The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

Ghost asked a question.

"Should we still pursue the resource map of Jiangnan City?"

"Right now, our priority is dealing with the Shi family's business, but there won't be any large-scale operations in the short term. You can continue to push things forward on your end."

"I'll be on duty in Glory City for the next month, so I'm temporarily handing over the responsibility for that area to Brother Wu."

Song Gua looked at Wu Ge.

He transformed into a misty teapot, tilting the spout to pour out water imitating the mist.

"Hey guys, look, my hand's leaking!"

A bunch of black lines appeared on Song Gua's forehead.

"Hey, Ghost Bro, can we get someone else?"

Ghost Brother rolled his eyes.

"Isn't he the third leader you chose?"

"I regret it."

Although Brother Wu is unreliable.

But Brother Wu's abilities are truly reliable.

Once the game starts, his fog of mystery envelops the entire arena, allowing him to conjure himself up at any time, anywhere there is fog.

He moved around the entire venue, controlled the entire venue, and provided support throughout the venue.

It is indeed appropriate to make him the leader.

"Huozi, Nanfeng, where has your hot air balloon gone?"

Huozi and Nanfeng are currently at the base camp participating in the conference, not in the hot air balloon.

The hot air balloon, controlled by several ordinary clones, floated slowly.

Huozi gets a headache just thinking about hot air balloons.

"I think I'm lost."

"Isn't there navigation?"

"There are places in the Pacific Ocean where there is no signal."

"Hiss...that's true."

If Miss Butterfly were here, she would definitely have that kind of global navigation that ignores ordinary signals.

Speaking of Miss Butterfly.

After she disappeared, Hudilisa, who was supposed to go to Beijing to participate in the summer camp organized by the Yanhuang Alliance, also vanished.

Song asked Zhu Xin if she knew about a person named Hu Dilisha in the summer camp organized by their alliance.

Zhu Xin helped check and found that such a person did exist.

But she didn't even bother to register.

It seems that Hudirisa went missing halfway after leaving Yunshan City.

Therefore, it seems that Miss Butterfly and Hudi Lisa are definitely the same person.

I just don't know why Miss Butterfly went undercover at Yunshan No. 5 Middle School in the first place.

"Getting back to the main point, to get the Shi family's warehouse... no, to take down the evil Shi family, we need to find a breakthrough."

The clever one asked and answered quickly.

"Officialdom".

Song Gua nodded.

"Yes, judging from the Shi Yang incident, the Shi family has ambitions to control the political situation. If they are truly a group of ruthless and ambitious people, I admire them. But Shi Yang's greed is so outrageous, I don't believe that the other officials in the Shi family can be any better."

"Great wisdom prevails," said the wise man.

"If we can find evidence of illegal and unethical conduct by officials from the Shi family and expose it, the Shi family will definitely be crippled."

Without the support of the government, the Shi family is far inferior to other top-tier families in Xichuan City in terms of professional strength.

"At that time, without us even lifting a finger, the Ximen family, along with other Xichuan families who want to replace the Shi family's position, will definitely take advantage of our misfortune."

Song Gua pointed to Da Congming.

"See, I told you our Great Intelligence is truly brilliant."

Da Congming scratched his head.

"You flatter me, you flatter me."

Song Gua smiled.

"Then, I'll leave the investigation into the corruption of Shi family officials to you."

"Oh, this..."

"Is it difficult?"

"That's brilliant. Not every official is as stupid as Shi Yang, who created a group of concubines, giving others an opportunity to take advantage of him."

"Would I entrust you with something so easy? Any bandit could do it. You're different; you're a cadre!"

Da Congming pointed to himself.

"Me? Am I a cadre too? I... I always thought we bandits only had nine cadres?"

"Nonsense! You're the Minister of Intelligence, of course you're an officer, you're the tenth officer!"

"Work hard. If you can get this breakthrough to bring down the Shi family, you'll have accomplished a great feat. I think you can be entrusted with leading the fourth core of the organization from now on!"

Da Congming immediately straightened his back, full of energy, and ran to the computer as fast as he could to start collecting information.

Song Gua turned to the others and said.

"So, the nine cadres and all the main force members, you need to be on high alert for the next period of time. The Shi family's kill order against us is already in effect. If any clones encounter danger, you must provide immediate support..."

The bandits' path to expansion continues to accelerate steadily.

Actually, the leveling speed of Song Gua and his clones could be improved a bit more.

As long as they don't care about reputation or loss, the cadres and key personnel who buy experience books can just buy a little more experience books every day.

— Allowing more clones to buy will reduce the cost-effectiveness of experience books, because experience books can only be used by the person who buys them. If cannon fodder buys them, the cannon fodder will take the lion's share of the experience.

With three thousand clones, each staying in Glory City for a month, the reputation earned from daily tasks alone would amount to a huge sum of money.

But Song Gua still wanted to get his hands on the best gear from the reputation shop.

That was a level 90 artifact with the "Free and Unfettered" attribute—the highest equipment level was only 90, so it was called the "endgame equipment."

This means that once he reaches level 60, he can use it.

Moreover, the artifact that can be redeemed from the reputation shop is a set—you get the whole set at once, including a weapon, helmet, upper body armor, lower body armor, and shoes, a total of five pieces.

Therefore, the price is very high, and the zero is so large that it's dizzying to look at.

If you use all your reputation to buy experience books, you'll level up faster, but exchanging for this set of artifacts will be a long way off.

Moreover, Song Gua not only wanted to create a system for himself, but he also wanted to create one for the cadres.

In the long run, it wouldn't be a bad idea for the main players to each have a set, as long as there are enough clones.

Therefore, reputation should be used in a planned way.

……

In Glory City, on a street near the main crystal, Wang Miao was patrolling with his investigation team.

Previously, Wang Miao returned to Shangjing and reported to Wan Jianyi that he had indeed discovered traces of the Dark Compass.

The Special Affairs Bureau has taken this matter seriously, assigning several elite teams to be stationed here permanently to ensure that the upcoming Abyss invasion in the second half of this year can be weathered smoothly without being disturbed by the Dark Artifacts.

Wang Miao is now the head of these multiple special investigation teams.

Yanzu didn't come along; he was an intern and couldn't stay here permanently because he had to go to school.

Xiao Chen followed Wang Miao, keeping an eye on the detector while chatting idly.

"Team leader, people in the bureau are saying you might be a bandit."

Wang Miao smiled.

"What do you mean by that?"

"They say that if you're in Yunshan City, bandits are in Yunshan City; if you go to Shangjing, bandits are also causing trouble there. It's hard to tell what's true and what's false. Now, you're in Glory City, and bandits are in Glory City too. This..."

"Sigh, I'm frustrated too, but you can't say that. Bandits also frequent Jiangnan City and Xichuan City, but I haven't been to those places."

"Haha, so everyone was just joking... Hey, there are fortune tellers in the city?"

Wang Miao and the others looked in the direction Xiao Chen was pointing.

A small wooden table, a black tablecloth, a white Taoist banner, and an old Taoist priest.

"Fortune telling, divination, and fortune telling! Indicate good fortune, misfortune, future prospects, and marriage! Come, have a look! For just one reputation point, this humble Taoist priest can tell you everything!"

On his table sat an antique bronze mirror.

The bronze mirror is an antique; its surface is not smooth, so the reflections of passersby on it are distorted…