions were similar. It was just that he opened an underground base this month and gained a lot of exploration points. Maybe other exploration branches did not find underground bases.

Right.

In short, we shouldn't be too proud.

At that moment, a gentle breeze blew a piece of A4 paper that was blackened, moldy, and badly damaged. What happened? It's only been three months, and this paper is already like this. There are still more than two years to go. Will new parchment be used as a carrier?
At this moment, Li Weiyi grabbed the tattered A4 paper and discovered that there were only 14 branch exploration quests left on the leaderboard.

Damn it?

what happened?
Doesn't this mean that a certain department is already destined to be at the bottom right now?

Li Wei was slightly curious. The team that was eliminated was currently in a stable development phase. What exactly did they do to cause the mission to fail? Of course, that was none of his business.

At this point, he looked at the other rankings.

The top scorer this month is still Zhao Kewu from the Tactical Department, with a total of 258 points. His score for this month is 120 points, which is 8 points less than Li Wei and the others.

Socrates from the Resources Department remains in second place with a total of 250 development points, including 116 points this month.

Then there's Li Wei, who ranks third with 240 points.

As for Hathaway, she is in fourth place with a total of 239 development points, including 109 this month, just one point behind Li Wei.

Ron, a Cavalier from the Logistics Department, is in fifth place with a total of 238 Trail Blazers points and 110 this month, which is also very strong, keeping the score very close.

Scarface Glen from the Ministry of Commerce was eliminated from the top five, ranking sixth, with a cumulative development score of 228 and a monthly development score of 108.

In fact, these five are all real big shots. You can tell from their expansion points that they are not in a hurry. They are all developing step by step in an orderly manner. Moreover, it can be basically confirmed that they have all found a similar natural human camp this month and rescued a considerable number of natural humans.

The reason why Li Wei was able to rise to prominence is largely due to the two big shots, Li Yue and Liang Yuzhi.

Now let's look at the seventh person. It's still Little John. His cumulative exploration points are 175, and his exploration points this month are 60, which is average. It's obvious that he hasn't discovered any natural human bases at all.

Not only John, but everyone else is in the same boat; their development scores this month have been fluctuating between 40 and 60.

But this undoubtedly means falling behind by a level. Perhaps next month they will be able to find the nearby Naturals camp and, after a battle, successfully rescue some Naturals, but it will still be a month too late. There are less than two months left before the magical radiation storm arrives...

"call!"

A gust of wind blew the blackened, moldy A4 paper away. I felt that if I saw this paper again next month, it might be completely torn apart.

That's strange. What does that mean?

Li Wei didn't think too much about it; his current strength and status weren't worth worrying about.

And then comes the long-awaited and much-anticipated part: the plot-driven kill!

When the dictator buff is active, no one else has the right to initiate a scripted death.

Things are different now. Everyone has been promoted, and theoretically, everyone can initiate a plot-driven kill, which can lower someone's ranking by consuming their contribution points, and at the same time, it can free up space to release cache.

Your contribution has decreased, so I can get more contribution next month!

In fact, Li Wei's prediction was correct; at this point, no one was soft-hearted.

[Family elder Li Yue spent 50 contribution points to trigger a plot kill on family member Thomas, hoping he would sleepwalk to the superpowered individuals' lair within 24 hours. In the end, Thomas's points were split equally with her!]

[Family elder Li Yue used a three-star item card - One Call, One Hundred Responses. Unless a family member uses a similar three-star item card to overwrite it, everyone will vote in favor.] Holy crap, that's ruthless. It's just a plot kill, and you just used a three-star item card?
Li Wei was completely stunned!
Then I could only look at Thomas with pity.

Thomas didn't have any similar three-star item cards either. What a joke! How could a lowly mercenary like him climb all the way to this level? Where would he get so much spare money to buy these seemingly useless item cards?

[The plot-driven death is confirmed. Six votes in favor, one vote against. Thomas has used 300 contribution points to be exempted from this plot-driven death. He can no longer be targeted by plot-driven deaths.]

Good heavens, this is clipping Li Wei's wings!
Li Wei frowned, inwardly realizing something was wrong. The next second, Liang Yuzhi revealed a cheerful smile, initiated a new plot-driven kill, and used the same item card.

[Family member Liang Yuzhi spent 50 contribution points to initiate a plot-driven death against family member Leon, hoping he would accidentally fall into a well and die within the next 24 hours!]

[Family member Liang Yuzhi used the three-star prop card - One Call, One Hundred Responses!]

[The plot-driven death is confirmed. Six votes in favor, one vote against. Leon has spent 300 contribution points to be exempted from this plot-driven death. He can no longer be targeted by plot-driven deaths.]

Good guy!
Wait, it's Zhao Xuanxuan's turn next. She worked her butt off this month and only managed to accumulate 325 contribution points. She was just a little short of being voted out of the game.

As expected, Li Yue triggered another plot-driven death, and with the help of a three-star item card, she forced Zhao Xuanxuan to grant her immunity. After two months of hard work, she only had 25 contribution points left? How tragic!
Immediately afterwards, Liang Yuzhi struck again, launching the same plot-driven attack on Zhang Jinjun, who thought he had escaped death.

Similarly, Zhang Jinjun was left with only 75 contribution points in the end.

What a one-sided massacre!

Li Yue and Liang Yuzhi each spent only 100 contribution points, plus two item cards, and successfully cleared 1200 points of cache...

If things continue like this, can Li Wei really hold onto his 8100 contribution points?

At this moment, Li Wei felt a chill run down his spine and realized that this kind of big-shot bitch was indeed extraordinary.

Moreover, this move is extremely difficult to counter. It's practically like letting high school students bully middle school students on their own turf. Isn't that cheating?
Then of course we have to fight back.

Even if the opponent uses a three-star item card to exempt them.

We can't afford to lose face!

[Li Wei, the head of the family, spent 50 contribution points to trigger a plot kill on family member Liang Yuzhi, hoping that she would succumb to depression and die within 24 hours due to excessive longing for her loved ones.]

A message floated by, and everyone was united in their hatred of the enemy, wishing they could all vote.

But as expected, Liang Yuzhi gave a silent sneer, "Kid, you're still too green!"

[Family member Liang Yuzhi used the three-star item card "Escape from Justice," thus exempting her from this plot-driven death.]

but--

[Family elder Li Yue used the three-star item card "The Long Arm of the Law," overriding the effect of the previous item card. The plot-driven death vote can continue.]

Yay! Not bad!

but--

[Family member Liang Yuzhi used the four-star item card "Atonement," which exempted her from this plot-driven death.]

But Li Yue didn't seem to intend to let her go.

[Family elder Li Yue used the four-star item card "Clearing the Injustice," overriding the effect of the previous item card. The plot-driven death vote can continue.]

Wow, I love this dog-eat-dog drama.

This time, Liang Yuzhi gave Li Yue a meaningful look and stopped making trouble. Four-star item cards were a bit expensive for people like them.

She admitted it.

Swish, swish, swish, everyone voted.

[The plot-driven death has been confirmed. Six votes in favor, one vote against. Liang Yuzhi has used 300 contribution points to be exempted from this plot-driven death. She can no longer be targeted by plot-driven deaths.]

Good, good. Everyone is in a good mood at this moment. Only Li Wei and Li Yue are the winners because they have no obvious faults and cannot be impeached.

With this, the battle of plot-driven kills has come to an end. A total of 1500 cache points have been cleared, which means there are more contribution points to be gained. If Li Yue makes any big moves, she can catch up with Li Wei in just one or two waves.

Of course, this won't be so easy. The leader buff doesn't completely block this possibility, which also greatly increases the difficulty.

Trying to slack off in side quests will come at a price.

Also, don't try to emulate Anne Hathaway's actions and secretly assassinate her in the snowy mountains; that's impossible.

(End of this chapter)