Chapter 837 Transaction

The negotiations progressed extremely smoothly once Team Wuji understood the situation. Wu Chen completely changed his indifferent attitude towards Team Happy, and began to proactively inquire about their needs.

What did Happy need?

Ye Xiu had calculated everything concerning the equipment and materials needed for the characters. Every cent had to be spent wisely. This had been Ye Xiu's style since he started over. The two million worth of materials they traded with Team Samsara contained a dazzling array of items, but Ye Xiu had carefully examined the available information and painstakingly selected each one.

Team Happy was indeed much stronger than many grassroots teams. An income of 20 million was enough to shock an entire street. But compared to professional teams, they were still far behind. Team Happy was currently in a rather unusual situation: none of its members had discussed their compensation.

Yes, compensation.

Professional players weren't obligated to work for free. With the continuous prosperity of the Alliance, player salaries were constantly rising. A million per year was just the baseline for first-tier players. The annual salaries of top-tier gods needed to be assessed by their respective clubs. Of course, there were professional players who didn't care about money, but the members of Happy seemed to have forgotten about it, which was absolutely impossible.

The members of Happy hadn't mentioned it, but Chen Guo, as the boss, kept it in mind. As a Glory fan, she had a general idea of the current salary levels in the professional scene. It wasn't that she was deliberately forgetting, but that she was afraid to confront the issue directly. If she treated Happy as a professional team, her internet cafe's assets wouldn't be enough to support a god like Ye Xiu.

Chen Guo had even seriously discussed this issue with Ye Xiu. Later, Ye Xiu also seriously talked to everyone. The gist was that the team was just starting out, everything needed to be built from scratch, and everyone should work together and not focus on personal gains for the time being. There would be bread, and they would win the championship sooner or later.

But everyone scorned him after he said that, especially Wei Chen, who shouted the loudest. He extended both middle fingers at Ye Xiu: "This old man has 18 million in assets, why would I care about your little money?!"

As for the others, Tang Rou smiled and said that she had a salary. Bao Zi casually asked how much, but Chen Guo quickly covered Tang Rou's mouth. Tang Rou was getting paid the salary of an internet cafe cashier, which would be an insult to professional players.

No one took it seriously. Even An Wenyi, Little Cold Hands, who had initially asked about this issue, didn't worry about it after fully understanding Team Happy's situation. In the early stages of a startup, there was no shortage of ideals and aspirations. In the face of these beautiful dreams, talking about money seemed vulgar.

"Very good, keep it up. If everyone can maintain this attitude, the boss will definitely be very happy." Ye Xiu saw that he still couldn't talk about serious matters properly, so he simply started talking nonsense. Everyone's compensation issues were vaguely glossed over.

In the end, this was their own problem, so they could gloss over it if they wanted to! But buying materials and equipment involved external transactions, and while they were willing to gloss over it, the other party wouldn't. That was why Ye Xiu had always been calculating and ensuring that every penny was worth its value.

Ye Xiu hadn't intended to take over much from Team Wuji. He was only focused on his own needs. Warlock equipment was his main goal, and he would also check if Wuji had any new materials that he had discovered later.

Because of Yizhan's strong backing, Wuji became more polite to Happy. Ye Xiu also reciprocated their enthusiasm and began to inquire about Wuji's current inventory.

Wu Chen was, after all, the captain who led the team in battles. These logistics matters were just instilled in him through familiarity at the club. He thought he was clear enough, but when Ye Xiu started questioning him in detail, Wu Chen's most frequent response was, "Wait a moment, let me take a look..."

After so much effort, Ye Xiu only took a liking to three of the seven pieces of Silver equipment on the Warlock, Leopold: the cape, belt, and shoes.

Of course, it was said that Ye Xiu liked them, but it was actually Wei Chen. Wei Chen was a seasoned veteran with his own system and didn't need Ye Xiu's help. Wu Chen thought that there was only Ye Xiu sitting across from the computer, but he didn't know that there was also the cunning old fox, Wei Chen. It was already a good performance that his hair hadn't turned white after negotiating for several days against two people.

"Why only these three pieces? The other four are also quite good! In fact, Leopold himself is very powerful, with 4840 skill points, which is quite good even in the professional scene!" Wu Chen tried to persuade him earnestly. He had completely entered his role. Knowing that Yizhan behind Happy was the big shot, Wuji's recent focus had been on studying Yizhan, observing the state of their characters, estimating their needs, and understanding their bargaining chips. This was how they knew themselves and their enemy.

Because Yizhan didn't have a Warlock, they probably wouldn't be interested in Leopold's Silver equipment. So, Wu Chen especially wanted to sell everything to Happy. Not just the equipment, but he also wanted them to take the character Leopold as well.

"Hehe, 4840? Our Windward Formation has 4920 skill points. Do you think I would go around saying that?" Ye Xiu said.

"4920!!!" Wu Chen exclaimed in surprise. 4900 points had always been regarded as the critical value for skill points, and no character had ever broken through it. But during the playoffs last season, Samsara's strong performance led people to notice the improvement in their characters' strength. Later, Samsara themselves admitted that their characters' skill points had broken through 4900.

The critical value had been broken, but that was last year's champion team. Yet, Happy, a grassroots team, also had a character with 4920 skill points. What kind of background did this team have!

"That's right, 4920. So, you see, your characters are completely useless to us. Can you stop thinking about that? Just the cape, belt, and shoes, three pieces." Ye Xiu said.

"Alright... I'll write it down first. Let's talk about the others!" Wu Chen was already a little weak. They had been arguing back and forth about this Warlock's equipment for three days, but this wasn't Happy's only purchase intention. There were others!

"The material list you gave me the other day, we've studied it, and I think there's a bit of a problem..." The haggling of negotiations always started with "a bit of a problem."

After a whole week, Wuji and Happy finally reached an agreement. The three pieces of Silver equipment on the Warlock, Leopold: the Sinful Repentance Cowl, the Endless Grief Cape, and the Soul Spirit Boots, were ultimately traded to Team Happy for a price of 500,000.

In addition, because of the lack of this and the insufficiency of that on Wuji's side, Ye Xiu's provided list of materials was adjusted several times before a deal of 200,000 was completed. Happy's exploitation of Team Wuji ended here, with a total expenditure of 700,000 and a very satisfactory return. Not to mention the three pieces of Warlock Silver equipment that could be used immediately, the 200,000 worth of materials was the foundation for many pieces of equipment.

"It's a pity, the difference between your team and our needs is really too big." After reaching an agreement, Ye Xiu still said to Wu Chen with some dissatisfaction.

Wu Chen, who had single-handedly fought against two Glory veterans, was already exhausted and simply responded with an emoji.

"What are your plans next?" Ye Xiu messaged.

"Isn't it almost time for dinner?" Wu Chen glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer screen.

"I mean, what are your plans for your Glory career?" Ye Xiu said.

Wu Chen was stunned. Ye Xiu's sudden personal question made him feel a little uncomfortable.

All the players of Team Wuji seemed to have plans by now. Especially He An. Wu Chen had heard that there were even professional teams in the Alliance interested in him!

But what about himself? Wu Chen really didn't know. His Glory career had always been with Wuji. Wherever Wuji went, he went. He had never thought about what he would do when Team Wuji was gone. Until now, when it really happened, Wu Chen realized that he had been avoiding this issue. His active busyness these days was also to prevent himself from thinking about these things.

Team Wuji was about to disappear. What should he do? Wu Chen thought, his eyes wandering around the familiar space. He would need to move out of here soon. After this, he probably wouldn't have the chance to come back.

"Are you still planning to continue as a professional player?"

Another line of text popped up on the screen.

Professional player? Wu Chen suddenly remembered that he did have some plans for the future. When Team Wuji was relegated, he didn't leave. He thought about being able to return to the Alliance with the team and then happily play for another season, which would be about right for him.

He was now 25 years old, which was considered old for an esports player. Although the careers of Glory players had been lengthening in recent years, 25 was still perfectly fine to play for a while longer. But Wu Chen wasn't a particularly impressive player. He knew his limitations. His level wasn't top-notch to begin with, and now that he was getting older, his reactions were getting slower and his hand speed was decreasing. He was afraid that he couldn't make a living as a professional player anymore.

But he wasn't a famous figure either. Many retired star players had found a foothold in the Glory world, but for him, perhaps his only interaction with Glory from now on would be to play in the game for a while after work, reminiscing about his time as a member of the professional scene?

Such days were really a bit boring...

Wu Chen was lost in thought. After a long while, he noticed that another line of text had appeared in the chat window on the screen: "If you don't want to leave Glory, you don't necessarily have to be a professional player!"

"What else can I do?" Wu Chen couldn't help but reply.

"Our guild over here is still quite short of people," Ye Xiu replied.

Guild? A video game guild?