The different main characters of the book start to congregate together and start forming and carrying out plans. Matthew meets up with Lu and Jia, and Leonard comes over from America to China and carries with him a bunch of prepaid game cards (this plus american proxies would make them "indistinguishable from the lucrative American kid trade"). Back in Dharavi, Mala and her army suddenly become good guys again literally overnight after she tries to attack Yasmin and Ashok.
The main goal of the Webblies is to take control of the game economies of Mushroom Kingdom, Zombie Mecha, Svartalfaheim Warriors, and Magic of Hogwarts. But the characters face many hardships, like: the cafe being taken over by Mr. Banerjee's goons in Dharavi and the "army" having to defend it after they'd taken it back; Mala being kidnapped by Mr. Banerjee; police raiding Jiani's different places; Lu getting killed; Big Sister Nor, The Mighty Krang, and Justbob getting petrol bombs thrown in their room and having to jump out a window, etc.
Many strikes happen around the world in different factories with help from Jia's message to everyone to not go to work. There's also a big shooting of 42 gamers. The book really gets you feeling rebellious and you really want to stick it to the man.
Eventually, they get enough Webblies to farm a lot of gold and are able to topple the Mushroom Kingdom's economy. They call up Coca Cola games and talk to Connor Prikkel, a game runner and the head honcho economist there and threaten (but in a nice way) to topple their game economies unless they make gold farming a part of the company so they can unionize and not have to work in bad conditions. It works and everyone's happy. The book has a really corny ending with the people from China traveling to Dharavi and meeting with Yasmina and Ashok, and then Prikkel making a surprise visit and going out to lunch.
Looking back, I did enjoy reading the book. It has some pretty informative parts to it about basic economics and general info about gold farming while staying exciting and rebellious.
I used to think that not that many people bought gold and that it's just too risky to do, but this book makes it seem like it's a really common thing and that no one gets caught (even though it doesn't say that). Is this a reality? Or do a lot of people get caught buying and selling gold?
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