A game where you have to pay to win? But I have a lifespan roulette wheel!

Chaotic jungle!

To be honest.

Let alone chaotic jungle areas, Jiang Lin has hardly ever been to any jungle areas that aren't chaotic either.

On the first day, I went out to fight monsters, and afterwards I used teleportation the whole time, so I didn't go to the wilderness area very often.

It seems like one time was when I was looking for Lu Keke, another was when I was doing a dungeon run, and another was when I was relaxing today.

Hey.

Who is this guy? He barely saw any wild monsters, yet he's already reached top-tier strength with cheat codes.

Really.

Don't you know that the fun of games lies in fighting monsters and leveling up?

They actually took away this fun from him; this pay-to-win game is just too much.

Jiang Lin's teleportation can only take him to places he knows, such as the City of Repentance, which he knows and has been to.

However, he wasn't very clear about the wild areas outside unless someone took a picture or video-called him.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to teleport there.

The City of Repentance is now one of Jiang Lin's own properties, but the upper management has only recently changed, and it's not noticeable how it differs from before in just a day or two.

They set off from the east gate.

The most basic monsters outside the City of Freedom are mostly common animal fusion monsters, and the fusion is very free.

For example, whales and cows.

For example, cats and dogs, one body without a butt, one cat and one dog.

For example, the fly-rat has the body of a rat, the wings and eyes of a fly, and its sanity value keeps dropping.

The monsters of the City of Repentance are more humanoid in form.

For example, a monster that wears a large cloak and maintains a repentant posture at all times.

For example, a creature that is two or three meters tall, with limbs like bamboo poles, but a huge belly, shouts "Mom, I'm sorry!" as it lunges at you, its belly bursts open, and a little devil inside rushes out with a dagger, still connected by an umbilical cord.

Once you exit from the east gate, you'll see scattered groups of monster hunters.

Actually, I've always had a question.

now.

On the back of the villa, on the turtle's back.

Jiang Lin: Sunglasses, flip-flops, beach shorts, floral shirt, lying on a beach chair.

Ye Nian: Sunglasses, flip-flops, beach shorts, bikini, floral shirt, lying on a beach chair.

Baili Qingqiong: Sexy sailor-style bikini, holding a tray of drinks.

Jiang Lin sipped his juice and voiced his question.

"What question?"

Ye Nian appeared to be drinking juice, but his eyes, hidden behind his sunglasses, were constantly glancing at Baili Qingqiong.

Jiang Lin used two fingers to pry open the sunglasses and inserted them.

"Awoooooo!"

Ye Nian rolled off the beach chair onto the sand.

"I've been thinking, if you can gain lifespan by killing monsters, why is there still room for ordinary players to survive? Shouldn't the only professional players just monopolize everything?"

"What's so hard to understand? Just add an experience decay. This is still called a pay-to-win game, after all. From the perspective of them constantly bringing in new civilizations, they still hope that more players will come in."

Ye Nian rubbed her eyes and glared fiercely at Jiang Lin.

Damn it, all I did was admire Qingqiong's beauty, is it really necessary to make such a fuss?

"Even with experience decay, they should still have new recruits constantly, right?"

Here, civilizations are in competition with each other.

There's no way they'd be that kind.

"Captain, I know that."

Baili Qingqiong replied with a smile, "I don't know how I did it."

Even just tilting her head can create such a turbulent scene.

She truly is a woman born purely for passion and lust.

In that one strike, Ye Nian was instantly disarmed, blood gushing out.

Jiang Lin didn't care about that old pervert disguised as a flat-chested pretty girl.

He looked towards the vast blue sky.

"How so?"

"Actually, it's quite simple. First, after a city is built, safe wilderness areas are distributed in a regular pattern and spread outwards. The map gradually enlarges. Even if two cities are built by the same person, the distance between them will be kept within the range of the maximum safe distance. This way, monster-farming positions are not wasted. As a result, there are enough monster-farming maps. Secondly, there is the city's tax mechanism. Foreign races pay more taxes when farming monsters. For a simple example, there was the previous City of Repentance."

For those who are civilized, the tax is 1, which means that a monster drops 10 hours of life points, 9 of which end up in the player's hands, and the City Heart takes 1 point.

The chances of it being an alien civilization are 2% to 5%, and some shameless ones might impose a 10% tax on hostile civilizations, or even a fine.

"...Can a fine still be imposed?"

"This is not usually done. Just like between professionals, even if they are enemies, they will not easily touch each other's base. This kind of approach is usually used to expel an individual."

It turns out there are so many intricacies between these cities.

Jiang Lin could barely understand this approach, which didn't target the grassroots level.

Just like on Earth, even though they're fighting so fiercely with each other, there are still trade and exchanges between them.

Jiang Lin asked curiously, "How much are the taxes in the Free City?"

Baili Qingqiong smiled. "Before the City of Freedom was destroyed, there were no taxes."

"Hiss... The Beast King doesn't want any?"

"After all, the Beast King wasn't very enthusiastic about these things before, and the original intention of the Free City was to take in homeless people, not to create a bunch of workers for themselves."

"...Oh, I see."

Well, how should I put it?

Not surprising at all, the Beast King is the kind of person who's as straightforward as they come.

Previously, I liked staying at home and once I secured my own space, I didn't want to move around. I even thought that using my brain to think about problems was just being a clever person.

"However, after this reconstruction, and with the matter of the King of Gamblers, she will probably take her own power more seriously and start collecting taxes."

"I hope so."

Jiang Lin admires kind people who do good deeds.

However, he never wanted these kind people to give in vain. Ideally, they should be able to earn some money while doing good deeds, so that the good deed could continue.

There is a reduction in damage dealt by monsters.

Jiang Lin checked his health points.

571 million.

The number of bytes after the rules were strengthened is 5 trillion.

According to which method was his attenuation calculated?

Ideally, it should be a base health value; otherwise, Jiang Lin would get banned before he even gets to experience the fun of grinding monsters.

Monsters with millions of health points are hard to find.

Jiang Lin saw wild monsters spawning by the roadside.

He threw the longsword that was stuck to the side.

Of course, you have to control your strength carefully, otherwise you'll end up creating a basin.

[Congratulations to player Jiang Lin for defeating the corrupted mother and child. Due to the significant difference in strength, you have received 0 Life Points and 0 loot.]

"..."

Not only does it lack a lifespan point.

There are no spoils yet.

Jiang Lin can now understand a little bit about why Xuan Mo and the others are still high-level professionals even after hundreds of years.

Moreover, as a high-level professional, why not fight monsters and level up, but instead choose to open a shop to extend one's lifespan?

Low-level monsters have simple mechanics and are easy to kill.

However, killing them is of no value to them, but newbies can kill them and then they make money off the newbies.

Advanced monsters have increasingly complex mechanics, which pose risks for them, so it's better to make money off newbies.

This explains why these cities are almost never hostile to newcomers from other civilizations.

You will become stronger, that's true, but others will benefit as well.

However, if we follow this mechanism...

We need to build several more cities like that.

Jiang Lin can still withstand the pressure from the heart of a city.

Before his maximum health reaches the next order of magnitude, he still wants to create his own city.

World bosses can't have a reduction in power, right?

Wouldn't it be a huge loss to take it all away from yourself?

Just as Jiang Lin was pondering this major issue concerning the world order.

Some people are dissatisfied with him.

"Feed? What the hell do you mean? Are you new here? Don't you know the rules? You're just stealing monsters here?"