Six days ago, Feng Huimin committed suicide on Server 0178888. Twenty-four hours later, she chose to be reborn in Wangxi Village.
Her talent had fallen from C-rank to D-rank.
【D-rank Talent—Keen Observation:
Effect: You can keenly perceive the advantages and disadvantages of a battle and analyze the situation.】
Fortunately, her Commander class remained unchanged.
【Class: Commander
Class Trait: After issuing an order, obedience is increased by 30%.
Skill 1—Charge Horn: After use, all players gain a 5% increase to their base attributes, attack power, defense, and healing power. (This skill has no player limit. All beings recognized as allies are affected by Charge Horn.) Duration: 30 minutes.】
After entering Wangxi Village at midnight, Chu Fu immediately arranged for someone to invite Feng Huimin into the guild.
She was then granted administrator privileges.
Feng Huimin had originally thought that, as a player parachuted into the guild at level 0, she would surely be ostracized. She had even prepared herself for all kinds of difficulties.
But none of that happened.
The moment she appeared, a level-10 player from the Thorn Guild took her into the Nightmare-level Beast God Temple dungeon.
She had not even been qualified to enter this dungeon back when she was with the Huanyu Guild.
The fixed party there consisted of Lu An, Wan Huanyu, Holy Healing Angel, and two of Wan Huanyu’s more capable lackeys who served as damage dealers.
Feng Huimin had merely been an administrator—or, more accurately, an all-purpose babysitter.
But in the Thorn Guild, the players could breeze through such a dangerous dungeon with their eyes closed.
Not only that, they were even praising Feng Huimin, who could not attack at all.
“Wow, Commander Feng, your class skill is amazing! This must be an insanely powerful aura-type skill.”
“It’ll be incredibly useful during a siege. You can buff players across a huge area.”
“You must be some kind of special talent recruited by the Plant Master!”
That was not entirely wrong.
She instinctively reached up to push her black-rimmed glasses higher, but since she had not yet reached level 10 and had not activated her level-10 skill, the glasses had vanished.
Not wearing her glasses made her feel terribly insecure.
“That’s right. The Plant Master hired me at a high salary to help manage the guild.”
“Wow! That’s impressive! Commander Feng must be an incredible person in real life.”
Amid the continuous praise, Feng Huimin soon found herself wearing a relaxed smile.
She discovered that these players were all quite capable. Their praise came from the heart. It was as if they were giving her an immense amount of emotional support—not through flattery, but through genuine appreciation and confidence that she could manage the guild well.
They were especially astonished after she told them about her academic background and work experience.
Feng Huimin knew that their trust in her was built on their trust in Plantman. Because they believed in him, they viewed her in a completely different light.
But that alone already made the Thorn Guild vastly different from the Huanyu Studio.
Those people had constantly talked behind her back, accusing her of being an outsider who knew nothing yet tried to lecture experts. They had also been deeply dissatisfied with her low level in the game.
Whenever they needed her, they would flatter her with a few words. When they did not, they would look at her with contempt.
They would fawn over her while taking what they needed, then curse her the moment they were done.
The Thorn Guild was completely different.
Feng Huimin could even have players take her through dungeons, after which she would assign missions.
No one was required to complete a fixed number of Nightmare-level dungeons every day, nor were they forced to submit 20% of the equipment they obtained to the guild.
After learning every player’s skills, equipment, and class, Feng Huimin began arranging teams.
No one complained. Instead, they praised her team compositions as perfectly balanced.
After clearing a dungeon, the Thorn Guild’s players would automatically go to the warehouse to register their loot and submit the goods. There was no need to supervise them, and no need to worry about them embezzling anything.
The first time she fought the Tiger King alongside everyone, Feng Huimin felt the Thorn Guild’s unprecedented unity and strength even more clearly.
They took down the Tiger King without losing a single soldier or suffering a single injury.
Under her management, the Thorn Guild in Wangxi Village operated like a highly efficient machine, increasing its overall efficiency by 150%.
Moreover, as more and more players joined each day, the Thorn Guild produced large quantities of Silver-grade equipment, which it sold in bulk. Small auctions were even held daily.
The transaction amounts left her speechless—and this was only a beginner village.
What would it be like in a town?
She did not dare imagine how terrifying the flow of money would be in a town where everyone had Gold-grade equipment.
Even more shocking to Feng Huimin was Chu Fu’s ability to make money.
The plan to acquire land from the authorities with hundreds of billions in liquid capital and build Thorn Town far exceeded Feng Huimin’s expectations.
Yet Chu Fu had entrusted the operation of such a massive project to her.
The partners worked seriously and caused no trouble. Even while handling construction in the real world and leveling up in the game, Feng Huimin still found everything surprisingly easy.
Meanwhile, her former employer, Wantu Real Estate, was being sold in its entirety after the Huanyu Studio went bankrupt.
She negotiated the deal and acquired Wantu Real Estate Group for 35 billion, including 1,200 in debt. But after the game invaded reality, no one cared much about that debt anymore.
The real value lay in the group’s properties.
Wantu Real Estate’s office towers stood in the heart of Linjiang City, where every inch of land was worth a fortune.
After the game invaded reality, if this area became a safe zone, its value would be unimaginable.
There were also the properties under development, undeveloped sites, unfinished projects, and completed buildings that had yet to be sold.
She planned to organize everything and see whether they could get lucky.
The thrill of managing such a massive operation was simply intoxicating.
She had originally planned to have someone remove the Wantu Real Estate sign the next morning.
From then on, the building would belong to the Thorn Group.
She might even become the CEO of the Thorn Group.
The ultimate career worker.
But she had never expected the Plant Master to have another surprise waiting for her.
She had become the deputy mayor?
In the game, the deputy mayor of a town was equivalent to the authority in charge of an entire beginner-village server!
It was a position above every guild and player.
“Boss, don’t worry. Leave the expansion project to me. I’ll definitely find more NPCs for you as well. You can count on me!”
Feng Huimin was brimming with energy.
She used to work for Wan Huanyu for only eight hours a day.
Now, she wished every day had thirty-six hours so she could deal with Chu Fu’s affairs.
She was simply being given far too much!
…
After assigning the benefits and responsibilities to others, Chu Fu became a hands-off manager and enjoyed a much easier life.
She could finally relax.
She then looked inside her inventory.
She still had thirty Skill Enhancement Stones and two Dark Gold Chests that she had not used yet!
After thinking it over, Chu Fu used twenty Skill Enhancement Stones to raise her level-20 ultimate, Corrosive Toxic Barrier, to level 10.
She also raised her level-15 skill, Malicious Burst, to level 10.
【Corrosive Toxic Barrier → Corrosive Domain +10】
【Malicious Burst → Blood-Melting Venom Pool +10】
Finally, she kept ten Skill Enhancement Stones to use on her level-25 skill.
As for the Dark Gold Chests, Chu Fu no longer even knew what she was missing, so she simply opened them both.
【You obtained ×1 Skill Enhancement Stone.】
【You obtained ×1 Skill Enhancement Stone.】
Chu Fu froze.
“Could the Primordial Gate be a perfectionist too? Fine, then. Thank you for nature’s generous gift!”
Chu Fu used the two enhancement stones on Plague Spread, turning the skill into a level-10 enhanced skill.
【Plague Spread +8 → Plague Calamity +10】
I really am poisonous!
Chu Fu was frightened just reading the skill descriptions.
While she was looking through the skills, a private message came in.
It was from Holy Healing Angel.
“Plant Master, just now in Zone 009, you said you had a way to solve the problem of players joining the evil faction. Is that for real or not? I... I joined too, QAQ.”
