Thirteen, any disruption to the existing order shall be regarded as a provocation to the shareholders and will result in immediate execution; if a leader wages war, the company will directly destroy the city and demolish all armies;

Fourteen, shareholders are responsible for the company, and in the event of a destruction crisis, it is the shareholders' responsibility to make every effort to ensure the survival of the company as well as its employees, including the branches established by the Immortals.

Fifteen, except for the fourteenth clause, shareholders have the right at any time, without the permission of anyone, to amend, change, or supplement the rest of the clauses.

These fifteen clauses were drafted temporarily by Turquoise Pool without consulting anyone.

She knew they were far from rigorous, full of loopholes, but that was okay, no matter how lax, no matter how many loopholes there were, those below still had to abide by them.

The lack of precision and presence of loopholes could also serve as a part of the display of ruling power, telling everyone that from now on, all affairs on Earth would be decided by shareholders, even if the decisions were wrong, they must be executed.

Turquoise Pool received many opinions, like non-human players wanting to establish their branches, the ocean asking for its rights, and so on, which she looked at and tossed aside. She only kept two, which were from the Magic World and the Central King of Four Seasons Star.

Both also requested to become branches, to become part of the Earth's headquarters.

Turquoise Pool agreed.

After all, with two new branches outside of Earth, the more development tax the shareholders received — one Game Coin per player each month — the better.

She simply replied with the word 'Permit,' and handed over the specific affairs, like the Magic branch wanting to charge tolls to other company personnel entering the Magic World, and the Central King wanting access to the Magic World, etc., to the next level of decision-making body.

The next level decision-making body, which was the presidents of each branch and the five leaders of the development team, was the actual leadership structure of the Earth's headquarters.

Only when they also found it difficult to reach an internal consensus, would the shareholders intervene in the affairs of the headquarters.

Of course, shareholders have the right to issue any orders to the company at any time.

While she was making decisions, Yafeiluna was responsible for the final suppression on-site, hunting down those old elites who escaped with artifacts and hid.

Yang Qinglan and Li Qianxia were examining the S- and S grade artifacts that had been recovered — not a single S+ grade artifact.

A grade artifacts are actually powerful enough, but let alone A grade, even if they expanded the recovery range to A+ grade, the two of them couldn't review them all in a short amount of time.

Besides, A+ grade artifacts, barely usable by players below the status of Immortal, would cause conflicts if recalled, unlike S- and S grade artifacts which, although precious, had not yet had a single piece usable by players below the rank of Immortal.

An S grade artifact like "Little Jade Cauldron," which any player could use, was truly the S grade among S grades, which means, if S grade artifacts were also classified into levels, "Little Jade Cauldron" would still be considered S grade.

This is perhaps because Li Changzhou was at the rank below Immortal when he won the lottery, so Value Game put only artifacts usable by those below Immortal in the prize pool.

Li Qianxia glanced left and right, moved closer to Yang Qinglan, and whispered, "Qing Lan, all these — they all belong to us?"

"Have you ever heard the story about killing the goose that lays the golden eggs?"

"Then how many should we take?"

"One piece each," said Yang Qinglan, "by giving others some hope, they will search for artifacts more diligently for us. Additionally, give priority to artifacts that can counter the Ancient Gods, followed by those that can aid us in our missions."

Another reason for not taking more was that the S- and S grade artifacts required too much Ability to use.

A typical example was Yang Qinglan's "Candle," which needed 2000 Ability points to ignite, the entire Ability of a first-grade Immortal!

In the previous battle on Mars, Yang Qinglan didn't use it, but handed it over to Li Qianxia who, after entering combat, ignited the candle using all her Ability points and then used "Chaos Series - Flame Butterfly" to restore her Status.

But the greater the consumption, the greater the effect. Before the candle burned out, Li Qianxia alone killed eight Immortals, without sustaining a single injury!

Logically, "Candle" should have been left with Li Qianxia for her to maximize its use, like when she and Turquoise Pool were surrounded; if she had had the "Candle," they could have killed twenty of their adversaries.

This was what Yang Qinglan thought, but Li Qianxia refused.

"I have the Flame Butterfly when I encounter enemies. What about you, Qing Lan? If I also take the 'Candle,' what will you do if you are surrounded? Not even enough time to Summon my brother to save you."

Yang Qinglan would be drained of all Ability after igniting the "Candle," but she would be safe until the "Candle" went out.

"Candle" was not necessarily for killing enemies — some enemies couldn't be killed even with the "Candle" — it was for survival.

In the natural selection process of Value Game, survival was the victory. "Chaos Series - Flame Butterfly" and "Candle," along with Li Changzhou's "Teleportation," allowed the three to support each other effectively.

As for Turquoise Pool...

This was an opportunity for her to select good artifacts.

Yang Qinglan chose first, taking the "Dawn Mirror" that Li Qianxia had wanted to select last time.

"With this, and combined with our current artifacts and Skills, whether we enter an instance in the future or face the Ancient Gods next, it will increase our survival rate."

The Dawn Mirror is a very delicate ancient mirror, with the edges of the mirror inlaid with three gemstones. Between the gemstones, there are intricate patterns of twigs and branches, currently sprouting leaves, ready to bloom.

The period when the flowers are in bloom but not yet withered is the window of opportunity to load a save point, which corresponds to the sunrise on Earth.

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