Chapter 535 Revenge (2)
To deal with the Lei family, we need to proceed more slowly than dealing with the previous three families.
It's not just because the Lei family's style of doing things has no bottom line, but also because the Lei family's overt and covert strength is much stronger than those three families, and they have stronger control over their subordinates and more concentrated power.
Although the first three are also very powerful, what they have in common is that they all have a large mercenary group and several small mercenary groups under their command. The level of the large mercenary group is at least silver level, and the one with a long history is already gold level.
Although they own other industries, most of these industries are built on the support of the mercenary group. A single move can affect the entire body. The mercenary group is the fist in their hands. Once a mercenary group has problems, it will not have much impact in a short period of time, but over time, it will be easy for others to see through the truth and tear it apart.
Because these forces all started out as mercenary groups, but after the mercenary groups grew bigger and stronger, they gradually established related industries around the mercenary groups. At the same time, the mercenary groups also continued to absorb new blood, and finally formed a symbiotic model in which the mercenary groups protected the industries and the industries provided logistics and resource guarantees for the mercenary groups.
This model is a step that most mercenary groups will take in the end of their development, but the competition is definitely fierce, and various struggles, divisions, and mergers are inevitable in the process. The force that finally stands out will form a differentiated competitive balance with other similar forces.
The Star Mercenary Group will inevitably move towards this model in the end. Lido can only raise its lower limit but cannot raise the upper limit of the entire industry.
But this model actually relies on the strength of the mercenary group, which must constantly absorb new blood in order to maintain its advantage in the competition.
Therefore, when they saw the newly arrived Star Mercenary Group, which was not very large in size, they would try every possible means to recruit them.
Moreover, for them, even if they cannot recruit the entire group, splitting up the Star Mercenary Group and swallowing up part of it would also be a good result, because it would not only strengthen their own strength but also eliminate a potential competitor.
The biggest drawback of this model is that power is relatively dispersed. If the person in charge of the power is not strong enough, the possibility of internal power struggle and eventual disintegration is much higher than that of other forces.
That's why Lido was able to achieve results so quickly by directly targeting the opponent's mercenary group. Of course, although they bowed to the Star Mercenary Group, they would not be soft-hearted when competing with the Star Mercenary Group in the future.
However, for Lido, as long as it is not a dirty trick, she welcomes normal competition. She even thinks that their suppression of the Star Mercenary Group some time ago can be regarded as normal competition.
Of course, Lido also believed that the Star Mercenary Group's counterattack was within the scope of normal competition, but the final result was that the Star Mercenary Group won.
But it is different for the Lei family. Issuing trap missions is definitely not considered within the scope of normal competition. This is digging at the roots of the mercenary profession and destroying the ecology of mercenary missions.
Where did those trap missions that were posted but not accepted by the Star Mercenary Group go? Obviously, it was impossible that the posters withdrew them, so they were naturally accepted by other mercenary groups.
So what happened to the mercenary groups that did these missions?
Maybe for some missions the Lei family might remove the traps if they see that the missions are not taken by the Star Mercenary Group, but many traps cannot be removed once they are set.
Moreover, in Liduo's opinion, given the nature of the Lei family, if they see that another mercenary group has accepted a trap mission, they will also take advantage of the situation to muddy the waters so as to better hide themselves.
So Liduo asked Feng Wuya to find a way to check which mercenary groups have received trap missions since the emergence of trap missions, and what the final results were.
Since it's been a while, it's a bit hard to check.
However, after the people from the Star Mercenary Group spent money and made inquiries everywhere, they still found out a lot of information, especially the completion status of the most recent trap missions.
When Lido was investigating the situation in the main city of Tianjing and drawing a map, didn't Lido ask the Star Mercenary Group to stop accepting missions?
There was also the later mission target of robbing those three companies, but I didn't actually accept the mission.
So in fact, most of the trap missions during that period were taken up by other mercenary groups.
Of course, the Lei family can't send people out to issue trap missions too frequently, otherwise they'll be exposed sooner or later and people will have noticed something was amiss.
So in the end, there were only four mercenary groups that became victims, and even two of the three were hit. The losses were even more severe than when the Star Mercenary Group received the trap mission before.
One high-level summoner and five mid-level summoners were killed, and more than ten others were seriously injured.
The other family lost six intermediate summoners and eight junior summoners, and more than a dozen people were seriously injured. Among the seriously injured were two senior summoners, each of whom lost an elf.
For these two mercenary groups, such a loss is already a serious blow.
The other two mercenary groups that received the trap mission were not much better.
One is to gather the strength of the entire group and have the leader of the mercenary group lead the team to complete the mission. Fortunately, the leader was more alert. After the group lost several people halfway through the mission, he realized something was wrong. He immediately gave up the mission and fought hard with the remaining members to escape. In the end, the mission was considered a failure, resulting in the demotion of the mercenary group. Not only did the strength of the mercenary group decline, but they also had to pay a large sum of compensation.
The other team that took the mission was a five-man elite squad from a large mercenary group. It consisted of three senior summoners and two elite mid-level summoners. The team's elves and skills were matched, as well as their mutual coordination and tacit understanding were all first-class. In the end, the mission was completed, but only two senior summoners returned.
Therefore, the Star Mercenary Group has not suffered any casualties even though they have taken on several trap missions. Even if they were willing to spend resources, they were really blessed by luck. They were able to complete every mission, which was quite impressive of them.
After Feng Wuya reported what they had found out to Liduo, Liduo was also very angry. When humans were at a disadvantage in the war between humans and monsters, there were actually scumbags who caused the human side to lose so many backbone forces for a little insignificant personal gain!
It’s so hateful!
Lido personally went to investigate the details behind these trap missions and search for evidence. Finally, she gave them anonymously to the four victims and also sent a copy to the mercenary guild.
Let’s see their reactions first.
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