Chapter 1815: Chapter 1809: If You Don’t Pay, I’ll Tear Up the Hostages

"100 points per person, that’s..."

Fei Li was immediately caught in a dilemma.

For over 8,000 people, 100 points per person would be more than 800,000.

Although they were outer sect disciples, they were just small fry among the outer sect disciples with no significant status. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be assigned to collect protection fees.

Take Fei Li for example; since becoming an outer sect disciple, he had only spent about three years in the Sunset Sect.

The sect tasks of the Sunset Sect were the most common way to earn contribution points. In general, tasks were divided into four levels: simple, ordinary, difficult, and dangerous. Of course, there were more detailed classifications within these.

The success rate of simple tasks was over 90%. Naturally, the contribution points for completing tasks weren’t much, averaging around 100 to 200 points, with a time cycle of about a week.

The success rate of ordinary-level tasks ranged from 50% to 70%, generally taking two to three weeks, with contribution points under 500.

The success rate of difficult tasks was below 50%, with completion usually taking several months, but contribution points varied from 500 to 2000.

As for dangerous tasks, the success rate was below 10%, and they could take several years. But completing just one would earn rewards of at least several tens of thousands of points.

Both difficult and dangerous tasks had very high mortality rates, so the risks came hand in hand with the rewards.

These outer sect disciples, at most, dared to take on simple-level tasks, occasionally picking a couple of ordinary ones. Combined with daily expenses, there really wasn’t much left in contribution points.

Fei Li currently had only about 300 contribution points on him.

Even with ten or so outer sect disciples here today, even if they pooled all their contribution points together, they wouldn’t reach 10,000 points!

Let alone coming up with 800,000 as a meeting gift.

"Brother Gu, isn’t this too much?" Fei Li knew very well that since they were now here, leaving wasn’t that easy. He just wanted to minimize the losses!

In fact, extorting probationary disciples was generally a very lucrative job. According to past years, collecting hundreds of thousands of contribution points, and then transferring them without skimming too much, leaving a few hundred or even a few thousand, was perfectly normal!

Even if the people above found out, they usually turned a blind eye. The fleece comes from the sheep’s back, so finding a way to extort a bit more was just part of it.

This was the first time in history that outer sect disciples were robbed by probationary disciples!

"Too much? I don’t think 100 points per person is a lot." Zhang Menglong said, "Or did the senior brothers and sisters not come with sincerity to see us at all? If you’re not here to see us, then what are you doing here? To stir up trouble?"

"Of course not, of course not!" Fei Li denied flatly, "How could we be here to cause trouble? But we came in a hurry and indeed didn’t bring that many contribution points."

Fei Li continued, "Of course, it was wrong of us to come empty-handed. We’ll leave Brother Gu 5,000 contribution points, and next time we’ll bring more over. What do you say, Brother Gu?"

"How can that be? Are you asking me to be the dishonorable person in front of so many from the Shamate Clan?" Zhang Menglong said, "If I were to pocket these 5,000 contribution points myself, people will certainly talk badly about me behind my back, and it will be hard for me to get by in the future."

"Dividing these 5,000 points among everyone wouldn’t even give each person a single point, and you’re putting me in a tough spot."

"Speaking of which, this idea came from the senior brothers above, right?"

Fei Li stammered, not daring to speak.

This allocation of contribution points was indeed like this: they needed to submit 50,000 points to the inner sect disciples above, and the rest would flow into the core members of their outer sect students’ organization.

Although this was a tradition, the amount collected each time depended on the mood and preference of the outer sect student power.

In a good mood, they might only collect 20 points from each person, but in a bad mood, they’d double it.

But 50 points per person was definitely rare, directly skimming off half the fleece, which was rather ruthless.

"Since it’s the decision of the senior brothers above, why not let the senior brothers prepare this meeting gift?" Zhang Menglong didn’t want these outer sect disciples continuously causing trouble.

The best way was to make a big issue of it once and solve it from the root. This was the only way for a long-term solution.

"This..." Fei Li thought for a moment and said, "After we go back, we’ll definitely convey the situation to our President."

"That won’t do; you can’t just go back like this," Zhang Menglong said, "We probationary disciples don’t have the qualification to enter the center area of the Sunset Sect. If you all just leave like that and don’t come back, who am I going to find?"

"Let’s do it this way," Zhang Menglong proposed, "How about senior brothers and sisters stay here for a night, and just send one person back to deliver the message. When the senior brothers above come with the meeting gift, we’ll let everyone go back. What do you think?"

"Are you taking us hostage?" With everything said up to this point, Fei Li stopped pretending to be the good senior, "Gu Xiao, consider this carefully. We know you’re formidable, but our outer sect senior brothers and sisters are not to be trifled with, and we have hundreds of thousands of them..."

"Hundreds of thousands, what’s the big deal!" Someone from the Shamate Clan immediately sneered.

"Exactly, you probably don’t know how awesome our Clan Leader is. During assessments, one person handling billions made everyone else unable to even make a peep. What’s the use of having many people?"

"Laughable, don’t embarrass yourselves with just hundreds of thousands; our Clan Leader isn’t interested in such numbers."

"The Clan Leader doesn’t even want to take orders for anything under ten million."

"If these hundreds of thousands were inner sect disciples, maybe they’d be intimidating, but outer sect disciples? I’d say multiply that by ten."

Many present had witnessed Zhang Menglong’s spectacular prowess at the survival base at Rujia, and some were even victims back then. However, they didn’t resent Zhang Menglong for it; instead, they became fans and followed him to the Sunset Sect.

Fei Li and the others naturally heard their conversation.

Being the top of the class wasn’t frightening; what was frightening was that this Gu Xiao had managed to do so many things that sounded like myth and legend to them.

In previous years, the top rank, although powerful, had its limits, at most suppressing the second and third place with absolute strength.

But someone who could intimidate billions by themselves was quite unbelievable!

"I don’t like taking women," Zhang Menglong pointed at the only female disciple among the outer sect disciples, "Go back and tell your supervisor that I’ve taken these people as hostages. Bring 800,000 contribution points in three days to trade for them."

"Or else... I’ll kill the hostages!"