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Chapter 43 0042 [Not Short of Money]

Mr. Shi is quite obsessed with playing "Legend of Mir".

Not to mention how much money he spent on equipment, he even has his own dedicated boosting team.

At first, I only hired one power leveler, but later I found that the leveling speed was not fast enough, so I hired several more to take turns playing.

Since there are game boosting groups, there must be group leaders, who are essentially Mr. Shi's "game secretary".

This game secretary also started out as a game booster. His real name is difficult to verify, and he always used the pseudonym "Xie Ming" when interviewed. Later, he became an administrator in the development team of "Zhengtu".

Let's call him Xie Ming for now.

"Brother Ming."

Good morning, Ming-ge.

As Mr. Shi's game secretary and the leader of the game boosting team, Xie Ming arrived at the game office early in the morning.

He checked the equipment and gold he had acquired the previous night, signed off on the two power levelers to switch shifts, and then went to chat on his computer.

These days are so boring!

Because the game "Legend" hasn't been updated for more than half a year, Boss Shi's account has already reached level 46, and it seems like it will be a long time before he can reach level 47.

Boss Shi himself was also getting tired of it, often not showing up for half a month at a time. When he did occasionally come to play the game, it was always with members of his power leveling team, engaging in PvP battles. Once he had his fill of killing people, he would log off and leave, and if he got killed, he would start cursing.

Often, when both sides engage in a fierce battle, they resort to using overpowered cheats to continue the fight, frequently resulting in their accounts being reported and banned for using these cheats.

On one occasion, Mr. Shi even went to Shanda's headquarters to ask Mr. Chen to unblock his account in person.

Xie Ming stayed in the chat room until noon. After lunch, he returned, signed a form to let the game boosters change shifts, and then lay down on the sofa for a nap.

Two people take turns leveling up for Boss Shi, working together to kill monsters and level up.

Other game boosting services went about their business as usual, and some even went to play "Westward Journey Online 2".

They were incredibly bored, but also terrified of being fired by Boss Shi.

After all, Mr. Shi spends less and less time playing the game himself, and who knows when he might lose interest in "Legend of Mir".

The days slipped by quickly until evening.

Xie Ming went to dinner with the free-time game boosters. When he came back to sign for his shift change, the game booster who had just finished said, "Brother Ming, Abyss Legend is launching tonight. A lot of players have made plans to go together."

"What 'Legend of the Abyss'?" Xie Ming asked.

"You don't know yet?"

"Is it famous?"

"These past few days, many players in the game have been talking about it, and I even went to the forum to read the posts."

"..."

Xie Ming was quite curious about what his subordinates were saying, so he went back to his computer, logged into 17173, and soon started reading the posts while laughing. He even joined the discussion and replied to a few posts.

He also resonated with the post.

He harbors deeper resentment than the average player, and if Shanda continues to refrain from updating, Xie Ming may lose his job!

"Hey Ming, wanna go have some fun?" a game booster said with a grin.

Xie Ming thought for a moment and instructed, "Those who need to change shifts at midnight, go to sleep and rest. Those currently on duty, play 'Legend' diligently. The rest can play 'Abyss Legend' for a while."

The game boosters have a lot of freedom. They can take leave occasionally if something comes up, and they can arrange how to fill in for someone in advance.

With their high-spec computers and fast broadband speeds, they quickly downloaded the game and chatted while waiting for "Legend of the Abyss" to launch.

As soon as I entered the game, Boss Shi appeared.

And he reeked of alcohol.

"boss!"

"boss!"

"..."

The game boosters all stood up to greet them.

The person who was leveling up the main account gave up their computer and casually spun the chair around halfway.

Boss Shi plopped down on the floor.

Others logged into "Legend" and instantly went from being power levelers to playing with others.

Boss Shi was in a bad mood today. As soon as he entered the game, he started hacking and slashing everywhere. The power-levelers could only join him in the chaos.

Mr. Shi has decided to sell Brain Gold and Golden Partner, and the final round of negotiations was just completed a few days ago.

Today, because they were dissatisfied with Boss Shi's willful actions, the startup team members had a fight with him!
The dinner party ended on a sour note.

"Where's my wine?"

As he was chopping away, Boss Shi slammed the mouse down and shouted.

Xie Ming hurriedly ran to get the red wine and glasses.

Boss Shi later developed a taste for Maotai-flavored baijiu, but now he prefers red wine. He'll gulp down an expensive glass of red wine without even letting it steep.

The game boosters were so scared they didn't dare breathe, they could all tell that their boss was in a terrible mood tonight.

The max-level player, who had been slashed to the ground by Boss Shi, lay there without moving, cursing, "Fuck you, let's fight one-on-one!"

"roll!"

Mr. Shi replied in text.

The other person continued to lie on the corpse and curse, while Boss Shi stood guard over the corpse and cursed back.

The power levelers also rushed over, surrounded the corpse, and helped their boss curse the enemy.

Unable to withstand the insults, the other player angrily retorted, "I'm quitting this damn game! I'm deleting my account right now to play Abyss Legend. Go ahead and chase after me then!" With that, the corpse vanished.

With no one left to vent his anger on, Boss Shi leaned back in his computer chair and closed his eyes to rest.

The game boosters didn't dare to speak and all sat silently in front of their computers.

After a while, Xie Ming noticed that the boss had fallen asleep, so he went to get a blanket and covered Boss Shi with it to keep him from catching a cold.

"Ming-ge, what should we do?"

"Go play by yourselves, don't make any noise. I'll keep watch here. No need for shifts or rotations, go home and get some sleep."

After an unknown amount of time, Boss Shi was awakened by the urge to urinate.

He went to the restroom, and when he came back, instead of playing games, he asked Xie Ming, "What do you think of my game design?"

Xie Ming replied, "Boss, I don't know how to do business, I only know how to play games."

Mr. Shi smiled and said, "I'll set up a game development team sometime, and you can be in charge of managing them."

Xie Ming said nervously, "I don't know anything about management either."

Boss Shi said, "You've managed the game boosting group quite well."

Xie Ming didn't know how to respond. He was both expectant and apprehensive.

Mr. Shi's decision wasn't impulsive; he had a plan in mind all along. After poaching the game development team, Mr. Shi personally took on the role of planner, creating the recharge strategies in "Zhengtu".

In about twenty days, after the internal distribution of profits within the company is sorted out, Boss Shi will sign off on the sale of Brain Gold and Golden Partner, and then go around looking for a research and development team to focus on making games.

Boss Shi finally realized something was wrong. Looking into the chat box, he saw people talking about "Legend of the Abyss".

"Hilarious, even SF can crash its servers."

"I just got back from 17173, the forum there is so lively."

"I'm awesome, keep the formation in mind."

"I'm awesome, keep the formation in mind."

"Screw you, this is Legend of Mir, if you want to grind, go play a private server."

"..."

Xie Ming said, "Many players have gone to play on private servers. Those who can't get into private servers go to the forums to post. There are also people who don't play on private servers but go to the forums just to watch the fun."

Guided by Xie Ming, Boss Shi logged onto the forum.

He browsed the posts while listening to Xie Ming recount the whole story.

After a long while, Boss Shi stared at several trending posts and said, "There are traces of manipulation. You can't tell without careful examination. The person who created this private server is definitely a master."

Xie Ming asked in surprise, "These posts were all intentionally manipulated?"

Boss Shi browsed for a while longer: "I'm not sure either, it might just be a coincidence. But it's too much of a coincidence, I don't believe such a coincidence could happen. Have you guys downloaded this private server?"

"Downloaded," Xie Ming said.

Boss Shi immediately ordered, "Those who haven't gone home, all of you come in with me."

Half an hour later, Mr. Shi, who never played on private servers, was having a great time in "Legend of the Abyss".

There was no way around it; he was already tired of the official version of Legend of Mir, which hadn't been updated in six months. On the contrary, the changes made in the private server felt very fresh to him.

After completing the task of collecting tickets, Boss Shi and his power levelers excitedly ran off to run the Abyss dungeon.

The ticket you receive for completing the quest has a small note on it: Quest Item, Cannot be Traded.

At the veterans' area, many players are shouting: "We're teaming up to run the Woma Abyss! Only solo players, only solo players! Teams trying to steal gear, stay away!"

After watching for a while, Boss Shi said to Xie Ming, "Call them back to fight the Abyss. I'll reimburse their taxi fare!"

A team can have a maximum of 10 players, but if you team up with strangers, disputes over equipment are bound to arise after defeating the boss.

Xie Ming made several phone calls in a row, and the game boosters who had just returned home hurriedly took taxis back to accompany their boss.

We played for almost two more hours, leveling up everyone and improving their equipment. A total of eight people entered the dungeon: one client, one group leader, and six power levelers.

They were teleported directly to a corner of the Woma Cult Master's Hall.

There seems to be an invisible barrier here; the rest of the place is teeming with monsters, but this corner is completely safe.

"Damn, this place is full of abyssal mutant monsters!"

"Take it slow. The mage casts Fire Wall, the Taoist casts Poison, and the warrior and the skeleton baby tank."

"The skeleton's level is not high enough, and the Taoist priest only has level 0 healing."

"My red and sun water are almost gone!"

"We're done for. Our levels aren't high enough, and our gear isn't good enough either. We'll probably have to switch to the ultimate Abyss gear to win!"

"..."

With only half of the monsters on the screen killed, Boss Shi's entire eight-person team was wiped out.

Some people could have left using a return scroll, but since the boss had already died, they could only stay and die with him.

Xie Ming opened the package and laughed heartily: "A monster dropped a ticket, which I picked up. This trip wasn't a loss; I've already recouped the ticket cost... uh," he suddenly stopped laughing, "Boss, want to fight some more?"

Boss Shi was adding people on QQ to recharge: "Recharge to buy tickets and keep fighting! The monsters here have a higher chance of dropping mutated equipment. If you run it a few more times, you can get a full set of low-level mutated gear. Remember to pick up the equipment with the red glow. If you can't take it anymore, go back to town. Once our equipment is upgraded, we'll definitely be able to kill the Abyss Woma Leader!"

This kind of gameplay truly shows that money is never a problem.

When he first started playing "Legend of Mir," he got so angry after losing a PK battle that he immediately spent 5 yuan to buy equipment.

"Recharge 3000 yuan. My surname is Shi. Call your boss over." Boss Shi typed quickly.

(End of this chapter)